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What makes a person stand out? What is the joie de vivre that they may have? It doesn't matter what gender you are. There are a few elements that can be identified: posture, presence, body language and approachability. Posture + Body Language + Approachability = Positive Presence
2. Why is this important to your presence? Presence and body language tells a story worth 1000 words, it is clues that your body gives to how you are feeling and the vision you want display in certain situations such as:
Job interviews, leadership roles, social situations, networking, at work, customer service.
Carol Kinsey Gorman from Forbes.com describes body language this way 'ability to inspire and positively impact people,' however "people are 'subliminally evaluating your credibility, confidence, empathy, and trustworthiness.' We are all evaluating, whether we are aware of it or not, then what people say, how they say it and how well they listen to us. | <urn:uuid:09f0e42c-8639-4108-b50d-d11c078af3cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://auersmont.com/blog/etiquette-for-a-lady-10-points-in-elegance-grace-class | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.921849 | 224 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Golden staph (Staphylococcus aureus) was thought to be a single, well-defined species—until a recent Darwin discovery showing that bacteria with golden staph characteristics are actually three distinct species.
Several years ago Menzies School of Health Research scientists began to notice a genetically unusual golden staph causing skin infections in Aboriginal children.
That led to two new species of the staphylococcus bacteria being described and accepted as valid. One of these is a silvery, un-pigmented strain, S. argenteus.
This ‘silver staph’ has now been found in human infections around the world. So far the other species, S. schweitzeri, has only been found in bats and non-human primates in Africa.
The discovery was made by Phil Giffard, Steven Tong and Deborah Holt of the Menzies School of Health Research, working with the UK Sanger Institute and Germany’s University Hospital Münster.
“This work has completely changed the understanding of the diversity and natural history of one of the most important pathogens of humans,” Phil says.
“It has clear potential in contributing to the development of new therapeutic agents and managing antibiotic resistance.”
Phil and his team have found the newly discovered strains can become resistant to certain antibiotics by swapping genes with golden staph.
They are now conducting large-scale genetic comparisons of the three species to understand the links between genetic make-up and the potential to cause disease and acquire antibiotic resistance. | <urn:uuid:e62585bf-2107-4e47-880a-84e576018e6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stories.scienceinpublic.com.au/2015/golden-staph-three-species-not-one/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.946791 | 319 | 3.765625 | 4 |
In the brain, a handful of bustling hubs routinely handle heavy volumes of messages. In many cases, these key transit centers and the brain areas affected by brain disorders are one and the same, scientist report June 19 in Brain.
The results highlight the importance of studying connections between nerve cells as well as discrete brain regions, an approach that may reveal a deeper understanding of the human mind (SN: 2/22/14, p. 22), says Nicolas Crossley, a neuroscientist at King’s College London.
With message-sending fibrils called axons, nerve cells in the brain form a complex web of connections that scientists call the connectome. Some parts of this web, called hubs, are especially rich in axons, both coming in and going out.
Computer simulations have suggested that these hubs are mission critical. When certain hubs or their connections are damaged in the simulations, the results are catastrophic for the entire brain (SN Online: 2/17/14).
Crossley and colleagues wanted to know whether people with brain disorders might also show signs of damaged hubs. To find brain regions implicated in brain disorders, the researchers analyzed published data that included nearly 10,000 patients with 26 brain disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, depression, autism and schizophrenia. Crossley and colleagues then compared the regions associated with these disorders with a composite map of a healthy brain’s connections, which the team created from diffusion tensor imaging scans of 56 volunteers. Diffusion tensor imaging indicates the strength and shape of bundles of axons in the brain.
Overall, regions implicated in brain disorders were more likely to be highly connected hubs than to be sleepier, out-of-the-way brain regions, the researchers found. Disorders didn’t all affect the same set of hubs. The regions implicated in Alzheimer’s disease were distinct from the hubs implicated in schizophrenia, for instance.
Hubs may have an outsized role in brain disorders for any of several reasons, the authors propose. Because of their high work load, hubs may require more energy than other brain regions. They also have longer connections. These features may render hubs particularly susceptible to damage, the authors suggest. Alternatively, damage to a hub might cause more problems than damage elsewhere, resulting in brain impairment.
The new study has “direct relevance to our understanding of major brain disorders,” says neuroscientist John Van Horn of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. The link between disorders and highly connected hubs may help explain why some brain injuries appear small but can have big consequences, while other injuries appear disastrous but prove relatively benign.
Still, Van Horn cautions that the dataset used to compile the brain areas associated with disorders may be skewed. The data are based on published results, and scientists are more likely to publish results that pinpoint a connection between a disorder and a brain area than results that fail to find one. That effect might overestimate the importance of certain brain regions, Van Horn says. | <urn:uuid:b2ca3b1a-aa23-47fe-969f-44e90079c849> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sciencenews.org/article/busy-brain-hubs-go-awry-disorders-study-suggests?mode=topic&context=69 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.940931 | 610 | 3.125 | 3 |
ACS: Federal Drug Sentencing Policy in the Age of Obama
- School of Law Moot Court Room
Congress began to re-examine its approach to the “War on Drugs” in 2010 when it passed the Fair Sentencing Act, which pulled back from mandatory minimum sentences. The panelists will discuss many issues surrounding this topic, including possible alternatives to incarceration and whether mandatory minimum sentences are useful.
Judge Andre Davis, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit
Mythili Raman, acting assistant attorney general, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Julie Stewart, president, Families Against Mandatory Minimums
Moderator: Professor David Jaros
This event is sponsored by the ACS Student Chapter at the University of Baltimore School of Law.
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Allen, Tom (2010) 'Liberalism, social democracy and the value of property under the European Convention on Human Rights.', International and comparative law quarterly., 59 (4). pp. 1055-1078.
In most of Europe, expropriation must comply with the standards set under European human rights law. Article 1 of the First Protocol (‘P1-1’) to the European Convention on Human Rights declares that ‘every natural or legal person is entitled to the peaceful enjoyment of his possessions.’ The European Court of Human Rights has stated that the right would be ‘largely illusory and ineffective’ if it did not guarantee full compensation in all but exceptional circumstances. It is quite clear, however, that this was not the belief of at least some of the States that had signed it when it came into force in 1954. P1-1 makes no reference to compensation. An interference must be lawful, and in the public or general interest, but there is nothing that expressly requires compensation. Nevertheless, the Court has declared that any interference with the right to the peaceful enjoyment of possessions must strike a ‘‘fair balance’ between the demands of the general interest of the community and the requirements of the protection of the individual's fundamental rights’, and this means that expropriation without compensation that is reasonably related to the value of the property would normally violate the owner's rights under P1-1.
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Have you ever wondered why you blurt out responses that create problems for you later? Or did you know that your experiences are carried first to the thalmus, where they are sorted and sent as data to different areas of the brain for your response?
Simply put, when you see, touch, taste or experience any situation, information may go to the cortex for rational thought and consideration. Or data may jettison to that tiny area, deep in your brain, called the amygdala.
Interestingly you have already stored reactions in the amygdala, which is why some people gently swish a bothersome hornet away, while others swish dishes off a table in fear. Either way, the amygdala tends to act quickly and rather instinctively, whenever stored responses get sparked through daily experiences. It also releases chemicals such as serotonin or cortisol into the blood, to trigger often unwanted emotional response.
On one hand amygdala responses are good since it moves you off the road if a mac truck barrels around the corner. On the other hand though, untamed amygdalas are dangerous. How so? If you’ve ever taken offense at another person’s words and lashed back without thought of the consequences, you can thank your amygdala for lost relationships, fleeing opportunities, or regrets that can last a lifetime. | <urn:uuid:1a0050b9-6dcb-41a8-8243-2217f2ce83c4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.brainleadersandlearners.com/amygdala/amygdala-takes-time-to-process-data/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00071-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943348 | 264 | 2.84375 | 3 |
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MANAGING THE WOODY BIOMASS FEEDSTOCK: The Past Century in Review
Foresters and timberland managers have successfully managed the renewable natural resource, presently termed woody biomass, in the United States over the past century meeting consumer demand without exhausting supply.
At the turn of the 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt warned Congress, with subsequent hyperbole appearing in New York Times headlines, that "a timber famine is inevitable.” Mr. Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief of the United States Forest Service, echoed the sentiment by proclaiming, "In twenty years the timber supply in the United States on Government reserves and private holdings, at the present rate of cutting, will be exhausted.” The timber famine or scarcity never happened, despite the increased consumer demand placed on our Nation’s timber resources through the roaring twenties, post-World War II boom and other high growth periods.
By Joshua Kane Harrell, CF
Regional Investment Forester, Forest Investment Associates
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The 70-year old arrived here after a string of personal tragedy struck while living inside Tibet. A nun from the age of 16, her parents both died at a young age before her lone sibling was killed at the hands of the Chinese army. She later developed a serious illness and her community could not adequately care for her while also resisting China's reckless destruction of nunneries and monasteries.
She nursed herself back to health, and when she fully regained her strength, she fled Tibet for Nepal, staying with her religious community there until leaving for Dharamshala more than 20 years ago.
No longer a nun, Ms. Sonam soon cultivated a number of devotees herself. When she had food to spare, she would offer her scraps to strays. Mcleod's canine community quickly learned of her generosity and her pack steadily grew, once reaching as many as 45 mongrels. That staggering figure has fallen over the past few years, as she suspects some died due to poisoning and others in leopard attacks. "I don't know how many I have now," she said outside the scattered one-room apartment where she sleeps with her charges.
Those that remain are well looked after. Certainly their place is hardly a palace and the every inch in the tight space they all share has some kind of clutter, but it does serve to protect the pooches from somewhat regular roundups of strays. The dogs' diet sometimes even includes intestines and offal bought from a butcher in Lower Dharamsala. And they never lack for attention, with Ms. Sonam always attending to spots that the dogs can't scratch.
Though fiercely independent, both Ms. Sonam and her four-legged friends do sometimes rely on the generosity of others to survive. When her plastic tarp tent burned down, neighbors helped her build the small room off Tippa Road where she now lives rent-free.
She collects bottles, boxes and other recyclables for a modest income, but when cash for food is hard to come by, residents and tourists often pass on generous donations, sometimes in the form of 500 and 1000 rupee notes. Her butcher has also been known to make deliveries when times are tight. As for shots and checkups, "when the veterinarians come up, there first stop is always right here," she boats.
More than just kindness from the wider community, Ms. Sonam and her dogs live on the love they share together. She hugs one of her more colossal companions as she reflects, "My dogs are my family. I wouldn't have it any other way." | <urn:uuid:fecf6a1a-8904-431d-b3a5-a3be116393d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thetibetpost.com/en/features/education-and-society/2508-my-dogs-are-my-family-a-tibetan-refugee-woman-tells-her-story | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984673 | 534 | 1.515625 | 2 |
In this lesson, we will learn about how to stay safe when crossing the road with the aid of different pedestrian crossings.
These slides will take you through some tasks for the lesson. If you need to re-play the video, click the ‘Resume Video’ icon. If you are asked to add answers to the slides, first download or print out the worksheet. Once you have finished all the tasks, click ‘Next’ below. | <urn:uuid:f2b370eb-86a1-4595-8482-e11b64f40b65> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://classroom.thenational.academy/specialist/subjects/independent-living/access-points/applying-learning/lessons/road-safety-cth6ar | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.899094 | 100 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Learn more about the different kinds of development disorders that can appear in children.
It’s amazing to watch your children grow and learn. Of course, if you are noticing some rather odd behavior in your little one, you may be worried that it could be a developmental disorder. Before you panic, take a deep breath and turn to our Monmouth County developmental pediatrician Dr. Alison Smoller for the care you and your child need to make sure he or she leads a happy, healthy life.
Developmental disabilities can happen to any child. In fact, according to the Center of Disease Control, about 15 percent of children between the ages of 3 and 17 have one or more development disorders.
Risk Factors for Developmental Disorders
Most developmental disorders can occur at any point in time during childhood and often last the rest of their life. There are many factors that are assumed to be responsible for these developmental disorders including:
However, for many developmental disorders, there is no known cause.
What You Should Do
It’s important that your child continues to go to routine checkups with our developmental pediatrician in Monmouth County. By coming in for annual visits, you can get professional monitoring to make sure that your little one is hitting all developmental milestones. And if there is an issue, the sooner you come in to address the situation the better. Early interventions can help your child adopt new skill sets and may prevent the need for more aggressive interventions in the future.
Call your Monmouth County Developmental Pediatrician
If you don’t think your child has reached an important milestone don’t wait to seek treatment. Your child’s health is our main concern. Call Developmental Pediatrics of Central Jersey where our Monmouth County developmental pediatrician are always here for you and your child.
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"Virginia, June General Court, 1806"
A small item appears in the Richmond Enquirer for June 24, 1806, stating that the General Court of Virginia has elected to wear black arm bands for three months, in memory of George Wythe, who died on June 8th.
Article text, 24 June 1806
VIRGINIA, JUNE GENERAL COURT, 1806.
In Testimony of the high respect of this Court for the eminent public services and veneration for the private virtues of GEORGE WYTHE, late Chancellor of the Richmond District:
Resolved, That the members of this court will wear crape on the left arm for three months, as mourning. A Copy—Teste,
WILSON ALLEN, C. G. C.
- "Virginia, June General Court, 1806," The Enquirer (Richmond, VA), June 24, 1806, 3.
- "In his docket book for this term of court, St. George Tucker wrote: 'June 17th. John Brown esqr. resigned his office of Clerk of the General Court, and Mr. Wilson Allen, a young man well recommended, was appointed in his stead.' Docket Book, June 1797, Tucker-Coleman Papers, Swem Library, College of William & Mary." Cited in The Papers of John Marshall, eds. William C. Stinchcombe, Charles T. Cullen, and Leslie Tobias, vol. 3, Correspondence and Papers, January 1796—December 1798 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979), 91. | <urn:uuid:71385877-1109-47cf-bee1-0bbb12c0766c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawlibrary.wm.edu/wythepedia/index.php?title=Virginia,_June_General_Court,_1806&printable=yes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.946516 | 349 | 1.859375 | 2 |
18 May 2017
There is an effort to decrease energy consumption in ice arenas as much as possible. The single largest energy consumer in ice arenas is the refrigeration system, therefore, it is the natural target for efficiency improvements. The heat which arises as a side product of the cooling system can be reused to cover the heat requirements in the arena or in neighborhood buildings. The refrigeration heat has different temperature levels. Technically, the biggest part is represented by low temperature condensing heat. The utilization of the heat is done by the contribution of the open cycle type of heat pump, equivalent to a second compression stage of the main refrigeration cycle. A case study of the system in an ice arena in the Czech Republic will be presented in the paper. The energy consumptions for heating, domestic hot water and technological water heating were measured as well as the working hours of the heat pump and the chiller. Nowadays, the system only uses part of the energy to cover the requirements in the ice arena. Unfortunately, the utilization of low temperature condensing heat is usually maximum 30 % of the total amount. The low percentage is caused by a time mismatch between the delivery and consumption. To increase the amount of condensing heat usage, the possibilities of its utilization in the neighborhood will be analyzed on a model. | <urn:uuid:f82c9b2a-f039-4ada-b17b-6fc4371258ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://heatpumpingtechnologies.org/publications/p-3-7-6-heat-pump-for-low-temperature-condensing-heat-utilization-in-a-hockey-ice-arena/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.954758 | 261 | 2.828125 | 3 |
In a Washington Times op-ed sensationally titled "Wind-energy tax credits fund bird murder," Paul Driessen argues that we should not invest in wind power because of its impact on wildlife. But wind power accounts for a "minute fraction" of human-caused bird deaths, and fossil fuel production poses a much larger risk to birds and the environment.
After reciting conservative talking points on the futility of wind power, Driessen accuses legislators who support extending wind tax credits of contributing to the "ultimate extinction" of bird species across the country:
Every vote to extend the production tax credit -- or to approve wind turbines in or near important bird habitats and flyways -- is a vote for the ultimate extinction of majestic and vital avian species in habitats all over the United States. No member of Congress should want that on his conscience.
But according to the National Research Council, wind turbines account for less than 0.003% of bird deaths caused by human activities. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service estimates that wind turbines kill 150,000 - 200,000 birds annually. Meanwhile, hundreds of millions of birds are killed every year by collisions with buildings, cars, and power lines. And many more are killed by oilfield production pits and coal mining, which has destroyed numerous bird habitats.
A 2009 comparison of the impact of six electricity generation types on wildlife in New England found that wind power poses "no population-level risks to birds." Factoring in the effects of pollution and climate change, it concluded that "non-renewable electricity generation sources, such as coal and oil, pose higher risks to wildlife than renewable electricity generation sources, such as hydro and wind."
The production tax credit has spurred enormous growth in the wind industry and has enabled wind power to be competitive with natural gas. But despite its success, Congress has repeatedly allowed it to lapse, halting the wind industry's progress in the U.S.
The tax credit is currently in limbo once again. Unless Congress acts, the credit will expire at the end of this year, causing the loss of up to 37,000 jobs, according to the American Wind Energy Association. Several Republicans in Congress support at least a one year extension, but the conservative media have chided them, and applauded Mitt Romney for coming out against it. | <urn:uuid:c9ed7b33-6b33-4ad1-94d8-5ce1093f31bc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/07/the-rights-leading-argument-against-wind-power/189176 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00445-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943332 | 468 | 2.15625 | 2 |
What a printing good time we had at the OKCMOA yesterday. I took several printmaking courses in college and although serigraphy was my favorite, this is much easier!
I washed the brayers from my earlier toddler class and had them ready for a fun printmaking afternoon at Drop in Art. It was a busy day with over 50 people coming through. At one point I was so busy I couldn't stop to make a tally! That is GOOD thing! As people came in the door I got them set up with foam and a pencil. I explained that we would draw our design on the foam pressing firmly with our pencil.
I wrote a few reminders on the board, the biggest one being being that you think in REVERSE! This is most important with any writing. They got busy right away- some making Valentines, others making whatever they wanted to draw.
I had printing stations set up with different colors of water soluable inks, plexi, and brayers. I put this all on a layer of newspaper for easy cleanup. For cost, I squeezed out the ink...I was afraid the little ones would use too much. This worked out fine. We talked about signing our print editions (ex: if we made 5 prints our first print would be 1/5-then 2/5 and so on) and where the title, signature and edition goes. This info goes in the white space below your print. Typically for printmaking, the edition on left, title in middle and signature on right.
Steps: 1. Draw on foam (remember design will print in reverse!) 2. Work ink with brayer on plexi to get a smooth inking surface. I apply a small amount of ink in a horizontal line a little wider than the brayer. 3. Roll ink on foam design 4. Lay paper on foam and PRESS PRESS PRESS! I showed the kids how to rub all over their designs to get full coverage. 5. Carefully peel and VOILA! This part is magical. They really were amazed! 6. Re-ink and go again!
Kids and adults had a blast!
You will need: -foam -brayer -plexiglass-or other smooth surface you can roll ink on -drawing paper -ink (can use tempera paints, but I prefer the ink) -imagination!
Wife, Mom, Artist and Education Coordinator at City Arts Center. I believe art is a child's first written language. They have a creative spirit and imagination others tend to lose as they grow up. Many famous artists have tried to duplicate the way children paint and draw knowing that children have a true artistic bravery, unafraid and unabashed. I have the wonderful opportunity to share art with children and watch this process unfold. It truly is magical. | <urn:uuid:11ded9b2-ca48-4fd4-936e-3409e7c8cb73> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://laughpaintcreate.blogspot.com/2010/02/printing-perfection.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00363-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973859 | 579 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Time and Tide
The tide rises, the tide falls,The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;Along the sea-sands damp and brownThe traveller hastens toward the town,And the tide rises, the tide falls.
“The tide rises, the tide falls.” This enchanting line is repeated four times in the poem, drumming it into our minds like a chant or a mantra.
The poet does not give us an answer and leaves us free to muse and imagine why. Has he passed on to another place, fleeing the waves, or has he passed away?
The traveler or the pilgrim is a metaphor for life and we may sense a symbolic meaning to the scene. For instance, the “traveller” could be humanity rushing from the evolutionary sea, eager to find refuge in civilization, only to find that the rhythm of time cannot be changed because death is inevitable.The rise and fall of the tide perhaps alludes to the ups and downs in life.Sometimes we ride the crest of the wave and sometimes the trough.
We are left contemplating the waves with a certain wisdom in our hearts. While nature is immortal,man is mortal.While nature lives,man dies,and the only thing that lives is the memory of our deeds.But then the birth of man itself is karmic.John Miton wrote:Time ,the subtle thief of youth. Time is also God's way of keeping everything from happening at once. | <urn:uuid:fc66a13a-5b87-42f2-946c-8f1f069f00db> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.speakingtree.in/blog/time-and-tide | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00417-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900175 | 304 | 2.921875 | 3 |
What is critical race theory?
A special series of our American politics podcast on the battle over what is taught in public schools. In part one, how a niche academic theory became a rallying call for the right
The first episode of a three-part special series investigating the fight over what is taught in America’s public schools. Until recently, critical race theory (CRT) was a niche legal field encountered only by graduate students. It is now a catch-all term for whatever the right thinks is going wrong with America and a new front in the culture war alongside abortion and guns. The anti-CRT movement has become a powerful new social, legislative and political force in its own right. But what actually is critical race theory?
The Economist’s Tamara Gilkes Borr, a former public-school teacher, has spent months reporting on this issue. In this episode she speaks to Kimberlé Crenshaw, a professor at UCLA and Columbia law schools and one of the scholars who first developed critical race theory. She meets Christopher Rufo, the man who started the conservative furore over CRT. And she examines what the bans against the teaching of CRT in 17 states actually do. Runtime: 32min
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Calling herself “a human Gaza Strip,” performer Natacha Atlas captures the essence of her ethnic background and her cultural influences. Raised in a Moroccan suburb of Brussels, child of a Sephardic Jewish father and Muslim mother, Atlas learned Middle Eastern techniques of singing and dancing. She learned to be acutely sensitive to interracial tensions, but today is inspired by the role that a singer of mixed origins can take in bridging differences.
Finding a place in the British club scene, Atlas fused her Middle Eastern vocals with Western pop in her work in the group Transglobal Underground and on her first solo album, “Diaspora” (MCA). However, Atlas, who is practiced in raq sharki (belly dancing), longed to further explore the Arabic musical legacy. She draws compellingly on Moroccan, Egyptian and pop music traditions in her new album “Halim” (Beggars Banquet U.S.), which means “beautiful.”
Sapho, a French-Jewish singer with Moroccan roots, defies cultural and political boundaries. Sapho proved this earlier in the year, singing for more than 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza City. Sending a powerful message about the political and territorial exclusion of the Palestinians, Sapho performed in Israel only on the condition that she could first do the show in Gaza. Sapho told The New York Times, “I did not want to be rude to the other half of the Israeli community who were against the trends of the current Government in Israel.”
The title of Sapho’s newest album, “Digital Sheika” (Barraka El Farnatshi Productions, Basel, Switzerland), goes straight to the heart of her Moroccan experiences. The sheikha, a wild, gyrating “woman of ill repute,” is both admired and reviled for her disregard for society’s limits. Like the sheikha, Sapho goes to the margins and pushes the boundaries. | <urn:uuid:54c503c4-5aa0-4ced-bd05-043456d710ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lilith.org/articles/rhythmic-border-crossings-natacha-sapho/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.945041 | 420 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Growing fruit trees in containers is an excellent option for many homesteaders, or fruit lovers, of all kinds to grow fruit at home! If you’ve ever dreamed of growing your own fruit but haven’t found the space, then you’re in luck! Here are 7 secrets to getting the fruit orchard of your dream in a small confined space.
How To Grow Fruit Trees In Containers
Fruit trees are such a big hit for homesteaders. Who wouldn’t want free, fresh, delicious fruit growing in their yard? However, folks living in urban areas very rarely have fruit trees due to lack of space. Read along and you’ll learn how to make growing your own fruit possible even with very little space.
Secret # 1: Choose A Dwarf Rootstock
When choosing a fruit tree, look for dwarf or semidwarf varieties. Unlike regular fruit trees, dwarf fruit trees will only grow to be about 8 ft tall. They will also have a thinner main leader stem, meaning they will be less wide. Despite being so small, these trees will produce just as much fruit as a regular tree would, and the fruit will be the same size.
Secret # 2: Choose A “Cone” Shaped Tree
When a tree has already been trained to grow in a conelike shape, it will take up a lot less space when it matures. Conelike means that the branches grow at a 45-degree angle upwards. Don’t choose a tree that has too many branches growing at 90 degrees. If you do see these branches, snip them off while they are young to prevent problems later on.
Secret # 3: Use A Plastic Container
Never use wooden containers (unless it is lined with plastic) for your fruit tree. Wood likes to absorb the moisture from the soil, leaving the soil dry and free from important nutrients. Likewise, never use Terra Cotta pots either; these soak up water and have the tendency of cracking and splitting when under too much pressure.
Plastic is the most ideal material for fruit trees for the following reasons:
- it keeps soil from freezing in the winter
- it keeps the soil cool and moist in the summer
- it is able to withstand lots of pressure
- it is very lightweight, so it is easy to move around
Secret # 4: Train Your Tree
Training a trees’ roots is very important as it will make them used to boundaries, and the ability to grow with limited space. To train your tree this way, you will need multiple pots. Once your tree is rootbound (meaning the roots have spread all over the pot and are starting to come out of the drainage holes), you will need to wait a month and then repot into a bigger pot. Once the roots are rootbound again in the second pot, repot it again, and then again, and again until you end up with the best pot size. The pots may be just a couple liters larger than the one before, the size difference doesn’t really matter as long as the new pot is larger than the one before.
Secret # 5: Use Potting Soil
Many people think that trees require Tree Soil even when the tree is to be grown in a pot. This is not true. Instead, use potting soil. Potting soil is light and fluffy, and will not put too much pressure on the roots. Since potting soil is a bit too fluffy, make sure to somehow compact the soil. You can water it down as a way to do this, or simply use your hands to press it down.
Secret # 6: Have Plenty of Drainage Holes
You are probably used to poking holes at the bottom of your flower pots, right? We all know that proper drainage is essential for container gardening. It is even more necessary for growing fruit trees in pots. Unlike other plants, most fruit trees grow better in very dry soil than in very wet soil. They hate wet soil. In fact, more than 50% of fruit tree diseases are caused by overlywet soil. So, it is very important that excess water is able to freely flow out of the pot. For a container that has a base circumference of 20 inches, drill about 5 1cm drainage holes.
Secret # 7: Fertilize With Appropriate Nutrients
Nitrogen in fertilizers makes leaves and new stems grow faster and better, thus less of the tree’s energy is spent on producing fruit. So when choosing a fertilizer, don’t choose one with too much nitrogen. A water soluble fertilizer is the best. Fertilizer spikes are not recommended for fruit trees in containers unless written otherwise on the product. Never fertilize in late fall or winter months. The tree does not want to produce any new growth during this season so you should not force it. Fertilizing in fall and winter could mess up the trees winterstate and cause problems.
Plant some shallowroot, groundcover flowers as well. This will act as mulch and add a bit of character to the pot!
Space will never be an issue again in growing fruit trees. Growing fruit trees is now very much doable and you don’t need a huge space to grow fruit trees, you just need containers and the proper care. Pick, grow, harvest, and enjoy with your beautiful fruit tree in a container!
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(1814 - 1872)
John Mix Stanley was active/lived in Michigan, Washington, California, Kansas. John Stanley is known for Indian life, landscape, portrait.
Born in Canandaigua, New York, John Mix Stanley became one of the most significant artists of the American frontier but also one of the most tragic in that three separate fires essentially destroyed his lifetime's work.
He was raised in upstate New York where his father had a tavern that many Indians and other frontier types visited. At age 14, he became an orphan and apprenticed to a coach maker. But looking for better work, he moved to Detroit in 1834 and became a house and sign painter and subsequently trained with European educated James Bowman, who saw one of his signs and admired his work.
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If you’re a teenager who would rather read comics than skim through assigned school reading, you’re in luck. According to The New York Times, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will include drawings by Randall Munroe, creator of popular web comic XKCD, in their new science textbooks. The books will be published this summer, and will hit classrooms this fall.
Munroe is a former NASA roboticist. In 2005, he started XKCD, a “webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” The comic depicts whimsical stick figures, who use regular language and jokes to discuss esoteric science. In recent years, Munroe published two related books, What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (2014) and Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words (2015). Like XKCD, both works explore complex academic subjects using basic words and pictures. Thing Explainer, in particular, tackled topics like tectonic plates and nuclear bombs using the 1000 most common words in the English language.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's textbook editors saw page proofs of Thing Explainer, according to the Times. They thought its drawings would make fun—and educational—additions to 2017 editions of HMH Chemistry, HMH Biology, and HMH Physics, The Verge writes.
“It’s a way of deepening the engagement level for students,” Peggy Smith-Herbst, a senior vice-president at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, told the Times.
Many of the textbooks' comics will be excerpted from Thing Explainer, but Munroe says he will include a few new ones as well. Check out a sneak peek of the revamped books online—and while you’re at it, learn how XKCD has inspired not just publishers, but real-life readers.
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If there is any debris in the ear, or the ear appears red or inflamed, then "yes" because she may have an ear infection.
Also, the spot behind her ear may be infected, so antibiotics may help the wound heal a lot faster. Signs of infection are moist drainage, yellow drainage, a bad odor, red inflamed skin, and heat around the wound.
It does not sound like an emergency.
I would start the home treatment today.
If it is not greatly improved in 48 hours, then take her into the vet.
If the ear is not infected, the vet may not be able to tell you how the wound got there.
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Hastings Pier was originally designed by renowned Victorian engineer Eugenius Birch and opened on a wet and windy August Bank Holiday Monday in 1872 by the Earl of Granville, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. The opening was a very grand affair, complete with a celebratory banquet. During the Earl’s after-dinner speech he declared:
“This pier, if I may so use the phrase, appears to me to be a peerless pier – pier without a peer – except, perhaps, the unfortunate peer who is now addressing you”.
The Pier continued to inspire, entertain and thrill generations of visitors alike, many travelling from miles around to promenade among the waves and enjoy tremendous ocean views.
The early years
The new pier was very popular in its early years, with its permanent pavilion used for concerts and plays alike, and the pier’s landing stage enabled ferries to ship passengers to nearby piers on the South East coast and, on a few occasions, to Boulogne in northern France. The ‘American Bowling Alley’ building was erected roughly a third of the way down the pier in the autumn of 1910. A joy-wheel roundabout soon followed at the front of the pier.
The opening of Hastings Pier played an important part in the development of Hastings and St Leonards as a coastal resort, turning the town into a major attraction for south-east Londoners wanting a good day out beside-the-sea. The pier was an immediate success, attracting 482.000 people in its first 12 months and 584,000 in the second, much bigger numbers than had been expected. The beautiful groundbreaking pavilion was in almost constant use for entertainment and music for almost 40 years. Especially popular was the band, which played every day. Entry to the pier cost 2d, bringing £4,000 income – a sixth of the capital cost – in just 12 months.
The new pier was formally opened by Earl Granville, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, on 5 August 1872, a very wet and windy bank holiday Monday. The South Eastern Railway Company (SER) ran a special train from London to Hastings, bringing the Earl and some shareholders, plus other interested people. They were officially welcomed at 12.30 at Hastings Station by the mayor, Thomas Ross, plus the town’s two MPs Thomas Brassey and James Kay-Shuttleworth, and other dignitaries. About 60 coastguards, detachments of the artillery and rifle volunteer corps and the fire brigade provided a guard of honour.
1920s and 1930s
After a disastrous fire in severely damaged the seaward end of the Pier in 1917, a new pavilion building was constructed in 1922, then given an art deco re-vamp in the 1930s. That decade was the heyday of the traditional pier. In the first week of August 1931 56,000 people passed through the turnstiles (the population of the town at the time was 66,000).
1940s and 1950s
During World War II the Pier was temporarily closed and requisitioned for training. In 1943, a middle section of the decking was removed to deter the Pier being used as a landing platform for invading ships. Although the enemy never landed at Hastings, a large number of Belgian and French refugees did land on the pier in a tug boat – carrying with them 13 million Francs (about £208,000 at the time) in funds from the Belgian railways. In the 1940s and 1950s paddle catamarans were for hire on the beach below the Pier.
1960s and 1970s
The post-war pier propelled itself into the new era becoming a prominent centre of live music in the 1960s and 1970s. A number of famous names played on the pier including acts such as The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Hollies, The Clash and The Sex Pistols. In 1976 the Pier became a listed building with the hope of preserving the Birch-built substructure.
1980s, 1990s and 2000s
With the onset of the 1980s the Pier sadly fell into a state of disrepair. Piers became unfashionable and to try and counter the declining crowds the previous owners of the Pier built more on the superstructure, often neglecting the substructure itself. The Pier was closed in 2008. The local community passionately campaigned for the Grade II Listed pier to be saved, though restoration plans were put on hold when a devastating fire virtually destroyed the Pier in October 2010.
A new era
Reopened in April 2016, the new Pier has been designed by dRMM architects as a pier for the 21st century. It is a sustainable, flexible platform that is able to host a broad range of community uses for years to come.
The new visitor centre is inventively clad in timber salvaged from the limited decking that survived the 2010 fire. Like a phoenix from the ashes, the Pier has risen to embody a new identity – one which has history at its heart, whilst looking forward to a new era. Saving the Pier has achieved what was almost impossible, and now a new chapter in its story begins. | <urn:uuid:87df8c04-680a-4eaa-9956-4bf5720faee6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://hastingspier.org.uk/about/history-of-the-pier/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.972416 | 1,079 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Barbara Dixon Ackerman
Maurice J. Elias
Roger S. Gottlieb
David L. Haberman
Marc Lee Raphael
Barbara Dixon Ackerman
Barb Ackerman is CSEE's primary consultant on Advisory Systems, and a frequent workshop presenter. She is co-author of CSEE's one-of-a-kind publication Need a Hand with Advising? Here's a Handbook.
Dr. Asma Afsaruddin
Dr. Afsaruddin is associate professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she specializes in the religious and political thought of Islam, Islamic history, and hadith and Qur'an studies. She has edited and authored books, including Excellence and Precedence: Medieval Islamic Discourse on Legitimate Leadership (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2002), and published articles and reviews in numerous scholarly journals.
...is Sanford N. McDonnell Professor of Character Education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he also directs the McDonnell Leadership Academy in Character Education for School Principals. Berkowitz is the author of over 60 book chapters, monographs, and journal articles.
He has served as a board member of the Character Education Partnership, and is co-editor of the Journal of Research in Character Education. His most recent book (2005) is Parenting for Good. In 2005, Berkowitz co-authored (with colleague Melinda Bier) “What Works In Character Education: A Research-Driven Guide for Educators,” a comprehensive overview of the compnents of effective programs.
His primary interests address young people's development toward becoming healthy and happy adults who contribute to society through their willingness to act morally.
...is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics, Director of the Graduate Division of Religion, and Coordinator of the Initiative in Religious Practices and Practical Theology at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is the author of Coming Together/Coming Apart: Religion, Modernity, and Community (1997) and coeditor of Welfare Policy: Feminist Critiques (1999). Her interests include peacebuilding/conflict transformation, restorative justice and the prison system, democratic practices and civil society, feminist and liberation ethics, and trans-formative pedagogical practices.
...is Research Director of the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs, co-creator of the GoodSport Curriculum, and co-author of Character Education Evaluation Toolkit and Character Quotations: Activities That Build Character and Community. Lickona and Davidson co-authored Smart & Good High Schools based on their site visits to 24 award-winning public and independent schools.
Maurice J. Elias
Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D. is Professor in the Psychology Department at Rutgers University, where he directs the Social-Emotional Learning Lab. He is a founding member of the leadership team for the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, and a nationally recognized expert on parenting, bullying, and social emotional learning. Elias is the author of Emotionally Intelligent Parenting (2000), Bullying, Peer Harassment, and Victimization in the Schools: The Next Generation of Prevention (2003), and Social Decision Making/ Social Problem Solving Curricula for Elementary and Middle School Students (2006)
- Presenter: Building Character, Diminishing Bullying, April 2011
Roger S. Gottlieb
...is professor of philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He is the author or editor of fifteen books and more than 100 articles on political philosophy, environmentalism, ethics, religion, spirituality, the Holocaust, and disability.
Gottlieb is internationally known for his work on religious environmentalism, spirituality and nature, and the relations between religion and politics.
His anthology This Sacred Earth: Religion, Nature, Environment was the first comprehensive collection on the topic. His 1999 book, A Spirituality of Resistance: Finding a Peaceful Heart and Protecting the Earth was called by Protestant theologian John Cobb "a true spiritual guide for our day," and praised by Elie Wiesel. His 2002 book Joining Hands: Politics and Religion Together for Social Change received advance acclaim from Harvey Cox and Bill McKibben.
Gottlieb's forthcoming book (March 2011), Engaging Voices: Tales of Morality and Meaning in an Age of Global Warming is a collection of distinct but related philosophical short stories in which fictional characters with personalities, individual histories, and strong opinions wrestle with the key questions of the environmental crisis.
David L. Haberman
... is a professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, where his course titles include Religions of the East, Hinduism, and Religion, Ecology and the Self. His most recent book titles are River of Love in the Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India (2006), Journey through the Twelve Forests: An Encounter with Krishna (1994), and Acting as a Way of Salvation: A Study of Raganuga Bhakti Sadhana. Professor Haberman's research interests include the history of South Asian religions, Indian arts and aesthetics, and ritual.
- Presenter: 2010 Institute on Teaching the World's Religions
...is a former executive director of the Council for Religion in Independent Schools. He served as Head of Upper School at St. Alban's School, in Washington D.C., and until June of 2007 as chaplain at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. He is currently Executive Director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools.
...is perhaps the best known character educator in the United States today. He is a Professor of Education at the State University of New York (Cortland) and director of the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs.
He is author of seven books, including Raising Good Children, Educating for Character, and Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues.
- Advisor/Presenter: Working with the Best Project
...is Lee Jacks Professor of Education Emerita at Stanford University. She is a past president of the National Academy of Education, the Philosophy of Education Society, and the John Dewey Society. She served for 15 years as a teacher, administrator, and curriculum supervisor in New Jersey public schools.
She has published 16 books and hundreds of articles, chapters, reviews, and commentaries. Her books include Caring (2nd ed., 2003), The Challenge to Care in Schools (2nd. ed., 2005), Happiness and Education (2003), Critical Lessons: What Our Schools Should Teach (2006), Starting at Home: Caring and Social Policy (2002), and When School Reform Goes Wrong (2007).
...is Director of the Office for Studies in Moral Development and Education and Professor of Education and Psychology, at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has written extensively in the field of moral and social development and education.
Nucci's books include Education in the Moral Domain (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Culture Thought and Development (with Geoffrey Saxe and Elliot Turiel) (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000); and Moral Development and Character Education: A Dialogue (McCutchan, 1989).
Nucci was a pioneer in development and articulation of the domain theory of social cognitive development. His work with a variety of cultures has shown that children throughout the world share a set of common moral concerns for fairness and human welfare, and that these moral concerns differ from children's concepts of conventions and religious norms specific to their particular social and cultural setting.
Nucci has done extensive work with educators in the development of moral reasoning skills. He has been a popular workshop presenter for CSEE in the past.
... teaches at the Annie Wright School in Tacoma, Washington and is working toward the completion of her dissertation at the University of Florida in the Religion and Nature Program. She holds an undergraduate degree in religious studies from the University of Puget Sound and a master's degree in comparative world religions from Columbia University. Her research interests include continued involvement with secondary schools seeking to incorporate environmental ethics and sustainability issues into their curriculums while exploring how these ideas relate to people's religious understanding of the world.
One of the comments on her last presentation was "we did not have enough time with her!"
...is Director of Community Service at Choate Rosemary Hall, and has led numerous community service workshops for CSEE. She has extensive experience planning service trips abroad as well as organizing local service projects.
She has authored chapters on Community Service for Avocus Publishing Company and consulted on other written works covering ethical education and community service. She is known for her ability to look at individual programs in individual schools, and her ability to help schools tailor their programs to specific circumstances.
Marc Lee Raphael
...is the Nathan and Sophia Gumenick Professor of Judaic Studies, Professor of Religious Studies, and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at The College of William and Mary, and Rabbi of Congregation Bet Aviv in Columbia, Maryland.
He just completed a twenty-year term as Editor of the quarterly journal American Jewish History, and he has recently published (February 2008) the Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America (Columbia University Press). He is author of Judaism in America (2003), and co-editor of When Night Fell: An Anthology of Holocaust Short Stories.
...most recently published Building Moral Communities: A Guide for Educators through CSEE in the spring of 2006. Schulman also authored Bringing Up a Moral Child: A New Approach for Teaching Your Child to Be Kind, Just, and Responsible, and The Passionate Mind: Bringing Up an Intelligent and Creative Child. He is chairman of the Columbia University Seminar on Moral Education, and supervising psychologist for the Leake & Watts Children’s Homes in New York. He has taught at Yeshiva University’s Ferkauf Graduate School, at Rutgers University, and at Fordham University.
...is Professor of Psychology in the Department of Clinical & Social Psychology at the University of Rochester. Her primary area of research entails children’s emotional and social-cognitive development, with special focuses on the development of young children’s moral and social knowledge, and on parenting beliefs and how these beliefs relate to parenting practices and child outcomes.
Smetana is co-editor of the Handbook of Moral Development (Erlbaum, 2006), and editor of Changing Conceptions of Parental Authority: New Directions for Child Development (Jossey-Bass, 2005). She is currently principal investigator for major grants funded by the National Science Foundation and the Fetzer Institute.
Inés Talamantez is associate professor of religious studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Born in New Mexico to parents of Apache and Mexican background, she has done extensive research and fieldwork in both the United States and Mexico on Native American, Indigenous, Mexican, and Latino religious traditions. She was instrumental in founding the Society for the Study of Native American Religious Traditions. Professor Talamantez is the managing editor of New Scholar: An Americanist Review and is on the editorial board of both Ashgate’s Vitality of Indigenous Religions series and the Second Edition of Mircea Eliade’s Encyclopedia of Religion. She is the co-editor of Religion and Healing, the author of both Tse’gihi and K’ehogosone: Native American Ritual Texts, and the forthcoming Becoming: Introducing Apache Girls to the World of Spiritual and Cultural Values, which examines present-day Mescalero Apache female rites of passage.
... is an assistant professor in the Architecture Department at Southern Politechnic State University in Atlanta, Georgia. He has practiced architecture in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Ziada's recent papers for scholarly conferences include "Aesthetics of Ritual Space: The Case of the Mosque" at the 2009 AAR meeting; he is a member of the AAR's consultation on Space, Pace, and Religious Meaning. He also authored, for the Oxford Companion to Architecture (2009) the entry on "Mosque till 1900." Ziada co-teaches a summer course on Sacred Space at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. | <urn:uuid:a6a79afe-51b1-4035-8aec-0360ce36e6d1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.csee.org/page/presenters/Presenters.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00025-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933281 | 2,524 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Website & Web hosting
Website and web hosting are often considered synonymous, but these are two separate things.
Here is a high-level post that talks about how hosting has evolved and how virtual hosting and SNI cross paths with SSL/TLS.
SNI and Virtual hosting
In the early days of HTTP, dedicated physical servers were used to host single websites. Virtualization replaced the…
Let’s look at the structure of a website (multi-file).
Once it is ready, this website needs to be hosted on a webserver. Commonly used Web servers include Apache, IIS, etc. This website can reside on your on-premise web server and be hosted under your domain name. The other option is to host the website on a third-party hosting service such as WordPress.
I hope you see this article helpful, and stay tuned for my next blog post.
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This is the first of a fourteen-part series that explores the core tenets of Get Rich Slowly.
I had a group of old high-school friends over to the house last weekend. As the daylight faded and the cool of the evening settled, we sat around a blazing fire talking about life. We shared the good things we’ve done over the past twenty years — and we shared the bad. Inevitably, the conversation turned to money.
One woman confessed that she’s a shopaholic. When she feels stressed, she buys things. To prevent her husband from finding out, she’s the one who pays the bills.
Another woman has more clothes than she will ever wear. Her closets are packed so full that she’s begun to pile new purchases on the floor — but still she buys more.
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One of my friends admitted that he’s sunk thousands of dollars into online video games. After his divorce, he spent years addicted to his computer. (He’s now turning things around: He quit gaming cold-turkey and is re-discovering friends and exercise.)
I told my own story of how I used to buy books and clothes and compact discs compulsively. “I’d bring them home and never use them,” I said. “I just liked the act of buying. It gave me a sense of power, I guess.”
Each of us had a story about how we’d done dumb things with money. In every instance, these dumb things were the product of some psychological or emotional impulse. We weren’t acting rationally. We’re smart folks — when we were in high school together, we were in the college-prep classes together — and we understand the mathematics of our choices, but we make them anyhow. Why?
Because smart money management is more about mind than it is about math.
The psychology of money
For years, the “expert” advice on personal finance has assumed that we act like machines, that we will always choose the mathematically optimal option. I’ve read countless personal finance books filled with advice that is technically correct, but which forgets the role our minds play in making financial decisions.
When discussing this notion — that financial success is more often influenced by personal psychology than by mathematical ability — I frequently cite Dave Ramsey’s debt snowball. It’s the perfect example of what I mean.
Critics of Ramsey are quick to point out that the math of his method doesn’t make sense. Going strictly by the numbers, it’s better to pay down debt by starting with the obligation that has the highest interest rate. The critics are right, of course, but they miss the point. In most cases, if we were being rational, we wouldn’t have accumulated the debt in the first place. Most of the time, debt isn’t a math problem — it’s a psychological problem. Because of that, Ramsey’s method — pay off the lowest balances first — makes more sense. It allows quick wins, which provide positive reinforcement, which provides a motivation to continue.
Here are some of the many other ways in which our minds play a role in money management:
Any time we loan money to family or friends, emotion plays a role. And inheritances? In the past year, I’ve had three people tell me nightmare stories about families that have disintegrated while fighting over a parent’s estate. These are psychological and emotional battles, not battles about math.
Marketing (and advertising) is the science of persuasion. It purposefully influences our spending habits — even if we think it doesn’t. When we reduce our exposure to advertising, it’s easier to spend less.
I am in constant awe of what parents spend on their children. They want what’s best for their kids, and most of them aren’t afraid to pay for it. But it’s not rational to buy clothes at Baby Gap instead of at Goodwill.
A lot of financial planning is about teaching the client to take emotion out of investing. Too many people make investment decisions based on psychological reactions to the economy and the stock market. It’s these emotional reactions that cause people to buy high and sell low.
Every financial goal we set is based on our personal psychology, on emotion.
There’s a burgeoning body of research that explores the many ways in which money management is more mental than mathematical. “Behavioral finance” and “behavioral economics” are explored in books like Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes — and How to Correct Them [my review], Why Smart People Do Stupid Things With Money, Predictably Irrational, Nudge, and Your Money and Your Brain.
Take back your brain
We can never completely remove the emotional and psychological aspects of money management. Nor do I think we ought to. We’re humans, not robots. But I do think it’s important for us to reduce the negative emotional financial decisions as much as possible. Here are some of the best ways that I have learned to combat poor choices — to take back my brain:
Reduce exposure to advertising. Many people believe they’re unaffected by advertising. Many people are wrong. As much as you can, avoid advertising. Watch less television (or watch it in a way that cuts out commercials). Skip magazine ads. Use an adblocker for your browser. The less advertising you see, the less you’ll be persuaded to buy things you do not need.
Avoid temptation. When I was paying off my debt and trying to reduce my spending, I forced myself to stay away from book stores and comic shops. I knew that I lacked discipline. Rather than put myself in the path of temptation, I steered completely clear of it. If you’re tempted at malls, stay away from malls. If you often succumb to peer pressure, don’t go out for drinks with your friends. Stay away from the things that tempt you.
Automate. One of the best ways to trick your mind is to simply take it out of the equation. If you find it difficult to make smart financial choices, remove the choice. Sign up for auto-billpay. Set up an automatic monthly transfer from your checking account to your savings account. If you have access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan, take advantage of it. When you make things automatic, you cannot be sabotaged by emotion or psychology.
Practice mindfulness. When you’re tempted to make a purchase, pause. Take thirty seconds to ask yourself if you truly need the thing you’re about to buy. If it’s a big purchase, force yourself to wait thirty days. Track every penny you spend so that you become aware of your weaknesses.
Read. Better education has helped me fight some of my mental flaws. The more I read about stock market investing, for example, the more convinced I am that making regular investments into index funds is the only way that I’m going to be a successful investor. It takes the emotion out of the equation.
I’m not sure what will happen with the friends I saw last weekend. Maybe some of them will continue to make the same financial mistakes. Maybe some of them will turn things around.
But I do know this: The answers to their problems will not come from a better understanding of compound interest or another explanation that it’s important to spend less than you earn.
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By Minka Tiangco
The first coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patient admitted to the University of Santo Tomas (UST) Hospital has now been discharged, the hospital management confirmed on Tuesday in a statement.
“We are happy to announce that we have discharged our first COVID-19 positive patient, initially critically ill, but now clinically well and satisfying the discharge criteria set by the Department of Health,” the statement read.
The hospital still has one more patient receiving treatment for COVID-19.
Per the Department of Health’s (DOH) latest data, seven patients in the country have already recovered from COVID-19 as of Wednesday.
However, the number of COVID-19 cases in the Philippines jumped to 193 after six new cases were recorded on Wednesday. The disease has also claimed 14 lives in the country.
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NSF International, an independent, non-profit organization committed to improving and protecting public health and the environment, has announced a new eco-efficiency protocol, NSF Protocol 352 (NSF P352), to validate and verify eco-efficiency analyses. BASF, the world’s leading chemical company, is the first to have its Eco-Efficiency Analysis (EEA) methodology used to evaluate the economic and environmental impact of products or processes validated by NSF.
Eco-efficiency means creating more goods and services while consuming fewer resources and generating less waste and pollution, according to the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Web site (www.wbcsd.org/plugins/DocSearch/details.asp?type=DocDet&ObjectId=MTgwMjc). NSF P352 establishes requirements for the content of an eco-efficiency analysis to ensure consistency, objectivity and transparency in all eco-efficiency analyses, which is necessary given the influx of greenwashing (the act of making a misleading claim regarding the environmental benefits of a product or service). In BASF’s case, it also provides a means for verification of BASF’s individual EEA study results adhering to the eco-efficiency methodology.
“BASF saw the need to raise the bar for eco-efficiency analysis and looked to NSF and others to help establish the new protocol,” said Edward Madzy, BASF’s director of Product Stewardship and Regulations. “We are glad that NSF P352 is now available for widespread adoption and will help eliminate greenwashing.
“At BASF, we embrace sustainability, and the achievement of being the first company to have an eco-efficiency analysis validated by NSF International demonstrates our leadership in sustainable development practices.”
NSF P352 was developed, reviewed and approved by stakeholders from academia, industry, and consumer product companies to fulfill the need for an objective and universal method for companies to analyze the sustainability of their products and services. BASF’s product stewardship team initiated the development of NSF P352, working in cooperation with NSF International and other independent organizations, by which BASF’s EEA methodology was validated.
BASF’s EEA of one of its Joncryl®products, a water-based resin for the printing and packaging industry, is the first study to undergo verification by NSF International for eco-efficiency analysis. For successfully completing these verification processes on both the eco-efficiency tool and for the data relating to the eco-efficiency of the product, BASF can use the NSF Mark in literature and marketing materials highlighting the EEA tool and Joncryl. BASF’s study results and findings of the verification process are also listed on NSF’s Web site, www.nsf.org/business/eco_efficiency/. The verifications are valid for three years, after which time the EEA will be re-evaluated and updated.
BASF’s EEA tool quantifies the sustainability of products or processes throughout the entire lifecycle, beginning with the extraction of raw materials through the end of life disposal or recycling of the product. It compares two or more products analyzed from the end-use perspective to obtain comprehensive data on the total cost of ownership and the impact on the environment. The analysis can be applied to all market segments ranging from printing and packaging to automotive. To date, more than 400 studies have been launched or completed internally, as well as with customers, suppliers and governments in both North America and Europe.
“NSF shares BASF’s commitment to the environment, and we applaud their leadership in helping to develop an intelligent methodology, which provides solutions that improve the environment and the economy,” said Bob Ferguson, NSF vice president.
About NSF InternationalNSF International, an independent, non-profit organization, certifies products and writing standards for food, water, and consumer goods. Founded in 1944, it is committed to protecting public health and safety worldwide. NSF is a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Food and Water Safety and Indoor Environment. NSF Engineering and Research Services (ERS) uses all of NSF’s capabilities to accommodate customers’ testing needs. ERS can be used to complete research and development testing, validate manufacturers’ claims, or to obtain additional certifications against NSF and non-NSF protocols. Additional services include safety audits for the food and water industries; management systems registrations delivered through NSF International Strategic Registrations; organic certification provided by Quality Assurance International; and education through the NSF Center for Public Health Education.
For more information on eco-efficiency analysis or the new NSF protocol, contact Patrick Davison, NSF senior project manager, phone (734) 913-5719, e-mail email@example.com, or visit www.nsf.org/business/eco_efficiency/index.asp.
About BASFBASF Corp., Florham Park, NJ, is the North American affiliate of BASF SE, Ludwigshafen, Germany. BASF has more than 15,000 employees in North America and had sales of approximately $17.5 billion in 2008. For more information about BASF’s North American operations, visit www.basf.com/usa.
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This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Bic. The opinions and text are all mine.
Unless you have been hiding under a rock somewhere, chances are you have heard at least one side of the brouhaha surrounding new Common Core education standards. I am not going to get into a debate over its merits and faults here, but I am going to talk about one component that bums me out: 86ing handwriting.
Because of the increasing prevalence of digital media in our lives, handwriting may not be as important in the future as it once was, but that does not mean it is without use. I am not even referring to the cognitive benefits that are gained when children write with their hands ( and there are lots of them). I’m talking about the sentimental and historical losses we suffer when people stop writing things out by hand.
Which would you rather stumble upon: a thumb drive of emails that your grandparents sent to one another or a stack of handwritten love letters? Which has more historical significance: an early printed copy of a famous document or a handwritten draft? Which makes a better family heirloom: a website of family recipes or paper recipe cards written by family member themselves?
With that idea in mind, I used some of my family’s handwritten recipes and turned them into decorative towels for my kitchen. If you have a printer at home, it is very easy to do.
1. Get yourself some inexpensive cotton flour sack towels. You can usually find a package for a few dollars at the grocery store.
2. Make sure the towel is ironed out completely flat and that the surface underneath is free of wrinkles too. Any unevenness in the surface of the fabric will affect the transfer.
3. Print the recipes out on heat transfer paper. REMEMBER TO REVERSE THE IMAGE!
4. Iron the image onto the towel according to the directions that come with your brand of transfer paper.
5. Carefully remove the paper backing to reveal the transferred recipe.
I still have the original copies of these recipes tucked safely away, but now I can display them in my kitchen as well. They coordinate nicely with the framed recipes already hanging on my walls.
You can make a set of handwritten recipe towels for yourself or to give as part of a thoughtful wedding or housewarming present. I chose to leave my towels fairly minimal, but you could add trim, embroidery, or fabric paint to make them even more special.
I want my kids to have the a little bit of my history in writing too, so I sat down and handwrote some of the recipes I am most known for. I want my kids to have the sentimental and historical record of our family that is preserved in handwriting AND I want them to be able to pass their own written legacy on to their kids as well. And that means having my kids practice handwriting in school and at home.
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By Greg Tylka, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology
Iowa farmers produce soybeans profitably in fields infested with the soybean cyst nematode (SCN) by growing SCN-resistant soybean varieties that yield well and prevent large increases in SCN egg population densities. There are hundreds of SCN-resistant soybean varieties for Iowa. Almost all of the varieties contain SCN resistance genes from a single breeding line, called PI 88788.
Because of widespread, repeated use of varieties with the same PI 88788 source of resistance, many SCN populations have developed increased reproduction on that type of resistance. It is no longer uncommon to see SCN females on roots of SCN-resistant soybean varieties in the Midwest (Figure 1).
Figure 1. SCN females on roots of an SCN-resistant soybean variety with PI 88788 SCN resistance.
How does increased SCN reproduction on soybean varieties with the PI 88788 source of resistance affect soybean yields and the buildup of SCN egg population densities (numbers) in the soil? Results of Iowa State University field experiments reveal the answers.
Experimental results show PI 88788 resistance is still working
Each year, SCN-resistant soybean varieties are studied intensively in nine experiments throughout Iowa as part of the Iowa State University SCN-resistant Soybean Variety Trial Program. The research is funded by the soybean checkoff through the Iowa Soybean Association. Since 2007, more than half of the fields in Iowa where variety trial experiments were conducted had SCN populations with elevated (greater than 10 percent) nematode reproduction on the PI 88788 source of resistance. The 10-percent level of SCN reproduction is a critical level above which plants are not considered resistant. Some of the SCN populations in the experimental fields had 35 to 50 percent reproduction on PI 88788.
But despite the increased SCN reproduction, soybean varieties with the PI 88788 source of SCN resistance in the experiments usually yielded the highest. Also, SCN population densities did not increase dramatically on the resistant varieties in the experiments. These results were fairly consistent throughout the past five years (results available online at http://www.plantpath.iastate.edu/tylkalab/iowa-state-university-scn-resistant-soybean-variety-trials).
Overall, the results indicate that SCN-resistant soybean varieties with the PI 88788 source of resistance are not "failing". The resistant varieties are still producing profitable soybean yields and preventing large increases in SCN population densities.
Because SCN is considerably more damaging in hot, dry years than in growing seasons with more moderate weather, soybean varieties with PI 88788 SCN resistance may suffer significant yield loss due to nematode feeding this season in fields with SCN populations that have elevated reproduction on PI 88788. The 2012 growing season is the type of environmental conditions under which increased SCN reproduction on soybean varieties with PI 88788 SCN resistance may result in significant yield reductions.
New webcast puts situation in perspective
A new webcast explains the factors leading to the build up of SCN populations with elevated reproduction on PI 88788 and discusses the results of numerous variety trial experiments where high yields were produced by PI 88788 SCN-resistant soybean varieties in fields infested with such SCN populations. The webcast was developed and is hosted by the Focus on Soybean section of the Plant Management Network.
The full-length webcast is 25 minutes long and a 4½-minute-long executive summary webcast highlights the "take-home" points of the full-length presentation. Both webcasts are available here.
The webcasts are available for viewing free to the public through November 30, 2012. But a subscription is needed to access most content on the Plant Management Network.
• Resistant soybean varieties are available to manage the soybean cyst nematode (SCN).
• Most SCN-resistant varieties for Iowa have the same resistance genes, from a single breeding line called PI 88788.
• Many Iowa SCN populations have developed increased reproduction on PI 88788 SCN resistance.
• ISU variety trial experiment data indicate that PI 88788 SCN-resistant varieties are still an effective management tool.
• Free webcasts on the Plant Management Network's Focus on Soybean explain the situation and put problem into perspective.
Greg Tylka is a professor with extension and research responsibilities in management of plant-parasitic nematode in the Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology at Iowa State University. He can be reached at email@example.com or 515-294-3021.
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Though Blackboard's critics have worried the company might monopolize the market for e-learning tools, competition continues to surface -- notably from companies that once were more focused on the administrative side of campus computing.
DENVER — If professors record their lectures and put them online, will students still come to class?
That question came up in two different sessions at the 2009 Educause Conference here on Friday. And in both cases, the panelists cited research indicating that students’ likelihood of skipping class has no correlation with whether a professor decides to capture her lecture and post it the Web.
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What is a light box? A light box is a white or black environment made for taking seamless pictures of objects.
This version is a 'Micro Macro', you can use it to take great pictures of items for ebay, bugs, and many things. It can also be scaled up to be a full studio, so long as you can find a large enough box.
For those who don't need step by step, all the images are on this step.
P.S. All shots are from a Canon Sd870 point and shoot. No processing was done after taking them except the really obvious ones (referring to the first shots).
Comments appreciated! (don't just rate it, rate it and provide feedback!)
Step 1: Materials:
A tooth pick- used to secure index card, substitute with any longish hard thin object. EG paper clip.
An Index card - stiff matte white paper will also do, this is the most readily availible.
A Sandwich bag - Substitute with snippet from impossible to open packaging.. you know the one. This creates reflections for objects.
A small box with a white inside lining - I used a tokyo flash box, but in reality, any box that is lined with matte, white paper will do OK.
A led light, or lantern (for a real 'micro feel' get a group of led's connected to a 9 volt with a switch) - this lights up the box.
A subject - self explanitory.
Scissors- used to cut stuff. If you don't have this, you need a new toolkit!
Step 2: Cut!
Take the index card and cut it to a size that will fit semi snugly (2mm clearance about) into the box, and do not alter the length. (cut along lines, not against)
Take the plastic baggie and cut it out for a little rectangle. This is your wet substance or reflection maker. This allows you to create reflections or use wet substances without wrecking the box. Try to make it the size of the box bottom.
Step 3: Put it together:
Pictures do better than I can explain:
Put it so the index card will be facing the opening (opposite of how I did it in the picture, so that you could see how the index card was in).
Either put it in the long way with the card touching each edge like a U,
Or the tall way with the card touching an inside corner, and an outside edge.
As you can also see, I am using the toothpick in the third picture to push the card down onto the bottom.
Optional Update: Cut out an additional piece of bag the size of your box, and let it be long enough so some will come out the front. put two index cards on the base (or 1, depending on box size), and then put the plastic on top. this creates a better reflecting surface, and works better in general.
Step 4: Using the plastic baggie cut out:
Place the plastic baggie either on the curve or the flat piece (depending on the box's orientation.)
The bag will either (or both):
Protect box from stain or water.
Make sure to keep it wrinkle free, with the subject in the middle of it!
The wrinkles will really mess up the reflection, distorting it!
Step 5: Taking a shot:
Put the camera into macro, and turn the light on.
With the box tall you get a directional light, and can use the box flap a gentle reflector.
With the box long you get a nice clean bottom edge, and lots of directional light.
Don't be afraid to get in the way of the light if it is bright enough, plenty of light will still get through.
Pro tip: Want softer light? Or maybe some red, threatening light? By placing a piece of cloth over the lantern or light, you will softly diffuse it, and using colored fabrics, create a cool glow.
Step 6: Go take some awesome shots!
You are all set now, and are ready to take some awesome shots!
Wide and tall each have unique differences, be sure to mess around with them to get it right!
Note: As I said, these shots are all unedited, with a bit of work it could be awesome!
If you build it, be sure to comment with some pictures of your shots!
P.S. This is my first instructable in a little while, I really missed it, I hope I can do another one soon!
Step 7: More Ideas to try (will be updated when I do new stuff):
Print out index sized backgrounds. Make your matchbox car, look like it is at the track surrounded by fans.
Poke Holes at intervals in the box for leds to go through, and add a potentiometer plus a battery and you have really cool variable brightness for shots.
Freeze bugs, and then Macro them.
More soon... leave suggestions!
Step 8: Now that You have the image....
Post Work done in gimp, pretty much the same in Photoshop:
Went to Colors>levels in Gimp
Went to select white point (little eye dropper on bottom)
Picked a gray area in the image.
Went to Color>Color balance
Brought red and green a little bit over.
Select the reflection using magnetic laso.
Went to Color>Color balance
bring red over all the way, and pink over halfway in color balance.
This brought the dingy, grey white picture you saw in step 6, to this polished mouth watering raspberry.
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Reading Standards for Literature
1. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
2. Determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text dis- tinct from personal opinions or judgments.
3. Describe how a particular story’s or drama’s plot unfolds in a series of episodes as well as how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative and connotative meanings; analyze the impact of a specific word choice on meaning and tone. (See grade 6 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.)
5. Analyze how a particular sentence, chapter, scene, or stanza fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the theme, setting, or plot.
6. Explain how an author develops the point of view of the narrator or speaker in a text.
7. Compare and contrast the experience of reading a story, drama, or poem to listening to or viewing an audio, video, or live version of the text, including contrasting what they “see” and “hear” when reading the text to what they perceive when they listen or watch.
8. (Not applicable to literature)
9. Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres (e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories) in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics.
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literature, including stories, dramas, and poems, in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
Reading Standards for Informational Text
1. Cite textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
2. Determine a central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details; provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments.
3. Analyze in detail how a key individual, event, or idea is introduced, illustrated, and elaborated in a text (e.g., through examples or anecdotes).
4. Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, including figurative, connotative, and technical meanings.
(See grade 6 Language standards 4–6 for additional expectations.)
5. Analyze how a particular sentence, paragraph, chapter, or section fits into the overall structure of a text and contributes to the development of the ideas.
a. Analyze the use of text features (e.g., graphics, headers, captions) in popular media.
6. Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and explain how it is conveyed in the text.
7. Integrate information presented in different media or formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively) as well as in words to develop a coherent understanding of a topic or issue.
8. Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
9. Compare and contrast one author’s presentation of events with that of another (e.g., a memoir written by and a biography on the same person).
10. By the end of the year, read and comprehend literary nonfiction in the grades 6–8 text complexity band proficiently, with scaffolding as needed at the high end of the range.
1. Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
a. Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
b. Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the topic or text.
c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
d. Establish and maintain a formal style.
e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
2. Write informative/explanatory texts to examine a topic and convey ideas, concepts, and information through the selection, organization, and analysis of relevant content.
a. Introduce a topic or thesis statement; organize ideas, concepts, and information, using strategies such as definition, classification, comparison/contrast, and cause/effect; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension. CA
b. Develop the topic with relevant facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.
c. Use appropriate transitions to clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
d. Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.
e. Establish and maintain a formal style.
f. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the information or explanation presented.
3. Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, relevant descriptive details, and well-structured event sequences.
a. Engage and orient the reader by establishing a context and introducing a narrator and/or characters; organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally and logically.
b. Use narrative techniques, such as dialogue, pacing, and description, to develop experiences, events, and/or characters.
c. Use a variety of transition words, phrases, and clauses to convey sequence and signal shifts from one time frame or setting to another.
d. Use precise words and phrases, relevant descriptive details, and sensory language to convey experiences and events.
e. Provide a conclusion that follows from the narrated experiences or events.
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience. (Grade-specific expectations for writing types are defined in standards 1–3 above.)
5. With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach. (Editing for conventions should demonstrate command of Language standards 1–3 up to and including grade 6.)
6. Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing as well as to inter- act and collaborate with others; demonstrate sufficient command of keyboarding skills to type a minimum of three pages in a single sitting.
7. Conduct short research projects to answer a question, drawing on several sources and refocusing the inquiry when appropriate.
8. Gather relevant information from multiple print and digital sources; assess the credibility of each source; and quote or paraphrase the data and conclusions of others while avoiding plagiarism and providing basic bibliographic information for sources.
9. Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
a. Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literature (e.g., “Compare and contrast texts in different forms or genres [e.g., stories and poems; historical novels and fantasy stories] in terms of their approaches to similar themes and topics”).
b. Apply grade 6 Reading standards to literary nonfiction (e.g., “Trace and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, distinguishing claims that are supported
by reasons and evidence from claims that are not”).
10. Write routinely over extended time frames (time for research, reflection, and revision) and shorter time frames (a single sitting or a day or two) for a range of discipline-specific tasks, purposes, and audiences.
Speaking and Listening Standards
1. Engage effectively in a range of collaborative discussions (one-on-one, in groups, and teacher- led) with diverse partners on grade 6 topics, texts, and issues, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly.
a. Come to discussions prepared, having read or studied required material; explicitly draw on that preparation by referring to evidence on the topic, text, or issue to probe and reflect on ideas under discussion.
b. Follow rules for collegial discussions, set specific goals and deadlines, and define individual roles as needed.
c. Pose and respond to specific questions with elaboration and detail by making comments that contribute to the topic, text, or issue under discussion.
d. Review the key ideas expressed and demonstrate understanding of multiple perspectives through reflection and paraphrasing.
2. Interpret information presented in diverse media and formats (e.g., visually, quantitatively, orally) and explain how it contributes to a topic, text, or issue under study.
3. Delineate a speaker’s argument and specific claims, distinguishing claims that are supported by reasons and evidence from claims that are not.
4. Present claims and findings (e.g., argument, narrative, informative, response to literature presentations), sequencing ideas logically and using pertinent descriptions, facts, and details and nonverbal elements to accentuate main ideas or themes; use appropriate eye contact, adequate volume, and clear pronunciation. CA
a. Plan and deliver an informative/explanatory presentation that: develops a topic with relevant facts, definitions, and concrete details; uses appropriate transitions to clarify relationships; uses precise language and domain specific vocabulary; and provides a strong conclusion.
5. Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, images, music, sound) and visual displays in presentations to clarify information.
6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate. (See grade 6 Language standards 1 and 3 for specific expectations.)
1. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
a. Ensure that pronouns are in the proper case (subjective, objective, possessive).
b. Use all pronouns, including intensive pronouns (e.g., myself, ourselves) correctly. CA
c. Recognize and correct inappropriate shifts in pronoun number and person.*
d. Recognize and correct vague pronouns (i.e., ones with unclear or ambiguous antecedents).*
e. Recognize variations from standard English in their own and others’ writing and speaking, and identify and use strategies to improve expression in conventional language.*
2. Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English capitalization, punctuation, and spelling when writing.
a. Use punctuation (commas, parentheses, dashes) to set off nonrestrictive/ parenthetical elements.*
b. Spell correctly.
3. Use knowledge of language and its conventions when writing, speaking, reading, or listening.
a. Vary sentence patterns for meaning, reader/ listener interest, and style.*
b. Maintain consistency in style and tone.*
4. Determine or clarify the meaning of unknown and multiple-meaning words and phrases based on grade 6 reading and content, choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
a. Use context (e.g., the overall meaning of a sentence or paragraph; a word’s position or function in a sentence) as a clue to the meaning of a word or phrase.
b. Use common, grade-appropriate Greek
or Latin affixes and roots as clues to the meaning of a word (e.g., audience, auditory, audible).
c. Consult reference materials (e.g., dictionaries, glossaries, thesauruses), both print and digital, to find the pronunciation of a word or determine or clarify its precise meaning or its part of speech.
d. Verify the preliminary determination of the meaning of a word or phrase (e.g., by checking the inferred meaning in context or in a dictionary).
5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
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b. Use the relationship between particular words (e.g., cause/effect, part/whole, item/category) to better understand each of the words.
c. Distinguish among the connotations (associations) of words with similar denotations (definitions) (e.g., stingy, scrimping, economical, unwasteful, thrifty).
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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that human genes cannot be patented, a decision that could shape the future of medical and genetic research and have profound effects on pharmaceuticals and agriculture.
On the other hand, Thomas wrote, Myriad’s creation of a synthetic form of DNA — called cDNA — based on its discovery does deserve patent protection.
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Leo Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russia, the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg, a lawyer, member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party in revolutionary Russia, and Commissar of Justice under Vladimir Lenin from 1917 to 1918.
Notified that Isaac Steinberg's life was in danger, the family escaped Russia in 1920, when Leo was an infant, and settled in Berlin, Germany. In the early 1930s, the Steinbergs were forced to move again, this time to the United Kingdom, after the National Socialists came to power in Germany. Intending to become an artist, Steinberg studied at the Slade School of Fine Art (part of the University of London).
In 1945, encouraged by his older sister and her husband, Steinberg moved to New York City. For years he made a living writing art criticism and teaching art, as for example teaching life drawing at the Parsons School of Design. His criticism of modern art was important, to the extent that in Tom Wolfe's 1975 book, The Painted Word, Steinberg, Harold Rosenberg, and Clement Greenberg were all labeled the "kings of Cultureburg" for the enormous degree of influence that their criticism exerted over the world of modern art at the time.
However, Steinberg eventually moved away from art criticism and developed a serious, scholarly interest in such artists and architects as Francesco Borromini, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci. In 1960, he earned a PhD at New York University's Institute of Fine Arts with a dissertation on the architectural symbolism of Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rome.
Subsequently, Dr. Steinberg taught at Hunter College of the City University of New York. In 1975, he was appointed Benjamin Franklin Professor of the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught until retiring in 1991. From 1995 to 1996, Steinberg was a guest professor at Harvard University.
Leo Steinberg approached the History of Art in a revolutionary manner, helping to move it from a dry consideration of factual details, documents, and iconographic symbols to a more dynamic understanding of meaning conveyed via various artistic choices. For example, in 1972, Steinberg introduced the idea of the "flatbed picture plane" in his book, Other Criteria, a collection of essays on artists including Jackson Pollock, Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Phillip Guston, Robert Rauschenberg, and Willem de Kooning.
In addition, the whole of the Summer, 1983, issue of October was dedicated to Steinberg's important and controversial essay The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, later published as a book by Random House and by publishers in other countries. In that essay, Steinberg examined a previously ignored pattern in Renaissance art: the prominent display of the genitals of the infant Christ and the attention also drawn to that area in images of Christ near the end of his life, in both cases for specific theological reasons involving the concept of the Incarnation -- the word of God made flesh.
Steinberg died on March 13, 2011 in New York City. He was 90 years old.
- 1983 Award in Literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
- 1984, Frank Jewett Mather Award in Art Journalism, College Art Association
- 1986 MacArthur Fellows Program
Though an important 20th-century art critic, Leo Steinberg was also a historian and scholar, particularly of the works of Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and other Italian Renaissance artists. He had a particular interest in the depiction of Christ in art, but this caused controversy and debate. He was also a recognized authority in the field of modern art criticism and produced important work on Pablo Picasso, Jasper Johns and Willem de Kooning. Because he had experience as a historian, his work on contemporary artists could place them in historical context. One of his most significant essays was Contemporary Art and the Plight of its Public, which appeared in March 1962 in Harper's Magazine.
Steinberg took a less-than-formal approach to criticism, sometimes using a first-person narrative in his essays, which personalized the experience of art for readers. In many of his writings, he expressed his love for art's ability not only to reflect life but also to become it and commented, "Anything anybody can do, painting does better." He believed that the difference between modern painting and that of the Old Masters was the viewer's subjective experience of that artwork. He also believed that Abstract Expressionist action painters, such as Pollock, were more concerned with creating good art than with merely expressing a personal identity on canvas, a point of view contrary to that held by Harold Rosenberg, another American art critic of Steinberg's era.
- Leo Steinberg: Selections
- Other Criteria, 1972. Essays
- Pontormo's Capponi Chapel." Art Bulletin 56, no. 3 (1974): 385-99.
- Borromini's San Carlo Alle Quattro Fontane. A study in multiple form and architectural symbolism, Garland Publishing, Inc., New York & London, 1977
- The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion, 1983. First published in the journal October, No. 25, (Summer) 1983.
- Leonardo's Incessant Last Supper, 2001
- Contemporary Art and the Plight of its Public appeared in Harper's Magazine in March 1962
- Johnson, Ken (March 14, 2011). "Leo Steinberg, Art Historian, Dies at 90". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved March 15, 2011.
- The Art Story: Art Critic - Leo Steinberg
- Honorary degrees are awarded
- Inventory Of The Leo Steinberg Research Papers
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You don’t need dozens of acres to become self sufficient. Through careful planning, selection and land use, you can grow delicious vegetables, herbs and fruit, and even livestock on as little as one to two acres. The secret is careful planning and research, as well as thinking differently about the space available for your garden and farm.
How much land you need to be self-sufficient all depends on how efficiently you use the land.
Planning Your Land Use
By carefully choosing crops that will do well in your climate, as well as adding nutrients to the soil through the application of compost and manures, you can raise abundant crops on a small amount of land. Plan ahead of time how you will use the land available to you, and take good care of your soil. If you care for your soil, it will care for you by returning nutritious, abundant crops.
Fertile, well-drained soil is a blessing, but even if your soil is rocky or contains enough clay to make bricks, you can still grow a garden. Have your soil tested at your local Cooperative Extension Office; the Extension agent will guide you on the amendments your soil needs to grow healthy vegetables based on the results of your soil test. Alternatively, you can build raised beds and add soil and compost to create the perfect soil.
Growing Your Own Vegetables
Vegetables can be grown in a tiny urban yard or on many acres; the choice is yours. Many intensive gardening practices such as square foot gardens, vertical gardening, and raised beds can help you grow more vegetables in a small space.
Think beyond a vegetable garden plot to increase the amount of land available to grow your own food. Can you plant vegetables instead of a lawn? Potatoes can be grown in old tires, barrels and more. Old pallets can be nailed together, filled with soil, and used to grow lettuce, squash and cucumbers on a vertical platform. Tomatoes can even be grown from special vertical planters hanging from a porch or a deck. With a little ingenuity, you can dramatically increase the space available to grow vegetables.
Herbs for Tea and Medicine
Herbs are a wonderful addition to the home garden and require very little space. You can grow herbs in window boxes or flower pots inside your home on a sunny windowsill. Try parsley, chives, rosemary and basil in pots or containers; calendula, oregano, lemon balm and mint need more space, but can be grown in old whiskey barrels or other containers outdoors.
Fruit and Nut Trees
Adding fruit and nut trees to your home increases the amount and variety of food available to your family. Nuts provide excellent nutrition and protein, and fruit can be eaten fresh, frozen, or dried, or made into jams and jellies for winter consumption. Fruit and nut trees offer abundance in exchange for little space in the garden.
When researching fruit trees for your gardening zone, consider whether or not the tree requires a pollinator; some trees require two or more of different varieties for pollination. Look for dwarf fruit trees which produce plenty of fruit in little space. Nuts such as hazelnuts grow on low-growing shrub-like trees, making them easy to add to a small garden space.
Livestock Requires More Land
Consider whether or not you wish to add livestock to your homestead. Small livestock require little space, but you need to plan for their food supply, especially in the winter. Wheat, corn and hay can be grown on an additional half to one acre, which may be fine in a temperate climate where your livestock can graze on pastureland for most of the year, but may be inadequate in colder climates. Even with great pasture land you’ll need to store up or purchase hay or feed to get through the winter months.
Chickens need very little space and provide eggs and meat. Goats and sheep need fenced pastures, and a cow needs the most land of all. Before adding livestock to your homestead, learn as much as you can about the care and feeding of each animal. Consider whether you’re willing to trim hooves, administer vaccinations, de-worm your animals, and other tasks livestock require.
Self Reliant on Two Acres or Less? It’s Possible!
Through clever planning and space management, as well as paying careful attention to your soil, you can grow delicious vegetables, herbs, and fruits at home in as little as a half acre. If you have more space, you can add livestock if you choose to do so. Self reliance on two acres or less is definitely possible.
So what are you waiting for? Do something now to get you closer to self sufficiency!
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In the first installment, we looked at what first made Tokaj a classic wine region, why it nearly disappeared, and how it’s reemerging today in a relevant way. This article will focus on how a new generation is embracing the appellation’s history and pedigree while also improving farming and winemaking, adjusting to new wines laws, and aiming for high quality across the board.
Tokaj, like the other 21 appellations in Hungary, lacks context in the US market. We might know of the late Zsa Zsa Gabor, goulash, Bull’s Blood, and paprika, but we aren’t exposed to the broader culture of Hungary. One might blame the iron curtain, or how quickly Hungarian immigrants integrated into American culture, but those are no longer excuses for the oversight. Tokaji, so heavily imbued with Hungarian identity, is an iconic and worthy ambassador of its country.
Keeping that in mind, this article will outline the various wine styles of Tokaj and how to contextualize them in the larger world of wine, while also hopefully peaking enough interest to compel a visit to the region.
What is the significance of being the world’s first delimited wine region? Winemakers weren’t taking deep soil core samples 500 years ago, or scientifically measuring the effects of zeolite versus loess on grapes and vintage. Classified vineyards were largely based on cultural, political, historical, and familial importance—and, of course, market value. Geographical attributes, natural boundaries, and the like also played an important role, but much of the knowledge of what justified a first- or second-class vineyard was forgotten or lost during Communism.
Here are some important milestones, leading up to the classification in 1737:
There’s also the question of what happens when a second- or third-class vineyard becomes a benchmark or achieves market success over a first-class site. How we both celebrate such an earned history and grapple with the current market is a heavily debated topic, to say the very least.
A map displaying about 100 of Tokaj's 389 single vineyards—zoom in for a closer look! © András Ede Molnár
For hundreds of years, Tokaji had a devoted following within the nobility and aristocracy of Europe, and quality in the vineyard followed suit. Then, after WWII, Communist rule, and a host of other historic maladies, the region turned rather suddenly into a state-owned collectivized model geared toward quantity, as discussed in the first article. Tokaji went from being a sought-after, unique cultural product to a mass-produced recipe. Imagine harvesting everything from all over Burgundy or Piedmont, regardless of terroir and pick dates, and then blending it together on an industrial scale for 50 years. Small growers were incentivized to grow more and more hectoliters. The labor force also became specialized to support these large wineries. Those who knew how to make great wine, from the vineyard all the way to bottle, begin to dwindle.
Further, Tokaj-Hegyalja is the product of 20 million years of volcanic activity. This means that whether in the loess-covered south or the diverse range of rocks and clay locally called nyirok, the subsoil is largely tuff, guaranteeing that vines will struggle. Many of the most famous dűlői (crus) in the appellation are on the slopes of these formally active volcanoes, adding to their struggle with erosion, drainage, and exposure. As the aim was to supply industrial levels of production for consumption in the former USSR and the other former Bloc countries, growers quickly resorted to fertilizing, spraying heavily, and planting on the flats where large Russian-built tractors could easily operate. Vine density decreased, and famed terraces and steep sloped vineyards went fallow or were eventually consumed by the Zemplén Forest. Many forgotten vineyards are visible while driving through the region or walking up into the forest from existing sites. It’s a surreal sight.
Today, producers are reverting to pre-Communist era practices. One of the biggest jobs is replanting the slopes, terraces, and other sites that weren’t ideal for squeezing out the most hectoliters. Clonal selection for these new plantings is also being addressed, as earlier clones were frequently chosen for mass production rather than affinity to terroir. Growers are increasing vine density to promote competition. Many top sites are once again stake trained and worked by hand, horse, or small modern tractor.
It is important to note that botrytized grapes bring unique challenges: how do growers manage use of copper, sulfur, and pesticides that potentially inhibit the one thing that makes their wines so special? Aside from the heavy use of chemicals in the Communist era, Tokaj has largely working in what we would now call an organic fashion. Picking up where they left off, most top producers aren’t spraying pesticides and instead use orange oil and other more natural deterrents for pests. The proximity to the forest and general biodiversity of the region help as well. Cover crops abound, and there isn’t a massive monoculture of vines.
With quality fetching a better price than quantity in today’s market, growers have plenty of incentive to improve their farming practices.
An example of improved farming practices at the Határi vineyard, which is now stake trained, farmed without pesticides, and worked completely by hand.
While many of the new laws align with Tokaj’s current focus on improving winemaking quality, others are major changes to the previous state-owned collective mentality. This attitude still has influence—even today, the largest producer and buyer of grapes, Grand Tokaj, is state owned. Despite some changes in its management and policy, it remains an anchor for the region.
There is a far more detailed and complex set of laws than covered here, but the aim is uniform: raising quality. Here's a quick breakdown of recent changes in the wine law:
This category is perhaps getting the largest push in terms of marketing, market reach, and attention among producers in the region. It’s also what you’re most likely to see in the US market in terms of by-the-glass offerings. Looking solely at cash flow, these wines make sense. They don’t require the 18 months minimum aging of Aszú, are far less labor intensive, and compete on the larger market of dry wines. The style is not new: dry Tokaji was made for centuries but over time took a back seat to the popularity and value of the sweet. It wasn’t until the early 2000s that any remarkable dry wines were produced, and even then, only a small handful of winemakers made them. This begged the question of how to highlight dry wines in an appellation whose soul is steeped in the sweet. For many, making dry wines is the fastest way to rediscover terroir, identify the best clones, and gain the opportunity to make Aszú.
Volcanic soils, including rhyolite, andesite, dacite, bentonite, zeolite, kaolin, opal, and obsidian, are major influencers on the dry wines. Like volcanic wines around the world, salt, weight, acidity, and minerality must be balanced. Since botrytis can set as early as August, picking early isn’t an option, and picking late and fermenting all the way dry can drive alcohol up. Is it better to push through malolactic fermentation to soften acidity, or to avoid it altogether? Leave some residual sugar or not? Omit or include botrytis? Employ oxidative or reductive fermentation? The answers to these questions are still being uncovered, after only 20 years of trial and error. Some early dry wines tasted like salted mineral water at 15% alcohol. Still other early examples were as magical as the sweet wines.
Here’s what’s important to know. There are three major tiers: Birtok (estate), village (as in Burgundy), and single vineyard. Many producers in villages like Tarcal, Tokaj, Mád, Bodrogkeresztúr, and Bodrogkisfalud are forging ahead with high quality production of all three of these. Producers in other villages like Tállya, Sárospatak, Erdőbénye, and Olaszliszka are still catching up, releasing their inaugural commercial vintages only in the past couple of years.
Regardless, this category is a common first introduction to Tokaj, so it must surprise consumers with its quality, character, and deliciousness. Promisingly, faulty dry wines are increasingly infrequent. Most have embraced that “dry” in Tokaj means keeping some of the region’s famed residual sugar (often 6 to 15 grams/liter), thus keeping alcohol in check, and highlighting how incredibly well these wines pair with food, given their high acidity. The best examples compare to the best white wines of the world. Furmint and Hárslevelű are in the same genetic family as Chardonnay and Riesling, with the cultural weight of Tokaj behind them. Riedel has even developed a dedicated Furmint glass, and a new dry Tokaji bottle has been designed by Géza Ipacs for market recognition.
Traditional method Hungarian sparkling wine dates to 1882 in Törley, but it didn’t reach Tokaj until 2006 or 2007. It has had the same challenges as dry wines in appealing to the market: sweet wines were the celebrated wines of the region, not bubbles. Due to lack of equipment and knowledge, commercial production started with larger producers like Dereszla, Patricius, Gróf Degenfeld, and Királyudvar, who could source equipment and bring in experts. But in more recent years, smaller artisan producers like Demeter Zoltán and Kikelet have made stunning traditional method wines in house as well. Other likeminded producers are doing the same, utilizing the facilities of larger producers.
Ideal grapes, clones, and terroirs for these wines are still being identified. Furthermore, the two most grown grapes, Furmint and Hárslevelű, are relatively late ripening, prone to botrytis, can produce a lot of sugar, and have high acidity—not exactly a dream scenario for typically crisp sparkling wine production. However, when balanced, you’ve got something in between a Sekt and a sparkling Vouvray—only coming out of a volcano. Some producers are even experimenting using Aszú as the dosage.
Tokaj’s late harvest (sometimes called cuvée) wines only came about as a category in the 1990s. Unlike Aszú and Szamorodni, this category is not strictly regulated. Made from over-ripened grapes, it does not require botrytis and can be fermented and aged in stainless steel for whatever amount of time the producer dictates, with no minimum for alcohol or residual sugar. This is not to say these wines are necessarily simple. Rather, they are fresh, can span the whole spectrum of grapes (late harvest Sárga Muskotály or Kövérszőlő, for instance), and have an incredible value-to-price ratio. These wines are comparable to late harvest wines from Canada, Germany, and other parts of the world.
Originally called Főbor (main wine), this style was officially named Szamorodni, a Polish term, in the 1800s due to its popularity in that market. To make this style, healthy, shriveled, and botrytized grapes are harvested and fermented together. There is no individual botrytized berry selection as in the Aszú wines.
Szamorodni literally means “as it comes” and can be both sweet and dry. Sweet Szamorodni must spend at least two years in barrel and have at least 12% alcohol. It is more complex than late harvest wine, with more botrytized character and integrated oxidative flavors. Dry Szamorodni is currently a rarer style. It isn’t just fermented to dryness but also introduces Cladosporium cellare (a special cellar mold), and in some cases, a yeast veil (flor) develops over the top of the wine. These yeasts are specific to Tokaj’s volcanic cellars, and the evaporation rate is also the reverse of dry cellars, in that alcohol evaporates without water loss so the wines lose a small percentage of alcohol each year. With an initial potential alcohol of 17 to 18%, the wines can be aged for six or more years and still end up at 13 to 14% alcohol. No fortification is allowed. Like Fino Sherry or Vin Jaune in aroma, the acidity, sweetness of the botrytized fruit (but little-to-no residual sugar), and low alcohol sets it firmly apart.
Put simply, this is the world’s first and most concentrated (in terms of acidity and sugar) botrytized wine. It’s important to remember that during Tokaj’s heyday in the 17th and 18th century, sugar was rare and alchemy in vogue. Here comes an impossibly sweet golden wine—an easy choice of medicine and muse for queens, kings, tsars, popes, and influential artists and intellectuals across Europe. It was also a diplomatic tool to court foreign powers and was heavily imbued with national identity. The Tokaj brand became attached to all types of things outside the region to connote prestige—Tokay d’Alsace or Tocai Friulano, anyone? These and other unsubstantiated uses of the brand have only been recently outlawed.
How exactly is this wine made? First, single botrytized berries are hand-picked, berry by berry. Originally, these were put into a puttony, a small wooden basket that could carry about 25 kilograms. A skilled worker putting in a full day’s work in a quality vintage would be lucky to pick 10 kilograms a day. Once the puttony is full, berries are mashed into a chutney-like consistency and then macerated with either a fermenting must or an already fermented base wine. Then, they are pressed and barreled down into Gönci, special 136-liter barrels of Hungarian oak sourced from the forests bordering the appellation. Minimum aging is 18 months in barrel and a year in bottle.
Aszú is essentially a skin-contact sweet wine. The number of puttony added to a single Gönci barrel originally defined the 3-to-6 puttonyos scale. More puttonyos meant a sweeter and more complex wine. Nowadays, Aszú is measured by residual sugar (grams/liter), but the puttony paints an important picture of the labor involved in production.
The 1991 banning of chaptalization and fortification is generally considered the first step toward reinstating quality Aszú production. This is not to say that good Aszú was not made during Communism—according to Christie’s Auction House, drinkable bottles have purchased from as far back as the 1648 vintage. Quality Aszú today is refreshingly sweet, low in alcohol, oxidative (not oxidized), and balanced.
Fordítás is quite rare, and Máslás was recently phased out as a category. They are similar and still deserve some attention. They are bottled in the same traditional 500-milliliter glass bottle as an Aszú or Szamorodni, so it’s important to understand the differences.
Fordítás means “turning over.” After making an Aszú or Szamorodni wine, the pressed dough (mashed up botrytized fruit) is soaked again in a non-botrytized fermented must or a finished based wine from the same vintage. It’s then aged for a minimum of one year in barrel and one more in bottle to eke out every bit of botrytized flavor. It is not nearly as elegant as an Aszú or Szamorodni but can have a raw and rustic charm. This style dates to the early 1820s.
Máslás means “copying.” It is made by blending the previously used lees from Aszú or Szamorodni into a non-botrytized fermenting or already fermented wine. It’s a copy-and-paste method, with Aszú lees and fresh wine dating back as far as 1759. This style served a purpose, in the same spirit of using every part of an animal, but doesn’t garner much favor today. Historically, there was even a third copy, “Harmadolás.”
Essencia is more of a nectar than a wine. In top vintages, single Aszú berries are hand-picked and left to crush under their own weight, with no pressing allowed. It can reach over 800 grams/liter of residual sugar and well above 20 grams/liter total acidity before fermentation. It can only be fermented in glass (usually carboys) and takes years to reach only a few degrees alcohol. There is no other wine like it in the world. It’s concentrated, viscous, and oddly bright and invigorating. Traditionally, it’s served via a spoon, some more ornate than others. Spoons also recall the fact that this was originally seen as medicine. A drop at birth and a drop before death, at the very least, and considered a magical cure-all.
Aszú berries being pressed under their own weight to make Essencia © Mathilde Hulot
At the risk of hyperbole, visiting Tokaj today is like visiting Burgundy or Piedmont 20 or 30 years ago. Visitors can get appointments easily, walk the vineyards, and explore the cellars with just about everyone. Producers’ doors are open, and winemakers are working hard to better one another and the region. Now is the time to get in on the ground floor of a truly classic appellation of the world coming back to life. Check out the travel websites listed in the previous article and get going!
As a final plea, if you’re into salty, weighty, acid-driven wines from regions like Etna, Santorini, and the Canary Islands, dry Tokaji is a logical next step. If you’re into Vin Jaune or Sherry, consider dry Szamorodni. If you enjoy Crémant du Jura or Crémant de Loire, please try some Pezsgő. If you’re into Sauternes and Trockenbeerenauslese, you have a professional obligation to taste quality sweet Szamorodni and Aszú. And if you’re lucky—or a hedonist—seek out some Essencia.
This is by no means an exhaustive list and, of course, omits entire villages with outstanding producers (another reason to visit!). Broken down by village, these producers represent a broad range of styles and production levels and can be sought out stateside.
See “Tokaj Part 1: Sweet Relevance” for a list of books and websites for further exploration.
"The 3 and 4 Puttonyos categories are now effectively gone. Minimum total potential alcohol level is also raised to 19% for Aszú wines."
is 19% correct? or it is 9%?
Good question. 19% is the potential alcohol at harvest assuming all of the sugar is fermented to alcohol. This is not the final ABV % after fermentation. For instance, you if you harvested at 33 Brix and fermented to total dryness, you might end up with something like 19% ABV. Since Aszú must be minimum 120 g/l residual sugar, most final ABVs end up around 11-13%. You're correct that the finished alcohol cannot be lower than 9% for Aszú. Does this help clarify?
This does help Eric Danch . Thank you very much. And thank you for posting about Tokaji. I am thrilled by Tokaji´s "revival" and cannot be excited enough to see more and more of them in wine lists.
As I had hoped, albeit somewhat nervously, a few producers from Tokaj have already contacted me with some small corrections and additions we should take note of. Since very little has been written from an American perspective, there is plenty of room (and need!) for more dialogue. This is especially the case for a region as in flux as Tokaj. In no particular order:
>I had written that the 3 and 4 Puttonyos categories are now effectively gone. Technically, the use of 3 and 4 Puttonyos is still permitted as long as they meet the minimum 120 g/l of residual sugar. However, with this sugar level you could label the same wine as a 5 Puttonyos. From a market perspective, most consumers and trade want a higher number of Puttonyos. Is sweeter better for an Aszú is another question, but the 120 g/l is firm.
>Máslás is still authorized, but nobody can point to any currently being produced. I had said it was being phased out as a category.
>One thing I did not mention was wine law before Hungary joined the EU in 2004. Tokaj fell under three categories: Table Wine (Tokaj name not used), Quality Wine (Tokaj name used, sugar correction allowed), and High Quality Wine (500 ml bottles, no sugar or alcohol corrections allowed).
>I had mentioned that there are currently 389 single vineyards (Dűlő). Over this past summer, this has been upped to 429 although work is not finished. Drones, satellite imaging and historians are hard at work in concert with new registrations. The single vineyard map included above only covers roughly 100, but these are more established names you’re likely to encounter in the US market.
Overall, there is no doubt that articles like this will be either dated or in need of revisions sooner than later. This is good news!
Excelent work! As half-hungarian (hungarian mother) i have to thank you for such a great resumee of one of the most amazing and unknown regions of the world! i recently visited the region. I wish i could have read this before going! Chrees from Bogotá!
Eric, as you mentioned in the article, Aszúeszencia was conceived as an official category in the 1970s, however I have found a bottle of 1920's Tokaji under Aszú eszencia. Does that mean thats a fake wine or the catagory was already there before 1970's?
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Re: Food, Clothing,Shelter should be controlled by government.
Fractional versus 100 % Reserve Banking
Morris J. Markovitz
There has been a long-standing conflict among Austrian economists about the nature of the best or most "freedom-consistent" banking system for a true laissez faire society. The issue is important because the two viewpoints are not merely differences of degree. Both sides invoke the same fundamental moral and economic principles, yet each comes out in opposition to the other.
How can this be? This article contends that it can't be - that there's a logical flaw at the base of both arguments, a very minor but logically critical one - and that actually both sides are right when the issue is restated in the proper terms.
To show this, let us first summarize both sides of the debate. The 100-percenters say that in a free society, force is outlawed, a statement both sides can endorse. Next, since fraud is a form of (implicit) force, it too must be banned. Since a fractional reserve system promises to pay specie in amounts greater than what actually exist, that promise is a fraud. Therefore, the 100-percenters contend, a fractional reserve banking system has no place in a free society.
The fractional reserve advocates, who disagree with the 100-percenters, also base their arguments on free market principles. In a free market, they say, anyone can do what he wants as long as he doesn't use force against others. This includes banks. If a bank issues notes that aren't 100 per cent backed by specie, by what right do we stop them? They aren't forcing people to accept the notes.
Notes of the less-well-backed banks will circulate at a bigger discount than notes that are more well backed. A promise to pay the bearer doesn't have to be backed 100 per cent at all times. Otherwise, a promissory note from an individual who had no gold, but who expected to be earning a gold paycheck in future weeks, would be just as guilty of fraud. That's obviously not the case, and yet, the fractional reserve advocates conclude, there is no difference in principle between an individual's un-backed promissory note and a bank's fractionally backed note.
In summary, the 100-percenters have shown that the fractional reservers are advocating fraud. The fractional reservers have shown that the 100-percenters advocate force (by legally prohibiting the freedom to issue partially backed notes). This is why the debate, while never really hitting the headlines, is such a serious one: from each side's view, the other side is guilty of a severe moral transgression.
Periodically the debate flares up, and each side reasserts its logically self-consistent argument. Neither side, however, refutes the other's argument. Finally, everyone throws up his hands in exasperation and the debate peters out once again. Each side tries to be cordial to the other, but, because such moral issues are involved, the debate has to be an obstacle to genuine goodwill between the two factions.
Having stated the problem, we now come to the resolution. The apparent contradiction arises out of a subtle fallacy, named "intellectual package dealing" by Ayn Rand. Besides accepting the same explicit moral principles, each side, unfortunately, has also accepted the same implicit "package deal."
A "package deal" is the inappropriate "packaging" of two or more different concepts under a single label. It can be used consciously to mislead, or unwittingly, causing confusion. In this case, two completely separate things are meant by the term "banking system," each of which, combined with the same set of free market principles, will support only one side of the debate while refuting the other. Once we separate the two different concepts, there will be no difference of opinion left.
The package deal arises subtly because, in today's mixed economy, institutions called "banks" actually perform more than one function. They are supposed to be safe havens for capital. They are also loan brokers. Throughout most of modern history, "banks" have performed both functions, and in fact both functions have been melded into differing aspects of a single, complicated banking system.
That's probably why the error occurs so naturally and automatically. The two functions have become inextricable from each other in a government-mandated system that tries to have its cake and eat it: to provide 100-per cent guaranteed safety of bank deposits, while employing a fractional reserve method.
The Warehouse Function
One of a "bank's" functions is to be a safe warehouse. This is obviously a valuable function, and in a free market people who desired this service would pay for it. Its analogy in today's world would be a safe-deposit box: a protected stronghold for the storage of valuables, for which the user pays. In a free market, those availing themselves of this "banking" service would deposit their specie in a "bank" where it would be held under lock and key. They would receive, essentially, a warehouse receipt or claim check for it, and in some fashion the service would have to be paid for. The claim checks would then circulate as fully backed money substitutes. This is the image in the minds of the 100-percenters, who nevertheless fear that temptation would lead the "banks" to cheat.
Laws against fraud, however, would prevent this, as applied to this particular banking function. Even in today's market, banks are not allowed to break into private safe-deposit boxes and "borrow" their contents without the owners' consent. The 100-percenters are correct that the same ought to be true in the ideal laissez-faire economy, and for this aspect of banking, the fractional reservers should be able to agree completely. Clearly, stealing from safe deposit boxes is force.
Banking today, however, also entails another completely separate function. Banks act as loan brokers, accepting deposits for which they pay interest instead of getting paid for safe storage. They then lend out these deposits at higher rates and profit from the difference, as well as (and more so) from the creating of deposits via the fractional reserve system.
Today the citizen has no real choice between the two functions. He has nowhere to put his money for safekeeping except into a loan-brokering operation at a bank. (He could put green cash into a safe deposit box, but the inflation engendered by the very system he's trying to avoid precludes this as a sensible option.)
As the fractional reservers; point out, there's nothing wrong with loan-brokering. What's wrong is forcing people to deposit into a loan-brokering scheme by forbidding the alternative, while simultaneously falsely advertising the loan-broker outfit as a safe warehouse. That's what today's banking system does and both sides would agree that it's wrong.
In a free market, both functions ought to be permissible, but clearly defined and separated. This doesn't mean government regulations, but rather legal definitions that distinguish the two concepts, clarify their differences, and serve as the basis for legal redress if and when a loan-brokering operation fraudulently advertises itself as something else, and someone sues.
The 100-percenters want a clean, stable, no-questions-about-it currency that serves the role of money. This they will have without prohibiting the fractional reservers' loan--brokering "bankers." The notes of these loan brokers, in practice, probably will not even circulate as money, but as interest-bearing notes, similar to commercial paper today. If they were clearly identified as a loan-broker's fractionally backed (promissory) notes, then no one would accept them unless the notes paid interest appropriate to the financial risk they entailed. (Remember, it is only the existence of legal tender laws that allow Gresham's Law to work. If people aren't forced to accept bad money, then good money will drive bad money out.)
The 100-percenters can confidently acquiesce in allowing the existence of fractional "loan-brokering" by "banks," knowing that without legal tender laws, these notes will have to show their true colors in the marketplace, as the equivalent of commercial "promissory notes," and never would achieve the status of money. Since a genuine need for safe storage does exist, there will also be someone, somewhere, who issues 100 per cent backed notes for the convenience of his customers, and those pieces of paper will circulate as money, by the natural workings of the market.
In practice, it may well turn out to be most efficient to house these two functions under one roof, but never to blend them into one "system." Just as we have money-market versus bond "switch funds" today, a single institution could offer both services. A cautious citizen might avail himself of only the warehouse facility, where his gold deposits would be physically segregated, and he would pay for this service. If he wanted to lend to industry, he could have some or all of his gold transferred to the other side of the "bank" and accept the risk in return for the interest.
In sum, if we:
a) separate the concept of "banking" into its two distinct functions (warehousing and loan-brokering);
b) recognize this distinction in law, as part of the general body of law on fraud; and
c) eliminate legal tender laws, the result will be a money and credit system that satisfies all the requirements of both camps.
At the time of the original publication, Morris Markovitz was President of a Wall Street management firm.
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How To Repair A Caught Laptop Cursor
This guide describes tips on how to run the System File Checker tool (SFC.exe) to scan system recordsdata and repair any missing or corrupted ones. If a Windows Resource Protection file is lacking or corrupted, Windows could not behave as anticipated. For instance, some Windows capabilities would possibly fail or Windows will crash.
After stepping into Windows, strive your mouse to see if it works. You can attempt to replug your USB cable or USB receiver into the identical USB port or a different one to verify if it works. One frequent repair for this concern stems from outdated Nvidia drivers. Windows 10 customers report acceleration issues in several scenarios. There’s no single fix for the mouse acceleration issues.
If your laptop computer has this function, press the button or keys to turn the touchpad on and off a number of instances. When Windows loads, it should detect the USB port units in your laptop and reinstall them, including the drivers. Make certain the computer just isn’t frozen by urgent the Num Lock key on the keyboard. When Num Lock is pressed repeatedly, the Num Lock indicator LED in your keyboard should activate and off. If this indicator doesn’t change, your laptop is frozen; that means all hardware on the computer is not going to work.
Press Enter on the keyboard to open USB Root Hub (USB three.zero)Properties. Please notice, that is an example on my machine, on your machine, it is going to be totally different, however the logic and terminology are the identical. For this methodology, you’ll need entry to another Windows machine and USB flash driver to switch driver to your present machine.
Activate Or Allow Touchpad In Touchpad Settings
If the touchpad gadget just isn’t working accurately, you possibly can strive updating the drivers. Click the Change settings button, click on the Driver tab, then click the Update Driver button. Click the Search automatically possibility to allow Windows to search for an updated driver on the pc and the Internet. Motherboard and laptop producers replace hardware drivers periodically, including USB port drivers.
The Windows Update system all the time has an opportunity of breaking something, someplace. That Microsoft is enjoyable the beforehand stringent Windows Update guidelines can only help finish customers. If a buggy update isn’t installed automatically, you stand a greater probability of steering away from time consuming mouse-related bugs. To update your Nvidia drivers, first head to the Nvidia drivers web page. Select your Nvidia product from the dropdown boxes, then choose Start Search. The newest drivers for your Nvidia graphics card will appear within the outcomes beneath.
What’s Driver Help?
It is usually used to open contextual menus, which are pop-up menus that can change relying on where you click. If the left mouse button directly interacts with an object, the right mouse button typically lets you not directly interact. Right-clicking a file provides a listing of operations on the file, or the power to display its properties. Right-clicking on your desktop background allows you to modify the desktop, and so on.
Click Start Scan to find Windows issues that could be inflicting PC issues. With the assistance of those steps, hopefully the problem is now solved. Check out our information on how to repair a laptop computer keyboard. Some HP laptops have an LED within the prime-left nook. If yours is lit, it means the touchpad is disabled.
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Whenever the stock market has had a tremendous rise, as it has in recent months, you hear a lot of talk about taking profits and selling overvalued stocks (if not about paying income taxes on those capital gains or brokers' commissions on the trades).
You also hear suggestions to keep the sales proceeds in money-market funds until a correction hammers down share prices so the same stocks or others can be bought at lower levels.
While this may work for those who claim the ability to call market turns successfully, it doesn't work for most investors, who don't have -- and shouldn't expect to have -- the knack and who find unsuccessful market timing costly. The correction may come later than expected, depriving them of additional gains. Or the recovery may come sooner than expected; prices surge while they're still trying to muster enough confidence to get back into the market.
If you're invested in well-managed equity mutual funds, you should not have to worry about getting out (and paying taxes on gains) until you realize your long-term investment goals.
You should be able to stay in the funds, letting the managers worry about which stocks have become overvalued, which reasonably priced shares should be bought to replace them, and whether they should allocate more or less of their assets to cash equivalents.
If you're seriously concerned about stock market risk but want to enjoy the returns equity investments can produce, one category of equity funds that should let you sleep at night during periods of market turbulence is growth and income funds.
They are very popular because, as the name implies, they offer both capital appreciation and income, and because they are less volatile. The income portions of their total returns not only accommodate those who want dividends in cash, but they also supply a cushion for those who reinvest distributions in more shares (at lower prices) when the market takes a tumble.
While growth funds exceed them in number, 368 vs. 281, growth and income funds constitute the largest fund category in terms of assets: $104 billion at the end of April (vs. $80 billion for growth funds) out of $292 billion for all equity funds reporting to the Investment Company Institute. According to Lipper Analytical Services, $60 billion alone is accounted for by 20 funds with net assets exceeding $1 billion, led by Vanguard's $7.8 billion Windsor Fund.
Although funds classified by ICI, Lipper and others as growth and income funds may give growth and income as their broad investment objectives, they differ in the emphasis they give to more specific goals. They also differ in how they're invested to achieve their goals and, as the table indicates, in how well they perform.
Some -- such as Massachusetts Investors Trust and the Fidelity, T. Rowe Price, and Scudder growth and income funds -- cite three goals: long-term capital growth, current income and growth of income.
Others, such as Investment Company of America, Selected American, and U.S. Boston Growth & Income, aim at long-term growth of capital and income -- to which funds such as Dodge & Cox Stock and Vanguard's Windsor II add current income as a secondary objective.
Still others simply shoot for high total return. FPA Paramount and Merrill Lynch Capital, for example, are in this group.
To achieve these objectives, nearly all are primarily invested in dividend-paying common stocks -- in some cases, over 90 percent of the fund's assets are in such stocks -- and in varying proportions of money-market instruments. Some also invest in bonds to enhance income or moderate volatility.
In selecting stocks, some managers look for those whose price-earnings ratios or book value are lower than those of the Standard & Poor's 500 or whose yields are higher than those of the index (currently just above 3 percent). Others put more stress on prospects for growth in earnings, dividends or both.
One fund, Sovereign Investors, takes an unusual approach: It invests only in stocks of companies that have raised their dividends annually for 10 or more years. Even though an increased number of companies have recently cut, or even skipped, dividends, President George A. Bailey Jr. says he still has more than 400 to choose from.
If growth and income funds sound right for you, here are some pointers to keep in mind when comparing prospective funds:
* Dividends can be powerful in building capital. Of the Vanguard 500 Portfolio's 10-year average return of 14.9 percent, about 6.9 percent is attributable to dividend income and its reinvestment.
* Unless you're investing in an IRA, income taxes on capital gains distributions can reduce your after-tax profits significantly. Look for funds with lower rates of portfolio turnover.
* Decide whether current income or growth of income matters more to you, and only consider funds whose objectives match yours.
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A brief introduction to working in professional audio
There are a number of ways in which Audio Masterclass students want to work...
- To produce their own music
- To own and operate a music production company, perhaps including songwriting
- To write and record music for television, film or advertising
- Employment in a recording studio, television, radio, concert sound, theatre sound or the events industry
- To work unpaid in a house of worship or an amateur dramatic society
Central to all of these is that your work has to please someone. If you produce your own music, you will either have to please the A&R manager of a record label, or the public if you sell CDs and downloads directly. If you are employed, you have to please your manager or employer. If you work freelance or operate a recording service of any kind, you will have to please your clients. If you work unpaid in a house of worship or amateur dramatic society, you will have to please the congregation or the ticket-buying public.
Working professionally, or to a professional standard, is therefore all about pleasing people, or in other words doing work that they like, they enjoy, they will pay for, or they can profit from themselves.
The 'no faults' criterion
The first rule of pleasing people is that you mustn't displease them first. That would be like starting out to climb Mount Everest by going down to the bottom of a well or cave. You would have further to climb to reach the summit.
So your work must have no faults. In audio terms this means a full frequency response, no audible noise and no audible distortion. In live sound there must be no howlround (feedback). But there is also presentation... Your work must start and end neatly, and must be neat and precise all the way through. Your finished work must not contain any unwanted sounds, such as clicks, coughs out-takes etc. The disc that you labeled, or file that you added metadata to, must have no spelling mistakes in the name of the artist or title of the song. If you work live, then when a performer wearing a radio mic leaves the stage, you will pull down the fader for their microphone, in case they talk to a fellow performer off-stage or a member of stage crew.
These are just a few of the things that could be classed as faults in audio. And to be professional you have to be sure that your work is free from anything that could be thought of as a fault or problem.
The 'up with the front runners' criterion
Sound is a profession for people who want to be running among the front of the pack. It isn't a profession for slackers. Anyone with a 'that will do' mentality won't last long in the industry. It should be obvious that only one person can ever run at the front in any race at any time, and only one person can win. But to succeed in audio, you don't have to be that person. You might aspire to be, and that's good. But being among the front runners, or at least having that kind of mentality, is enough.
What this means is that if you write and record your own songs, then your songs have to be as good as songs that are selling already. And your production skills have to be comparable with already-successful producers. If you work, say, in theatre sound, then what the audience hears has to compare well with what they would hear in a Broadway or West End show. The system may not be as big, but the quality of sound has to be as good, or very nearly as good. If you write and record music for TV, then your music has to be comparable with the music that is on TV already, and you have to work as efficiently as TV music composers who are already successful do (and in this industry, promptness and efficiency are vitally important).
Work hard, smart, and efficiently
Make no mistake, a lot of people want to work in audio. And a lot of people are capable of working to the 'no faults' and 'up with the front runners' criteria. But they can't all succeed. The people who will succeed in achieving and maintaining a career will be those who work harder, smarter and more efficiently. Working hard isn't enough in itself. It means working longer hours, and not giving way to distractions while you're working. Working smart means finding better ways to do things, while keeping standards high. Working efficiently means having a 'system of work', so that you have a smooth process that goes all the way from taking on a new job to delivering the work to the client, well ahead of any deadline.
You can do it!
Things have changed over the last ten or so years. Before that, if you wanted to work in the professional audio industry, in any of the various areas of work, you had to find a way to get in. It wasn't easily possible to learn audio outside of the industry itself, and the equipment was far too expensive for any individual to afford.
But now, the equipment you can have in your own home recording studio is capable of work that is every bit as good as a first-class studio (although you may have to compromise on the acoustics, but more about this on another occasion).
So anyone can do it then? Well, no. There is an interesting comparison with photography. Camera equipment of fully professional quality has been available at affordable prices since the early 1980s. But does this mean that anyone can be a professional photographer? No. Absolutely no. Only people who are able to produce work of professional quality, who can work efficiently, who are dedicated to their profession, and can please their clients will ever succeed. Those who are prepared to put in the effort to be among the front runners.
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The media has been giving banks a lot of bad press for how the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was handled. While small businesses are scrambling to obtain emergency funding, the COVID-19 crisis has exposed some of the shortcomings of the big bank system.
Undoubtedly the PPP has its problems, but there are nuggets of success. This is the story and timeline of a small banker’s experience with PPP loans. This is how the manual process beat the automated process and reawakened the legend of John Henry.
Wednesday, March 11 – The Coronavirus Outbreak Becomes a Pandemic
On March 11, the COVID-19 outbreak was officially characterized as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). By this time, the U.S. economy has already started to experience the downturn. Small businesses are losing money fast and worried about being able to pay their employees. Because of all this, banks and financial institutions are bracing for mass delinquencies.
Greg Tyre is a small business banker who underwrites loans at The Piedmont Bank in Georgia and is an SBA-preferred lender. It’s a small bank that caters to the local community, and they are preparing for the PPP (nicknamed the “Triple P”) to launch.
A week or two before the PPP is created by the CARES Act, most of the bank’s small business customers are already shutting down various business activities. Lots of small business owners are calling Greg in a panic and asking how to manage their enterprise since cash flow has dwindled. This leads to a lot of loan deferments. Business owners are trying to determine the optimal time to layoff employees without harming what little business is still coming through the door. Then at some point, Greg’s phone stops ringing, as if people have begun to lose hope.
Greg knew the PPP would be coming soon, and his team is trying to sort through the loan deferments before the program is launched. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve drops the interest rate a full point in mid-March, which means that the bank’s income drops accordingly for both new and adjustable loans. The bank was not profiting on interest anyway due to the deferments, and now that the interest rate is lower, they are losing money just by standing still. This is obviously a bad situation for community lenders like The Piedmont Bank, knowing what’s on the horizon.
Friday, March 27 – The CARES Act Is Signed Into Law
President Trump signs the CARES Act on Friday, and the Paycheck Protection Program is created. Small bankers like Greg have been waiting anxiously because he knows that the “Triple P” will be a saving grace for his clients.
The Piedmont Bank reviews some automation solutions, but they decide to process the loan applications manually. Everyone who works there is preparing to put in long hours and a lot of elbow grease. They know they’re going up against big banks and their automated systems. It’s reminiscent of the folklore of John Henry, the “steel-driving man” who competed against a machine with manual labor.
Big banks are taking the automated route instead. Their digital systems are not designed to handle the PPP loan program, and they do not immediately have the regulatory processes in place to detect risk and fraud for these circumstances. It would be easier and faster to only serve people they had already vetted, so they tell customers that an existing loan or credit card account is required to get a PPP loan. Otherwise, since their automated system isn’t set up to onboard new PPP clients, they can’t help.
The Piedmont Bank’s policy is “first come, first serve.” They don’t prioritize any particular customers – they’re just going to help as many people as they can. We will soon see who wins this race between community banks and big banks. John Henry has an advantage, but he doesn’t know it yet.
Tuesday, March 31 – The PPP Application Is Released Online
Greg and the lending team at The Piedmont Bank are watching an SBA educational webinar when the host announces that the PPP application is available online. Greg and his coworkers look at each other for a few seconds, and then it’s a race to the Internet to get the application. Once it’s downloaded, they begin sending it out to their small business customers immediately.
Over the next few days, customers are calling with questions about the PPP application and how to fill it out. How do I calculate salary? Do I include 1099 employees? How do I calculate commission for my sales team? No one at the bank has definitive answers because the law is not clear.
Thursday, April 2 – Some PPP Clarifications Are Announced
The Treasury Department and the SBA clarify the rules regarding PPP applications on Thursday afternoon. Now some loan applications have to be revised, recalculated, and resubmitted to the banks as soon as possible. Greg and his team are using phone, email, and fax to reach out to customers. There is a mix of educated guessing and chaos.
With clarifications released so close to the program deadline, it’s a major stress test for these financial institutions. Although, it’s a bit easier for small banks to adjust their sails and educate their staff, since they do not have technology to reconfigure.
Friday, April 3 – E-Tran Opens for PPP Application Submissions
On Friday morning, E-Tran opens up and the PPP application submission process begins. E-Tran is the SBA’s application entry and authorization tool used by banks to determine if an application qualifies for an SBA loan. The E-Tran portal opens at 8AM and closes at midnight each day.
The big banks are using automated systems to enter applications into E-Tran. However, the community banks have a limited number of active logins and sessions they can have open at once. This means that the bank employees have to work in shifts and take turns processing loan applications.
While The Piedmont Bank considered some automated, online solutions, they ultimately decide to process the applications manually. Greg and his colleagues soon realize that the paper PPP application is less specific than the E-Tran online application, so bank employees are tasked to obtain the additional information. (For example, E-Tran requires a NAICS code, a 9-digit ZIP, and the date of origin for the business.)
Friday is the first of nine straight days, working sixteen hours per day, for everyone at The Piedmont Bank. Business owners are calling Greg “freaking out” and asking if he can “help save their jobs.” Greg is concerned that if they slow down at all, their customers may lose out on this opportunity. He’s worried that the manual process will let them down. He does not want to fail his customers in this time of need because he knows how important it is to those businesses, their employees, and the community. When asked, he wants to be able to say he did everything he could to obtain these loans.
It’s a true team effort. Every bank employee is involved and doing what they can to secure these loans for their customers. The CEO is there in the trenches too, helping with application research, follow-up phone calls, coffee runs, and more. Pizza and fast food are enough to keep them going for the first few days, but they lose their luster after a while. What takes over is a sense of purpose and accomplishment. The office has an energy and a buzz to it because they know they are helping people. Greg is humbled that he and his team can help businesses get the funding they need.
Wednesday, April 15 – The Legend of John Henry
By Wednesday, they have reached their limits. They literally cannot process any more PPP loans. Greg says to one of his younger coworkers, “Don’t die with your hammer in your hand, John Henry.” He then explained who John Henry is.
According to folklore, John Henry’s ability as a steel-driver was judged in a competition against a steam-powered drilling machine. John Henry defeated the machine, but he died in victory with his hammer in his hand. His tale demonstrated that the manual process could triumph over the automated process.
The Piedmont Bank expected to lend $60 million in PPP loans. They started to stress at $90 million, and they ended up lending $120 million. It got to the point where they had to borrow from the Federal Reserve to make more loans because they ran out of money.
Now that they are no longer taking additional PPP applications, when small business owners contact them, Greg uses his network of community bankers to find a lender who can support that applicant. This close, yet extensive network of bankers is helping save companies and jobs. This goodwill leads to an overflow of positive feedback. Customers make comments such as, “You guys called me back. I simply sent you a text, and you helped me out.” And, “My bank didn’t help me at all. I’m looking at moving my accounts, and you’re at the top of the list.”
Whereas big banks serve a legitimate purpose in the financial world, many small businesses felt caught up in the wash when dealing with big banks during Round One of PPP. Many of these customers felt like they were not getting personal treatment from their bank. Many did not have a banker to contact directly to ask questions. The big banks relied too heavily on automated systems and didn’t adjust in time to accommodate customers. In trying to satisfy lending regulations, they turned away a lot of business owners and gave the impression that they just didn’t care or didn’t have the time.
Personal Service Made All of the Difference
Personal service won the day. This is something that has always set community banks apart from big banks. The PPP loan rush demonstrated that the manual route, the old-fashioned idea of providing good customer service, is a solid approach in some cases.
For Greg, it’s been a humbling experience. It was amazing to witness the bank team working together so tirelessly and helping so many people. The employees and customers created a sense of “We got through this together,” much like a foxhole mentality. For Round One of the PPP, John Henry beat the steam engine.
Friday, May 1 – Looking Ahead
As we assess Round Two of the PPP, the big banks have had time to get their solutions coded and are proving a more worthy adversary to the community banks. As of May 1, big banks are approving about 53% of the total PPP Round Two dollars lent and 46% of the loans authorized – compared to 32% of dollars lent and 38% of loans approved by ‘small banks’*. Given time to breathe and adjust, the big banks came out of the gate with a full head of steam in Round Two. We’ll see if John Henry wins in the end.
Here’s my take: John Henry and the steam engine are both needed. The steam engine (i.e. digitization and ‘bionic banking’) is necessary to operate in today’s technical world, but the PPP has demonstrated the value of personal service provided by community bankers. Perhaps John Henry won’t have to die with a hammer in his hand next time. | <urn:uuid:20830260-e156-4690-bc7e-1f30521c163a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fico.com/blogs/ballad-small-banker-sba-lenders-experience-ppp-loans | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.972188 | 2,422 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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Communication in the workplace is essential to performing tasks and working as a team. The words spoken by staff members are only part of the communication puzzle. Body language communicates a colleague's feelings or intentions. Those nonverbal clues may align or conflict with the words coming out of his mouth. An awareness of your body language helps you assess the message you are sending your colleagues.
Body language includes actions and ways of behaving. Eye contact is a body language indicator in the workplace. Maintaining eye contact shows interest, attention, confidence and honesty. Averting your gaze may cause a colleague to feel you aren't being honest. The general facial expressions at work also indicate your feelings about the situation. Your overall posture also indicates your confidence and interest in what you are doing. Slumping in your chair during a meeting may cause others to sense that you are bored or not interested in the presentation. Hand gestures also play a role in workplace communication.
Small Group Situations
Paying attention to a colleague or subordinate's body language can help you determine how to proceed. In a one-on-one or small-group situation, noting body language helps you uncover a lack of confidence, a problem in a current project or even dishonesty from an employee. By evaluating body language, you can identify potential problems and find solutions for them. If an employee doesn't feel confident with a particular task, additional training or support is an option. If you sense that a problem with a project occurred, you can work to solve the problem. Noting body language can reveal more than your employees will tell you with their words so you can better run the workplace.
Meetings or Presentations
When giving a presentation or leading a meeting, you can gauge the body language of the attendees to weight how your message is perceived. The employees may feel bored or disengaged if they avoid eye contact, fidget with objects such as pens or notebooks, scribble or have poor body posture. Employees who feel defensive or who disagree with your message are more likely to turn away from you, keep their arms crossed or avoid eye contact. You can switch gears in a presentation or meeting to engage the attendees. If staff members seem to disagree with your message, you can open up the discussion to address the issue and come up with solutions together.
While body language can indicate a colleague's feelings, a misinterpretation of the body language can lead to misunderstanding and friction. This may become more of an issue in a diverse workplace where cultural differences make body language more difficult to read. If a colleague's body language appears to show frustration, dishonesty, boredom or similar negative feelings, investigate further before reacting. Ask additional questions to gain a sense of your colleague's actual message and feelings. Colleagues also gain a better sense of one another's body language the longer they work together.
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Inhaltsangabe: Examine remarkable historical photographs--chosen from the world-famous Frith collection--that date back to the 1860s, along with pictures of the same scenes today, and you'll marvel at the transformation. Images vividly show the English at work and play, and the landscape's alteration through the years. Once-flowing canals have silted up; the railway has ceded its reign to the car; and monumental buildings have been razed and replaced. From the seaside and countryside to greater London: this chronicle captures Britain in incomparable scope and richness.
Titel: Britain Then & Now: The Francis Frith ...
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First Look: Canon 5D Mark IIby Wesley Fink on December 4, 2008 3:00 AM EST
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Full-Frames and APS-C Compared
The Canon 5D Mark II is the update to the camera that created the $3000 full-frame DSLR market - namely the Canon 5D in 2005. Canon had this market all to their self for the first two years, but during the past year Nikon and Sony have both introduced several models to compete in the full-frame DSLR market.
The 5D2 sensor is approximately the size of a frame of 35mm film, which is 24x36mm, and resolution is 21.1MP - a significant increase from the original 5D at 12.8MP. The new Canon 5D2 compares very well to the reolution of the recently introduced Sony A900, which at 24.6MP is the highest resolution currently available in a full-frame camera. Compare this to most other DSLR cameras today, where the sensor size is closer to APS-C size. The smaller APS-C sensor used in most other cameras results in the lenses appearing to be 150% to 200% longer than the marked focal length. On the Canon 5D Mark II and other full-frame DSLR cameras lenses behave exactly as they would on 35mm, with no crop factor.
In the computer world, smaller and smaller traces mean higher density, more transistors, and generally better and faster performance. However, the digital sensor is not a digital device; instead, it's an analog device that gathers light and converts it into a digital signal. Thus the reverse is true in sensors in that larger sensor size is almost always better, with everything else equal. As you can see in the chart below, the APS-C sensors aren't even half of the area of a full-frame sensor. With a range of 28.1% to 42.4% of full-frame size, there is clearly a lot more information that can be potentially captured with a full-frame sensor.
|DSLR Sensor Comparison|
|Camera||Effective Sensor Resolution||Sensor Dimensions and Area||% of Full-Frame||Sensor Density |
|Olympus E-520/E-3||10||13.5x18 |
|Canon Xsi||12.2||14.8x22.2 |
|Sony A350||14.2||15.8x23.6 |
|Pentax K20D||14.6||15.6x23.4 |
|Canon 50D||15.1||14.9x22.3 |
|Sony A700, Nikon D300, Nikon D90||12.3||15x23.5 |
|Nikon D700/Nikon D3||12.1||24x36 |
|Canon 5D||12.8||24x36 |
|Canon 5D Mark II||21.1||24x36 |
|Canon 1Ds Mark III||21.1||24x36 |
|Sony A900/Nikon D3x||24.6||24x35.9 |
The last column in the chart is the one that tells the story most accurately, however. Here the resolution of the sensor is divided by the sensor area to yield a sensor density. The lower the density, the larger the individual pixel size, and the more information that pixel can gather - all else being equal. There are a few surprises here, such as the Sony A350 being essentially the same density as the Canon XSi, and the new Canon 50D having the highest density of any current DSLR camera.
The last column does put into perspective the true potential of the full-frame sensor and sheds some light on the true meaning of Canon's 21.1MP sensor and Sony/Nikon's 24.6MP A900/D3x sensor. At 2.4MP per cm2 the 5D2 still exhibits a lower density and theoretically better high ISO performance than any current APS-C DSLR. This is very much at odds with the ridiculous claims many on the web are making about full-frame cameras going too high in resolution. In fact, sensor density on the 5D2 is significantly lower than the 10MP Canon 40D, which has a density of 3.1.
The point is that any issues the 5D2 may have with noise are not the result of pixels being "too small". All else being equal the high ISO noise should be at least as good as an 8 to 10MP Canon sensor. Where the new Canon does suffer is in comparison to sensor density of other full-frame sensors. In that metric the Canon 5D2 has about 65% more pixels per cm2 than the Nikon D3/D700 and Canon 5D, and keeping up in high ISO performance with those cameras would be quite a feat. The Canon 5D Mark II is, however, slightly lower in resolution than the Sony A900 and Nikon D3X that feature 24.6MP sensors, although the difference between 21.1 and 24.5/24.6 has to be considered negligible. | <urn:uuid:48fa2c60-fe85-4c9d-9df7-28c04dfbe455> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.anandtech.com/show/2680/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00427-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907372 | 1,080 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Predicting Weight Composition of Fish Diet s: Converting Frequency of Occurrence of Prey to Relative Weight Composition
K. A. Stobberup*, 1, T. Morato2, P. Amorim2, K. Erzini3
Identifiers and Pagination:Year: 2009
First Page: 42
Last Page: 49
Publisher Id: TOFISHSJ-2-42
Article History:Received Date: 28/02/2008
Revision Received Date: 23/02/2009
Acceptance Date: 24/02/2009
Electronic publication date: 10/4/2009
Collection year: 2009
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Diet compositions expressed in weight are essential to determine the trophic relationships in energetic terms between the compartments within a system. Data from stomachs were compiled from a number of sources (62102 stomachs), covering four broad areas such as the Northwest Atlantic, South Africa, Senegal and the Azores Islands in order to explore the empirical relationships between the frequency of occurrence, which is of limited use in a modelling context, and the preferred index, relative weight composition. These empirical relationships were found to be highly significant. | <urn:uuid:9ae52a07-c1a6-47ef-845c-1d2d42feaa88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://openfishsciencejournal.com/VOLUME/2/PAGE/42/ABSTRACT/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.857223 | 364 | 2.46875 | 2 |
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Article by Mari Valtonen
The Salpa Line bike route is located in southeastern Finland, in the province of Kymenlaakso, near the Russian border and close to the Finnish section of the Europe-wide EuroVelo13 or Iron Curtain Trail. The Iron Curtain Trail (9950 km in total) introduces European history from a time when the continent was forcefully divided into east and west, and the general atmosphere was tense. In Finland, which miraculously defended against the Russia goliath while maintaining its independence, you should definitely take a small detour to experience the 72 km long Salpa Line bike route.
Distance: 72 km
Duration: 2 days
Destination on map
Difficulty: Easy route
The Salpa Line is a fortress line built in defense of Finland’s eastern border, the structures of which are still clearly visible in Finnish forests. The Salpa Line is even one of the best preserved fortress lines in the whole of Europe built during the Second World War, reaching all the way to Lapland from the southern coast of Finland, and many of the most spectacular and powerful structures are located in Kymenlaakso. The Salpa Line reaches an impressive total length of 1,200 kilometers and was built between 1940 and 1941, and 1944.
Kymenlaakso has two Salpa Line themed museums – one in Miehikkälä, and the other in Virolahti. Both are located along the EuroVelo13 and the Salpa Line bike routes. These museums shed light on the background of this impressive structure and are definitely worth a visit. EuroVelo13 travelers can easily start the Salpa Line bike route from either location.
However, the route is not only suitable for those interested in military history. You can also enjoy a lot of beautiful and extensive Finnish nature with its beautiful forests and idyllic farming landscapes. I set out to find out what the Salpa Line bike route has to offer. Join me!
The warm fall weather and the fine fall colors ensured that the cycling season in southern Finland continued into October. The Salpa Line bike route was a great choice for enjoying the northeastern European fall weather for a couple of days’ bike ride.
You can start your trip from anywhere on the route, but you can easily park your car in the parking areas of the Miehikkälä Salpa Line Museum or the Bunker Museum in Virolahti (the distance between these sites is about 20 km). On the last day of September, I started from the Bunker Museum. The museum is only open on Fri–Sat in the fall, so I started my journey straight away since the museum was closed.
The Salpa Linja bike route is not marked on the terrain, but I had uploaded Cursor’s map to my Google Drive, where I could easily track my journey with the phone’s GPS data. The route travels partly along a hiking route called Salpa Trail, but those sections were often marked as mountain bike sections, so I most often chose the dirt road route. A third asphalt option was also indicated on some points.
After driving west on Vaalimaantie for a while, the route turned southeast onto Vahtivuorentie. The dirt road was in good condition, although bumpy. First there were warnings about horses on the road and then about snowmobiles, but I didn’t see anyone. After some recently planted forest, the road dived into a coniferous forest. According to the map, the first dugouts – troop-protecting structures used in the war – should be located near the Vahtivuori campfire site, where I parked my bike on the side of the road and continued walking up the path.
There were insanely big blueberries everywhere! In Finland, you can pick natural berries, thanks to the so called everyman’s rights, so I tasted the northern superfood with a smile on my face. However, the berries were already quite tasteless at this time of year, so I didn’t regret leaving my bucket at home.
Next, my attention was drawn to some really large boulders. Could they be man-made parts of the Salpa Line, or natural obstacles, I wondered. I found the cooking shelter on top of the hill, but the trees prevented a wider view of the surrounding landscape. I decided to use my Trangia to make coffee with apple pie before I went looking for the dugouts.
After studying the map, I realized that I should have been right next to the dugouts, but I didn’t see anything. Military history isn’t exactly my area of expertise. I wonder what I was supposed to be looking for. I had read beforehand that most of the dugouts are not maintained, with potentially dangerous drops and sharp iron structures so it was a bit terrifying trying to find them alone. I’ve never been to the army, so even in that sense, I had no idea how the dugouts could’ve been built into the terrain. I understood that the map made it difficult to determine the exact location of the dugouts and probably the GPS signal on the phone displayed my location incorrectly. I was beginning to wonder whether I would find any bunkers on the whole trip.
I had read that there should be a cave and a nature stage near the fire site. I went down the path and followed some signs. I noticed that there were better signs on the opposite side, and discovered the first winding trenches and the opening of the first bunker No 82. After continuing ahead, I came across another much cozier lean-to called Rinnelaavu, and found the rock cliff I was looking for, with its railings. Next to the railing there was a path down and a view opened up to the nature stage: What a great venue with stands can be found below the cliff! The barrier rocks have been mined from the cliff, and this can be seen in its the vertical shape. The place is so impressive that it would be great to watch a show there sometime!
There was a concrete doorway next to the stage, and after a while, and after I got my headlamp working, I had the courage to enter through the door. Inside I discovered a large cave carved into the rock and there appeared to be a smaller room at the back. Water fell from the ceiling. The bunker seemed so strong that I dared to continue through the second door. There was an embrasure on the right side of the second door, and on the left you could see the small room that I had noticed earlier. There were no furniture. After leaving the cave, the air felt warm and I felt relieved – I made it! I realized that it takes a lot of courage to enter such structures on my own. I decided that this would be enough for now, and that the structures that I would explore next would be at the Harju Learning Center.
The road lead to an idyllic field opening and a row of tank barriers erected on the Ravijoki river banks. Later, the barrier line continued along my route in many places and I can only imagine how much work it has taken to build it with the tools of that time! At this point, the tank barriers were inside the pasture, and after a while a resting flock of sheep appeared.
Next, I climbed to the courtyard of the Harju Learning Center, where I saw many beautiful old buildings. The students had just finished their school day. The summer café Kiessi seems to operate there but it was already unfortunately closed for the year. The Kiessi Museum was on the opposite side and the door was open. Inside I found a collection of horse-drawn vehicles and some information about the history of the Harju manor.
From the Harju courtyard, the journey continued along a birch alley until we turned left onto Museotie. A great view opened up to the Harju manor. The route continued along the side of the road and alternated between idyllic well-maintained countryside and different types of forests. Huge boulders could be seen here and there. Grasshoppers were still chirping along the road, and there were still flowers such as bluebells, tansies, thistles and sow thistles. Summer was in the air!
The old kilometer markers guided me towards Virojoki, where I had planned to have a little lunch break.
After the village center, my journey continued on a bike road next to Vaalimaantie for a short while before the last bit of road turning to Miehikkälä. A couple of sphere-shaped dugouts were marked on the route map along Mattilantie, which I decided to visit. I found the dugouts relatively easily when I followed the path in the forest. But I didn’t enter because they seemed to be in bad condition. Also, there were some homes nearby so you had to be careful not to walk into anyone’s yard.
Soon I spotted a sphere-shaped dugout right by the side of the road on the left side! The camouflage of the dugout – the moss that covered it – was destroyed, so the round dome was clearly visible. Unfortunately, the location by the side of the road meant that the dugout was full of trash bags and I didn’t bother to go inside. According to the Finnish trekking etiquette, you should always take your trash to the nearest trash can and take them with you if there are no trash cans on site. Nothing should be left behind.
Based on the map, the next attraction was the Kotolankoski rapids of Vaalimaanjoki, which was a very pretty place. It would have been a much better place for a break than the place I had chosen. After the rapids, the road turned into a dirt road and passed through the village of Kotola. Kotolankoski is worth a break!
The evening was getting darker, and I had to maintain a decent speed so that I could get to my accommodation near the center of Miehikkälä. Indeed, around September and October, you have to consider the fact that it starts to get dark around 7 p.m. Finally, I spotted the village of Miehikkälä!
According to the instructions, the accommodation was next to the church. In the tenant’s yard, the village blacksmith’s cabin was a separate two-person accommodation building with a kitchenette, toilet and shower. Perfect accommodation for such a one-night bike ride.
It is also possible to plan the route so that you stay in a tent at one of the lean-to or campfire sites along the route. These are located in the western part of the route, so in that case you should start from the Salpa Line Museum in Miehikkälä. I had originally thought about bringing a tent, but I couldn’t fit the gear on the bike so I decided to book accommodation. Based on the route map, there seem to be accommodation options in several places, so there is room for choice.
After breakfast, I started towards the Salpa Line Museum, which was only three kilometers from the center of Miehikkälä. I decided to take a shortcut along Taavetintie and skip going round Myllylampi, marked on the route map. The trip started uphill and I felt the 40 km cycling from the previous day.
After climbing into the museum courtyard, I marveled at the silence and indeed: it was October 1st and the museum was no longer open during weekdays! This was my own mistake, since I hadn’t considered it would be October. From the window I could see that staff were there and after knocking on the door they were kind enough to give me a map of the outdoor areas and permission to tour places that were not locked.
I had thought that I could safely visit the museum’s refurbished dugouts, but this seems like the perfect excuse to revisit southeast Finland some other time.
That’s how impressed I am with the Salpa Line fortifications. In sunny weather, I toured the trenches, visited the aerial surveillance tower, and marveled at the tank barriers and cannons. I was thinking how all of it would have worked if the enemy had approached Taavetintie. Could they have stopped it? The tour took so much time that I decided to use my Trangia to cook lunch at the museum’s campfire site.
From the museum, the route turned to Rakolantie and an exceptionally enjoyable part of the journey started! The road was a smooth dirt road and it meandered in stunning pine forest, among sturdy and gloomy spruce trees, and occasionally through idyllic field areas. When cycling, you felt like you were following a trail of historical events. I wonder if the people who built the Salpa Line are still alive. Have they felt proud to build such large fortifications? The concrete dugouts are in relatively good condition, as the Finnish Defense Forces partially maintained them until the 1980s.
On this stretch, many parts of the route merged with the Salpa Trail. I had read in the guide that there was something worth seeing in Jermula, and I decided to visit, even based on the name alone, to see what I would find in the direction of the sign.
There was a sign to the dugouts on the way there, but I kept going all the way to the back where I found a parking area. A road continued to the right, and there I first found a tipi-like hut, then a Jermula cottage used by war veterans, and a lean-to. There were concrete figures at the campsite: a couple and a dog, but I didn’t see anyone else. There was also a well in the yard and a long jetty at the beach. I was startled when a heron took off just a few meters from the beach!
When I came back, I went to the parking area to find dugout 310/443. I just took a sneak peek, because once again I was terrified to go in alone. There was even an information board near the door. As I cycled back to the route, I noticed an embrasure disguised with rocks on the slope and climbed to see it. I was beginning to know how to look for the fortifications in the terrain!
The fall colors were beautiful and bright, as the sun shined in summerlike fashion. The grain fields were all already harvested – fortunately, because winter is approaching. After turning to Vuolteentie, the route crossed another beautiful little river, the Turanjoki.
From the Salpa Line Museum onwards, the cycling route sometimes merges with the Salpa Trail for long distances. There were also beautiful, short forest parts on Vuolteentie, and there were even dugouts right next to the road. The shore of Pyyhinlampi would’ve been a great spot for a break, but after studying the terrain map, I found that going there would have meant uphills both ways, so I decided to postpone the coffee break. Today’s part had more hills anyway, and I was feeling it in my legs.
After this, there would have been a short mountain bike trail to the left, which traveled along the unfinished cave of Soikonvuori, and I had read it was beautiful. I decided that I might not dare go into the cave alone, and I decided to skip it on this trip. After the forest section, the route passed through the idyllic village of Mässelinmäki.
Shortly before the highway underpass, there was a concrete dugout 153 on the edge of the forest opening, which looked so firm that I ventured to go inside. The embrasure pointed directly at the highway. I thought that during the war there had been few roads in the area where the enemy could have progressed inland, and all of them had spots where they could be cut off if necessary. Now there’s a huge highway to Russia! But that is how it should be: neighboring countries peacefully trade with each other and live their own lives.
According to the map, there was supposed to be a lean-to right after the highway underpass, where I decided to take the last coffee break. I read on the information boards that a bunker had been blown up to make space for the highway. The Salpalaavu lean-to turned out to be a brand new lean-to placed right next to the concrete bunker! The sun was already setting behind the woods when I made the coffee and ate the last piece of apple pie.
There seemed to be a large parking area nearby and signs to the Bunker Museum, which was only 2.5 km away. The last part of the route was brand new asphalt road, which must have been built when the highway was completed. There would also have been a mountain bike section going alongside the Salpa Trail, which would probably have been nicer, but on my bike and load it wouldn’t have been a good idea.
The two days passed pleasantly when admiring the landscapes of southeastern Finland painted bright by the fall colors, and exploring the Salpa Line. The Salpa Line bike route can be recommended for tour cyclists, and you don’t have to be a military history enthusiast to go on the route. The route requires a bit of an adventure attitude, as it is not marked on the terrain and you need to read a map. Only a small part of the Salpa Line fortifications are marked and it might take some time to find them. Safety issues should also be taken into account. Most of the dugouts have not been refurbished, so they are accessed at your own risk.
Bring a good headlight (and spare lamp) with you. I highly recommend going with a friend, as going alone increases risks, and it took a lot of courage to explore the dugouts on my own, at least for me. Of course, during the summer or on weekends there are certainly more travelers in the area than during the off-season and on workdays. If you enjoy your own peace, then I recommend going on workdays.
In addition, it is advisable to check the opening hours of the museums in advance, as they definitely provide added value and information for the trip. For me, at least, the closed museums bothered me so much that I have to visit the area again in the future!
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Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 5 Issue 2, 2014.
Abstract: The expansion of structured information in different applications introduces a new ambiguity in multimedia retrieval in semi-structured documents. We investigate in this paper the combination of textual and structural context for multimedia retrieval in XML document thus we present a indexing model which combines textual and structural information. We propose a geometric method who use implicitly of textual and structural context of XML elements and we are particularly interested by improve the effectiveness of various structural factors for multimedia retrieval. Using a geometric metric, we can represent structural information in XML document with a vector for each element. Given a textual query, our model lets us combine scores obtained from each sources of evidence and return a list of relevant retrieved multimedia element. Experimental evaluation is carried out using the INEX Ad Hoc Task 2007 and the Image CLEF Wikipedia Retrieval Task 2010. The results show that combination of scores of textual modality and structural modality significantly improves compared results of using a single modality.
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Nursing at a glance
By Elizabeth Heubeck, special for USATODAY.com
Nurses can't relate to the downsizing jitters that so many U.S. workers are experiencing. There just aren't enough nurses to go around and there's no end in sight to this shortage. By 2020, the shortage will climb to 20%, according to a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association. With more than 2 million jobs, nursing is the largest health-care occupation in the nation.
What's new in nursing, other than the enormous demand? "A tremendous amount of opportunity," says Anita Hall, director of operations for nursing at CompHealth, the nation's largest comprehensive health-care recruiting and staffing company.
Although the traditional bedside nurse still exists, Hall says, the options for nurses have expanded considerably. There has been a growing demand in recent years for nurses in insurance company care management, school nursing, home health, law (for those with advanced degrees), nursing homes and health care consulting.
There are various levels in nursing, depending on skill level and certification. The three primary groups of nurses are Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), Registered Nurses (RNs) and Nurse Practitioners (NPs).
Becoming an LPN requires the least amount of education and training, and these nurses have the lowest level of responsibility of nursing professionals. Typically, LPNs undergo a 12-month training period. Their skills are considered more "custodial" than those of higher-level nurses and their positions require less judgment; an RN almost always supervises them.
RNs are required to have either a two- or a four-year degree; most RNs have an associate, or 2- year degree. RNs work in a variety of settings and maintain an equally diverse set of responsibilities. With experience, they may be promoted to positions of increasing responsibility and pay, such as nurse supervisor, a job that involves directing every aspect of nursing activities.
NPs are advanced-level nurses with graduate degrees. They are sometimes referred to as "physician extenders." NPs diagnose and treat common illnesses, and in many states, prescribe medications. They can also teach in nursing schools. The demand for NPs is not as great as that for RNs, but there is more opportunity for growth and specialization at this level.
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Alumni Initiative Launch
As student divestment campaigns across the country enter the midst of the fall semester, the Responsible Endowments Coalition is proud to announce the start of its alumni organizing initiative. Recognizing a lack of alumni mobilization in the divestment and reinvestment movement, REC has decided to dedicate resources and expand its capacity to directly address this gap. Alumni are in a unique position to promote and galvanize positive change within their alma maters. Colleges rely on alumni support through donations, which are crucial to endowment growth and often provide funds for their operating budget. Alumni can also lend critical support needed in winning victories within the student movement.
With great pride, REC welcomes two promising and talented additions to the staff: Nina Macapinlac as Coordinator of Alumni Organizing and Jess Grady-Benson as Young Alumni Organizer. Nina has a background in grassroots community organizing within the labor and immigrant rights movement in New Jersey. Alongside many other passionate youth and students, she was an organizer in the successful New Jersey Tuition Equity for Dreamers campaign that passed the NJ DREAM Act in December 2013. She has also helped organize day laborers and is currently working to build a community organization for Filipino migrant workers in Jersey City.
“I was really attracted to this work because I believe endowment organizing can be a key tool to providing broader analyses that span across movements and generations,” Nina said. “Through campus divestment and reinvestment, students and alumni can really illustrate the urgency of holding the financial sector accountable for its oppressive and harmful actions against communities.”
Jess Grady-Benson brings her experience in student endowment organizing to the alumni team. Jess was a co-founder of the Claremont Colleges Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign, which achieved victory at Pitzer College in April. With a background in climate justice organizing, she is excited about the role of endowment activism in a just transition to a new economy, bridging movements for climate, racial, and economic justice. In addition to her work with REC, Jess is also a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Fossil Fuel Divestment Student Network and organizes with the DSN’s Alumni Divestment Network.
“As a young alum, I am thrilled to be organizing with other recent graduates to strengthen the movements for fossil fuel and private prison divestment, as well as community reinvestment,” Jess said. “I firmly believe in the power of endowment organizing to challenge destructive business and investment norms and call upon institutional actors to build an economy that prioritizes people and planet.”
Alumni bring unique skills and power to endowment organizing that has yet to be leveraged to its fullest potential. With two newly hired staff, REC hopes to build and support a strong base of alumni that can collaborate with and work alongside student movements in demanding that colleges and universities responsibly invest their endowments. Understanding that alumni come from all walks of life and possess a wide range of skill sets, the alumni team hopes to provide resources for those who would like to get involved as well as get feedback and ideas on the best ways to proceed with this initiative.
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Born in Edwardsville, IL on April 26, 1862. Robinson was educated at Washington University and the St Louis School of Arts. By the early 1930s he had settled in Morro Bay, CA and was art director of the local WPA Recreation Center. Robinson died in Morro Bay on May 19, 1945. As a hobby, he also did woodcarving and art metal work. Member: Calif. WC Society; AAPL. Exh: Louisiana Purchase Expo (St Louis), 1904; Calif. State Fairs; Calif. WC Society, 1932.
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By concentrating on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math curriculum, this program provides real life experiences that can help increase the number of Florida’s students graduating high school college- and career-ready.
(PRWEB) February 21, 2014
Understanding how classroom curriculum translates into STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) careers can be a critical component for engaging today’s students and teachers in creating tomorrow’s workforce. Hands-on learning opportunities can provide the critical link of relevance for students and answer the age-old student question of “When am I ever going to use this?” while increasing their awareness and interest in STEM careers.
Students from 28 school districts will directly benefit from AT&T's support through 42 separate projects involving 52 local workplace partners. Experiential learning opportunities outside the classroom that are directly linked to student coursework and involve problem-solving, real-world application of STEM education concepts and critical thinking skills are all key elements of each project.
An array of subject matter and related careers are involved, depending on the workplace partners involved in each project. The fields of agriculture, robotics, computer programming, medical manufacturing, city planning, aviation, aeronautics, hydroponics, mobile application development, environmental science, entomology, chemistry, and more have all been explored by students through this opportunity.
Each qualifying project received $2,000 to cover costs beyond what limited school budgets provide including transportation, materials and equipment. With this fourth year of funding, AT&T Florida has contributed $410,000 to the Consortium of Florida Education Foundations (CFEF) to make the experiential learning opportunities possible.
“We are pleased to make this contribution because Florida’s K-12 education foundations are well positioned to be the link between schools and local businesses for students, which enables students to build connections with local businesses,” said Joe York, AT&T Florida President. “By concentrating on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math curriculum, this program provides real life experiences that can help increase the number of Florida’s students graduating high school college- and career-ready.”
Two additional CFEF partners have followed AT&T’s lead to provide similar programs with local impact throughout Florida. The Motorola Solutions Foundation is funding nine larger-scale projects through a competitive grant process. CenturyLink is currently rolling out a “Teachers & Technology” initiative that will provide training and needed equipment to enhance digital learning in the classroom. | <urn:uuid:ac8dd888-c2db-4956-bba0-01fb51125131> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/02/prweb11598649.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931754 | 518 | 2.859375 | 3 |
By Amanda Litvinov
With domestic spending already at its lowest level as a percentage of our economy since the 1960s, the GOP budget plan for 2014 released by Rep. Paul Ryan this week proposes to cut even more, at the cost of educators, students and families.
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By obsessively pursuing a balanced budget through spending cuts alone, Ryan imperils students’ futures by making them suffer the consequences of more massive cuts–larger classes, less individualized instruction, and fewer supports in vital areas, such as English language instruction and special education, that help them succeed in school.
Ryan and other Republican leaders claim there’s no alternative to the outrageous $5 trillion in cuts over the next 10 years as outlined in his budget blueprint. But there is an alternative, and it was presented by Sen. Patty Murray on behalf of Senate Democrats a few days ago.
The Murray plan puts students and working families first by making job creation and investments in our future—including restoring funding for public education, building and repairing infrastructure, and maintaining opportunities for young people to access higher education—top priorities.
By combining measured spending cuts with a fairer tax code that asks the most successful to pay their fair share, the Murray budget would surpass the bipartisan goal of reducing the deficit by $4 trillion in 10 years. And that deficit reduction is not achieved by pummeling middle-and lower-class families and schoolchildren.
Even a brief comparison of major points in each plan reveals the vast divide in priorities:
|Ryan Budget—Students & Middle Class Lose||Murray Budget—Students & Middle Class Win|
|Keeps reckless sequester cuts in place
through 2023, draining billions of dollars from public education. The nation’s 50 million students bear the brunt of the brutal cuts–especially those in low-income communities and those with special needs.
|Replaces nearly $1 trillion in remaining sequester cuts with more limited and targeted spending cuts, new savings and fairer tax policies. Builds on economic recovery underway with long-term investments in education, restoring funding for crucial federal programs like IDEA and Title I.|
|Freezes Pell Grants for 10 years, despite rising costs of higher education.||Protects the Pell Grant program and keeps student loan rates affordable.|
|Kills more than 2 million jobs in 2014 alone by failing to balance cuts with revenues. No job creating investments in infrastructure, such as rehabilitating public schools and community colleges.||Includes a $100 billion targeted jobs and infrastructure package that would repair the nation’s crumbling roads, bridges and schools, improving learning conditions for students.|
|Cuts more than $750 billion from Medicaid, and converts it to a block grant program, increasing the number of uninsured children who are less likely to succeed at school.||Increases funding to stabilize Medicaid, ensuring more than 30 million children keep their benefits.|
|Converts Medicare to voucher program, leaving seniors to fight private insurance companies on their own and removes coverage guarantee.||Protects Medicare for the 45 million seniors who rely on it now, and strengthens the program to allow for an estimated 25% more beneficiaries by 2020.|
(Unless otherwise noted, all data comes directly from the proposed budgets.)
So if Ryan’s plan isn’t good for working families, schoolchildren, college students, educators or most other everyday Americans, who is it good for?
The nation’s wealthiest corporations and citizens make out pretty well. In fact, the plan proposes to cut their tax rates by another 10 percent and nearly 15 percent, respectively.
Arizona math teacher and NEA President Dennis Van Roekel said the GOP budget plan “makes a mockery of shared sacrifice,” and would “inflict tremendous pain upon our most vulnerable citizens—children, low- and moderate-income Americans and seniors.”
“It’s wrong to balance budgets on the backs of students and the most vulnerable without demanding corporations and the rich pay their fair share in taxes. Congress has a responsibility to come up with a balanced approach to get our nation’s fiscal house in order without inflicting irreversible harm to 50 million students—risking their future and the future of our nation.”
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VICTORIA - With area in large Canadian cities at a premium, urban dwellers are using vertical space to increase the size of their gardens.
A large vegetable garden may seem impossible for anyone living in a condo, but practitioners of vertical gardening, like Judy Kenzie, see endless possibilities, even with a tiny balcony, deck or yard.
"I started looking into vertical gardening because I needed more space. I live in the city, and I started looking at my backyard, and it is about (6.7 metres) by (7.6 metres)," says Kenzie, owner of Strathcona 1890 Urban Seed Collections. "It is fully planted with all sorts of beautiful trees and other plants, and then I have a deck that was barren.
"I thought, if I am going to grow edibles, I need to be growing on my deck because my beds were already full of trees and perennials."
Kenzie began by creating 17 different kinds of hanging baskets with edibles, and used her deck as a place to experiment with various issues that have the potential to impact city dwellers.
"I examined particular variables that could affect the success of a vertical garden," she says. "Some vegetables have deeper roots than others. You can't plant regular carrots in a shallow box, but you can plant chard there, and you'll just get baby chard. I started planting with all sorts of things like that."
Kenzie has now created other vertical garden applications that include structures that look like shelving for plants, and she also regularly uses trellises to maximize vertical space.
While there are products that help people create vertical gardens, Jake Harding, co-founder of Skyline Farms in Toronto, and his business partner Gustavo Macias often repurpose materials destined for landfill for use in vertical gardening.
"We've been working with restaurants and private businesses to design multidisciplinary urban farms and gardens for whatever leftover space they have that they want to use," says Harding.
"We're working with different restaurants to design farms, and one farm is at the Drake Hotel. The idea for their farm was to take advantage of any materials we could salvage and show that we could use the materials removed from landfills and use them to grow food."
He says they are also using pallets for vertical gardening at another Toronto restaurant. The company has also been talking with condo developers about incorporating vertical gardening in the initial designs of a development.
"Vertical gardening is ideal for people who live in condos," says Harding. "They have even less space than your average person. It just is really the only thing that makes sense for condos and apartments."
When planning a vertical garden, Harding advises considering the root depth of plants.
"You can't really grow root vegetables in some applications, but it is perfect for greens and herbs," says Harding. "Tomatoes grow well, but you have to come up with an innovative way to trellis them.
"It is important to keep in mind what you plant where, and what likes shade versus direct sun."
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Gathered here are further vessels that were used for carrying and storing liquids. All can be seen in use on Athenian painted pottery. The lebes is differentiated today from kraters, although it too could have been used as a mixing vessel. A particular form, the lebes gamikos, is regularly found in contexts associated with marriage. Another vessel for liquid that is found in the context of religious ritual is the loutrophoros. | <urn:uuid:92fcb512-dd96-4145-8a5c-e367d934e93a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.beazley.ox.ac.uk/tools/pottery/shapes/liquids.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00539-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98294 | 97 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Volkswagen Trims Work Force, Trying to Restore Profitability
But severe downturn has coincided with a raft of other troubles
WOLFSBURG, GERMANY — NO other city in Europe is so dominated by a single car company as Wolfsburg, Germany.
It hosts the headquarters of Volkswagen and that company's - and the world's - largest car factory under one roof. Its streets are clogged with Golfs, Passats, Polos, and various kinds of Audis, SEATs, and other Volkswagen cars. Wolfsburg is so car-crazy it has turned an old gas station into a historic monument.
Things have been so good so long in this working-class city that no one seems too concerned with the stream of bad news coming out of Volkswagen. But the problems are building up. Germany's largest car company is:
* Struggling through its worst economic downturn since World War II. After profits plunged 87 percent last year, the company says it will almost certainly post a loss this year - the first such loss in a decade.
* Battling Spain's unions and federal and regional governments over efforts to cut costs at its money-losing SEAT subsidiary. Earlier this month, SEAT's chairman resigned, apparently in protest at the cutbacks VW was demanding.
* Mired in a legal wrangle with General Motors over charges that an executive who VW hired away from GM stole trade secrets from the American carmaker's German unit, Adam Opel AG.
Company officials say the worst is behind them. ``We have already turned this [corner] and we are coming out of this,'' says VW spokesman Hans-Peter Blechinger. Volkswagen itself, as opposed to the larger Volkswagen group, should earn profits in the second half of the year that will erase its losses in the first half, he points out. The company's cost-cutting measures are already beginning to take effect. By the end of July, VW had eliminated one-third of the nearly 14,000 posts it wants to cut by the end of 1994. It has also slashed its investment plans, most notably in its Czech subsidiary, Skoda.
Such cuts are crucial, analysts say, since no pickup of the German car market is expected before the end of next year at the earliest.
``The management has the right ideas,'' says Michael Geiger, head of German research for NatWest Securities in London. ``It's now a short-term race between the dip in the market and cost cuts.''
Other analysts say that VW needs to cut more.
``They still haven't done enough,'' says Klaus-Jurgen Melzner, an auto analyst with Deutsche Bank Research. ``It's necessary to restructure the total product network in Europe.'' That means closing some plants, including German ones.
At the moment, VW's biggest struggle is in Spain. It projects its SEAT subsidiary will lose 1.25 billion deutsche marks [$774 million] this year. VW has not said what it will do, but there is speculation that it will close the company's Zona Franca plant in Barcelona. VW chief executive Ferdinand Piech has traveled several times to Spain to try to soothe Spanish concerns. But the issue remains hotly contested.
Another challenge is the United States market. In the first nine months of this year, US sales of VW cars have fallen 39 percent - thanks to a four-week strike and quality problems at the company's Mexican plant in Puebla. Mr. Blechinger says the quality problems are fixed and the company is rolling out its new Jetta III and Golf III models for the US market. But it is a far cry from the 500,000-plus VW Beetles the company used to sell in the US during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
An article in this week's influential Der Spiegel magazine contends that the company was considering pulling out of the US market completely. The company denies this.
``It's very unlikely,'' says NatWest's Mr. Geiger. He maintains that VW will wait to see how its new models fare in America.
The bright spots for VW are in developing nations. VW's joint ventures in Brazil and China are seeing sales so far this year grow by one-third and two-thirds, respectively, compared with the same period last year. Skoda is also currently profitable.
If VW cannot fix its problems, then Wolfsburg is in deep trouble. In any case, VW will rely increasingly on foreign operations for production and sales of cars. This will diminish the importance of the Wolfsburg plant and its German workers.
``I am hopeful that VW is going to be prosperous 20 years from now,'' says VW employee Klaus Stormer. But ``things look really bleak.''
One of Mr. Piech's biggest challenges will be keeping the company's German plants going. Here in Wolfsburg, the local plant has the possibility of building VW's new mini-car, the Chico, if it can produce the car just as cheaply as competing factories.
``No matter what happens, this [plant] will be producing cars,'' adds Gunter Seidensticker, who retired from VW in 1988. | <urn:uuid:96f014f8-1a2e-4e32-bf1d-6709a8fa65ca> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.csmonitor.com/1993/1020/20091.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00006-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956459 | 1,063 | 1.820313 | 2 |
The Actor and the Text
Virgin, 1993 - Всего страниц: 303
'The Actor & the Text' brings together the elements of articulation and verbal clarity in a practical way. Building on specific exercises, it relates the practicality of voice production to the challenge of a difficult text.
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By Nadja Podobnik (Slovenian Press Agency)
The decision of the German people in this year's parliamentary election about whom to entrust with leading the government will also influence the dynamics of the country's transition towards renewable energy sources. Although Germany faces many challenges along this path, including the consequences of the 'dieselgate' scandal, environmental issues were not among the key topics of this year's election campaign.
According to Dr. Silke Karcher from the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, one of the reasons for this is that virtually all parties agree on the necessity of the transition towards renewable energy sources, known in Germany as the 'Energiewende'. Last week in Berlin, Karcher explained to a group of journalists that German parties differ only in their opinions on how to achieve that goal.
Karcher, who is Head of Division of European Climate and Energy Policy, New and Market Mechanisms at the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, added that the majority of the German people also agree on the importance of the energy transition and that many of them, especially in the countryside, produce energy from green sources.
She also stated that, although Germany adopted numerous measures after the decision for the energy transition was made in 2011, the country remains coal-based and "struggles with its environmental policy".
Bernhard Pötter, a journalist for the German newspaper taz who has been working with environmental issues for several years, is of a similar opinion. At the round table organised last week in Berlin by the environmental think tank adelphi and the non-profit organisation Clean Energy Wire, Pötter stated that the 'Energiewende' has been "both a great success and a great failure".
On the one hand, Germany has a large number of plants where energy is produced from green sources, especially wind farms and solar power plants. The annual budget for the support of renewable energy is estimated at around €20 billion and a third of the electricity produced is green. Thus, Germany has already exceeded the goal set for 2020. On the other hand, Germany is still a considerably lignite-based country. Moreover, according to Pötter, the country's energy transition so far has placed too much focus on electricity production while not enough emphasis has been put on other areas such as transport.
"In recent years, emission rates have not decreased. They have remained unchanged or have even increased. We have the same emission rates as in the 1990s," stated Pötter.
Germany set itself a goal of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 80-95 per cent by 2050, in comparison with 1990. In accordance with this plan, emissions would need to be cut by at least 40 per cent by 2020. However, environmental organisations have recently warned that by 2020 the emissions will be cut by only 33.7-37.5 per cent, and even less according to some calculations.
"The fact that we are not going to reach the goal set for 2020 is an embarrassment for both ruling parties [author's comment: CDU and SPD]. That may be one of the reasons why there has been little emphasis on environmental issues during the election campaign," Pötter said.
He tells also of a strong German political consensus regarding the necessity of the energy transition, even though the AfD, a party that opposes this policy, will most likely enter the German parliament for the first time.
In spite of the previously mentioned negative predictions, German chancellor Angela Merkel insisted in a broadcast from the German television channel ZDF at the end of last week that Germany will reach the set goal regarding greenhouse gas emissions in time. "We will find ways to reach our goal of cutting the emissions by 40 per cent by 2020. I promise you that," she said.
Experts warn that the fate of the German energy transition and thereby also the achievement of the set goals will largely depend on what the new government coalition will look like.
Environmentalists are afraid that the energy transition might be hindered, especially if the liberal party (FDP) is to be part of the coalition. The FDP's main concern is the benefit of German industry, in which automotive manufacturers play a major role.
Also among the possibilities is a coalition including the Green party. During the campaign, the Greens predictably put the most emphasis on environmental issues. Among other things, they would ban the sale of new cars that create harmful emissions by 2030. With this, Germany would overtake France and Great Britain, who plan to ban the sale of new fossil fuelled cars by 2040.
Last week, at the opening of the IAA Cars 2017 in Frankfurt, Merkel praised the efforts of German automotive manufacturers for the development of electric vehicles, but also defended diesel. "We cannot deny the fact that the use of internal combustion engines will be necessary for decades to come," she stated.
In Germany, discussion about banning the production of fossil fuelled vehicles remains very difficult due to the strong automotive industry, which employs 870,000 people. As Pötter explained, the majority of the political forces are either not willing to discuss this ban (yet) or are mentioning goals set for a rather distant future, e.g. 2070. Pötter himself is of the opinion that the ban is going to be implemented sooner rather than later as the German industry will have no other choice. | <urn:uuid:117c0671-5a23-4471-b8bb-a073db3c1535> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://media-study-tours.adelphi.de/nadja-podobnik-slovenia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.969803 | 1,102 | 2.6875 | 3 |
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IPC announces six athletes to compete for the Refugee Paralympic Team at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games
Joint IPC/UNHCR Press Release
International stars Chris Martin, Alphonso Davies, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Barbara Hendricks, Khaled Hosseini and Asmir Begovic champion the refugee cause and welcome the “world’s most courageous sports team” in a heart-warming reveal video: https://youtu.be/dhlCevI-vIM
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has today confirmed the six athletes who will represent the Refugee Paralympic Team (RPT) at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. The athletes, one woman and five men, will compete in Para athletics, Para swimming, Para canoe and Para taekwondo.
The team represents the more than 82 million people around the world who have been forced to flee war, persecution, and human rights abuses, 12 million of whom live with a disability. The Chef de Mission for the team is Ileana Rodriguez, a refugee from Cuba who competed in the London 2012 Paralympic Games in swimming for the USA.
Andrew Parsons, IPC President, said: “I would urge people everywhere to support the world’s most courageous sports team, the Refugee Paralympic Team. These athletes exemplify how change starts with sport: they have suffered life-changing injuries, fled for their safety and undertaken dangerous journeys, but despite the many barriers put in their way, they have become elite athletes ready to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
“Sport is a powerful tool to include refugees with disabilities in society and the announcement of the Refugee Paralympic Team is a poignant moment for the IPC – we are delivering on a commitment we made at the UNHCR Global Refugee Forum in 2019 to promote equal participation in sporting events for refugees.”
The IPC is working with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to provide opportunities for these remarkable Para athletes to tell their stories at the Games and send a strong message of hope and inspiration to others around the world who have been forced to flee. While all refugees face significant challenges, those with disabilities are frequently at heightened risk and face additional barriers to accessing assistance, services, and opportunities.
UNHCR, the IPC and the RPT athletes are calling for a world in which all displaced people – with or without disabilities – can equally access sport and a commitment to an inclusive and equal world for all. RPT athlete Abbas Karimi, who was a member of UNHCR’s Global Youth Advisory Council and who has recently been named a UNHCR High Profile Supporter epitomizes this commitment as a passionate advocate for disabled refugees’ access to and inclusion in sport – at all levels.
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi welcomed the announcement.
“I am thrilled to congratulate each of the six athletes named today as members of the IPC Refugee Paralympic Team. I am also immensely proud of our collaboration with the International Paralympic Committee in promoting inclusion of refugees with disabilities in sport. These athletes, as individuals and as a Team, are sending a message of hope and inspiration to refugees around the world. They are truly trailblazers in promoting refugee and disability inclusion, in elite sport and in life, and we hope their example will move us one step closer towards an inclusive and equal world for all,” Grandi said.
The RPT was announced via a video by stars from the worlds of music, sport, literature, stage and screen who champion the refugee cause. They included Goodwill Ambassadors and high profile supporters from UNHCR, the UN Refuge Agency. The athletes on the Refugee Paralympic Team for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games are:
- Ibrahim Al Hussein, Syrian refugee living in Athens, Greece, Para swimming – announced by Coldplay frontman, Chris Martin.
- Alia Issa, Syrian refugee living in Athens, Greece, Para athletics (club throw) – announced by British actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
- Parfait Hakizimana*, Burundian refugee living in the Mahama Refugee Camp, Rwanda, Para taekwondo – announced by opera singer and French Legion d’honneur recipient and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Barbara Hendricks.
- Abbas Karimi, Afghan refugee living in Fort Lauderdale, USA, Para swimming – announced by UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Khaled Hosseini, the best-selling author of The Kite Runner and himself an Afghan refugee.
- Anas Al Khalifa, Syrian refugee living in Halle, Germany, Para canoe – announced by footballer and UNHCR high profile supporter, Asmir Begović, who was forced to flee his home in Bosnia and Herzegovina at a young age, first arriving in Germany.
- Shahrad Nasajpour, Iranian refugee living in Phoenix, USA, Para athletics (discus) – announced by Bayern Munich and Canada footballer Alphonso Davies, himself a refugee originally from Liberia and recently announced as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
The RPT Tokyo 2020 will compete under the IPC flag, and will be the first Team to enter the Japan National Stadium during the opening ceremony.
The IPC has been able to support the RPT to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games thanks the generous backing of commercial partners:
- Airbnb – Worldwide Paralympic Partner. Airbnb, as part of its mission of belonging, has been supporting refugee initiatives since 2015, first through its Open Homes programme, and now Airbnb.org and Paralympian Experiences – and is the lead partner of the Refugee Paralympic Team.
- ASICS – Official Supplier of the IPC. ASICS is the official sport apparel kit provider of the RPT at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.
- Panasonic – Worldwide Paralympic Partner. Panasonic published a photo book entitled Ayase Haruka meets Beautiful Athletes showcasing their “Beautiful Japan towards 2020” campaign. Part of the proceeds from the sales of this book were donated to supporting the RPT.
Catherine Powell, Global Head of Hosting at Airbnb, said: “I'd like to congratulate the six members of the Refugee Paralympic Team competing in Tokyo 2020 officially announced today. When I read the stories of Abbas, Shahrad, Anas, Alia, Ibrahim and Parfait, their journeys seem so different, yet there is a common thread – how often one person helped change their lives by welcoming these terrific athletes into their new communities and making them feel they belong, I encourage you to go and read more about these athletes and join Airbnb in cheering them on!”
Tokyo 2020 President Hashimoto said: “The Tokyo 2020 Organising Committee welcomes the participation of the Refugee Paralympic Team at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, following its debut at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. I hope that the Refugee Team will show the world the endeavour, the resilience and the hope of human beings through sporting competition, and that they will perform at their best with a wish for peace. We will continue to cooperate with the IPC and relevant local municipalities and will make every effort to ensure everything proceeds smoothly and safely for the Refugee Team.”
The RPT also honours the legacy of Sir Ludwig Guttmann. He was a refugee who found a new home to welcome him and repaid that kindness by helping create one of the world’s great movements, the Paralympic Movement. The RPT builds on previous refugee initiatives created by the IPC. At the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games a two-person team of refugee and asylum-seeking athletes formed the Independent Paralympic Athletes Team.
Ileana Rodriguez, Chef de Mission for the Refugee Paralympic Team, added: “I am so pleased for all the athletes who have made it to the Refugee Paralympic Team. This past year has been especially challenging for refugee athletes, but they are no stranger to toughness in their lives. Showing the very best of human spirit, they will be a team like no other at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. They will proudly represent the 12 million refugees around the world who have a disability and show that everyone has potential.”
*Parfait’s participation in the Games is subject to him being classified by 1 August 2021.
Notes to Editors
- The Press Attaché for the Refugee Paralympic Team is Teddy Katz. For all media enquiries of the Refugee Paralympic Team please email [email protected]
- For UNHCR spokesperson and comment please contact Sarah Epstein [email protected] or Alicia Hosking in NY on [email protected]
- For a selection of press artwork (1 portrait, 1 action shot, easily accessible), click here.
- For profiles of all athletes, click here.
- For The Journey video, depicting the stories of the Olympic and Paralympic Refugee Teams, click here.
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Window decorating 101
I have scoured the web to bring you this collection of tips
to inform and inspire you
in the art of window dressing,
A window is a piece of art and should be treated as such..
Based on this principle,
the window dressing acts as the picture frame,
framing the view, enhancing the picture and helping to focus the eye.
The first step would be to establish the purpose of the window,
if it has a beautiful view, then you need to encourage the eye to take it all in.
Use drapery designed to focus the eye toward the centre of the window,
and serve as a frame around it, the dressing must therefore not overpower
or distract from the view..
For example, if your drapes are too bright or dark or
too much of a contrast with the colours in the room,
They simply take away from rather than enhance the view.
Bottom line; if you have a window with an amazing view,
frame it with two equally proportioned drapery panels,
held in place with an equally gorgeous curtain rod and finials.
Check in soon for part 2,
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VIENNA - In the tour books and saccharine-sweet postcards at souvenir shops, the skyline of many historic city centers declared World Heritage Sites by UNESCO looks like it is still dominated by the turrets of the local castle, palace or cathedral. But that is a mistaken impression that was deliberately created to prevent any damage to tourism. The reality is completely different, as alert tourists will discover upon visiting those sites, and as was made clear at the emergency conference of UNESCO (the United Nations' Organization for Education, Science and Culture), which took place in Vienna last week under the slogan "World Heritage and Contemporary Architecture."
The conference dealt with the mutual relations between conservation and development at heritage sites, and the sharp clash between two contradictory forces: the desire to preserve an existing historic and architectural heritage versus the need for renewal and the fear, which is frequently realized, that heritage sites will be Disney-fied and turned into toy cities for tourists and the rich. As was widely reported by the European media, the conference drew a record number of 600 participants, architects, urban planners and decision-makers, which attests to the central place this topic occupies in the public arena.
The immediate catalyst for the conference was a series of high-rise construction projects being promoted across from the Cologne Cathedral, which was declared a World Heritage Site in 1996. But in view of the construction boom, UNESCO last year placed the cathedral on the World Heritage in Danger List - to Cologne's shame. That is one step before removal from the heritage list, a move considered a doomsday weapon - a real badge of infamy.
Other European heritage sites are at the center of similar dilemmas in London, Vienna and also in Prague, where a number of skyscrapers are going up in contradiction to UNESCO principles, thus jeopardizing the city's heritage status.
UNESCO has so far issued fairly clear guidelines concerning the conservation of historic monuments and of the "buffer zones" between them and other areas of a city, which are also under certain restrictions. Those are no longer sufficient, UNESCO found, so an amended policy was formulated ahead of the conference. Its main thrust: recommendations to apply strict regulations to broader areas that have been designated a "historic urban landscape," and to give the conservation guidelines legislative power.
"There must be a limit to designing whatever you want when you are in a city with a long history," the director of UNESCO's World Heritage Center, Francesco Bandarin, told the press after the conference. "We look at what's happening at the 200 heritage sites around the world and we're very worried," he added.
The recommendations will be submitted in July for the approval of UNESCO's World Heritage Committee, and member countries will be asked to sign the memo, the draft for which has already elicited quite a lot of resistance and criticism. From the mayor of London, for instance, whose high-rise construction policy clashes with the UN body's recommendations. According to British architect Piers Gough: "UNESCO is trying to rewrite history." He added, somewhat justifiably, that there is something awe-inspiring in the relationship between existing and contemporary structures, and "over-regulation might reduce cities to a level at which they will merely arouse a soporific pleasantness."
Tel Aviv's White City, which was admitted two years ago to the prestigious World Heritage club, never came up during the discussions in Vienna, despite the presence of senior officials from the Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality - city engineer Danny Kaiser and deputy mayor Doron Sapir - and despite the fact that it is in no less danger than the center of Cologne. In Cologne at least they don't dare touch the cathedral itself. Tel Aviv's "cathedral" - the Mann Auditorium - is wantonly being abandoned to far-reaching alterations. UNESCO needs to be informed of what's going on here; the Mann Auditorium is just one example. Perhaps the threat of being kicked out of the heritage club will do the trick.
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here for the International Stationary Steam Index
Many of these
entries were originally available on the
International Stationary Steam Pages.
These engines rarely carry identification plates but the
information is often buried under layers of rust and paint, for a guide to
finding them click here, (notes updated 13th
There is an incomplete Marshall steam roller outside the
Library in Lautoka, http://www.flickr.com/photos/sunshinesimis/5750520548/in/photostream/,
(added 16th October 2012).
||For some time Derek Rayner has searching out surviving steam
rollers and other road engines. Click here to view a list of known
survivors, most of which are illustrated (updated 8th July 2016).
||As enthusiasts have wandered around Java, it has become apparent that there
are quite a few steam rollers which tend to be monuments outside
highway departments. I have prepared an initial list
with illustrations now extended to other islands and other kinds of road
engines (latest addition 7th September 2016). Further additions will be very
welcome, I am sure it is incomplete.
There is apparently an extant steam roller 'somewhere in
Laos'. There were pictures here http://rideasia.net/forum/post3844.html#p3844
(2nd May 2012, but the link is now dead). The builder is currently unknown. There
are now (1st November 2013) pictures here
(link broken by 25th October 2016),
beware the site appears very slow.
There are a number of portable engines 'preserved'
in the country including Taiping
Museum and Kuala
Kangsar (both Garretts, but they may be the same engine) and Seremban Museum (picture left courtesy of Mike Pass). All
this was added to the stationary steam page on 3rd April 2013 and this
page on 10th December 2016.
This Marshall portable is preserved at the United
Plantations museum at Division 1, Jendarata Estate near Teluk Intan,
The picture is courtesy of Tooyavan Dhamotharan (20th December 2016).
Bernd Seiler photographed this Marshall portable
(87298/1934) at the workshops of the Janakpur Railway at Khajuri
in 2005. There is no reason to suppose it is not still there as
all the steam locomotives stored there have recently been reported
present (13th November 2014).
There are four known extant steam rollers in Pakistan:
Mughalpura Works, Lahore. Said to be "Made by Marshall Sons & Co. India in 1956 for Pakistan Western Railways. Still in working condition and placed in Loco Shop
Mughalpura, Lahore, Pakistan. Total weight 15.0 tons. Water capacity 20.0 gallons. Oil capacity 15.0 gallons."
Derek Rayner advises that in fact the roller will have been built in
Gainsborough, UK and some time before this date. This is a 2006 picture by Thomas Kautzor (added 16th May 2013).
- Ayub National Park, Rawalpindi is host to Aveling and Porter 3218/1893 http://www.flickr.com/photos/42573699@N03/3971641769/in/photostream/
- There is a preserved Marshall roller in Quetta http://pakistaniat.com/2009/04/06/an-old-roller-of-quetta-municipality/
(added 1st May 2012, link dead by October 2014)
- There is a preserved Marshall roller in Rasul said to be in "Gov College Rasul MB Din, Mandi Bahauddin - Sarai Alamgir Road, Rasul, Pakistan"
There are at least 3 steam wagons and one steam roller known to
survive in Colombo alone - click here for
pictures and basic information or use the link below for the full report. The
Highways Museum at Kiribatkumbura near Kandy on the main road from Colombo is
home to 2 steam rollers and two motor rollers, I have now added Derek Rayner's
pictures to the page linked above (14th March 2013).
Robey steam wagon C-6037 has been restored to working
order by a group of students and a lecturer (who worked in Sri Lanka German Railway Technical Training Institute - SLGRTT ).
The picture is from Nalin Abeysinghe (22nd June 2013) who has also sent
some pictures of its restoration in progress
in 2010 (30th June 2013)..
Wout Deelen has an Aveling and Porter steam roller which
he says belonged to the Sri Lanka railway until ca 1983, he would very much
appreciate pictures of it in the country preferably working.
Incidentally a quick Google search shows that the UK is host to a Fowler
roller and at least one other A&P (added 12th
June 2011), Derek Rayner says he believes that there were up to 6
Avelings (Aveling & Porter and Aveling-Barford) brought back, one of
the latter is now in Germany. James Waite and Thomas Kautzor were
here on a visit in January 2010 and have provided a comprehensive survey of relics
in Colombo which includes non-railway items such as a steam roller and steam
lorries (last updated 26th January 2011).
This Marshall portable (41427/1904) was found and
photographed by John Knapton on a tyre company's forecourt in Kandy (7th
Derek Rayner has sent this picture by Don Proudlock of a
single speed Aveling and Porter piston valve compound roller spotted on
the right entering Puttalam from the south in 2001(!), that's about
100km north of Colombo. Later information would be appreciated (29th
||As we (and others) have wandered around the
country, it has become apparent that there is much preserved and extant steam
kit, particularly steam rollers which tend to be monuments outside provincial
highway departments. I have prepared an initial list
(updated with a new discovery 25th April 2014). Additions will be very
welcome, I am sure it is woefully incomplete.
||The Rahmi M Koç Museum, Istanbul is home to a
number of road engines, while this site has long featured pictures
of the stationary steam engines and steam locomotives, visitors
who send in reports have ignored these! There are 3 recent imports
from the UK plus an American traction engine. Thomas Kautzor has
now sent (16th June 2016) a very nice
set of pictures which show that these exhibits are as well
presented as the other exhibits.
Thomas Kautzor points out that, in 2008, there was a
collection of portables Tshikapa, in the western Kasaï. They used to belong to Forminière, which was mining diamonds in the area.
They are illustrated here http://www.mbujimayi-miba.be/PHOTOS1/Tshikapa%20ces%20derniers%20temps/album/slides/17_machines_vapeur_2008.html
(3rd April 2015).
||A Fowler ploughing engine survives at the
Kwilu-Ngongo sugar mill, the picture by Scott Jesser was taken on
21st October 2014 (1st October 2016).
||Thomas Kautzor has supplied these pictures of a
Fowler crane engine which is 'preserved' outside the Technology
and Science Museum in Accra which date from 2007 (added 7th
||An Albaret Steam Roller was photographed preserved in Yamoussoukro,
Lacs in January 1998, http://www.flickr.com/photos/27620970@N04/3604779073/.
Now Thomas Kautzor has reported that it is 1300/1939 and provided pictures taken on
15th September 2016 (13th October 2016).
Kenyan resident Roger Tanner has a serviceable preserved
Ransomes Sims and Jefferies portable and another from Ruston and Hornsby
that has yet to be fully restored, see John Ashworth's report - http://www.friendsoftherail.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=319&t=11724&p=33577#p33577
(added 7th November 2013).
A preserved portable engine is shown here - http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5205/5360719138_757255ce4c_b.jpg
- there is no indication of location or the origin of the engine (added
8th April 2012).
||Back in 2006, Thomas Kautzor stumbled across a
steam ploughing engine in Massina, Ségou Province. It is a rare
MAN engine built under licence from Heucke. There was a sister
engine here some time earlier, but that was exported to the
Netherlands and subsequently ended up in the UK (28th November
2013). Now Thomas tells me that there is a steam roller
(presumably of French origin) similarly abandoned near Kita (location 13° 19' 31.75" N 9° 31' 30.53" W). Note
that this seems to be a slide which has been scanned the wrong way
round and the image is 'flipped' - the flywheel should be on the
opposite side (10th June 2016).
||There is a preserved Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies
portable at the Seeheim Hotel, Seeheim, near Keetmanshoop in southern Namibia,
advises Stuart Barker (29th January 2013).
It carries the number 23914, which dates it between 1910 and 1912.
||Thomas Kautzor reports (1st April 2014) that
there is a Burrell compound road engine at the National Museum at
Jos. Apparently it was formerly used in the timber industry.
||Thomas Kautzor reports (23rd February 2012):
"Three steam rollers were found on the island, one next to a roundabout at the northern entrance to St-Leu, another at the Direction Départementale de l’Equipment in St-Pierre (marked with “Attention Danger” signs on all sides as if its boiler was about to explode), and the third beside road RF5 which leads to the Piton de la Fournaise volcano (said to have been used during the road’s construction in 1963)."
Derek Rayner comments that they are all Albarets.
There is a semi-preserved Ruston Proctor portable engine in Santo António on Principe
(8th April 2012). Another (Robey) portable is at Roça Milagrosa (south of
Trinidade, km 7) - see Thomas Kautzor's
(updated 4th December 2013)
There are probably more surviving portables, traction engine, steam
rollers etc in South Africa than in the rest of the continent put
together. Many can be found by doing a Google Image Search, but Dave
Collidge's SteamScenes website has an excellent section on them, many seem
to be in store under cover, an excellent idea in a country where scrap
thieves come armed with guns...Unfortunately no location is given for most
of the outdoor examples which are plinthed.
Sandstone Estates have an excellent collection see http://www.sandstone-estates.com/index.php/steam-engines
several of which are represented above.
Similarly the John Hall Museum of Transport http://www.jhmt.org.za/
(added 4th December 2013).
Of the non-Sandstone and JHMT engines above the following location can be
established by image searches on the web:
AP 8477 steam roller - Belfast. some way east of Pretoria 25° 41' 50.26" S 30° 2' 36.74" E
A Fowler steam roller is at Cape Town, Pinelands Park 33° 55' 47.62" S 18° 30' 57.01" E
(updated 4th December 2013)
There are many surviving portables, traction engine, steam rollers etc
in the country and these can be seen in modest numbers at various rallies.
The Echuca Steam Fair is by some way the biggest annual event - http://www.echucasteamrally.com.au/.
I have now uploaded some pictures of the 2013 event (the
50th) from Ray Gardiner (4th December 2013).
There is a list of surviving Davey Paxman portable engines in Australia
here - http://www.paxmanhistory.org.uk/portsaus.htm
(added 7th November 2013)
There are many surviving portables, traction engine, steam rollers etc
in the country and regular rallies are held here. Dave Collidge's
SteamScenes website has an excellent section on one of the largest ones
which featured no less than 77 engines, the Great Burrell Rally of 2006.
There were actually 'only' 33 Burrells...
USA and Canada
I have steered clear of this area as quite clearly I
could not do it justice. However, John Taubeneck points out (13th July
2015) that there is a list of survivors in these two countries, http://www.steel-wheels.net/nasteam.html.
It looks comprehensive (monstrously so) but I am in no position to comment
on how accurate it is for recent movements. Clearly anyone visiting North
America looking for road steam should consult it.
(updated 13th February 2016)
If you search the web, you will soon find that Chile is awash
with portables, some of which have made their way back to the UK. Similarly, no
doubt, full road engines such as the McLaren tractor and a Mann patent steam wagon
at Museo del Recuerdo
(Instituto de la Patagonia, Universidad de Magallanes (updated 6th July 2015).
||There is a preserved Aveling and Porter steam roller at
Sugar Mill 205 Camilo Cienfuegos near gate 3 at Puerta. It is A&P R12 Class 2 cylinder steam roller 11121/1925.
The identification comes from somebody who saw it whilst the works plate was
still in situ. This information moved here on 4th March 2012, it was previously
on a page concerning stationary
steam engines in Cuban sugar mills. You may also be interested
in a page of preserved steam
fire engines in Cuba.
Thomas Kautzor photographed this Tasker steam
'spring mounted' tractor (1453/1911) which is preserved at the Old Mill Cultural
Centre on the island. Further details will appear in a forthcoming
edition of Old Glory (23rd October 2013).
Two former Panoramio pictures shows a preserved steam roller in
Concepcion - 23° 24' 24.95" S 57° 26' 28.52" W. According to one visitor it's a
Ruthemeyer product, 11th September 2013).
Turks and Caicos Islands
Various web reports carry pictures of a Burrell road
locomotive on West Caicos island, needless to say in a derelict condition,
(original direct link no longer available 25th August 2015).Thanks to Tim Pennent for this one.
A former Panoramio picture showed an Aveling & Porter slide
valve compound steam roller (ca 1905) in Montevideo. The page indicates it was taken in Perez Castellanos,
34° 51' 36.18" S 56° 9' 49.68" W.
James Waite found a disused Marshall portable
engine at a tea factory (9th October 2014)
||The 'Museum of Old Machines' (Muzeum starých strojů a technologií)
is housed in the former Vonwiller textile factory in Žamberku in
the north-east of the country. It has an eclectic collection of
steam power and is also home to a collection of old internal
combustion machines. Chris Capewell and Nigel Mundy visited in
September 2014 and you can get a flavour of the museum from
their report (18th November 2014).
||The Emsland Moormuseum in Gross Hesepe contains
some interesting exhibits including two large ploughing engine. Thomas
Kautzor reports on his May 2013 visit (30th September 2013).
||There is a preserved Aveling and Porter steam
roller at the Árbær Museum in Reykjavik, this is said to be the
only one on the island (added 10th March 2012).
||Chris Capewell has sent this picture of a roller
at the Tarnowskie Gory / Repty museum site, better known for its
narrow gauge steam locomotive display. Accordign to the European
Traction Engine Register it is locally built by Cegielski
(831/1928) based on a Kemna gun tractor design. (14th September
2015) For more information on the company see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._Cegielski_%E2%80%93_Pozna%C5%84.
||Thomas Kautzor photographed this well presented
Aveling and Porter steam roller (8415/1917) at Dietikon, outside
the Walo Bertschinger yard (14th September 2015).
Identification of Steam Rollers
Derek Rayner has produced some notes to aid identification, unfortunately
the methods are rather different for each maker. The numbers produced may
not be actual maker's numbers but they can be translated by references to
lists. If you find a 'new' roller, traction engine or portable, please feel free to contact Derek
- this is an image not a link and you will have to retype it.
Derek can also normally identify an engine's manufacturer from a good
photograph or two - please email them to him and, of course, we'd like to
use them on this page if you agree.
If anyone can tell us where Ruston and Hornsby hid their numbers we'd
be pleased to hear!
John Fowler & Co of Leeds
1 Stand on the footplate and face the front of the machine and look down. On the top edge (horizontal surface) of the vertical front plate which is between the left hand and right hand sides of the machine on which the pressure gauge would be mounted, there may be a stamped-in number. It may be painted over and this (and any rust) will have to be removed first.
2 Still standing in the same location, look for stamped-in numbers on or in the area of the crankshaft bearing caps.
3 Look on the valve or around the area of the shut-off valve for the pressure gauge take-off pipe.
4 Still standing in the same location, bend down and look on the curve of the boiler backhead well above the firehole door and almost in the location where it becomes horizontal. Scrape away any corrosion.
5 End of crankshaft (either or both ends).
6 At front of machine, climb to look at front of cylinder. Scrape away rust on both horizontal and vertical surfaces.
Aveling & Porter of Rochester
1 Stand about half way down the machine on the flywheel (left hand) side. Look at the firebox (not the boiler barrel) and look for the horizontal double row of rivets meeting with a vertical double row of rivets towards the front and just in front of the edge of the flywheel. Somewhere in that area, just below the horizontal line of rivets there should be a four digit number. Also a shape such as a fishbone, diamond, star, square or cross – which is the riveters mark. The number (Boiler Test Number – BTN) in this location is NOT the Royalty Number (Works number) of the machine but must be ‘translated’ using information in a UK Archive Office to give the Royalty Number. There is no direct correlation between the two numbers.
2 The BTN can generally also be found on the opposite side of the boiler in the same place.
3 Sometimes, components such as gears, covers, striking forks, ends of rods, etc, also have the BTN number stamped on and it is usually on the reverse of the brass Royalty plate.
4 Early steam rollers (pre-1890) sometimes have the BTN cast into the top of the blast pipe.
5 Later steam rollers (after 1921) sometimes have a number stamped into the edge of the scraper casting supports. This number has been found to be the last three digits of the Royalty number.
6 On some post-1921 rollers, an EO Number has been found stamped in place of the BTN. This also must be ‘translated’ using information in a UK Archive Office to give the Royalty Number.
Aveling-Barford Ltd of Grantham
1 Stand on the footplate and bend down. Possibly easier to kneel on the footplate since these machines can be accessed between the twin bunkers at the back. Scrape away the dirt, soot, rust etc from an area on the boiler backhead above the firehole door. A series of stampings in this area provided the boiler number, date of hydraulic test, test pressure and manufacturer of boiler (which
was not the name of the steam roller maker) etc. Again, this boiler number needs ‘translating’ using Archive-based information which has to be back-traced’ to determine the roller’s Works Number.
A typical example is shown below:
Marshall, Sons & Co of Gainsborough
1 Stand on the footplate and look at the boiler backhead or the front plate.
If there is a circular plate with the firm’s name on it, then stamped on this same plate will be the five digit Works number. Ignore a ‘Patent’ plate which may have a cast-on year of 1910 – since that was the year the Patent was granted for the corrugated firebox top which was a specific feature of Marshall steam rollers.
2 Other locations where stamped-in Works numbers have been found are on the centre ring of the (single cylinder) cylinder cover at the front of the roller; on the end of the cylinder and at the rear of the chimney.
3 Also – at the rear of the machine on a rectangular plate fixed to the side of the tender on the outside of the coal space above the water space which is below. This rectangular plate has sometimes been seen to be fixed on either side of the roller.
4 The boiler backhead, where it curves from vertical to horizontal at its top is where the maker usually stamped a boiler sequential number. Again, this boiler number would need ‘translating’ using Archive-based information which has to be ‘back-traced’ to determine the roller’s Works Number.
Ruston & Hornsby of Lincoln
The boiler number is always stamped on the firebox above the firehole door but it often became erased through heat, rust, soot, etc.
The engine number � six figures - was always stamped on a plate fastened to the cylinder block - but these plates often go missing.
Identification numbers, have also been found stamped on the 'spectacle plate' above the boiler which has the con-rods running through. Other likely places where they may be found are:- end of crank, flywheel boss, flywheel key, bearings and bearing pedestals. These are all 'possible' places - but not 'definite'. | <urn:uuid:e4a56992-a907-474c-888c-b395a56d15b8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.internationalsteam.co.uk/rollers/rollerindex.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00214-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928554 | 5,112 | 1.65625 | 2 |
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Today is Women's Equality Day, the commemoration of the ratification of the 19th amendment in 1920 - merely 94 years or one long lifetime since American women won the right to vote for representatives of their own republic.
On , it's a timeline hashtag thing and what struck me is the sheer breadth of those claiming feminist values in the vast online community of activists and organizers. Years after the post-feminist medicine show claimed to shut the door on the equality "trap," there is a thriving movement seeking civil and human rights for women, both here in the U.S. and in most of the world.
Much of today's outreach is focused on equality of pay in the workplace, and that's where the Obama Administration sought to place its flag, posting a column by senior adviser Valerie Jarrett and infographics on equal pay. But there were also many calls for political involvement, for more women to run for office, for the renewed battle for equality with demonstrations that challenge entrenched institutions.
Indeed, it seemed to me today that Women's Equality Day was like a huge blank canvas, and social and political actors painted their version of the struggle - and took advantage of some social media juice and outreach at the same time. But before you dismiss that blank canvas as just another "day" that produces pablum over action and change, I'd suggest looking at the fabric itself. This canvas didn't exist 20 years ago - indeed, in the pre-Internet world the very value of "feminism" itself had a very different connotation, thanks in part to those who really didn't care about equality (that's the charitable view) or those who wanted to look past a battle that really hadn't been won at all.
The huge common space and constant conversation has, in my view, turned feminism mainstream in a way that it hadn't been before - and not the kind of mainstream that knocks all the hard edges off, but the kind that (mainly) encourages widely disparate voices, cultures, and views behind a large-scale consensus on equality. In my timeline, there is plenty of argument about gender and race and class and economics - but virtually none on the central precept that women ought to better represented in government and paid on the same level as men.
To me that traces a direct line to the organizing that led to the 19th amendment (and later to the create of Women's Equality Day by the redoubtable New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug), and connects that long-term movement to a future that is powered by perhaps the largest single ideological network - the one that broadly believes in equality.
Why is that network - both digital and through thousands of organizations and groups - so important? In my view, because the ideas it puts forth can no longer be contained - formal channels are no longer needed.
That's why two of the big focuses in my digital timeline today on Women's Equality Day were politics and money. The disproportionate representation by male elected officials and the still-unequal compensation structure of our economy are the two symbols of inequality that tug on the consciences of both men and women who want fair play. Here's a Twitter-sized soundbite for the #WomensEqualityDay that covers it all - and the long-term struggle involved:
"Resolved, That woman is man's equal--was intended to be so by the Creator, and the highest good of the race demands that she should be recognized as such."
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On Simbi, you can exchange services with other members or offer to “pay” them for their time using your credits
Simbi is an online network where people can offer their skills and services--professional or otherwise--in exchange for other users’ services. It's a cashless marketplace hoping to tap into human potential with help from Y Combinator.
A group of founders who pitched at the first of two Y Combinator Summer 2016 Demo Days on Monday, however, are tackling issues faced by populations that have been largely left behind by the recent tech boom.
KJ is founder and CEO of Simbi. She previously worked as a special projects fellow at GuideStar. She founded and led a FORGE, an international peacebuilding NGO which works in refugee camps and post-conflict zones in Africa, investing in victims of war to meet their educational and entrepreneurial potential. She has a BA in Public Policy from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Oxford. | <urn:uuid:da7d5a86-12b3-47c8-a961-be960fa23756> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://fundersclub.com/companies/simbi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00360-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969233 | 200 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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Definition: Applied Overhead
Manufacturing costs that are indirect in nature are generally referred to as overhead in accounting parlance. These indirect manufacturing costs include all the costs other than direct materials and direct labor cost.
There are basically two types of overhead in accounting:
• Actual Overhead
• Applied overhead
Actual overhead are indirect manufacturing costs that are incurred and properly recorded as well according to the well-defined accounting standards. Actual overheads include depreciation on plant and machinery, amortization in case of intangible assets, electricity expenses, distribution expenses, various kinds of taxes, maintenance costs etc.
Applied overhead are the manufacturing costs incurred at the time of production but are not recorded separately as per accounting standards as in case of actual overheads. Rather, in case of applied overhead, this cost is uniformly assigned to the goods manufactured. This type of overhead is applied to all the manufactured goods by using cost accounting method. This overhead is generally applied to various departments related to the production process and is applied on different departments using different formulas such as marketing department. However, the amount that the department needs to pay as applied overhead may or may not be incurred completely by that particular department.
For Example: If the manufacturer of goods estimates that in a particular coming year, there will be applied overhead of Rs. 60000 and the number of estimated machine hours will be 600, then for the coming year he will estimate the applied overhead to be equal to Rs. 100 per machine hour.
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Application Deadline: July 17th 2019
The Autumn School for Sustaiunable Entrepreneurship is a programme for young change-makers from African countries and Germany, organised by Engagement Global with its ASA Programme within the framework of the African German Youth Initiative (AGYI). The format was launched successfully in 2016 and takes place once a year, alternately in Germany and in an African country. It combines peer-to-peer sessions, expert inputs and business development workshops, and aims at creating a network of sustainable entrepreneurs who think and learn globally.
The Autumn School is driven by the vision of a transition towards a more sustainable economy. As a learning platform it enables the participants to extend their knowledge about different aspects of sustainable entrepreneurship, increase their social impact, share their locally acquired best practices and creative approaches with each other, and become part of an international network of young people sharing the same spirit of sustainability.
Participants of the Autumn School will…
- get to know more about the life and work of other young changemakers from African countries and Germany;
- acquire useful tools to further develop their business;
- exchange resources and experiences and set the base for long-term virtual or regional exchange;
- gain support and motivation to act as drivers of change for sustainable entrepreneurship in their own region;
- be part of ASA’s extended alumni and partner network.
Organisation and Application
The participation in the Autumn School is free of charge. The ASA Programme covers the expenses for travel and accommodation (for six nights) for all selected participants. Participants are furthermore be assisted with the organisation of their travels, accommodation and with their visa application.
Contents of the Autumn School
- Virtual preparatory phase where participants are supported by Autumn School alumni to find solutions to their main business challenges;
- Inspiring expert inputs and discussions on sustainable business and sustainability issues;
- Peer-to-peer sessions where participants convene and learn from each other and from invited international guests;
- Meetings with Strategic Partners where participants can critically discuss their business plans;
- Field visits to selected regional projects
- Attendance of the ASA Kaleidoskop – the ASA Programme’s annual multi-stakeholder networking event on sustainable business featuring workshops, pitches, market place…
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Parables Essay, Research Paper
Paper on Parables
1. The Parable of the Sower
2. The Parable of the Lost Coin
September 28, 2001
The Parable of the Sower is one of seven parables in Matthew, chapter thirteen that was from familiar ideas and sources, and natural to men. (Broadus, 285) It was normal to see a farmer sowing grain in Galilee. The “truth” is this parable was designed to teach. The varied types of soil are the emphasis in this parable, rather than that of “the sowing of the seed (“word,” v.19) of the kingdom.” “Jesus called it ‘the parable of the sower’ because it was a sower who inspired the lesson.” (Hobbs, 164) The sower is a Christian teacher or Christ, “but not a prominent figure in the parable.” The seed stands for “Christian truth, ‘the word of the kingdom’, or ‘word of God,’ because when implanted in the heart and conscience, it grows, develops, and brings forth spiritual fruit. (Dummelow, 672)
In Chapter 13 of Matthew, verse three, Jesus started telling the parables, the first being the parable of the sower. The expression, “A Sower,” shows this is not given as an actual, particular occurrence. (Broadus, 285; Criswell, 74) Hobbs, however thinks differently stating, “‘the sower’, not just ‘a sower’ or any sower, meaning the scene probably unfolded before their very eyes.” Jesus then tells how the grain would fall upon the various kinds of soil. It scattered on the hard footpaths where it had no chance to take root, on the thin soil above the limestone rock, in the soil with the thorny roots, and some in the rich soil, which was free from such. The birds ate the seeds that lie exposed on the hard footpaths. (B, 285; C, 74; D, 672; H, 165) “Here the soil had different capacities, but each yielded a good harvest according to its ability.” (Hobbs, 165) “The point of the whole story is that the same seed produced no wheat, little wheat or much wheat, all according to the character and preparation of the soil.” (Broadus, 286) Criswell and Dummelow both agree the seeds are representing people’s faith. The different harvests are the different faiths. “There are those who receive the truth in the same way as the seed that falls on stony places. It grows for a awhile, then dies. There are those who start gloriously, who spring up at once, but then as quickly disappear.” (Criswell, 74) “The seed falling by the wayside” is an example of those that give their attention to business matters and worldly affairs rather than to spiritual truth. The seed in the thin, rocky soil represent those who were really religious and have it in them to believe, but the tire, and fall away. The seed in the thorns show the people who could surely “develop the highest spiritual gifts, but who fail because they deliberately attempt to serve two masters, God and mammon, which is impossible.” (Dummelow, 672) The soil that bears fruit shows the people who believe in Jesus and his messages, and “the people who bear fruit unto God.” (Criswell, 74; Dummelow, 673) “According to Matthew 13:38, the converted soul becomes himself a Word, a seed of the Kingdom. This is the method of Christ’s work, sowing the seed of the Kingdom in the society and age in which we live.”(Criswell, 74) “The story was meant to convey spiritual instruction, and not all were likely to understand it.” (Broadus, 286) Broadus, Criswell, Dummelow, and Hobbs all believe in that as an explanation to the last verse number nine.
I feel that the authors were correct in their analysis that Jesus was telling the parable to teach a lesson. I feel that they should’ve spent more time explaining the lesson being taught, instead of talking about the seeds representing a person’s faith. I disagree with the authors that explained how each type of soil represented types of people and how they acted faithfully.
The parable of the lost coin is in the Gospel of Luke, chapter fifteen, verses eight through ten. This parable comes right after the parable of the lost sheep and “the point is that God takes special delight in the restoration of the sinner who has been lost from his People.” (Nolland, 776) It sets forth the work of the Church in seeking and reclaiming the lost. (Dummelow, 758) This parable and the one before it show that “God’s love seeks the lost and rejoices at their redemption.” (Laymon, 694)
In verse eight, Jesus describes a woman who has ten silver coins, also known as drachmas. A drachma was the wage of a laborer for a whole day of hard work. The amount of coins she has shows that she must have been saving for almost a month. She loses one of them, turns on a lamp, and sweeps the house looking for it. (Clarke, 457; Clifton, 124; D, 758; Laymon, 694; Lenski, 804; N, 776) Dummelow and Lenski say that the woman is a symbol of the church, and the drachmas are the human souls that she keeps. “The lost piece is a soul that has fallen from grace through her negligence.” The lamp is showing her lighting a candle to exercise the ministry of the Word. “This brings back her lost soul to a state of grace.” (Dummelow, 758) However, Clarke says the drachma was a symbol of a sinner who has drifted away from God, “and enslaved to habits of iniquity. The lamp represents a lantern to her steps in finding and receiving the Spirit, which is a light to the soul. And when she sweeps the house, she is putting away her evil doings. (Clarke, 457) “The coins probably represent savings that would cushion the family against days that income did not come in. The one coin represents a significant part of her savings.” Clifton shows the woman as very poor and describes her as living in “a poor little hut that barely gets good light in the daytime, and it is necessary that she turn on a lamp to see at night.” The longer a coin is lost, the image and superscription may be worn off. “So the sinner sinks deeper and deeper into the impurities of sin, and gets the superscription and image of his Maker defaced from his heart.” (Clarke, 457).”
Clifton tells about her rejoicing when she has found the one drachma. He says it’s a relief to her because she knows what it’s like to be poor. “The one who rejoices over the heavenly host is God himself. The parable is really a invitation-an invitation for the critical religious leaders to be joyful and repent.” (Clifton, 124) “The repentance of the individual sinner results in joy before the angels of God. (Clarke, 457) The coin has become more important now that she found it compared to when she lost it because there is “a challenge to actively identify with the joy that results from the restoration of a sinner to God.” (Nolland, 776)
I agree with the authors who said she was poor and the drachma meant a lot to her. I also agree with the representation of the woman and the coin she lost. I do agree with Nolland in that God takes special delight in the restoration of the sinner who has been lost from his People.
New International Version
Matthew 13:3-9 The Parable of the Sower
A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering his seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop-a hundred. Sixty or thirty times what was sown. He who has ears, let him hear.
Luke 15:8-10 The Parable of the Lost Coin
Or suppose a woman has ten silver coins and loses one. Does she not light a lamp, sweep the house and search carefully until she finds it? And when she finds it, she calls her friends and neighbors together and says, Rejoice with me; I have found my lost coin. In the same way, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents.
Allen, Clifton; ed. The Broadman Bible Commentary Vol. 8 (Nashville: Broadman
Allen, Clifton; ed. The Broadman Bible Commentary Vol. 9 (Nashville: Broadman
Broadus, John. Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew (Valley Forge: The American
Baptist Publication Society, 1886)
Clarke, Adam; ed. Clarke’s Commentary (New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury Press,
Criswell, W.A. Expository Notes on the Gospel of Matthew (Grand Rapids: Zondervan
Publishing House, 1961)
Dummelow, J.R.; ed. The One Volume Bible Commentary (New York: The Macmillan
Hobbs, Herschel. An Exposition of The Gospel of Matthew (Grand Rapids: Baker
Book House, 1965)
Laymen, Charles; ed. The Interpreter’s One Volume Commentary on the Bible
(Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1971)
Lenski, R.C.H. Interpretation of St. Luke’s Gospel (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing
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Before you make a decision, here are the facts about the popular UK savings product, including the pros and possible cons.
What are premium bonds?
Premium bonds were introduced by Chancellor Harold Macmillan back in 1956, as part of a government-backed risk-free savings plan. Rather than going into your own account, the interest that accrues on all the invested money is paid into a prize fund. A monthly lottery draw then randomly selects account holders' numbers, with the resulting tax-free prizes ranging from £25 to £1 million.
Tell me more
Each bond costs £1 and the minimum holding is £100, or £50 if you are paying by monthly standing order. The maximum investment is £30,000. The Government guarantees the interest rate, currently 1.5%, on premium bonds, and will buy them back at any point, which means there's no chance your savings will disappear.
Premium Bonds can be bought online at the NS&I's website, www.nsandi.com, at a post office, over the phone, by post or via monthly standing order.
What are the pros?
The obvious advantage of Premium Bonds is that your money is completely secure. Since it is backed by the Treasury, any capital invested is 100 per cent safe and if you want to take your cash out, you can do so whenever you like, getting out exactly what you put in with no risk that the price will go down.
On top of that, with a decent-sized investment, there's a good chance you'll win smaller prizes on a fairly regular basis, and of course, there's always the possibility of scooping the £1 million. And anything you do win is tax free.
What are the cons?
Simply put, Premium Bonds are effectively a lottery. While the money you invest is guaranteed to stay put, there's absolutely no guarantee you'll win a big lump sum, or even any cash at all. In fact, the odds of each individual bond number coming up are 24,000 to one, so if you only invest, say, £100, the chances of seeing a good return on your investment are slim.
It's also important to note that while you can take out exactly what you put in, inflation will certainly see the real value of your cash decreased over the course of the investment. It may be a good option for a high-rate taxpayer with a sizeable sum to stash, but it's not for anyone hoping to generate an income from their savings.
Similarly, it's worth remembering that though the interest rate is guaranteed, that's not the return you'll get per annum. If you buy £100 of bonds, for example, the chances of getting £1.50 each year are by no means guaranteed, and when you consider that the average interest rate on a cash ISA is around 3 per cent, and the possible returns start to look somewhat paltry.
So whether you should invest in Premium Bonds really depends on both your financial situation, and how you look at the lottery-style investment plan. For higher rate taxpayers who have used up their tax-free ISA allocation, Premium Bonds can be a good way to stash extra cash without worrying about market fluctuations.
And if you don't fit into that category but are not hoping to generate a good return on your investment, then it's a risk-free way to start a nest egg, either for yourself or your children or grandchildren... and there's always the chance it could be you.
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Baghdad's Concrete Walls
Baghdad is divided into various neighborhoods controlled by an extensive system of blast walls and checkpoints. The oppressive pervasiveness of this system can only be experienced by those negotiating its spatial stranglehold. Many Baghdad streets are still lined with the seemingly endless concrete barriers, which come in different shapes and are deployed in various formations. Since the majority of Baghdad buildings are one to two stories high, this means that one's view in several parts of the city consists solely of the ubiquitous grey walls, contributing to an overwhelming sense that one is constantly navigating an open-air prison. The barriers blend effortlessly with preexisting walls that were erected around sensitive government buildings in the Ba’athist era and with those surrounding extant Saddam Hussein palaces, becoming reminders of sinister continuities of the old Iraq. Yet, the city is in a constant state of gridlock not only because of how these walls hamper mobility, but also because of the numerous checkpoints strewn across Baghdad, in each major street or neighborhood. The resulting slow traffic is exacerbated by the painstaking procedure of inspecting vehicles individually, which is conducted by exposing cars to the controversial—and according to locals completely ineffective—hand-held explosive detectors. This comprehensive system—the efficacy of which is disputable given the sheer number of attacks taking place on a regular basis—makes Baghdad one of the most controllable cities in the world today. The system gives the Iraqi government an unprecedented local power, allowing it to place the entire city under curfew, or to encircle parts of it at will, as witnessed recently. In other words, the system in place is ineffective in providing security, but exceptionally effective in controlling Baghdadis and their movements. | <urn:uuid:b2480715-5568-4eb2-bcc6-9fd8de7ebebe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://bjulrich.blogspot.com/2013/08/baghdads-concrete-walls.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00467-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962429 | 347 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Assesses the layered meanings and persistent global legacy of an American film classic.
Five decades after the production and initial release of Rebel Without a Cause, this book examines both the complicated historical moment in which the film was made as well as its continuing and pervasive influence on film today. The contributors track how the film continues to speak to diverse audiences as a touchstone for imagined anxieties over adolescence and coming-of-age, traditional values of family and community, threats from abroad, and the provocations of mass or consumer society. Although the specific sources and motivations for rebellion have shifted, what has persisted is the film's singular power to represent rebellion in what could otherwise be seen as the everyday, and to move viewers to ponder its causes.
J. David Slocum is Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University and is the editor of Violence and American Cinema. | <urn:uuid:12458ffd-a4a1-4728-9230-024351a78821> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sunypress.edu/Books/R/Rebel-Without-a-Cause2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.95927 | 180 | 2.546875 | 3 |
In this article, the authors honor Catherine D. Ennis’s legacy by highlighting her unique and significant contributions to physical education research on curriculum and instruction. First, they discuss Ennis’s curricular philosophy and her empirical work along her career path. Then they review the major school-based curricular interventions she implemented, including the Movement Education; Sport for Peace; Science, PE and Me!; and The Science of Healthful Living curricula to demonstrate Ennis’s commitment to curricular development in physical education. In this process, they share with the reader Ennis’s contributions to curriculum development theories, curriculum intervention research, and physical education practices.
Haichun Sun and Ang Chen
Self-determination theory (SDT), when applied in education, emphasizes helping learners internalize extrinsic motivation so as to regulate their learning behavior from an amotivation state to intrinsic motivation. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between SDT components and learning in middle school physical education. Sixth grade students (n = 242) from 15 randomly selected schools provided data on SDT and their knowledge and skill learning achievement as assessed using a pre- and post-measurement design. Structural equation modeling analyses revealed that extrinsically regulated motivations and intrinsic motivation contributed little to knowledge and skill achievement and amotivation negatively related to knowledge improvement. Given the fact that the data represented learner responses to an activity centered program, the findings imply that when learning objectives are vague, learners may be motivated to participate in classes but their participation may not contribute much to knowledge and skill achievement.
Alex Garn and Haichun Sun
The use of fitness testing is a practical means for measuring components of health-related fitness, but there is currently substantial debate over the motivating effects of these tests. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the cross-fertilization of achievement and friendship goal profiles for early adolescents involved in the Progressive Aerobic Cardiovascular Endurance Run (PACER). Participants were 214 middle school students who reported their achievement goals, social goals, and preparation effort toward a PACER test. Performance was also examined. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the six-factor approach–avoidance model. Cluster analysis highlighted three distinct profiles. The high-goals profile group reported significantly higher amounts of effort put forth in preparation for the PACER test. Our findings suggest that the cross-fertilization of approach and avoidance achievement and social goals can provide important information about effort and performance on fitness testing in middle school physical education.
Alex Garn, Ping Xiang, and Haichun Sun
Haiyong Ding, Haichun Sun, and Ang Chen
To be successful in learning, students need to be motivated to engage and learn. The domain-specificity motivation theory articulates that student motivation is often determined by the content being taught to them. The purpose of this study was to extend the theory by determining domain-specificity of situational interest and expectancy-value motivation in terms of engagement and achievement outcomes in physical education. A random student sample (N = 346) from eight Chinese middle schools provided data of situational interest, expectancy-value, engagement, and knowledge and skills acquired. Results from correlation, regression, and structural equation model analyses revealed causal inferences demonstrating differentiated effects of motivation components on the outcome measures: task values were specific to knowledge outcome, expectancy beliefs to skills, and situational interest to engagement. The findings imply that physical educators need to adopt motivation strategies compatible to specific learning outcomes to maximize student motivation for engagement and achievement.
Haichun Sun, Weidong Li, and Bo Shen
The purpose of this study was to review the literature relevant to learning in physical education (PE) according to the self-determination theory (SDT). In this literature review, we first provide an overview of SDT. Second, we discuss students’ SDT-related motivational profiles in PE. Third, we illustrate the relationships among students’ perceptions of the nature of an autonomy-supportive or controlling learning environment, need satisfaction, and self-determined motivation. Fourth, we explore the impact of SDT on students’ learning in PE with respect to the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective learning domains. Finally, we articulate the pedagogical implications on the basis of the reviewed SDT research and future directions for SDT research in PE.
Han Chen, Haichun Sun, Jun Dai, and Michael Griffin
The purpose of the study was to identify gender and body weight differences in Chinese adolescents’ perceived expectancy value (EV) motivation in their physical education (PE) class. The study also explored the relationship between EV and adolescents’ health-related fitness performances.
A group of seventh and eighth graders (N = 224) from China were measured on EV toward PE as well as health-related fitness levels. A two-way MANOVA test was used to examine gender and body weight differences in EV motivations. Several two-step hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the relationship between EV motivation and various fitness performances while controlling for the effects of gender and body weight.
Boys had higher expectancy beliefs and perceived their PE class as more interesting, useful, and important than girls did. Compared with overweight/obese students, students in the healthy weight group reported higher expectancy beliefs. When the effects of gender and body weight were accounted for, expectancy beliefs were the only reliable predictor influencing adolescents’ cardiorespiratory as well as muscular strength/endurance fitness levels.
Physical educators should use various teaching strategies to enhance students’ expectancy beliefs and task values. This is especially important for female students and overweight/obese students.
Bo Shen, Weidong Li, Haichun Sun, and Paul Bernard Rukavina
Guided by Green-Demers, Leagult, Pelletier, and Pelletier’s (2008) assumption that amotivation (absence of motivation) is a multidimensional construct, we designed this study to investigate the influence of inadequate teacher-to-student social support on amotivation of high-school physical education students. Five hundred and sixty-six ninth graders completed questionnaires assessing psychological constructs and intentions for future physical education participation while physical education teachers rated their students’ in-class effort. Structural equation modeling analysis revealed that perceived teachers’ inadequate supports in autonomy, competence, and relatedness were associated with different subtypes of amotivation. In turn, amotivation impeded in-class effort and intention for future physical education participation. The findings indicate that diminished social support from teachers may act as a significant factor resulting in students’ amotivation. The multidimensional nature of amotivation should be identified and instructionally addressed during teaching and learning.
Yong Gao, Haichun Sun, Jie Zhuang, Jian Zhang, Lynda Ransdell, Zheng Zhu, and Siya Wang
This study determined the metabolic equivalents (METs) of several activities typically performed by Chinese youth.
Thirty youth (12 years) performed 7 activities that reflected their daily activities while Energy Expenditure (EE) was measured in a metabolic chamber.
METs were calculated as activity EE divided by participant’s measured resting metabolic rate. A MET value ranging from 0.8 to 1.2 was obtained for sleeping, watching TV, playing computer games, reading and doing homework. Performing radio gymnastics had a MET value of 2.9. Jumping rope at low effort required 3.1 METs. Except for watching TV, METs for other activities in this study were lower than Youth Compendium values.
The results provide empirical evidence for more accurately assessing EE of activities commonly performed by Chinese youth. This is the first study to determine METs for radio gymnastics and jump rope in Chinese youth.
Bo Shen, Robert K. Wingert, Weidong Li, Haichun Sun, and Paul Bernard Rukavina
Amotivation refers to a state in which individuals cannot perceive a relationship between their behavior and that behavior’s subsequent outcome. With the belief that considering amotivation as a multidimensional construct could reflect the complexity of motivational deficits in physical education, we developed this study to validate an amotivation model. In study 1 (N = 156), an exploratory factor analysis provided preliminary support with the model comprising four dimensions: ability beliefs, effort beliefs, values placed on the task, and characteristics of the task. In study 2 (N = 499), the four-dimensional model was further corroborated through a confirmatory factor analysis. Its construct validity and predictive validity were also confirmed. Overall, the findings lend evidence to the conceptual validation of the four-dimensional structure of amotivation. Lack of motivation in physical education may result from different reasons. The multifaceted nature of amotivation in physical education must be considered and instructionally addressed during teaching and learning. | <urn:uuid:2341beaa-37e9-4349-93d6-a0c261277bd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://journals.humankinetics.com/search?f_0=author&q_0=Haichun+Sun | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.943205 | 1,854 | 2.75 | 3 |
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The following is a compilation of Indiana state animal-related laws. The Indiana State Board of Animal Health (BOAH) created the list, but is not charged with enforcing many of the laws listed. While BOAH attempted to make the list comprehensive, it may not be complete. BOAH cannot provide legal advice. Individuals and organizations should consult an attorney for legal advice and for answers to questions about specific situations.
The list contains only Indiana state laws. The list does not contain city or county ordinances that regulate animals within a city or county.
The list contains some links to federal laws. BOAH did not attempt to include all federal animal-related laws.
Please contact BOAH with your suggestions for making this list more helpful, accurate and complete. Contact here.
"IC" refers to the Indiana Code.
"IAC" refers to the Indiana Administrative Code.
SEARCH INSTRUCTIONS: Clicking on the link for the IC or IAC will take you to the PDF document or webpage that the rule is on. Enter the IC or IAC number in the search document window. This will take you to the specific rule you are looking for.
Sec. .5 to Sec. 4.5. Definitions
Sec. 1. Harboring a non-immunized dog
Sec. 5. Exceptions
Sec. 6. Impoundment and other procedures
Neglect and Abandonment
Sec. 7. Neglect or abandonment of an animal
Sec. 8. Purchase or possession of animals for fighting contests
Sec. 8.5. Possession of animal fighting paraphernalia
Sec. 9. Animal fighting contests prohibited
Sec. 9.5. Promoting an animal fighting contest
Sec. 10. Attending an animal fighting contest prohibited
Sec. 11. Cruelty to a law enforcement animal
Sec. 11.3 Cruelty to a search and rescue dog
Sec. 11.5. Cruelty to a service animal
Sec. 12. Beating, torture or mutilation of an animal; killing a domestic animal
Sec. 12.5 Domestic violence and animal cruelty
Sec. 13. Removal of trained attack dog's vocal cords
Sec. 14. Bestiality
Sec. 15. Electrocution or decompression of animals
II. Animal Control
a. Liability for Dog Bites. IC 15-20-1
Sec. 1. Limitations on agencies and political subdivisions
Sec. 2. Owner defined
Sec. 3. Liability of dog owner for damages
Sec. 4. Failure to restrain dog
Sec. 5. Wolf hybrids and coydogs
Sec. 6. Dog bite liability, exceptions
Sec. 7. Applicability of IC 35-46-3-6 to Sec. 4
Sec. 1. Liability of dog owner or harborer
Sec. 2. Authority to kill a dog injuring livestock
b. Click here for the Indiana Commercial Dog Breeder program home page.
a. Indiana State Board of Animal Health. IC 15-17.
Chapter 1. Purpose
Chapter 2. Definitions
Chapter 3. Board of Animal Health
Chapter 4. Personnel
Chapter 7. Bovine Tuberculosis
Chapter 8. Bovine Brucellosis
Chapter 9. Swine Brucellosis
Chapter 10. Dangerous and Diseased Animals
Chapter 11. Disposal of Dead Animals
Chapter 12. Biological Products
Chapter 13. Feeder Pigs
Chapter 14. Livestock Dealers
Chapter 15. Sales, Shipments, and Exhibitions
Chapter 16. Licenses
Chapter 17. Administrative Hearings
Chapter 18. Crimes and Infractions
Chapter 19. Enforcement
1. Rabies Program - State Board of Animal Health IC 15-17-6
Sec. 1. Rabies vaccination records.
Sec. 2. Quarantine Declaration
Sec. 3. Vaccination Order
Sec. 4. Distribution of Quarantine Order
Sec. 5. Impounding Area
Sec. 6. Local Health Officers
Sec. 7. Impoundment, Release, and Disposition of Animals
Sec. 8. Expenses of Impoundment
Sec. 9. Animals in Quarantine Area
Sec. 10. Animals loose in violation of Quarantine Order
Sec. 11. Authority of State Veterinarian and Local Health Officer
Sec. 12. Duration of Emergency Order
Sec. 13. Duty of State and Local Health Departments to Cooperate with the State Veterinarian
Sec. 14. Local Ordinances
c. Livestock and Poultry Care IC 15-17-3-23
a. Standards of care for livestock and poultry 345 IAC 14
a. Meat and Poultry Rules
Meat and poultry products inspection (345 IAC 9)
Poultry and poultry products inspection (345 IAC 10)
Grading and certification programs (345 IAC 12)
VI. Dairy Products. IC 15-18.
Chapter 1. Milk and Milk Products Permits (Indiana State Board of Animal Health)
Chapter 2. Milk and Cream Purchases (Creamer Examining Board)
Chapter 3. Prohibition on Local Governments Assessing Fees on Milk Producers
Chapter 4. Claims Against Milk Processors, Priority in Insolvency
Chapter 5. Indiana Dairy Industry Development (Dairy Industry Development Board)
a. Dairy products rules (345 IAC 8)
VII. Livestock and Horse Racing. IC 15-19.
Chapter 1. Livestock Breeders Associations
Chapter 2. Indiana Standardbred Advisory Board
Chapter 3. Regulation of Horse Racing
Chapter 4. Racing Pigeons
Chapter 5. Livestock Certification
Chapter 6. Livestock Brands
Horse racing is regulated by the Indiana Horse Racing Commission.
IX. Veterinary Practice. IC 25-38.1.
Regulation of the practice of veterinary medicine, including licensing of veterinarians and registering of veterinary technicians, by the Indiana Board of Veterinary Medical Examiners (IBVME) in the Professional Licensing Agency.
a. IBVME rules 888 IAC
X. Service Animals; public accommodations. IC 16-32-3.
Indiana State Department of Health Web site
XI. Limited Liability for Agricultural Activities. IC 34-31
Chapter 5. Limited Liability Arising from Equine Activities
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I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly. - Catherine the Great 1729 - 1796
(aka: Catherine the Great) reigned over Russia for 34 years. As empress, Catherine westernized Russia. She led her country into full participation in the political and cultural life of Europe.
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Travel: Museum plan worries La Brea scientists
The design for the central building in a reimagined Los Angeles County Museum of Art was inspired by the adjacent La Brea tar pits. Seen from above, the structure’s flowing lines resemble a splatter of tar.
But scientists doing the work of recovering fossils from the oozing asphalt aren’t sure they like Swiss architect Peter Zumthor’s homage. They fear the massive construction required to replace four of LACMA’s existing buildings with Zumthor’s structure could upset the science at the tar pits, an active paleontological research site with a rich deposit of Pleistocene-era fossils that draws visitors from around the world.
John Harris, chief curator of the Natural History Museum’s Page Museum, adjacent to LACMA, says Zumthor’s plan so far doesn’t address how to protect the tar pits.
Although groundbreaking would be years off, plans and models for the overhaul are already on display at LACMA’s Resnick Pavilion.
“If I understand correctly, this would all be under an overhang,” Harris says, gesturing toward the four tar pits closest to the museum’s 1960s-era Hammer building. “It would block off the light, the rain, and that affects the vegetation.”
“The example of how current vegetation and small animals get trapped (in tar) is how we demonstrate to people how this incredible wealth of fossils got here in the first place,” he adds. “It would go from something that’s totally natural to something artificial.”
Jane Pisano, director of the Natural History Museum, has questions about the Zumthor building’s effect on a different area of the tar pits.
The models show that the larger, so-called lake pit to the east of the museum would be shadowed by the cantilevered roof—”subsuming it under LACMA,” says Pisano, who has been unable to get a map that would show a true overlay of the building on the current site. “It would completely change your perspective on the lake pit—and that’s an iconic symbol of the tar pits.”
LACMA director Michael Govan says the models in the exhibition are not unlike sketches, far from final designs.
“Even I know it cantilevers too far,” Govan says of the overhangs. “But all of that would get worked out over the next five years. There’s no intention to impinge on the tar pits in a negative way. The building is emerging as a sort of celebration of the tar pits; it’s meant to magnify the extraordinary natural feature of the site.”
The La Brea tar pits and the Page Museum, which displays more than 1 million Ice Age fossils, have a vaunted reputation among natural historians. “I don’t think there’s a parallel to it anywhere in the world in terms of (fossil) abundance,” says Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
In 1986, construction of LACMA’s Japanese Pavilion inadvertently unearthed invertebrate fossils.
In 2006, when the museum built an underground parking garage, 16 fossil deposits were found—bones of bison, horses, camels, saber-toothed cats and a baby mastodon, among others, as well as the museum’s famed mammoth skeleton, nicknamed Zed.
That discovery was fortuitous for the Page. The fossils, embedded in giant chunks of earth, were collected into 23 huge crates—what’s now called “Project 23”—and are the main focus of science being done at the Page. The excavation was paid for by LACMA, which hired the archaeological and paleontological mitigation firm ArchaeoPaleo Resource Management to oversee the salvaging of the fossils and coordinate with the Page.
During construction, however, Zed the mammoth’s skull was accidentally damaged by a bulldozer. Harris wants to make sure similar damage doesn’t happen to fossils that might be unearthed during future construction.
The Page, he points out, is working closely with L.A. County’s Metropolitan Transit Authority on the Purple Line subway extension. With the help of an outside cultural resources management company hired by the MTA, and consultation with the Page, the transit agency plans to start test drilling as early as next month on the southeast corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Ogden Drive to explore the underground landscape—not only gas conditions and earth pressure, but the potential for fossil discovery—says Scott McConnell, director of MTA construction management on the new subway.
“The MTA has plans, several years in the making, about mitigating the fossils they’re almost bound to encounter,” says Harris, the Page curator. “We don’t have enough detailed information right now about the Zumthor project, and that’s concerning.”
Govan must still raise $650 million for the building and its environs, and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors must approve the plan. Architectural preservationists may also weigh in about demolishing the current LACMA buildings.
“There are literally thousands of technical issues to be worked out with the Page and on LACMA’s side as well,” Govan says. “But I can’t imagine it would be anything other than a good conversation and that we’d work collaboratively.”
Frank Gehry, who encountered multiple hurdles before his Walt Disney Concert Hall was built, knows how fraught things can get when trying to construct ambitious architecture.
“They’ll go through a bath of fire before it’s done; it’s the reality of building things today,” Gehry says. “But if the architecture is as good as we hope and expect it to be, and if it fits perfectly, as it can, into the culture of the museum and its collections, then it’s going to be fantastic.” | <urn:uuid:8dff22a3-79e8-4680-8c8e-b551fd1c9529> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kelownacapnews.com/lifestyles/220734811.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00554-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939715 | 1,306 | 2.71875 | 3 |
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Professor Tazeeb Rajwani, co-author of the study and Head of the Department of Strategy and International Business at the University of Surrey, said:
“The aim of every business is to generate shareholder value, and this is no different for family-owned businesses. However, within a family business, the economic motive and the family are inextricably linked. We have found that one of the immediate objectives of the firm is to pursue initiatives that better their local community and environment.
“The desire to preserve socioemotional wealth and the firm’s own survival through generations drives family-owned firms to pursue legitimacy by conforming to institutional expectations, such as the ISO 14001 criteria.”
The study also determined that the effect is stronger for firms whose names include the family name and for companies located closer to large cities. Researchers found that the family name is an important symbolic characteristic that contributes to family members’ identification with society.
Professor Tazeeb Rajwani continued:
“Investors, whose interest is profit maximisation, should be aware of the influence of non-financial objectives on strategic decisions in family firms. Additionally, managers who are not family members of family-owned firms need to understand the existence of and recognise the potential influence of the family’s motives.
“Family members with controlling stakes in the firm may push strategic decisions that resonate with their socioemotional aspirations but are not directly associated with profitability. It is important for these managers to be aware of and understand family members’ personal imperatives that may affect the firms’ operations and performance.”
Aside from investors and managerial positions within family-owned firms, these findings also have important implications for environmentally concerned stakeholders, including the firms’ own consumers and suppliers.
Note to editors:
- Professor Tazeeb Rajwani is available for interview upon request
- Read the full study online
- Contact the University of Surrey press office: [email protected]
Method of Research
Subject of Research
Does family matter? Ownership, motives and firms’ environmental strategy
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In reply to a comment left a couple of weeks ago by a reader under the Osint Me setup part 3 – tools for finding people article, I have decided to cover the topic of creating OSINT accounts on various social media platforms.
For all intents and purposes, these will be fake accounts and as such they will most certainly be scrutinised (and sometimes closed) by the platforms.
According to CBS News, Facebook stated it removed 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September 2019. Additionally, Facebook estimates that about 5% of all user accounts on their platform are fake.
It is reasonable to expect that a similar percentage of fake accounts, or possibly even higher on other social media sites, exists across the board and encompasses a wide variety of users, from scammers, stalkers, privacy freaks, OSINT researchers to members of law enforcement or intelligence services agencies.
Accounts are monitored using a combination of algorithms and human judgement of persons hired to enforce compliance with the social media policies, so it’s important to take both of these factors into consideration.
1. Avoid VPN connections
VPNs are great for protecting user privacy and in fact, up to a couple of years ago, setting up social media accounts using a VPN connection worked perfectly fine.
This is no longer the case.
Nowadays, nearly all online content providers (the prime example is Netflix) identify and correlate IP address ranges that are known to be used for VPN services.
The result is either an immediate blacklist, where no connection to the platform is possible from an IP address associated with a VPN, or an alert raised by an algorithm which flags a newly created account as a higher risk and labels it potentially fraudulent / fake.
ADVICE: Do not use VPNs when creating OSINT accounts. Also, avoid creating those OSINT accounts (especially if they are to be used in law enforcement type of investigations down the line) from your home IP address. Instead, use a public network – it can be a hotel or bus WiFi, a coffee shop or an Internet cafe.
2. Use a dedicated (real!) mobile number
VOIP phone numbers provided at account registration are no longer as reliable as they used to be.
Likewise, creating an account without ANY phone number will make it short-lived. An increased number of searches conducted from this account will prompt a suspicious activity check and it will lock down the account until a real mobile number is provided.
ADVICE: Avoid using your own phone! In order to make your account appear like it is owned by a real person and not by a troll or a scammer, use a dedicated, pre-paid non-registered SIM, preferably operated out of a cheap smart phone that if need be can be reset to manufacturer’s default settings or completely disposed of.
If you want to put an additional degree of separation between you and your OSINT account, consider buying the SIM abroad.
3. Enable 2FA on the OSINT account
Two factor authentication is a security measure, but for our OSINT account it will perform a more important role.
Enabling 2FA will simply make it appear more real and more human. Real people frequently use 2FA for securing their accounts, so doing so in our case will score bonus points with the fake account detection algorithm.
The easiest way to do this is to use your dedicated mobile number for SMS based authentication. Normally this is not as secure as token or app authentication, but security is a secondary factor here.
In some cases you can successfully remove the phone number and 2FA a while after they have been implemented on the account.
4. Pick good photos for your profile
By “good” I mean photos that will convince any real person looking at your profile.
You want to prevent your profile from getting reported as a fake and investigated by the platform, but you also want to avoid alerting your target, who you must assume will at some point visit and look at your OSINT account.
In the recent Tricky Thursday post I recommended using the This Person Does Not Exist website to generate random face pics that can be used as the main face of your OSINT account.
You should definitely have more than one photo on your profile – because that is what most people do, they upload photos to social media. Some profiles are set to private so you actually can’t see all the photos, but their mere presence on the account improves its standing with the algorithm as well as the compliance people.
You can browse the web for personal photos visually resembling your AI generated mugshot. You can also be a little creative and change or edit the photos, or use group photos, photos of people wearing motorcycle helmets, ski masks, etc – whatever aligns with the hobbies you picked for your OSINT account.
ADVICE: Remember that every photo can be reverse-searched using Google or various online resources that compare images for similar variables.
Impersonating existing individuals is also NOT recommended, especially in cases when the results of your OSINT investigation are likely to be submitted for external review or legal disclosure.
5. Cultivate your OSINT persona
This means that you should put at least some effort into your profile development and maintenance. The easiest way to do it is to interact with a given platform in a way it was designed for: sharing, liking, re-posting and adding content.
Real people also join groups or subscribe to certain pages for updates. It doesn’t matter what it is, as long as the interaction with the platform and other users looks genuine. Obviously, it’s not a good idea to pick areas of interest that you focus on in real life, as you risk getting de-anonymised.
Things you should avoid during the cultivation process are controversial topics touching on politics, minorities, religion and other heavily-moderated subjects. Your interactions with the platform should be as generic, inoffensive and non-controversial as possible. The goal here is to avoid unwanted scrutiny and red flags associated with your OSINT profile.
If you really want to be consistent, you can tie down your OSINT fake person to a particular IP address, a specific geo-location, time pattern and so on. You might choose to cultivate your account with new posts, shares and group activity any time you are in a particular coffee shop using their WiFi.
DO NOT share your geo-location publicly – the purpose of this step is to create a repetitive pattern of credibility in the eyes of the platform user compliance team, nothing else.
Your OSINT account cultivation plan should start at the early stages of creating accounts. There is no harm to create a couple of email addresses and social media profiles and just let the stay dormant for a while.
You should avoid mass-creating accounts on the same machine, using the same IP address, from the same browser, etc. Social media platforms are very good at linking users and accounts together.
6. Consider linking your investigative accounts
This reflects another pattern of real accounts – a genuine user will likely have an account on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and so on with similar personal information across all three. They probably also share the same email address and phone number.
ADVICE: To mix things up a little in order to pacify the ever watchful algorithms, you should consider accessing your accounts from time to time from a smart phone emulator or using your designated OSINT handset. After all, real users nowadays use mobile devices more frequently than desktops.
The accounts linking step is optional and it really only applies to accounts you want to keep long term. If you are conducting impromptu OSINT enquiries and will rely on disposable accounts, you might want to skip this part entirely.
Which brings us to last final step…
7. Clean up after yourself!
It is important to remember, as we mentioned in previous articles, that you should use a dedicated virtual machine or a dedicated laptop for OSINT activities.
One of many reasons why I consider it be good practice is the fact that you can easily clean up your digital environment after you have concluded the investigation.
In anticipation of this you might opt for a disposable operating system like TAILS, which I discussed previously in this article.
The clean up process includes:
- resetting your virtual machine to a clean / default state;
- removing your browsing history, cookies and any downloaded files (remember to make backups or archive whatever you need);
- resetting your browser to default settings, or sometimes completely uninstalling the browser, if applicable;
- closing down accounts if you don’t wish to re-use them in the future.
So that’s it. I wrote this rough guide based on my own experiences with creating and maintaining OSINT accounts. Some of those accounts were closed on me in the past and my learning process was a trial and error approach.
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With more and more people realizing that coal and oil electricity generation is going to have to stop if we want to put a cap on global warming, there has been increasing interest in solar and wind power. If you live in ordinary suburban home it might seem like you have no choice but to accept whatever kind of electricity your local utility company offers, but that's not the case. There are ways that you can help force the shift over to green wind and solar power. Here are some tips.
The first thing that you can do is to encourage your local city council, provincial government, and utilities company to change to greener practices. You can write letters, go to information seminars, keep up to date on current news, and even attend or organize rallies. Anything that encourages companies to power their machines with green energy, provide green energy to customers, or opposes plans to build more fossil fueled generating stations, even if it doesn't work right away, is a big help.
But you don't need to sit around and wait for the government and big companies to catch up with the mood of the people. You can affect change right there in your own area by generating green power to reduce your dependence on the fossil powered electricity grid. By setting up your own means of electricity generation and staying connected to the power grid, anything you generate but don't use will be used by someone else and you'll actually get a credit on your power bill. If your system is efficient enough, the power company could end up paying YOU!
At first, any resident who wanted to generate their own wind or solar electricity had to design their systems themselves. These days it has become almost commonplace, to the point where you can buy ready made solar and wind kits at Canadian Tire for only a few hundred dollars. There are even companies who will come around and design a system for you based on your electricity needs and your property's suitability to wind or solar generation. This is the more expensive (but also more likely to work) way of doing things.
Of course, some homes will make better candidates for green energy systems than others. In order to generate solar energy, you will need to live in an area that gets enough direct sunlight. Trees that overhang the roof or garden where you installed your panels will hamper their ability to produce power. Likewise, wind turbines will only put out if there is wind, and there are a lot of obstacles (trees, fences, etc.) to wind in suburban areas.
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To some poor farmers in Barangay Bacungan, Puerto Princesa City, choosing between low-paying odd jobs and good income-earning prospects in illegal logging is always a tough decision to make every day as they make plans on how to feed their families.
For the longest time, Kit Escalante, the breadwinner in a family of six, had been choosing illegal logging reluctantly just to provide food for them.
The predicament for him only ended when The Yamang Bukid Farm hired him and gave him the opportunity to renew his life. When this day came, Kit willingly set aside the use of his chainsaw to earn for his family.
Kit recounted that for so many years, he and other illegal loggers in Bacungan had played hide-and-seek with forest guards. The stakes are high in illegal logging, but it was the only job he knew how to do to provide a better income for his family.
“Alam naman namin na illegal pero anong magagawa mo? Magugutom kami kung ‘di ko gagawin ‘yon,” he pointed out.
At the logging camp, he led five subordinates. He and his team can cut down up to 100 fully-grown trees a day.
When forest guards are making forest rounds, Kit’s team would hide as much as they can to avoid being caught and dragged to jail.
“Tago-tago talaga kami, lalo na ako kasi may chainsaw talaga ako dati, eh,” he said.
Asked why he chose illegal logging, he smirked and said: “Halos lahat dito, ganyan ang trabaho. Kailangan, eh. Kung ‘di ko gagawin, wala kaming kakainin ng pamilya ko.”
He said even his family members were forced to join him in the illegal logging trade, especially during tough times. His son would be the driver and his wife would be the lookout for danger or trouble.
“Pati anak ko dati sumasama na sa amin, siya driver, tapos asawa ko ‘yung look out,” he added.
He admitted that sometimes his conscience would haunt him as he thinks about the possible consequences of illegal logging —flash floods, landslides, and other destructive effects on the environment and the community.
“Sabi ko, ang daming napapahamak ng dahil sa trabaho namin na ito, lalo kapag maulan. Paano na ‘yong mga mapapahamak ng baha, landslide,” Kit said.
Kit said that with the help of The Yamang Bukid, he does not regret turning his back on illegal logging now.
“Hindi ako nanghinayang kahit mas malaki ang kita sa pagputol ng kahoy. At least ngayon, hindi ko na kailangang magtago,” he said.
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Preparation of nitrogen
Nitrogen is found in both free and combined states. It occupies 78.07% by volume. Nitrogen can be prepared:
By heating copper in air:
Firstly, air is passed through lime water and then concentrated sulphuric acid to make the air free from carbon dioxide and moistures respectively. The air contains only nitrogen and oxygen which are passed over the heated copper wire as shown in the figure. Here copper combines with oxygen to make copper oxide and nitrogen gas passes over. This nitrogen can be collected by downward displacement of water.
By burning phosphorous in air:
Nitrogen gas can be prepared by burning phosphorous in air. A crucible with phosphorous is taken and allowed to float on water. Then phosphorous is burnt in crucible is covered with gas jar as shown in figure. The oxygen of the gas jar is consumed during the burning of phosphorous penta oxide is formed. The gas left in the jar is nitrogen.
4P + 5O2 → 2P2O5
By decomposition of compounds containing nitrogen
Like, when dilute solution of ammonium nitrite is heated, nitrogen gas is produced.
NH4NO2→ N2 +2H2O
When the solution of sodium nitrite and ammonium chloride is heated they react together and liberate nitrogen gas.
NaNO2 + NH4Cl → NaCl + H2O +N2
Take a mixture of ammonium Chloride and Sodium nitrate in equivalent amount in a round bottom flask. Some water is added to make the solution of the mixture. Then the delivery tube is fitted with a round bottom flask with the help of a cork. The flask is heated gently with a source of heat. After that gas is produced by the reaction of chemicals and is collected in gas jar by downward displacement of water.
Ammonium chloride and sodium nitrite should not be used in solid form because ammonium chloride, being a sublimate, sublimes and escape in form of vapour on heating.
Apparatus should be made airtight.
Ammonium chloride and sodium nitrite should be taken in equivalent amount.
Nitrogen physical properties:
Physical properties of nitrogen is given as,
Nitrogen is a gas without any color, taste and also without any smell which is one of the physical property of nitrogen.
Nitrogen is relatively considered as inert gas which is one of the physical property of nitrogen.
Nitrogen is also considered as the liquid which is similar to water in appearance.
The melting point of the nitrogen is -2100C.
The boiling point of the nitrogen is -195.80C.
Nitrogen contains the two allotropic forms of solid a and b where the transition takes place in between the two forms at the temperature of -2370C.
The vapor density of nitrogen is given as 14which is one of the physical property of nitrogen.
Nitrogen has the soluble property; it is less soluble in water which is one of the physical property of nitrogen.
Chemical properties of nitrogen:
The color of indicators is not affected by the nitrogen since it is a neutral gas which is one of the chemical property of nitrogen.
Nitrogen can combine with other elements and form some compounds under certain temperature which is one of the chemical property of nitrogen..
At high temperature or low temperature nitrogen can form compounds through the biological activity which can act as catalyst.
In accordance with the oxygen nitrogen forms nitrogen dioxide as well as nitric acid.
When nitrogen is combined with the hydrogen it forms ammonia and with sulfur it form nitrogen sulfide.
Nitrogen is combined with certain metals at higher temperatures which forms the active metals such as lithium and magnesium.
Nitrogen is a non flammable compound which does not support the combustion which is one of the chemical property of nitrogen..
After ionization the energy of nitrogen is given as 1402kJ.mol-1.
The electronegativity of nitrogen due to the Pauling method is given as 3.0.
Common Uses of Nitrogen
This element is present in virtually all pharmacological drugs. In the form of nitrous oxide it is used as an anesthetic. Cryopreservation also uses the gas to conserve egg, blood, sperm and other biological specimens. The CPUs in computers use the gas to keep them from heating up. X-ray detectors also rely on this element.
Nitrogen tanks are also used as paintball gun power sources. These elements have proven to be so effective in this regard they have replaced carbon dioxide. This non-metallic chemical element can be used to fill aircraft and some vehicle tires. The same element is found in military aircraft fuel systems to combat fire hazards. Other common uses for the element are in steel production and in high voltage equipment.
In the latter case, nitrogen is pressurized and dried first. Integrated circuits, diodes, transistors and other electrical components use it too. Nitrogen is present in liquid explosives so they do not explode.
Nitrogen and Living Beings
As stated earlier, the element is present in all living organisms; plants, animals and people. It is the primary figure in amino acids, which are the building blocks of proteins. It is also the basis for neurotransmitters, RNA and DNA. The element is also required in plants and is part of chlorophyll pigment. This is what allows plants to change sunlight into energy.
The same element is present in roots, leaves and grains. Plants do not actually take in atmospheric nitrogen. The element is changed into compounds that plants can soak in. The transformation process is called the nitrogen cycle.
Uses of Nitrogen in Industries
The element is used in controlling pollution. It is effective in getting rid of unstable organic compounds in liquids. Many industries use it to destroy toxic liquids and vapors in industrial tools. As nitrogen dioxide, the element is vital in the industrial sector. It also serves as an oxidation reaction catalyst. Apart from being an oxidizing agent, it can also be used as a flour bleaching agent and rocket fuel.
The element assumes this form at -195.5 degree and below. Its uses include refrigerants and cryotherapy. In the latter it is used to take out actinic keratosis, warts and treat other skin disorders.
This element can be found in the atmosphere. Nitrogen is also present in other forms. When people think of nitrogen, they immediately associate it with the air. But it is also part of the food they eat every day. Since its discovery, scientists have learned a lot about it. Today nitrogen is commercially available. The most common types are nitrous oxide and supercoolant liquid nitrogen.
This element is the lightest in the nitrogen group. The others are arsenic, antimony and bismuth. Nitrogen can join up with other elements. The bonds are very effective because nitrogen’s outermost electron shell has few electrons. That is the reason why it is sometimes used as a buffer gas. Since nitrogen makes up 4/5 of the atmosphere, it is pretty common. The element is vital to life, but few animals use the pure kind. Often it is used in the form of amino and nucleic acids.
The element was first isolated in 1772. But scientists were aware of it long before that time. In its purest form, nitrogen can be dangerous. It can become an asphyxiant by putting oxygen out of place. This is one of the issues with liquid nitrogen; it turns to gas when exposed to room temperature.
For this reason, proper ventilation is crucial when using it. Decompression sickness usually affects divers that rely on nitrogen. Decompression sickness signs include nitrogen bubbles in the blood. This is due to depressurization.
More about Nitrogen Oxide
The term is applied to the combining of oxygen and nitrogen. The best known variants are nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and nitric oxide (NO). In both instances, one or two oxygen atoms are linked to one nitrogen atom. These oxides have the NOx notation. X symbolizes one or two components of oxygen variables. These elements are generated in engines. According to scientists, too much of these elements in the air causes pollution.
One major cause of pollution are Volatile Organic Compounds (types of chemicals) that join NOx. These two generate smog that dirties the air. That being said, the element has many uses. Scientists are now looking at ways to enhance nitrogen minus these unpleasant elements.
One of the most frequent uses of nitrogen is in light bulbs. Compared to argon, it is less expensive. Some food packages contain this element to stop oxidation. The element’s inertness is the main reason for its usefulness.
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Until this year, the only items that resembled produce on Blessin Giraldo's school lunch tray were berry-flavored Popsicles and Fruit Roll-Ups.
But now, the Baltimore eighth-grader's tray features beds of greens and fruits and vegetables that are available at her middle school through a salad bar option that is sprouting up in school cafeterias around the city.
"I can go to lunch now and know I won't leave without eating," said Blessin, who attends the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women. "Even if we don't like what they have for lunch that day, we know we always have a salad bar as a resource."
Her school is one of 11 in the city that has introduced salad bars — part of a larger trend in Baltimore and statewide to provide students with more healthful meals. On Tuesday, the city will announce the installation of the salad bars in 10 more schools.
The announcement will be made at Calvin Rodwell Elementary School, which will receive a salad bar and permanent water tap station as part of a campaign by cable television network HBO to highlight the nation's obesity epidemic.
HBO, which is producing a four-part documentary called "The Weight of the Nation," is partnering with school districts and organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health to install 100 salad bars and 100 water tap stations in schools across the country.
John Hoffman, executive producer of "The Weight of the Nation," which airs in May, said the purpose of the documentary is "sounding the loudest alarm that we can" to show that the obesity epidemic could cripple the United States' health care system.
Schools, Hoffman said, are a key partner in reversing the trend because children consume half their calories there. Hoffman drew from the most recent survey from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which showed that 94 percent of school meals don't meet federal nutritional standards.
"If that's the case, then we're failing our students in the institution that is preparing them for the future," he said.
The salad bars are among the efforts to improve the quality of food in Baltimore's schools — in neighboring school districts, salads are standard with every meal — starting with the basics of introducing fruit and vegetables to student palates.
"Our vision is that we are a district where, by and large, our food is as minimally processed as possible, and as healthy as possible, and that all kids have access to it," said Antonio Womack, the district's new managing director of food and nutrition services. He took the helm in September after acclaimed food chief Tony Geraci left.
The city's efforts mirror a trend taking place statewide.
State education officials said there has been an increased focus on providing fresh fruits and vegetables in student lunches, as the state noted a significant increase in the past decade in the number of students who require meals at school.
This past year, Maryland schools served 25 million breakfasts as part of the free and reduced-price meal program and 70 million lunches. Currently, four out of 10 students in Maryland schools qualify for a free or reduced-price meal, state education officials said. Elementary schools alone have seen an increase from 35 percent to 50 percent of students requiring meals.
The state is attempting to ensure that each student meal, possibly the only one some have all day, is more nutritious.
Maryland participates in a national "farm to school network" and is the only state to have every school system take part in some way in buying local produce and putting it in school cafeterias.
"If you get it directly from the farmer, you can make sure as many nutrients as possible are in the fruit," said Bill Reinhard, spokesman for the Maryland State Department of Education. "We are learning ways that we can help make this happen."
Lorna Hanley, principal of the Baltimore Leadership School, said the salad bar is a major first step in transforming how students view healthfulness.
"The biggest [barrier] was just exposure, turning them on to believing it's cool to be healthy," she said. Hanley showed pictures of boxes of chicken doused in ketchup that one student brought to eat for breakfast, and a lunchbox full of Reese's candy, fruit snacks, Pop-Tarts and cookies that another brought to snack on throughout the day.
"We just wanted to respond to this whole health and wellness need," Hanley said. "Just seeing how tired the girls were from walking up one flight of stairs, how many of them go down to the health suite for insulin — we saw the value of this" salad bar.
The school secured its salad bar with a grant through Let's Move: Salad Bars to Schools, which partners with the Whole Foods supermarket chain. And, she said, students are starting to take their health more seriously, she said.
"I definitely feel like I'm eating less junk to stay full," said Anastasia Jeffries, a Leadership School eighth-grader who doesn't eat meat. She said she eats from the salad bar every day.
Womack is hoping that the enthusiasm about healthful food will continue to spread.
He has spent the past few months applying for grants and selling healthful food programs to educators around the city. He secured more than $1.7 million in grants from the state's Fresh Fruits and Vegetable Program, implemented in 84 schools this year.
The district is seeking to expand urban gardens throughout the city and is in the process of having its own garden, Great Kids Farm, certified to provide fresh fruits and vegetables to schools by the fall.
An emerging initiative has been implementing a classroom breakfast program in all of the city's schools, and 50 have signed on so far; the system also has grab-and-go breakfast kiosks in six schools.
In the city, Womack has sold the classroom breakfast program to schools by pointing out the decline in discipline incidents and trips to the health suite, and increased academic achievement and attendance when students have had breakfast.
"That data is not anecdotal," he said. "That data is fact."
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will begin requiring changes in school lunches in July. The new rules, which will be phased in, will require schools to offer more whole-grain foods, fruits and vegetables every day and only fat-free or low-fat milk, and to tailor calories and portion sizes to the ages of the children.
In districts around the state that already offer more healthful options to students, schools are preparing for the new regulations.
In Baltimore County, every middle and high school has a ready-made box salad available every day, most of the time with chicken or other protein, said Karen Levenstein, director of food and nutrition services for county schools. Elementary school students in the county get side salads with every meal.
"It is an exciting time for the school lunch program," Levenstein said.
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My daughter Eliza eats like a bird. I mean this literally. Almost without exception, when I ask her what kind of bread to bake, she asks for bread with seeds — Seeded White Bread or White Bread with Sesame Seeds or Multigrain Pumpkin Seed Bread.
And after I bake seeded bread for her, as the loaves cool on racks, she avidly nibbles any stray seeds that fall onto the counter.
I came up with these latest loaves — seedy as can be, both inside and out — just for Eliza, but we all love them. White and black sesame seeds, along with sunflower seeds, give the bread great crunch and a rich, nutty flavor, and molasses adds subtle sweetness.
Since I wanted an even coating of seeds on the outside, I experimented with rolling unbaked, just-shaped loaves in scattered seeds before settling them in pans to rise. This works well as long you shape the loaves on an unfloured surface; the tackiness of the dough helps the seeds hang on to the bread.
This Seeded Wheat Bread doesn’t last long at our house. In addition to eating it with her peanut butter and jelly sandwich nearly everyday, Eliza toasts up slice after slice to snack on when she gets home from school. While this may seem contrary to the idea of “eating like a bird,” many seed-eating birds consume from a quarter to one-half of their body weight every day. Fortunately, she’s never consumed that much bread in a day’s time; my baking couldn’t keep up with her if she did.
Seeded Wheat Bread
Makes two 9-by-5-inch loaves.
3/4 cups warm water (105° to 115° F)
1 tablespoon active dry yeast
pinch of sugar
1 1/2 cups milk (105° to 115° F)
2 cups whole wheat flour
5 tablespoons black sesame seeds, divided
5 tablespoons white sesame seeds, divided
1/4 cup plus 3 tablespoons sunflower seeds, divided
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 /4 cup molasses
1 tablespoon salt
3 to 4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
Combine water, yeast, and sugar in the bowl of a standing electric mixer. Let sit at room temperature until foamy, about 10 minutes.
Add milk, whole wheat flour, 2 tablespoons each of black and white sesame seeds, 1/4 cup sunflower seeds, vegetable oil, molasses, and salt to the yeast mixture. Beat hard until well combined, about 1 minute. On low speed, add remaining flour, about 1/2 cup at a time, until a soft dough that just clears the sides of the bowl is formed. Switch to the dough hook and knead for about 5 minutes, until the dough is smooth and springy, but still slightly sticky. If desired, knead briefly by hand, adding flour only as necessary to keep the dough from sticking.
Place the dough in a deep, greased container. Turn the dough once to coat the top and cover loosely with plastic wrap. Let the dough rise at room temperature until doubled, about 1 1/2 to 2 hours.
Scatter 3 tablespoons each of white sesame, black sesame, and sunflower seeds in baking sheet with rolled edges. Set aside.
Turn the dough onto an un-floured surface. Deflate dough and divide it in two equal pieces. Shape one piece of dough into a tight loaf. Roll the loaf in the pan scattered with seeds, pressing down gently but firmly to help the seeds adhere. Holding the loaf carefully, dip both ends in the seeds, pressing to help them adhere. Transfer seeded loaf to a buttered 9-by-5 inch loaf pan. Repeat with remaining piece of dough, adding additional seeds to the baking sheet as needed. Scatter any remaining seeds down the sides of the loaf pans. Cover loaves loosely with plastic wrap and let rise until they reach the tops of the pans, about 45 minutes. About 20 minutes before baking, preheat oven to 375°F.
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A lot has changed in the more than 40 years since Greenpeace started out in Vancouver. From a small group of people with a driving passion for the environment, we've grown into a worldwide movement.
Working in 'digital campaigns' as I do - a job which couldn't even have been conceived of when that first Greenpeace crew set out to protest US nuclear testing in 1971 - it's easy sometimes to feel like we're operating in a completely different world now. Not today.
As I joined the group of staff from the Greenpeace office heading down to Princes Wharf in Auckland to see off the SV Friendship, SV Shearwater and the Greenpeace sponsored SV Vega as they joined the Oil Free Seas Flotilla, the sense of history was palpable. The connection to that first Greenpeace sailing and all those that have happened since then could not have been clearer.
We were there to support the Oil Free Seas Flotilla and the Greenpeace participants in it and as we stood on the wharf, listening to the speeches, we witnessed a scene that was completely a part of the modern environmental movement and yet entirely in keeping with everything that Greenpeace has always been about, and a long proud history of protest at sea in Aotearoa.
As people recorded clips of Maria Tyrrell to post on youtube, we could have been standing there listening to her father the late Captain Alan Tyrrell of the frigate Otago which sailed in protest against French nuclear testing at Mururoa in 1973.
As photos of Daniel Mares, the skipper of the SV Vega talking about going to sea to "bear witness", where being being posted to Facebook he could have been talking about the time he took the SV Vega out to demonstrate against Petrobras drilling in the Raukumara Basin or years before in the Pacific against French nuclear testing.
As I live tweeted quotes from Greenpeace NZ Executive Director Bunny McDiarmid, who announced today that she will join the SV Tiama in Wellington along with Jeanette Fitzsimons, we could have been there on the very same wharf with her when she was a deckhand on the original Rainbow Warrior.
George Armstrong of the original Peace Squadron spoke passionately about the history of peaceful protest in New Zealand. Dayle Takitimu of Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, took to the stage and said "We don't believe corporations have mana over the environment". We've been here before.
This time around the flotilla is heading out to confront Anadarko, a Texan oil giant who was involved in the Gulf of Mexico disaster and who is planning to start risky deep sea oil drilling 110 nautical miles west of Raglan. The threat may be different but the commitment to protecting New Zealand has not changed. I was struck by how often people in the crowd spoke of the energy, commitment and excitement of the launch in terms of the many historic victories this organisations has won over the years.
The SV Friendship, SV Shearwater and the Greenpeace sponsored SV Vega join the flotilla
The work that I do daily as part of Greenpeace NZ is a big departure from the actions of our founders in 1971, the same can be said for a lot of people in the office here in 2013 but the ethos, values and the commitment to non-violent direct action of the whole organisation and the movement we're part of have not changed one bit.
As 30 brave people remain detianed in Russia for taking part in a peaceful protest against extreme frontier drilling, you would expect many organisations to back away from taking action against Anadarko's reckless plans. Not Greenpeace. Threats to the natural world keep coming up but whether it's nuclear testing or shark-finning, Gazprom in the Arctic, Petrobras off the east coast or Anadarko off the west, it was clear today that there will always be someone there to take a stand. The Oil Free Seas Flotilla are going to sea to represent all of us but as Steve Abel announced on behalf of Greenpeace, there will be a 'Banners on the Beach' day of action on west coast beaches on Saturday November 23rd to show solidarity with the flotilla.
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Franklin D Roosevelt served longer than any other president of the United States He held office from 1933 until his death in 1945 at the beginning of his fourth term During his presidency he led the United States through two great crises the great depression of the 1930s and World War II FDR is considered the greatest president the USA ever had FDR had a very easy early life He was born on January 30 1882 in Hyde Park New York He was born into a well to do family of three James his father was a well-to-do investor and the vice president of a small railroad company His mother Sarah came from a rich New England family Hickok 1-7 A governess taught Franklin until he was fourteen then he entered Groton School in Massachusetts When he graduated from Groton he then went to Harvard to study law where he was chief editor of the school newspaper He finished Harvard in 1904 and then he went to Columbia Law School He studied there until he passed his bar exam and then he quit In this time he met a woman who was his distant cousin Her name was Eleanor and they fell in love The got married in 1905 Rawcliffe 11-13 Franklin got involved in politics when he was 28 in 1910 Even though hopes were dim Democratic leaders persuade him to run Luckily the Republican vote was split that year and Roosevelt won a State senate seat Roosevelt supported Wilson for the Presidential nomination in 1912 so when Wilson won in 1913 he appointed FDR Assistant Secretary of the Navy Many thought that Roosevelt was a bad choice because he seemed too unpredictable but he served as a successful administrator during WWI In 1920 at age 38 he won the Democratic nomination for Vice President to run with James Cox The campaign was a terrible loss Warren G Harding won in
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A Triumph of Hope over Despair
Today my father, David F. James, is among the tens of thousands of honored invitees who will witness the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama. In particular, he will be among the hundred or so alumni of the Army Air Corps' 332nd all-black fighter group, better known as the Tuskegee Airmen.
The Tuskegee Airmen were invited to the inauguration in recognition of their unique place in American history. Obama has acknowledged his debt to the airmen, issuing a statement in 2007 that said, in part: "My career in public service was made possible by the path heroes like the Tuskegee Airmen trail-blazed."
In the spring of 1942, in the early months of World War II, my father was an 18-year-old college freshman in Chicago. He saw a recruitment poster on campus for an Army Air Corps officer training program. He went to the information meeting and stood in the back of the otherwise all-white gathering. He listened to the recruiter's speech, waited for more than an hour until the recruiter had answered everyone else's questions, then approached, asking quietly, "Is there anything like this for me?"
This was the reality of my father's early life and of the lives of generations of black men and women before him.
Waiting in the back, on the periphery, hoping against hope that after all the whites had taken their pick, there might be a seat in a classroom, a job, an apartment, a chance to serve in the military during wartime. In 1942, it was not only legal to exclude blacks from classrooms, workplaces, housing and other accommodations, it was the established order of the land. In any part of the country, you could look a black person straight in the face and say, "We don't accept/hire/rent to Negroes." No apology necessary. In fact, you might have been moved to express your amazement and annoyance that the Negro had had the temerity to ask.
Astonishingly, the Army recruiter told my dad about an experimental Army officer training program for Negroes down in Tuskegee, Ala. My father applied, aced the entrance exam and within a few months began his journey into the Army Air Corps. The journey began on a train out of Chicago with several other recruits bound for Tuskegee. As the train crossed into Tennessee, my dad and the other recruits were escorted to the "colored" car at the back of the train. When they disembarked at Tuskegee, they were met by a sheriff's deputy, who, before these Northern colored boys might take so much as a single step onto Alabama's red clay soil, read them the Alabama rape statute.
A lot has changed since then.
There are a number of anecdotal similarities between my father and Barack Obama. Both chose Chicago as their adopted homes, both studied law and both spent years as community organizers working for social justice. But the most striking similarity is the unflappable grace with which both men endured the indignities, great and small, to which they were subjected as young men. The circumstances differed, but the deck was stacked against them both.
That neither of these bright, talented men just gave up, accepted their "place" and succumbed to anger and bitterness is a testament to their remarkable fortitude. Instead, my dad waited silently at the back of the recruitment room and then jumped at his chance to become a Tuskegee Airman. Obama listened graciously as Americans (of all races) focused incessantly on the color of his skin before recognizing his gifts of intelligence, social insight and political acumen. Then he was elected president.
On this day, I'll reflect on two men's efforts to mold a better life for themselves, their children and others in a very flawed world. I'll celebrate the triumph of hope and promise over despair and bitterness. Sometimes one best sees one's own promise realized in the next generation. My father's journey from that train station platform in Tuskegee winds on. Today, more than six decades later, he pauses in joy on the steps of the nation's Capitol.
Happy Inauguration Day, Dad.
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On August 5th, 25 days from now, the Mars Science Laboratory will be landing on Mars. See http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
I would like to be able to watch the proceedings at JPL on NASA TV, ideally the HD feed. Is it possible to add NASA TV back to the lineup for Phoenix (and elsewhere, I suppose) even if only temporarily for August? NASA TV used to be in the lineup several years ago.Adding it as a Switched Digital channel (SDV) would suffice.
I know I can watch it online from the NASA streaming feed (and mirrors), but that is poor resolution and during other 'blockbuster' events such as launches it is useless due to over-subscription. I expect it to be unwatchable again for the MSL landing event.
FrankAZ you can request a channel using this page. https://www.cox.com/support/arizona/emailchat/emailus2.asp
Thanks - I did that yesterday as well as starting this thread. As expected I quickly received a canned response which only peripherally touched on the subject. The usual 'Go Away and don't bother us' wrapped in polite language. I'm sure the question never got any further than someone trying to clear their inbox.
I wanted to establish this thread to see if a groundswell of support (OK, a ripple of support) would emerge.
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Denny, S., Durkin, C., Irwin, W., Moore, C. and Toyer, B. (2012) Developing a socially entrepreneurial university. Invited Presentation presented to: 2012 Conference on Entrepreneurial Universities, Munster, Germany, 25-27 April 2012. (Unpublished)
Hill, D. (2016) Introduction to EMPAC. Panel Presentation presented to: British Society of Criminology (BSC) Annual Conference: Inequalities in a Diverse World, Nottingham Conference Centre, 06-08 July 2016.
MacLellan, F. and Townend, J. (2008) Reading groups: a university outreach. Poster presented to: Art Libraries Society (ARLIS) Annual Conference 2008, University of Liverpool, 23 - 25 July 2008. (Unpublished)
Thomas, V. (2014) The creative benefits of play. Paper presented to: 7th InternationaI Toy Research Association (ITRA) World Congress: Toys as Language and Communication, Faculty of Philosophy, Catholic University Of Portugal, Braga, 23-25 July 2014. (Unpublished)
Watley, G. and Sinclair, P. (2013) Strengthening a sense of community through collaboration. In: Craggs, R., Geoghegan, H. and Keighren, I. M. (eds.) Collaborative Geographies: The Politics, Practicalities, and Promise of Working Together. London: Royal Geographical Society. pp. 49-55.
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German office rasmussen | brunke | sauer sesigned a new administrative building for BSU in Hamburg, Germany. It was an invited competition and they won the first prize ex aequo with three other offices (Sauerbruch Hutton, Behnisch Architects and GAP).
This administrative and commercial building in Wilhelmsburg will house the Authority of Urban Development and Environment (BSU) and reach a DGNB Gold certification.
It is integrated into a greater urban masterplan that aims on linking the central part of the city of Hamburg north of the river Elbe with the southern districts.
The aim of the new building itself is to concentrate the different units of the BSU that are nowadays distributed widespread at different locations in the central city. The building will house around 1400 working places plus additional functions and will cover an area of around 58000 m² in total.
Operating in the boundaries of the strict and dense conditions of the building lot defined by the urban master plan, a three dimensional sculptural building approach, integrating the landscape of the surroundings into the structure, is developed. Therefore it is possible to walk literally through the building without entering it. The strong meandered body of the building is culminating in a massive high point emphasizing the main entrance and functions as a landmark and widely seen symbol of the new BSU.
The monolithic white body of the upper floors seems like floating over the warm coloured ground floor. While the Ground floor, with its public functions is clearly inviting visitors to enter and explore the building the upper body, mainly containing office spaces, acts more diffuse. It is neither totally transparent nor is it a completely introverted. The perception lies in between.
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Many scholars believe the Dead Sea Scrolls were either written or collected by a sect of Jews called Essenes, who are described by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus and the Alexandrian Jewish philosopher Philo. However, the scrolls themselves make no explicit reference to the Essenes. Scholars infer the connection because of the congruence of Essene philosophy and doctrine as reflected in the scrolls and as described in Josephus and Philo.
The Essenes lived from about the second century B.C.E. to the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 C.E. In this, they were no different from many other Jewish movements that disappeared with the Roman suppression of the Great Jewish Revolt. After 70 C.E., only what would become Rabbinic Judaism and a movement of Jews that would become Christianity survived.
Many scholars who believe the scrolls were written by the Essenes suggest that Qumran was an Essene settlement. But it is by no means universally agreed that Qumran was Essene. All scholars agree, however, that the group of scrolls is “sectarian”; that is, they represent the views of non- mainstream (Temple) Jews. Whoever wrote these sectarian scrolls was bitterly opposed to the Jewish priests who controlled the Temple in Jerusalem.
BAS editors have arranged a special collection of articles from Biblical Archaeology Review exploring the authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls and what this tells us about the Qumran community, Rabbinic Judaism, Jesus’ philosophy and the modern scholarly community. These articles present diverse textual and archaeological evidence supporting and rejecting the “Essene Hypothesis.”
Scroll down to read a summary of these articles.
BAR, Sep/Oct 2011
by Sidnie White Crawford
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by Steve Mason
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by Kenneth Atkinson, Hanan Eshel and Jodi Magness
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by Edna Ullmann-Margalit
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by Lena Cansdale and Alan D. Crown
BAR, Sep/Oct 2006
by Hershel Shanks
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by Magen Broshi
Most scholars believe the Essenes wrote the famous Dead Sea Scrolls, and they point to the writings of Josephus, a first-century historian, to base their claim. In “Did the Essenes Write the Dead Sea Scrolls?” Steve Mason, a leading authority on the works of Josephus, says that the “Essene Hypothesis” is wrong and that the true authors of the Dead Sea Scrolls remain a mystery. Kenneth Atkinson, Hanan Eshel and Jodi Magness reject Mason’s argument in “Another View: Do Josephus’s Writings Support the ‘Essene Hypothesis’?” as they explain why, with the exception of the scrolls themselves, Josephus remains our best evidence in support of the “Essene Hypothesis.” In their letter, Atkinson, Eshel and Magness conclude, quoting Todd Beall, that “‘the sheer number of parallels [between Josephus’s description of the Essenes and the scrolls] is striking, and puts the burden of proof upon those who would insist that the Qumran community was not Essene.’”
The Qumran-Essene theory overwhelmingly dominates the field. But how sound is it? And how did it become so popular? In “Spotlight on Scroll Scholars: Dissecting the Qumran-Essene Hypothesis,” philosopher Edna Ullmann-Margalit turns the magnifying glass on the Scroll scholars themselves and assesses the validity of the theory.
In “Was it An Essene Settlement?” Alan D. Crowne and Lena Cansdale discuss evidence from Pliny to suggest that Ein Gedi, rather than Qumran, would have been an Essene settlement, and that the scrolls were placed at Qumran but not written there. This begs the question: If Qumran was not an Essene community, what took place there? In “Qumran—The Pottery Factory,” Hershel Shanks describes the arguments of Qumran archaeologist Yizhak Magen, who suggests that Qumran was a Roman-period pottery factory and had nothing to do with the scrolls left there.
Despite these objections, most scroll scholars suggest that Qumran was, in fact, an Essene community. For nearly 2,000 years, the Qumran caves protected the secrets of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Might the same caves also shed light on the mystery of who deposited the scrolls there in the first place? As Sidnie White Crawford explains in “A View from the Caves,” the evidence from the caves points not to refugees who had fled the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, but rather to the sectarian Essene community that lived in and around the site of Khirbet Qumran.
Scholars have been cautious about drawing a direct line between Jesus and the sectarian group thought to have written the Dead Sea Scrolls. In “What Jesus Learned from the Essenes,” Magen Broshi discusses Jesus’ teachings on the morality of poverty over wealth and his criticism of divorce. Jesus’ perspectives match those expressed in Essene philosophy and the Dead Sea Scrolls but run counter to mainstream contemporaneous Jewish beliefs. These doctrines, which have shaped the lives of millions of Christians over the past two millennia, and can be directly linked to the Essenes philosophy, as revealed to us in the Dead Sea Scrolls. | <urn:uuid:285a8e03-282d-4b80-b2d3-4651f6e9a77e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.baslibrary.org/collections/who-wrote-dead-sea-scrolls | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.941266 | 1,175 | 3.28125 | 3 |
One of the reasons that I like about graph theory so much is because of
how it ties into computer science. Graphs are fundamental to many problems in
computer science, and a lot of the work in graph theory has direct implications for
algorithm design. It also has a lot of resonance for me, because the work I do involves
tons and tons of graphs: I don’t think I’ve gotten through a week of work in the last decade without
implementing some kind of graph code.
Since I’ve described a lot of graph algorithms, and I’m going to
describe even more, today I’m going to talk a bit about how to represent graphs
in programs, and some of the tradeoffs between different representations.
There are two different basic graph representations: matrix-based representations, and list
The matrix-based representation is called an adjacency matrix. For a graph G with N nodes, an adjacency matrix is an N×N matrix of true/false values, where entry [a,b] is true if and only if there is an edge between a and b. If G is an undirected graph, then the matrix is (obviously)
symmetric: [a,b]=[b,a]. If the graph is directed, then [a,b]=true means that there is an edge from a to b.
As usual, things are clearer with an example. So, over the right, we have a simple
ten node undirected graph, with vertices A through J. Right below, there’s a 10×10 boolean
table showing how the graph would be represented as an adjacency matrix. In the matrix,
a value of “1” in a cell means that there’s an edge connected the corresponding vertex indices; a “0” indicates that there is not.
represented as an adjacency matrix.
The list-based representation, commonly called an adjacency list, has a list for each vertex in the graph. For
a vertex v, that list contains identifiers for the vertices which are adjacent to v. So again for our example:
A common optimization of the adjacency list is to use a data object to represent a vertex, and to use
pointers/references to vertex objects as the vertex identifiers in the adjacency list for a vertex. Depending
on the application, the adjacency lists could be either arrays, linked lists, or some other similar structure.
To give you some sense of what a simple bit of code looks like, here’s a pair of Python functions to check if two vertices x and y are
adjacent in a matrix. The first piece of code is for an adjacency matrix; the second for an adjacency list.
def IsAdjacentInMatrix(matrix, x, y): return matrix[x][y]
def IsAdjacentInList(x, y): for n in x.neighbors: if y == n: return true return false
When you’re writing a graph-based algorithm, choosing which representation – and which variation of which representation
– is one of your most important decisions. There’s no cut and dried correct answer: which representation is right is dependent on what you want to do, and what constraints you have. How fast you need things to be; how much memory you
can afford to use; how big your graph is; how many edges you graph will have – all contribute to the choice of the best representation.
The boolean adjacency matrix is very compact – you can get away with as little as N2/2 bits of storage to
represent the edges in a graph. Certain algorithms – like transitive closure – are extremely efficient in the adjacency
matrix. If you really only need to know the structure of the edges, and you don’t have other data that needs to be
associated with the edges, then an adjacency matrix can be an extremely good choice. If your matrix is moderately sized,
you can often get the entire adjacency matrix into the cache at once, which has a dramatic impact on performance.
Even if you need to associate a little bit of information with an edge, that’s often easily doable using an adjacency
matrix. For example, to represent a weighted graph, you can use the edge-weight as the value of the matrix entry if there
is an edge. (This does require that you be able to identify a value which will absolutely never be an edge weight, to use
to mark cells that are not edges. If you’re using floating point numbers for weight, then NaN is a good choice.) On the
other hand, if you have a very large matrix with very few edges, then an adjacency matrix will perform very poorly and
waste an enormous amount of space. Consider a graph with 1 million vertices, and 1 million edges. That means that each
vertex has, on average, two edges – but you’re using one million bits per vertex. That’s very wasteful, and dealing with a
matrix of 1012 bits is not going to be particularly fast.
Using an adjacency list works much better if you have a sparse matrix – it only uses space for edges that are actually
present in the graph. It’s also often easier to associate data with vertices and edges in a good way using adjacency lists;
and it can often produce better performance in that case as well, due to good locality. (When you traverse an edge in an
adjacency list using the pointer implementation described above, you’re pulling the vertex into your cache; then when you
go to look at the data for the vertex, it’s hot in the cache. In an adjacency matrix, you’d use a separate table for that,
which would mean fetching from a different area of memory.)
The adjacency list is often better for certain kinds of graph traversals: if you need to walk through a graph
collecting information about visited vertices, the locality properties of the adjacency list structure can have a great
effect on performance. But if you want to know something about connectivity, or simple pathfinding in a relatively dense
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1232798 is an even composite number. It is composed of four distinct prime numbers multiplied together. It has a total of sixteen divisors.
Prime factorization of 1232798:
2 × 7 × 173 × 509
See below for interesting mathematical facts about the number 1232798 from the Numbermatics database.
Names of 1232798
- Cardinal: 1232798 can be written as One million, two hundred thirty-two thousand, seven hundred ninety-eight.
- Scientific notation: 1.232798 × 106
Factors of 1232798
Divisors of 1232798
Bases of 1232798
- Binary: 1001011001111100111102
- Hexadecimal: 0x12CF9E
- Base-36: QF8E
Squares and roots of 1232798
Scales and comparisonsHow big is 1232798?
- 1,232,798 seconds is equal to 2 weeks, 6 hours, 26 minutes, 38 seconds.
To count from 1 to 1,232,798 would take you about three weeks!
This is a very rough estimate, based on a speaking rate of half a second every third order of magnitude. If you speak quickly, you could probably say any randomly-chosen number between one and a thousand in around half a second. Very big numbers obviously take longer to say, so we add half a second for every extra x1000. (We do not count involuntary pauses, bathroom breaks or the necessity of sleep in our calculation!)
- A cube with a volume of 1232798 cubic inches would be around 8.9 feet tall.
Recreational maths with 1232798
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The winds roared, the lights went out and the great trees came down, one after another.
Ronald Nemo, Pomona’s longtime grounds and landscaping manager, was on the scene by 6:30 a.m. after an unnerving Friday night in January brought the worst windstorm to rip through Claremont and the region in many years.
Nemo quickly shut off water flowing near Marston Quad after the lifted roots of fallen trees burst pipes. A once-towering eucalyptus lay across College Avenue. Stover Walk was covered in a tangle of branches; Clark I had taken minor damage from a pine.
In all, Pomona lost 17 trees, with hundreds more down across the city. The native coast live oaks, Pomona’s most prevalent tree, took the most losses on campus. Notable among the fallen were five oaks dating back to the early 1900s and now gone from along Stover Walk, where for decades they helped shade graduating seniors lined up for Commencement ceremonies. (The Wash, home to Pomona’s oldest oaks, was largely unscathed.)
Nemo, his crew and outside contractors called in to help set right to work on cleanup. He was grateful that nobody was injured, as he remembers the tragedy of 1998, when a eucalyptus fell on a car on College Avenue, killing two Pomona students. Nemo notes Pomona today has an extensive tree management program, with a regular cycle of inspections.
The trees lost in the January storm amounted to a tiny fraction of the 4,000 or so on campus. But they were concentrated in familiar spots such as Marston, and the sudden change in the landscape stunned many Sagehens.
Directing the cleanup along Stover, Nemo was philosophical regarding the plants: “The trees have a lifespan,” he says, “just like everything else.”
They will find a new purpose. Some of the timber is going to sculptor and Professor of Art Michael O’Malley, who recently taught a Critical Inquiry class, Trees and Wood. He too was on campus the morning after the windstorm.
O’Malley notes that because of their age, the trees downed in the wind are a size that makes them rare. Most will be used in his Wood Sculpture course and, if possible, for a few benches for the campus. The hope, he says, is to find a way for the wood to be shared and celebrated by the community.
What can’t be used for other purposes will become mulch to feed the landscape, according to Nemo.
Replacement trees will be chosen with care, Nemo promises, with some campus plantings set for April 29, which is both Arbor Day and the first full day of Alumni Weekend 2022. Time will bring new trees and new memories.
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Quick and Easy PC Repair
In this blog post, we will learn about some of the possible causes that can cause an application to crash in Outlook 2010, and then I will suggest possible solutions that you can try to resolve this issue.
Outlook10 is open and all email information is up to date. When looking at each calendar, I see an error because Outlook has stopped working.
It turned out that iCloud was skewing functionality. Removed. Outlook opens the calendar. The user is unhappy about not being able to sync private appointments with work calendars, but she has shown that she can live with it because the mod has limitations anyway.
Why Do I Need To Enter An Important CAPTCHA?
Completing a CAPTCHA proves that you are human and gives you constant access to a web resource.
What Can I Do To Prevent This From Happening In The Future?
If the person has a personal connection, for example at home, you can run a virus scan on the system to make sure it is not infected with malware.
If you are using a shared desktop or network, anyone can ask the network administrator to scan the network drive for misconfigured or corrupteddevices.
Another way to prevent future access to this page is to use the Privacy Pass. You may now need to program the Firefox 2 Add-on Store.
If you are an Outlook user, you may encounter an Appcrash type issue. Whenever you probably open Microsoft Outlook, it will be canceled and you will receive an error message that says Microsoft Outlook has stopped working. If all users click Show Details directly in the error dialog, they will identify the details of the problem. The event name will be APPCRASH, just like the failed module, the main KERNELBASE.dll will be. This Will, Track issue prevents you from using Outlook. However, there are times when Outlook only crashes when someone opens an email. Therefore, some customers can usually use Microsoft Outlook in plain text, while different types of users cannot always open Microsoft Outlook.
The problem is usually caused by a corrupted or damaged Outlook profile, or a corrupted filepersonal data (PST) or offline data file (OST). This can usually be fixed by simply creating another Outlook profile. Another major cause of this problem is your current supplements. Add-ons can be very helpful, although some add-ons may be buggy or damaged. Since add-ons are launched from behind the app, the app will crash when the annoying add-on is present. Supplements can have this late problem as well.
Method 1. Create A New Outlook Profile
Since a corrupted Outlook profile is most likely the cause, recreating the Outlook profile will mostly fix this problem.
- Make sure Outlook is closed.
- While holding the Windows key, just press R.
- Go to Control Panel and press Enter
- Click Browse By and select the smaller icons from the drop-down menu.
- Click Mail.
- Click Show Profiles.
- Click Add.
- Enter the name you want to give the new structure and click OK.
- You will seeThere is a new dialog box titled Add New Account. This dialog is required for your corporate account information. Usually this will be required, but if it is not, you will usually need to fill in details such as your email address (and most of the other details you need), but also click Next
- Click Finish when finish.
- Make sure Always Use Profile is selected.
- Select the profile you just created from the drop-down menu just below the “Always use the following from profile” option
- Click Apply and select OK.
Now start Outlook and see if that solved the problem or not.
Method 2: Disable Method Add-ins
This is actually for people who have Outlook crash completely when opening or reopening email. This method will force you to open Outlook and you will no longer be able to climb stairs even if you cannot even log into Outlook.
Sometimes there may be a problem with one (or more) add-ons relatedwith Outlook. The best way to check if the add-in fixes the problem is to disable them all and open the email that is causing Outlook to crash. If the obstruction does not appear, it is a clear indication that the problem is with the additive. First, let’s take a look at the stepladders to disable current add-ins in Outlook.
- Open Outlook
- Click File
- Select Options
- Select an empty add-in area.
- Click Go. This button should be at the bottom and in front of the “Control” section.
- Now check the boxes and disable wrapping for all add-ons. This will disable these add-ons.
- Click OK when done.
Now check if the problem persists. If the problem persists, simply repeat all of the above steps and check the boxes for any add-ons that buyers want to enable. If the problem is resolved, it means that the problem is related to one of the specific add-ons (or more). In this case, just repeat all the above steps and mark only one package to activate Add a superstructure. Click more OK to activate this optional consumable to solve the problem or not. If the next add-on doesn’t fix the problem, that’s okay. Repeat the above methods but activate the add-in. Now check if the task has appeared or has not reappeared. Go ahead and enable all add-ons one by one. This will allow you to check which add-on is causing the problem. Once you find the problematic add-on, just follow the above methods and select the add-on. Now click “Delete” to remove this thought. Ok, click and you’re done.
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