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Stirring Up Memories is one of the reading stories in our Treasures Reading Book. It is about the author Pam Munoz Ryan, her life growing up, and what it is like to be an author. Since this story falls at the end of the year, I have the students write about their second grade memories. I also print out a group picture and a recent individual picture of the students. I let them create a scrapbook page with their pictures. I always enjoy reading the stories and reading what we did that stood out to the kids. | <urn:uuid:a17f88bc-e626-4c3a-b7f9-9c83f52af782> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://savvysecondgraders.blogspot.com/2011/04/stirring-up-memories.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00291-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974449 | 111 | 1.875 | 2 |
Six easy skill–level baby blanket projects, all made with worsted-weight yarn
No need to get fussy with matching the exact yarn recommended in the pattern, though if you'd like to, suggestions are also provided—all you need to do is get your gauge, and go! This 32-page book also packs in several learning opportunities such as: simple colorwork, reading charts, increasing, decreasing, and knitting from the center-out. Alternate yarn options are also provided, which help take the guesswork out and show exactly how each blanket looks made for either a baby boy or girl. If you're in need of the perfect gift, this book has got the little one in mind "covered."
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TigerLady was developed and refined over the course of three generations, beginning with the basic design originally patented in 1978 by Al Levine. Al's son, Jeffrey, working with his wife Linda and his two sons and their wives, refined and re-designed TigerLady, filed a patent application on the new design, and together, will ensure that this unique self-defense tool has an opportunity to help shift the balance of power. Further, the Levine family is proud to say that their product, TigerLady, is made entirely in the USA, and assembled by disabled veterans.
TigerLady is a discreet self-protection device. Modeled after the defense of a cat’s retractable claws, this self-defense tool works by enhancing the most primal of defensive movements — scratching.
TigerLady is small enough to fit in your pocket or your purse, and it's so lightweight you won't mind adding it to your everyday carry. Unlike other self-defense options, TigerLady will never need batteries, and it won't expire. TigerLady is lightweight, subtle, and effective. Best of all, TigerLady requires no training to use.
With TigerLady in hand, make a fist to expose three claws between your fingers. Now, you're ready for anything. Channels on the inside of the retractable claws are designed to capture skin and DNA so you don't need to see your assailant to make a positive ID.
Hold TigerLady in your hand instead of your phone, and you'll notice that you're alert and aware of your surroundings, and focused on getting to your destination safely. It's something you know, that nobody else knows. Holding TigerLady immediately delivers a feeling of quiet confidence.
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Beauty Recession Busters: Natural Teeth Whitening
Thursday, 1 October 2009
We want to put some other natural products to the teeth test and see if they do what you would normally fork out for the dentist to do.
Beauty problems in a recession??? Ta Da! Suzanne Walsh to the rescue with Beatuy Recession busters. In times such as these, we often opt for more unconventional methods to saving money. If these old wives tales prove true however, why not save yourself a visit to the dentist's chair and still maintain your pearly whites?
Who is the guest?
Suzanne Walsh:- Beauty Babe
Model:- Valerie Ringrose Fitzsimons , member of TAS research team.
What can be more pleasing to the eye than a beautiful smile!
Check out the facts and remedies below and smile, smile, smile!!!
According to Westend Dental practice in Galway:-
"The basic factor which changes tooth colour is accumulated fur which absorbs dyes in itself. Many foodstuffs such as tea, coffee, chocolate, red wine, soy sauce, berries, dark fruits and fruit sauces, tomatoes and tomato sauces/juices, dark veg and citrus plants/juices, coca cola etc all posses dyeing properties. They are able to paint teeth in colours from hazel to practically black. Some medicines, smoking, genetic diseases can also serve as the reason of teeth discolouration.
The colour of teeth changes with age inevitably, because the enamel of teeth is thinned with time and the dyeing effect of food and drink stuffs increases."
Home remedies for Teeth whitening are very effective however not suitable everyone. The best candidates for whitening are those with stains caused by coffee, tobacco or ageing.
Avoid using the home remedies if any of the following relate to you:-
. Sensitive teeth or gums
. Bleeding gums
. Smokers should avoid trying out hydrogen peroxide as the mixture of smoking and hydrogen peroxide could have an adverse effect on tissue damage already known to be caused by smoking. Instead use the strawberry method.
If in doubt consult your dentist or dental hygienist.
How to provide Optimum care for your teeth and gums.
Brush your teeth twice a day. Once in the morning after breakfast and before you go to bed.
US based website "yourpearlywhiteteeth" recommends:
"If you eat an acid fruit such as strawberry or any other healthy but acidic food such as yogurt, I would advise that you wait at least 20 min to brush your teeth since the acid softens the enamel and you would be brushing some enamel away if you brush immediately. After 20 min the saliva would have 'buffered' the acid on the teeth and would be o.k. to brush and floss."
Flossing daily is essential to prevent gum disease and bad breath. Flossing gets rid of food. Food feeds bacteria. Bacteria destroy your gums, bones, and teeth. Brushing will help, rinsing will help, but diligent flossing on a daily basis is essential, and the sooner you start doing this, the sooner it will become habitual and the sooner you can stop complaining about it. You probably brush your teeth without thinking about it. Why? Because you have been doing it since you were a child. If you have children, do them a favour and teach them to floss at the same time you teach them to brush. It's like seatbelts and bicycle helmets.
Make sure you are using the right toothbrush for your teeth and gums, soft, medium or hard. Change your toothbrush regularly i.e. before the bristle become worn down or ragged.
An interesting Fact from www.reference.com:
William Addis of England is credited with creating the first mass-produced toothbrush in 1780.In 1770 he had been placed in jail for causing a riot. While in prison, he decided that the method for teeth brushing of the time - rubbing a rag on one's teeth with soot and salt - could be improved. So he took a small animal bone, drilled small holes in it, obtained some bristles from a guard, tied them in tufts, then passed the bristles through the holes on the bone and glued them. He soon became very wealthy. He died in the year 1808 and left the business to his eldest son, William II.
. Never share your toothbrush.
. Preferably use a toothpaste containing fluoride.
. Rinse your teeth and gums with a mouth wash twice daily.
. Visit your Dentist or Dental hygienist at least twice a year.
1. Whitening teeth with Strawberries
What?!: Brushing teeth using mashed strawberries.
Method:- Crush strawberries to create a paste, use a regular toothbrush to apply on teeth, leave on for 4-5 mins and rinse.
Note: The sugar acid in the strawberry will harm your teeth if you don't brush your teeth after. Leave 20 min between brushing teeth with strawberries and regular brushing, but do brush your teeth with regular paste to get rid of the unhealthy acids.
It is not recommended that you brush daily with strawberries, and you should be careful to remove all seeds with floss after you've used the paste.
Some say that mixing baking soda with the strawberry paste is even more effective.
2. Whitening with Charcoal
What?!:- Brushing teeth using activated charcoal
Method:- Charcoal can be purchased in any health food store and often comes in capsule form. Capsules can be broken open and contents poured into a saucer/eggcup.
Dampen your toothbrush and then rub in charcoal until toothbrush is completely black. You can then use either organic toothpaste or baking soda to mix with the charcoal. For today's show, we'll use organic toothpaste.
Brush as normal and rinse.
Note:-Reportedly used by people in Africa. Crushed, activated charcoal can be used as a cleaning and whitening agent. It's best to use organic/natural toothpaste and rinse well after this treatment.
Others suggest that you first place charcoal on your brush, making black and then dip the top of the brush in baking soda to maximize whitening effect.
It's always recommended to brush with regular toothpaste about ten minutes after the treatment to remove the foul taste from your mouth!
3. Granny's home whitening remedy
What?!: Old wives tale with age old tooth whitener baking soda. As you can imagine, this one doesn't taste too good!
Method:- mix on a small plate 1 tsp of baking soda, a dash of salt
Then add a few drops of white vinegar, which will make mixture foam.
Note: Remember to wash your teeth with fluoride toothpaste 20 min after using Granny's recipe!
If you are in a hurry sprinkle some table salt on top of your toothpaste for an instant sparkle!
4. Oral Salt Rinse:-
What?!: Nothing like the taste of the sea to clean out your mouth in the mornings!
Method:- Mix ¼ pint of water with 2 tbl spoons of salt. Rinse after brushing the teeth.
Note: This method is safe to use daily and is an excellent antiseptic! Don't use more than once daily however, as salt can be somewhat abrasive and will eventually wear the surface of the tooth down.
The best thing about this method of natural teeth whitening is that it's practically free!
4. Whitening with Hydrogen Peroxide
Procedure: This is the most controversial of all methods as there are pros & cons to using Hydrogen Peroxide on your teeth.
Method:- Equally dilute the Hydrogen Peroxide with water. Dip your toothbrush in the solution and brush. Do not to swallow the solution as it's bad for you, not to mention that it tastes really bad! After brushing with the H.P , brush with regular toothpaste so as to avoid tooth-decay. Repeat this method only once or twice weekly.
Another suggestions is to take one teaspoon of baking soda and some drops of hydrogen peroxide (no more than 3%). Mix these ingredients and form a paste. Brush your teeth with this paste.
A final one is to rinse your mouth with straight hydrogen peroxide before brushing. Swish a mouthful round in your mouth for roughly 60 seconds and SPIT OUT before brusing your teeth as normal. Do not swallow the solution.
Pregnant women and breastfeeding mums should not use this solution.
There is also a fear that smokers who use Hydrogen Peroxide to whiten their teeth can exacerbate the damage to teeth caused by the smoking and are advised not to use H.P as a method of whitening.
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AUTHOR: Greg Dickie
My great-great-great-uncle was John B. Evans. He fought in the Confederate Army. After the war he returned to his home near Williamsboro in Granville County (now Vance County). A group of Union soldiers rode up to his home one day. The captain noticed that John Evans had on a Masonic ring. The captain wore a similar ring. He told his men to take only water for themselves and their horses and nothing more. I think it is interesting that there were certain things which bound people together even in times of sharp differences. | <urn:uuid:19bee9d4-3e7a-4b73-a049-8345e6193995> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nccivilwarcenter.org/john-b-evans-encounter-with-union-soldiers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.993693 | 119 | 1.867188 | 2 |
6 tips for a good sleep when pregnant with toddler in tow
With hormonal changes, anxiety, and physical discomfort, being pregnant and getting a good night's sleep can be tough, especially when you've got a toddler too, says sleep expert Rebecca Welton.
With hormonal changes, anxiety, and physical discomfort all conspire to prevent you sleeping well at night during pregnancy, but when you have another child as well, it can sometimes feel as if you'll never get a good nights sleep again!
So here are Rebecca's 6 tips for restful sleep
1. Is your child keeping you awake at night?
Is your child keeping you awake? Teething, illness and potty training can all play a role in night-waking, but children can also be unsettled by the idea of a new arrival in their family. Spend extra one-to-one time with your child during the day, and talk through any changes that might occur when the new baby arrives. Discuss how you will handle the night behaviour so they know what to expect, and then aim for 100% consistency in how you deal with your little one at night.
2. Getting up to pee in the night
Hormonal changes, combined with the additional blood pumping round your body and being processed by your kidneys, along with your expanding uterus putting pressure on your bladder, mean you will need to pee more often overnight. Top up your fluids during the day but restrict them for the two hours before bedtime.
3. Difficulty drifting off?
Avoid screens an hour before bedtime and cut out all caffeinated drinks in the afternoon. Caffeine has been shown to affect sleep up to eight hours later, while screens emit blue light, which suppresses melatonin - one of our sleep hormones. Switch off the TV and put away all your gadgets an hour before bed. Have a bedtime routine, such as taking a bath and reading a book. This can help you de-stress and unwind from your day, as well as sending all the right messages to your brain to get ready for sleep.
4. Can't get comfy
As your baby grows bigger, it becomes increasingly difficult to find a comfortable position for sleep. Doctors recommend not sleeping on your back, as the weight of your uterus puts pressure on major blood vessels. Embrace pillows - they can prop you up or provide the extra padding you need to get comfy.
5. Suffering from leg cramps
Thought to be caused by fatigue from the extra weight you are carrying, along with your growing uterus pressing on the main vein from your legs, these pains can have you awake at all hours of the night. A warm bath before bed, and doing calf stretches as part of your bedtime routine, can help prevent those dreaded cramps.
6. Catch up on sleep when your child naps
When your little one is having some down-time, make sure you get some shut-eye too. This will help you catch up on any lost sleep overnight.
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Dry stone structures are living reminders of our past, each one telling a story about the person who constructed it when it was constructed, and the landscape, stone, and tools available at the time. Constructed well, dry stone structures will last for hundreds of years. However, they can be susceptible to subsidence, plant invasion, and human interference and require restoration.
Our restoration projects are guided by the principles of the Burra Charter which provides a framework for the conservation and management of places of cultural significance. Generally, we advocate for a cautious approach to change: to do as much as is necessary to care for the place and to make it useable, but otherwise change it as little as possible so that its cultural significance is retained.
Ensuring restorations accurately reflect the original work is often like completing an oversized jigsaw puzzle. Through information from the site itself, historical research, and interviews with locals we are usually able to create a clear picture of the original purpose, design, and materials used, which allows for a much more accurate restoration.
There are also times when clients seek new work to be undertaken in conjunction with restoration. This journey is done hand in hand with the client, ensuring that any new work is sympathetic to the original structure and the surroundings. | <urn:uuid:1820bad9-0f7c-47cf-851c-a9c1dbc5d6a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stoneofarc.com/restoration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.954937 | 261 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Note: This article applies to LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 (LightSwitch V2)
When building a LightSwitch application, organizing the content is an important aspect of screen design. The layout system in LightSwitch has allowed you to use columns, rows, tabs and tables to great effect. And to give you even more options, the upcoming release of LightSwitch in Visual Studio 11 allows you to leverage a new grouping control, the Group Box. Using this control, you can create boundaries in your screens, grouping similar elements together to help users focus on input fields that belong together.
Using the Group Box Control
Let’s get right to it. The Group Box control is leveraged through the screen designer. In the content tree, a Group Box can be added in the same way you would add a new group. Click on the Add button, and from the drop down menu, select New Group. This will add a Rows Layout to the tree (unless you add it under a Table Layout, which will add a TableColumn Layout).
Now, click on the down arrow of the Rows Layout, and the drop down menu will contain a new item: Group Box:
Choose this option, and the Rows Layout will switch to a Group Box:
This group behaves exactly like a Rows Layout. Adding elements beneath it creates new row elements within the Group Box organized vertically.
But unlike a Rows Layout, the Group Box has a couple of additional properties. First, the Group Box control can be displayed one of two ways: with all four borders (the default), or with just the top border displayed. With the Group Box selected, examine the Properties window. In the Appearance section, you will see a new option called Border Mode. By default it is set to All Borders. Click on the drop down, to see the other mode options:
The first mode displays all four borders of the Group Box with rounded corners. Choosing this option (or leaving it as the default) gives you the typical look and feel of a Group Box control:
Choosing the second mode, Top Border, displays only the top border of the Group Box; this is also a typical way to group fields together. It consists of a single line that stretches across horizontally.
This mode is great for delineating portions of content that are organized vertically.
In both of the examples above, the Group Box displayed the label associated with it. In the Properties window, right below Border Mode is a property called Show Display Name. This option is used to suppress the label. By default, it is checked, which means the label will be displayed.
Likewise, unchecking it hides the label. So for a Group Box with All Borders chosen, it will look like this:
And a Group Box with Top Border selected and no label, you will see this:
Nested Group Boxes
The Group Box can be nested within other layouts, including other Group Boxes. Since it behaves like a Rows Layout, you can place a Group Box anywhere in the content tree that you can a Rows Layout.
The Group Box in Action
To make the screen shots above, I used two entities and one screen. The first entity is Person which has a first name, a last name, a computed field for the full name, and a one-to-many relationship to the second entity, Address. The Address entity has a type, which is a choice list of address types, and then typical address fields like street, city, state and zip code. The screen was created using the List Details screen template. With both entities created, I added another computed field on the Person entity called HomeAddress that displays a summarized address of the first address in the list.
Once I had my entities set up, and my screen created, I set about to adding some Group Boxes:
- Under the top-level Columns Layout, I changed the right column (the details column) from Rows Layouts to Group Boxes.
- Under the right column, I changed the Person Details Rows Layout to a Group Box. I set its Border Mode property value to Top Border.
- I added a new group above the Addresses Data Grid, and then moved the data grid so it was a child under this new group.
- I then changed this new group from a Rows Layout to a Group Box, and set the Border Mode property value to Top Border.
When I was done, my content tree looked like this:
And when I pressed F5 and added some data, my application looked like this (note the nested Group Boxes in the Details Column):
I have demonstrated the new Group Box control, and the various ways you can use it in your screens to create boundaries and organize your fields to help users focus on related input. You can use this new control in the screen designer in exactly the same way as the Rows Layout. This flexibility allows you to nest Group Boxes under other layouts, including other Group Boxes. The Group Box allows you to display all four borders of the control, or just the top border. And it allows you to choose whether or not you want to display the associated Group Box label. I hope you enjoy using it in your applications!
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Nelson Mandela, the man once branded a `terrorist` by the US
Washington: In 2008 just before his 90th birthday, the United States gave Nelson Mandela a special present, striking him from a decades-old terror watch list and ending what US officials called "a rather embarrassing matter."
By then the anti-apartheid icon had long left behind the jail cells where he was incarcerated for 27 years, and was already enjoying retirement and his status as one of the most revered statesmen of the 20th century after becoming South Africa`s first black president.
In past years, US officials have beaten a path to his door in his family village hoping some of his almost saint-like aura would rub off on them.
On Thursday, when Mandela died at age 95, President Barack Obama hailed him as belonging "to the ages" and ordered that flags on US government buildings be flown at half-mast -- a rare tribute to a foreign leader.
Yet decades ago many in America did not share in the adulation of Mandela and his African National Congress (ANC), which had been billed a terrorist organization by both South Africa and the United States. His severest right-wing critics painted him as an unrepentant terrorist and a communist sympathiser.
It was even reported that the CIA had helped engineer Mandela`s 1962 arrest when an agent inside the ANC supplied South African security officials with a tip-off to track him down.
In the 1980s however, late Democratic US senator Ted Kennedy drafted legislation with senator Lowell Weicker that would eventually become one of the global catalysts leading to the collapse of the apartheid system.
President Ronald Reagan sought to bury their 1986 anti-apartheid bill aiming to impose economic sanctions on South Africa by imposing his veto, saying he believed it would only lead to more violence and repression for black South Africans.
But for the first and only time that century, Congress rebelled and overrode Reagan`s veto on a foreign policy issue, passing legislation that slapped sanctions on Pretoria, snapped direct air links and cut vital aid.
Some observers maintain that the story of Mandela`s redemption and the undeniable justness of his cause hold unique lessons for Washington as it grapples with other flagrant abuses of human rights by repressive regimes around the world.
Brian Dooley, who worked with Kennedy on the game-changing legislation and is now a director with Human Rights First, chafes at the rationale that the US pursues "constructive engagement" with autocratic regimes for the greater good and to ensure security interests.
"The justifications for propping up the apartheid regime are now almost the same as we hear when we talk about why isn`t the US more robust in taking on human rights violations in Saudi Arabia or Bahrain or various other parts of the world," Dooley told a news agency.
"Forget the morality if you like for a second, and look at just the national interest, the self-interest. Standing with the bad guys not only looks bad -- it is bad. And eventually they fall, and eventually there is dreadful resentment."
The lessons of the apartheid era are still applicable today, Dooley says, as "only the fact that Congress overrode the veto saved the US reputation."
Until five years ago, Mandela and other members of the ANC remained on the US terror watch list because of their armed struggle against the apartheid regime, which yielded to majority rule in the mid-1990s.
The designation meant that the US State Department had to issue them with a waiver to enter the country for meetings such as the UN General Assembly, something former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice said she found “embarrassing.”
When Mandela was finally removed from the list in 2008, then senator and current Secretary of State John Kerry, said: "He had no place on our government`s terror watch list, and I`m pleased to see this bill finally become law."
In a televised address from the White House on Thursday, Obama said Mandela was "a man who took history in his hands and bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice."
"A free South Africa, at peace with itself, that`s an example to the world, and that`s Madiba`s legacy to the nation that he loved, " Obama said, referring to Mandela by his clan name.
J Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, called Mandela "one of the rare international statesmen that captured the imagination of Americans across the political spectrum."
"Even those who are not normally interested in Africa found him a very compelling individual," said Pham, who was awarded the 2008 Nelson Mandela International Prize for African Security and Development.
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Coach Yow Passes Peacefully Saturday Morning
submitted by dp1974 on Saturday, January 24 at 11:31 AM
One of the most beloved figures in NC State history and one of the most respected coaches in the nation, Women’s Basketball Coach Kay Yow, died peacefully this morning after a long, heroic battle with breast cancer.
Yow, 66, had been supported by her family and her staff in the last several days and was even able to visit with her entire team at WakeMed Cary Hospital earlier this week.
Yow, who was in her 38th year of coaching, will be remembered for the hundreds and thousands of lives she touched through basketball and through her tireless efforts to fight cancer.
Story from GoPack
Interview with Sandra Kay Yow, June 22, 2005; Southern Oral History Program Collection
NC State YouTube - Kay Yow: A Day At The Museum
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Gives You Energy
Bananas have a one of a kind mix of vitamins, minerals, and starches that give a speedy supply of common vitality. Also, bananas have a more advantageous mix of three characteristic sugars: glucose, sucrose and fructose. The blend of these sugars have awesome vitality potential.
Bananas are one of only a handful few organic products that contain both perplexing and basic sugars. Complex starches give you perseverance vitality and basic sugars give you snappy vitality. Eating only two bananas will give you enough vitality to practice for a hour and a half.
Glow your Skin
Aside from helping you get some abundantly required excellence rest, you can add bananas to your magnificence administration as well. Banana veils are a characteristic approach to get smooth, supple and sparkling skin. It has saturating properties which are to a great degree useful for individuals who have dry skin. Here is the manner by which you can utilize overripe bananas to make a home-made face pack!
They Give you a Boost of Vitamin C
It is normally oranges and strawberries that ring a bell when consider Vitamin C, yet a serving of bananas gives 15 percent of the day by day prerequisite for vitamin C. Vitamin C is an imperative cell reinforcement that kills harming free radicals and keeps systemic irritation under control. It additionally creates collagen that holds muscles, bones and different tissues together. What’s more, keeps veins solid and is expected to ideally ingest iron and folate and keeps your gums sound and helps in recuperating.
They Provide Vitamin B6
Bananas contain 20 percent of the day by day prerequisites of vitamin B6. Vitamin B6 helps the body make trivial amino acids to make sound cells. It additionally creates insulin, hemoglobin and antibodies that battle contaminations.
They Relieve GI Distress
Feeling somewhat under the climate? Bananas are awesome in light of the fact that they’re anything but difficult to process and considered non-disturbing for the stomach and upper GI tract. That is the reason they’re a piece of the clinical BRAT diet–, bananas, rice, fruit purée and dry toast–which is an eating routine arrangement enrolled dietitians use when patients have intense looseness of the bowels. They are likewise one of the main organic products that are acquainted with youthful youngsters when they begin eating strong nourishments.
They Can Blood Pressure-Lowering Potassium
A medium banana has 422 mg potassium while being sans sodium. The high potassium:sodium proportion kills the circulatory strain bringing impacts of sodium up in your eating routine. Different studies demonstrate that the individuals who have diets rich in potassium are less inclined to have hypertension and have diminished danger for stroke. Grown-ups need 4,700 milligrams of potassium a day, so a medium banana gives about 10 percent of the day by day necessity.
Keep the digestive system healthy
Obstruction, the runs, and acid reflux … goodness my! It’s really reasonable to say that nobody likes managing digestive issues. In addition to the fact that they are humiliating, they can be to a great degree uncomfortable and on occasion absolute difficult. Next time your digestive framework misbehaves, go after a banana.
Bananas have been known not digestive wellbeing in various ways. Initially things to begin with, they’re a moderately decent wellspring of fiber, containing around three grams in one medium size banana. That is approximately 10 percent of your prescribed every day fiber consumption. To beat bloat, stoppage, and other undesirable digestive issues, the body needs fiber. It works by authoritative to poisons and waste in the digestive tract and after that hauling them out of the body. Along these lines, to help your body accomplish consistent solid discharges, include bananas into your every day diet.
Alongside stoppage, bananas are an incredible sustenance to eat in case you’re managing looseness of the bowels. The high measures of water and potassium in bananas can reestablish lost electrolytes, keeping you from getting to be got dried out.
Furthermore, bananas go about as a characteristic stomach settling agent. That implies they could diminish agonizing indigestion and acid reflux side effects.
Numerous individuals swear that bananas are the best antidepressants. They’re delectable, they are no symptoms and they advantage the whole body.
Bananas contain a crucial amino corrosive called tryptophan, which empowers the creation of serotonin in the mind to enhance disposition, forestall a sleeping disorder and build sentiments of prosperity.
Good for blood pressure
Overabundance sodium and a lack of potassium in the body are one reason pulse levels can be so difficult to oversee.
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An unguarded remark by a Mars scientist working on the Curiosity mission has started a flurry of speculation that NASA has finally found signs of life on the Red Planet. The excitement is centred on samples of soil or rock that have been collected and analysed by one of the experiments on the mobile laboratory as it trundles around Gale Crater.
Though he would not reveal what the findings were, Curiosity’s principal investigator John Grotzinger apparently told Joe Palca, of US radio network NPR: “This data is gonna be one for the history books. It’s looking really good.”
NASA are, wisely, still checking their data before they make any official announcement about what they have actually discovered. It is a process that is likely to take weeks though an announcement appears likely to be made at a gathering of the American Geophysical Union, in San Francisco from 3 – 7 December.
But the vacuum before that moment has inevitably been filled by rumours that it is some sort of compelling evidence that life is present, or more likely has at some time existed on Mars.
Curiosity, which landed on Mars in August and is more formally known as Mars Science Laboratory, will not have identified any martian bugs directly. It is not equipped to do so.
But it has a chemistry lab called SAM on board, short for the Sample Analysis at Mars experiment, that is designed to find the complex carbon compounds that are the building blocks of life.
Earlier this month, a first analysis of martian air by SAM proved disappointing for those eager for proof of aliens when it failed to detect any clear signs of methane that might offer further evidence of life.
Leading NASA scientist Carolyn Porco, a key figure in the Cassini probe’s exploration of Saturn, took to Twitter to caution: “Can I say something about this imminent announcement from Curiosity? A definitive discovery of organic compounds, if that’s what it is, does NOT meant that there are native organic compounds and therefore life on Mars. Organic materials are raining down on Mars all the time.”
Scientists have previously found organic materials in meteorites, boosting the idea that life on planets may have been seeded from space. However, they are not evidence of life in themselves.
Controversy still rages over whether more convincing signs including fossils of alien microbes have been detected in meteorites that fell to Earth after being ejected from Mars in asteroid impacts. Though some scientists including NASA experts support this finding, it is fair to say that the majority remain skeptical.
Another controversial suggestion is that NASA has already discovered evidence of life on Mars with its first Viking landers in 1976 but failed to recognise it.
Professor Dirk Schulze-Makuch, of Washington State University, looked again at the data and believes it indicates the presence of living alien microbes formed from a mix of water and hydrogen peroxide – hair bleach.
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Der grüne Professor
Professor Richard Wolbers, Biochemiker und Konservator aus Philadelphia (USA), ist bekannt geworden durch seine Arbeiten zur Gemäldereinigung mit Gelen. Seit Jahren setzt er auf «grüne Chemie». Diese Woche gibt er in unserem Haus sein Wissen an Mitglieder des Schweizerischen Verbandes für Konservierung und Restaurierung SKR weiter.
MKB: Professor Wolbers, how does a biochemist hit on art?
It was in my late 20s, working at the Salk Institute, in La Jolla Ca, for a distinguished Endocrinologist, Roger Guillemin. He was both a scientist, and a humanitarian: he encouraged me to pursue both art and science goals in life. He helped me to get a Master of Fine Arts in Painting. Of course, the combination biochemistry and painting was unusual but proved to be a good combination ultimately for my eventual profession as an art conservator.
As I teach, I learn as well
I happened to meet the paintings conservator Carl Grimm in my late twenties. He changed my life. He convinced me that the combination was a good one for becoming an art conservator. I went to the University of Delaware and got an additional degree in Art Conservation. I stayed on with the faculty when I graduated, and I have been teaching for 35 years now at the University of Delaware. I enjoy teaching both in the University and in professional development workshops like the one in Basel. Both are challenging in different ways. And as I teach, I learn as well. By listening to other conservators I understand better their needs and where we need new materials developed.
You are luminary for having developed cleaning systems for fine art materials. Can you tell us more about that?
It started 30 years ago. My goal was to better understand the cleaning of fine art, and to hopefully, develop materials and methods that would also ensure the longevity of art and material culture, not simply restore it. This is a tough engineering problem though. We are faced with challenges that «normal» engineers of cleaning systems aren’t. That is, respecting the aesthetics and the physical, chemical nature of the surfaces we deal with. To slow down deterioration, not alter surface chemistry. All of these are incredibly difficult to manage on balance. I’m also interested in «greener» methods for cleaning, as we all are in our daily work and private lives.
I am merely an egineer
People admire you but do they use your methods in their daily work?
More and more. But the acquisition of the materials and methods is slow because conservators are inherently conservative in their adoption of new techniques. They have to be well scrutinized and time tested to be adopted. It takes long to change the inertia of a whole field. And I actually do not see myself as a revolutionary. I am merely an engineer, adapting materials and principles to solve very specific problems. Fortunately many technologies are interested in «greener» methods and materials, and I’m following along after very good models from other endeavours.
How does it feel to have a piece of art in your hands and know you could prolong its life?
There is nothing more satisfying. Art and architecture are the treasures of humanity. I am privileged to have some part in their presentation and preservation
What were the most amazing pieces of art you worked on?
«The Adoration of the Magi», a small painting by Andrea Mantegna, dated to the middle of the 15th century. It was very difficult but changed my direction of cleaning. It was a pivotal moment.
About three years ago I helped with designing the cleaning system for a chapel in St Sulpice , Paris, decorated and painted by Eugene Delacroix. Whenever I am in Paris now, I go and look at it. It’s a joy to go see, because of the clarity and unity in the cleaning.
You mentioned architecture before. You helped for example preserve the U.S. Capitol. How so?
My career really started with easel painting, but I rapidly went on to painted furniture, decorative objects, mural painting and architecture and became ultimately a mural painting conservator. I enjoy working with teams of conservators, and on projects that are large in scale, and that involve the work of other trades people, i.e., plasterers, carpenters, etc.
I was almost moved to tears
What do you think about our Museum?
On Sunday I wandered in the old city by chance and visited your museum. I did not know then that I would actually be living here for a time and conducting a workshop here. I was stunned – by the building, by the organisation and presentation. I was almost moved to tears: It’s clear that a great deal of thought and energy has gone on to present the collection in the way that it is. It is just amazing. | <urn:uuid:3f5e3809-2c1c-48e7-9c57-42f3834a28f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mkb.ch/de/services/blog/2018/q3/richard-wolbers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.957345 | 1,059 | 1.71875 | 2 |
June 13, 2012
Environment Plays Significant Role In Development Of Traits
As we grow up, traits such as height, weight and IQ are strongly influenced by the environment we live in, according to a new study that pits nature (genes) against nurture (environment).
But the researchers, from King´s College London, said the strength of environmental factors, compared with influence of DNA, differs greatly across the country.To determine whether nature or nurture played a bigger role, Dr. Oliver Davis and colleagues studied 45 childhood characteristics in 6,759 pairs of non-identical twins across the United Kingdom.
What they discovered was a good mix of each. A series of “nature-nurture” maps revealed that in some regions traits were affected more by the environment and in other areas the same attribute was governed by genetics.
The study, funded by the WellCome Trust and published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, showed that, in one example, 60 percent of the variation in children´s school behavior across much of the country was influenced by genes. However, the environment in London played a greater role for the same trait.
This could be the result of different groups within the community influencing each child in different ways, researchers believe.
“There are any number of environments that vary geographically in the UK, from social environments like health care or education provision to physical environments like altitude, the weather or pollution,” said Davis.
“The message that these maps really drive home is that your genes aren´t your destiny. There are plenty of things that can affect how your particular human genome expresses itself, and one of those things is where you grow up,” he explained. | <urn:uuid:abaaead0-2e87-417a-a305-34c238c745cf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112553815/environment-plays-significant-role-in-development-of-traits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00374-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947742 | 348 | 3.125 | 3 |
A Microsoft Open Technologies subsidiary is coming to Shanghai, as the company aims to expand its open-source and open standards efforts in China.
"There is a very interesting open-source community in China and we want to work with them," said Gianugo Rabellino, Microsoft Open Technologies senior director. "Creating a subsidiary of Microsoft Open Technologies sends a very clear signal that we care about openness."
The organization, called Microsoft Open Technologies Shanghai, which opened Thursday, plans to employ engineers, standards professionals and technical evangelists, though it has not determined how many employees it will hire.
Like its U.S. counterpart, Microsoft Open Technologies Shanghai will create and manage open-source software programs, participate in standards bodies, and look for ways to strengthen the interoperability between Microsoft products and open-source software.
Of particular interest for the new entity will be the many open-source efforts that originate in China itself, Rabellino said.
Rabellino declined to discuss why the new organization will be a separate legal entity from Microsoft Open Technologies, rather than another business unit of the company, which itself is a subsidiary of Microsoft. Often companies will set up subsidiaries in foreign countries for tax advantages or to shield themselves from local liability laws.
A subsidiary could also help companies do business with governments that prefer to work with local vendors. Last year, China enacted a comprehensive economic policy that, in part, seeks to decrease the reliance on foreign suppliers of goods and services.
Rabellino said he knew of no Chinese laws that would hinder Microsoft Open Technologies itself from doing business in China.
Engineers from Microsoft Open Technologies participate in standards bodies such as DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force), Ecma International, IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force), OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards), W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and the ISO (International Organization for Standardization).
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#00062f is made up of (0, 6, 47) in RGB colorspace and (100.00, 87.23, 0.00, 81.57) in CMYK colorspace. Its decimal value is 1583 and the closest web-safe color code to it is #000033. White should be used ontop of #00062f to ensure the best legibility.
Here's a color conversion chart. It contains technical information about the hex color #00062f. If you're a programmer, view the code snippets section for prepared language syntax.
|Websafe hex||#000033||Black/white pairing||White|
|rgb||rgb(0, 6, 47)||Adobe RGB||(32.00, 0.00, 52.00)|
|rgb percent (%)||rgb(0%, 2%, 18%)||Closest named color||Cetacean blue|
|rgba||rgba(0.0, 6.0, 47.0, 1.0)||Hunter-Lab||(0.00, 1813.37, -1847.08)|
|cmyk||cmyk(100.00, 87.23, 0.00, 81.57)||CIE-L*ab||(0.00, 40.60, -32.82)|
|hsv||hsv(233.33, 100.00, 9.00)||CIE-L*Ch(ab)||(0.00, 52.21, 321.05)|
|hsb||hsb(233.33, 100.00, 18.00)||CIE-L*uv||(0.00, 0.00, 0.00)|
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The Complimentary color scheme is made up of two colors. These two colors are opposite one another in the color spectrum. The first color is called the "base" #00062f and the second color is called the "compliment" #2d2800.
The Split Complimentary color scheme is made up of three colors. The base color #00062f is paired with the two colors to the left and the right of compliment color #2d2800.
The Tetradic color scheme is made up of four colors. When viewed on a color wheel, all four colors are spaced evenly (90°) apart.
The Analagous color scheme is made up of three colors. The three colors sit next to one another on the color wheel. The palette is made in similar fashion to how the Split Complimentary palette is made. However, the two secondary colors are adjacent to the base, not the compliment.
A color gradient may also be known as color progression or a color ramp. A gradient is the gradual transition of one color into another. This section showcases gradients featuring #00062f as the base color. The secondary colors come from the section above.
Seeing #00062f on a computer or phone screen is much different than how it may appear in the real world. Shown here are 20 different environment types and how #00062f could potentially look inside each of them, given perfect conditions.
Colors that have names have reached a point of status where they're more than just a hex code: they're real-world associated.
#00062fmight be precisely the color you're looking for. But, the colors below are a close match. What's better is that they're named colors, meaning chances are there's more information about them. If you feel like taking a slight deviation in hue, click a color below to learn about why it's so unique.
Looking for something completely different? Try a well-documented complimentary color. The named colors below have been calculated to be the furthest colors from#00062f. Click on the colors to explore their unique information.
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Here you can easily copy-and-paste formatted color code for use with your favorite programming/markup languages like HTML/CSS, Java, Objective-C, and GameMaker Language.
|Java||new Color(0, 6, 47);|
|.NET||Color.FromArgb(255, 0, 6, 47);|
|Objective-C||[UIColor colorWithRed:0 green:6 blue:47 alpha:1.00000];|
|OpenGL||glColor3f(0f, 6f, 47f);|
|Swift||UIColor(red:0, green:6, blue:47, alpha:1.00000)|
|GameMaker Language (GML)||$2f0600|
This useful chart contains technical information about the hexadecimal color #00062f. For example, the direct decimal conversion is 1583 while the individual RGB conversions are: 0, 6, 47.
If you're considering using #00062f in a logo or design, you can quickly reference below to see how various symbols, icons, and emblems look.
We learned earlier that White-colored text should be used on a #00062f colored background for best readability. But, you can be the judge of that by looking at the examples below. Accessibility is an important aspect of (web) design that is many a developer's afterthought.
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The Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday said the number of traffic accidents fell in February compared to both the month prior and the same period a year ago, though accidents still cost too many lives each month, an official said yesterday.
According to a ministry report, last month saw 284 traffic accidents, in which 140 people died and 418 were injured. The figures mark a decrease from January, which saw 337 accidents – with 169 fatalities and 502 injured – as well as a decrease from February last year, which saw 350 accidents – with 174 deaths and 540 injured.
However, the stats do not differ greatly from the monthly average in 2016 – 278 accidents with 131 fatalities – when a revamped Traffic Law went into effect. They are down slightly from 2015, which saw an average of 315 accidents and 152 fatalities a month.
Min Manvy, secretary of state with the ministry, said despite decreasing numbers, accidents still caused too many deaths and injuries. “All officials will continue to work hard to reduce the number of traffic accidents,” she said.
She said the accidents were mostly caused by speeding (33 percent) and drunk driving (11 percent), and added that the police fined about 37,600 vehicle owners for violations, collecting almost $217,600.
But Ear Chariya, of the Road Safety Institute, said that “there is still a lot of room for improvement”, and urged the frequent use mobile speed cameras.
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Most estimators are trained with, and are used to, manual and Computer-Aided Design and Drafting (CADD) two dimensional (2D) drawings. The spatio-temporal limitations of these designs complicate information management, estimators’ judgments, speed and accuracy. In addition, conventional estimating practices also need to cater to the nuances of diverse standard methods of measurements (SMM) and unstable market conditions. Building Information Modeling (BIM) promises major improvements that overcome the limitations of conventional 2D methods in both design and construction processes. It provides platforms for value integration, robust information sources, simultaneous access to design database, automated quantification, project visualization and simulation, among others capabilities. These capabilities facilitate accuracy, objective risk assessment, comprehensive information management and early integration of cost management principles during design. Arguably, the uptake of Information Technology (IT) in construction is increasing and this discipline-specific study on BIM highlights its considerable potential for improving professional service delivery. Consequently, the integration of BIM and process driven Computer-Aided Estimating (CAE) tools and applications provide robust opportunities for process improvement in Architectural, Engineering, Construction and Facilities Management (AECFM) industries. As part of a research initiative, this chapter reviews the impacts of BIM on cost estimating procedures. In a bid to develop a conceptual framework for underpinning BIM-propelled changes in estimating practice, CAE applications are categorized and compared. Moreover, some features for producing automated quantities from BIMs are compared with provisions of SMM used by estimators. The research concludes with recommendations about the capacity of BIM to revolutionize construction procurement and systems.
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2013 is shaping up to be another bumper year for colds, flus and noroviruses with medical officials predicting a similar or greater outbreak level to 2012. Here's what you need to know about the impending sniffle season.
This week, health experts gave a snapshot of what's coming this flu season during an Australian Science Media Centre briefing. In the coming months, Australia is expected to be hit by a new strain of norovirus dubbed Sydney2012, an even spread of influenza types and a heady dose of the common cold. Here's an overview of what we can expect...
Rhinovirus (Common cold)
John Upham, Professor of Respiratory Medicine at the School of Medicine, warned that the many strains of human rhinovirus would lead to plenty of cases of the common cold in the coming months.
"There are at least 100 varieties [of rhinovirus] in the community, which explains why it's very common for people to get repeated rhinovirus infections because even though they may become immune to one strain of the virus when a new strain of the virus comes along they no longer have any protection."
Rhinoviruses often peak just after school holidays and are also exacerbated by drops in temperature, Upham said.
"We have known for a long time that you're more likely to get a cold during colder months, particularly in winter. That's because people tend to congregate close together in winter and the virus itself also thrives when the temperatures are a little bit lower. A recent study also suggests that our immune system doesn't function quite as efficiently as it should at low temperatures."
While rhinoviruses can make people feel miserable and unhappy, they usually only cause serious illness when the sufferer has an underlying lung disease, such as asthma.
"Asthma [sufferers] get roughly the number of cold as everyone elses, the consequences are often worse due to abnormalities in the immune system," Upham said.
Interestingly, women under the age of fifty tend to have stronger immunity against rhinoviruses than men due to hormone differences.
According to Dr Ian Barr, deputy director of the Australian WHO Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza, this year's flu season will be difficult to predict, although we can expect it to peak between the months of June and September.
So far, there have been 3379 confirmed cases of influenza in Australia this year, which is slightly up from the same time last year, which was the second highest on record.
Unlike last year's influenza outbreak which was dominated by the A(H3N2) virus, 2013 will involve a more even spread of the four main influenza types, Dr Barr said. Around 50% of cases so far have been of the A(H1N1) variety, with A(H3N2) and the two B Viruses contributing 27% and 22%, respectively.
Unlike rhinoviruses (AKA the common cold), influenza can cause a range of severe illnesses including pneumonia and death. Last year there were 60 recorded fatalities attributed to influenza in Australia, which Barr believes is probably an underestimation. Most of the fatalities were among the elderly, although 23 children were also admitted into intensive care.
Norovirus (Gastro bug)
Last year's gastro virus outbreak is expected to make a fierce comeback this winter according to molecular biologist Professor Peter White. The gastro bug is one of the nastiest of the common viruses, capable of causing nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. It can be caused by fecally contaminated food or water, person-to-person contact and contamination surfaces.
Last year, a research team led by Professor White identified a new strain of pandemic norovirus dubbed ‘Sydney 2012’. It has since gone on become the predominant norovirus and is responsible for a global pandemic. Around 80 percent of all norovirus infections are now caused by Sydney 2012.
White warned that if the outbreak is severe, the virus could potentially cause emergency department closures with hospital wards forced to turn away new admissions.
"In US and Europe they've already had a severe season, so we might expect a lot more norovirus activity in Australia during August and September of this year...We could have up to 200 institutional outbreaks per month."
2013 Flu Vaccine
This year's flu vaccine contains two new components to better match what's circulating: the A/Victoria-like virus, which was widespread in Australia and the US last year and B/Wisconsin/1/2010.
Barr said there was still plenty of time to get vaccinated in time for the flu season, although you'd be better off acting sooner rather than later: the vaccine usually takes around two weeks to reach its peak. "If you have a vaccination in the next few weeks you should be fine," Barr said.
Additional safety tips
To lessen your chances of catching a cold or virus this winter, wash your hands rigorously multiple times a day and try to avoid touching your mouth, nose or eyes after your hands have come into contact with a shared surface, such as a kitchen bench. Keeping your immune system strong can also assist in a speedy recovery.
If you'd prefer not to be vaccinated, you can get a prescription for anti-viral medicines from your doctor such as Tamiflu.
Natural remedies like vitamin C and echinacea, meanwhile, were classed by Upham as "disappointing". It's also important to try and contain a virus once you have it, especially from people with weak immune systems.
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Bastar rebellion refers to the Bhumkal rebellion of 1910. The major cause of the rebellion was the declaration of forests as reserved areas in 1908, by the British. Only government contractors were allowed to take forest timber for the construction of railways. It was a widespread tribal movement affecting more than half of the 84 parganas of Bastar. The tribals wanted to reassert their traditional rights over the forests and natural resources of the region. Other reasons included the humiliation of the tribal king by the British and disrespect for tribal traditions. The tribals also felt that their culture was threatened by British education policy. The movement was a continuation of previous protests in the region. It was symbolical of tribal resistance to attempts to change their way of life. Ultimately it was crushed by the use of brutal force by the British.
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What role does art play in The Picture of Dorian Gray? What are each of the three main characters’ attitudes towards art? How do they think art functions in society? The role of art in The Picture of Dorian Gray is that of romance. It brings a romantic sensation into an otherwise dark tale about a young man, Dorian Gray. His portrait was painted so perfectly, it mesmerized him into a love hate relationship not only with himself, but with the artist, Basil Hallward and with his closest friend, Lord Henry Wotton.
Although these men were affected by art in different ways, each romanticized about it, essentially about Dorian Gray. Dorian Gray was a young man. He was found to be the most attractive young man around by males and females alike. Everyone within his social circle wanted to be enchanted by this Prince Charming. Although the person most enchanted by him, was Dorian himself. He was only a young man with good looks until he met the artist, Basil Hallward. He became a young man with an attitude, after he sat for the artist. A portrait painting like no other came from that sitting.
It introduced a new type of arrogance to the young man. During the time he sat for Basil, he was introduced to Lord Henry Wotton. Lord Henry was compelled to induce this new arrogant behavior. The three men had a triangle of romance with the new piece of art right in the middle. Dorian relied on that painting. It kept him young, literally. The more Dorian observed himself within the painting, the more power it had over him. He viewed this art, this magical piece, as his lifeline. The painting taking away all the pain, sorrow, blood and age that life would normally introduce to a man.
He remained perfect and the painting was forever flawed. With this new found perfection, he expected perfection from all except Henry. Henry had a hold on Dorian. He influenced him as much as the art did. It was because Henry had a different view on how one should live, “Because to influence a person is to give him one’s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else’s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion—these are the two things that govern us.
And yet, I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream—I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of medi? valism, and return to the Hellenic ideal—to something finer, richer, than the Hellenic ideal, it may be. But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and poisons us.
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr.
Gray, you yourself, with your rose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame——” (Wilde). The painting was a direct reflection of Basil’s adoration for Dorian and it was pure perfection. “The painter shuddered in spite of himself. “Dorian, if I told you, you might like me less than you do, and you would certainly laugh at me. I could not bear your doing either of those two things. If you wish me never to look at your picture again, I am content.
I have always you to look at. If you wish the best work I have ever done to be hidden from the world, I am satisfied. Your friendship is dearer to me than any fame or reputation. Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates. Art is always more abstract than we fancy. Form and colour tell us of form and colour—that is all. It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him. And so when I got this offer from Paris I determined to make your portrait the principal thing in my exhibition.
It never occurred to me that you would refuse. I see now that you were right. The picture cannot be shown. You must not be angry with me, Dorian, for what I have told you. As I said to Harry, once, you are made to be worshipped” (Wilde). It is as if Basil was torn between life and art, “We take pleasure in the beauty of a statue, shall not then the living fill us with delight? ” This near mistranslation — which, in fact, via quotation in Edith Hamilton’s The Greek Way to Western Civilization, has made its way into mainstream thought — actually pinpoints the center of Basil’s struggle.
He cannot make up his mind as to whether he should experience life, being caught up as he is in the perfected world of art” (Alley). Henry took it upon himself to encourage the artist but he was at a point in his life when this painting was too personal to display. “It is your best work, Basil, the best thing you have ever done,” (Wilde) said Lord Henry. “You must certainly send it next year to the Grosvenor. The Academy is too large and too vulgar.
Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse. The Grosvenor is really the only place” (Wilde). Basil did not agree and denied Henry’s idea. “Not send it anywhere? My dear fellow, why? Have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are! You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one, you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion” (Wilde) was Henry’s reply. I can tell Henry views art as a way to get ahead in society, provided you have the skills, which Basil did. The painter did not agree with the selling your soul method of being accepted. He truly loved his subject and that love was to be private. It was privately displayed on a canvas, hidden in Dorian’s home. That one piece of art influenced Dorian to be as free and powerful as Henry wanted him to be and Henry loved having a protege.
Henry was interested in exploiting Dorian’s willingness and Basil’s privacy. Basil told him, “The story is simply this. Two months ago I went to a crush at Lady Brandon’s. You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With an evening coat and a white tie, as you told me once, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. Well, after I had been in the room about ten minutes, talking to huge over-dressed dowagers and tedious Academicians, I suddenly became conscious that someone was looking at me.
I turned halfway round, and saw Dorian Gray for the first time. When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself. I did not want any external influence in my life. You know yourself, Harry, how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray. Then—— but I don’t know how to explain it to you.
Something seemed to tell me that I was on the verge of a terrible crisis in my life. I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows. I grew afraid, and turned to quit the room. It was not conscience that made me do so; it was a sort of cowardice. I take no credit to myself for trying to escape” (Wilde). The art of Dorian Gray did absorb him but differently than it was absorbing Dorian. Hallward had conflict with his art and society, “An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Someday I will show the world what it is; and for that reason the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray” (Wilde). But once it was painted, he would never see that painting ever again. Between Henry’s influence and that perfect piece of art, Dorian developed a sense of power; it had him thinking all art should be as perfect as his. When he laid judgment it was always in comparison to his perfection. If he were to be exposed to it, it had better be the best. He fell for a young lady artist, Sibyl Vane. The form, face, and color that attract Sibyl Vane signify the wealth, status, and power of Dorian and other men of his class” (Dellamora). He was her dream man and he considered her to be the best stage actress ever.
Until one unfortunate night when his lover’s acting didn’t meet his standards. He called the whole thing off, “I was brutal, Harry—perfectly brutal. But it is all right now. I am not sorry for anything that has happened. It has taught me to know myself better” (Wilde). “Ah, Dorian, I am so glad you take it in that way! I was afraid I would find you plunged in remorse, and tearing that nice curly hair of yours” (Wilde). I have got through all that, I am perfectly happy now” (Wilde). “A very charming artistic basis for ethics, Dorian! I congratulate you on it” (Wilde). Dorian learned a lesson from Sibyl. His ridiculous behavior towards her drove her to suicide. “His unreal and selfish love would yield to some higher influence, would be transformed into some nobler passion, and the portrait that Basil Hallward had painted of him would be a guide to him through life, would be to him what holiness is to some, and conscience to others, and the fear of God to us all.
There were opiates for remorse, drugs that could lull the moral sense to sleep. But here was a visible symbol of the degradation of sin. Here was an ever-present sign of the ruin men brought upon their souls” (Wilde). Ultimately the art drove Basil and Dorian to their deaths and Henry to a lonely life trying to sell others souls for his own pleasure. “Romantic Art begins with its climax” (Wilde). And so it ends with one as well.
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A Call For Rural Pastors
By Glenn Daman
In 1835, realizing the strategic place the west would play in the future growth and vitality of the country, Lyman Beecher wrote a pamphlet entitled, "Plea for the West." In this pamphlet, he called upon the church to recognize and support the need for education, training, and equipping individuals to go as pastors to bring the gospel to the frontiers. But for the evangelization of the west to occur, it would need young men who were willing and desiring to "go to the West with unostentatious benevolence, who identify themselves with the people and interest of that vast community." But this training would have to come in the west itself, where people could learn and adapt to the Western culture. This was reaffirmed by Warren Wilson, who formed the Town and Country Church to provide training for rural pastors and serve as a clearinghouse for joint action on problems related to the rural Church (Sanderson, Rural sociology and Rural Social Organization, p 717). Thus, the call went forth for seminaries to provide unique training for rural ministry so that rural pastors would have the theological training necessary and an adequate understanding of the problems and culture of rural life.
Today, rural America is likewise facing a crisis of pastoral leadership. With the allure of urban ministries, rural churches have been overlooked and are increasingly finding it difficult to attract and retain pastors. In her research published in Assessing the Clergy Supply in the 21st Century, Patricia Chang concludes that the church, as a whole, does not face a shortage of pastors, but a lack of pastors willing to serve small congregations, especially isolated rural communities. To fulfill the great commission to rural America, there needs to be a new army of pastors willing to reach America's forgotten places. However, this call mustn't be just another trend. It needs to be sustainable by focusing on the right kind of individuals who will be effective in rural ministry.
Rural areas need pastors who are present.
In recent years the frustration of rural people has boiled over. When rural people voted overwhelmingly in favor of Donald Trump, much was written regarding the anger and frustration behind the vote and the increasing divide between urban and rural communities. In his book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America, Robert Wuthnow conducts extensive research into the reasons why rural American expressed such a mixture of fear and anger behind their moral outrage. Tired of being looked down upon by urban pundits and frustrated with a government that constantly intrudes in their lives without understanding the problems they faced, they gave voice to their anger through their vote. Because of Washington’s failure to understand them, rural people have become suspicious of outsiders who come purporting to have the answers to their problems. They see outsiders as a threat to their culture and way of life. People outside the community are not connected to the people and do not understand the challenges and struggles. Thus, Wuthnow writes:
"I've called rural people's anger towards Washington' moral outrage' because they view the federal governments' basic mode of action in recent years as an affront to their way of life. The contrasts could not be clearer, and they do not focus only on a single issue or policy. Rural communities are close, personal; Washington is distant, impersonal. People in rural places care about one another and share common understandings; people in Washington don't care and don't understand the common person; rural people know when to help and when to leave people alone; Washington intrudes unhelpfully in people's lives; rural communities are practical and use common sense; Washington's ideas are impractical and define common sense. "(Robert Wuthnow, The Left Behind, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018, p 111).
People distrust Washington because they see Washington as distant, unconnected, and unconcerned with the daily problems and struggles people in rural communities face.
The same is true within the church. In an age of multi-site churches, when sermons are broadcast on a screen from miles away, we have lost the importance of personal presence. But presence is more than being available on a Sunday or being connected organizationally in a local congregation. Presence is being with people to understand their struggles and identify with their lives and the culture they embrace. Once I asked my brothers (who are farmers in Northern Idaho) about the church's new pastor and how they liked him. They responded by stating, “He preaches good sermons, but he doesn't come out and ride the tractor with us.” What was their frustration? It was not that the pastor was failing to take a few trips around the field; it was that the pastor was still distant, unconnected with their world. Peter writes in 1 Petr 5:2, "Shepherd the flock of God among you." The word "among" is critical. The preposition "en" is the preposition of location. It points to the shepherd being present with the people and living among them. To impact people and minister them, we need pastors engaged with the people. Effective leadership culminates in our prophetic message from a pulpit, but that is not the starting point. Leadership starts in the week, and we interact with the people we serve, listening to their struggles, understanding their world, identifying with them.
Rural areas need pastors who are adaptive.
In seminary, we are taught the art and practice of pastoral ministry. We take courses on leadership and management, program development, and structural analysis. We are taught (often from an urban perspective) how to run the church organizationally. We are taught evangelism techniques that have proven to achieve effective results. However, when we enter the ministry, we find ourselves floundering because the principles are not working. So we attempt to change and direct the church to conform to what we have learned from other successful leaders. However, the result is only more frustration. This is not to say that we cannot learn from others and their experiences. The problem is that we become restricted by them. In many ways, the first step for effective ministry is unlearning what we learned in seminary regarding church leadership and ministry. While the principles we learn in Scripture are absolute, we need to be careful about reading into Scripture what we have learned from secular leadership.
When we come to the rural ministry, we need to learn that there is no one-size-fits-all. Instead, we need to recognize that each church and community is unique in culture and structure. The question we must ask is not "What worked elsewhere?" Instead, we must ask, "What will work here?" To answer that question, we need to learn and listen to the people we serve. We must understand how they work together and operate as a church and a community. The problem with a one-size-fits-all approach is that it fails to recognize the uniqueness of each person and congregation. To be effective, we need to adapt to the local setting. It may not be efficient, but often it is effective within the specific setting. We need to read their book, not written on pages of paper but revealed in stories and memories conveyed over a cup of coffee. This takes time and effort. But in the end, we it is much more effective.
Rural areas need pastors who are dedicated.
Tragically, the rural and small church was seen as a steppingstone for ministry. It was the bottom rung upon which a person would start to climb the ecclesiastical ladder of success (which is seen as a large urban church). It was a place to gain experience when one is first starting ministry (or a place to ride off into the sunset at the end of one's career) to gain some experience before moving on to a higher profile ministry. As a result, rural churches learned not to trust the pastoral office. Pastors would come in with a big splash only to move on at the first opportunity.
Consequently, they felt used rather than loved. While they looked to the pastor for biblical instruction, they did not see him as the true shepherd and caretaker of the church. He was the "hired gun" and ecclesiastical mercenary. For leadership they looked to the local individual who provided continuity and leadership through the church. The local individual, rather than the pastor, became the tribal chief and powerbroker of the church. As a result, when decisions are made, people look to the local leader rather than the pastor for guidance and direction. However, these individuals are often viewed as a threat rather than an asset to the local pastor. Pastors failed to recognize that leadership is not a position but a privilege that is earned. After seven years of serving in the church, it was only after I bought property to build a house that people began to trust in my leadership. After we purchased the property, one long-time member mentioned, "Well, I guess you are going to stay." It was only then that trust began.
Rural churches need pastors dedicated to the ministry of the church. They do not see the rural church as a steppingstone but as a place to live and connect with people. They do not have a roving eye looking for a more alluring mistress (i.e., a church with more recognition, more salary, more opportunities). Dedicated pastors are committed to the long haul, recognizing that trust can only be earned with time, commitment, and personal sacrifice. This takes years and sometimes even decades. But we are not called to success but to be a shepherd of God's flock. The value and significance of our ministry are not measured by the number of people we serve but by the appointment to the ministry itself. God values each person and every church. This value is seen in His placement of shepherds to oversee the flock. To view the size of the church as the indicator of success and significance is to distort the nature of the gospel and the value that God has for every person. A church of five is no lessor of value in the eyes of God than a church of 5000, for God does not look at numbers; He looks at individuals. If Christ valued each person enough to die for them, we should value them enough to be a faithful shepherd to them. If we are not committed to serving the church for the long term, we are not worthy to serve them in the short term.
Rural areas need pastors who love them.
Tied with being dedicated to the ministry is the importance of loving the people in the church. As we see through the pages of scripture, love is not measured by what we give but by what we are willing to sacrifice. It is one thing to give our time and energy to minister to people; it is quite another to be ready to sacrifice our careers, dreams, goals, and financial security to serve and minister to people. Here again, we must look to Christ as our standard. In John 10:11, Christ sets the bar when He states that as the Good shepherd, He lays down His life for the sheep." It is easy to see our role as a career rather than a calling and the church as an organization rather than a group of people we are responsible for nurturing. However, when we glance at the life and writings of Paul, we see a different perspective. Throughout his writings, Paul expressed a deep love for the people he served. Even towards the church at Corinth, which caused Paul considerable pain, Paul expressed his deep love for them (2 Corinthians 2:4). Although he was deeply grieved because of their sin, his love for them prevented him from turning his back upon them. While most people would have washed their hands of such a dysfunctional church, Paul devoted himself even more to their service and growth. When writing to the church at Thessalonica, Paul writes that he had a love and devotion for them compared to a mother's love for a child (1 Thess. 2:7-8). Because of this, he not only preached the gospel to them but gave of his life as well. He daily felt the pressure of his concern for all the churches (2 Cor. 11:28). He devoted himself to pray for them (Eph. 1:15-16, 3:14; Col. 1:3). Paul's whole ministry was not driven by a desire for success but rather a willingness to sacrifice himself for the growth and wellbeing of the church. This kind of love and commitment, every church, whether small or large, rural or urban, deserves from those who serve as a shepherd. The congregation may not agree with the direction we desire to take the church, but they should never question our love for them. This is communicated in our words and actions throughout our whole life and ministry.
Rural areas need pastors who understand the rural culture.
Concerning the view of government in rural communities, Wuthnow writes, "Rural communities' views of Washington usually emerge in two competing narratives: one the one hand, the government ignores us and doesn't do anything to help with our problems, and, on the other hand, the government constantly intrudes in our lives without understanding us and thus makes our problems worship." (p. 9). He goes on to state, "It's also that in order to fix problems, you have to know the local situation (the moral order). You have to deal with people by knowing their needs and their situation, not imposing one-size-fits-all agenda, which they figure reflects the government's urban interests more than theirs." (p. 9).
What is said of the rural attitude of the government could equally be said of the rural church's attitude of denominations, seminaries, and, tragically, even of pastors who come to serve the church. The failure to understand the rural culture and the attempt to promote our vision for the church can cause congregations harm rather than effective ministry. When we try to impose our agenda rather than first listen and understand their needs, situation, and perspective, we will undermine our ministry, discourage the people, and damage the church.
The first step in effective rural ministry is not developing a vision but listening to the people and understanding their culture. This begins by recognizing that rural people are not enamored with grand ideas for, in their world, sustainability more than growth is the measure of health. This is often where denominational leaders fail. They try to place urban standards and measurements on rural churches where success and growth are measured by numbers and programs. This often conflicts with the rural perspective, where success is measured by relationships and influence is determined by family connections. But not only must we learn the culture and structures of the church, but we must also become a student of the community. We need to learn the rituals, symbols, and stories and the norms and values that infiltrate and undergird community activities and experiences (Wuthnow, p. 28). As pastors, we need to understand that "moral communities consist of a geographic space, a population that considers itself to be part of this community, extensive social interaction within this population, an institutional structure comprised of formal and informal leadership, a sense of boundedness that separates insiders from outsiders, stories and rituals that affirm the nature of this boundedness, and everyday practices that verbally and behaviorally reinforce common norms about persons' obligations to themselves, their neighbors, and the community" (Wuthnow, p. 43). This does not happen overnight and often takes years to develop.
Rural areas need pastors who understand rural problems.
In every benchmark, rural America is facing a crisis. In an age of urbanization, rural people struggle to maintain their identity, culture, and livelihood. But the problems go far beyond the urban-Rural divide. Rural communities are facing struggles that undermine the very foundation of the community. People often have nostalgic, romantic views of rural America as a place where life is slow, people are friendly, and people hold fast to traditional values. While this is partially true, it also conceals the struggles and problems that plague rural areas. Rural America has rightfully been called "the new ghetto." Plagued by chronic unemployment and poverty, the onslaught of drug addiction, the deterioration of the necessary infrastructures (roads, health care, schools, etc.), and the continued exodus of young people, rural communities are a white picket fence that is decaying, and propped up by shaky supports. Unfortunately, these realities are often overlooked by politicians and denominational leaders.
The rural communities not only need pastors who are theologically trained, but they also need leaders who are equipped to engage the community in addressing these new realities. Because rural communities are often isolated from the resources to address the crisis facing rural communities (especially the opioid crisis), they turn to the pastor for help. But often we are not trained in dealing with these life issues. Denominations and educational institutions need to help prepare pastors for rural ministry and equip them to deal with these challenges. To offer the hope of the Gospel, we also need to provide hope for the individual struggling with the hidden battle of opioid addiction. We need to understand the challenges and struggles of poverty and become advocates for them in accessing state and national resources to help them rise above the chronic poverty that entraps them.
Rural areas need pastors who are involved.
In ministry, it is easy to become isolated in our office and become disengaged from the community at large. However, respect in the community is not granted but earned through community involvement and volunteerism. As a pastor, we need to become involved within the community so that they see us as a part of the community. While each pastor will find their niche within the activities and life of the community, we need to look for those opportunities. It may be volunteering as a coach for the local sports clubs. It may involve becoming part of a community drug prevention program. It may mean becoming a member of the local fire department or serving as a chaplain for the local police department. Within the rural communities, there is no end to the possible opportunities. What is essential is not so much where we become involved, but that we become involved. People need to know us and see us to have an influence.
Rural areas need pastors who have a sense of mission.
Throughout the pages of scripture, we see woven the mission of God of bringing His Kingdom reality present within the world. While the Kingdom of God has a future aspect (fully and physically realized at the return of Christ), there is a present spiritual reality as well. This comes when people surrender to God's sovereign rule within their life. This is our great commission. To take the Gospel message of God's Kingdom and proclaim it to the world. Pastors who see the rural church only as a steppingstone to bigger and better things, pastors who see the rural church only as a temporary stop on their career journey, will never see the mission of God in the rural context. The church's mission is not just for urban people and large congregations. It is a mission that encompasses the totality of the world. It embraces all people in all locations, from the high-rise buildings in the central city to the small unincorporated communities at the end of a gravel road. Rural communities need pastors who see God's universal mission being directed to the small community they serve. We will take the Gospel to the entire world, not just to the masses and populated urban centers. The call to serve a rural church must be seen as just that—a divine calling to bring God's Kingdom to the nooks and crannies of the forgotten places. Ministry is never about a career, success, and status. It is a calling to obscurity so that Christ may be elevated in people's lives. If we do not see rural communities as essential in God's redemptive mission, then the recent fad of renewed interest in rural ministry will remain just that—a fad that quickly and quietly fades back into the forgotten pages of denominational lists. To sustain the new focus on rural ministry, we must see it as a calling and essential mission of the church. | <urn:uuid:9a11fdaf-841b-4699-a1fc-7cd21a8472da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ruralministry.net/post/a-call-for-rural-pastors | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.974432 | 4,101 | 1.875 | 2 |
One-in-three public school students in NSW and Victoria have experienced racist bullying at the hands of their peers, an Australian university study has found.
The study of 4,600 primary and secondary students was undertaken at public schools with higher indigenous and migrant populations.
Nearly half of the students surveyed - 43 per cent - reported seeing teachers direct racially-motivated discrimination at other students.
The Speak Out Against Racism survey - led by the Australian National University and Western Sydney University - revealed indigenous Australian students and those with ethnic minority backgrounds suffered the most, with 40 per cent reporting racial discrimination by their classmates.
Among the same group, 20 per cent also reported racism from teachers.
A joint statement from opposition education spokeswoman Tanya Plibersek and opposition multicultural affairs spokesperson Andrew Giles said the report was a call to action, as "our schools reflect our society".
"It is unacceptable that as many as one-in-three school-age children have been abused, threatened and discriminated against simply because of who they are, where they may have come from, the faith they profess or how they dress," it said.
Sixty per cent of students said they had witnessed another student suffering racial discrimination from their peers.
However, 60 per cent also said they intervened most of the time to stop the bullying or support the victim. Less than eight per cent said they joined in, but 12 per cent said they did nothing.
"Racism and racial discrimination profoundly limit opportunities and have potential for serious lifelong consequences. The findings from SOAR show the extent of this burden for many Australian children and present an important call to action," lead researcher and ANU associate professor Naomi Priest said in a statement.
The results of the survey will be used to develop a program that encourages and equips students and staff to intervene in racist bullying situations.
Australian Associated Press
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Recovered Saturn V engines undergoing preservation
Published on June 4th, 2013 | by Admin0
The engines of the Saturn V rocket, recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic ocean by a recovery project led by Amazon.com’s Jeff Bezos, are undergoing preservation efforts at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center.
The corroded F-1 engines propelled the enormous Saturn V, still the largest and most powerful rocket ever built in the U.S. Each engine produced 7.7 million pounds of thrust and reached a top speed of 10,000 km/hr. Bezos’ Expeditions F-1 Recovery Project brought the artifact pieces to Kansas, where they are being carefully cleaned and preserved. Some of the relics are the size of a dime while others weigh more than 900 kilograms.
Working with aerospace engineers from Wichita State University, the museum is scanning all the components and building a virtual 3-D CAD model that will assist in reconstructing the engines. The researchers stress that they are not restoring the parts to their original condition, which would require meticulously erasing 40 years worth of accumulated oceanic damage. Instead, their intent is to conserve the artifacts in their present state and prevent them from degrading further. Once in good condition, the pieces will be displayed at other museums around the country.
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President Barack Obama, after all of his campaigning for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the final days of the presidential election, was asked how he would feel about handing the power of the Oval Office to a President Donald Trump.
In a Friday night interview on MSNBC, Rev. Al Sharpton, an MSNBC host, asked Obama to picture standing in front of a newly elected Trump on inauguration day.
"Can you imagine how you would feel standing on the steps of the Capitol having to hand over the power and watch him put his hand on that Bible and become your successor?" he said.
"No," Obama responded, succinctly.
It is a multilayered notion for Obama to ponder, because of Trump's years-long history of questioning Obama's legitimacy as a president and as an American citizen. After five years of driving the so-called birther movement, Trump only weeks ago acknowledged publicly that he believes Obama was indeed born in the United States.
The president continued Friday:
"You know, the thing is, I don't take any of this personally because he is not who's fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply frustrated not because of anything he said about me, but because I would fear for the future of our country. And I say that mindful of the fact that there are disagreements between Republicans and Democrats."
Obama has been driving an increasingly impassioned appeal for Clinton in recent days, as the race tightens and the chances of a Trump win inched closer to reality. However, he expressed some concern that it may be hard to dislodge voter complacency, because the idea of a Trump win is still far-fetched for many.
"The main thing that I've been trying to explain to people is ... everything that we've done over the last eight years will be reversed with a Trump presidency," Obama said.
Peripheral disruptions from an FBI investigation of Clinton's private email server have added to the urgency on both the Democratic and Republican sides — with the former seeking to reassure voters, and the latter raising the volume of their attacks on Clinton's trustworthiness.
Despite this, Obama said he is heartened by what he has been seeing on the campaign trail:
"The good news is that what we've seen over the last several days is in Florida, in North Carolina, in places all across the country, votes generally have been up. We have seen in the African-American community big surges in early votes, big surges in Latino votes, big surges in youth votes."
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When money is tight, the start of the school year can be a difficult time. Schools want children to arrive for the first day of school with everything from a new backpack to a supply of No. 2 pencils, a tall order for cash-strapped parents.
Sharing Connections, a Downers Grove nonprofit, can help. This month, the group is seeking donations of notebooks, backpacks, pens and other school supplies to distribute to families in need.
All year long, Sharing Connections collects gently-used furniture, clothing, toys, kitchen supplies and other items for families throughout Chicago and the suburbs. Those ongoing collections are supplemented with monthly collections of new items that focus on specific needs. This month, it's school supplies and baby products such as disposable diapers, wipes and bath wash.
Sharing Connections serves families referred by human service agencies and church groups. "They refer a family to us and tell us what they need," says Sue Armato, co-executive director. "Then we pull the order together and the family picks it up."
LeeAnne McGrath founded the organization 18 years ago after seeing so many negative stories on the evening news.
"I saw the reality of what was happening in my own community," she says. "Once you become sensitized to what you're hearing, it's hard to ignore it. We were raising three children and hoped the world they were growing up in would be safe. I started to think about what I, as an individual person, could do."
In 2001, the organization moved to its own warehouse, allowing it to help even more families. The organization helped 58,009 households in 2003. Armato hopes the number will grow in the future.
"We'd like to see an increase in the number of orders we can take on and fill and not have to turn anyone away," she says. "Maybe in the future we could have a couple of different offices to better serve different areas. For families in need it's very hard to commute far to get goods."
The organization also is in need of cribs and bedding. The Web site contains a complete list of needed items at www.sharingconnections.org. All donations are tax deductible.
Donations can be dropped off at the Sharing Connections office, 5111 Chase Ave., Downers Grove. To arrange for pick up of larger furniture donations, call (630) 971-0565.
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Slate, the Industry Standard, and washingtonpost.com join forces to examine the effect of the Internet on Campaign 2000.
Visit the campaign Web site of Vice President Al Gore and you'll find little sign of the post-election maneuvering that has besieged Florida since Nov. 7. The site remains eerily frozen in time, featuring the same message from campaign chairman William Daley on the home page since Nov. 10.
Texas Gov. George W. Bush's camp, meanwhile, has stepped up its online activities, with updates of the continuing legal battle in Florida on the candidate's site and an e-mail campaign seeking donations to support the Bush team's efforts to block recounts in the Sunshine State.
The difference in both style and strategy illustrates the Internet's still precarious role in the political process. On the one hand, Bush's burst of online activity could signal another step toward a new political era, in which campaigns live in perpetuity online beyond Election Day. On the other hand, the post-election abandonment of the Net by Gore and other congressional candidates is evidence of a stubborn resistance toward digital politics.
Steven Schneider, editor of NetElection.org, a joint project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, the Center for Governmental Studies, and the Center for Public Integrity, thinks the former is the way of the future.
"I think the Web is clearly going to be on the front lines of the new permanent campaign," Schneider says. "This is sort of the natural evolution."
But, he acknowledges, candidates are "still fighting the Internet," adding that neither Gore nor Bush is really tapping the vast potential of the Internet to transform America's political system.
Sen. John McCain was the first major candidate to maintain a post-election Web presence. After losing the presidential primary, the Arizona Republican created his Straight Talk America Political Action Commission and its accompanying Web site, which can be accessed at both straighttalkamerica.com and McCain2000.com.
"There's no point in not keeping that Web traffic, especially if you are now soliciting for help to [another] cause," says Tom Yeatts, co-founder of online political consultancy Virtual Sprockets and an adviser to McCain's online campaign.
Granted, with or without the Internet, Bush and Gore are entering uncharted political territory in the fight for Florida's Electoral College votes. Gore has been fighting for a recount, and Thursday seemed to score a small victory when the Florida Supreme Court approved a plan by Palm Beach County to hand count ballots. But on Friday, Bush moved ahead in the litigation game, when a federal judge ruled that the state can reject any recounts.
Gore has created a recount committee to concentrate on the high-stakes Florida showdown. His campaign for the presidency is officially over, and its Internet strategy has closed down along with it, leaving visitors to the official Gore site to search for the latest information elsewhere. But Democrats looking for the party line on Florida's sudden-death match online also come up short at the sites of the Democratic National Committee and the Florida Democratic Party. Democrats.org offers only a statement from DNC national chair Joe Andrew thanking supporters and a plea for a fair and accurate ballot count.
Florida Democratic Party spokesman Tony Welch says traffic to the state party's Web site has probably doubled or tripled since election week. Even still, the only sign of the election uncertainty on Florida-Democrats.org is a small section providing a toll-free number for voters who want to report fraud or other problems in their election districts. His explanation: "Here in Florida we've been a little busy."
"Maybe the Republicans are doing a better job than us" online, Welch adds. "They have more staff than us."
Indeed, the chaos in Florida seems to have spurred the Republican Party into action online. The Bush campaign is updating its site daily with statements from former Secretary of State James Baker, campaign Chairman Don Evans and George W. Bush himself. The campaign added a four-page list of contributors to his recount fund to the site Wednesday night, including those reached through e-mail solicitations. Similarly, the Republican National Committee and the Republican Party of Florida have been updating their sites regularly with speech transcripts.
"People are still watching the events going on and want to know the recent news and events surrounding the situation in Florida and the situation of the campaign and election," says Bush spokesman Bob Hopkins. The Bush site received 339,918 hits last Friday, he says.
But in an online discussion sponsored by the New York Times, one reader identified as "i13tonyv" preferred Gore's strategy. "The Gore site is brief, fair, and clear, while the Bush site sounds like a fifth-grade whining contest," the reader wrote.
Political strategists take another view. Both Yeatts and Schneider considered Gore's suddenly low-key Internet presence a misstep. "Their Web site should serve as the archives of their activities," Schneider says. "Bush is marginally better, [with] more links to statements and stuff like that." But Bush still falls short, they argue, because his site lacks information on Florida legal briefings, which are commonly found on news sites.
Whoever ends up conceding the big prize in this cliffhanger of a presidential election, Yeatts says, should use his Web site to thank supporters and refer them back to their parties' sites in an effort to hold on to that support. After all, it's never too early to start thinking about the 2002 election. | <urn:uuid:a51b247d-665c-4061-a5ba-00514598e34f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/net_election/2000/11/asleep_at_the_mouse.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00012-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955228 | 1,133 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Sir Basil Spence
Basil Urwin Spence
13 August 1907
|Died||19 November 1976 (aged 69)|
Yaxley, Suffolk, England, UK
|Alma mater||Edinburgh College of Art|
|Practice||Basil Spence & Partners|
Hyde Park Barracks
New Zealand parliament extension
Sir Basil Urwin Spence,(13 August 1907 – 19 November 1976) was a Scottish architect, most notably associated with Coventry Cathedral in England and the Beehive in New Zealand, but also responsible for numerous other buildings in the Modernist/Brutalist style.
Spence was born in Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India, the son of Urwin Archibald Spence, an assayer with the Royal Mint. He was educated at the John Connon School, operated by the Bombay Scottish Education Society, and was then sent back to Scotland to attend George Watson's College in Edinburgh from 1919–1925. He enrolled at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) in 1925, studying architecture, where he secured a maintenance scholarship on the strength of the "unusual brilliance" of his work. He won several prizes at the college, and meanwhile carried out paid work drawing architectural perspectives for practising architects including Leslie Grahame-Thomson, Reginald Fairlie and Frank Mears.
In 1929–1930, he spent a year as an assistant, along with William Kininmonth, in the London office of Sir Edwin Lutyens, whose work was to have a profound influence on Spence's style, where he worked on designs for the Viceroy's House in New Delhi, India. While in London he attended evening classes at the Bartlett School of Architecture under A. E. Richardson. Returning to ECA in 1930 for his final year of studies, he was appointed a junior lecturer, despite the fact that he was still a student. He continued to teach at ECA until 1939.
After graduating in 1931, Kininmonth and Spence set up in practice together, based in a room within the office of Rowand Anderson & Paul (at that time having Arthur Forman Balfour Paul as sole partner), in Rutland Square, Edinburgh. The practice was founded on two residential commissions which Kininmonth had obtained that year. Spence also received commissions to illustrate other architects' work, including the Southside Garage, on Causewayside, Edinburgh, in an Art Deco style (although credited to Spence his name appears nowhere on the official warrant drawings and only appears as a signature on the artist's perspective).
In 1934 Spence married, and the Kininmonth & Spence practice merged with Rowand Anderson & Paul. Balfour Paul died in 1938, leaving Kininmonth and Spence in charge of the renamed Rowand Anderson & Paul & Partners. Spence's work was now concentrated on exhibition design, including three pavilions for the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow, and country houses.
The first two of these, Broughton Place at Broughton near Biggar, and Quothquan in Lanarkshire, were executed in traditional Scottish styles at the client's request. The third was entirely modern. Gribloch was designed for John Colville, grandson of the founder of Colville's Iron Works, and his American wife. It was designed in a modernist Regency style, with assistance from Perry Duncan, an American architect hired by the Colvilles when Spence was too busy with exhibition work to progress the project.
In 1939, Spence was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Camouflage Training and Development Centre of the British Army. He was initially based at Farnham in Surrey, and took part in the D-Day landings in 1944. He was demobilised in September 1945, having reached the rank of major and been mentioned in despatches twice.
Spence returned to Rowand Anderson & Paul & Partners briefly, before setting up his own practice, Basil Spence & Partners, with Bruce Robertson. He was awarded an OBE in 1948 for his work in exhibition design, work which he continued with the Sea and Ships Pavilion for the 1951 Festival of Britain. That year he opened a London office, moving there permanently from 1953. A second office was opened in 1956 at Canonbury, which became the creative hub of the practice. Spence was External Professor of Architecture at the University of Leeds from 1955 to 1957 and from 1958 to 1960 he was the President of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
On 14 November 1940, Coventry's Anglican Cathedral was extensively damaged by German bombing, a year into World War II.
In 1944, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott submitted a design proposal to rebuild the cathedral but this was rejected by the Royal Fine Arts Commission. In 1950, a competition was launched to find the most suitable design from a Commonwealth of Nations architect. Over 200 entries were received, and Spence's radical design was chosen. Work began in 1956 and the structure was completed in 1962. Spence was knighted in 1960 for his work at Coventry, while the cathedral was still being built.
On 23 February 2012 the Royal Mail released a stamp featuring Coventry Cathedral as part of its "Britons of Distinction" series.
In 1959, Spence secured two important commissions, for the British Embassy in Rome (completed 1971), and for the Hyde Park Cavalry Barracks in London (completed 1970). He was also responsible for designing the high-rise Hutchesontown C housing in Glasgow. These were intended to replace the notorious slum tenements in the Gorbals area of the city. A combination of social deprivation and exclusion in the relevant areas, coupled to poor execution of his designs meant that the developments created as many problems as they solved, and led to their demolition in 1993.
Spence was also responsible for modernist buildings on The Canongate in Edinburgh, opposite the new Scottish Parliament and in view of Holyrood Palace. This area is named Brown's Close and was listed in 2008. Other work in the 1960s included the concept design for the executive wing of the New Zealand Parliament Buildings in Wellington, nicknamed "The Beehive", Edinburgh University Library, and Abbotsinch Airport (now Glasgow Airport).
In 1960, Spence designed Mortonhall Crematorium in Edinburgh's Braid Hills area (based on the same angled fin concept as found at Coventry Cathedral). He also designed Trawsfynydd nuclear power station, which was unveiled in Snowdonia, north Wales, in 1968.
Also in 1964, with support from the Nuffield Foundation, the University of Southampton built a theatre on its campus. Spence worked closely with Sir Richard Southern as consultant for the interior design and layout of the theatre.
The Spence practice was rearranged in 1964, with the Canonbury office being renamed Sir Basil Spence OM RA, and the second London office Spence Bonnington & Collins. The Edinburgh office was also renamed for its partners, Spence Glover & Ferguson. From 1961 to 1968, Spence was Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy.
Through the 1970s, Spence continued to work on public and private commissions, universities and offices including Aston University Library and Management Centre. His last work was for an unexecuted cultural centre for Bahrain, which he worked on during illness in 1976. Some of his final commissions were built after his death; for example, his design for the new Glasgow Royal Infirmary was completed in 1981.
Spence died in November 1976 at his home at Yaxley, Suffolk and was buried at nearby Thornham Parva.
His practice, Spence, Ferguson and Glover, continued until 1992 before being disbanded.
In 2006, he was the subject of a BBC Scotland documentary, Rebuilding Basil Spence, which revised his place in 20th-century British architecture and asked why he had been for so long overlooked. In 1993 Spence's Hutchesontown C complex was listed by the international conservation organisation DoCoMoMo as one of Scotland's sixty key monuments of the post-war years, in the same year as it was demolished.
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VT Halter Marine, Inc. and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today launched the second of four planned NOAA fisheries survey vessels. The ship was christened Henry B. Bigelow by Catherine Silver of Winnacunnet High School in Hampton, N.H., on behalf of the ship’s sponsor, Mrs. Judd Gregg, wife of the senior senator from New Hampshire. The ship will be one of the most technologically advanced fisheries survey vessels in the world when placed in operation in late 2006.
Mrs. Gregg was unable to attend the ceremony at the shipyard in Moss Point, Miss., but designated Silver as her representative. Silver was the team leader of students from Winnacunnet High School who won a regional NOAA contest in 2004 to name the ship. The students also participated in the ship’s keel laying ceremony in May 2004. The contest was an educational initiative to help students learn more about their region’s marine and coastal environment as well as to generate a greater interest in scientific studies.
“The christening of Henry B. Bigelow is a significant milestone in the modernization of our NOAA fleet,” said retired Navy Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr., Ph.D., under secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere and NOAA administrator. “We appreciate the contribution Mrs. Gregg has made as the ship’s sponsor and we are delighted that Ms. Silver was able to represent her, maintaining the close connection between the school and the vessel.”
“We would also like to thank Senators Gregg, Cochran and Lott and Congressman Taylor for helping us obtain the funds to build this important asset as we carry out NOAA’s mission to assess and protect the nation’s living marine resources. Henry B. Bigelow and its sister ships will provide higher quality data to fisheries managers about targeted fish populations and the environment that sustains them,” added Lautenbacher.
Henry B. Bigelow is the second of four planned 208 ft. fisheries survey vessels to be built by VT Halter Marine that will either augment or replace aging ships in the NOAA fleet. Its capabilities will far exceed those of older NOAA ships. It has been built to meet specific data collection requirements of NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service as well as to meet tough standards for a low acoustic signature set by the International Council for Exploration of the Seas. This feature will allow the ship to study fish quietly without altering their behavior. After calibration, the vessel will replace Albatross IV, and will be home ported in New England.
Construction of the third fisheries survey vessel was kicked off yesterday at VT Halter Marine’s Moss Point shipyard. The vessel’s base cost exceeds $39 million. Approximately 150 VT Halter Marine employees will be working on the two NOAA ships over the next three years. This third research ship will be home ported in Pascagoula, Miss.
“VT Halter Marine has a proven global track record of designing and constructing ships that meet our clients’ specific requirements. We are delighted to be working with NOAA on this sophisticated new class of quiet fisheries survey vessels that will greatly increase NOAA’s technical capabilities at sea,” said Boyd E. King, CEO of VT Halter Marine, Inc. “Work began yesterday on the next ship in this class, which speaks positively of NOAA’s confidence in our ability to meet their high performance standards.”
The ship’s namesake, Henry B. Bigelow, was a renowned oceanographer who worked as a researcher, instructor and professor of zoology at Harvard from 1906 to 1962. He was also a founder of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1931. Bigelow transformed the Gulf of Maine from a scientific unknown to one of the most thoroughly studied bodies of water in the world and developed the interdisciplinary, ecosystem-oriented approach that characterizes modern oceanography. Several grandchildren of Bigelow attended the ceremony today, including Frederick S. Bigelow Jr. of Pennington, N.J., who was a speaker.
The NOAA fleet of research and survey ships and aircraft is operated, managed, and maintained by NOAA Marine and Aviation Operations. NMAO includes commissioned officers of the NOAA Corps and civilians. The NOAA Corps is the nation’s seventh and smallest uniformed service, and, as part of NOAA, is under the U.S. Department of Commerce.
NOAA, an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, is dedicated to enhancing economic security and national safety through the prediction and research of weather and climate-related events and providing environmental stewardship of our nation’s coastal and marine resources.
VT Halter Marine is the marine operations of Vision Technologies Systems. Based in Pascagoula, Miss., more than 2,600 vessels have been built at its facilities in the United States. VT Halter Marine designs, builds and repairs a wide variety of ocean-going vessels such as patrol vessels, oil recovery vessels, oil cargo vessels, ferries, logistic support vessels and survey vessels.
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Society, Economy and Politics in the Twentieth Century 2nd Revised edition
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How and why did Europe spawn dictatorships and violence in the first half of the 20th century, and then, after 1945 in the west and after 1989 in the east, create successful civilian societies? This book explains the rise and fall of the men of violence whose wars and civil wars twice devastated large areas of the European continent and Russia.
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In 1958, Shepard Stone, then directing the Ford Foundation's International Affairs program, suggested that his staff "measure" America's cultural impact in Europe. This book uses Shepard Stone as a window to this world in which the European-American relationship was hammered out in cultural terms.
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Jupiter outshines everything else high in the sky these evenings, noticed only glancingly by most (if noticed at all). Four hundred and two years ago this month, it was a different story.
In the city of Padua in Italy during the Renaissance, the brash and controversial scholar Galileo Galilei was just beginning to publicize a record-breaking new claim. Using the magic tubes with which he was already building a reputation — but which were notoriously hard for anyone else to aim and use — he declared to have seen, at Jupiter, proof that the Earth is not creation’s only center of motion.
This was a world-shaking claim for the time and place, and if Galileo wanted attention, he got it.
Just a few months before, his telescopes had shown that the moon was not a perfect crystalline sphere, as orthodox philosophy had held since Aristotle, but an imperfect, broken world of mountains, clefts, and plains like our poor Earth itself. The heavens, Galileo brazenly showed, were not heavenly. He happily ridiculed “the great crowd of philosophers” as dullards besotted with Aristotle. One of them announced in reply that Galileo’s moon mountains might exist, but were nevertheless encased in invisible crystal that formed Aristotle’s perfect sphere. Galileo responded, to the laughter of his allies, that he would accept the layer of heavenly crystal and declare that it had its own invisible mountains 10 times higher still.
Now he was announcing another heresy: that the planet Jupiter was attended by four satellite stars circling closely around it.
Conservative scholars had argued that Copernicus, with his new theory that Earth moves around the sun, had to be wrong because Earth could be the only center of motion. Galileo declared that anyone with a spyglass could see otherwise.
You still can. It doesn’t take much of a telescope to show Jupiter’s four big moons. A pair of binoculars usually shows at least two or three of them lined up on opposite sides of the planet, especially if you can brace the binoculars firmly against something to hold them still.
Try it this evening. Face southeast and aim at Jupiter shining high. Barely to the planet’s upper right, almost lost in its glare, will be a tiny row of two or three little points: The outer is Callisto, the next in is Ganymede, and if your binocular’s optics are sharp and your hold is steady, you may see Io closer in.
Cloudy this evening? Try tomorrow. Now Callisto will be somewhat closer to Jupiter, Io and Ganymede will be invisible next to the bright planet, and the fourth moon, Europa, will be in sight on Jupiter’s other side. Every night the pattern will change.
It took Galileo only a few days to figure out what was going on. He drew the positions of Jupiter’s attendants every clear night, aligned the drawings one below the other in sequence, and looked for patterns. He found them.
All four “satellite stars” were shuttling back and forth in the same plane, in a way that meant each was moving in a circle lying edge-on to our viewpoint. Io goes around Jupiter every 1.8 days, Europa every 3.5, Ganymede every 7, Callisto every 17.
These objects (named a few years later) evidently regarded Jupiter as the center of their universe, just as the moon does Earth. And if a center of motion like Jupiter could travel through space, it implied that Earth could, too.
This was an outrage to values and traditions that the educated Christian world, just emerging from the Middle Ages, held dear indeed. Galileo and others turned up yet more evidence of Earth’s motion and the sun’s centrality.
History records the denialist arguments, the threats and imprisonments, book burnings, demonizations, the increasingly extreme intellectual retrenchments, and other known bugs of human nature that come to the fore in the presence of unsettling new evidence. Yet within a generation or two it all gave way, and the medieval view of the cosmos started yielding to the modern one as confirming evidence spread.
As John Adams would say much later (during the Boston Massacre trial), “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.” That is the foundational faith of science, and perhaps our best hope in present times.
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Today is World Suicide Prevention Day, co-sponsored by the International Association for Suicide Prevention and the World Health Organisation. First observed in 2003, the theme of this year's event is "Stigma: A Major Barrier to Suicide Prevention". According to the WHO, suicide is a major public health problem in high-income countries and an emerging problem in low- and middle-income nations.
It is among the top 20 causes of death in the world, with some 800,000 suicides each year, many of them young people. That's around one death every 40 seconds. The number of suicide deaths each year exceeds the number of lives lost to homicide and war combined. These staggering figures do not include suicide attempts, which occur much more frequently.
A large proportion of people who commit suicide suffer from mental illness. Recent estimates suggest that mental disorders will become the second leading cause of the global disease burden in the next two decades, making it the most important category of ill-health - above even cancer or heart disease.
The impact on someone suffering from mental health problems can be even greater than for commonly diagnosed cancers. Yet a significant number of people suffering from mental illness who commit suicide did not contact health or social services prior to their death. In many cases, there are insufficient services available to assist those in need at a time of crisis, while some are reluctant to get help.
This lack of access to appropriate care is one factor that magnifies the stigma associated with mental illness and with suicidal thoughts and behaviour. This type of stigma, deeply rooted in most societies, can arise for different reasons. One is a simple lack of knowledge.
This can be addressed through community-based education programmes targeted at specific groups within society; by age, educational level, religious affiliation, and so on. The goal is to increase public awareness of the characteristics and treatment of people with mental illnesses and suicidal behaviour, and of the treatment available to help individuals with these problems.
Studies by our centre suggest that only 25 per cent of those who commit suicide try to get help beforehand. Reasons include not knowing about the service, believing it will be of no use, or being discouraged by the long waiting time in the public system and the unaffordable cost of private psychiatric treatment.
But knowledge is not enough to combat the stigma. Negative attitudes towards individuals with mental illnesses and suicidal tendencies are common in many communities. Often, education has no effect on such prejudice. Indeed, many health professionals who feel uncomfortable dealing with these people often hold negative attitudes about such patients, resulting in a failure to provide optimal care and support for people in crisis.
Changing such attitudes requires a long-term effort to alter the underlying cultural values of a community and a parallel effort to change the treatment norms of health care professionals. Our centre is working with local hospitals and non-governmental organisations to develop programmes to improve the follow-up support for patients who self-harm and who have been admitted to hospital.
Stigma is also the underlying motive for discrimination in the form of inappropriate or unlawful restrictions on the freedoms of individuals with mental illnesses or suicidal behaviour. Such restrictions can be evident at a personal, community or institutional level.
One extreme example is the criminalisation of suicidal behaviour, which still occurs in many countries. Discrimination can prevent or discourage people with mental illnesses or suicidal thoughts or behaviour from seeking professional help or from returning to their normal social roles after receiving treatment.
Clearly, criminalisation can be a powerful deterrent to individuals in crisis who desperately need access to care and support without being judged or penalised. Suicidal behaviour was decriminalised in Hong Kong in the 1960s following the law change in Britain. However, discrimination against individuals with mental illnesses or suicidal behaviour is still not uncommon in the work place and in our community.
At a government or administrative level, stigma can have an impact on resource allocation. In high-income and low- and middle-income countries, stigmatised conditions such as mental illnesses and suicidal behaviour receive a much smaller proportion of health and welfare budgets than is appropriate, given their huge impact on the overall health of the community. Furthermore, fund-raising efforts to support public health initiatives in this area are particularly difficult because of a lack of interest - again, because of the stigma attached.
Massive public education programmes have been of limited use in reducing the stigma associated with mental illness and suicide. New, innovative methods that target specific groups or that creatively use social media need to be developed and tested. Despite the difficulty and complexity of fighting the stigma, we don't have a choice if we want to improve the quality of life of individuals with mental illness and suicidal tendencies while also reducing the huge burden suicide places on both families and communities. Unless the stigma is confronted, it will continue to be a major barrier to the treatment of mental illnesses and the prevention of suicide.
Every year, World Suicide Prevention Day provides an opportunity to refocus our collective energies on addressing this fundamental problem. Changing cultural attitudes requires an awareness of the many forces that influence community norms, and the concerted effort of a wide range of community stakeholders over a prolonged period.
This is an ideal time to inspire people to develop creative new methods for overcoming this stigma. Comprehensive local or national plans to prevent suicide will not reach their full potential until this problem is effectively addressed.
Collectively, we can make a difference and transform the world into a better place for everyone.
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Left to ourselves
Eli Saslow chronicles the slow decline of Greenwood, SC during the first 100 days of the Obama administration in the Washington Post. It's a town with unemployment over 11%, with people unable to pay their bills, pay for heating. It's a place where old ladies have only a box of grits in the cupboard. It's an story centered on the efforts of a city councilwoman that is without villains; but it is also one without transcendent heroes.
It was nobody's fault, really, that councilwoman Edith Childs had such high expectations. She followed the election of Barack Obama with mounting expectation and rode the slow trajectory of disappointment to its still-plunging depths. Slowly it dawned on her that Obama had no box of magic tricks in his repertoire; that nothing that would stave off the relentless deluge of bills in the mailboxes of her constituents and slowly shrinking job base of her community.
Across the dark living room, one of Childs's favorite pictures is displayed on a worn coffee table. It shows Childs with her arms wrapped around Barack Obama, his hand on her back, her eyes glowing. They met at a rally attended by 37 supporters on a rainy day in 2007, when Childs responded to Obama's sluggishness on stage with an impromptu chant: "Fired up! Ready to go!" She repeated it, shouting louder each time, until Obama laughed and dipped his shoulders to the rhythm. The chant caught on. "Fired up!" people began saying at rallies. "Ready to go," Obama chanted back. He told audiences about Childs, "a spirited little lady," and invited her onstage at campaign appearances. By the day of his inauguration, when Childs led a busload of strangers bound for the Mall in her now-iconic chant, her transformation was complete. She was Edith Childs, fired up and ready to go.
But now, as Obama nears the 100-day milestone of his presidency, Childs suffers from constant exhaustion. In a conservative Southern state that bolstered Obama's candidacy by supporting him early in the Democratic primaries, she awakens at 2:30 a.m. with stress headaches and remains awake mulling all that's befallen Greenwood since Obama's swearing-in.
The unasked question in Saslow's article is whether or not Greenwood, SC isn't a glimpse into the future of other places across America. What happens if 11% unemployment or worse becomes the norm rather than the exception? Will they become places where people have given up on magic politics and turn to working the phones, paring the cheese more thinly and racking their brains in search of ways to make ends meet? Atheists have long imagined a world without belief God; but are we prepared for something philosophically rarer: a world without a belief in politicians? Or will the opposite occur? Will a downturn, taken far enough, result in a desperate search for extreme political solutions by a people tired of making applications without result, of making job calls without return? Men on white horses are far more common in history than nations with a belief only in themselves. Except in America, the first country in modern times to try the tides without a king are men on white horses rare. But the ocean is wide, perhaps endless; and the distant shore behind still beckons to those who imagine safety there.
Albert Camus in the Plague described a world suspended on the edge of a decision; a curiously quiet place of private struggle above which an invisible cloud hovered. It is always a world that can go one way or the other.
“Only a few ships, detained in quarantine, were anchored in the bay. But the gaunt, idle cranes on the wharves, tip-carts lying on their sides, neglected heaps of sacks and barrels — all testified that commerce, too, had died of plague.”
“It was the time when, acting under orders, the café-proprietors deferred as long as possible turning on their lights. Gray dusk was seeping into the room, the pink of sunset glowed in the wall mirrors, and the marble-topped tables glimmered white in the gathering darkness.”
“They found nobody on the terrace — only three empty chairs. On one side, as far as eye could reach, was a row of terraces, the most remote of which abutted on a dark, rugged mass that they recognized as the hill nearest the town. On the other side, spanning some streets and the unseen harbor, their gaze came to rest on the horizon, where sea and sky merged in a dim, vibrant grayness. Beyond a black patch that they knew to be the cliffs a sudden glow, whose source they could not see, sprang up at regular intervals; the lighthouse at the entrance of the harbor was still functioning for the benefit of ships that, passing Oran's unused harbor, went on to other ports along the coast. In a sky swept crystal-clear by the night wind, the stars showed like silver flakes, tarnished now and then by the yellow gleam of the revolving light. Perfumes of spice and warm stone were wafted on the breeze. Everything was very still.”
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NCERT / CBSE NOTES : Chapter Summary
Devotional Paths to the Divine
Medieval Indian Ideas of Devotion
Religion is an organized approach to belief in a divine power and creates a bond between unrelated people to form cooperative groups. This intermingling led to the development of many new ideas within the Indian subcontinent like social privileges by birth into a certain family or caste and inequality.
Some people were against such ideas and hence they started towards the teachings of the Buddha and Jainas. There were some people who accepted the idea of Bhakti or devoting oneself to God. The three main deities were Shiva, Vishnu and Durga while all the other gods and goddesses were their avatars.
People started worshiping as per rituals recommended in the Puranas. However, later even the Puranas mentioned that God blessed people on their devotion and irrespective of their caste. This was the beginning of the Bhakti movement which quickly gained popularity and also adopted by the Buddhist and Jain belief system.
In South India, this movement was propagated by the Nayanars and the Alvars where the former worshiped Lord Shiva, the latter worshipped Lord Vishnu. The rulers that time built temples for the saints to strengthen the link between the Bhakti tradition and temple worship.
The hagiographies and poems compiled by the saints are an invaluable source of information for us today. The Bhakti movement was greatly influenced by philosophers like Shankaracharya and Ramanuja.
Shankaracharya, a firm believer of Lord Brahma said Advaita or the oneness of the individual soul
and the Supreme God leads to salvation. While Ramanuja, a loyal devotee of Lord Vishnu said that Vishishtadvaita or the separateness of the individual soul even when merged with the Supreme God leads to its salvation. Their teachings inspired a new way of Bhakti that became popular in North India.
In Karnataka, a new Bhakti tradition was started by Basavanna, called the Virashaiva movement. Its followers believed in equality of all humans, and were against all forms of ritual and idol worship.
Important Saints of Maharashtra and North India
During the medieval period, many saints emerged in the Indian Subcontinent teaching that the power to save people belongs to the "Divine Name". They usually taught using poems and songs written in their regional language. The important saint-poets of Maharashtra, were Jñāneshwar, Namdev, Eknath and Tukaram and taught in Marathi.
They worshipped Lord Vitthala, an avatar of Lord Vishnu, lived an ordinary life, and rejected the idea of renunciation. Sant Mirabai, a passionate devotee of Lord Krishna, greatly influenced the people of Rajasthan and Gujarat with her bhajans.
After the 13th century, new developments took place in the Bhakti movement in North India. In the north, people were greatly influenced by saints like Tulsidas, a devotee of Lord Rama, and Surdas, a devotee of Lord Krishna. To express his devotion, Tulsidas wrote the Ramcharitmanas, while Surdas composed the Sursagara, Surasaravali and Sahitya Lahari.
Another important saint is Sant Kabir who was brought up by a Muslim family of weavers. He is one of the first Indian saints to harmonize the teachings of Hinduism and Islam. His teachings can be found in books like the Guru Granth Sahib, Panch Vani and Bijak.
In the 15th century, another great saint, Shankaradeva was born in Assam and was a devotee of Lord Vishnu. He started the practice of namghars or houses of recitation and prayer that is practiced till date.
The Nathpanthis, Siddhacharas and Yogis religious groups were formed around the same time and did not believe in rituals, but preached that one should sacrifice worldly pleasures. These groups were popular among people from the lower castes due to their different ideas on devotional religion.
A common feature among the saints is that their works were written in their regional languages and could be easily sung, one of the reasons for their popularity. The poor like artisans, peasants, laborers and traders were greatly influenced by the saints and helped to spread their teachings.
Guru Nanak and the Sikh Movement
The Guru Granth Sahib begins with the word “Ik Onkar,” which means “there is only one God”. It is composed by Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism and was born in 1469 at Talwandi. He finally settled in Kartarpur on the banks of the river Ravi.
His followers offered prayers by singing his hymns and ate together in langar, a common kitchen. His place of worship was dharmsal, now known as a Gurudwara. Guru Nanak appointed Lehna as his successor; known as Guru Angad.
Guru Angad compiled Guru Nanak’s and his own compositions in the Gurmukhi script, which is used for writing the Punjabi language. Later, all the teachings of Nanak’s successors and other religious people were compiled into the holy book of the Sikhs ─ the Guru Granth Sahib, affirmed by Guru Gobind Singh.
His followers were mainly traders and artisans, as Guru Nanak insisted that his followers follow a productive occupation. Guru Nanak’s teachings emphasized on three things: nam japna or right belief and worship, kirt karna or honest living, and vand chhakna or helping others.
In the 17th century, Harmandar Sahib at Ramdaspur developed into an independent state of the Sikh community, now known as the Golden Temple, Amritsar. Seeing the Sikh community grow, Mughal Emperor Jahangir started considering them a potential threat, and had Guru Arjan executed. This led to the development of the Sikh movement and the creation of the Khalsa Panth by Guru Gobind Singh that later became a political entity. | <urn:uuid:448ec63c-4e75-449b-8094-6018883e9b0e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tetsuccesskey.com/2015/01/devotional-paths-to-divine.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00157-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975508 | 1,282 | 3.984375 | 4 |
The US Navy’s push to increase the lethality of the littoral combat ship (LCS) is getting a major and somewhat unexpected boost with word that an over-the-horizon (OTH) surface-to-surface missile will be installed on-board the next LCSs to deploy.
Rear Adm. Pete Fanta, director of surface warfare at the Pentagon, issued a directive on Sept. 17 calling for the installation of an unspecified OTH missile aboard the Freedom and the Coronado, the next two LCSs scheduled for deployment. The Freedom is to deploy to the Western Pacific during the first quarter of calendar year 2016, while the Coronado is to follow in the second or third quarter.
“The objective is to install the OTH missile system aboard all in-service LCS deploying to forward operating stations starting in fiscal year 2016,” Fanta wrote in the directive, “as well as on all under-construction LCS prior to their commissioning ceremonies.”
The LCS has been without a surface-to-surface missile since the cancellation in 2010 of the Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) missile, a program managed by the US Army that would have provided LCS with a significant weapon. Ever since, the service has been searching for a suitable replacement. A shipboard launch system for the Hellfire missile is being developed for smaller targets, but that weapon is unable to inflict significant damage on larger ships -- a role the OTH is meant to fill.
An OTH weapon is to be included in the LCS frigate variant now under development. The Navy has issued a request for information to industry for the frigate missile, and a request for proposals is expected later this year, but no missile has yet been chosen.
Fanta’s directive does not mention a specific missile, but it’s understood from sources that the missiles for the initial installations will be the Boeing Harpoon and Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM).
The idea, sources confirmed, is to try out both kinds of missile on both LCS variants, each ship deploying with only one model of missile installed.
The Harpoon is a tried-and-true weapon that has armed most US warships since the late 1970s. It is a normally mounted in launch canisters, usually grouped in a quad pack. Most ships carry two quad packs, for a total of eight weapons – the maximum number of weapons per ship specified in Fanta’s directive. Boeing has been at work to improve the weapon, in particular to give it longer range.
The Norwegian-built NSM, by contrast, is not a US program of record and is not in service with any US platforms, although it is in service with the Norwegian Navy. It is the only naval strike missile to be fired from an LCS, however. In a simple demonstration test, a single missile box launcher was loaded aboard the Coronado and fired on Sept. 23, 2014. The launcher sat on a rudimentary platform exhausting over the ship’s flight deck, and the missile was not integrated into the Coronado’s combat system.
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Geneva: The Tibet Bureau in Geneva raised the situation in Tibet and called upon China to address the underlying grievances of Tibetans by respecting Tibetan people’s historical, social and cultural roots.
UN Advocacy Officer Kalden Tsomo from the Tibet Bureau Geneva told the UN Forum on minority issues that Tibetan people are facing the imposition of social structural and demographic change; lack of opportunity to acquire knowledge on Tibetan history, culture and traditions; and lack of employment opportunity in Tibet. “These have led to a cycle of conflicts and protests, including self-immolation protests by over 155 Tibetans in Tibet,” she said.
The 14th Session of the UN Forum on minority issues convened in hybrid format from 2 December to 3 December 2021 focused on the root causes of contemporary conflicts involving minorities, legal and institutional frameworks; early prevention of conflicts; and initiatives to protect the rights of minorities better to prevent conflicts.
She has highlighted the Chinese authorities’ closure of all remaining Tibetan medium schools and informal Tibetan language classes, including the recent demolition of the Drago Monastery school in the Kardze Tibetan area. “Job markets are increasingly dominated by a state-sponsored influx of Chinese into Tibetan areas, leaving local Tibetan college graduates with no job prospects.” Kalden further raised that the survival of Tibetan people with its culture, language and identity is under severe threat in the face of China’s ever-growing push to “Sinicize” every aspect of Tibetan people’s way of life.
While suggesting recommendations in finding a lasting solution, she called China to address the underlying grievances of Tibetans by respecting Tibetan people’s historical, social and cultural roots and enter into a meaningful dialogue with Tibetan representatives under the framework of the Middle Way Approach as envisioned by His Holiness Dalai Lama and; Urged the UN Mandate holders to understand the sense of conflict, crisis and complexities faced by Tibetan people under China, and pay attention to social exclusionary processes and cultural genocide in Tibet.
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ISO 14915-3:2002 gives recommendations for, and guidance on, the design, selection and combination of interactive user interfaces that integrate and synchronize different media. It addresses user interfaces for applications that incorporate, integrate and synchronize different media. This includes static media such as text, graphics, images; and dynamic media such as audio, animation, video or media related to other sensory modalities. Detailed design issues within a single medium (e.g. the graphical design of an animation sequence) are only addressed as far as they imply ergonomic consequences for the user.
Status : WithdrawnPublication date : 2002-10
Edition : 1Number of pages : 46
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Lavender essential oil is extracted by steam instillation from the flowers and tops of the herb lavender (Lavandula angustifolia). It is considered to be one of the safest of all the essential oils used in aromatherapy. Lavender can be a great help to a pregnant mother, but it is a powerful oil and care should be taken when using it during pregnancy. It should never be used as a substitute for medical care, or without consultation with your doctor.
Although lavender is classed as one of the safest oils, it is not recommended for use during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy. Says the website Expectancy: "Avoid using any oils in the first 3 months unless advised by an expert. Don't assume that, just because they're natural, they're automatically safe." Lavender is classed as an emmenagogue, meaning it may encourage menstrual flow, slightly increasing the risk of miscarriage. But in the later stages of pregnancy, lavender can be used to great effect.
Stretch Mark Remedy
Stretch marks can appear in the later stages of pregnancy on the upper thighs and the abdominal area. To help prevent them, and to reduce their appearance, combine four drops of lavender with three drops each of neroli and mandarin oil in a carrier of 50 ml jojoba oil and massage gently into the skin daily.
Lavender for Stress and Insomnia
Lavender is one of the best oils to use to combat the daily stresses and strains of late pregnancy. According to Esoteric Oils: "Lavender oil has a soothing and calming effect on the nerves, relieving tension, depression, panic, hysteria and nervous exhaustion in general and is effective for headaches, migraines and insomnia." To aid sleep, place a tissue with two drops of lavender oil on it next to your pillow, or add a couple of drops to a burner and place in the bedroom for 15 minutes before going to bed.
Labor Pain Reliever
Lavender can be a great help during labor, as both a calming oil and as a pain reliever. To combat backache, combine four drops of lavender with three each of Roman chamomile and mandarin oils in a carrier of 50 ml jojoba oil. Rub gently into the back to help relieve contractions. Warning: Lavender should not be used in labor at the same time as Pethidine, or epidural, or with Oxytocin/Pitocin infusions, as it may interfere with their function.
After the Birth
According to the International Federation of Aromatherapists, "a common practice in some maternity units is to offer a lavender bath (6-8 drops in a carrier added to a warm bath) to the woman after the birth of the baby." This is because of the antiseptic, analgesic and calming relaxing properties of the oil, which help to relax the mother after the birth, relieve pain and prevent infection. The bath will also ease other conditions such as hemorrhoids, sore or cracked nipples and poor breast milk supply. | <urn:uuid:86443421-6c8a-44da-b785-82cddff9f793> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/160187-lavender-oil-pregnancy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00573-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943856 | 632 | 1.835938 | 2 |
By Rhiannon Fionn
Until the Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal ash disaster shoved homes from their foundations in the middle of the night in Dec. 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, bending to pressure from industry, allowed coal plants to self monitor coal ash waste. But once the glare of the national spotlight called that conflict into question, newly appointed EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson vowed to put a coal ash regulation in place by the end of 2009.
Nearly seven years after the spill in Kingston, Tenn., that long-awaited regulation becomes effective today, Oct. 19.
While the EPA’s coal ash regulation seems like a major step forward in protecting America’s environmental health and drinking water, the truth is that it’s more of a preferred practice than a law. That’s because it is ultimately up to citizen lawsuits, usually via environmental organizations, to make states enforce the law.
Nearly half a million people commented during the agency’s eight city public meeting tour in 2010, though it took another four and a half years and dilution from the White House before the regulation was finalized, and an additional four months before it was published in the Federal Register. It’s taken yet another six months to get us to this point.
For decades, EPA debated over whether or not to regulate coal ash waste at all.
Today, with a regulation finally in place, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the debate has ended. It has not.
As recently as this past July, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that could prevent EPA from doing its job — its sixth such attempt – none of which have made it to the president’s desk. Even though these attempts proved futile, it’s the White House Office of Management and Budget that is credited with both stalling the regulation and making EPA back off its “hazardous waste” label.
Ahead of its effective date, the regulation has led several states to announce plans to close ash impoundments, or “ponds” full of this concentrated industrial waste. But “closure” is a far cry from a “cleanup,” which matters since the ash pits not only legally drain into waterways across the nation, but they’re also known to illegally leak and seep into public drinking water reservoirs. Groundwater monitoring data indicate that where there is a coal ash waste pit there is very likely groundwater contamination.
“Today, the largest source of toxic water pollution in this country is coal ash,” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, told me. “In fact it contributes more toxic pollution than all nine of the next big emitters combined,” he added.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, standing in the woods near Mountain Island Lake and Duke Energy’s Riverbend coal plant, which has two unlined, high-hazard coal ash ponds. Photo by Kevin J. Beaty for Coal Ash Chronicles.
EPA acknowledges that “coal ash contains contaminants like mercury, cadmium and arsenic associated with cancer and various other serious health effects.” And in 2010, the agency estimated that the public could realize $290 billion in health care savings annually if the waste were regulated – an estimate has since vanished from the agency’s website.
Contrast that with EPA’s estimate that a cleanup will cost the coal industry $8.1 billion. And consider this: jobs will be created in the process. During the long fight over the regulation following the TVA disaster, industry claimed such regulation would cause the loss of 300,000 jobs.
In 2011, Frank Ackerman of Tufts University’s Stockholm Environment Institute published a white paper describing that number as “simply unbelievable” and the result of either “unreported assumptions or from errors in calculation.” The conclusion of the paper is that an estimated 28,000 jobs will be created as coal ash is cleaned up.
During the public comment period for the coal ash rule, environmentalists and citizens made it clear that they want coal ash labeled as “hazardous waste.”
They didn’t win that label, but they did get some protections: The Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals from Electric Utilities (DCCR) rule calls for the closure of all ash waste pits that fail to meet structural standards, additional groundwater monitoring, the cleanup of unlined ponds that contaminate groundwater, liners for new ponds and restrictions on where they’re located.
The DCCR rule also encourages the “beneficial reuse” of coal ash as an ingredient in other products, including concrete – something industry claimed to want while repeatedly stating that regulation would “stigmatize” its business, a claim that’s also been debunked.
Still, the fight continues. Look no further for evidence than last month’s paltry settlement between the state of North Carolina and Duke Energy, the world’s largest energy producer – a settlement that’s now being challenged in state court by the Southern Environmental Law Center.
“In settling this fine, the (N.C. Department of Environmental Quality) has agreed to abandon its enforcement of groundwater laws at all 14 Duke Energy coal ash storage sites in North Carolina, to give Duke Energy amnesty for existing and future groundwater claims at all sites, to settle groundwater claims in existing enforcement actions, and to limit DEQ’s ability to monitor for groundwater contamination at all sites,” said Frank Holleman, a SELC attorney.
Rhiannon Fionn is an independent investigative journalist and filmmaker in post-production on the documentary film “Coal Ash Chronicles.” She is based in Charlotte, N.C.
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Supplementary MaterialsS1 Fig: Multiple CEA10-derived strains are cleared faster than multiple Af293-derived strains Af293-derived (TJW55. Nuclear macrophage labeled larvae (growth was visualized in flattened larvae with calcofluor white (CFW) staining and representative widefield images are shown. e = eye, ot = otic vesicle. Number of larvae with Prostaglandin E1 price hyphal growth in 2 replicates was quantified.(TIF) ppat.1007229.s009.tif (16M) GUID:?77B7C543-A5FE-4540-A290-950F081863CF S1 Movie: Phagocyte clusters form around injected causes invasive fungal disease that’s often difficult to take care of. Exactly how immune system systems control in immunocompetent people remains unclear. Right here, we use clear zebrafish larvae to visualize and quantify macrophage and neutrophil behaviors in response to different strains. That macrophages are located by us type Prostaglandin E1 price thick clusters around spores, establishing a defensive specific niche market for fungal success. Macrophages exert these defensive results by inhibiting fungal germination, inhibiting subsequent neutrophil recruitment and neutrophil-mediated eliminating thereby. Germination straight drives fungal clearance as faster-growing CEA10-produced strains are wiped out much better than slower-growing Af293-produced strains. Additionally, a highlight and CEA10 the power of different strains to look at diverse settings of virulence. Author overview Immunocompromised sufferers are vunerable to intrusive fungal attacks, including aspergillosis. Nevertheless, healthful human beings inhale spores from the fungi from the surroundings every complete time without getting unwell, and the way the disease fighting capability clears this infection is obscure even now. Additionally, there are various strains of spores produced from two diverse strains genetically. Larval zebrafish allow for visualization of fungal growth and innate immune cell behavior in live, intact animals. We find that differences in the rate of growth between strains directly affect fungal persistence. In both wild-type and macrophage-deficient zebrafish larvae, a fast-germinating strain is actually cleared better than a slow-germinating strain. This fungal killing is driven primarily by neutrophils while macrophages promote fungal persistence by inhibiting spore germination. Our experiments underline different mechanisms of virulence that pathogens can utilizerapid growth versus dormancy and persistenceand inform future strategies for fighting fungal infections in susceptible immunocompromised patients. Introduction Humans inhale hundreds of spores from the environment every day and yet almost all immunocompetent individuals successfully contend with the fungal contamination. Immunocompromised patients, however, especially acute leukemia patients, hematopoietic cell transplant recipients, and solid-organ transplant recipients, are at risk of developing invasive aspergillosis . In invasive disease, spores germinate into filamentous hyphae and invade and destroy tissues and organs, with mortality rates as high as 50 to 60% in patient populations . Limited antifungal treatments exist and there is growing resistance among fungi to these drugs . The development of successful immunotherapy-based treatments to this contamination requires a Prostaglandin E1 price more comprehensive understanding of the interplay of immune mechanisms that control clearance, with both neutrophils and macrophages playing major functions . Macrophages primarily focus on and phagocytose conidia (spores), and will eliminate conidia within hours [4, 5]. [6, 8], and neutropenia is certainly an integral BCL2L8 risk aspect for sufferers in the introduction of intrusive aspergillosis . Neutrophils can eliminate conidia and inhibit conidial germination both and [11, 12]. Defense cell populations can impact the experience of various other immune system cell types also, and CCR2+ inflammatory monocytes can boost neutrophil function in response to through pro-inflammatory gene appearance [13, 14]. Nevertheless, the entire level of macrophage/monocyte and neutrophil connections throughout the span of infections, and their influence on fungal clearance and development, aren’t known. The main part of pathogenesis is certainly germination Probably, the developmental change from relaxing, dormant conidia to filamentous, intrusive development . These different fungal. | <urn:uuid:04f6a099-3700-4462-b866-4ae8f84c754d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://stopvivisection.info/supplementary-materialss1-fig-multiple-cea10-derived-strains-are-cleared-faster-than-multiple/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.917406 | 953 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Identifying And Treating
Dog Hot Spots
Dog hot spots, the familiar name for the medical condition of pyotraumatic dermatitism, is a common but generally
not serious condition affecting our canine friends.
Mostly this problem affects adult
dogs, but can show up in puppies that are not getting the best of care. It is one of the dog skin allergies that can be very uncomfortable, even downright painful, for our pets, but fortunately very treatable.
How To Recognize Dog Hot Spots
A hot spot is pretty easy to locate and recognize because first of all you will notice your dog
constantly scratching or licking the area. When you take a closer look you will
generally see a bare spot on his coat either near the tail or around the ears. The
spot itself will look like a very inflamed (red) sore that is round in shape.
spots usually have a bad odor, may be oozing, and are obviously very itchy to your
pet. One other very recognizable feature of hot spots is that they grow bigger amazingly
fast - generally within hours.
The symptoms can be very painful to your dog, so much so that he may not allow you to
touch them, so proceed with caution. If you get a lot of resistance to your touch then
you know the area is extremely painful to your dog and you may choose to take him to the vet
for his expert handling.
Causes of Dog Hot Spots
Hot spots get started when a dog develops an itch and keeps scratching at it until the skin breaks, allowing
bacteria to spread inside and around the area. The basis of the itchy skin is usually an allergic reaction of
some type. Many pet allergies can often be traced to bad quality pet food that contains toxic ingredients,
chemical additives, preservatives or grains to which they are sensitive.
Other things that trigger allergic reactions can be of an environmental type, such as parasites, pesticides,
vaccinations, harsh grooming products or insufficient grooming etc.
Hot Spot Treatment
Although the sores may look very nasty and can be extremely to the touch, they are usually not serious and
can be treated with several home remedies.
- They don't call them hot spots for nothing, so in order to cut the heat
apply a dab of Witch Hazel 2-3 times a day.
- Keep the surrounding skin free of hair to discourage mats from forming near the hot spot. Mats
not only trap moisture, but are the ideal environment for bacteria to spread and worsen the condition.
- Soothe them with an antibacterial solution such as
Green Tee Septiderm-V spray
MalAcetic Skin Cleanser which will also dry out the spots.
- Keeping the sores dry promotes rapid healing. You can do this by spraying them two to three
times daily with an
old time favorite product called
As an alternative you can brew black tea bags and when cool apply to the sores for five minutes or so.
- One last remedy that is healing and soothing to dog hot spots, is the natural juice of the
aloe vera plant.
And here's a caution: Do not
apply anything greasy as this will trap the bacteria and possibly drive
the infection inward.
If you treat the hot spots with home remedies and they do not clear up in a few days, or appear to be getting
worse, it's time to call your vet.
To prevent further development of dog hot spots, one of the best thing you can do is find the underlying cause of your
dog's itching so that you can take steps to stop the itch cycle.
Another, is to groom your dog well to prevent mats from forming which can harbor parasites and start the
itching cycle. Read this article we wrote for about.com to learn the secrets of removing mats:
"How To Undo Your Dog's Tangles - The Delicate Job Of Dematting"
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- Test any new skills in the UK first – a backpacking trip in the USA might involve a few extra skills than you are used to using in the UK. Having a few trips to specifically check your skill set is a great way to test kit and fitness. For us we hadn’t wild camped before and so getting a few nights out where we carried all our kit and thought about what worked and what we carried but didn’t use built confidence and helped us rationalize our kit.
- Buy and test your kit in the UK…except – making sure things like your tent, sleeping set up, stove, clothing, socks and footwear are up to the job and worn in saves time, money and effort once you are in country and ready for adventure. Pick a preferred water treatment system and test it. We used Water-to-go bottles for general drinking on the trail and chlorine dioxide for treating larger volumes.
- Buy your food in the USA – backpacking is big news in the USA and certainly in the pacific north west we found that most outdoor stores had much better ranges of dehydrated meals than in the UK. There were also lots of dry goods sections in supermarkets where you could load up on unpackaged trail mix.
- Buy your map in the USA – the Green Trails Map we had for the Timberline trail was brilliant and would be my first choice if it covers the area you are interested in. The maps from National Geographic also seemed good and would probably be closest in style to Ordnance Survey while the Green Trails Map was perhaps more like Harvey’s maps in the UK. Generally trails were clearer and better signposted than you would find in the UK but the maps were incredibly useful for identifying backcountry campsites and potential water sources on the trail
- Be informed about potential ‘wildlife’ spotting but don’t let it put you off – google backcountry camping and you’re never more than a couple of clicks away from a bear encounter. Talk of mace, constantly ringing bells and singing to yourself sound terrifying and crazy in equal measures. The risk varies depending on where you travel. The best advice we had came from talking to national park or forestry rangers in country.
- Think about food storage – one thing we never consider in the UK is food storage; it just stays in the tent with us. However, in the USA it is a BIG DEAL. Largely due to the presence of ‘critters’ who can decimate your food stores although pose little risk to you. In some areas the lure of human food could potentially attract larger animals. Storing your food properly benefits both you (your food will still be there when you wake up in the morning) and the animals. If animals begin to associate humans with food this disrupts their natural behaviour and if animals are reported to have been scavenging then they may be killed by rangers. In areas where bears and coyotes are endemic then bear canisters are recommended otherwise hanging your food is the default – lots of good videos on Youtube on how to hang a ‘bear bag’. Olympic National Park mandated the use of bear canisters although the rangers reassured us that they were really ‘critter’ canisters for the most part. They were available to rent at the visitor centres for free.
- Make sure you’ve got the right permits – the ranger station or visitor centre should be your first stop when (or before) arriving at your backcountry trail head. Some are situated where you start the trail while others are centralised and you may need to visit before heading out to the more remote trail heads. Some trails are so popular you need to apply for permits through a lottery; examples include the Enchantments and many of the medium distance trails in California. Others required paid permits that can be bought from ranger stations while others including the timberline trail have self issue permits which are free.
- Aim for enjoyable adventure – for us the timberline trail was the perfect length and challenge; after all this was supposed to be a holiday. It definitely worked for us to select something that we felt was comfortably within our limits. That meant that the excitement could come with the terrain and the wild camping rather than adding in challenging mileage or altitude.
- Take or buy some tupperware – given you’ll be packing out your rubbish it makes sense to take as little packaging in with you as possible. A few tupperwares make excellent storage for trail mix and food. They add an extra layer of protection of your food against critters and they can be used as a more secure rubbish bag once empty.
- Take or buy a shovel – you will need a poo when you’re in the wild and unless you want to carry it out with you in your tupperware you will need to bury it. Carrying a small but solid shovel to dig a decent depth hole to do your business in is essential. Try not to dig near campsites. Not disposing of poo properly is inexcusable. Also, ladies, pack out any sanitary items – should go without saying.
Our kit list for a 4 day 40 mile trek
- 2 man tent – shout out to the ever faithful Jarran 2 from Alpkit
- Sleeping bag and sleeping mat
- Dry bags for sleepware and clothes
- Dry bag for food storage when hanging food
- toothbrush and toothpaste
- 1 x dry set of sleep/camp clothes
- 1 x walking set of clothes
- walking poles – really help my joints and great for extra balance when crossing streams
- suncream and sunhat
- waterproof top and bottoms
- Warm layer
- Warm hat
- River crossing shoes – these from Decathlon were fantastic – cheap, light, grippy and packed small
- stove and fuel
- cooking pans
- A few crosswords ripped out from a bigger book for evening entertainment
- Guyline rope or similar with a screwgate carabiner for hanging the food bag
- Emergency bivi bag – essentially a talisman, I’ve carried one for years and never needed it but wouldn’t head out for a big day without one. Something like this comes recommended.
- Water-to-Go bottle, water bladder and chlorine dioxide water treatment
- Packets of curry and rice for the first night – heavy but cheaper and tastier than dehydrated meals
- Dehydrated meals for nights 2 and 3, we really liked the meals from backpackers pantry and didn’t regret going for two courses
- Oatcakes and babybels for ‘lunch’
- Instant noodles – one day we treated ourselves to a hot lunch and it was a real morale booster before a long climb to the trail highpoint
- Trail mix and Cliff bars for elevenses and afternoon tea
Just writing this post makes me smile. I was really apprehensive about the unknowns of this trek but it turned out good preparation was key to a great experience which was memorable for all the right reasons.
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UNT Archives receives collection from photographer of local Latino community
DENTON (UNT), Texas -- When more than 350,000 people, including many Latinos, marched in downtown Dallas last April in protest of proposed immigration reform laws, journalist José L. Castillo was there to capture the day on film. He's photographed many events in the Dallas-Fort Worth Latino community for the last two years, despite having no formal training as a photographer.
"I bought my first camera in 2000 and started taking it everywhere," said Castillo, a Katie Award-winning correspondent for the international EFE News Service and a freelance writer. "A picture can say much more than a story."
Although some Spanish-language newspapers have published his photos, Castillo has an archive of 2,891 unpublished photos taken between July 2004 and this past July. He recently donated his collection to the University of North Texas Archives as the José L. Castillo Photograph Collection.
The UNT Archives will formerly accept the donation during a ceremony March 2 (Friday) at 6 p.m. in the Archives, Room 430 of UNT's Willis Library. The library is located one block east of Highland Street and Avenue C.
In addition to Castillo, guests will include Enrique Hubbard-Urrea, Consul General of Mexico in Dallas and a former ambassador with the Mexican Foreign Service, as well as representatives from the Willis Library. A reception will follow the ceremony in the library's Rare Book Room, Room 437.
The event is part of the National Association for Chicana & Chicano Studies Tejas Regional Conference, which will take place at UNT March 1-3 (Thursday-Saturday).
Library staff members are working to make Castillo's photos available on UNT's Portal to Texas History (http://texashistory.unt.edu), which provides students and others with a digital gateway to collections in Texas libraries, museums, archives, historical societies and private collections.
Maintained by the Digital Projects Unit of the UNT Libraries, the portal contains more than 100,000 pages of primary source materials, and includes items such as maps, books, manuscripts, diaries, photographs and letters.
In addition to including photos of protests and political events in the Latino community, the Castillo collection includes photos of community and political leaders (such as Salvador Espino of Fort Worth City Council District 2) taken at meetings and other events over several months. Castillo has also photographed festivals, Latino soccer leagues and other gatherings in the North Texas area.
"We are 20 to 30 years behind in archiving the history of the Latino community in North Texas," Castillo said. "I hope that my donation will encourage other photographers and reporters to place their images and materials in the Archives, so in 10 years our kids will be able to access it and learn about historic events."
Dreanna Belden, coordinator of grants and development for the UNT libraries, said the photos will be placed into categories and will be easily searchable via keywords. They will have captions in both English and Spanish.
Castillo, a native of Lima, Peru, has been the Dallas-Fort Worth correspondent for EFE News Service, the world's largest Spanish-language news agency and the fourth largest newswire in the world, since 2004. He has also worked as a freelance reporter for El Diario La Estrella, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's Spanish-language daily newspaper; Latin Trade Magazine in Miami; HOY newspapers in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles; and La Republica in Lima. In addition, Castillo is the founder of Atlanta Latino Newspaper, a bilingual weekly.
Castillo's connection to UNT began when he met Dr. Roberto Calderón, associate professor of history and director of the Department of History's Mexican-American studies minor. He interviewed Calderón for a story about the need to archive the history of Mexican Americans in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and had also photographed him at the immigration reform protests.
Castillo said Calderón provided him with information to donate his photographs to the UNT Archives.
"EFE has only published 5 percent of the photos I've taken. I thought, ‘What good is it going to do for me to hold onto a file of unpublished photos?'" Castillo said.
Calderón said he hopes the Castillo collection will lead to UNT establishing a full archive of Mexican-American and Latino history. He notes that the collection is the largest collection of photographs depicting the history of Mexicans and Latinos in this region that was donated to a public or private university in the Metroplex.
"The gifting of a photographic collection of this size and significance is unprecedented in our region, and we hope José's wonderful archival gift sets the example that many others may follow," he said.
Michelle Mears, UNT archivist, said the Castillo collection is the first entirely digital photo collection the Archives has received.
"Most people think historical events happened a long time ago, but the protest marches that happened last spring were definitely historical events," she said. "We could see the photographs were going to be of general interest, so we decided to include them on the portal so they could be used by as many people as possible, including schoolchildren." | <urn:uuid:94f53d66-7431-4cd6-b570-bac18a9bd302> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://news.unt.edu/news-releases/unt-archives-receives-collection-photographer-local-latino-community | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00056-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961232 | 1,082 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Brian Nagel, English Teacher, Albemarle High School
What is the most challenging aspect of your job?
As an English teacher, my biggest challenge is to convince students of the value of literature and of reading and writing in general. Reading fiction, novels, poems, and plays opens up worlds and experiences to which we would otherwise never have access. Students need this kind of exposure to be successful in our increasingly global economy.
What is the most common misconception about your job?
Many people don’t realize that our schools and classrooms reflect our community, or–more precisely–that they are our community. Students bring to school all of the challenges that they face at home, among their peers, and wherever they go. We cannot ignore those challenges and simply expect kids “to learn.” We have to place learning in the context of everything else that is going on in students’ lives.
Where do you see the teaching field in five years?
Students and teachers will be bringing more real-world applications into the classroom as we try to develop skills that are more transferable to the world outside of the classroom. I also have no doubt that we will be using technology in ways that we cannot imagine at the moment, but which we need to be prepared for nonetheless.
What outside experience best prepared you to become an educator?
Prior to making a career transition to teaching, I worked for over 20 years in the business world, in positions such as Vice President of Client Services, Director of Sales, Marketing and Customer Service, and Software Consulting. Having that experience provides me with the opportunity to let students know what life is like in the real world, what to expect, and what skills businesses value. | <urn:uuid:7b893579-af2a-4b09-8b3d-f79b1fe3ffe2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/brian-nagel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.967117 | 351 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Nokia may release new Windows Phone 7.5 mobile phones aimed at the 'underdeveloped' entry-level segment.
The Finnish company recently unveiled two smartphones, the flagship Lumia 920 device and the Lumia 820, sporting the latest Microsoft operating system, Windows Phone 8.
However, costs associated with developing phones which utilise this software are too high for the lower-end market.
The latest operating system requires handsets to have Near Field Communication (NFC) functionality, which allows owners to use their mobile phone as an e-wallet. This technology is expensive to produce so its removal from handsets will enable Nokia to pass on savings to customers.
Phones supporting the newer Windows software also require a dual-core processor, which can add a significant amount to the price.
Utilising the older Windows Phone 7.5 system will enable the manufacturer to price handsets between entry and mid-levels. According to German website winfuture.de, the Lumia 920 will cost €600 (£480) and the lower-spec model, the Lumia 820, may set customers back €450.
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"I will hold Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." - Charles Dickens.
Visit my friend:
The Easter Bunny
Birthday Celebrations Net
In many parts of the world today celebration of the Christian holiday has begun with the appearance of the first star on Christmas Eve.
In Poland this signals the beginning of the Festival of the Star. After the Christmas Eve meal, the priest of the village, as the "Star Man", goes around and tests the children's religious knowledge. In parts of Alaska boys and girls carry a star figure from house to house, singing carols and hoping for treats or to be invited in to dinner. In Hungary a star-shaped pattern in an apple cut in half means good luck. A break in the pattern is suppose to mean illness.
To Christians the Christmas star is suppose to express the ideals held out by Jesus, called in the Bible "the bright and morning star."
Stars in general have a special meaning, as they are sharing the heavens, no matter what barriers keep them apart on earth.
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The Daring Ladies of Lowell (Compact Disc)
Alice is cast in the mold of a character created by an earlier Alcott, the passionate and spunky Jo March. A refreshingly old-fashioned heroine, she makes THE DARING LADIES OF LOWELL appealing
"--The New York Times Book Review
Offers up a compelling slice of both feminist and Industrial Age history --"Christian Science Monitor"
From the "New York Times" bestselling author ofTHE DRESSMAKER comes a moving historical novel about a bold young woman drawn to the looms of Lowell, Massachusetts--and to the one man with whom she has no business falling in love.
Eager to escape life on her family's farm, Alice Barrow moves to Lowell in 1832 and throws herself into the hard work demanded of the mill girls. In spite of the long hours, she discovers a vibrant new life and a true friend a saucy, strong-willed girl name Lovey Cornell.
But conditions at the factory become increasingly dangerous, and Alice finds the courage to represent the workers and their grievances.Although mill owner, Hiram Fiske, pays no heed, Alice attracts the attention of his eldest son, the handsome and reserved Samuel Fiske. Their mutual attraction is intense, tempting Alice to dream of a different future for herself.
This dream is shattered when Lovey is found strangled to death. A sensational trial follows, bringing all the unrest that's brewing to the surface. Alice finds herself torn between her commitment to the girls in the mill and her blossoming relationship with Samuel.Based on the actual murder of a mill girl and the subsequent trial in 1833, THE DARING LADIES OF LOWELL brilliantly captures a transitional moment in America's history while also exploring the complex nature of love, loyalty, and the enduring power of friendship.
About the Author
Kate Alcott is a journalist who has covered politics in Washington, DC, where she currently lives.
Praise for THE DARING LADIES OF LOWELL
“Offers up a compelling slice of both feminist and Industrial Age history”
--Christian Science Monitor
“Alice is cast in the mold of a character created by an earlier Alcott, the passionate and spunky Jo March. A refreshingly old-fashioned heroine, she makes THE DARING LADIES OF LOWELL appealing to girls of all ages”
--The New York Times Book Review
"Both inspiring and thought-provoking. Ms. Alcott’s interweaving themes of strength, courage, love, loss and betrayal will keep the reader captivated for hours"
--Fredericksburg Free-Lance Star
"The storytelling is lively.”
--The New York Times
“A riveting historical novel… In this book, and in real life, there's no story--or change--if people don't push the boundaries of what is acceptable, or give voice to uncomfortable truths.”
“Alcott draws from dramatic events indelibly etched in history and offers a fresh perspective…. Alcott's work will attract historical romance fans who will be entertained by the antics of the daring ladies who leave everything they know and embrace less-than-ideal conditions to gain their freedom.”
--Library Journal, starred review
“Alcott draws on a real-life trial to lend authenticity to her romantic story….the book will illuminate and satisfy.”
“This spirited story of young working women making hard choices has a compelling core”
"Set against an authentically detailed mill-town backdrop, this novel interweaves the industrial revolution, feminism, and workers’ rights into an engrossing narrative with a love story at its core."
"Rendered in vivid, authentic period detail, The Daring Ladies of Lowell is a suspenseful, compelling tale of courageous young women fighting for justice—and sometimes their very lives—in the cotton mills of mid-nineteenth century Massachusetts."
—Jennifer Chiaverini, New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Lincoln’s Dressmaker
“Set during the turbulent days of America’s industrial revolution, The Daring Ladies of Lowell captures the spirit and courage of the young women who dared to work at factory jobs. Kate Alcott draws on the true story of a murdered mill girl for this captivating story of loyalty, friendship, and love—most of all, love.”
--Sandra Dallas, New York Times bestselling author of Alice’s Tulips and Fallen Women
“The Daring Ladies of Lowell are as complicated and flawed as any contemporary heroines, and they shine in this gripping 19th century tale about a small group of “factory girls” who refuse to be silenced when one of their own is murdered. Kate Alcott has woven industrial history, small-town politics, and pure invention into a nuanced gem of a novel about friendship, sacrifice, and love that will keep you turning its pages until the very end.”
--Amy Brill, author of The Movement of Stars
Praise for THE DRESSMAKER
Historical figures become intricate characters in Alcott’s hands.” —Seattle Post Intelligencer
“Seamlessly stitching fact and fiction together, Alcott creates a hypnotic tale.” —USA Today
“Offers a heroine you can really root for.” —NPR, “All Things Considered”
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Hydraulic machinery uses liquid fluid power to do work. A liquid is sent through the machine to hydraulic motors and cylinders where it becomes pressurized due to the presence of a resistance. Valves control the fluid and hoses distribute it. The automotive industry uses production assembly lines with hydraulic systems. The publishing and printing industry use this type of technology. Submarines employ hydraulics to operate ballast tank vents, steering, torpedo tubes and others. In passenger vehicles such as cars and motorcycles, the braking system uses brake fluid to transfer pressure from the contol unit by the passenger to the brake mechanism located near the wheel of a vehicle to stop the car or bike. The force is magnified and can stop a car or bike in the hydraulic system.
Lots of industries use hydraulic power, which is power that is derived from compressing fluids to move things.
Companies drilling into the earth to extract oil, natrual gas, or even water sometimes use hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking", to open up veins within rocks and improve the flow of product. This process has recently become controversial in some parts of the US, because it sometimes works too well, allowing natural gas to find its way to the surface, and into people's homes and water wells.
Hydraulic systems are used on all sorts of excavating machinery, such as the digging arms on most backhoes. A hydraulic drive is powerful and very durable under hard use. Hydraulics also powers jacks and lifts, such as those used in automotive repair shops to raise a car up so it is easy to work underneath.
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The Society of Heraldic Art
Founded in 1987, the Society of Heraldic Arts was the first organisation of its kind in the world. It is now an established and much respected international guild of heraldic artists, designers and craftsmen, its Craft Members offering a comprehensive range of services to private clients and to corporate and civic organisations.
There are two classes of membership: Craft Membership for practitioners and Associate Membership for anyone who aspires to Craft Membership or who loves the vivacity and brilliance of heraldry and wishes to support the objectives of the Society.
Specialities offered by Craft Members include heraldic art (painted or drawn on paper and vellum), calligraphy, bookplates (engraved or drawn), document illumination, raised and burnished gilding, signwriting (including arms on wood, glass, plaster and stone), oil gilding, glass gilding, water gilding, stained glass windows, painted and fired glass, sculpting and carving (in wood, stone, precious metal and other materials), heraldic miniatures and figure modelling, precious metal jewellery, line engraved hallmarked silver or brass plaques, seal engraving, die-sinking for medals and shield-making.
The Society publishes a quarterly journal, The Heraldic Craftsman, which is received by all members. It features the work of heraldic artists, together with articles of a technical nature and news of the Society’s activities. The website is essentially a shop window for the work of the Society’s Craft Members and a focal point for all those who are attracted to this fascinating art form.
The Society also offers advice concerning the correct use of heraldry to enhance corporate or personal identity and its application in graphic design, architecture, documents, fabrics, artefacts etc..
We can also advise on how to apply to a granting authority for letters patent granting armorial bearings and can assist in the design process. Please browse artist profiles. | <urn:uuid:e39afc06-83c5-4564-98ac-db7f9dccaa30> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.heraldic-arts.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941739 | 402 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Background – 2-sockets, memory channels and DPC
On a 2-socket server (2 processors on the motherboard), each Romley processor has 4 memory channels (up from 3 of pre-Romley). On each memory channel if you use 3 DPC (3 DIMMs per channel) you have:
2 sockets x 4 memory channels per socket x 3 DIMMs per channel = 24 DIMM sockets
8 x 3 DPC = 24 DIMM sockets.
Using 16GB or 32GB memory modules at 1 DPC, 2 DPC and 3 DPC (i.e. various levels of loading on the memory bus):
8 x 3 DPC = 24 DIMM sockets – 384GB (16GB) – 768GB (32GB)
8 x 2 DPC = 16 DIMM sockets – 256GB (16GB) – 512GB (32GB)
8 x 1 DPC = 8 DIMM sockets – 128GB (16GB) – 256GB (32GB)
As you go from 1 DPC to 2 DPC to 3 DPC, you are increasing the (electrical) load of the memory on the memory channel.
At 3 DPC you have maximum memory load on the memory channel.
As memory load increases the achievable bandwidth goes down – so for example at 3 DPC the standard speed is NOT achievable but is a speed grade lower.
If standard memory speed is 1333MT/s (mega transfers per second – alternatively also sometimes written 1333MHz), then at 3 DPC this drops to 1066MHz or 800MHz.
– 1 DPC at 1333MHz
– 2 DPC at 1066MHz
– 3 DPC at 800MHz
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Land management has four functions that are interlinkage to each other: land tenure, land valuation, land use planning and land development. These functions are the foundation of Indonesia's new strategy for improving its Ease Of Doing Business (EODB), directly in dealing with construction permits and registering property. Ideally, each permit includes Rights, Restrictions, and Responsibilities (RRRs) from land management functions. However, in a decentralization, it is difficult to manage RRRs sourced from different activities and managed by multiple data custodians. Our study applies the conceptual data modeling of spatial planning information in the revision of ISO 19152 on the Land Administration Domain Model (LADM) to ensure the interoperability of RRRs information. This paper is focus on how to establish interoperability of land information and disseminate to enable economic actors in doing complex tasks such as issuing business license and registering properties.
|Title of host publication||Proceedings of the Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty|
|Place of Publication||Washington DC|
|Number of pages||27|
|Publication status||Published - 2020|
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- Land use planning
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Quite often IDA users ask for a plugin or feature to hide the debugger from the application. In fact there are many anti-debugging tricks and each of them requires an appropriate reaction from the debugger, let’s start with something simple: we will make the IsDebuggerPresent function call always return zero.
Final method of loading several files into a database
I promised to tell you about the TLS callbacks. Here is the discussion.
The third method to create a database with several PE files.
The second method to create a database with several PE files.
IDA Pro can load one PE file into a database and analyze it. Some users assume this is the maximum. Let’s take a closer look at the situation… | <urn:uuid:fe45ed93-de6f-4a2d-85c0-16303198902e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hex-rays.com/blog/category/ida-pro/page/24/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.897896 | 152 | 1.507813 | 2 |
A 5-month-old Arabian foal was seen for an eyelid laceration.
Because the horse was turned out, no one had witnessed the injury. But,as we all know, if there is something for a horse to cut themselves on, they WILL find it. And this foal certainly did a great job.
To top things off, these photos were taken AFTER 15-20 minutes had been spent cleaning the wound which was thoroughly covered with hay and dirt.
Luckily, a thorough examination revealed that the actual eyeball was not injured at all!
Because the laceration was dirty, it was thoroughly debrided (contaminated tissue was cut off). This made suturing the laceration difficult, as the edges were under A LOT of tension. The foal was stalled and treated with antibiotics and banamine.
Eyelid lacerations are not uncommon in horses and should be treated in a timely fashion. The eyelid serves the very important function of protecting the eye. Therefore, lacerations affecting this area need to be sutured back to together to ensure normal healing and correct function of the eyelid. A horse without a normal eyelid can be prone to corneal injuries which can be quite a problem!
If your horse suffers an injury or laceration near the eye, he/she needs to be seen by a veterinarian. Bad injuries can heal!
The foal was examined two weeks later. The sutures had held! And the wound had healed nicely. The sutures were removed and the foal will be watched closely to ensure that the eyelid continues to heal appropriately. | <urn:uuid:a5749bab-d148-470e-8e01-05f691e49663> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.weitzequine.com/eye-injury/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00283-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986373 | 339 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Why do we need to consider this kind of intervention now and why is it so important to effectively resource such spaces and ensure we are making use of tried and tested / evidence-based strategies and resources?
If there’s one thing in common about young children, it’s their ability to make a mess! Children learn best through direct experiences – exploring the world around them with their whole being. They stare, grab, smell, listen, rub, or lick unfamiliar objects, using all their senses to collect data that will be wired permanently into their memory.
If a child’s environment is too sterile or limited, they are deprived of this rich learning. What can parents and teachers do to offer diverse sensory experiences without becoming completely overwhelmed by the inevitable mess? Read this. | <urn:uuid:125d50d0-b486-42c2-a76a-14519da7a482> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://barrycarpentereducation.com/tag/sensory-play-in-children/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.954714 | 159 | 3.6875 | 4 |
SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) — A proposed oil shipping terminal on Lake Superior has been put on hold.
Wisconsin Public Radio reports it means oil tankers won’t be sailing from western Lake Superior to the East Coast for now.
The terminal would have shipped crude from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota. Superior Calumet Refinery manager Kollin Schade says the size and cost of an oil terminal means his company needs a refinery on the east coast as a partner. He says nobody has stepped forward with a long-term commitment to make it feasible.
Duluth Port Director Adolph Ojard says he’s not surprised. He says he doesn’t know if it makes economic sense to move crude oil on the Great Lakes. He says it’s more efficient to move it by rail and pipeline.
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Second, some professors just throw the tests down the stairwell and give those that land on the top steps an A, middle steps a B, etc. The legal term for this is Stairy Decisis ..
In addition, professors conspire with administration to distribute grades ... they will look into the students undergrad school (the more prestigious the undergrad school the higher the grade) the LSAT score and other indicias of "smartness," such as your parent's income, occupation (if one of your parents is a lawyer you've definitely an edge). Blacks, Latinos and other minorities are usually C-ed, boys are almost always given higher grades (a fraction) just for being boys .. and so on, you get the point ..
On the other hand, if you do a really good job, they can not downgrade by more than one letter ... that is to say, if you write a stellar exam after being loaded with drugs for an entire week and your exam is absolutely the best A+, the most they can do is downgrade you to something like B+ -- they won't go that far as to give you a B- (or even B for that matter)! Please note, though, that it takes a hell of a lot of work and effort in law school to write a stellar exam to be absolutely the best! Remember that as much as half of your classmates are probably on something on the day of the exam (especially at cutthroat schools) so to get an edge you'll have to be on something EVERY SINGLE DAY of your exams time period to actually increase your assimilation capacity (and probably jack up your IQ too!) For instance, it's pretty much a well-known fact that many students randomly use, say, 3X30 mg tablets of Adderall everyday during the exam period and 2-3 coke blowns on the day of the exam! | <urn:uuid:4596fa16-a150-4dd1-9c98-6599a17d26cf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lawschooldiscussion.org/index.php?action=profile;area=showposts;sa=messages;u=102941 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00227-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966876 | 382 | 1.5625 | 2 |
CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design
This text is the most complete book on the market for CMOS circuits. Aimed at junior/senior courses offered in electrical engineering and computer science, this book starts with CMOS processing, and then covers MOS transistor models, basic CMOS gates, interconnect effects, dynamic circuits, memory circuits, BiCMOS circuits, I/O circuits, VLSI design methodologies, low-power design techniques, design for manufacturability and design for testablility. This text provides rigourous treatment of basic design concepts with detailed examples. It typicaly addresses both the computer-aided analysis issues and the design issues form most of the circuit examples. Numerous SPICE simulation results are also provided for illustration of basic concepts. Through rigorous analysis of CMOS circuits in this text, students will be able to learn the fundamentals of CMOS VLSI design, which is the drivng force behind the development of advanced computer hardware.
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adder assume BiCMOS bit line calculate capacitor cell channel length CHAPTER charge chip circuit design Cload clock signal CMOS inverter column current equation current-voltage density depletion region depletion-load design rules device diffusion regions digital circuits doping drain current driver transistor dynamic Dynamic Logic enhancement-type equal fabrication Figure full adder function implementation input voltage integrated circuits interconnect line inverter circuit junction capacitance latch circuit layer linear region logic gate logic-high mask layout minimum MOS Logic Circuits MOSFET n-channel nMOS transistor node voltage noise margins Note output load capacitance output node output voltage p-type parameters parasitic capacitances pass transistor pMOS polysilicon power consumption power dissipation power supply voltage precharge propagation delay pull-down ratio resistive-load resistor shown in Fig simple simulation SPICE static structure substrate bias surface switching threshold voltage transmission gate typical VLSI voltage level Voul width | <urn:uuid:35db3a62-159b-422e-a548-e4b2b2421645> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://books.google.co.in/books/about/CMOS_digital_integrated_circuits.html?id=SihTAAAAMAAJ&hl=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00377-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.766675 | 461 | 2.78125 | 3 |
ELECTROMAGNETIC AND RADIATION SPACES
Dates: 25th April 2013 Time: 14:00 – 19:00
Cost: € 20 (10€ for materials, 10 € for participation fee)
Place: METALAB, Rathausstraße 6 1010 Wien, Austria
Maximum number of participants: 30
Pre registration is required and can be done by sending an email with the subj line ERS Workshop to info_at_fundamental.art.pl Please send me your mobile nr. and name in the email.
ERS is an open collaborative research project, which investigates hidden physical processes occurring permanently in our everyday environment saturated by electromagnetic waves, especially ionic radiation. The project investigates the effect of electromagnetic waves and ionic radiation on living organisms that is connected with the influence of this radiation on living cells.
Workshops of sound and visual techniques, which consist in detection of invisible phenomena and testing of the properties of physical objects through detection, amplification, sonic and visual analysis. This practical workshop and series of experimental situations are meant to equip the artist with DIY skills from the range of techniques such as detection and modulation of the amplitude of electromagnetic emissions for audio and video output.
The project consists in detection and transformation of electromagnetic fields through the use of hardware tools like electromagnetic coils, differential detectors, sensors [light, flex etc], amplifiers, modulators, analyzers and more specialized devices for detecting radiation (Geiger, scintillation, gas and semiconductor counters). During the workshop the participants will become acquainted with:
- practical techniques of detecting electromagnetic waves ( ultrasounds, infra sounds, interference, light, electrochemistry) and especially ionic radiation (alpha, beta, gamma)
- revealing, investigation and analysis of information (often invisible) about the structure and properties of images -translation of electromagnetic waves and radiation into impulses in audio and vide range
- coding, compiling of patches and writing programs for detection, analyzing and modulation of electromagnetic fields using free software [PD, Supercollider, Python, Fluxus, etc]
- generating of complex audio and video using pulse width different math functions and algorithms, modulation, in combination with a programmable oscillators and noise generators Types of electromagnetic waves The workshops focus on work with the following types of electromagnetic waves: 1. ultra-short waves emissions [alpha, beta, gamma] (using Geiger counters, scintillation counters, and other techniques of Gamma-ray spectroscopy) 2. visible waves, micro-waves, radio waves, infrared waves, frequency emissions (using on-board coil and amplifier) 3. higher signals (e.g. mobile phone signals, wireless networks, Bluetooth)
More info: http://fundamental.art.pl/WORKSHOP_ERS.html
What you should bring:
We encourage the participants to bring a device, which emits electromagnetic waves or some way of recording (tape or digital sound recorder, camera, headphones, computer with PD or Supercollider installed etc).
About the Instructor:
Robert B. Lisek is a mathematician, artist and composer who focuses on systems and processes (computational, biological, social). He is involved in the number of projects focused on radical art strategies, hacktivism and tactical media. Drawing upon conceptual art, software art and meta-media, his work intentionally defies categorization. Lisek is a pioneer of art based on AI and bioinformatics. Lisek is also a composer of contemporary music, author of many projects and scores on the intersection of spectral, stochatistic, concret music, musica futurista and noise. He explores the relationship between bio-molecular technology, code and issues arising from network technologies by combining his DNA code with codes of viruses and recently by testing influence of radioactive materials on biological entities. Lisek is also a scientist who conducts a research in the area of theory of partially ordered sets in relation with artificial general intelligence and complexity theory. Author of many exhibitions and concerts, among others: TERROR ENGINES - WORM Center Rotterdam, Secure Insecurity - ISEA Istanbul; Manifesto vs. Manifesto - Ujazdowski Castel of Contemporary Art, Warsaw; NGRU - FILE, Sao Paulo; NEST - ARCO Art Fair, Madrid; Float – DMAC Harvestworks and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NYC; WWAI - Siggraph, Los Angeles; Falsecodes - Red Gate Gallery, Beijing; Gengine - National Gallery, Warsaw; Flextex - Byzantine Museum, Athens, FXT– ACA Media Festival, Tokyo and ISEA, Nagoya; Transhuman - Entropy Gallery, SSSpear –17th Meridian, WRO Center, Wroclaw. more: | <urn:uuid:cde985df-0894-4884-8c36-3cc7c271d4f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://metalab.at/wiki/ELECTROMAGNETIC_AND_RADIATION_SPACES | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00017-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.865036 | 982 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Crop of The Spinner by Billy Houdek, painting of a woman who talks too much while in the act of retelling a story.
Digital dots coming together are added. The image is zoomed into this area because its interesting to wonder what the best way is to show the transition from individual elements, like words, into more continuous forms, like stories. Furthermore, what happens if you want to retell a story a different way? When does it become a different story rather than a reinterpretation? How many of the original elements need to hold together to keep it the same?
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Jewish Community Holds Black Lives Matter Rally in New York KingSolomonAugust 12, 2016Current Eventshttps://youtu.be/E3ehLp8J_JQ Black Lives Matter doesn’t mean only Black lives matter. And the New York’s Jewish community proved that last Thursday when Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ) marched and rallied in the name of BLM in Brooklyn’s Park Slope neighborhood. According to ParkSlopeStoop.com, JFREJ held a successful and peaceful rally “protest police violence against people of color, and demand police accountability through the passage of the City Council’s Right To Know Act.” Beginning at Jay Z’s formerly-owned Barclay’s Center, Yehudah Webster, JFREJ member and leader of Jews of Color, began a call and response chant on his microphone. T.I. On Trump: “I Don’t Believe Any Lives Matter To Him” “Even though we are angry at the injustice of police brutality,” Webster said, and the crowd responded, “we gather here for love, for lost brothers and sisters, our communities and each other.” JFREJ explained why they were marching by saying, “Jews say Black Lives Matter not only because we know what it is to be oppressed, but also because police violence against Black people is deeply personal for Black members of the Jewish community.” ParkSlopeStoop.com also reports that while also rallying to let people know Black Jews Matter, protestors also “called for the fair passage of the Right to Know Act, which has two primary components: “Requiring NYPD officers to identify themselves” (Intro 182) and “Protecting New Yorkers against unconstitutional searches” (Intro 541).” JFREJ efforts are met by 200-plus New York-based organizations in addition to support from a majority of Council members. | <urn:uuid:494ce5f5-4ef7-4f58-a94f-84bd0b8a7002> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://colossill.com/jewish-community-holds-black-lives-matter-rally-new-york/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939868 | 416 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Diwali is one of the biggest festivals in India, you could liken it to Christmas in the west or Eid in the middle east. It’s famously known as the festival of lights but like all festivals in this modern day and age it’s celebration has shifted from what it originally meant to something quite different.
Diwali is celebrated in India with a lot of warm feelings. Families get together, prayers are sung, lots of sweets and presents go around, even the stock markets tend to go up! The general public sentiment is great! However, there’s another side to Diwali. Today, Diwali has gone from being the festival of lights to the festival of noise, smoke, and ICU visits for the weak and vulnerable.
I’m writing this post because I couldn’t sleep. My eyes are burning with the ambient air pollution and the noise outside (people burst fire crackers during Diwali, often more than they can afford) is keeping me awake. It’s 5.30AM and Diwali was officially two days ago. The air purifier is humming along but the air feels heavy, almost putrid. I peep outside the big glass windows in my room. It’s still dark but I see people running on the street outside. It’s part of their daily exercise routine. I think that maybe the smog has lifted. The air looks a bit white outside and I can’t really see the next building 20 meters away that clearly but.. what if ? So I open the window. Ugh! SMOKE! SLAM! I close it immediately!
So the air isn’t clean yet. There’s no wind carrying away the poison we’ve created in the atmosphere around us. But then, why are people exercising outside ? What’s the reason behind this madness ? How can people in New Delhi ignore the poison they breathe ?
My mother says that the pollution isn’t as bad as I imagine. Just to check my own sanity (or what’s left of it) I log onto the Delhi government run Delhi Pollution Control Committee website. The DPCC website lets you look at hourly pollution statistics taken from several monitoring stations around the city. I usually look at the data from the station at the airport because it’s near where we live. The 5.15AM reading says that PM10 levels are 771 micrograms per cubic meter (the Indian government says they should be below 100μg/m3 and the WHO says they should be below 50μg/m3), PM2.5 level is at 317 micrograms per cubic meter when that number should be below 60 according to the Indian government and under 25 according to the WHO. So I am not crazy! But that probably won’t last for long.
For the sake of this discussion, let’s drop the units. PM10 is 771, should be 100. PM2.5 is 317, should be 60. In fact, amidst news reports of how this Diwali is less polluted than the last (yay! right ?), PM10 levels had already apparently hit almost 2,000! Before we continue further, I’ve been going on and on about PM this and that and maybe you’re thinking I’m talking about the Prime Minister. So here’s a short intro. PM stands for Particulate Matter. PM10 refers to tiny particles in the air that enter your lungs and irritate your airways. Long term exposure to PM10 can cause lung diseases and other respiratory issues, the WHO recently said that high levels of particulate matter are CARCINOGENIC. PM2.5 refers to particles that are 4 times smaller than PM10 and can enter your lungs and even your internal organs by getting absorbed in the lungs. Short term exposures to high levels of both sets of particles can cause eye irritation, airway irritation, bronchitis, reduced endurance, etc. However, for sensitive groups such as young children or elderly people, people with cardiac disease or respiratory illnesses, high levels of particulate matter can cause life threatening complications. There has been a strong and positive correlation between increased PM levels and hospital visits. Smog events have long been known to cause sudden complications in sensitive groups. The London smog in the 1950s caused 6000 deaths. Bottomline: Air pollution reduces life expectancy and quality of life and we in New Delhi have a TON OF IT!
Children in the New Delhi area are suffering from asthma at record rates. 40.6% people who live in Delhi have reduced lung function.
So why then are these people running in the smog outside ? I suspect the issue is a complete lack of awareness. Exactly like what my mom says “The pollution isn’t as bad as you imagine!”. I BEG TO DIFFER! In most countries when the PM10 level hits anywhere close to 200, the government advises people to stay indoors and avoid any outdoor activity. In India, the government says NOTHING. So, people like my neighbors end up running outside and inhaling all these harmful particles deep into their lungs. In Beijing, people wear N95 masks (these help filter out particulate matter and keep your lungs clean) or the rich run air purifiers. In India, most people don’t even discuss the pollution, let alone act on it.
And no, this is not an isolated event that happens just during Diwali. New Delhi’s PM10 and PM2.5 levels are consistent chart busting hits! Throughout the summer and winter (the latter being worse), the PM10 and PM2.5 levels are rarely below the government specified levels. At most times, the levels are at least twice of what the Indian government says is safe. That is, at most times of the year, the level for PM10 is at least 200 – a number that would lead Mexico city to shut down. Most governments in developed countries don’t even consider a level of 200 in their protocols because that is already at catastrophic levels! Their “Hazardous” levels start when PM10/PM2.5 levels hit the Indian government’s standard as safe. The argument that the Indian government uses for its standard is that India is a dry and arid country so we tend to have a lot of suspended particulate matter that isn’t actually air pollution but just dust. Okay, that’s fine as long as you at least stick to your own standards!
Earlier this year, when Singapore was shrouded in smog due to forest fires in Indonesia, Singaporeans ended up cleaning out pollution masks from pharmacies around the world! The pollution in New Delhi consistently competes at the same level, yet no one’s wearing masks. Perhaps it’s cultural but maybe no one truly realizes yet what is going on around all of us.
I called a friend to wish her Happy Diwali but she was feeling sick. She’s not dealing well with the smoke and noise. Another friend is suffering from a severe attack of asthma.
Lung cancer is on the rise in New Delhi. There were reports TWO YEARS ago that showed a 2-3% year on year increase in Lung cancer cases – IN NON SMOKERS! My mum was talking earlier about eating healthy and my response to that was “It doesn’t matter, we’re all breathing poison in this city, so we might as well smoke a pack a day and eat butter chicken for breakfast.”
I fear for my fellow citizens and for my family. I will leave New Delhi and get back on the road to travel to places with cleaner air (it’s pretty hard to find places with air as dirty as New Delhi) while millions will continue to live and work and breathe in this city while the government stays silent or alternatively discusses the price of onions. How has it come to this ? How are essential things like clean air and clean water not worthy of discussion and protection ? I am not pointing fingers at the poor and under privileged, I am wondering about the silent middle and upper classes. Do they not realize that they cannot escape air pollution in their luxury SUVs and designer homes ?
If you live in New Delhi, here are some practical things you can do to protect yourself:
- Acknowledge that there is a problem, yes no one is talking about it but the data is all publicly available and it is DISTRESSING!
- Get a HEPA filter and strap it onto a fan, close all doors and windows. This is a cheap and effective way to reduce indoor particle pollutants. Do it for your baby’s room if nothing else!
- Look at the DPCC Air Quality data and make informed choices about whether to go out and exercise or not. (sometimes, it may say PM10 is below detection limits, etc. – do not believe it, check back in an hour to make sure what the levels really are)
- There is also data from SAFAR which is another pollution monitoring system in New Delhi. Click on Air Quality Online and then hover over the dots to get a reading. In my experience the SAFAR system is less reliable than the DPCC.
- During smog events (everyday in New Delhi in winter) wear an N95 mask. Yes, you will look like a freak but you will die slower than the rest while making a point about the reality that exists all around us. More people in masks = more acknowledgement of the problem!
- Note for myself: Do not get annoyed when people on the radio refer to “that lovely winter fog that came early”. Do not attempt to call them and say: “IT IS 29 DEGREES OUTSIDE! How can there be a FOG ?! THIS IS A SMOG YOU CRAZY NUTCASES!”
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16 Cool Ways to Reuse Tee Shirts
Think about how many tee shirts your family goes through in a year or two. How many do your kids outgrow, stain, or just plain wear out? Many times our tee shirts aren’t even worthy of a thrift store by the time we are done with them. You don’t have to throw those old tees away. Or, maybe you simply find great deals on new tee shirts on the clearance rack an want to do something creative with them. Here are some practical, fun and inventive uses for tee shirts.
Hint: These are also great uses for those promo and free tee shirts you get from companies that you would never actually wear.
Ways to Reuse Tee Shirts: No Sewing Required
- Cut old tee shirts up to make rags.
- Make extra pads for your Swiffer. Use the mop head part as a template. You want the measurement to be about 2 inches all the way around so you can hook it into place. This saves so much money!
- Use large clean tee shirts for garment bags. Slip a suit jacket onto a hanger and slip it through the tee shirt leaving the tee’s sleeves hanging out. It keeps the dust.
- Make homemade Tee-Shirt Yarn for knitting, crocheting, and looming (SO cool!!)
- Make a cute No-Sew Scarf from old tee shirts.
- This tutorial shows you have to make a No-Sew Vest out of an old tee shirt.
- Here is an easy No-Sew Tee Shirt Tote Bag that takes only 10 minutes (or so) or make!
- Make a homemade pillow or throw pillow cover using this No-Sew Pillow tutorial.
- Have an old tee shirt with a really cool design or graphic. Grab an old wooden picture frame (8×10, 11×14, etc) and use it as a template and frame it around the graphic. Then cut the fabric about an inch larger than the frame (all around). Then take a hot glue gun and glue the tee to the frame to create a canvas type of look.
- Another option is to cut the graphic on the tee to fit inside a frame. Then glue it to a piece of cardboard and insert it inside the picture frame.
Ways to Reuse Tee Shirts: Sewing Required
- Check out this tutorial for making skirts for little girls using old tee shirts (or Dollar Store tees).
- Make boutique style fabric flowers for head bands and hair clips. (Minimal hand sewing)
- Cut old tee shirts in squares and sew them to make bean bags. Any rice or dried beans will do for filling. What a great cheap and easy toy for kids.
- A tee shirt quilt is a great way to reuse tee shirts with sentimental value. It’s great for sports tees for men. Or you can use your children’s old baby clothes. Detailed tutorials can show you how it’s done.
- Making a throw pillow cover out of an old tee shirt is an easier and simpler way to hang on to an old special tee shirt.
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Lin Marsh And Wendy Cook: The Show Must Go On!
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Whether teacher, performer, first-time director or experienced stage-hand, Lin Marsh And Wendy Cook: The Show Must Go On!
is a good starting point for a first venture into music theatre, or a source of new ideas if you are an old hand.
This book offers all you need to know to ensure that your show runs smoothly and successfully, including help in:
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- Designing your set, costumes and props.
- Creating the magic through music, lighting and sound.
- Scheduling, from audition to performance.
- Teaching and staging a song.
- Preparing your performers, both physically and vocally.
Have you ever found a jigsaw in a plastic bag at the back of a cupboard, without a picture showing how it should look? This is the challenge faced by anyone putting together a piece of musical theatre, an enormous number of elements that must fit together perfectly. Lin and Wendy have put together more than most and know just how it is done. | <urn:uuid:bde546ef-ba0f-4017-9717-4b259caa4e90> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.musicroom.com/se/id_no/062551/details.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722459.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00344-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922215 | 265 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The Legacy Of A Great Mind
Life moves extremely fast, especially for those who achieve greatness. As a trailblazer, Steve Jobs left behind an enduring legacy in the world of business and entrepreneurship. In his lifetime, he accomplished a great deal, leading Apple on a course that made the company the first-ever trillion-dollar company. Apple still making incredible leaps to this very day, thanks to the innovations and contributions of Steve Jobs.
Sadly, he passed away due to pancreatic cancer in 2011. His death took place at the age of 56. Like all great planners and great minds, Jobs was prepared for what came after his time. When he passed away, he left his fortune to his wife Laurene Powell Jobs. Today, Forbes estimates his wife to be worth around $16.4 billion, making her the 56th richest person in the world. Jobs also left some of his fortunes to his daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, who shared a different mother from his three other children.
While not everyone might be the founder of such a fascinating company while leading such a complicated personal life, it is always important to be prepared—to arrange for who will see and receive what after you leave this world. When it comes to long-term planning of estate, wills, and trusts, it is best to get your affairs in order before it is too late.
Start by making sure that you establish a will. It is very important to have this document arranged and finalized before you proceed with all else.
Focus on building a succession plan. When you are no longer here, it is important that you leave the right people in charge of your estate. This means establishing a power of attorney by appointing the person that you believe will be the wisest and most responsible when making key decisions with major control over what you have left behind.
Also, be sure to invest in the right kind of insurance both for your estate and for yourself. Life insurance and insurance for your business would be a wise investment.
Consider investing in a charitable trust, too. This can be an excellent way to make sure that your money can be used fairly and wisely, without worrying about it falling into the wrong hands.
Take the time to organize all records on property ownership, business dealings, and financial transactions. The easier these are to find, the easier it is to ensure that everything will go as planned.
In summary, ensure that you start with a will and work forward from there. Organize all important documents to make sure that everything planned will be carried out as intended. Doing this will provide you with peace of mind; you will pass on with the knowledge that every dollar shall be allocated according to your wishes.
That said, this article should not be taken as legal advice. We highly recommend consulting with a firm like Burris Law; their team of award-winning lawyers specializes in wills, trusts, and estate planning.
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Aims: Several embedded clusters are found in the Galaxy. Depending on the formation scenario, most of them can evolve to unbounded groups that are dissolved within 10 Myr to 20 Myr. A systematic study of young stellar clusters that show distinct characteristics provides interesting information on the evolutionary phases during the pre-main sequence. To identify and to understand these phases we performed a comparative study of 21 young stellar clusters.
Methods: Near-infrared data from 2MASS were used to determine the structural and fundamental parameters based on surface stellar density maps, radial density profile, and colour-magnitude diagrams. The cluster members were selected according to their membership probability, which is based on the statistical comparison with the cluster proper motion. Additional members were selected on the basis of a decontamination procedure that was adopted to distinguish field stars found in the direction of the cluster area.
Results: We obtained age and mass distributions by comparing pre-main sequence models with the position of cluster members in the colour-magnitude diagram. The mean age of our sample is ~ 5 Myr, where 57% of the objects is found in the 4-10 Myr range of age, while 43% is <4 Myr old. Their low E(B - V) indicate that the members are not suffering high extinction (AV < 1 mag), which means they are more likely young stellar groups than embedded clusters. Relations between structural and fundamental parameters were used to verify differences and similarities that could be found among the clusters. The parameters of most of the objects show the same trends or correlations. Comparisons with other young clusters show similar relations among mass, radius, and density. Our sample tends to have larger radius and lower volumetric density than embedded clusters. These differences are compatible with the mean age of our sample, which we consider intermediate between the embedded and the exposed phases of the stellar clusters evolution.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- November 2012
- open clusters and associations: general;
- stars: pre-main sequence;
- stars: fundamental parameters;
- infrared: stars;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
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abies are odd and awesome animals… yet, frequently, they’re simply peculiar! It tends to be completely confounding to attempt to sort out why they disregard mirrors, balls and the TV… however, are entranced with a piece of cellophane or a designed piece of texture. They really do get more justifiable as they age – yet on the off chance that you might want to stay away from many squandered child toys and dollars, it’s ideal to comprehend the hypothesis old enough fitting toys early. For children, toys are something beyond a method for breathing easy since they don’t need to do the dishes or work – they’re fundamental to the improvement of insight and an identity. Here we made an ages-and-stages manual for child toys to demystify the entire cycle.
Child toys for 0-3 months old
At this stage, a child’s best toy is actually bubble blaster their folks! They don’t have a very remarkable hold or any fine coordinated movements, so your contribution in their play is essential. Nonetheless, you can help that advancement alongside apparatuses:
• Mobiles: For those times while she will rest or simply awakening, a portable on the bed is something extraordinary to have. Mobiles support design acknowledgment, dexterity and a sens of ‘object perpetual quality’. A toy versatile that plays music is ideal.
• Music: Both standard old grown-up CDs, youngster’s music and toys that play their own little jingles are perfect for building brain connections at this age.
• Differentiating and brilliant things: Items with high-contrast tones or highly contrasting get a great deal of gazing time!
Child toys for 3-6 months old
All the toys that your child’s family members purchased for her after she was conceived will begin to come into course and use at this age. Getting a handle on and intelligent play begins to turn into a reality, so pick child toys like:
• Books: Some infants love books, some can’t muster enough willpower to care. However, it’s an incredible opportunity to present them and see your kid’s thought process.
• Clatters and delicate toys: Anything that makes clamor and has a straightforward response to utilizing it is really great for infants at this age
• Nursing pieces of jewelry: Many infants (counting mine!) adoration to squeeze Mum or Dad’s chest and neck while they’re taking care of. A nursing jewelry is an extraordinary elective toy to the skin of your collarbone…
• Mirrors: The mirror progressive phase comes at an alternate time for all children, beginning from around now.
Child toys for 6-9 months old
Children are getting significantly more fascinating, and intrigued, at this age! Pick child toys that offer little difficulties – yet not excessively incredible, or your youngster actually won’t annoy. Search for the toys like:
• Stacking blocks, cups and boxes: If your child can’t do it without anyone else’s help, show her how
• Shower toys: Anything that spurts, can be perused or drifts is great at this age
• Melodic toys: If your child can sort out some way to make the music of their child toy play, they’ll adore it
Child toys from 9 a year
Your little one has nearly moved on from their most memorable year of life; these are the child toys that most kids are into at this age:
• Move around toys: move around toys that needn’t bother with to be strolled around are generally commonsense
• Dolls: Kids begin to be a smidgen more creative with their utilization of dolls at this age, moving past gnawing and slamming them!
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There is also a related view held by behaviourists, for instance that language and thought are identical.
Karl Kerenyi began his English language translation of Dionysus with this passage: The interdependence of thought and speech makes it clear that languages are not so much a means of expressing truth that has already been established, but are a means of discovering truth that was previously unknown.
Their diversity is a diversity not of sounds and signs but of ways of looking at the world. Boas was educated in Germany in the late 19th Century at a time when scientists such as Sapir-whorfian thesis Mach and Ludwig Boltzmann were attempting to understand the physiology of sensation.
One marked philosophical current then apparent was a revival of interest in the work of Immanuel Kant. Kant opined that knowledge is the result of concrete cognitive work on the part of an individual person—reality "sensuous intuition" is inherently in flux, and understanding results when someone takes that intuition and interprets it via their " categories of the understanding.
In the United States, Boas encountered Native American languages from many different linguistic families, all of which were quite different from the standard Semitic and Indo-European languages then studied by most European scholars.
Boas realized how greatly ways of life and grammatical categories may vary from locality to locality. As a result he came to hold that the culture and lifeways of a people are reflected in their language. Edward Sapir Edit Sapir was one of Boas's star students.
He furthered Boas's argument by noting that languages are systematic, formally complete systems. Thus, it is not this nor that particular word that expresses a particular mode of thought and behavior, but the coherent and systematic nature of language interacting at a Sapir-whorfian thesis level with thought and behavior.
Whilst his views changed through time, towards the end of his life Sapir held that language does not merely mirror culture and habitual action, but that language and thought are in a relationship of mutual influence, verging upon determinism.
Benjamin Whorf Edit Whorf refined this idea and engendered precision by examining the particular grammatical mechanisms by which language influences thought. He framed his discursive thrust thus: We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscope flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds—and this means largely by the linguistic systems of our minds.
We cut nature up, organize it into concepts, and ascribe significances as we do, largely because we are parties to an agreement to organize it in this way—an agreement that holds throughout our speech community and is codified in the patterns of our language [ In doing so he opposed what he called a "natural logic " position which held, according to him, that "talking, or the use of language, is supposed only to 'express' what is essentially already formulated nonlinguistically".
A phrase like "three days" is grammatically equivalent to "three apples", or "three kilometres". Other languages, including many Native American languages, are oriented towards process. Whorf himself claimed that his work on the SWH was inspired by his insight that a Hopi speaker would find relativistic physics fundamentally easier to grasp than an SAE speaker would.
Influence and reactions Edit As a result of his status as a student and not as a professional linguist, Whorf's work on linguistic relativity, conducted largely in the late s, did not become popular until the posthumous publication of his writings in the s.
The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis influenced the development and standardization of Interlingua during the first half of the 20th Century, but this was largely due to Sapir's direct involvement.
James Cooke Brown created the Loglan constructed language Lojbana reformed variant of Loglan, still exists as a living language in order to test the hypothesis. However, no such experiment was ever conducted.
Linguistic theories of the s—such as those proposed by Noam Chomsky —focused on the innateness and universality of language. As a result Whorf's work fell out of favor. Pinker argues from a contravening school of thought that holds that some sort of universal grammar underlies all language.
The most extreme proponents of this theory, such as Pinker, argue that thought is independent of language, and that language is itself meaningless in any fundamental way to human thought, and that human beings do not even think in what is called "natural" language, which is to say in any of the languages that we actually speak or write, but rather, we think in a meta-language that precedes any spoken language; this language of thought is called "mentalese".
Pinker refers to "Whorf's radical position," and argues vehemently against the Whorfian idea that language contains thought and culture, going so far as to declare, "the more you examine Whorf's arguments, the less sense they make.
For another example, political arguments are shaped by the web of conceptual metaphors that underlie language use.What are the main criticisms of Whorf's theory of linguistic determinism and relativity? Update Cancel. ad by Grammarly. Write with confidence. Grammarly's free writing app makes sure everything you type is easy to read, effective, and mistake-free.
Learn More at . The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, as their separate relativity theses are called, has found many supporters from a variety of disciplines; in spite of the interest displayed in the hypothesis, however, it has remained a vague and ambiguously articulated collection of knowledge, and .
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis II • Linguistic determinism = extreme "Weltanschau-ung" version of the hypothesis: – The structure of a language can strongly influence or determine someone’s World View – A World Viewdescribes a (hopefully) consistent and integral.
Sapir-whorf hypothesis definition, a theory developed by Edward Sapir and Benjamin Lee Whorf that states that the structure of a language determines or greatly influences the modes of thought and behavior characteristic of the culture in which it is spoken. Also known as the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis, or Whorfianism, the principle is often defined to include two versions: the strong hypothesis and the weak hypothesis: The strong version says that language determines thought and that linguistic categories limit and determine cognitive categories.
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In an earlier blog (see below), I discussed how, during the Congressional debate about the US-India nuclear deal, even those members of Congress opposed to the deal bent over backwards to declare their support for closer ties between the world’s two largest democracies. And everyone agreed the deal is generous, opens long-closed doors, and sets minimal and perfectly reasonable expectations of India.
So what are we to make of the brouhaha in New Delhi? According to reports in both the Indian and western press, the US-Indian nuclear deal is being denounced, mostly by the communist and allied parties, as an unacceptable constraint on Indian sovereignty. (I want to thank Leonor Tomero for her extremely helpful India news summary.)
We are about to witness yet another Bush foreign policy train wreck. It is going to start when Congress returns after the August recess. Americans have a self-image of good guys, we are generous, and, most importantly, we expect other people to appreciate just what fine folks we are. (As just one example, the average American believes that one fifth of the Federal budget goes to foreign aid; the actual number is less than one twentieth of that.) While the U.S. president and Indian prime minister hatched this scheme between them, both neglected their legislatures. Now the U.S. Congress, patting itself on the back for being so accommodating to the Indians, is about to be snubbed and the Indians are about to appear ungrateful, something that never sits well with Americans; even when we invade other countries, we expect them to understand that we are doing it for their own good. Indian Prime Minister Singh might try to finesse some of the commitments, for example, claiming for his parliament that India can test nuclear weapons anytime it wants while telling the Americans that he cannot foresee wanting to do so. This will please neither legislature but might work. Alternatively, the prime minister could make public statements for one side’s consumption while giving secret reassurances to the other side. It is difficult to count the number of ways that strategy could blow up.
This is all profoundly ironic. India was being courted by the United States and rightfully judged that it was in the stronger negotiating position. The Indians set as the condition for greater cooperation de facto recognition by the U.S. of India as a nuclear power. The Bush administration seems to actually want India to build up its nuclear arsenal to counter China, so India met no resistance there. But by making this one issue, nuclear recognition, the symbolic keystone of the whole Indian-U.S. strategic partnership, there is a real risk that the Indians have created what engineers call a “single point of failure”; if nuclear recognition crashes, it could undermine the entire strategic relationship. Had the U.S. and India simply put nuclear issues aside as an area where they agree to disagree, they could have laid a solid foundation for future cooperation.
I know the dangers of making predictions but here goes: The U.S. went into this deal primarily to bring India on board as an ally but there has to be some expectation of a commercial quid pro quo. The U.S. nuclear reactor industry is moribund and the Bush administration is pushing hard to revitalize it. The administration has said nothing publicly but they must expect that at least some of the Indian reactor orders will go to U.S. firms. At the same time, the dramatically different views of the Indian and American legislatures are going to cause bruised feelings, even anger and a sense of betrayal, on both sides. Since there is no explicit quid pro quo, the U.S. is still obligated to help India diplomatically with nuclear imports whether we get any of the business or not. So now that the U.S. has opened the gates for India, indignation will erase any sense of obligation on the part of the Indians and the world’s leaders in reactor technology, the French and Japanese, and the Indian’s old friend Russia, will get the reactor orders instead. And next we will see Pakistan going to China using the same arguments, which, however unconvincing in the case of Pakistan, may be good enough to provide political cover. And all this is enough of a mess without the consequences of a nuclear arms race between India and China.
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Improvements in electrodialysis technology are creating new ways of producing freshwater. Funded by the EU, REvivED water is developing low-energy, sustainable solutions to address the growing demand for access to safe drinking water.
UNESCO estimates that around 2.2 billion people live without access to safe, clean drinking water. By 2050, up to 5.7 billion people could be living in areas where water is scarce for at least one month a year. With seawater making up 97.5% of the world’s water resource, low energy desalination solutions will be a vital component of providing sufficient levels of good-quality drinking water for a growing population.
REvivED water brings together ten partners from six European countries to address the drinking water challenge. The project focuses on electrodialysis technology: using an electric current to make salts and other ions move out of salty water across a semi-permeable membrane. This approach has been successfully implemented across a range of settings.
Clean water for communities most in need
REvivED water installed solar-powered desalination systems to produce fresh, clean drinking water for seven rural communities across Somaliland, Djibouti, India and Tanzania.
The groundwater in these remote areas is high in salt, causing health issues in the local population. Electrodialysis technology in the REvivED system removes this excess salt without affecting the other minerals in the water that help keep us healthy. The community systems also include electrochemical cells that produce their own chlorine to disinfect the water and make it safe to drink. Each REvivED water unit can produce up to 2,000 litres of fresh drinking water per day.
Compared to other water treatment options, the REvivED water community units are more durable and have lower operating costs. REvivED water provides free spare parts and training to local partners to ensure that the community systems can be operated and maintained for many years to come.
The systems are monitored and controlled remotely using signals sent through the mobile phone network. Each unit is fitted with a SIM card that relays information to technicians at Phaesun, a German company that specialises in off-grid solar powered systems. Using this data, Phaesun can monitor how the desalination systems are operating and make any adjustments that are needed.
Florian Martini, project engineer at Phaesun, carried out unit installations in Tanzania:
"It was wonderful to see how modern technology fits into the traditional way of life of the Maasai," "A great advantage is that, unlike other desalination technologies, no waste products are produced and no diesel is needed to operate the systems. The clean water is highly appreciated!"
Improving desalination technology and sustainability at an industrial level
REvivED water has also tested new ways of applying the electrodialysis innovations to industrial-scale desalination plants, aiming to achieve more energy efficient and cost-effective solutions. A new, multi-stage electrodialysis system for seawater desalination is currently being piloted at the Afsluitdijk in the Netherlands. Meanwhile, at the Burriana desalination plant in Spain, REvivED water is piloting the combination of ED with traditional reverse osmosis systems.
The project is now looking to extend these approaches to a commercial setting.
Further findings from REvivED water will be presented at the final project meeting at Afsluitdijk, Netherlands on 22 April 2020. For more information, please visit https://revivedwater.eu/.
Installing a REvivED water desalination unit at the village of Beyo Gulan, Somaliland (photo credits: Phaesun).
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How To Start and Improve a P. R. Program.
This is a primer designed to help the school management team communicate better. It offers guidelines and ideas for establishing and improving public relations efforts. Chapters cover such subjects as what public relations can do for schools, how to start a public relations program, and the public relations roles of school officials, as well as the specifics of getting the job done, working with the community, getting the most from the media and publications, developing public relations strategies for board meetings, and planning and evaluating public relations efforts. The final section is a "yellow pages" that presents other sources of information on the subject. (IRT)
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Communication (Thought Transfer), Community Relations, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Dissemination, Information Needs, Information Theory, Interschool Communication, Mass Media, Public Relations, School Community Relationship
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What are the advantages and disadvantages of Internet banking ?
The internet Banking refers to the banking services provided by the banks over the internet , Some of these services include paying of bills , the funds transfer , viewing account statement .
The banks also deliver their latest products and services over the internet , Internet banking is performed through a computer system or similar devices that can connect to the banking site via the internet .
You can also use the internet banking on your mobile phones using a Wi-Fi or 3G connection . With the ease of availability of cyber cafes in the cities , And it has become quite popular .
Advantages of Internet banking
The banks that offer the internet banking are open for the business transactions anywhere a client might be as long as there is Internet connection , Apart from the periods of website maintenance , The services are available 24 hours a day and 365 days round the year .
If the internet connection is unavailable , The customer services are provided round the clock via the telephone , where the actual time account balances and the information are availed , This hastens the banking processes hence increasing their efficiency and effectiveness .
The online banking allows the automatic funding of accounts from the long established bank accounts via the electronic funds transfers , And the client can monitor his spending via a virtual wallet through the certain banks and the applications and enable the payments .
The speed of transaction is faster relative to use of ATM’s or the customary banking , The online banking allows for easier updating and maintaining of direct accounts , The time for changing mailing address is greatly reduced , ordering of additional checks is availed and provision of actual time interest rates .
The accounts can be automatically funded from a traditional bank account via the electronic transfer , Most direct banks offer unlimited transfers at no cost , including those destined for outside financial institutions , They will also accept the direct deposits and withdrawals that you authorize such as the payroll deposits and the automatic bill payment .
The online accounts are easy to set up and require no more information than a traditional bank account , Many offer option of inputting your data online or downloading the forms and mailing them in .
If you run into a problem , you have the option of calling or emailing the bank directly , One advantage of using online checks is that the payee’s information is retained , which eliminates having to reenter the information on the subsequent checks to the same payee .
The online banking is also environmentally friendly , The electronic transmissions require no paper , So , They reduce the vehicle traffic and they are virtually pollution free , And they also eliminate the need for the buildings and the office equipment .
It is available all the time , You can perform your tasks from anywhere and at any time , even in night when the bank is closed or on holidays , The only thing you need to have is an active internet connection .
It is fast and efficient , The funds get transferred from one account to the other very fast , And you can also manage several accounts easily through the internet banking .
You can control your transactions and the account balance all the time , This facility also keeps your account safe , You can monitor your account at anytime , you can know about any fraudulent activity or threat to your account before it can pose your account to severe damage .
Disadvantages of Internet banking
The complex encryption software is used to protect the account information , There are no perfect systems , So , The accounts are prone to the hacking attacks , the phishing , the malware and the illegal activities .
The online banking is generally secure but it isn’t always secure , The identity theft is running rampant , and the banks are by no means immune . And when your information is compromised , It can take months or even years to correct the damage , And it can cost you thousands of dollars .
The customer service can be below the quality that you’re used to , Some people take comfort in being able to talk to another human being face-to-face if they experience a problem , Although most major banks employ a dedicated customer service department specifically for online users , going through the dreaded telephone menu can still be quite irritating to many .
Not all the online transactions are immediate , The online banking is subject to the same business day parameters as the traditional banking , So , printing out and keeping the receipts is still very important , even when banking online .
Identity theft is a significant concern but some online banks take this risk more seriously than others , Before opening an online account , thoroughly investigate the bank’s security policies and protections to ensure they meet your expectations .
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DESCRIPTION: The View Hotel is a 95 room hotel located within the Navajo Nation and Navajo Tribal Park at Monument Valley. Monument Valley is a region of the Colorado Plateau characterized by a cluster of vast sandstone buttes located on the Arizona-Utah state line near the Four Corners area within the range of the Navajo Nation Reservation.
A new wastewater treatment system was needed to accommodate the expansion of flows from the View Hotel and entrance to the Monument Valley National Park. IWS was contracted to construct the new treatment system which featured four AX-Max treatment modules (www.orenco.com), two 30,000 gallon fiberglass tanks (www.xerxes.com), and an infiltrator drain field (www.infiltratorsystems.com) in May 2014.
The wastewater treatment system was designed Richard Jex, PE. The AX-Max units were placed below grade to minimize any visual impact to the beautiful landscape and canyon views. The modular nature of the AX-Max units allowed the facility to accommodate the variable flows from the seasonal nature of the tourism industry in Monument Valley.
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Liberation Music Therapy: An emancipatory practice to community music-making, healing, and revolutionary change
ANARCHISM RESEARCH GROUP | ANARCHIST ESSAYS | ESSAY #38
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We experience life through vibrations. Music has been a vital part of our evolution since the Paleolithic era and is an integral part of our history. Music can bring people together, encourage social, political, economic, or environmental change, facilitate healing, and illuminate human transcendence through peace and solidarity. In other words, music can connect with the human psyche in ways that, when practiced with focused intention, have the potential to treat entire communities that have undergone transgenerational trauma at the assault of colonialism and Capitalism.
My name is Dorian Wallace, and I am both a composer and a music therapist, concentrating on existential and sociopolitical issues from a socialistic perspective. In a colonialist definition, music therapy is the clinical and evidence-based practice of music interventions within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional. While there are valid reasons to maintain accountability procedures for monitoring practices and interventions affecting the human psyche, there is also a valid critique of the current paradigm we use and how it consciously and unconsciously targets specific groups of people for oppression. Given that modern psychology was built within a colonizer paradigm, it is reasonable to suspect that an innate bias exists within its structure. Let us consider that this structure elevates the colonizer while depressing the colonized. What are we to do?
I want to acknowledge that modern psychology has a substantial body of work and outcomes that have helped many individuals manage mental health concerns. I also want to acknowledge that most, if not all, mental health professionals are doing good work and serving those in need to the best of their ability. Nonetheless, as a society, we often only consider someone "healed" if one can effectively engage in Capitalism, and if they cannot, we incarcerate them. By existing within a colonialist model, there are inherent biases that keep certain people oppressed. We must remember that psychology is simply the scientific study of the mind and behavior and that the Eurocentric model does not solely define the discipline. A synthesis from diverse cultural orientations could provide more significant insights into the mind and communal consciousness.
Liberation psychology is a school of thought that originated amongst a body of psychologists in Latin America in the 1970s as a direct response to the colonialist conception of individuality present in much of modern psychology. Spanish-born Jesuit priest and social psychologist Ignacio Martín-Baró is considered the founder of liberation psychology due to his writing on the subject. With a concentration on the perspectives, expertise, and movements of those who have been alienated and marginalized, it addresses the implications of colonial power and institutions on oppressed people and the lived experiences of poverty, social injustice, suppression, persecution, and violence. Liberation psychologists strive to absorb, amplify, and integrate the genius of people most afflicted by various forms of oppression into theory and practice, going beyond a clinical response to trauma, connecting people's emotional experiences with societal struggles against impunity and for ethical, social transformation.
Since long before the beginning of British imperialism, music has been a part of the healing process and has traditionally been a practice to elicit a therapeutic reverie through rhythm and song, serving as a means of sublimation in civilizations around the planet. Sufi mystics and other spiritual practices worldwide have realized the significance of music in transporting them to another sense of consciousness that contributes to higher comprehension. The rhythmic heartbeat of a drum induces an awakened state in persons involved in various shamanic practices. Drumming elicits consciousness and keeps a person in the mental space while rites and rituals occur. Chanting, which commonly applies the recitation of a mantra, can also contribute to this state, as seen in Hindu, Buddhist, and Celtic traditions. Chanting and singing can also be holistic medicinal songs within many shamanic practices, inviting those seeking treatment to examine themselves to see what the music signifies to them. Chanting and vocalizing can involve overtones and harmonics as part of their spiritual technologies to attain a non-ordinary state. Trance music is a result of the contemporary rave cultures. European classical music or neo-indigenous art forms like hip hop or reggae can serve to create an experience of elevation. Seeing an orchestral or a hip-hop performance firsthand can be mesmerizing and existentially stimulating.
The connection between music and politics cannot be understated and lives in many cultures. Music can express anti-establishment and pro-establishment sentiments, and communities can use music to portray specific political messages. We can consider all music political from a cultural perspective, regardless of political content, simply by its presence within a specific time, space, and place. Interpretive readings of lyrics and performances strongly emphasize historical contexts and links to social groups. Consider the concept of "artivism," a hybrid term uniting art and activism popularized through a 1997 convergence between Chicano artists from East Los Angeles and the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico. Artivists utilize art to elevate political objectives in multiple contexts, emphasizing improving social, environmental, and technological awareness.
As activist M. K. Asante puts it, "The artivist uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression—by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation."
Given the right historical circumstances, cultural conditions, and aesthetic connotations, popular music can help bring people together to form effective political movements. Music may productively address the deep understanding of what it is to be sentient, tackling the message of the material needs of the popular majority while integrating with the spiritual nourishment that art provides—communal cohesion for the community and self-expression for the individuals involved. A liberation-oriented music therapist must consider all of these factors. We use music simultaneously as a function of art, ritual, therapy, and politics, all within a cipher of lived experience and cultural genius. From this perspective, a liberation music therapist is less of a clinician but more of a cultural practitioner.
Concientización is a sociological concept promoted by Brazilian pedagogue and theorist Paulo Freire. It translates as "consciousness raising" or "critical consciousness." The term derives from a French term, conscienciser, coined by the French psychiatrist and political philosopher Frantz Fanon in his 1952 book, Black Skins, White Masks. It focuses on developing a deep and adaptable comprehension of one's existence, allowing one to uncover their positionality within socioeconomic and cultural paradoxes and take action against authoritarian forces in one's life. Music, specifically lyrics, can support in more effortlessly and intimately identifying these paradoxes. Activist and writer Audre Lorde wrote poetry to communicate for women of color activists and resistance groups.
A technique used in music therapy is lyric analysis. A lyric analysis involves using existing songs to facilitate meaningful discussion. Use songs that are popular within a community, as music frequently reflects who a community is and how they see themselves in the world. Take this song by American rapper Meek Mill, "Trauma," which I frequently use when working with people in custody at Rikers Island. Here is the first verse and chorus.
My mama used to pray that she'd see me in Yale
It's f**ked up she gotta see me in jail
On the visit with Lil Papi, it hurt even though I seemed to be well
They got a smoker with a key to my cell, damn
And even worst, my judge black don't wanna see me do well
It's either that or black people for sale
Gave me two to four years like, "F**k your life, meet me in hell"
And let it burn like Lucifer, you look even stupider
Tryna impress them people in power when power abusin' us
For 44 dollars a hour, you coward they using ya
Is it self-hate that made you send me upstate?
This where the so-called "real n***as" sweeping up for cupcakes
And that's your phone time, if you ain't got no money, you ain't online
Hey call your son, call your daughter just to wish them more prime
Oh God, don't let them streets get a hold of 'em
Your daughter f**kin' now, it's gon be a cold summer
Your son trappin' and your homie givin' O's to him
And if he f**k that paper up, he puttin' holes through him
And you just wanna make it home, so you can show it to him
And them people ain't finna give no parole to ya
They want blood, we all hangin' with a noose on our neck
My celly mom just died, he wanna use my collect
And he won't make it to the wake unless he give 'em a check
We still n***as though, what you expect?
I just won
I was on the corner with the reefa
And they got us warring for our freedom
See my brother blood on the pavement
How you wake up in the mornin' feelin' evil?
When them drugs got a hold of your mama
And the judge got a hold on your father
Go to school, bullet holes in the locker
Notice your response to this song. How did the rhythm affect your body? Was there any noticeable unconscious movement, say a head-bobbing or foot-tapping? If so, you have just experienced entrainment, a biomusicological term for the unconscious synchronization to an externally detected rhythm. Although there are known examples of specific nonhumans experiencing entrainment, humans are the only species where all members of the species experience it. Evolutionary musicologist Joseph Jordania suggests that the forces of natural selection developed the human ability to be entrained as a vital part of achieving the specific altered state of consciousness known as battle trance. Attaining this state, in which humans forfeit their individuality, do not feel fear or pain, are integrated with a shared collective identity, and act on behalf of the community, was critical for our ancestors' survival needs against large predators. I play the music that I know is popular in the community while working with a group of persons in custody. Even when I am not verbally interacting with someone, I look for entrainment as it signifies unconscious communication.
By presenting music that I know is significant to the community rather than music that I assume they should hear, I recognize their beliefs and culture on their level, showing regard, carefulness, and respect. We will not advance toward revolutionary transformation as activists until we meet communities where they are psychologically, intellectually, and spiritually. The liberation music therapist must be an active participant in the proletariat struggle, not just another brainwashed colonialist clone pushing decisions from their ivory tower. Real will always recognize real, and projecting an artificial, imposed, self-centered, inconsiderate, or entitled posture decreases the chances of authentic class solidarity.
What lyrics stood out to you in this song? Were there any moments that communicated a concientización position? Are there any lyrics that increase awareness of your specific positionality within the socioeconomic landscape you and your community inhabit? What can you do with this knowledge?
As I write this essay, the line that strikes me the most is,
"You look even stupider
Tryna impress them people in power when power abusin' us
For 44 dollars a hour, you coward they using ya
Is it self-hate that made you send me upstate?"
Although this passage is explicitly about intraracial conflict, it also reveals how colonial power applies pressure and force upon those who should otherwise understand the struggle. Individuals impaired by a colonial worldview will often act dismissively toward others who should be their comrades. Self-hatred develops over time due to past trauma, feelings of inadequacy, unrealistic expectations, social criticisms, and habitual behaviors. Whatever line is made in the sand, whether class, gender, ethnicity, geographic location, orientation, political convictions, or other distinctions, there is a need to see past the resistance a person might put up and reach them where they authentically are.
I've witnessed unnecessary clashes amongst anarchists, Marxist-Leninists, Trotskyists, and Social Democrats, often over minor ideological differences that all involved could sort out productively if everyone took time to cool down. Leftists will often bash liberals for being ignorant of the struggle of working people, and liberals will accuse leftists of being too idealistic. How can we build solidarity if we cannot keep ourselves in order? Anti-racist activists will, with good reason, reject bigots entirely. However, to achieve true solidarity, we must develop ways to communicate with those who hold harmful ideas and beliefs. I once attended an Industrial Workers of the World Organizing Training 101 class when a participant asked, "What do you do if there is a bigot in the workplace?" Before responding, the facilitator took a moment to think, "You unionize them! Solidarity is the most effective way to combat bigotry!"
Realize that human beings are complex. We must recognize that the bulk of these complexities is generated and exacerbated by Capitalism, as human beings and the environment will always be commodities, resulting in irrational conflict among the proletariat. Accountability is vital while organizing movements, and conflicts will arise; however, we must commit to this practice with empathy from a liberation music therapist perspective. I hope that this brief essay initiates a more expansive dialogue and action on music's role in creative expression, community engagement, social justice, and mental health. We cannot have one without the other. Consider these words by stic.man of the hip-hop duo dead prez, from his verse in Police State off their 2000 album Let's Get Free.
"I want to be free to live, able to have what I need to live
Bring the power back to the street where the people live
We sick of working for crumbs and filling up the prisons
Dying over money and relying on religion
For help. We do for self like ants in a colony
Organize the wealth into a socialist economy
A way of life based off the common need
And all my comrades is ready, we're just spreading the seed"
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A New Way to Help Diagnose COPD
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In the study, 1,140 male participants had lung CT scans and pulmonary function tests on the same day. The CT scans correctly diagnosed COPD about 76 percent of the time.
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Everyone wants to learn how to make ceviche, and, while ceviche recipes are all over the place, a basic ceviche is, more or less, pico de gallo with fish or seafood in it.
Ceviche is one of those seemingly esoteric dishes that Americans have truly embraced, especially those of us who live fairly near the ocean. A Peruvian invention, the original ceviche recipe is fish or seafood marinated in citrus juices, which then “cook” the fish. I’ve seen all sorts of versions served in restaurants, and if you look on any angler’s forum you’ll see recipes for ceviche of… well anything, really.
This can be a very bad idea.
The reason is because ceviche (sev-ee-chay) is still, for the most part, a raw fish dish.
The citrus bath the fish or seafood sits in does turn the meat opaque, giving it the appearance of being cooked, and it does kill some of the many wee beasties present in raw foods that can make you sick, notably the toxin vibrio. But the ceviche-making process will not protect you from the worst of the nasties, ranging from salmonella to parasites and worms.
Certain species of fish tend to be more or less prone to parasites. So the best fish for ceviche are those you would see at a trip to the sushi bar. Tuna and other pelagic species tend to be free of parasites (swordfish being a notable exception), as is farmed salmon (oddly). But ever notice that mackerel (saba) is always cured?
That’s because it can often contain anasakis worm larvae, also known as seal worm. Everything in the cod family is especially prone to infestation, too, which is why you never see cod sushi.
Here in the West, Pacific salmon, rockfish and halibut well known to harbor anasakis larvae, and to be safe you must freeze your fish before eating it raw. And when I mean freezing I mean really freezing. You need the fish to hit -4°F for about a week to do the trick. Note that older home freezers never hit this temperature.
(If you want to learn more on this topic, we did an entire podcast episode on parasites in fish.)
I don’t want to scare you too much. The vast majority of illnesses you might get from eating tainted or parasite-laden raw fish will be moderate to light. It’ll feel like food poisoning, with cramps, nausea and a serious case of the trots. Not fun, but not life-threatening, either. This is because in most cases we are not what’s called a “definitive” host, meaning the parasite hits a dead end with us.
Seal worm is a great example. The seal worm (anasakis) is around wherever there are seals and sea lions — they are the “definitive” host for that parasite. When we eat raw, tainted salmon, the worm says, “Cool! A mammal! Let’s attach to his intestines.” But the worm soon learns that a person is not a sea lion and it dies, but not before making you sick.
We are a definitive host to lovely critters like liver flukes and tapeworm, however, which are common in North American freshwater fish. The single largest vector for tapeworm in America is from people eating raw or undercooked trout. People think, “Hey! I love salmon sushi, and trout is just a cousin of a salmon, so…”
Bad idea. Under no circumstances should you eat freshwater fish raw or in ceviche that has not been properly frozen first. Remember the only way to get rid of a tapeworm, which can grow longer than 20 feet in your guts (nasty!) — is to take medicine that will kill it. You then need to eject the thing. Ew.
Now that I’ve freaked you all out, here’s some good news: Actual illness from parasites and such is pretty rare. I’ve known guys who’ve eaten fresh raw salmon for years without getting sick, and raw Pacific salmon is one of the fish with the highest incidence of tapeworm and seal worm infestation.
What’s more, you can vastly improve your chances of avoiding parasites in your fish by killing the fish quickly when it comes overboard, bleeding it, and gutting it ASAP. This last bit is the most important because virtually all the parasites hang out in the viscera of fish, not the meat. In most cases, the meat gets tainted because when the fish dies the parasites panic and burrow into the meat.
Here is an overview of seafood safety from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Bottom Line: Unless you are tuna fishing, make your ceviche from pre-frozen fish. It’s just a smart thing to do.
Once it’s been properly frozen, however, the sky’s the limit. A traditional Peruvian ceviche recipe typically has onions, chiles, cilantro and sometimes corn and tomatoes. I normally go that route and serve an appetizer-style ceviche that’s great eaten on tortilla chips. Fantastic for a light dinner, or to put out when you are watching football or having a party.
Marinating times make a difference when you are making ceviche. Depending on the size of the fish pieces, you will need at least 30 minutes and normally an hour for the citrus to “cook” the fish. Two hours is fine, but beyond that the ceviche, while still good, becomes more of a pickled fish thing. It’s a subtle difference, but you can taste it.
If you don’t marinate the fish at all, and serve basically a mash-up of sushi and ceviche, you have Mexican aguachile.
Citrus matters, too. You always want the dominant citrus in the marinade to be either limes or lemons, which are far more acidic than oranges, grapefruits or tangerines. Add these fruits as an accent to the ceviche; I am especially fond of a little grapefruit in the mix.
- 1 pound pre-frozen lingcod, rockfish or other lean, white fish
- 3 limes
- 2 lemons
- 1 grapefruit
- Salt and black pepper
- 1/2 red onion, sliced root to tip
- 2 Roma or other paste tomatoes, seeded
- 1 ear of corn, kernels sliced off
- 1 habanero or rocoto chile pepper, or more to taste
- 3 tablespoons chopped cilantro
- Slice the fish into small, bite-sized pieces. Cut the tomatoes into pieces the same size as the fish and set them aside for later. Zest 1 lime, 1 lemon and the grapefruit and grate them fine; I use a microplane grater to do this. Mince the habanero fine. Juice all the citrus. Add all the ingredients except for the tomatoes and the cilantro to a bowl or plastic container with a lid and refrigerate for 30 minutes to 2 hours.
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February is ‘American Heart Month’ — the perfect time to consider your heart health and the steps you can take to minimize heart disease risk.
One of the easiest and most important things you can do if you have high cholesterol and/or high blood pressure (two key heart disease risk factors) is to ASK FOR YOUR ‘NUMBERS.’
Information is power! If you have your blood pressure numbers AND your full lipid (cholesterol) panel results, you can easily calculate your own ’10-year risk of heart disease!’
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The Taliban have offered a three-month ceasefire in exchange for the release of 7,000 of their prisoners by the Afghan authorities, a member of the government team negotiating with the rebels said Thursday (July 15th).
“It is a considerable requirement”Nader Nadery told reporters, adding that the Taliban also demanded that the names of movement leaders be removed from a ” blacklist “ of ONU.
→ INVESTIGATION. Faced with the advance of the Taliban, France grants asylum to its Afghan staff
Without commenting on the follow-up given to this offer from the Taliban, he stressed that the previous release of 5,000 of them last year, which was the condition set for the opening of inter-Afghan talks, had already been “A difficult requirement” to fill in and then “The violence had not ceased and on the contrary had increased”. Asked by AFP about this offer, the Taliban did not immediately respond.
Talks between the Afghan government and the rebels have stalled since they began in September in Qatar’s capital Doha. The Taliban have seized large rural portions of Afghan territory over the past two months, thanks to an offensive launched in parallel with the final withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan, which began in early May and is expected to be completed by the end. August.
→ READ. Faced with the advance of the Taliban, France grants asylum to its Afghan staff
They notably made themselves masters of key border posts with Iran, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and, since Wednesday, Pakistan, access route to the ocean for Afghanistan, a landlocked country. Deprived of crucial American support, the Afghan forces offered little resistance and essentially controlled only the provincial capitals and the main roads. | <urn:uuid:5699390c-2940-4ad2-9b76-d925375819dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://galwerc.com/afghanistan-taliban-propose-3-month-ceasefire-against-the-release-of-7000-prisoners | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.973282 | 366 | 1.640625 | 2 |
In the entirely-wordless short graphic novel Constantly, GG presents a woman as she enters her day with trepidation, which manifests in hesitation and avoidance, while taunted by minimal specters that cause her primal pause to escalate as she goes through the motions.
When the story starts, the woman is in free fall, with multiple shadowy forearms grabbing at her as she plummets. Awakening from the dream, she attempts to go through her morning motions, but the forearms don’t leave her alone, and the first thought is whether these grabby forearms arms aren’t the stuff of nightmares at all, but actual manifestations that harass her whether asleep or awake.
The forearms are both, though, and their relentless needling — hence the title Constantly — disarms any motivation the woman has, any self-esteem, any confidence as she prepares to step out into a world that she perceives as filled with these shadowy forearms waiting to pounce on her further.
GG intersperses notes that the woman has written to herself expressing what she doesn’t want, sometimes contradictory and mostly adding up to “anything.” She doesn’t want anything because the shadowy forearms take away her capacity to truly have anything.
This slim story by GG gets straight to the point and still remains elusive. Part of that is because this is a narrative of intangibles and how they manifest themselves in someone’s life. Though specifically referencing conditions like anxiety and depression, GG renders the protagonist’s experience in such a way that you don’t have to suffer from either of those to understand and they can be easily exchanged with many kinds of overwhelming pressure or emotional states that, more often than humans acknowledge, disarm and even destroy without ever eliciting a panicked impulse to help on the part of the people around the sufferer.
Broken bones are obvious injuries and people spring into action in response to them, but the more insular the suffering, the more likely the wound is to remain untended and grow in its capacity to harm. And from the outside to those who have never experienced it, it looks less like a wound and more like self-indulgence.
In this way Constantly is simple and visualizes a condition in clear terms for people who might not understand. It seems easy enough for someone to read and absorb what GG presents in such a way that they could place themselves within the narrative and come to an understanding of how they, too, might feel if multiple shadowy forearms were disrupting their every effort to do something screamingly normal. After all, this is not a story about someone trying to achieve something exceptional and failing spectacularly. It’s just the story of a woman trying to get up in the morning and put herself together enough to walk out the door.
GG’s clear visual realism melds well with the surrealist flourishes that bring two perceptions into one. The metaphorical realm, the one with the shadowy forearms, feels equal to the one in which the woman just tries to choose an outfit, until such point that aspects of the freefall enter reality. That’s when the two perceptions become one and that’s the point that Constantly has brought the reader full circle into the mind of a person suffering on the inside.
In the realm of mental health narratives, Constantly is a small offering, a tap on the shoulder and finger to the lips meant more as a reminder than a protest. But sometimes that’s what needed to get the point across and GG does so with succinct elegance. | <urn:uuid:fe6bfbc3-eafc-46d8-869e-4f09d7eb3663> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.comicsbeat.com/indie-view-constantly/?amp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.962621 | 741 | 1.570313 | 2 |
ERIC Number: ED357985
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1990
Aspects of Design.
Until the end of the last century the school textbook served only one purpose, which was to educate; today, faced with competition from the media, it also must be attractive. The development of the textbook over the last century has been characterized, on one hand, by greater diversity, and hence greater complexity, in the typographical methods designed to classify and establish a hierarchy of themes; and, on the other hand, by the growing use of illustrations and color. The typography of a textbook takes part in the didactic message: layout, choice of typeface, and various typographical procedures (boxes, screens, etc.); isolated sections of text to which differences in status and interpretation are allocated; changes in style or boldness of type; and the use of color highlight essential ideas. The reader must master whole sets of often implicit codes that provide a structure for the different elements, at times a difficult procedure. In fact, the reading of a textbook requires an often complex progression through the text, based on the not always obvious role the designer has assigned to the different elements making up the chapter, texts, and illustrations, notably. (Contains 20 references.) (DB)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Speeches/Meeting Papers
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: Council for Cultural Cooperation, Strasbourg (France).
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MARXIST theory develops with changing times, as capitalism itself develops, which is why it remains a living doctrine. On the question of the role of the peasantry in the revolutionary process that leads to the transcendence of capitalism, there have been significant developments in Marxist theory, which I propose to discuss here.
Even though Friedrich Engels in The Peasant War in Germany had already underscored the fact that the proletariat had to enter into an alliance with sections of the peasantry and agricultural labourers in its struggle for a revolutionary overthrow of capitalism, Marxist theory had for long still remained unclear about the role of the peasantry in the revolution. In fact Nadezhda Krupskaya tells us that Karl Kautsky, the chief theorist of the Second International and defender of revolutionary Marxism against Eduard Bernstein’s “revisionism”, had believed that the “urban revolutionary movement should remain neutral on the question of the relations between the peasantry and the landowners.” She adds: “Kautsky’s assertion troubled and grieved Illych, and he even tried to excuse him, saying that it was perhaps true for Western European relations, but that the Russian revolution could only be victorious with the support of the peasantry” (Memories of Lenin, Panther History Paperback, 1970, pp.110-111).
Lenin himself picked up from Engels’s argument and developed what was to become the basic Marxist position for the next century. His argument went as follows. In countries that came late to capitalism, the bourgeoisie, facing already the proletarian challenge, made common cause with the feudal landlords out of fear that any attack on feudal property could rebound into an attack on bourgeois property. Hence, instead of dealing the deathly blows against feudal property as it had done in an earlier epoch, when it had led the bourgeois revolution as in 1789 in France, it shrank from redistributing the ownership of feudal estates among the peasants and attacking the social power of the feudal lords, because of which the democratic aspirations of the peasantry remained unfulfilled. These aspirations can be fulfilled only by the proletariat leading the democratic revolution, for which it can enlist the peasants as an ally.
Lenin therefore put forward the idea of a worker-peasant alliance that carries the democratic revolution to completion under the leadership of the working class. The working class then goes on to a socialist revolution, changing its allies within the peasantry along the way in accordance with the stage of the revolution. Against Menshevik spokesmen who argued that the working class should make an alliance with the liberal bourgeoisie for the democratic revolution, Lenin argued that since the liberal bourgeoisie would not break with the feudal lords, it would necessarily betray the peasantry; the working class therefore should form an alliance with the peasantry to carry forward the democratic revolution, instead of being hamstrung by an alliance with the liberal bourgeoisie and thereby arresting the democratic revolution.
The democratic revolution in short can be completed by the proletariat in alliance with the peasantry, while an alliance between the proletariat and the liberal bourgeoisie will only betray the democratic revolution. The Bolshevik programme before the revolution accordingly was a “democratic dictatorship of the workers and peasants” that was to go on to a “dictatorship of the proletariat”.
This understanding which represented a remarkable development of Marxism, was to inform revolutionary movements all over the third world for the next century. The developments occurring in capitalism since Lenin’s time however have strengthened the importance of Lenin’s analysis and the need for the worker-peasant alliance, though for reasons that are additional to those adduced by Lenin.
Two developments in particular have been pertinent here. First, with the ascendancy of international finance capital and the ushering in of neo-liberal policies under its hegemony, the way has been cleared for the encroachment by domestic monopoly capital and international big business into peasant agriculture. The peasantry in short faces today not only the oppression of the landlord class but also the tyranny of monopoly capital.
Monopoly capital earns super-profits, over and above the normal rate of profit that prevails under free competition capitalism, not just at the expense of the workers (by raising the rate of surplus value), but also at the expense of small capitalists, and petty producers including the peasantry. It does so by turning the “class terms of trade” against peasant agriculture and in favour of monopoly capital; and it does so also through the mediation of the State, through for instance a shift in the direction of fiscal support away from peasant agriculture towards monopoly capitalists. When there is an increase in subsidies and tax-concessions for monopolists that is matched by a reduction in fiscal backing for the peasants through a restraint on support and procurement prices for the peasantry, then that too amounts to monopolists earning super-profits at the expense of the peasants.
But the encroachment of monopoly capital on peasant agriculture takes not just a flow form, i.e., one of redistribution of incomes away from the latter to the former, but also a stock form, i.e., a redistribution of control over assets from the latter to the former. In fact the two forms of encroachment are usually enmeshed with one another, their net result being a decimation of peasant agriculture, with distressed peasants migrating to cities in search of jobs.
The second development that comes to the fore is that the competitive introduction of technological progress, which comes with the relatively unrestricted trade characteristic of neo-liberalism, implies a general slowing down of the rate of employment growth. Even when the rate of GDP growth accelerates within the neo-liberal regime, the rate of labour productivity growth increases to such an extent that employment growth becomes sluggish; and if GDP growth does not accelerate, then employment growth languishes to an even greater extent.
This means that even as the distress migration of peasants to cities increases, it swells only the reserve army of labour, which impairs the bargaining position of even the tiny segment of workers that is unionised. And since the reserve army of labour takes the form not of a distinct set of persons who are without jobs, but rather of a sharing of unemployment, so that a given amount of work is divided among a larger number of persons, the net result of the squeeze on peasant agriculture is an absolute worsening of the living conditions of the working population as a whole.
This only makes the worker-peasant alliance even more essential in the struggle for transcending the contemporary phase of monopoly capitalism. And since transcending this phase of monopoly capitalism does not mean a return to some bygone era of competitive capitalism, it is synonymous with a process of transcendence of capitalism.
It is in this sense that the struggle of the peasantry that is currently underway in India is of decisive importance. The three laws against which the peasantry is struggling are meant to open up peasant agriculture for encroachment by monopoly capital. Prior to these three laws the Modi government had enacted anti-labour legislation that would undermine workers’ organisation and lead to a rise in the degree of exploitation of workers. The worker-peasant alliance in today’s world therefore is not only because the fight against landlordism that the fulfilment of the peasantry’s democratic aspirations demands can be effected under working class leadership; it is also because the fates of the working class and the peasantry are inextricably linked in the current phase of capitalism, that they are both victims of the assault of international finance capital and its domestic constituent, viz. the domestic monopoly capitalists.
The peasant struggle in India thus is not an ordinary struggle; it is not just a struggle for this or that economic demand which can be resolved through “give-and-take”. It is a struggle that goes to the very core of the current conjuncture. It is a do-or-die battle; it puts the government in a position where it must declare openly whether it stands with the people or with international big business. And if the government stands openly with international big business, as it has been doing until now, then that is a huge blow to democracy in the country. | <urn:uuid:6ab2f704-f4f6-4691-908e-88a5da956f43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.communistnews.net/peasants-and-the-revolution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.948758 | 1,670 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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Checking for potential drug interactions and conflicts with current products is a good start when choosing a retinol night cream. Consideration of skin type, the percentage of the active ingredient, any beneficial additives in the formula, season of use and time release also matters. Packaging is important, as well, because it influences the stability of the product. One of the last things people usually look at is the cost, with generic, over-the-counter products often providing very acceptable results without the high price tag of prescription-strength or name-brand choices.
Certain drugs are not good to use with retinol. When used with tetracycline antibiotics, for example, it can cause an increase in the pressure of the fluid around the brain. Combining it with anticoagulants can reduce their effectiveness, increasing bleeding risk, and medical professionals do not recommend using it with any hepatotoxic or liver-damaging substance, because high doses of retinol by itself can hurt the liver. Many medications designed to lower cholesterol can affect retinol absorption, as can the weight loss drug, orlistat.
Closely related to checking drug interactions is the need to look at other products you might already be using on your skin. It is not unusual for someone to use multiple skin products on their faces for different reasons, such as exfoliating or evening out skin tone, and that’s before other items such as sunscreen. Makeup makes the number of ingredients on the skin go up even more. For this reason, it’s a good idea to read the labels of what you already have to make sure the products won’t reduce effectiveness cause unnecessary irritation. It might be necessary to cut some items out of your routine once you start using the night cream.
Once you’ve looked at the other products you have and the drugs you are taking, the next step is to analyze the kind of skin you have. Manufacturers often create different formulas for skin care products to accommodate various skin types, and this holds true for retinol night creams. Ones made for those with dry skin, for example, often contain humectants, which are substances that absorb water and prevent moisture loss. Those for acne-prone skin often contain benzoyl peroxide, while those for people with oily skin frequently avoid an oil base.
Even though many people buy facial products based on a generalized concept of skin type, it’s possible for the skin to require more than one treatment. Someone can need an oil-free cream for the “T-zone” of the nose and forehead, for example, and a moisturizing one everywhere else. Some products are specifically designed for the area around the eye, as well, which tends to be thinner and more sensitive.
In general, people with sensitive or dry skin need a night cream with lower retinol percentage, but this can vary slightly based on the exact formula. The use of humectants, for example, can make a higher concentration acceptable for someone with dryness. Lower amounts also are more appropriate for people who are new to these creams. Many individuals successfully increase levels over time as their skin adjusts.
If you already are using one of these creams during the day, putting one on again at night might be too much for your skin. One option in this situation is to switch to using only the evening version. The other choice is to look for a night cream with a very low percentage of retinol.
Part of the process of picking the right product is to see which options have additional beneficial substances. Common examples are Vitamin E, Vitamin C and alpha- and beta-hydroxy acids. These compounds usually have antioxidant properties, chemically exfoliate or provide some degree of soothing. Some, however, can treat specific problems, such as hydroquinone correcting uneven skin tone. As you age and your skin changes, you might find that you need different ingredients.
One thing many people forget to consider when selecting the right product is that retinol can make the skin more sensitive to the ultraviolet rays from the sun. In the summer, creams with lower concentrations can be better for this reason. In the winter, when the air tends to be more dry, switching to a product that is oil-based or which has humectants can help.
Manufacturers often adjust their night cream formulas to change how fast the retinol absorbs into the skin. Those with a slow-release design are better for those with dry or sensitive skin, because it prevents a sudden, high dose that can cause irritation. As your tolerance increases, the type of formula that works for you might shift.
Sunlight and air exposure cause retinol to break down more quickly, so toward the end of your search, you should be looking for a product that comes in an opaque bottle with a pump or a tube. Many people find that this step greatly limits their choices, because so many manufacturers use jars or other clear containers. Following the dark-and-airtight rule is beneficial, even so, because the companies that adhere to it show that they really understand what to do to make the cream effective and long-lasting, which often means an overall better formula.
Many insurance companies don’t cover the cost of skin care products, and a prescription-strength retinol night cream usually has a higher concentration of the active compound. They generally are more expensive than over-the-counter versions as a result. Their higher price tag does not guarantee a better result, however, and many individuals find that a non-prescription or more generic option works just as well. If the main ingredients and percentages are the same, picking the cheaper product typically makes good financial sense.
@TunaLine: I've been using Vichy LiftActiv Retinol HA night cream over the past number of weeks! It's an excellent product and has won a number of awards, etc. I use it with their retinol eye cream as well! Both are awesome products!
@tunaline -- Have you tried Green Cream Retinol products? I've had a good experience with those, although I know they don't work for everybody. Worth a try though.
It's important to use those retinol face creams according to the instructions though. There are actually a number of retinol side effects that the cosmetics companies generally forget to tell you about.
For instance, most people get mild to severe peeling the first time they use a retinol skin cream, especially it it's one that is used on delicate parts of the face, like the eyes.
Other retinol side effects include tenderness, extreme photo-sensitivity (sensitivity to light) blistering, and inflammation.
Kind of makes you want to think twice before putting that stuff on your face, right?
Now, I'm all for retinol anti wrinkle creams -- when used properly, I know that they can have great effects, if
you can get over that first round of peeling and pain.
However, it is so important to only use an amount prescribed by a dermatologist, and to not slather it on. More is not better, in this case; in fact, more could send you to the hospital.
So get rid of your wrinkles, by all means, but just be smart about it.
I have been using a retinol 0.5 percent refining night cream for about three months now, and it doesn't seem to be doing anything for me.
Should I switch to a stronger type of retinol skin cream, or should I try a different brand? I'm not really up on the ins and outs of retinol products, but I really want to start getting rid of my wrinkles before they good too serious.
I usually moisturize my face at night, so if somebody could tell me what the best night cream with retinol is, I would totally appreciate it. Any retinol face cream is OK, it doesn't have to be night cream, but I'd prefer a night cream, if anybody knows of one.
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Singapore-based artist Keng Lye's latest series of goldfish paintings in layers of resin. Inspired by the work of Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori, Lye continues to push the boundaries of his technique by incorporating different materials to make his goldfishes and other animals appear life-like. He bases his works on everyday objects and what he sees around him—from a weathered wooden box to a patch of thick moss. He alternates layers of acrylic paint and resin to make them appear so realistic that he has often been accused of animal cruelty. He states:
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Gallery of Evidence
Shortly after the core columns under the East Penthouse
of WTC 7 collapsed, the rest of the building
collapsed mostly into its footprint in about 7
seconds — near free-fall speed.
Taken from the FEMA report, Fig. 5-26, this
photographic evidence begs to question why WTC 7
imploded when WTC 6 and WTC 5 were closer to the
Twin Towers and more
heavily damaged by falling debris, yet, their structures
FEMA report states: "The collapse of WTC 7 had
a small debris field as the facade was pulled downward,
suggesting an internal failure and implosion...
the building so that it collapses straight down into
its own footprint requires such skill that only a
handful of demolition companies in the world will
Kamal S. Obeid, structural engineer, with a masters degree in
Engineering from UC Berkeley, of Fremont, California, says:
"Photos of the steel, evidence about how the buildings collapsed,
the unexplainable collapse of WTC 7, evidence of thermite in the
debris as well as several other red flags, are quite troubling
indications of well planned and controlled demolition"
Ronald H. Brookman, structural engineer, with a masters degree
in Engineering from UC Davis, of Novato California, writes:
"Why would all 110 stories drop straight down to the ground
in about 10 seconds, pulverizing the contents into dust and ash
- twice. Why would all 47 stories of WTC 7 fall straight down
to the ground in about seven seconds the same day? It was not
struck by any aircraft or engulfed in any fire. An independent
investigation is justified for all three collapses including the
surviving steel samples and the composition of the dust."
Graham John Inman, structural engineer, of London, England, points
out: "WTC 7 Building could not have collapsed as a result
of internal fire and external debris. NO plane hit this building.
This is the only case of a steel frame building collapsing through
fire in the world. The fire on this building was small & localized
therefore what is the cause?"
Paul W. Mason, structural engineer, of Melbourne, Australia,
"In my view, the chances of the three buildings collapsing
symmetrically into their own footprint, at freefall speed, by
any other means than by controlled demolition, are so remote that
there is no other plausible explanation!"
"In my opinion WTC7 was with the utmost probability brought
down by controlled demolition done by experts" -Hugo Bachmann,
Professor emeritus for structural analysis and construction at
ETH and former Chairman of the Department of Structural Dynamics
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New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council v Minister Administering the Crown Lands Act (2016) 91 ALJR 177, 339 ALR 367
The royal prerogative has been the focus of attention lately with the UK Supreme Court’s controversial ruling in the Brexit Case 2 WLR 583. But closer to home, and of more relevance to Queensland, the High Court has also recently considered the royal prerogative as it relates to Crown lands in New South Wales Aboriginal Land Council v Minister Administering the Crown Lands Act (2016) 91 ALJR 177, 339 ALR 367.
The matter involved a claim by the NSW Aboriginal Land Council to land which had formerly been the site of the Berrima gaol. Under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1983 (NSW), the land could be claimed by the Land Council if it was ‘not lawfully used or occupied’. The Land Council argued that the land was not ‘occupied’ even though security guards were kept on-site, the buildings were locked, and on weekends offenders performed their community service by tending the gardens. In the alternative, the Land Council argued that even if the land was occupied, that occupation was not lawful as use and occupation of Crown lands requires statutory authorisation. This was because, so the argument went, the Crown’s prerogative or non-statutory executive power to use and occupy Crown lands had been abrogated by the New South Wales Constitution Act 1855 (Imp). Along with introducing responsible government to New South Wales, that Act provided in s 2 that ‘the entire Management and Control of the Waste Lands belonging to the Crown … shall be vested in the Legislature of the said Colony’.
The success or failure of the argument had direct relevance for Queensland. Upon separation from New South Wales in 1859, Queensland inherited similar provisions which remain in force today as ss 30 and 40 of the Constitution Act 1867 (Qld). It has always been understood that the State’s occupation of Crown lands is a matter of prerogative or non-statutory executive power. The Land Council’s argument would have inverted that understanding, with potentially significant implications for the management of Crown lands.
In the result, the High Court split 5:2. In a joint-judgment, French CJ, Kiefel, Bell and Keane JJ found that the land was in fact ‘occupied’ (at ). Writing separately, Gageler J came to the same conclusion (at ). Accordingly, their Honours had to decide the second question of whether that occupation of the land had to be authorised by legislation because of s 2 of the 1855 Constitution. Their Honours held that the purpose of s 2 was to devolve control over waste lands to the colonial parliament as distinct from the imperial parliament, rather than to vest control in parliament to the exclusion of the executive. The wider purpose of the 1855 Constitution was to bestow responsible government on the colony. By transferring control over waste lands from imperial authorities to the colonial legislature, the power of the colonial executive to deal with waste lands came under the superintendence of the colonial legislature (at, - (French CJ, Kiefel, Bell and Keane JJ), , (Gageler J). Accordingly, legislation is not required to occupy waste lands. But if legislation is passed, the executive must comply with it. It followed that the site of the former goal was being occupied – pursuant to the executive’s non-statutory power – and therefore could not be claimed by the Land Council.
In a dissenting judgment, Nettle and Gordon JJ, held that the land was not being occupied (at -). As a result, the question of whether occupation was or needed to be authorised by statute did not arise (at ).
The information in this publication is provided for general purposes only. It is not to be relied on as a substitute for legal advice. Crown Law and the Department of Justice and Attorney-General accept no liability for losses caused by reliance on the material in this publication. Formal legal advice should be obtained for particular matters.
Published: 8 June 2017
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Frost advisory: National Weather Service advises Hudson Valley residents to cover vegetation
Residents and farmers in the mid-Hudson Valley are advised to cover or bring in plants and vegetation before Tuesday night.
A frost advisory was issued for the area from 1 to 8 a.m. on Wednesday by the National Weather Service in Albany. Meteorologist Christina Speciale said Friday marked the first day of growing season for the Hudson Valley.
"Tonight we could see temperatures near freezing," Speciale said. "It could present some hazards or it could be harmful to plants."
The normal high temperature for the week is around 70 degrees. The weather service doesn't expect a high over 61 degrees this week.
Speciale said she doesn't anticipate another frost advisory during the week but that temperatures may drop to freezing this weekend.
"We are getting an air mass coming in on Friday and Saturday," she said. "It's very cool air coming from northern Canada.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
A headline in the Larimore Pioneer simply stated, “A Horrible Story,” and what followed was a gruesome accounting of an event that began with an accident, but grew into a tale of revenge and murder. On this date in 1884, a threshing crew was operating near Portland on the Goose River, in Traill County. As was usual on the threshing crew, when the bundles were brought in, the worker known as the band cutter would slice open the bundles and another member of the crew, known as the feeder, would pitch the bundle into a open chute that lead to the rotating blades on the cylinder of the threshing machine. But on this day, the band cutter accidently cut the hand of the feeder, who angrily snatched the knife and sliced open the abdomen of the band cutter. The band cutter, knowing he had only moments to live, grabbed his murderer and hurled him into the cylinder of the threshing machine where he was mangled beyond recognition. The band cutter died only a moment later.
The details of the event were reported to the editor of the Larimore Pioneer by a man who supposedly had come from the area, so it was very believable – but there were a few problems. In following up on the information, the editor of the Pioneer learned that although the event had supposedly taken place near Portland on December 11th, the people of Portland knew nothing of it. When further investigated, it was learned that the same story had appeared in the Bismarck Tribune and the St. Paul Pioneer Press a few months earlier.
So, the actual truth as to when and where the tragedy took place was never learned. However, there was a different tale being told, and which was given enough credibility that it had evolved into a poem written by Cecil E. Selwyn, an old-time resident of Manitoba. In this version, credited with happening in Cavalier County, the feeder on the threshing machine had cast a thirteen-year-old band cutter into the cylinder, and as a consequence, the other members of the crew hanged him. Lynching was a crime, so there would be a need to hide the facts to protect the crew. Although cloaked in secrecy, eventually, through guilt or loose talk, elements of the event had surfaced, giving rise to the tale, but one that always happened, supposedly, over in the next county.
Dakota Datebook written by Jim Davis
The Larimore Pioneer December 18, 1884
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WELCOME TO THE ALASKAN WALL, A PLACE WHERE YOU CAN PERMANENTLY LEAVE YOUR GOOD NAME IN ALASKA, ON THE SIDE OF THE HISTORIC IDITAROD TRAIL!
In 2001 I began the construction of a sturdy enclosure on my property a few feet from the historic Iditarod Trail in South central Alaska. The enclosure was built to protect the newly transplanted trees from the many meandering moose. I carved a few names upon the enclosure and as the number of names increased, I called the fence a wall, the Alaskan Wall! Since 2001 many, many names have been added to the wall. I have formed a non-profit corporation called the Alaskan Gardens. This non-profit is a legitimate organization that is actively focused on a re-forestry program in Alaska, and oversees the two enclosures which protect a wide variety of migratory birds. If you would like to add a name to the Alaskan Wall, send me a message, and I'll make it happen, and we'll plant another tree as well! And on a final note, while your contribution to the Alaskan Gardens is much appreciated (and will be fully used for the benefit of the environment), you can also do your part to help the earth in a small but significant way, such as by planting a tree, using less plastic, traveling less, spaying or neutering your dogs and cats, putting out a bird feeder, spending quality time with a child and being a righteous citizen of the earth! Make it a Great Day! | <urn:uuid:c67cde5e-3811-47fe-8b7d-47112a4a35ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://goodmorningwisconsin.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.941724 | 340 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Chanca piedra (Phyllanthus niruri) is a South American herb that has been traditionally used to help pass gallbladder and kidney stones. In fact, the English translation for chanca piedra is ‘stone crusher.' Best of all, recent scientific evidence validates its historical use.
Not all gallstones and kidney stones are created equal, and there are many factors involved in their formation including: genetics (hereditary), age, gender, and diet. Chanca Piedra has been found to be of value in stones formed from calcium oxalate. Generally speaking, about 25% of all gallstones have calcium oxalate as a base and approximately 80% of kidney stones are derived form calcium oxalate.
How does it work?
As it turns out the traditional healers of Peru were not far off when they coined the name ‘stone crusher.’ A 2006 study conducted in Brazil suggests that the therapeutic effect of Chanca Piedra may be due to its ability to modify the shape and texture of calculi (stones) to a smoother and probably more fragile form, which could contribute to elimination and/or dissolution of stones.
In Traditional Chinese medicine the kidney is considered the mother organ. Blockages of energy or Qi may result in harmful toxins accumulating in the body. Headaches, back pain, low energy, and puffiness in the face or legs may be triggered by kidney congestion.
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November 23, 2005
Reports on the November 16 Protest in Brooklyn
At least in New York City, the November 16 protests against military recruitment seem to have achieved their goal. The shuttered gates at the Flatbush Avenue recruiting stations suggested that the military is willing to cut and run from at least some battles.
November 22, 2005
Vanity Fair: The Recruiter's War
I've been xeroxing and faxing this article for weeks. Either because I missed it or because they don't post it until the issue is off the newsstands, I've only just found this September 2005 Vanity Fair article, The Recruiters' War. It doesn't have much to say about counter-recruiting, but it makes it very clear just how thin the recruiters are stretched and how far they will go to satisfy their superiors' demands.
November 18, 2005
Just got this in the inbox...
CALLING ALL REVOLUTIONARY RECORDING ARTISTS
Spoken Word Poets
Rappers/Hip hop artists
Use Your Voice to Say No to the U.S Military and its recruitment of our youth!!!!!
El Puente Center for Peace & Justice in Bushwick is producing a CD compilation of music and spoken word demanding an end to U.S military expansion.
The CD will be used to educate youth about the destructive impact of U.S militarization on our community and abroad.
All music and spoken word submissions must be good quality on CD. Include you name, contact information, and title of the song.
Deadline is December 9th . A submission does not guarantee spot on the compilation.
For more information contact Piper Anderson at 718-452-0404 or via e-mail email@example.com
November 17, 2005
Not Your Soldier Day of Action
A press release from the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
November 17, 2005
Lovella Calica, 989-621-1934
Emily Pollack, 908-499-1350
Not Your Soldier Day of Action erupts on over 40 campuses nationwide Students across the country to protest military recruitment in schools, call for end of war on Iraq
New York, NY - With a growing majority of the American public opposing the war on Iraq and President George Bush's approval rating hitting an all time low, students and young people are joining forces with veterans, military families, clergy, and others for a national day of protest on International Students Day, November 17.
The Not Your Soldier Day of Action is the first nationally coordinated mobilization by young people against military recruitment in our schools. From New York to Los Angeles, Milwaukee to Austin, students are holding rallies, teach-ins, marches and walk outs with the theme of "Books Not
Bombs" to protest military recruitment practices and the war on Iraq. There will also be events in Puerto Rico, Mexico and Colombia.
"This war is having a devastating impact on our generation and our education," said Emily Pollack, a student at Rutgers University in New Jersey. "The occupation is costing $7 billion per month while the House of Representatives votes next week on the largest cut to student loans in the history of these federal programs, over $14 billion!" The Not Your Soldier Day of Action will amplify the voices of the millennium generation who are saying no military recruiters in schools. At Hicksville High School in New York students will walkout during lunch. Washington, DC- area students will reach rush-hour federal employees with the message of "Stop the Assault on Youth." On Friday, in Colorado Springs, CO, Iraq Veterans Against the War will march to a recruiting center. "This day of action is calling attention to the predatory recruitment of low-income youth and youth of color by the US military," said Camilo Mejia, a conscientious objector and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War. "While it is people like me, who want job training and education, who have risked our lives in Iraq, it is Bush's
cronies at Bechtel and Halliburton who profit every day from our service in this unfounded war."
A list of Not Your Soldier Day of Action events is online at: www.nyspc.net. The Not Your Soldier Day of Action is organized by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) and the Not Your Soldier Project. NYSPC is organizing around the country to take back our future and build the Books Not Bombs agenda for youth and students.
November 09, 2005
College Not Combat in SF
The November 8th elections brought another 4 years of Republican Michael Bloomberg to New Yorkers. Across the country, San Francisco voters struck a blow against military recruiting. Voters there approved a ballot measure urging the city's "public high schools and college campuses to keep out military recruiters." According to the Associated Press:
Measure I, dubbed "College Not Combat," opposes the presence of military recruiters at public high schools and colleges. However, it would not ban the armed forces from seeking enlistees at city campuses, since that would put schools at risk of losing federal funding.
Instead, Proposition I encourages city officials and university administrators to exclude recruiters and create scholarships and training programs that would reduce the military's appeal to young adults.
"We now have the moral weight of the city behind us, and it's definitely a valuable asset to have in our corner," said Bob Matthews, a College Not Combat activist, adding that the victory would help put pressure on the government to someday institute an actual ban on campus military recruiting. | <urn:uuid:0a15637d-7911-4f65-b304-e93ad47cffbd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rncwatch.typepad.com/counterrecruiter/2005/11/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00456-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942404 | 1,153 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The pretreatment of concrete rapid chloride migration coefficient (RCM) method in different standard is different in China. However the influence of pretreatment on the experimental result is uncertain, which leads to poor comparability about the results between different standards and trouble in evaluating the durability of concrete structures. The influence of the pretreatment on the chloride diffusion coefficient was studied by contrastive method. On the base of the results a suitable pretreatment of RCM method was proposed. The results are as followings: (1) the influence of pretreatment on the chloride migration coefficient of concrete with 0.45 W/B is insignificant. The influence of pretreatment on the chloride migration coefficient of concrete with other W/B is significant, and the influence increase with the lower w/b.; (2) the chloride diffusion coefficient will increase after the ultrasonic bath and vacuum saturation, and the influence of the ultrasonic bath is larger. Considering the judgment to the durability of structure, the ultrasonic bath and the vacuum saturation are suggested to be used; (3) on the condition of the same anode and cathode solution, the chloride diffusion coefficient in accordance with JTG / T B07-01-2006 standard is usually higher than that in accordance with GB/T50082-2009 standard; (4) the relationship of the chloride diffusion coefficient between mortar and concrete specimens is uncertain under different proportion and curing system, so the mortar specimens can not replace the concrete specimens for the RCM method. | <urn:uuid:2cccb4cc-8359-4258-8728-567f8e6f216d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scientific.net/KEM.477.382 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00065-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918089 | 298 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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For those who’ve by no means regarded it, car insurance policy reductions are a terrific way to save money and stay green. Several new autos have safety capabilities including airbags and anti-lock brakes that will minimize your rates. You may also get more reductions for having safety capabilities within your motor vehicle, including daytime functioning lights or anti-theft alarms. Spending your high quality in complete yearly may also take out payment concerns for 12 months. The truth is, about half of insurers provide a discount for this sort of payment.
You may also be eligible for reductions when you’ve experienced your plan for various years. These reductions range with regards to the length of time you’ve got experienced your plan, but quite a few firms provide reductions for currently being loyal to their clients. You may well be eligible for a discount of just as much as 15% if you buy your plan at the very least 7 times in advance of your renewal day. In addition to these reductions, some firms even provide reductions to Individuals in certain occupations. For example, instructors obtain ten% off their rates from Liberty Mutual. Navy personnel get a 15% price cut from Geico.
Have you been a young driver in search of car insurance policy low cost rates? Here are a few recommendations you are able to follow to save cash on car insurance policy protection: Boosting your deductibles, obtaining a no statements price cut, and obtaining a plan by using a regional insurance provider. The following pointers can save you many hundreds of dollars yearly with your car insurance policy plan. They also allow you to get the lowest fees possible. Continue reading to determine far more. You may be happy you did!
Youthful motorists can save money on car insurance policy by driving far more properly, lowering the amount of miles they travel, and letting the insurance provider track their driving behaviors. You may also minimize your rates by shopping all around for car insurance policy. Several insurers demand a better price for young motorists, so it is vital to shop all around. Luckily, there are totally free on the net estimate comparison resources which make this quick. Moreover, you are able to request a discount In case you have multiple autos and possess them insured by the exact same firm.
When searching for a plan, Ensure that you Review multiple rates and select the finest worth and top quality. You may also try to find an insurance policy agent who’ll improve with you, permitting you to make adjustments as your driving historical past adjustments. Ensure you Review guidelines that provide equivalent kinds of protection, as deductibles and restrictions could make a big big difference. If you’re a young driver, It’s also wise to get plenty of protection to stay away from monetary catastrophe.
Obtaining a no statements price cut on motor vehicle deal with is a terrific way to save money with your rates, and it could be worthy of inquiring your insurance provider how to use it. With regards to the insurance provider, the price cut could be worthy of between thirty% after a 12 months to approximately 65% following five years. Understand that In case you have a mishap, you’ll reduce two years of no statements reward. Moreover, multiple statements may also wipe out all of your current no statements reward. It truly is essential to notify your insurance provider straight away of any mishaps that you’ve got, as failing to take action could indicate that long term statements will likely be rejected.
Most insurers provide no statements price cut safety to get a charge of all around PS25. It enables you to make a specific quantity of statements per year with no stressing about your rates likely up. It is additionally possible to include it to a whole new plan In case you have a no statements reward. Moreover, you are able to transfer your no statements price cut to a different insurance provider if you want. To keep your no statements price cut, you’ll want to consider switching companies yearly or two.
When searching for a low cost motor vehicle insurance policy estimate, increasing your deductibles is a terrific way to get reduce rates. Some estimates say you can save involving 15 and thirty p.c with your high quality by increasing your deductibles. These cost savings will vary commonly depending on your driving historical past, the type of motor vehicle you travel, plus your state’s regulations. Boosting your deductibles may reduce your yearly high quality by approximately forty%.
While increasing your deductible is not the right choice for everyone, it will let you help save A large number of dollars about the long term. While the quantity you select to boost your deductible will depend upon your monetary problem, specialists propose preserving at the very least two months’ worthy of of residing expenses. Also, it can reduce your insurance policy costs monthly. You will also help save a significant sum of money when you ever produce a claim.
Obtaining a plan by using a regional insurance provider could be beneficial for motorists by using a lousy credit history historical past. It can save you funds each month with your month-to-month insurance policy Invoice, and you can benefit from reductions and outstanding customer care. Obtaining a plan by using a regional insurance provider is obtainable in all 50 states, and you can Review fees by state to locate the lowest fees. Having said that, it is necessary to note that it may well have a couple months to boost your credit history rating, and several motorists by using a lousy credit history historical past can wind up having to pay about $four hundred a 12 months.
Erie Coverage is an additional regional insurance provider that offers low cost car insurance policy. This firm is based in Pennsylvania, and is in company due to the fact 1925. Erie features car insurance policy, existence, and property insurance policy. Despite the fact that Erie only supplies protection in certain states, it has much more than 13,000 independent insurance policy agents during the United States. You may pick an agent or possibly a regional insurance provider according to your needs. Having said that, it is suggested that you browse all fantastic print before making a choice.
If you’re a significant-hazard driver, you have to Review motor vehicle insurance policy rates and discover The most affordable plan for your needs. It’s also advisable to have a look at just how much protection is obtainable close to you so you can figure out if a reduce price is achievable. It would be far more very affordable to invest in far more protection In case you have reduce hazard or if you settle for a better deductible. Everything depends upon your needs. Luckily, there are plenty of options available to you.
For those who are searching for The most affordable motor vehicle insurance policy estimate for prime-hazard motorists, you are in luck. You can certainly discover one by using a couple clicks online. The net can present you with a variety of rates for protection in a portion of the expense of regular motor vehicle insurance policy. Not simply that, nevertheless it may also make signing up for insurance policy a great deal a lot easier. All You must do is fill out a simple on the net variety, fork out your high quality, and you’re done! The insurance provider will then print you a card as evidence within your insurance policy protection and you will have a plan to the street.
In case you have a lousy credit history historical past, you are regarded a significant-hazard driver by quite a few insurance policy firms. This is due to you are more likely to file an insurance policy claim than the usual driver with fantastic credit history. Your credit history rating is really a Consider how insurance policy firms check out you, and a earlier DUI/DWI will raise your high quality by just as much as 65%. This is certainly reminiscent of an extra $477 with a 6-month plan. One more aspect that insurers consider is your driving historical past. A DUI/DWI can raise your high quality by just as much as $174, and a dashing ticket can increase approximately about 45%.
In case you have a DUI with your history, you are able to pick The most affordable car insurance policy company. Corporations including State Farm, American Relatives, and Progressive have some fantastic options that provide reduce rates for prime-hazard motorists. They also consider your credit history rating when figuring out your high quality. Insurers consider these components when selecting just how much you fork out to your plan. A lousy credit history rating may cause insurance policy fees to skyrocket, so It really is critical to be aware of your credit history rating before making a choice.
There are a variety of components to take into account When selecting The most affordable car insurance policy for young motorists. Your age and marital position play a big role within your car insurance policy fees. The sort of motor vehicle you travel may additionally have an effect with your high quality. For instance, significant-general performance vehicles are typically dearer to insure than reduced-general performance vehicles. For that reason, the initial step to find The most affordable motor vehicle insurance policy for young motorists is to locate a motor vehicle with various safety capabilities.
A terrific way to reduce the expense of motor vehicle insurance policy for young motorists will be to reduce the protection you would like. Several insurers provide reductions when you are a very good pupil, or if you are in driver training. Having said that, decreasing your protection could result in enormous out-of-pocket expenses In case you have a mishap. For that reason, you’ll want to weigh the pitfalls of this option very carefully, and normally err to the side of finding better worth.
Youngsters have a challenging time securing low cost car insurance policy. While the expense of a plan to get a sixteen-12 months-old driver is way bigger than that of an Grownup, it might be reduced by adding a teenager to an current plan. This selection boosts fees by a median of $one,461 a 12 months, but is frequently cheaper than obtaining a separate plan. Furthermore, when you are a young driver, try to find reductions as well as other methods to save lots of.
The expense of car insurance policy may differ commonly depending on your profile, which may indicate that you should shop all around for The most affordable insurance policy for reduced-hazard motorists. Insurers consider a variety of components when selecting on an insurance policy plan, which includes your driving history, demographics, and Total hazard stage. Outlined beneath are the 5 most vital components to take into account when comparing insurance policy rates. Understand that reduce insurance policy fees Do not indicate that you’ve got to sacrifice top quality.
To begin with, consider your zip code. Those people in significant-crime parts will face bigger fees. Also, insurance policy firms just take website traffic quantity into consideration. Also, make sure you do not have any mishaps or statements with your history, as these will raise your rates. Last of all, Remember the fact that you’ll want to Review rates just about every six months to stay away from having to pay much more than You must. It’s also advisable to consider obtaining a multi-plan price cut if you’ve got more than one plan with a specific insurance provider.
While credit history scores are not legally utilized by insurers in a few states, They are even now crucial concerns when comparing car insurance policy fees. In Hawaii, motorists with lousy credit history pays 168% much more than similar cleanse motorists. In Massachusetts, significant-hazard motorists fork out thirty% much more than cleanse motorists. For brand spanking new motorists, a DUI, dashing ticket, and bad credit history will boost fees much more than Some others. Be sure to acquire a number of rates before making a choice.
The zip code you live in is A significant Consider the expense of insurance policy. If you live in a region with significant crime and accident fees, you are able to hope to pay for far more for insurance policy rates. Also, components like website traffic quantity and accident historical past can raise the expense of insurance policy. Most insurance policy firms also investigate a driver’s driving historical past to determine what price they should demand for his or her plan. Generally, motorists by using a lousy driving historical past fork out far more for protection than Individuals by using a cleanse driving history.
Car or truck insurance policy has risen by $50 – $one hundred in the final five years, as health and fitness treatment costs are expanding. Drivers can also be necessary to have uninsured and PIP insurance policy, which happen to be above-normal state needs. Several states only have to have legal responsibility insurance policy, but Ny requires motorists to carry both. These optional coverages raise the expense of insurance policy, and can usually raise the complete high quality. Last of all, motorists should really Test their protection restrictions, as some guidelines have a reduce least quantity of protection than Some others.
In Ny, the common individual spends two.8 p.c in their earnings on motor vehicle insurance policy, which happens to be slightly bigger in comparison to the nationwide normal of two.forty p.c. Persons inside their 30s, 40s, and 50s pays slightly less than the common. The 70+ age group pays bigger rates than motorists with less driving experience. Those who are married pays slightly bigger rates, but nonetheless reduce than single people today.
As well as reduce fees, motorists may just take defensive driving classes. These courses are 320 minutes in size, and consist of conversations of driver Perspective and website traffic regulations. They also train defensive driving methods that could substantially minimize the expense of insurance policy. They may aid to further improve their driving history, so finishing a system can reduce the price of an auto insurance policy estimate. Having said that, when you are Uncertain about the exact protection you would like, you are able to Test While using the Coverage Info Institute.
While gas costs range by state, the expense of an auto insurance policy estimate in other states could be bigger or reduce than your individual. Some components could account for this, which includes The share of uninsured motorists, state insurance policy regulations, and the rate of theft. Also, the incidence of bad temperature can change the expense of insurance policy in various states. The next desk demonstrates normal motor vehicle insurance policy rates in various states. These estimates are based upon a comparison of state insurance policy needs.
Missouri is The most affordable state for complete-protection car insurance policy, having to pay just $944 less than Louisiana. Moreover, this state has among the lowest costs for each capita, and is ranked fifth in terms of expense of residing. In contrast, Texas motorists fork out the most for his or her motor vehicle insurance policy, having to pay just as much as 33% in their yearly earnings in complete. This disparity could be as a result of the fact that the state has a significant quantity of uninsured motorists and many lawsuits.
The nationwide normal for complete protection car insurance policy is $one,771 a 12 months. The state with the most costly insurance policy high quality is Louisiana, by using a high quality of $two,839, a 19% boost from 2020. Conversely, Maine’s normal insurance policy high quality is only $858. This is due to no-fault states have bigger insurance policy rates. The expense of an auto insurance policy plan in other states can vary noticeably. There are plenty of components to take into account, which includes your state’s regulations on insurance policy.
For those who are searching for significant-hazard driver motor vehicle insurance policy around me, you may well be thinking ways to get a reduced-Price plan. Substantial-hazard motorists fork out bigger insurance policy rates than normal motorists. This is due to they have a tendency to get far more mishaps or violations on their own history. With regards to the state, the limit could possibly be three years or five years. Occasionally, you can get reductions if you are taking a driver safety system.
While the nationwide averages for prime-hazard driver motor vehicle insurance policy around me are quite dependable, you’ll discover that rates range wildly from state to state. Some firms alter their fees to distinctive states, so if you live in a specific state, it’s possible you’ll find that one insurance provider features you the ideal protection to get a reduced price tag. The most affordable significant-hazard driver motor vehicle insurance policy around me comes from State Farm, that has a protracted-standing popularity for giving outstanding service.
The ultimate way to locate a significant-hazard driver motor vehicle insurance policy around me will be to enter your ZIP code and Review rates. The cost of significant-hazard motor vehicle insurance policy around me can differ from state to state, but most big insurers provide this kind of protection. A few of these firms specialise in significant-hazard protection, including Countrywide Typical. You might even be capable of finding a cheaper plan In case you have fantastic grades and a reduced-hazard motor vehicle.
There are plenty of benefits of comparing motor vehicle insurance policy firms. On this page, We are going to focus on a number of the most important capabilities, including ratings, reductions, and customer care. Choosing the finest plan is important for your safety and safety, so make time to compare different guidelines from distinctive firms. By the time you complete looking through this post, you’ll need an idea of which insurance provider features the ideal protection at the lowest Price. Here are some ways to select the right one in your case:
To get the finest price, you’ll want to Review motor vehicle insurance policy rates from distinctive firms. Insurers use quite a few components to determine the expense of insurance policy. You will need to identify your specific desires and Review costs from various companies. For instance, sports activities autos can Price far more to insure than common autos. Moreover, your locality and driving historical past may have an impact on the fees that you are quoted. By using a comparison Software, you could find the lowest price on the exact same protection While using the very same deductibles.
Coverage rates will vary noticeably, so it truly is critical to understand how Each individual plan is effective. One of the components that have an impact on rates are driving historical past, age, and credit history historical past. You may also Review the perks that each firm features, including roadside help or accident forgiveness. Despite the fact that this will likely seem like a frightening endeavor, it can help to compare rates from distinctive companies and select the right one. Outlined beneath are a few ways to get you begun.
With regards to comparing car insurance policy firms, it is advisable to begin with the J.D. Electricity motor vehicle insurance provider ratings. These are definitely based upon purchaser gratification surveys that study A large number of car insurance policy clients nationwide. The outcome are compiled into numerical scores that depict the companies’ normal purchaser gratification rating. These rankings are released annually, and the ideal motor vehicle insurance policy firms in Each individual classification are awarded gold medals. But how Did you know if the companies you are thinking about are any fantastic?
There are plenty of methods to evaluate the monetary energy of motor vehicle insurance policy firms. For starters, you are able to Test the AM Very best insurance provider rating, which supplies monetary balance scores for motor vehicle insurance policy firms. Whether the motor vehicle insurance provider has an A, B, C, or File rating, it is vital to know the way stable it truly is in advance of picking a plan. This is a vital element of customer care, so you’ll want to browse the opinions and browse the fantastic print before making a choice.
Car or truck insurance policy firms provide a variety of reductions. Several of such reductions is probably not obtainable for everyone, so it is vital to examine the corporation website to ensure you qualify to the reductions that apply for you. Some firms provide multiple reductions, and you can also inquire your insurance policy agent If they’re eligible for virtually any certain price cut. Having said that, the method is not difficult and sometimes can take less than one hour. Underneath are a few samples of possible motor vehicle insurance policy reductions.
Legacy Special discounts: A car or truck insurance provider could provide a discount to new motorists who buy their plan via their dad and mom’ firm. This price cut is mostly all around ten p.c. This is certainly one way to thank your dad and mom for your business through the years, and it can save you funds on your vehicle insurance policy protection. Several firms provide legacy reductions to young motorists, and It really is worthy of checking to determine if your insurance provider features one. You may also investigate guidelines provided by American Relatives, Farmers, or USAA.
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Your credit history-based insurance policy rating is really a beneficial indicator of just how much hazard you might be very likely to pose, but you should not let it dictate your fees. The federal govt would not enable insurers to use your credit history historical past as the only real basis for a rise in your fees. Having said that, states including California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Utah, and Vermont have regulations in position that limit insurers from making use of credit history historical past to determine insurance policy fees.(could help save)(new motor vehicle)(car claim)
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Several components impact the expense of motor vehicle insurance policy reductions, which includes age. Age influences your price by much more than thirty p.c, and in a few states, a young driver pays Virtually 4 times just as much as a thirty-12 months-old. Inexperience is an additional key aspect, as young young adults are more likely to enter into mishaps. By comprehending what components have an impact on your rates, you are able to negotiate reduce costs for yourself. Outlined beneath are a lot of the ways that age influences your vehicle insurance policy.
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Many people have heard the terms 3D laser scanning, 3D Surveying, or High Definition Surveying, but exactly what do those terms mean? Do they mean the same thing? What is it all about? Is it magic? Smoke and mirrors? Not exactly. Indeed, mirrors are involved, but this is definitely no illusion. To me, all of the above terms can be used to describe the same cutting edge surveying technique. Throughout this blog I’ll refer to the term High Definition Surveying (HDS).
HDS is a non-invasive method of collecting data. Narrow beam lasers capture positional data at speeds of up to hundreds of thousands of points per second, at an accuracy within several millimeters. Along with the scan data, 360° digital photographs are also acquired of every site. In the office the resulting dense “point cloud” can be viewed and transformed into a three dimensional model of the site. Taken together, this data provides a highly accurate digital record of the site, with a point density simply unavailable through other methods.
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Those are huge steps for a small child, aren’t they? The thing is that it is only by moving from one step to the next that they will get to the end of the path. The stones are put in place by others. The child can follow those big stones and get to the destination.
There is a gap between those stones. A gap that they need to either jump across or take a much bigger step to cross. It is easier to walk across those big stones but the challenge is the gap. It is relatively easy to walk over the large stones.
Those small stones are really quite tricky. Your feet can get stuck between the small stones.
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