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The webinar covers the tools and techniques needed to read economic studies with a critical eye.
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There’s good reason to wonder if the debt ceiling deal will result in significant defense cuts, as the current arrangement is sufficiently ambiguous to still allow some slow growth. Nevertheless, I think that even this will be sufficient to produce some interesting politics within the military spending constituency:
Ideally, cuts to defense will reflect a careful, rational approach to maintaining the military means for accomplishing America’s foreign policy ends. The major players would debate and evaluate the grand strategic rationale for American military power and develop a somewhat more modest political framework for the Department of Defense.
In the real world, actual defense cuts will result in bitter bureaucratic infighting and interest group mobilization in support of particular systems and programs. While service amity in the United States has managed to hold across several previous rounds of defense cuts, most notably during the post-Vietnam and post-Cold War drawdowns, there are some indications that this set of cuts may shatter the norm of collaboration that has developed between the military services.
Unfortunately, the result of this intra-constituency battle will likely be messy. Programs that lack a rationale will survive, while weapons that lack an interest group will die. The connection between means and ends will be lost, because no specific constituency has a vested interest in a rational consideration of foreign policy values or the capacity to consider value trade-offs. Little consideration will likely be given to the notion of a meaningful drawdown of U.S. military commitments, resulting in a force even more badly overstretched. | <urn:uuid:368d363f-b4da-4489-97fa-e38223b0d88b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2011/08/intra-lobby-politics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00091-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94916 | 306 | 1.53125 | 2 |
How much does it cost for insurance in your state, according to the latest WalletHub study?
Did you know consumers with bad credit can – and do – pay as much as 115% more for No Fault auto insurance than consumers with good credit? That’s one of the key findings from WalletHub’s recent credit-scoring study, “2015 Study: How Credit Scores Impact Car Insurance Costs By State.”
This can be especially relevant during the holiday season, when people with poor credit face hard times and debt on credit cards tends to spike for many families.
Today I’m talking about Michigan insurance rates, as I primarily practice auto accident law in this state. But you can refer to WalletHub’s study to see rates for those with bad credit in all 50 states.
Specifically, WalletHub, a consumer website, discovered the following about the “credit-based [auto insurance] pricing fluctuations” that occur in the Great Lakes State:
“Credit data has … the biggest impact in the Michigan” where there is a “115% fluctuation” between the prices that consumers with good credit and consumers with bad credit pay for auto insurance.
And significantly, WalletHub found that Farmers, Progressive, State Farm and Allstate – which are four of the largest auto insurance companies in Michigan – charge considerably more to consumers with poor credit.
WalletHub made the following startling findings about the “extent to which credit data” and “credit scores” affect “insurance policy pricing” by those auto insurers – plus GEICO (which also does business in Michigan):
- “Farmers Insurance appears to rely on credit data the most, with the WalletHub Scenario revealing a 62% fluctuation in premiums between a consumer with excellent credit and a consumer with no credit.”
- Progressive had an approximate 59% “average premium fluctuation” between “a consumer with excellent credit and consumer with no credit.”
- State Farm had an approximate 55% “average premium fluctuation” between “a consumer with excellent credit and consumer with no credit.”
- Allstate had an approximate 51% “average premium fluctuation” between “a consumer with excellent credit and consumer with no credit.”
- “GEICO … appears to rely on credit data the least, displaying a 32% premium fluctuation.”
To conduct its study, with the purpose of determining “the impact of consumer credit data on car insurance premiums” [i.e., “evaluat[e] the importance of credit to insurance underwriting”], WalletHub “collected [auto insurance] premium quotes from the websites of five of the largest insurance providers in the United States … for two hypothetical consumers, identical save only for their credit history. More specifically, one consumer has excellent credit while the other has no credit history.”
Credit-scoring laws in Michigan
Auto insurance companies often use drivers’ credit scores and credit information as factors in determining how much to charge drivers for auto insurance. In Michigan, this is a legal practice.
The effect of credit scoring auto insurance prices has long been a subject of debate … and proposed legislative action throughout the country and in Michigan. To learn more about the changes to the Insurance Code that specifically allow “credit-scoring” in Michigan, please check out Michigan Auto Law’s blog post, “8 things to know about how Michigan auto insurance companies can use your credit score.”
Notably, two bills have been introduced in 2015 which proposed eliminating credit-scoring as a factor in the auto insurance pricing process in Michigan:
- House Bill 4117: To learn more, please check out our blog post, “Bill would stop credit scoring by MI auto insurance companies.”
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Like children scattering around a yard for Easter eggs, you and I are on a hunt.
We all hunt. Our thirsty souls rummage through every nook and cranny of this world, in search of shiny pleasures and saccharine delights.
Every such joy seeker, in pursuit of treasures that will not fade or rust or break or be stolen, must pay careful attention to Easter — not with a nod-off-through-the-sermon kind of attention, but with a real, earnest, eager attention riveted on Christ. If we miss the significance of the resurrection, we scamper past the greatest joy in the universe.
The Joy of Jesus
As the dark shadows stalked the soon-to-be crucified Christ, he turned his attention to joy. Throughout this Holy Week of his crucifixion, Jesus had foreshadowed his death for his disciples who struggled to make sense of it all. He addressed their concerns directly in John 16:19–24.
Jesus knew that they wanted to ask him, so he said to them, “Is this what you are asking yourselves, what I meant by saying, ‘A little while and you will not see me, and again a little while and you will see me’? Truly, truly, I say to you, you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice. You will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will turn into joy.
When a woman is giving birth, she has sorrow because her hour has come, but when she has delivered the baby, she no longer remembers the anguish, for joy that a human being has been born into the world. So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy from you.
In that day you will ask nothing of me. Truly, truly, I say to you, whatever you ask of the Father in my name, he will give it to you. Until now you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be full.
We rewind Holy Week to hear Jesus forecast the changes to come in his resurrection. He wanted his disciples to anticipate Easter Sunday as the cataclysmic dawning of true joy. And here’s what it all means for joy seekers.
A Blood-Bought Joy
Jesus spoke of this joy as he faced the torture of Good Friday. He faced denial, faced betrayal, faced beatings, faced splinters and nails and spears — he could not stop talking about joy! Only joy would keep him going. Joy was on his mind, joy was on his tongue, and joy was drawing him, not away from suffering, but into it (Hebrews 12:2).
Jesus went to the cross for joy: to buy joy, create joy, and offer joy.
As the world celebrated the savage killing of God, out of this sea of foaming rebel hostility emerged a blood-bought, inextinguishable joy.
An Unbreakable Joy
If the killing of the Author of life could not extinguish this joy Jesus speaks about, nothing can — and nothing ever will. No opposition from the world, no opposition to the gospel, and no cultural despising of Christ will overcome the resurrection joy of Jesus.
As we have seen this week, the unquenchable joy of Easter was birthed in the greatest trauma and tragedy and evil the world has ever unleashed — the murder of the Son of God. Death, the Devil, demons, and the coordinated rebellion of mankind all allied together cannot stymie this joy. Persecutors cannot steal this joy away. No power, no event, no enemy, can sequester the resurrection joy of Jesus Christ that burst out of the tomb with him.
Worldly joys are brittle in comparison. Sickness and poverty crumble joy, and the long process of aging and dying slowly strips life of all its worldly pleasures (Ecclesiastes 12:1–8). Death recedes all our joys, save one. Only one joy cannot be thwarted by death, because only one joy was purchased by blood.
A Newborn Joy
The resurrection joy of Jesus escapes the clutches of death because it’s the joy of the new creation, a joy broken free from the evil of this fallen world.
And this makes Easter breathtaking. As Jonathan Edwards boldly declared: “The resurrection of Christ is the most joyful event that ever came to pass.” And rightly did Charles Spurgeon say: “No man shall ever take from me the joy that Christ rose from the dead.” The resurrection is the most joy-filled divine event in biblical history worthy of our eternal adulation and awe and wonder. But it’s more than a breathtaking historical spectacle.
Jesus employed a common birthing analogy to introduce a radical cosmic birth. His death was the birth pangs of a new creation; his resurrection was the arrival of a new creation into history. In his resurrection, Jesus set in motion an unstoppable chain reaction that will one day culminate in the resurrection of the dead and the renovation of all creation.
Here’s the point. In the long history of joy in this fallen world, after ages of unsatisfied appetites and hunger pangs in the hearts of men and women and children, the resurrection of Christ marks a crescendo. Never has joy found greater expression on earth. In John 15:11, Jesus offered his disciples “full joy,” an invitation only possible from within the final stage in cosmic history. Such a stage was born on Easter morning.
Jesus wants his disciples to thirst for a post-resurrection joy as the arrival of a newly amplified joy, a long-awaited and long-anticipated joy, a never before fully seen or experienced joy in human history. The resurrection of Christ will bring the most spectacularly joy-filled event because it ignites an eternally abiding and forever unconquerable joy.
The Old Testament foretold of this joy, the birth of Christ announced this joy, Holy Week seemed to extinguish this joy, but the resurrection of Christ is the point in history when the unassailable torch of God’s joy emerged from the sea of foaming rebel hostility, rose up and lit the summit of an Olympic torch of joy that will burn for all eternity.
A Joy for the Asking
But as magnificently as this joy entered the world in this defining moment in cosmic history, this joy presses close to us. So Jesus taught his disciples to ask and seek for more of this joy. This is the open invitation of the Messianic age.
And this joy makes sense of the logic of John’s Gospel. Jesus said he must die and go to the Father, and would leave his joy with the disciples. Once he was with the Father, Jesus sent the Spirit to dwell in them (another unmistakable sign of the new creation). United to Christ, the disciples would now pray by the Spirit, to the Father, through the Son.
Easter reshapes prayer, spirituality, and joy. With this inauguration of a new creation, the disciples became adopted sons who could pray to a Father who is eager to pour out spiritual flourishing upon them in every way, leading to a full and satisfying joy which nobody can take away.
Which is great news for the disciples.
Inexpressible Joy for You
But Jesus’s bold resurrection joy promised to the disciples in John 16:19–24 is now offered to you and me. We are promised the same “joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory” (1 Peter 1:8).
In Christ, God delights to pour out this resurrection joy into your life, a joy that fills, and a joy that cannot be stolen from you. What do we do? We simply ask our gracious Father for more of it!
The Easter joy Jesus foretold has arrived, and it’s deeply personal. The resurrection is both a cosmic event, and it comes intimately close, reminding us of God’s work in our lives. “The point of Easter is that God is in the process of clearing this world of all heartbreak” (John Piper). Therefore, “Christ’s resurrection not only gives you hope for the future; it gives you hope to handle your scars right now” (Tim Keller).
Such a restoring and reviving joy was purchased for you and me in the resurrection of Christ.
Feast and Celebrate
Easter is for stark contradictions.
If Christ is still dead, death reigns, and all our joys are vain. So hoard every plastic Easter egg you find, because whatever you find inside is all the joy you have to grab. Or, as Paul says, “If the dead are not raised, ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die’” (1 Corinthians 15:32).
But if death is dead, and if the dead are raised — if Christ is risen from the dead! — brothers and sisters, let us feast and celebrate, for the dawning light of our inextinguishable and inexhaustible eternal pleasures have broken into the darkness, offering us a life of joy in Christ that cannot fade or rust or be stolen away!
Today, delight in the resurrection joy of Christ, pray it bigger in your life, and treasure it for all eternity.
This is the final post in Desiring God’s 2014 Holy Week series “The Final Days of Jesus,” inspired by the new book of the same title by Justin Taylor and Andreas Köstenberger. Holy Week illustrations provided in partnership with Crossway Books and Adam Greene. Previously in the series: | <urn:uuid:17e0aa8a-4bdc-4d92-8775-35b11db74132> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.desiringgod.org/articles/have-you-found-what-you-re-looking-for-easter-sunday | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00484-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949074 | 2,016 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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Saturnus, Aedes (Fig. 19): a temple about which there was much disagreement. Macrobius (Macrobius Sat. 1.8.1) knew a tradition that ascribed a fanum Saturni and the establishment of the Saturnalia to Tullus Hostilius, but also knew that Varro thought that L. Tarquinius (Priscus?) had let the contract for the temple building and that Titus Larcius dedicated it as dictator, an office he may have held in connection with one of his consulships in 501 and 498, or shortly thereafter. This was the commonest belief (see Dion. Hal. 6.1.4). But there were those who assigned its dedication to other magistrates of the first years of the republic, Aulus Sempronius Atratinus and M. Minucius Mamercus, the consuls of 497 (Livy 2.21.1-2; Dion. Hal. 6.1.4), Postumus Cominius, consul in 501 and 493 (Dion. Hal. 6.1.4), the last tradition ascribed to a Gellius, probably Cn. Gellius, the annalist of the second century B.C. Almost everyone agrees that the temple belongs to the beginning of the republic and that it was the oldest temple whose building was recorded in the records of the pontifices. Its location was variously given as in faucibus (Montis Capitolini) (Varro Ling. 5.42), sub Clivo Capitolino (Servius ad Aen. 8.319; Aur. Vict. Orig. Gent. Rom. 3.6), ante Clivum Capitolinum (Servius ad Aen. 2.116; Hyginus Fab. 261), ad forum (Macrobius Sat. 1.8.1), and in Foro Romano (Livy 41.21.12).
In 174 B.C. a portico was built from the temple to the Senaculum, ac super id Curiam. This must have run along the shoulder of the Capitoline, but how it can have reached the Curia without passing through the Comitium is a hard question. The answer may be that a columnar porch similar to that of the Curia Iulia (q.v.) was added to the façade of the Curia Hostilia either at this time or earlier, and the new portico adjoined it at one end. The fact that such a porch was a feature of the third-century curia of Paestum may strengthen the argument. In any case, this portico must have been a relatively light structure that has disappeared without leaving any trace. In 42 B.C. L. Munatius Plancus rebuilt the temple (Suetonius Aug. 29.5; CIL 6.1316 = ILS 41, CIL 10.6087 = ILS 886). It is mentioned casually in connection with the arch of Tiberius of A.D. 16 (Tacitus Ann. 2.41). It burned sometime in the later fourth century and was then restored by vote of the senate, as is recorded on the architrave (CIL 6.93 =.ILS 3326). It is listed in the regionary catalogues in Regio VIII.
Throughout the republic, this temple contained the state treasury, the Aerarium Populi Romani, or Aerarium Saturni (Paulus ex Fest. 2L; Solinus 1.12; Macrobius Sat. 1.8.3), administered by quaestors, for whom it became a sort of headquarters (Plutarch Ti. Gracch. 10.6; Appian BellCiv 1.31). In the temple was kept a pair of scales in memory of a time when payment had been by weight (Varro Ling. 5.183). Under the empire the Aerarium Populi Romani was distinguished from the fiscus, the privy purse of the emperor, and continued to reside in the temple, but seems now to have been administered by praefecti (Pliny Epist. 10.3.1). For inscriptions mentioning the aerarium, see DE 1.300; for occurrences of the phrase Aerarium Populi Romani and Aerarium Saturni, see TLL 1.1055-58. Other public documents were affixed in numbers to the exterior (Varro Ling. 5.42; Cass. Dio 45.17.3), perhaps because of the temple's association with the quaestors.
On the gable of the temple were acroteria of Tritons blowing trumpets (Macrobius Sat. 1.8.4), and in the cella was a statue, probably with substantial parts of ivory, for it was filled with oil (Pliny HN 15.32), whose feet were shackled with woolen bonds except on the Saturnalia (Macrobius Sat. 1.8.5). It seems doubtful that this was the image carried in solemn processions and lectisternia (Dion. Hal. 7.72.13). The day of dedication was the Saturnalia, 17 December (Fast. Amit. ad. XVI Kal. Ian.; Degrassi 538-40).
A very small part of the temple was shown on one fragment of the Marble Plan, now lost (FUR pl. 13.24 = 21.18d; Rodriguez pl. 13.18d), and another, also lost, has erroneously been thought to show the stair of approach (FUR pl. 3.3 = 21.19; Rodriguez pl. 13.19) but can be demonstrated not to belong to the temple at all.
A few blocks of the original structure survive, but most of what can be seen of the podium today belongs to the reconstruction of Plancus, a mass of concrete faced with walls of blocks of travertine and peperino that were revetted with marble. It is 22.50 m wide and about 40 m long; the back is at present in the process of being excavated for the first time. There is no evidence of any building period intermediate between the original construction and Plancus's reconstruction, unless Gellius's record of a dedication by the tribunus militum L. Furius of a building dcreed by the senate (Macrobius Sat. 1.8.1) refers to a rebuilding of the late fifth or fourth century B.C. In that case it might refer to a rebuilding after the fire of the Gauls.
The temple stands very high on its podium because of its situation on the slope of the Capitoline. The superstructure is that of the rebuilding after the fire in the fourth century. The columns are of granite, six on the façade of gray granite, the pairs behind them on either side of the pronaos of rose granite. The bases are of white marble and of three types, and the capitals are four-sided Ionic of very late type, almost proto-Byzantine. The entablature blocks are reused with sketchy patching of lacunas, of Proconnesian marble, perhaps of Severan date, whereas the cornice is considered Augustan, possibly part of Plancus's building but clumsily reassembled. The columns are 11 m high, but of unpleasing effect. The whole points to a reconstruction when the classical tradition of working stone had been lost, but a new aesthetic had not yet taken its place.
The steps of the temple have disappeared, but the Aerarium must have been arranged under them. In Pompeii the aerarium was in vaulted chambers under the Capitolium (Temple of Jupiter) at the end of the forum, accessible from a platform at midstair in the stair of approach across the façade. Here the stair divided into three parts, those on either side continuing up to the pronaos, and that in the middle descending to the aerarium (A. Maiuri, Alla ricerca di Pompei preromana [Naples 1973], 104-6). A similar arrangement in Rome would suit the information that during Milo's trial Pompey set his curule chair pro aerario (Asconius in Cic. Milon. Arg. 36 [Stangl 36]). That there was a single door to the Aerarium seems shown by Tiberius Gracchus's sealing of this with his personal seal in 133 B.C. (Plutarch Ti. Gracch. 10.6). The temple was well preserved until the fifteenth century, according to Poggio, and destroyed between 1402 and 1447 (VZ 4.235).
Lugli 1946, 149-51; Collection Latomus 58 (1962): 757-62 (E. Gjerstad); AJA 84 (1980): 51-62 (L. Richardson); R. Pensabene, Tempio di Saturno, architettura e decorazione (Rome 1984).
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Amoxil (Amoxycillin) 125mg/5ml is a penicillin antibiotic that fights bacteria.
It comes in the form of syrup and capsules.
The Amoxil syrup is used to treat different infections caused by Bacteria. These infections may be chest (pneumonia), tonsils, sinuses (sinusitis), inner ear (otitis media), urinary and genital tract, or skin and fleshy tissues.
The syrup is mostly used for children because it’s safe to give it to toddlers as an antibiotic to treat various infections. For adults capsules of Amoxil should be taken.
The suspension is manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline (gsk) Pakistan Limited https://pk.gsk.com
You can buy Amoxil syrup online at https://www.drugs.com
The package contains a glass bottle with 90ml syrup in powder form.
Each 5ml of Amoxil contains:
Amoxicillin as Amoxycillin Trihydrate U.S.P 125mg
Adults, teenagers, and children: 250 to 500mg every 8 hours or 500 to 875 mg every 12 hours
Children and infants older than 3 months: the usual dose is 20 to 40 mg divided and given every 8 hours or 25 to 45 mg divided and given every 12 hours.
Infants 3 months of age: 30 mg every 12 hours.
Or as directed by your doctor.
·Shake the bottle well before use.
·For details see the information leaflet.
·Carefully measure the dose using special spoons. Avoid using household spoons because you may not get the correct dose.
· Before reconstitution keep tightly closed and store below 25⁰C.
· For syrup, you have to make suspension with the given powder. So carefully follow all instructions to make a solution and don’t use it for more than 7 days.
Sometimes it may cause serious side effects like:
· Chest pain
· Bloody nose
· Blood in the urine
· Back, leg, or stomach pains
Immediately consult your doctor if you face any of these problems.
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Palo Alto Battlefield National Historical Park
Brownsville Historic Battlefield Hike and Bike Trail, Brownsville, TX 78526, USA
From I-69/ Hwy 77/ 83: Take the Port of Brownsville exit onto the frontage road. Turn left under the bridge towards Brownsville. Continue on Hwy 550 and merge right onto FM 511, just before the toll road. Turn left onto Paredes Line Rd (FM1847). The Battlefield will be under the bridge, ahead on the right.
Rest rooms, handicapped accessible, walking trails, book sales area, picnic area. Guided tours offered between December 1st and April 1st each year. Groups of 8 or more can arrange tours year-round by calling 956-541-2785 x 333.
Monthly Living History events - September through May, usually on the first Saturday of each month. Annual Archeology Fair - usually held in October.
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The authority of a regional executive is diluted if it is shared with a central appointee, as in Thailand where since 2004 changwat are cogoverned by a directly elected chairman and centrally appointed governor (Mutebi 2004).
We regard the introduction of direct elections for changwat executives in Thailand in 1997 as a step toward greater regional authority despite the claim that executives became less, not more, independent from central government influence since many were members of prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra's inner circle (Hicken 2006; Kuhonta 2008).
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Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) has invested in the Changwat
Lop Buri power generation project in Thailand.
Factors affecting knowledge and practices of dairy farmers in Changwat
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Chonburi 20150, Thailand, Ph.
Paul Durrenberger, A Socio-Medical Study of Northern Thailand: Ban Lum, Anphur Mae Taeng, Changwat
Chiang Mai: Final Report (Chiang Mai: Tribal Research Centre, 1970); Anthony R.
2000) The Changing Situation of Child Prostitution in Northern Thailand: A Study of Changwat
Chiang Rai, ECPAT International, Bangkok.
It is understood that under the Constitution of Thailand a significant proportion of the royalties will flow to the Changwat
(Province) and the Tambons (local councils) in the area of the mine.
This coincidence allows comparisons of attitudes in the Deep South changwat
(provinces) with those found in the rest of the Thai nation.
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This bibliography is an introduction to the structure of legal concepts. It is meant to compare traditional approaches to legal conceptual analysis with contemporary scientific views on the study of concepts, with a special focus on embodied and grounded perspectives. It is divided into three sections. The first section provides an overview on the main theories of concepts. The 1999 and 2015 anthologies by Laurence and Margolis, together with Murphy and Hoffman’s chapter on the Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Science offer an overview on the most important perspectives ranging from psychology to philosophy and linguistics. The others items of the first sections are more advanced: they are particularly interesting for whoever wants to explore embodied and grounded cognition, with a particular focus on metaphors and abstract concepts. Fodor’s seminal book on the language of thought was included to provide a reader with an alternative critical perspective. The second section contains important works on legal conceptualisation mainly by legal philosophers, offering various competing perspectives on the topic: Ross’s reductionist approach, Hart’s pragmatic approach, Dworkin’s hermeneutical approach, as well as three works on metaphors in law. The third section features works containing analyses of specific legal concepts, from important contemporary legal theorists, with a special focus on legal positivism, legal realism and legal institutionalism. So while the second section explains different theories that legal philosophers have developed on the concept of concept, the third provides paradigmatic examples of conceptual analysis applied to specific legal notions such as norm, validity, right, duty etc.
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Robots are machines which reduce the human efforts in heavy works by automating the tasks in industries, factories, hospitals etc. Most of the robots are run by using some control unit or components like a push button, remote, joystick, PC, gestures and by executing some command by using controller or processor. But today we are here with a Automatic Robot which moves autonomously without any external events avoiding all the obstacle in its path, yes we talking about Obstacle Avoiding Robot. In this project, we have used Raspberry Pi and Motor driver to drive the robot and Ultrasonic sensor for detecting objects in the path of Robot.
Previously we have covered many useful Robots, you can find them in our Robotics projects section.
- Raspberry Pi
- Ultrasonic Sensor Module HC-SR04
- ROBOT Chassis complete with screw
- DC Motors
- L293D IC
- Bread Board
- Resistor (1k)
- Capacitor (100nF)
- Connecting wires
- Power supply or Power bank
Ultrasonic Sensor Module:
An Obstacle Avoider Robot is an Automated Robot and it doesn’t need to be controlled using any remote. These types of automated robots have some ‘sixth sense’ sensors like obstacle detectors, sound detector, heat detector or metal detectors. Here we have done Obstacle Detection using Ultrasound Signals. For this purpose, we have used Ultrasonic Sensor Module.
Ultrasonic Sensors are commonly used to detect objects and determine the distance of the obstacle from the sensor. This is a great tool to measure the distance without any physical contact, like as Water Level Measurement in tank, distance measurement , Obstacle avoider robot etc. So here, we have detected the object and measured the distance by using Ultrasonic Sensor and Raspberry Pi.
Ultrasonic sensor HC-SR04 is used to measure distance in the range of 2cm-400cm with an accuracy of 3mm. The sensor module consists of an ultrasonic transmitter, receiver, and the control circuit. Ultrasonic Sensor consists of two circular eyes out of which one is used to transmit the ultrasonic wave and the other to receive it.
We can calculate the distance of the object based on the time taken by ultrasonic wave to return back to the sensor. Since the time and speed of sound is known we can calculate the distance by the following formulae.
- Distance= (Time x Speed of Sound in Air (343 m/s))/2.
The value is divided by two since the wave travels forward and backward covering the same distance.Thus the time to reach obstacle is just half the total time taken.
So we have calculated the distance (in centimetre) from the obstacle like below:
pulse_start = time.time() while GPIO.input(ECHO)==1: #Check whether the ECHO is HIGH GPIO.output(led, False) pulse_end = time.time() pulse_duration = pulse_end - pulse_start distance = pulse_duration * 17150 distance = round(distance,2) avgDistance=avgDistance+distance
Where pulse_duration is the time between sending and receiving ultrasonic signal.
Circuit is very simple for this Obstacle Avoiding Robot using Raspberry Pi. An Ultrasonic Sensor module, used for detecting objects, is connected at GPIO pin 17 and 27 of Raspberry Pi. A Motor Driver IC L293D is connected to Raspberry Pi 3 for driving robot’s motors. Motor driver’s input pins 2, 7, 10 and 15 are connected to Raspberry Pi GPIO pin number 12, 16, 20 and 21 respectively. Here we have used two DC motors to drive the robot in which one motor is connected to the output pin 3 & 6 of motor driver IC and another motor is connected at Pin 11 & 14 of motor driver IC.
How it works:
Working of this Autonomous Robot is very easy. When the Robot is powered on and starts running, Raspberry Pi measures the distances of objects, in front of it, by using Ultrasonic Sensor Module and stores in a variable. Then RPi compares this value with predefined values and take decisions accordingly to move the Robot Left, Right, Forward, or backward.
Here in this project, we have selected 15cm distance for taking any decision by Raspberry Pi. Now whenever Raspberry Pi gets less than the 15cm distance from any object then Raspberry Pi stops the robot and moves it back and then turns it left or right. Now before moving it forward again, Raspberry Pi again checks whether any obstacle is present within the range of 15 cm distance, if yes then again repeats the previous process, else move the robot forward until it will detect any obstacle or object again.
We are using Python language here for the Program. Before coding, user needs to configure Raspberry Pi. You can check our previous tutorials for Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and Installing & Configuring Raspbian Jessie OS in Pi.
The programming part of this project plays a very important role to perform all the operations. First of all, we include required libraries, initialize variables and define pins for ultrasonic sensor, motor and components.
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO import time #Import time library GPIO.setwarnings(False) GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) TRIG = 17 ECHO = 27 ... ..... .... .....
After it, we have created some functions def forward(), def back(), def left(), def right() to move robot in forward, backward, left or right direction respectively and def stop() to stop the robot, check the functions in Code given below.
Then, in the main program, we have initiated Ultrasonic Sensor and read time between transmission and reception of the signal and calculated the distance. Here we have repeated this process for 5 times for better accuracy. We have already explained the process of calculating the distance using Ultrasonic sensor.
i=0 avgDistance=0 for i in range(5): GPIO.output(TRIG, False) time.sleep(0.1) GPIO.output(TRIG, True) time.sleep(0.00001) GPIO.output(TRIG, False) while GPIO.input(ECHO)==0: GPIO.output(led, False) pulse_start = time.time() while GPIO.input(ECHO)==1: #Check whether the ECHO is HIGH GPIO.output(led, False) pulse_end = time.time() pulse_duration = pulse_end - pulse_start distance = pulse_duration * 17150 distance = round(distance,2) avgDistance=avgDistance+distance
Finally if Robot finds any obstacle in front of it then after getting distance from the obstacle, we have programmed the Robot to take different route.
if avgDistance < 15: count=count+1 stop() time.sleep(1) back() time.sleep(1.5) if (count%3 ==1) & (flag==0): right() flag=1 else: left() flag=0 time.sleep(1.5) stop() time.sleep(1) else: forward() flag=0
Complete code for this Raspberry Pi Obstacle Avoiding Robot is given below with a Demonstration Video.
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO #Import GPIO library
#Import time library
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM) # programming the GPIO by BCM pin numbers
TRIG = 17
ECHO = 27
led = 22
GPIO.setup(TRIG,GPIO.OUT) # initialize GPIO Pin as outputs
GPIO.setup(ECHO,GPIO.IN) # initialize GPIO Pin as input
for i in range(5):
GPIO.output(TRIG, False) #Set TRIG as LOW
GPIO.output(TRIG, True) #Set TRIG as HIGH
time.sleep(0.00001) #Delay of 0.00001 seconds
GPIO.output(TRIG, False) #Set TRIG as LOW
while GPIO.input(ECHO)==0: #Check whether the ECHO is LOW
pulse_start = time.time()
while GPIO.input(ECHO)==1: #Check whether the ECHO is HIGH
pulse_end = time.time()
pulse_duration = pulse_end - pulse_start #time to get back the pulse to sensor
distance = pulse_duration * 17150 #Multiply pulse duration by 17150 (34300/2) to get distance
distance = round(distance,2) #Round to two decimal points
if avgDistance < 15: #Check whether the distance is within 15 cm range
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Elliott SP, Goldstein LB, Meinberg D, Jeger AM. Relationship Between Residency Placement and Clerkship Site Enrollment: A Retrospective Analysis. J Am Osteopath Assoc 2015;115(4):226-231. doi: 10.7556/jaoa.2015.045.
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Context: Osteopathic medical students frequently engage in clinical clerkships away from their home teaching institution, which can help them decide on a residency program, gain additional experience in a new environment, and further their professional contacts. Conventional wisdom states that these audition clerkships are an important factor in residency placement, but the educational literature concerning the topic is lacking.
Objective: To determine the relationship between clerkship site enrollment and residency placement so that empirical guidelines can be established for osteopathic medical students in the process of making informed decisions about their clerkships, particularly during the fourth year.
Methods: A retrospective analysis was conducted. Data on clerkship and residency placement were compiled for the classes of 2008, 2009, and 2010 at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, and χ2 goodness-of-fit analysis and χ2 tests of independence were used to explore relationships between clerkship and residency placement.
Results: Of 862 graduates, data were available for 812 (94.2%). Statistically significant relationships were noted between residency program status (osteopathic, allopathic, and military) and audition clerkship, with fewer graduates completing audition clerkships in allopathic programs and with more graduates completing audition clerkships in osteopathic and military residency programs than expected from an independent relationship. A total of 416 graduates (51.2%) did not enroll in the residency program where they completed their audition clerkship. A total of 352 graduates (43.3%) enrolled in the residency program where they completed their audition clerkship. An additional 44 graduates (5.4%) did not complete an audition clerkship in the discipline of their residency program but rotated at a hospital. A total of 364 graduates (44.8%) enrolled in osteopathic residency programs, 425 (52.3%) enrolled in allopathic programs, and 23 (2.8%) enrolled in military programs.
Conclusion: Although the results of this study are specific to 1 medical school, they provide evidence to counter long-held beliefs that audition clerkships determine residency placement.
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We are blessed to live on Earth. It is enormous and exotically beautiful. You will find every nook and corner to possess valuable things. So, today let us give you a brief of all the places the Earth has. Here we will tell you what are the 7 continents and their countries and much more. Start scrolling down to know it all!
What are the 7 continents and their countries
Difference between continents and countries: a country is part of a continent and while a continent is determined by geography. Let us discover what are the 7 continents and their countries.
Asia is a vast continent. So, let us check out the features and everything you must know about it:
- According to size, Asia is the large 70% of the world’s continent on the Earth. Asia covers almost an area of 44,579,000 square kilometers.
- Asia continent is the most populous continent. It ranks first when it comes to the number of inhabitants. Its 4.6 billion people constitute roughly 60% of the world’s population.
- Tokyo in Japan is the world’s largest metropolitan area by population. Many people live in the inner city such as Delhi, Beijing, and Shanghai.
- In Asia, the largest economies are China, Japan, India, South Korea, Turkey-based on GDP. The tiny nation Qatar is now one of the fast-growing countries. The economic growth of Qatar has been almost exclusively based on petroleum and natural gas industries and mineral-rich nations such as the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Oman, Saudi Arabia, etc.
- More than 4.3 billion people are speaking nearly 2300 living languages across the Asia continent. A tiny group of folks speaks these languages mostly. Fewer than 1000 people communicate in 2000 languages out of 7000 languages present in the world.
- The official language of China, Mandarin, is spoken by 1.4 billion people. Mandarin has the most indigenous speakers.
- Asia stretches from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Western Pacific Ocean.
- Asia covers almost 9% of Earth’s total surface area.
- The continent has the two most populous countries on its borders: China and India. World’s largest country is Russia, situated in the Asia continent.
- Mount Everest is Earth’s highest mountain above sea level, located in Asia. Its elevation is 8848.86 m.
- Asia contains the 10 highest summits in the world.
- The Great Wall of China repeatedly billed as the only human-made object noticeable from infinite space.
Interesting facts about Asia
- The two most popular civilizations, known as the Harappan civilization and the civilization of the Chinese, were formed in Asia.
- Asia was the native home of many mainstream religions, including Hinduism, Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, etc.
- It shows a notable diversity of habitats. Asia has a rich reptile fauna such as reticulated pythons, Earless monitor lizards, snakes, and Giant panda, tiger, Indian rhinoceroses can also be found.
- List of countries by continent of Asia: India, Qatar, China, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, etc.
List of countries by continent of Asia:
- Sri Lanka,
- Hong Kong,
- North Korea,
- Saudi Arabia,
- South Korea,
- East Timor,
- The United Arab Emirates,
Here were facts that and countries you must know when talking about Africa:
- Africa is the second-largest continent in the world after Asia.
- It covers 30,221,532 sq km area. It stretches almost 6% of Earth’s total surface areas and 20% of its land areas. Africa has 54 sovereign states, and it contains about 16% of the human population with 1.3 billion people.
- Africa, known as the ‘Dark Continent’ as the topography of the continent, remained undiscovered for an extended period of time.
- The longest river in the world is the Nile River (4157mileslong), located in northeastern Africa. The most famous Sahara Desert is situated in Africa.
- As Africa mainly lies within the intertropical zone, Africa is the hottest continent on the planet. Ethiopia is the hottest place, located in Africa.
- The equator runs through the middle of Africa, and it absorbs direct sunlight most of the time in a year.
- The earliest Homo sapiens fossils are found across Africa. As per fossil evidence, Africa is the cradle of humankind.
- Africa is a resource-rich continent. You will find Africa to be the largest producer globally for vermiculite, vanadium, platinum, chrome, and manganese. Currently, Africa produces around half of the world’s diamonds, nearly 75% of all diamonds. Around 660,000 kg. Gold derives from the Africa continent.
- It is best you know that 70% of cocoa beans in the world comes from the African countries present in the West. Some of them are Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, and Ivory-Coast.
- The Big Five game animals are African leopard, African elephant, Cape buffalo, African lion, Rhinoceros in the Africa continent. Other animals like zebra, Egyptian mongoose giraffe addax can be found in Africa.
List of countries by continent of Africa:
There is a total of 54 countries present in Africa. Some of the most popular are:
Oceania /Australia continent
Are you thinking about which continent has only one country? Well, it is Australia. So, let us check out some facts about it below:
- Australia, officially Commonwealth of Australia, covers approximately 8,525,989 square kilometers.
- List of countries by continent: Australia continent comprises Australia, Papua New Guinea, and a portion of Indonesia.
- The smallest continent on the planet is Australia land, also called an “island continent” as the country of Australia is mostly on a single landmass, surrounded by oceans.
- The Australian continent is also referred to in the technical contexts. It is frequently called Meganesia or Australianea. Both the names are given to differentiate between the continent and the country.
- The Australian continent is also known as “land down under” because it is below the equator.
- The name of Australia is derived from the Latin word “austrails,” which means “southern.”
- Australia is the world’s number one producer of high-quality fine wool.
- There are more than 700 species of eucalyptus that can be found in Australia.
- The Desert of Australia covers almost 18% of the mainland.
- The Great Barrier Reef is the world’s largest coral reef and stretches for over 2300 kilometers.
- You can mostly find kangaroo, koala, platypus, and emu in Australia.
Most of you know that it is present at the southernmost part of Earth. But there are more facts that you might not be aware of. Check them out below:
Earth’s southernmost continent Antarctica is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km) in size. Antarctica has no country, and it consists of an 1106 season population. Mainly scientists and researchers live in Antarctica at the height of summer.
- Antarctica is the coldest on Earth’s continent; it is also the topmost dried, long-winded, and void place.
- Antarctica’s sheet contains almost 70% of freshwater and 90% of its ice.
- Antarctica is known as the frozen continent or the white continent.
- Antarctica was famous as ‘Terra Australis incognita,’ meaning the unknown southern land in 1840.
- An aurora can be seen in Antarctica between the months of December to February.
- Temperatures in Antarctica range on average is 10 degree Celsius on the Antarctica coast -60 degree Celsius.
- The coldest temperature recorded in Antarctica is 89.6 degrees C.
- As temperatures vary in Antarctica, the winter is getting bigger than summer by 14.2 million square kilometers.
- At 1.3 cm long, Antarctica’s only insect Belgica Antarctica is the largest purely terrestrial animal native to the continent.
- Antarctica is the birthplace of Adelie penguins.
When we talk about what are the 7 continents and their countries, then Europe comes vividly for its early development in sciences and technology.
Europe covers about 10,180,000 square kilometers. The current population of Europe is 74.64 cores.
List of countries by continent of Europe:
It contains 50 countries, namely Greece, Ukraine (Bread basket of the world), (port of five seas), MoscowYugoslavia, Romania, Albania.
- The Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea segregate Europe from Asia
- The summit of Europe is Mount Elbrus, and its elevation 5642m
- Some important mountains in Europe are Dinaric Alps, Cantabrian, and the Apennines, etc
- The continent is bound by the Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean, the black sea, and the Mediterranean. The Baltic is entirely within Europe
- Vatican City is the tiniest country in the world, located in Europe.
- There are five primary rivers in Europe: The Danube, The Volga (Longest River), The Loire, The Rhine, and The Elbe
- Finland is called the land of ‘thousand lakes.’
- Europe is the world’s number one supplier of high-quality seed potatoes, along with Europe produce rice, maize, barley, oil seeds etc.
- Mostly hedgehog, Roe deer, Blue tit can be found in Europe.
North America’s size is 24,709,000 square kms consisting of 23 countries with a population of app
There are five-time sectors or zones in North America. This continent has almost every kind of climate. The density of the population is 22.9 per sq kms. It also has the largest lake consisting of freshwater called Lake Superior.
Here are the countries of North America:
- Saint Martin
- United States of America
- United States Minor Outlying Islands
- Costa Rica
- The Bahamas
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthelemy
- Cayman Islands
- Dominican Republic
- Saint Lucia
- El Salvador
- U.S. Virgin Islands
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- The British Virgin Islands
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Sint Maarten
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Caribbean Netherlands
South America reaches 17,840,000 square kms consisting of twelve countries with 422,535,000.
There is the largest forest in the world which is South America- the Amazon forest.
Here are the countries of South America
- French Guiana
- Falkland Islands
After knowing what are the 7 continents and their countries, let us find some information about 7 Continents and 5 Oceans.
It is vital to everyone to know what are the 7 continents and their countries, especially if you are a student or traveler. Also, we tend to forget many interesting facts about works geography. So, this brief about what are the 7 continents and their countries could be very helpful hopefully.
The 5 oceans of 7 continents:
There were only 4 oceans on Earth before the 21st century. Then, the International Hydrographic organization included the Southern Ocean among the list of total oceans in 2000 on Earth. Many have knowledge about what are the 7 continents and their countries, but there are a lot of people who are not aware of the oceans of those continents
The following five oceans are:
- The Indian Ocean
- The Arctic Ocean
- The Pacific Ocean
- The Atlantic Ocean
- The Southern Ocean
Pacific Ocean’s size is 165,200,000 square kms i.e. 63,784,077 sq miles.
This Ocean extends over Asia and Australia’s East coast and reaches South America and North America’s West Coast.
Portuguese discoverer Magellan found The Pacific Ocean in 1520. He made his way from South America, and then he discovered the Pacific.
The Pacific Ocean is famous for its longest coastline adjoining 135,663 kilometers of coastline consisting of various washed-off shorelines.
The seafloor of the Pacific Ocean has the deepest extremity on Earth. The distance to the bottom reaches 11,000 meters, i.e., 7 miles under sea level.
The Atlantic covers 106,400,000 square kms, i.e., 41,081,270 square miles being the second largest Ocean in the world after the Pacific Ocean.
The Atlantic Ocean stretches from Europe’s Western region to Africa to North America’s Western portion and areas of South America. It almost resembles the Pacific Ocean extending between the Arctic and the Antarctic.
Several seas were included in the Atlantic Ocean, like the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico sea.
The Atlantic Ocean plays a crucial part in trades globally. Especially Europe explored this sea path for transportation from the time of imperialism.
The Indian Ocean extends over 28,400,130 square miles (73,556,000 square Kms), comprising Eastern Australia, the South-Eastern part of Asia, and Africa’s East region.
The Indian Ocean has been playing an essential role in import and export as a transportation path. Thus, there were significant civilizations that grew on the shores of this Ocean.
From the West and East of the world, only Europe, connected with Asian countries and vice versa. There were essential medicine researches that took place by using valuable species of plants and different lives that scientists have found in several countries, the Islands of Indian Ocean.
Europeans have been exploring these remarkable findings for hundreds of years to develop life-saving medicines, preservation techniques, and many more.
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest as well as the shallowest Ocean on Earth. It extends to 5,400,015 square miles area i.e. 13,986,000 square kms.
The Arctic Ocean covers many countries of Europe, North America, and Asia.
Ice covers this Ocean most of the time. This small Ocean consists of Hudson and North Bay seas, the Barents.
Although ice covers the majority area and the temperature is freezing, many civilizations of three continents, especially the northern ones, have grown around this Ocean for many years.
Europeans have been trying to access this Ocean to travel to Asia, but the exploration failed due to the harsh climate.
The size of the Southern Ocean extends to 20,327,000 square kms, i.e., 7,848,299 square miles. It is the second last small Ocean, the smallest being the Arctic Ocean, regarding the size.
This Ocean is the most recent addition as an Ocean category. Researchers had earlier called it adjunctions of the Indian Ocean, Atlantic, and Pacific Ocean. In this Ocean, waters from the Southern part of those three Ocean meets.
You need to not only learn what are the 7 continents and their countries, but also the oceans of which those continents consist of. There are so many amazing facts about world geography, climate, countries in the world.
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Or Elyakim, the son of Dalia Elyakim – the Israeli woman killed last week in a truck-ramming terror attack in Berlin – lit the fourth candle on a giant menorah erected by the local Chabad Shluchim at the German capital’s iconic Brandenburg Gate. | <urn:uuid:0d08d586-d8f8-448c-b1f8-e5a52eabc932> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://crownheights.info/shlichus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00543-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949314 | 1,317 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Fall is one of the busiest and most demanding times of the year for kids, parents, and families, which is why one teacher did something amazing to encourage his students.
This helpful list of "101 ways to copy with stress," is going viral after a California high-school psychology teacher, Brett Phillips, gave it to his students, according to Buzzfeed. Phillips has been distributing it to his classes for 10 years, but it recently gained popularity when student Alina Ramirez shared it on Twitter.
The list was intended to inspire Phillips' overwhelmed students, but now it's striking a chord with people of all ages and lifestyles. It's full of easy and practical ideas you can try during times when you're feeling stressed, as well as things you can do regularly to be proactive about your mental health.
Phillips compiled the ideas from textbooks and articles over the years. A few of the simplest tips include: writing down worries, saying "no" more often, and smiling. And at the end, there's a particularly uplifting message that reads: "BONUS: Relax, take each day at a time...you have the rest of your life to live."
Brett created this handout, which has been shared almost than 30,000 times, and planned the corresponding lesson plan at the beginning of the year so his students would get this list at a time when most seniors are stressed with college application and busy schedules. "I give students the list and then I have them pick five things that they need to start doing to lower their stress levels," he said.
"He knows how stressed we are with school, sports, work, and life in general, so he gave us the paper to help us, and just to have in case we are stressed," Alina said. "It has impacted a lot of people. Honestly his list has helped me a lot."
While we can easily imagine this worksheet being useful for high schoolers, we also know that these ideas could be remarkably beneficial for anyone dealing with stress. Phillips admitted that he uses the list as a reminder of things he should be doing. "I do a lot of the things on the list to enjoy life more myself," he said. "Life's short — too much stress will make it even shorter!" | <urn:uuid:87fa7bbb-d3dd-4006-aac0-8dbe47fa3076> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.womansday.com/life/inspirational-stories/a56383/ways-to-deal-with-stress-viral-list/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00459-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983686 | 464 | 2.609375 | 3 |
What is the Shiba Inu coin (SHIB)?
The success of the meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin has spawned many imitators trying to replicate it. However, at the moment, only one of them has managed to become a real competitor to Dogecoin. Yes, we're talking about Shiba Inu, the cryptocurrency that its creators call the "Dogecoin killer". What's the Shiba Inu coin? What is the Shiba Inu coin used for? You'll find all the answers here.
What is the Shiba Inu coin?
The Shiba Inu cryptocurrency (SHIB) is the token of the Shiba Inu decentralised ecosystem. This ecosystem is under development and currently includes the ShibaSwap decentralised exchange. What other elements will be in this ecosystem is difficult to say due to the lack of a roadmap.
The project was named after the Shiba Inu dog breed, whose image became the logo of the first meme cryptocurrency, Dogecoin. The project proclaims the creation of the best decentralised ecosystem in the world as its main goal.
The creators listed the founding principles of their project:
- The project started from zero with nothing.
- The project wasn't founded on an existing community or pre-assembled team.
- The project's community loves Shiba Inu dogs.
Despite the fact that the project is relatively young and its prospects are vague, it has a close-knit group of followers numbering over a million people who call themselves the ShibArmi or SHIBArmy, alternatively.
Shiba Inu token characteristics (as of 01/12/2021)
Daily trading volume
Who created the Shiba Inu coin?
The founder of the Shiba Inu project is a person or group of persons under the pseudonym Ryoshi. They don't disclose their real name (or names).
I have said from the beginning, I am a nobody, I am not important. The efforts to unmask my 'identity', even if successful, would be underwhelming. I am just some guy of no consequence tapping at a keyboard, and I am replaceable. I am Ryoshi. — Ryoshi, Founder of Shiba Inu
When did the Shiba Inu coin come out?
The Shiba Inu project was launched in August 2020. After the tokens were issued, 50% of them were blocked on the Uniswap decentralised crypto exchange in the liquidity pool. The remaining tokens were sent to Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin. Thus, the creators of Shiba Inu did not reserve part of the project's tokens for themselves.
Is the Shiba Inu coin legit?
At the moment, we can already say that Shiba Inu is most likely a legitimate project. However, there are many signs that this project is overrated, and it's mainly hype driving its price.
How does the Shiba Inu coin work?
The Shiba Inu cryptocurrency doesn't have its own blockchain. It's an ERC-20 token launched on the Ethereum blockchain. According to the founders, they chose the Ethereum blockchain for their project because it's already secure and time-tested.
On 6 July 2021, the project developers launched their own decentralised exchange, ShibaSwap. Users can earn on staking and provide liquidity to pools on it. There are two additional tokens in ShibaSwap:
- LEASH. Initially, it was created as a rebase token, but then this idea was abandoned. At the moment, it can be used for staking or providing liquidity on ShibaSwap. It has a fixed supply of only 107,646 tokens, all of which are in circulation.
- BONE. This is a governance token in the Doggy DAO decentralised autonomous organisation. It allows users to propose and vote on changes to the Shiba INU protocol. The number of votes each voter has depends on the number of coins they have. Its emission is 250,000,000 tokens. At the time of writing, there are 6,975,299 BONE tokens in circulation.
In October 2021, a non-fungible token (NFT) project called Shiboshis was launched within the Shiba Inu ecosystem.
What is the Shiba Inu coin used for?
At the moment, the Shiba Inu token doesn't have many uses. In addition to the traditional cryptocurrency transactions between users and using it as a speculative asset, the coin can also be used on the ShibaSwap exchange:
- "Bury". You can stake your Shiba Inu coins to gain returns.
- "Dig". Shiba Inu coins can be used to provide liquidity and receive a reward for this in BONE tokens.
Will the Shiba Inu coin go up?
The Shiba Inu cryptocurrency is one of the fastest-growing assets in terms of capitalisation. According to the website CoinMarketCap.com, the SHIB token's ROI for those who purchased it at the very beginning is an astonishing 2,864,599.59%. Nevertheless, the asset has shown it's able to fall as sharply as to rise.
What price did the Shiba Inu coin start at?
After the start of the project in August 2020, the price of the SHIB token was $0.00000000051.
How many Shiba Inu coins are there?
The initial issue was 1 quadrillion SHIB tokens. However, due to the fact that by now, almost half of the tokens have been burned, the current circulating supply of tokens is 549 trillion.
How many Shiba Inu coins have been burned?
Soon after the start of the project, its creators sent more than half of all Shiba Inu tokens to Vitalik Buterin.
We sent over 50% of the TOTAL supply to Vitalik. There is no greatness without a vulnerable point, and as long as VB doesn't rug us, then SHIBA will grow and survive. — Ryoshi, Founder of Shiba Inu
On 12 May 2021, Vitalik sent over 50 trillion SHIB tokens to the India Covid-Crypto Relief Fund, then he sent over 410 trillion tokens to a non-existent address, thus burning them.
In addition, the developers and the Shiba Inu community periodically burn a certain amount of coins.
Is the Shiba Inu coin worth it?
Undoubtedly, those who bought Shiba Inu coins this September or, perhaps more importantly, in April, made huge profits. However, the coin's capitalisation is now quite high, and, at the same time, the project doesn't have any significant fundamental reasons for growth other than the hype and the generally bullish sentiment in the crypto market. Thus, the Shiba Inu coin is currently a rather risky asset, even compared to other popular cryptocurrencies.
How to buy the Shiba Inu coin
Currently, it's not difficult to buy a Shiba Inu coin. Shiba Inu is traded on many crypto exchanges as well as online exchanges.
Where is the Shiba Inu coin listed?
Shiba Inu is listed on dozens of crypto exchanges, both large and small, centralised and decentralised. Crypto exchanges where you can buy SHIB include such giants as Binance, Coinbase, Huobi and KuCoin. StormGain crypto exchange also allows you to buy and sell Shiba Inu Coin. | <urn:uuid:bb5ba395-a74b-46a3-934b-65e52c8b9324> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stormgain.com/blog/what-shiba-inu-coin-shib | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.95294 | 1,641 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The ideal canola plant stand is a uniform 7 to 10 plants per square foot across the field. This allows for some plant loss later in the season to insects or disease while still providing a crop that meets the minimum 4-5 plants per square foot required to meet its yield potential.
A uniform plant stand of 7 to 10 plants per square foot can also mature faster.
Consider this: With an average seeding rate of 5 lb./ac., an average thousand seed weight (TSW) of 5 grams, and 50% seed survival rate, you get only 5.2 plants per square foot. This doesn’t leave much margin for error.
This result could improve with achievement of a higher seed survival rate, but do you know your seed survival? Survival of 50% is typical across the Prairies, but the range is often 20-80%. Each situation will produce a different seed survival rate. Knowing how to improve the survival rate is key. (Link to recent article.)
—Seed 1/2” to 1” deep consistently row to row.
—Seed slower to ensure good and even seed depth from all openers. If you decide to speed up 0.5 mph, you may consider increasing your seeding rate by 0.5 lb./ac. to compensate.
—Limit seed-placed fertilizer.
—Penetrate trash for good seed to soil contact.
—Leave a firm seedbed, again for good seed to soil contact and seed placement.
—Seed into warm moist soils. Soils of 5°C and a general warming trend expected is a good start point. Seeding into cold soils can reduce survival.
Click here for more detail on these tips.
At current prices, if taking steps to improve seedling survival — even if those steps mean slowing down to do a better job — improve yields by one bu./ac., that’s $15,000 over 1,000 acres of canola.
Seed size is less important than the agronomy steps to improve seed placement and seed survival. Knowing a seed lot’s thousand seed weight (TSW) gives you an idea how your seeds per square foot planted this year compares to last year. Note that it may take an extra 10% survival rate to compensate for a 1 g increase in TSW and still reach 5 plants per square foot. There is little room for error.
Don’t rely too much on TSW until you have estimated your seed survival rate for the year based on your seeding practices and current and expected environmental conditions. After analyzing the relationship between TSW and plant counts, you may discover that your target seeding rate is on the low side. | <urn:uuid:c2c51244-a15c-4373-9674-f8b97ef34bf5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.canolacouncil.org/canola-watch/2013/05/01/not-a-year-to-cut-seeding-rates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.911978 | 571 | 2.65625 | 3 |
July 2008, Part 1
Jim Miller on Politics
More Historical Mistakes From Joel Connelly: Hoping, perhaps, to spoil my July 4th celebration, the Seattle PI columnist produced this reminiscence on World War II, and managed to get several facts wrong. Even so, I probably would have not have bothered to do this post except for the general argument he made in this paragraph:
Family letters may say that, but none of those things are true. The country was divided then, though not as openly as now. Here's a significant poll finding from Mueller's War, Presidents, and Public Opinion:
It is true that World War II, as measured by polls, was our most "popular" modern war, but it is also true that 14 percent of the public thought, in early 1944, that entering the war was a mistake. (Another 9 percent were undecided.)
Nor was the war competently run. On the whole, FDR got the grand strategy right, but he and his commanders blundered in many ways, small and large. Here's one famous example from Stephen Ambrose's The Victors:
Anyone familiar with World War II history can add many more blunders to that example. Nor should we be surprised by all those blunders, since we had to create an army almost from scratch, and all through the war had to send partly-trained, and even untrained, men into combat.
Now, for some of the mistakes I noticed in a quick read: In his sixth paragraph, Connelly says that at Midway we "sunk the four Japanese carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor". In fact, six Japanese carriers, the Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu, Soryu, Shokaku, and Zuikaku, attacked at Pearl Harbor. Four were lost at Midway, but the last two survived until 1944.
In his seventh paragraph, Connelly says:
In fact, the British, under Montgomery, stopped the Afrika Corps at El Alamein before any American forces appeared in North Africa. (We did help Montgomery with supplies.) And the British did most of the fighting in the campaign to drive the Axis forces forces out of North Africa. And, whether we like it or not, it is a fact that the Soviet Union suffered far greater losses, and destroyed a far larger portion of the German army, than we and the British combined.
Connelly ends with three "lessons" for today; all three are dubious. Everyone was not engaged, though it is true that the newspapers were mostly on our side in that war. (FDR considered prosecuting the Chicago Tribune for revealing secrets, but decided that such a prosecution would give even more secrets to the Japanese.) It is also true that the opposition party then, the Republican party, was almost entirely committed to victory, unlike our modern Democratic party. But despite that, there were immense fights over the conduct of the war between the parties, and within FDR's administration. Nor was our objective as clear as Connelly says, especially when we remember that the British started the the war with one objective, to protect Poland from conquest, and that Stalin had rather different objectives from us and from Britain. Nor was politics put aside, as I explained to Connelly in 2003. For instance, FDR asked Eisenhower to speed up the 1942 landings in North Africa, in order to help the Democratic party in the fall elections. (Eisenhower tried to do it, but couldn't make it.)
Connelly wrote the paragraph that I began with to make an indirect argument, to criticize Bush's handling of the current war. But, anyone familiar with the real World War II, not the fantasy war that Connelly wants to use for partisan purposes, will understand that a comparison between the two makes our modern, professional forces, and many of their commanders, including President Bush, look good by contrast. But such a comparison is silly, because the enemies we face today are so different from the enemies we faced then.
But there is one point of similarity that holds a lesson for us — and for Connelly's newspaper, the Seattle PI. The Japanese military understood that we were far stronger than they were, economically, but they thought that they could wear us down over time, and that we would give up the fight. Our terrorist enemies have the same belief. I'll let Connelly decide whether his employer, the Seattle PI, may have encouraged Al Qaeda, and other terrorists, in that belief.Cross posted at Sound Politics.
- 6:17 PM, 8 July 2008 [link]
Suspicious Minds In Alabama: Have found suspicious vote patterns.
Perry County tends to have remarkably high turnouts and an equally remarkable number of absentee voters. Consider the June 3 primary, which attracted about 16 percent of the state's registered voters to the polls. In Perry County, more than 50 percent of the eligible voters cast ballots in the primary election.And, as everyone should know, vote fraud in the United States, at least most of the detected vote fraud, is committed with absentee ballots.
There are state and federal investigations of these patterns, and investigators have already received some serious allegations.
Attorney General Troy Kings' office has seized voting records for Perry and Bullock Counties, but it may not stop there.There's a citizen's group, the Democracy Defense League, that is pushing for investigations and stricter controls. Here's what they say about themselves and their goal:
The Democracy Defense League is a nonpartisan, multi-racial organization dedicated to the elimination of voter fraud in Alabama through legal means.It is important that DDL be nonpartisan and multi-racial because the sad fact is that the counties with problems in Alabama are mostly black, and heavily Democratic. And the even sadder fact is that these counties had some of the worst fights over black citizens voting, back in the 1960s. So a group that wants to end voting irregularities in these counties should be nonpartisan, to avoid charges that they are a front for the Republicans, and multi-racial, to avoid opening old wounds. (The group has co-chairs. I suspect one is white and one black, and I think that would be a good idea, in these circumstances.)
Incidentally, if, as it appears, there are significant numbers of fraudulent votes in these counties, the likely losers are — probably — black Democratic candidates, in primaries.
(There's some sad, but interesting, history, in this piece.)
- 1:28 PM, 8 July 2008
Link problem: The first link in the post may not work for you, unless you register. I got to it without registering from a Google news search on "vote + fraud", and you can probably do the same. It was the 21st site in their list when I did the search.
- 3:35 PM, 8 July 2008 [link]
If A High School Newspaper Did This: It would be funny, a sign that the budding journalists still had a lot to learn. But this was the Washington Post. And this is what the Post left out of a front page story on Obama's faith.
And just where and from who "on the South Side of Chicago" did he learn all of this? From his fellow "community organizers" in "struggling neighborhoods"? Must be because totally forgotten is any mention of the South Side church where he was married, the preacher who married him, the church where his children were baptized and the minister who baptized them, the church where he and his wife were faithful 20 year members, regular attendees and often generous contributors.Ethel Fenig's conclusion is harsh, but fair; the Washington Post "undermined its own integrity". Imagine writing a story on Obama's religious beliefs — and never mentioning Reverend Jeremiah Wright or Trinity United!
- 7:29 AM, 8 July 2008 [link]
Democratic Leaders Answer To High Gas Prices? Block a vote on more production.
House Democrats are in a bind on the focal point of their energy plan.If domestic drilling came to a vote, it might win, even in the House.
A senior Democratic leadership aide acknowledged this week that there are plenty of members of the majority caucus "who want to drill and want to drill where Republicans want to drill."And those members are getting worried.
As I have said before, environmental groups, and many Democrats, want higher energy prices. But a majority of the public doesn't, and so Democratic politicians often have to disguise what they are doing, in this example by blocking any vote at all.
- 6:07 AM, 8 July 2008 [link]
Political Moves: Since Barack Obama captured the Democratic nomination, for all practical purposes, he has been, our journalists tell us, making political moves.
Most journalists are less precise in their descriptions of these moves than I would like. Sometimes the same change (or apparent change) is called a "flip-flop", a "shift", or even a "pivot", three very different moves, by different journalists. (And you can probably find many more descriptions of these moves by reading through recent stories.)
The easiest of these three to understand is "flip-flop". A "flip-flop" is a reversal of a previous position. The most famous recent example is John Kerry's change of position on the war in Iraq, which he was for before he was against. If John McCain were to support opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, that, too, would be a flip-flop, since he has opposed that for so long.
A shift is probably the most common change, but is also the hardest to describe, since it can be anything from a small change, in reaction to a change in the facts, to a change that requires a candidate to give up long-held positions, and even principles.
Then there is the "pivot", which I don't recall being used much before this election. Steven Hayes may have popularized it when he described Obama's rhetorical pivots, Obama's habit of appearing to sympathize with conservative concerns, before rejecting conservative ideas. But Hayes' point, which will be obvious to anyone who knows basketball, is that when Obama pivots, he is appealing to conservatives — without changing position. He may face in a different direction briefly, but he doesn't actually move. So, though a pivot is a political move, it is not an actual change in a candidate's position.
Finally, there is the fake, the apparent change in position intended to fool the voters. For instance, a presidential candidate can claim to be for a particular Supreme Court decision, while promising to nominate justices to the court like those who opposed the decision. That, in my opinion, is not flip-flop, a shift, or a pivot; it is a fake. The candidate is trying to make voters think he is about to move in one direction, when he actually plans to go the other way. (Democratic candidates often do this with judges on social issues.)
All of these moves make it harder for voters to figure out exactly what the candidate will do, if elected. In a day or two, I'll have some thoughts on how we can figure out what they will do, in spite of their efforts to fool us with these flip-flops, shifts, pivots, and fakes.
(The reasons for these candidate moves are obvious enough. Candidates are trying to win base voters in primaries and swing voters in the general election. And voters change their minds about desirable policies. When crime rose in the 1960s and 1970s, the voters wanted tougher measures, and the candidates (even many Democrats) promised to provide them. Famously, Bill Clinton made a point of signing a death warrant during the 1992 campaign, hoping to neutralize the issue of crime, which had hurt Michael Dukakis in 1988.
Obama has used a different metaphor to describe a possible change in his position on Iraq. He said that he might "refine" his position. That's an odd word to use, since "refine" means to purify, especially a metal. By saying "refine", Obama was suggesting that his current position might contain waste material.)
- 4:50 PM, 7 July 2008
More metaphorical moves: Rich Lowry says that Obama is making a "dash" to the center. (Lowry believes that Obama is a familiar type, an "audacious salesman with an eye on the main chance".)
Bob Herbert says that Obama has been "lurching" right.
But Senator Obama is not just tacking gently toward the center. He's lurching right when it suits him, and he's zigging with the kind of reckless abandon that's guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash.Only if you believed Obama to begin with, Mr. Herbert. Those of us who began as skeptics — as one should with any politician — are not disillusioned.
- 5:14 AM, 8 July 2008
Cartoonist Scott Stantis, like me, thinks most of these Obama "moves" are actually fakes.
- 12:43 PM, 9 July 2008
Correction: See this post for a correction on the meanings of "refine".
- 1:06 PM, 14 July 2007 [link]
$2.50 To $10.00: On Mondays, I often have lunch at a local teriyaki shop. A few weeks ago, the proprietor sat down while I was eating my lunch and quizzed me on energy prices. I wasn't quite prepared for the quiz, but his questions made me think about the range of possibilities.
The title of this post gives one of the ranges. With one set of policies, gasoline will cost $2.50 a gallon in the United States ten years from now; with another set of policies, gasoline will cost $10.00 a gallon. (Even lower prices are possible, if we were to institute World War II style rationing. But I think that quite unlikely.) The higher estimate is easy to understand; some European nations are already paying almost that much, last I looked, mostly because of extremely high taxes on gasoline.
The lower end of the range is less obvious, but $2.50/gallon gasoline is possible if we do a little bit of everything, including increasing drilling here in the United States, improving fuel economy in our cars, converting coal to gasoline, constructing new refineries, and so on. (A world wide recession would also bring down energy prices, as it did in early the 1980s.) That price might not be desirable, given the risks of depending too much on imported oil, but I do believe it is possible.
(What do I expect will happen to energy prices in the United States? I think they will rise a little more in the near future, but not much more over the next ten years, simply because the political costs to high energy prices will be too high for the governing party.)
- 1:00 PM, 7 July 2008 [link]
Worth Reading: Mary Anastasia O'Grady explains how the Colombia was able to trick the FARC narco-terrorists and free their most prominent hostages. The Colombian operatives claimed the helicopter was provided by an international human rights organization.
As we learn more about the Colombian military's daring hostage rescue last week, one detail stands out: In tricking FARC rebels into putting the hostages aboard a helicopter, undercover special forces simply told the comandantes that the aircraft was being loaned to them by a fictitious nongovernmental organization sympathetic to their cause called the International Humanitarian Mission.Because the FARC narco-terrorists have gotten so much help from these organizations over the years.
There's much more, including this fascinating bit at the end.
One plan involved Ms. [Piedad] Cordoba [a Colombian senator], who is currently under investigation by the Colombian attorney general for ties to the FARC. She figures prominently in the captured rebel documents, and is notoriously close to Mr. Chávez.Cordoba may just have been boasting, but I do think Speaker Pelosi and Congressman McGovern have some questions to answer.
- 9:25 AM, 7 July 2008 [link]
Tax Increases Under Clinton, Tax Cuts Under Bush: J. T. Bush has a useful, but somewhat confusing, summary of the changes in tax policy.
Here are the main points:
By way of Gregory Mankiw.
- 6:30 AM, 7 July 2008 [link]
From Criminal To Terrorist: It's a common career change.
In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials said. They have criminal arrest records in the United States.Hundreds. Hundreds more must have committed crimes in the United States, and never gotten caught. (And the number isn't that high simply because we have been fingerprinting so many people. An FBI team that went to Afghanistan found that one of every hundred men they checked was already in their database.)
How did they get into the United States? Many of them were students. Did exposure to American colleges and universities turn them into petty criminals and terrorists? The article hints at that.
- 5:04 AM, 7 July 2008 [link]
Will Americans Vote For A Black Candidate? It depends on the candidate. Michael Barone has the poll numbers.
In any case, Obama's candidacy by itself is not a test of whether Americans are unwilling to vote for a black candidate; to determine that, you would have to take into account whether those unwilling to vote for him would be willing to vote for a different kind of black candidate. And as it happens, there is such a test case. In the fall of 1995, Colin Powell, fresh from a boffo book tour, was (or was widely thought to be) contemplating running for president. There were plenty of polls matching him as the Republican nominee against incumbent Democrat Bill Clinton. And running well: A typical Gallup poll had him leading Clinton 54 to 39 percent.It would be wrong — mostly — to say that the Democrats who would not vote for Powell were motivated by his race. It would be even more wrong to think that the Republicans who reject Obama would not reject a white candidate who was equally extreme. Even more wrong because Powell, unlike Obama, is a moderate.
- 6:11 PM, 6 July 2008 [link]
People In Central And Southeastern Europe Are More Prosperous: So the French have to pay more for snails.
Gourmets will have to dig deeper into their pockets if they want to be served snails after an insufficient 2008 harvest, the French canning and preservation industry federation said Friday.Seems fair to me. (And I didn't know that the French were exploiting impoverished snail gatherers.)
(I have never been impressed by the arguments for eating snails. As I understand it, the French eat them dipped in garlic butter — and almost anything will taste good dipped in garlic butter.)
- 12:34 PM, 6 July 2008 [link]
Remember The Good Old Days When Gas Was Cheap? Then you may be surprised by the chart accompanying this column. Last quarter, gasoline accounted for about 4.1 percent of Americans' personal consumption expenditures. That's a lower share than gasoline took in almost every quarter from 1960 through 1985. In 1986, the share dropped to about 3 percent or below and stayed there until the last few years.
But there's more in the chart. Spending on automobiles and gas prices tend to move in opposite directions — no surprise there. But there is a surprise in the trend since the mid 1980s. Expenditures on cars (again, as a percentage of all personal consumption expenditures) have tended to decline. In spite of all those luxury vehicles that you can see on our roads. So the total share of consumer spending on cars and gas has declined from about 11 percent in the 1960s and 1970s to a little more than 8 percent now.
What this reflects, of course, is how much richer we have become over these past five decades. We are spending far more dollars on cars and gasoline than we once did, but our pile of dollars has grown even faster than our spending on personal transportation.
(I suspect that we are now spending less on cars, in part because modern cars are more durable, so there is less reason to replace them.)
- 11:42 AM, 6 July 2008 [link]
Happy Fourth Of July! And thank you to all those who made it possible.
(Picture taken at the beginning of the Kirkland 4th of July parade.)
- 2:55 PM, 4 July 2008 [link]
Did Barack Obama Work His Way Through College And Law School? That's what he claims in his latest national ad. FactCheck fact-checked his claim, and found . . . discrepancies.
The ad begins with the announcer telling us that Obama "worked his way through college and Harvard Law." Actually, Obama took out loans to get himself through college, as we heard in a 60-second ad his campaign began running last month. We don't know how much assistance his family provided.I had many more jobs when I was in college and graduate school than Obama did in college and law school, but I would not claim that I worked my way through either.
And that's just one of the "discrepancies" in the ad.
What's strangest about this discrepancy, along with all the other discrepancies, is that there is no need for Obama to tell us these fibs. Would many of us think much less of him if we learned that his grandparents paid much of his way through school? And then there is the risk of being caught. At some point, even our "mainstream" reporters are going to notice just how many of these discrepancies there are, how many times what Obama says about his past turns out to be not exactly true.
(I hope to get time to analyze fully the two ads he has put out, looking for discrepancies — unless I find that someone else has already done that.)
- 12:51 PM, 3 July 2008 [link]
A Break In The Thunderstorms: So I can put up this brief post. We have had about twelve hours of off-and-on thunderstorms here, with lightning sometimes close enough so that I twice thought it prudent to shut down my main computer.
Though not always in time. This morning a close strike bounced the power and shut down the computer. As far as I can tell, no damage was done, except, possibly, to a Firefox temporary file. The Linux distribution that I use, Ubuntu, defaults to a "journaling" file system, which is very good at recovering from unexpected power outages, and other disasters.
- 9:14 AM, 3 July 2008
More: Here's a general description of journaling files systems, if the idea is new to you. By using them, you make your file operations slower, but much more secure.
- 1:40 PM, 3 July 2008 [link]
Sometimes A Really Stupid Comment: Such as the one by "bigdaddyvike" in this post. Inspires a truly brilliant reply, such as the one in this post. Read the whole thing to learn a little about that extraordinary warrior, Colonel Bud Day.
- 2:29 PM, 2 July 2008 [link]
"A Shortage Of Sand": That's the well-known punch line to a joke about Communism. You can find many more jokes about Communism here. Even if you are a fan of jokes about Communism, as I have been for many years, you will probably find a few that are new to you.
By way of ¡No-Pasarán!, where you can see a not-too-bad cartoon joke about Communism. (Though maybe not a joke you want to show the youngest kids.)
(Young enough so that you haven't heard the joke? Here's the rest of it: What would you have after five years if Communists ran the Sahara?)
- 8:30 AM, 2 July 2008 [link]
One Cute Puppy — And A Few Outraged Muslims: In Scotland. Here's the story.
A postcard featuring a cute puppy sitting in a policeman's hat advertising a Scottish police force's new telephone number has sparked outrage from Muslims.Or at least a few who say they are outraged.
My guess is that most Muslims in the area don't care about the puppy (and that some, especially the kids, think the puppy is cute), but that a few are using this innocent picture to divide Muslims from their Scottish neighbors. The outraged minority trick often works, which is why it is so often used.
(The Tayside police used the picture of Rebel because he is a police dog in training — and stories about his training had attracted favorable attention, and many visitors to their web site. Here's a sample with a picture of the puppy, looking cute.)
- 7:31 AM, 2 July 2008
More: Maybe just one outraged Muslim.
Dundee councillor Mohammed Asif claimed the postcard, advertising Tayside Police's new non-emergency telephone number, could offend some Muslims because it features a black German shepherd dog sitting in a police officer's hat.Who may not be all that outraged, but saw a chance to pose, and took it, as politicians often do.
(Incidentally, if the article is correct, Muslims accept dogs for hunting and guard duties; they just reject them as pets. Which I don't agree with, but find more reasonable than an absolute prohibition.)
By way of Damian Penny.)
- 1:02 PM, 2 July 2008 [link]
Happy Birthday! To our Canadian friends, who are celebrating Canada Day.
Since Canada was founded in 1867, this is their 141st birthday. The man most responsible for that founding was Canada's first Prime Minister, John Macdonald.
Today is a good day to thank Candians for their contributions in the war in Afghanistan, and for being, on the whole, such fine neighbors. (And for those who know a little about World War II, it's a good day to admire their contribution* to victory in that war.)
(Picture notes: This flag appears every Canada Day, a few blocks from where I live, along with the American flag, which you can just see behind it. Today, I finally met the couple that own the flags. He's American; she's Canadian. And the two seem to be getting along very well, which may be a lesson for our two nations.
*Example: The Canadians landed on one of the five D-Day beaches, Juno, and advanced the farthest inland that day.)
- 2:54 PM, 1 July 2008 [link]
Basic Facts On Washington State's 2004 Gubernatorial Election: Stefan Sharkansky, who did heroic work in digging up those facts, has them in two posts. It is impossible to read the first without concluding that laws were broken by election officials. It is impossible to read the second without concluding that the US attorney, John McKay, ignored evidence of crimes.
It is my considered opinion — which I have held since about December, 2004 — that illegal votes gave Christine Gregoire her narrow win. It is my considered opinion — which I came to more recently — that John McKay could have proved that, had he been willing to look at the evidence, and act on it.
For this dereliction of duty, McKay was fired by the Bush administration. The firing made him a hero to most of our local journalists.
(This is the latest vote fraud post, a category I have been neglecting. I hope to have at least one post in the category every month, and, if possible, every week. There is, so far, no shortage of material. If you see a story on vote fraud, anywhere in the United States, I would appreciate you telling me about it.)
- 1:29 PM, 1 July 2008 [link]
Democratic Congresswoman Laura Richardson has a very nice car. And you are paying for it.
When she arrived in Congress last fall, Rep. Laura Richardson sought out a vehicle that would match her newfound status.As you would expect, a Lincoln Town Car does not get good gas mileage.
Incidentally, she's a protégé of Maxine Waters, so Richardson is probably a leftwing extremist — as well as a fan of Lincoln Town Cars.
If her name sounds familiar, that's probably because you have heard about her adventures in real estate.
(I have to admit that, in some ways, I like politicians who don't even pretend to be working for the public. I don't think that they should be in office, but their open grabs for goodies are more honest than the sneakier methods many other politicians use.)
- 10:05 AM, 1 July 2008 [link]
Who Is Financing Obama? David Brooks has some lists, including this one:
When you break it out by individual companies, you find that employees of Goldman Sachs gave more to Obama than workers of any other employer. The Goldman Sachs geniuses are followed by employees of the University of California, UBS, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, National Amusements, Lehman Brothers, Harvard and Google. At many of these workplaces, Obama has a three- or four-to-one fund-raising advantage over McCain.So Obama is getting strong support from big money, and from radical leftists including William Ayers and Tom Hayden. That's a pretty good trick.
If Obama is elected president, at least one of these groups is going to be disappointed by what he does in office. (Brooks thinks the Goldman Sachs crowd will be happy; I think both groups will be disappointed, but for different reasons.)
- 7:27 AM, 1 July 2008 [link]
Democratic Party Officials are "horrified".
DURHAM -- Allegations that a local Democratic official and her husband were involved in satanic rituals that included shackling people to beds, caging them and depriving them of food and water have horrified county party leaders.As they should be.
Johnson was "interested in trying to attract more young Democrats" to the party. Satanic rituals will attract some young Democrats, but probably not a majority, at least in North Carolina.
- 5:58 AM, 1 July 2008
More: Here's the web site for their company, Indigo Dawn, a "resource for spiritual growth". The company offers "products and services to promote enlightenment and to assist in the development of self-empowerment and divine potential". Those don't sound compatible with satanic rituals.
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The acid in stools and urine will be neutralized with baking soda. While the diaper rash is improving, giving the infant a bath every day might be helpful. Just remember to moisturize the baby’s skin afterwards. When there is a rash, stay away from using diaper wipes. Instead, rinse the area with warm water and a little soap before patting (not rubbing) it dry.
Similarly, What do I do if my baby has a raw bottom?
Treatment for raw skin: Soak for ten minutes in warm water if the bottom is really raw. The tub of heated water should now contain 2 tablespoons (30 mL) of baking soda. 3 times daily, repeat this. After that, apply an anti-yeast cream on the rash (such Lotrimin).
Also, it is asked, Why is my babies bum red raw?
Overview. A patchwork of bright red skin on your baby’s bottom indicates the presence of diaper rash, a frequent kind of irritated skin (dermatitis). Wet or seldom changed diapers, skin irritation, and chafing are usually associated with diaper rash.
Secondly, Why do babies go red when they poop?
Red. Dark red foods and beverages your kid has taken, such as tomato juice or beets, may sometimes cause their excrement to become crimson as well. A physician should be seen if your infant has red feces since it might also indicate that there is blood in their bowel movements due to an intestinal infection or another problem.
Also, How do I stop my toddler’s poop acidic?
Air exposure will aid in the rash’s recovery. Your baby’s bath should include a few teaspoons of baking soda. The acid in stools and urine will be neutralized with baking soda. While the diaper rash is improving, giving the infant a bath every day might be helpful. Just remember to moisturize the baby’s skin afterwards.
People also ask, Do baths help with diaper rash?
everyday bathing. Give your infant a bath every day until the rash goes away. Use mild, fragrance-free soap and warm water.
Related Questions and Answers
When should I worry about baby poop?
anomalies in poop Watery or extremely hard consistency (normal stool is semi-solid). Color: A mucous-free or mucous-containing blackish, greenish, or reddish feces (normal stool is yellowish). Too much or not enough of a quantity. foamy stools, the presence of a foreign body in the feces, the presence of worms, etc.
When should I worry about blood in my baby’s stool?
Blood in a baby’s feces might be a sign of a transient problem, such constipation. A potentially fatal medical disease, such as necrotizing enterocolitis, might also be indicated by it. Getting a professional diagnosis is essential since it might be difficult for caregivers to determine the reason at home.
Can hard poop cause bleeding in babies?
The most typical cause of blood in toddler feces is anal fissures, which are microscopic rips in the anus often brought on by hard stools. When a toddler is constipated, this may happen. Stool may change color and seem red due to certain meals, beverages, and prescription drugs.
What foods make baby poop acidic?
Eat less acidic food juices and citrus fruits. Tomatoes and goods made with tomatoes (this includes foods like spaghetti sauce) Strawberries. Pineapple. Grapes. Raisins.
Why is my baby’s poop so acidic?
According to studies, measuring pH may be a simple method to determine if an infant’s digestive tract has enough Bifidobacterium, a kind of helpful bacteria. These bacteria make acids from the breakdown of milk, and the baby’s feces reflects this acidity.
Does teething make poop acidic?
Weak stools When a baby is teething, the saliva is more acidic to aid in the emergence of the new teeth through the gums, but this acidity may also impact the stomach and result in looser stools.
What cures diaper rash fast?
The best way to prevent diaper rash on your infant is to keep their skin as dry and clean as you can. Your doctor may advise the following if your baby’s diaper rash doesn’t go away after using home remedies: a light cream that contains hydrocortisone. If your infant develops a fungal infection, use an antifungal cream.
What home remedy is good for diaper rash?
Use your fingers to apply a little aloe vera gel to the troublesome regions. Aloe vera has antibacterial, soothing, and hydrating properties. Its antioxidant content also encourages very quick healing. Baking soda: The baking soda’s extremely alkaline salts assist in balancing the germs and acidity that cause diaper rash.
What is the fastest way to get rid of a rash?
Here are several pain-relief strategies to try, along with details on why they could be effective. ice compress. Applying ice is one of the quickest and simplest methods to relieve the itching and agony of a rash. Almond bath. a. l. v. (fresh) Coconut nut oil Oil of tea tree. soda bread. Natural indigo. acetic acid from apple cider
How can I prevent diaper rash naturally?
7 natural treatments for diaper rash Make your own cream for diaper rash. Create your own natural diaper lotion by following the instructions for the Mommypotamus blog’s barrier protection balm. Employ breast milk. Put apple cider vinegar to use. Pick up some olive oil. put cornstarch on. Think about coconut oil. Try using brown flour.
Is it OK to use diaper cream every change?
Diaper rash may be avoided altogether by using rash cream after each diaper change. Many parents choose to apply a baby rash cream every time as a preventive strategy, particularly if their baby’s skin is sensitive and prone to rashes often.
How long does it take for diaper rash to go away?
Even while it might linger longer, diaper rash often goes away with home treatment in 2 to 3 days.
What does baby’s poop look like when teething?
When a baby is teething, many parents claim that their child’s poop is a little runnier, or even frothy-looking (Cherney and Gill 2018). Even if you’re certain that your baby’s runny poop is due to teething, it’s still advisable to treat her as you would for any case of diarrhoea since diarrhoea shouldn’t be caused by teething.
How do you know a baby is dehydrated?
When a baby or toddler loses so much bodily fluid that they are unable to sustain normal function, dehydration sets in. Rapid breathing, dry skin, lips, and tongue, less wet diapers, and tearless wailing are some of the warning symptoms.
What does healthy baby poop look like?
When it has a mustard yellow, green, or brown hue, breastfed infant feces is regarded as normal. It usually has a seedy, pasty feel and might be sufficiently watery to simulate diarrhea. Stools from breastfed babies will have a nice fragrance (unlike regular bowel-movement odor)
Is it normal for babies to have blood in their poop?
A small anal tear (fissure) from the baby straining during bowel movement is a frequent source of blood in an infant’s stool. A crimson streak may be seen on the exterior of the stool when there is a little quantity of blood from an anal fissure. Food allergies are another typical reason why babies pass blood in their feces.
Is red blood in stool serious?
Bright red blood or feces that are maroon in color often point to an issue with the lower digestive system, such as diverticulitis or hemorrhoids. The health care practitioner may prescribe tests to ascertain the source of bleeding after obtaining a medical history and doing a physical examination.
What foods cause red poop?
Red Jell-O, red or grape Kool-Aid, red candies, red licorice, red cereals, red frosting, crimson food coloring, beets, cranberries, and fire Cheetos are examples of foods that might cause red stools.
Is bright red blood after bowel movement?
Common benign (non-serious) reasons – Hemorrhoids or an anal fissure may be to blame if you see a little quantity of bright red blood on the toilet paper after wiping, on the outside of your stool, or in the bowl. Both of these ailments are treatable, and they are both benign.
What foods cause severe diaper rash?
Diaper RashCitruses and Solid Foods. If your kid has diaper rash, acidic foods may be a big factor. Tomatoes. Avoid tomatoes and tomato-based sauces since they are acidic even if they don’t taste as acidic as citrus fruits. Strawberries. Plums and prunes. dairy goods. Proteins.
What drinks cause diaper rash?
Citrus fruits and juices are particularly acidic, which may be difficult for Baby’s digestive system. Here are the top four meals that cause diaper rash: Oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruits, and juices manufactured from any citrus fruit should be avoided.
How do you treat acidic stool?
The signs of bile acid diarrhoea are lessened by a low-fat diet. The majority of the time, medications that bind to bile acids in your gut (bowel) are quite successful. Colestyramine, Colestipol, and Colesevelam are a few examples of medications that bind bile acids. The drug that is taken the most often and is typically quite successful is colestyramine.
What can I put on an acidic diaper rash?
Treatment for Acidic Diaper Rash You may use medicated diaper rash cream to treat the acidic diaper rash as you strive to eliminate the items that are upsetting your baby’s stomach. Parents all around the globe like medicated diaper rash lotion because it relieves diaper rash symptoms rapidly.
What does a diaper rash look like?
Red pimples and bigger reddish regions of skin in the diaper area or in the creases of your baby’s upper thighs are typical diaper rash symptoms. rough, flaky, or peeling skin. The afflicted region may feel warm to the touch and seem swollen and painful.
When your baby is red from sitting in poop, you have to do something. The best thing to do is wipe them off and keep them warm.
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Chiaroscuro is thought to have originated before the Renaissance; this exhibition seeks to show the work of contemporary artists using this traditional practice.
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Last January 2006, an estimated 45 million Americans, or approximately one in five adults, set an average of three New Year resolutions each, according to the results of a nationwide phone survey conducted in December by LifeTango.com.
Battle of the 'Bulge' and 'Budget' Top the List
Of those setting resolutions, nearly three in four set a resolution related to diet, weight loss, or exercise -- not surprising when you consider that two-thirds of American adults are overweight and about one in three is considered to be obese, according to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
The second most common resolutions were financial and budget-related, also not surprising considering debt statistics. According to the Consumer Federation of America, the average household with debt carries $10,000 to $12,000 in total revolving debt. Within this context, and on the heels of holiday shopping sprees that see credit-card debt spike each year, roughly two in five Americans who set resolutions hoped to control their spending or improve their financial situation.
Friends, Internet Offer Support
In the study, LifeTango.com found that people who set resolutions with another person were 40 percent more likely to accomplish those resolutions. As a result, managers of the site recommend finding a friend or family member who will work on a resolution with you.
Another suggestion is to write down your resolutions or record them on a computer or the internet. LifeTango.com founder Brent Johnson notes, "Though only one in four people setting resolutions recorded them, those that did were 25 percent more likely to accomplish their goals."
LifeTango.com helps in both ways by giving users free tools to help them record their goals and resolutions and track their progress. Visitors to the site can also find others on the site with similar aspirations to provide one another encouragement, advice, and support. LifeTango.com gives users the choice of which goals they want to share publicly and which ones they want to keep private.
"I started using LifeTango to work on a goal with my sister," says Lovina Roundy of Monterey, Cal. "But seeing some of the goals that others posted to the site made me realize I needed to adjust my life to match my priorities -- to take my daughter to the park more often and work on personal interests. For me, this is just the beginning."
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STEVE REICH (b. 1936) has been called “America’s greatest living composer” (The Village VOICE), “the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker), and “among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times).
His music has been influential to composers and mainstream musicians all over the world. He is a leading pioneer of Minimalism, having in his youth broken away from the “establishment” that was serialism. His music is known for steady pulse, repetition, and a fascination with canons; it combines rigorous structures with propulsive rhythms and seductive instrumental color. It also embraces harmonies of non-Western and American vernacular music (especially jazz). His studies have included gamelan, African drumming (at the University of Ghana), and traditional forms of chanting Hebrew scripture.
Different Trains and Music for 18 Musicians have each earned him Grammys, and his “documentary video opera” works — The Cave and Three Tales, done in collaboration with video artist Beryl Korot — have pushed the boundaries of the operatic medium. Over the years his music has significantly grown both in expanded harmonies and instrumentation, resulting in a Pulitzer Prize for his 2007 composition, Double Sextet.
Reich’s music has been performed by major orchestras and ensembles around the world, including the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics; London, San Francisco, Boston, and BBC symphony orchestras; London Sinfonietta; Kronos Quartet; Ensemble Modern; Ensemble Intercontemporain; Bang on a Can All-Stars; and eighth blackbird. Several noted choreographers have created dances to his music, including Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker,[NOTE CZECH SYMBOLS] Jir?í Kylián, Jerome Robbins, Wayne McGregor, and Christopher Wheeldon.
“There’s just a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history, and Steve Reich is one of them.” — The Guardian (London)
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- When vitamin C in your drink can cause cancer.
- Last week, I told you about a wonderful beverage (green
tea) you can drink instead of water . Unfortunately, many people drink
soft drinks instead of water. You may already know how terrible these
beverages are for you health. Even if it's one of the heavily advertised
sugar-free drinks, the artificial sweeteners can create major problems.
There's no evidence that using them helps you lose weight. And some chemicals,
such as aspartame, can damage your neurons.
- But now there's an even bigger reason to avoid soft drinks.
Many of these drinks have sodium benzoate as an ingredient. It's a common
preservative you'll find in many processed foods. Food manufacturers
typically use sodium benzoate in acidic foods because it controls bacteria,
mold, yeasts, and other microbes. In addition to soft drinks, you'll find
it in juices, pickles, salad dressings, and jams. You'll also find it
in your car's anti-freeze, as it also inhibits corrosion.
- By itself, there's no evidence the preservative causes
any problems in people. However, when you mix sodium benzoate with ascorbic
acid (vitamin C), a chemical reaction occurs. It turns the mixture into
benzene. And benzene is a proven carcinogen.
- In an effort to make their drinks more nutritious, many
soft drink manufacturers are adding vitamin C to their drinks. And you'll
also find the same problem with naturally occurring vitamin C in many
canned juice drinks.
- How bad is the problem? The FDA recently tested 84 soft
drink products and found that 54 of them had some detectable benzene.
And some had levels as high as 79.2 ppb. Federal rules specify less than
5 ppb in drinking water. But there's no legal limit on benzene in drinkable
fluids other than water. Isn't that a bit strange? In 2001, California
published information that manufacturers should keep benzene levels below
- The soft drink industry is quietly moving to do something
about it. That's about 15 years too late. Testing in 1990 first revealed
that some diet soft drinks may contain benzene.
- Action to take: This is not a small thing, although the
so-called experts will try to tell you that there's no harm at these benzene
levels. But there is no safe level of benzene. And no one is talking
about how it reacts with other carcinogens in your body, which could be
a serious problem. We already know it reacts with healthy substances like
- There is a solution. Eliminate all processed foods and
unnatural drinks. All processed foods have chemicals in them for preservation.
And many of these preservatives can damage your health.
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We all want friends we can rely upon. We want friends we can confide in, freely discuss things of importance, and shoot the breeze with. That’s why it’s so disappointing to have angry friends:
Make no friendship with a man given to anger,
nor go with a wrathful man,
lest you learn his ways
and entangle yourself in a snare.
Proverbs 22:24-25 English Standard Version (ESV)
Our usual source for commentary, John Calvin, did not comment on the book of Proverbs. We therefore go to Matthew Henry. Wikipedia claims he is best known for this quote from his commentary on Genesis, Chapter 2:
The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved.
To the verses in Proverbs, Henry says:
Make no friendship …It is the law of friendship that we accommodate ourselves to our friends and be ready to serve them, and therefore we ought to be wise and wary in the choice of a friend, that we come not under the sacred tie to any one whom it would be our folly to accommodate ourselves to. Though we must be civil to all, yet we must be careful whom we lay in our bosoms and contract a familiarity with.
Clearly, Henry holds friendship is high regard. This is no mere acquaintance nor a casual buddy he speaks about. This is someone we’d make a commitment to as a confidant with whom we could be at ease. Henry goes on to describe one, among many, he says, who we should avoid:
…A man who is easily provoked, touchy, and apt to resent affronts, who, when he is in a passion, cares not what he says or does, but grows outrageous, such a one is not fit to be made a friend or companion, for he will be [frequently] angry with us and that will be our trouble, and he will expect that we should, like him, be angry with others, and that will be our sin.
Then, Henry tells us why we should avoid such would-be compatriots:
Lest thou learn Good cause given for this caution: Lest thou learn his way. Those we go with we are apt to grow like.
Our corrupt hearts have so much tinder in them that it is dangerous conversing with those that throw about the sparks of their passion. We shall thereby get a snare to our souls, for a disposition to anger is a great snare to any man, and an occasion of much sin.
He does not say, “Lest thou have ill language given thee or get a broken head,” but, which is must worse, “Lest thou imitate him, to humor him, and so contract an ill habit.”
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When people hear the word detox, they instantly believe that it must be something good. After all, eating raw vegetables and drinking water have always been backbones of good health. The popular belief is that people are inundated every day with harmful chemicals that could cause disease in the body, and detox diets are thought to rid the body of unwanted toxins and extra waste in the intestines.
Ridding the body of extra waste has also been thought to help encourage weight loss. There are different detox diets that promise a person can lose 15 pounds in less than two weeks. However, weight loss cannot be achieved through a colon cleanse detox. Calories from food are already absorbed into the body before it even gets to the intestines, so using a colon cleanse to lose weight is an effort in futility. Also, what many people do not understand is that the body is already naturally equipped to get rid of harmful toxins.
Healthy Detox Cleansing Diets
Raw vegetables and fruits make up the menus of some of the more popular detox diets. Juicers are used to blend fresh produce such as carrots, apples, lemons, and oranges. Blending raw vegetables is a very healthy choice for a beverage. Juicing raw vegetables and fruits as part of a short-term detox and as part of an overall healthy diet can be a good long-term plan for health.
Unhealthy Detox Cleansing Diets
What makes a detox diet unhealthy is when a person uses this method as their only food source for too long a period of time or too frequently. Although there is strong evidence of health benefits for some people who engage in periodical detox diets, any diet becomes unhealthy when it is taken to the extreme. Detoxing can make people very sick; nausea and even vomiting are common occurrences for most people on a detox diet.
Moreover, the colon and the intestines are naturally created to get rid of harmful chemicals and waste, so it is really a personal decision, rather than a medical necessity, to try out a detox diet, and it should only be an occasional process, not a regular or habitual part of your diet. If you think a detox diet is something you could benefit from, be absolutely sure to discuss your intention with your doctor beforehand; he or she will tell you if there are additional risks for you based on your current health and any preexisting medical conditions you have.
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Fungus crystal provides crucial missing evolutionary link of lifeJanuary 3rd, 2008 - 2:07 pm ICT by admin
London, January 3 (ANI): Studying the crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has given scientists a significant understanding about how evolution advanced from RNA to more complex life forms.
Researchers from the Purdue University and the University of Texas at Austin made this breakthrough by studying the three-dimensional version of the fungus protein bound to an RNA molecule.
“Now we can see how RNA progressed to share functions with proteins. This was a critical missing step,” Nature magazine quoted Alan Lambowitz, director of the University of Texas Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology, as saying.
Purdue structural biologist Barbara Golden added: “It’s thought that RNA, or a molecule like it, may have been among the first molecules of life, both carrying genetic code that can be transmitted from generation to generation and folding into structures so these molecules could work inside cells.”
She went on: “At some point, RNA evolved and became capable of making proteins. At that point, proteins started taking over roles that RNA played previously - acting as catalysts and building structures in cells.”
The researcher said that this progress could not be made without seeing how the fungus protein worked.
“Obviously, we can’t see the process of moving from RNA to RNA and proteins and then to DNA, without a time machine. But by using this fungus protein, we can see this process occurring in modern life,” Golden said.
She further said that looking at the crystal revealed two thingsone that this protein uses two completely different molecular surfaces to perform its two roles, and the other that the protein seems to perform the same job that RNA performed in other simple organisms.
“The crystal structure provides a snapshot of how, during evolution, protein molecules came to assist RNA molecules in their biological functions and ultimately assumed roles previously played by RNA,” Golden said.
The researchers revealed that the protein found in the fungus had adapted to take over some of the RNA molecule’s chemical reaction jobs inside cells. They said that the protein stabilizes the RNA molecule called an intron, so that the RNA could cut out non-functional genetic material, and splice together the ends of a functional gene.
The RNA molecule in our study is capable of performing a specific chemical reaction on itself, but it requires a protein for this reaction to take place efficiently,” said Paul Paukstelis, lead author and a research scientist at the Texas institute.
Lambowitz believes that the basic scientific information may ultimately lead to clinical applications.
“This work has potential applications in the development of anti-fungal drugs to battle potentially deadly pathogens; that’s one of the next steps. Another is to produce more detailed structures so that we can understand the ancient chemical reactions,” he said. (ANI)
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Generally Google’s quality control program for its spatial data is beyond reproach. They’ve made provision for user-end correction of erroneous data, creating a feedback loop of constant improvement. This kind of accessibility comes in handy when say you’ve identified that a long defunct 19th century horse trotting and later amusement park at 26th Street and Penrose Ave. is still marked “Point Breeze Park.”
Google informs its helpful correctors that you can contact the eponymous organizer or its third party data vendors like TeleAtlas. Before June 2008, a good deal of Google’s spatial data for Philadelphia seems to come from Sanborn, a company that began producing detailed maps for fire insurance valuation in 1867. After June 2008, TeleAtlas became the single source of Google’s map data, thus responsible for corrections and updates.
Though I can’t determine whether the Sanborn fire insurance maps for Philadelphia became the base data layer, what’s clear is that at some point Google’s vendors consulted a pre-1950 map of Philadelphia and took it at face value. While this may cast some doubts about the reliability of Google’s vendors, for a company intent on faithfully mapping the entire globe, this lapse shows just how indispensable Google’s local users are to regulating the system.
Errors that persist, of course, point to our lack of intimacy with the fringes of the urban environment and to the handmade quality of maps. As Joe Kincgheloe points out, “when cartographers emply the official mode of geographical representation, they reduce reader cognizance of alternative ways of ‘knowing’ the topography.” In a psychogeographcial sense this city can be said to contain hundreds of acres of blank marginal space, spaces resembling contentless voids (think Eraserhead backdrops) between our nodes of meaning, spaces we are confused by, deterred from, and sometimes scared of. These are what the urban geographer Kevin Lynch calls the “mentally erased” features of our cities. While there may be no way to comprehend the entirety of Philadelphia’s urban form, by getting into these interstices, we are part of the great project for cartographic rectitude.
By judging the received truths of prevalent cartographic representation against both our ways of knowing and other representations, we use the abundance of spatial data (historic/official/lived/user created) as a kind of winnowing fan. Sometimes, these corrections come with shrieking vengeance. In 2008 Nokia’s mobile mapping software depicted the disputed region of Kashmir as wholly a part of Pakistan. Irate Indians ransacked Nokia showrooms until the territory was digitally returned to its state of rightful ambiguity.
Point Breeze Park, whether real or imagined, has existed in a state of spatial and cartographic limbo since horse racers, gamblers, gentlemen and other species of sports began congregating on a dry patch of sandy scrub just off the road to the Penrose Ferry in 1855. By all accounts, though, the park was the creation of an association of gentlemen wishing to show thoroughbreds, though the marginal location of this driving park and others like Hunting Park and Suffolk Park suggest that these locations were beyond moral reproach. Early maps show an indistinct wedge of “park” between Penrose Ave. and what would become 26th Street, then a skewed road or boundary path. A hotel catering to ferrygoers, the Hamburg, was not far off down the road. On a map from the 1860s, the southern end of the park is undefined and the east branch of a sluggish tidal stream running parallel to Penrose Ave., later identified as Sepeken Creek, wends its way through the southeast corner as it makes its way to the Schuylkill/Delaware confluence.
[BIKE MAP, 1897]
The park seems to have achieved a degree of notoriety in pop culture between 1870-1890s when the New York Times would regularly report on finishes and lithographers produced prints of historic races. A Point Breeze Park Schottische (slower polka) of unknown popularity was also released in the 1870s–undoubtedly conjuring up the brisk excitement of a day at the races. By the 1890s, maps indicate that it had become the Philadelphia Driving Park, appealing more to the genteel sunday driver than the jockey. From an 1897 citywide bicycle map it also appear that the hard surface of the driving course used as a sort of velodrome. The last reference to the driving park comes in an 1901 map, though (as we have seen) this map may be a reprint and not coincide with the actual demise of the track. For a while in the 1910s and 1920s, the grounds were host to an amusement park which also bore the name “Point Breeze Park” and featured a Dentzel Carousel. By 1928, aerial photos show no vestige of the Park. By then, new railroad lines and the growth of petroleum refining was turning this district into the recognizable South Philadelphia of today.
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Under the U.S. occupation, says Malalai Joya, the Afghan womens’ rights activist, “Women are “free’ to beg in the streets under the cover of the burqa; they are “free’ to resort to prostitution to feed their families; they are “free’ to commit self-immolation as the only way out of the cycle of humiliation, destitution, and despair.”
ABUSE OF WOMEN ON THE RISE SINCE THE US LED WAR ON AFGHANISTAN
by Debra Sweet
Ten years ago, when the Taliban had mostly wrested control of Afghanistan from former fundamentalist warlord allies of the United States, the U.S. government turned a cold and deaf ear to testimony about the suffering of Afghan women. Then, suddenly, after her husband announced a “war on terror” to last “generations,” Laura Bush told us in November 2011 that the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan was “a fight for the rights and dignity of women.”
U.S. activists for the global rights of women quickly differed over what has become the longest U.S. occupation. A number of us asked, where, ever, had U.S. bombs, contractors, armies and money brought liberation for women? A section of feminists, led by the Feminist Majority Foundation formed up in support of the Bush regime’s aim of removing the Taliban. While deploring violence, they lobbied for humanitarian aid programs to be part of the war, and for women to be included in the U.S. puppet government. Initially, some were, but the cynical inclusion of women in occupied governments has been meaningless, largely done to fool outsiders.
While Bush’s preemptive war on Iraq, a much more populous, developed country than the impoverished Afghanistan, destroyed that country, driving more than four million people into internal exile, and killing somewhere between 120,000 and over a million Iraqis, the world’s attention was focused on the sectarian disaster it sparked. But at least no one made a serious argument that this was saving the women of Iraq.
DROPPED BOMBS KILL INDISCRIMINATELY
When change came along in 2009, Iraq was suddenly the “wrong” war, and Afghanistan the one worth doubling down on. President Barack Obama sent 100,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Through changes in command, counter-insurgency plans, and surges and offensives, the U.S. has succeeded in killing additional civilians. Successive U.S. commanders refuse to stop night raids, the tactic that most enrages Afghans. Civilian deaths in Afghanistan have risen every year under Obama.
Kathy Kelly, a leader of numerous Voices for Creative Non-Violence delegations to Afghanistan told me, “The U.S. is spending two billion dollars per week to maintain the occupation while relying on aerial bombardment, drone attacks, night raids, assassinations and death squads to gain the upper hand against the Taliban. When the U.S. commits war crimes that kill and maim civilians, it could very well serve as a recruitment tool for the Taliban.”
It’s necessary to listen to the victims of Obama’s “good war” to evaluate whether the claims that women are better off, are true. Malalai Joya, an elected member of the Afghan Parliament who was suspended for criticizing the Karzai government said in early 2011, “Day by day [NATO] is bombing from the sky and killing innocent civilians — most of them are women and children — even bombing our wedding parties, what they did in Nangarhar and Nuristan. In my own province last year these occupation forces — American troops — they bombed 150 civilians in one day, even used white phosphorous. And also most of them were women and children …..”
Malalai Joya, featured among Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in 2010, spoke out against what she calls the manipulation of public opinion over the plight of Afghan women: There is no doubt that the Taliban are misogynist barbarians but the US can be a good match for them for the war crimes that it has committed in these nine years, killing around 8,000 civilians in their military operations.
Read more: http://www.rawa.org/temp/runews/2010/08/01/abuse-of-women-on-the-rise-since-start-of-war-claim-critics.html#ixzz1RJ6VjAzo
Joya’s life has spanned the Soviet occupation, which forced her family into exile in Pakistan; the civil war in 1992-1996 between the raping warlords and Taliban; the Taliban era; and the U.S. occupation. She is from western Afghanistan, where the Karzai government does not reach. Under the U.S. occupation, says Joya, “Women are “free’ to beg in the streets under the cover of the burqa; they are “free’ to resort to prostitution to feed their families; they are “free’ to commit self-immolation as the only way out of the cycle of humiliation, destitution, and despair.”
Sonali Kolhatkar, co-director of the Afghan Women’s Mission, and Mariam Rawi wrote in 2009, “The U.S. military may have removed the Taliban, but it installed warlords who are as anti-woman and as criminal as the Taliban. Misogynistic, patriarchal views are now embodied by the Afghan cabinet, they are expressed in the courts, and they are embodied by President Hamid Karzai. Paper gains for women’s rights mean nothing when, according to the chief justice of the Afghan Supreme Court, the only two rights women are guaranteed by the constitution are the right to obey their husbands and the right to pray, but not in a mosque.”
While the Obama administration has controlled the Afghan government, the country went from second to top in one thing: it’s now the worst place in the world to be a mother. The report on the State of the World’s Mothers 2010 concludes that “the well-being of mothers and children is at the highest risk in Afghanistan. One in eight Afghani women will die during pregnancy or in childbirth and 78 percent of Afghanistan’s general population does not have access to safe water. Thirty-nine percent of Afghan children are malnourished; and only two girls for every three boys are enrolled in primary school.”
WOMEN ARE NOT FARING BETTER
The United Nations reported on a study in 2010 that “Rising numbers of women and girls aged 15-40 are attempting suicide in Afghanistan,” even as the Karzai government in 2011 is moving to shut down shelters for abused women funded by international aid organizations, western governments and private donors. New rules being drafted by president Hamid Karzai’s government would bar private safe houses for women who are fleeing abuse and place new rules on those seeking refuge in the country’s 14 public shelters, including forcing women to submit to medical examinations and evicting them if their families want them back, according to an article in the Washington Post on March 5, 2011.
BOMBED 150 CIVILIANS ONE DAY — MOST OF THEM WOMEN & CHILDREN
“Was any of this done for the “rights and dignity of women?” Joya asked recently. “Not only are women still denied their rights in Afghanistan, but also, in a cruel irony, the cause of women has been used to justify and perpetuate a brutal occupation of my country.”
We could leave this at the feet of George Bush, leader of the U.S. war on terror,who said in April 2011 that the U.S. should not withdraw from Afghanistan. “Laura and I believe that if that were to happen, women would suffer again. We don’t believe that’s in the interests of the United States or the world to create a safe haven for terrorists and stand by and watch women’s rights be abused.” But Bush is so over.
Is the Obama administration, with a reputation of being more liberal on social issues than the Bush regime, helping the cause of women’s rights in Afghanistan? Consider this from “a senior administration official involved in Afghanistan policy” speaking to the Washington Post in March 2011. “‘Gender issues are going to have to take a back seat to other priorities,’ said the senior official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal policy deliberations. “There’s no way we can be successful if we maintain every special interest and pet project. All those pet rocks in our rucksack were taking us down.'”
The raping, maiming, and slaughter of women by U.S. allies, the warlords and drug smugglers who populate the Karzai cabinet, and by the Taliban, are relegated to “gender issues” by the administration of the President Obama, a Nobel Peace Laureate. The child-birth suffering, starvation, and waste of the lives of half of Afghanistan’s humanity is dismissed in a casually sexist analogy. “Success” will not be measured in the lives of women.
The idea that the U.S. occupation could even tangentially improve the lives of the mass of women in Afghanistan did damage, in that it confused people into supporting an unjust, immoral war by the United States to control a strategic country in its own interests. Malalai Joya told me recently, “In Afghanistan, the people have three enemies: the Taliban, the fundamentalist warlords, and the occupiers. At least if one gets lost, we can deal with the other two. Justice loving people in the U.S. should demand that government end this brutal war.”
Debra Sweet is the Director of World Can’t Wait, initiated in 2005 to “drive out the Bush regime” by repudiating its program, forcing it from office through a mass, independent movement and reversing the direction it had launched.Reach Debra at http://www.worldcantwait.net
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Listeria poses a huge risk for all pregnant women. The foodborne bacteria can cause an infection that triggers miscarriage, stillbirth, premature birth and infection in newborns even if the expectant mother only experienced mild flu-like symptoms.
But Listeria poses an elevated risk for Hispanic pregnant women who are 24 times more likely than the general population to contract the infection. A major factor in the increased risk is the consumption of queso fresco and other soft cheeses.
In 2014, two multistate Listeria outbreaks were linked to soft-cheeses. All of those sickened were Hispanic. Some of them were pregnant women. Some were newborns. And some of them died.
In October 2014, the CDC announced an outbreak linked to Oasis cheeses that killed one person in Tennessee and sickened two others in New York and Texas. One case was related to a pregnancy and was diagnosed in a newborn. The two surviving patients reported consuming quesito casero before they became ill.
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The culmination of a grassroots effort to provide community-based mental health care to the citizens of Delaware, Henry, and Jay counties, Comprehensive Mental Health Services (CMHS) of East Central Indiana, Inc., opened its doors on January 1, 1976. Over the next 30 years, CMHS evolved from a small outpatient service to a full continuum of services in three counties. On October 12, 2005, CMHS became Meridian Services. Under its new name, it continues as the cornerstone of community mental health care, “renewing lives with compassionate care” in the counties it serves. This exhibit celebrates 30 years of mental health advocacy and community-based mental health care provided through the programs of Meridian Services.
This online exhibit includes selected items from the exhibit on display in Bracken Library, 2nd floor, from October 2 to November 3, 2006. Credits: The "30 Years of Renewing Lives: Comprehensive Mental Heath Services to Meridian Services 1976-2006" exhibit was designed by Jane Gastineau. For more information on Meridian Services, visit their website at: www.meridiansc.org.
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STandUP for Science Communication Workshop
STandUP for Energy offers researchers within the STandUP community a tailor-made
Science Communication Workshop
with Eva Krutmeijer
Why? To enhance the visibility of the STandUP for Energy programme and its research, by developing written communication skills for non-academic audiences. Our main target groups will be decision-makers and media.
When? 4 March 09:00 – 12:00 and 18 March 09:30 – 15:000
Where? Uppsala University
How? All researchers within the STandUP for Energy community are invited, but there is a maximum of 15 participants.
What? The participants will become acquainted with communication theory and practice, that will help them in their different roles, as researchers, research leaders, and science communicators. We will focus on ways to increase the visibility of STandUP for Energy and the societal impact of our program.
The workshop will provide participants with some of the tools they will need when communicating with different types of audiences. The focus will be on written texts, but we will also work with presentations and (if time allows) videos. | <urn:uuid:96f720b4-62eb-4f41-9726-d255d66e27ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.standupforenergy.se/calendarpost/standup-for-science-communication-workshop/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.921144 | 236 | 1.53125 | 2 |
About this Artist
LaSaundra Booth is a National Board Certified teaching artist, inventor, author, conductor, and arts administrator. Booth was named one of 50 Directors who Make A Difference by School Band and Orchestra Magazine. She has 19 years experience teaching and conducting orchestra at the elementary, middle, high, and collegiate level. All of her performing ensembles received superior ratings in adjudicated music festivals and competitions.
Booth has a certificate in nonprofit management from Duke University, a doctorate degree in Educational Leadership, a Master’s Degree in Music Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a Bachelor of Music from North Carolina Central University. She studied with Dr. Timothy Holley, Alex Ezerman, Jesse L. Suggs, Jr., Kellie Keiser, and Jennifer Wernicke. Booth serves as lecturer of music education at the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. Booth previously served as Director of Strings at Winston-Salem State University. Booth is an alumna of Sphinx LEAD (Leaders in Excellence, Arts & Diversity), who is known for anchoring discussions on how to make public school orchestra programs more equitable, diverse, and inclusive to all students. Her most recent speaking engagements include Manhattan School of Music’s Precollege Division, Sphinx Connect, the National Association for Music Education’s Town Hall, and the American String Teachers Association (ASTA). Booth’s dissertation Factors that Influence the Status of K-12 String Orchestra Programs in North Carolina public schools was the first of its kind to focus specifically on string orchestra programs in North Carolina.
Booth has a successful history of establishing diverse, equitable, and inclusive programs at the elementary, middle, high school, and collegiate levels. She founded the Wake Forest Community Youth Orchestra (2013), a non-profit organization that provides expert orchestral instruction and free instruments to youth where orchestra opportunities are limited or do not exist. In her tenure, Booth has grown the organization from 3 students to over 350 Pre-K through 12th grade students across Wake, Franklin, and Vance counties. In April 2021, Booth received the Vance County Champion of the Arts Award for bringing the first after-school string program to the district. Booth is an accomplished woman. She is author of Meals for Musicians: Delicious Meals to Fit Your Busy Lifestyle. Booth was awarded a patent for a device to enhance string instruments (USPTO# 20140260902). She was featured in the 2008 edition of North Carolina Symphony’s Opus magazine and performed on an episode of One Tree Hill, the WB network's hit television series.
Booth is in demand as a cellist and conductor. She has performed with Integrity Strings, Cellist Ti Awo, Colour of Music Symphony Orchestra, Greensboro Philharmonia, Raleigh Symphony, Duke Symphony, and Durham Symphony. Her most recent appointments include guest conductor of the Intercollegiate Music Association’s String Orchestra (IMA), conductor of NAfME’s All-National Honors Symphony Orchestra, guest clinician for the California Orchestra Director Association (CODA 2022) and Washoe County School District High School Honors Orchestra in Reno, NV (2022). Dr. Booth is excited to serve as the Chamber Orchestra conductor for Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles (YOLA) National Festival. | <urn:uuid:45de7322-7ea9-40f2-bbec-ea88f54c24be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hollywoodbowl.com/musicdb/artists/8520/lasaundra-booth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.948806 | 690 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Eleven police officers shot in 24 hours. Am I talking about a news headline in Mexico? No. The headline is right here in the U.S. In five states no less.
So are we in danger of becoming Mexico? Again the answer is no. Equating our issues to those of Mexico is too easy. Instead, I do the finger pointing much closer: within our borders.
Why, for horrifying example, was Johnny Simms of Miami allowed to be on the streets to kill two officers? After all, Simms had a violent criminal history, both as a juvenile and as an adult. The boy...then man...committed almost every crime in the proverbial book: selling drugs, theft, armed robberies, etc. And yet he was given a pass in the system with light sentences. Rehabilitate the youthful offender, the judges said. I got it...once..but not thrice!
When we look at the tragedy in Tucson, we ask "where were the signs...could we have done more to stop Loughner before he struck?" In the case of Loughner and Simms, we had all the signals...we just didn't act on them. But we can't bame Mexico for that.
Lis Wiehl is a Fox News legal analyst and former federal prosecutor. She is the author of five bestselling books. For more visit her website.
Lis Wiehl currently serves as a legal analyst for FOX News Channel (FNC). She joined the network in October 2001. A former U.S. federal prosecutor, she is the author of the political thrillers “The Candidate” and “The Newsmakers” (Thomas Nelson, October 4, 2016). | <urn:uuid:df510a76-9b9c-4f01-96cf-267c1c729758> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/24/war-cops.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00190-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977104 | 354 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Presentation on theme: "Gallagher Law Library, May 2011 Bluebook 101 Cases Rule 10 Tables T.1, T.6, T.8."— Presentation transcript:
Gallagher Law Library, May Bluebook 101 Cases Rule 10 Tables T.1, T.6, T.8
Gallagher Law Library, May 2011, Law Review vs. Memos Examples will show styles for: Law review footnotes (LR) and Court documents and legal materials (Prac)
Typeface Conventions Practitioner style gives you the choice of underscore or italics. This guide uses italics. Gallagher Law Library, May 2011,
Washington Courts GR 14 requires all pleadings, motions, and briefs to follow the Washington Reporter of Decisions Style Sheet. It adopts the Bluebook with some exceptions. Gallagher Law Library, May 2011
Components Name Published source(s) Court and jurisdiction Date of decision Subsequent history Maybe parenthetical info or prior history » R.10.1
Gallagher Law Library, May Case Names Who ever dreamed they could be so complicated?
Gallagher Law Library, May Italics, Underlining, etc. In law review text and text sentences, italicize case names, but in footnotes dont. In briefs and memos, always italicize or underline (your choice, just be consistent!). For Washington courts, always italicize or underline case names. Examples below italicize.
Gallagher Law Library, May Sentences vs. Citations In a citation, abbreviate more of the case name. » R. 10.2
Gallagher Law Library, May Examples Under Erie Railroad v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938), the court must apply Oregon law. Erie R.R. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) (law review footnote) Erie R.R. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64, 58 S.Ct. 817, 82 L.Ed (1938) (Washington brief: always italicize name, always give parallel citations)
Gallagher Law Library, May First & Only Only give the first party on each side: Andersen v. King County not... » R (a)
Gallagher Law Library, May Heather Andersen and Leslie Christian; Peter Ilgenfritz and David Shull; JANET HELSON and BETTY LUNDQUIST; DAVID SERKIN-POOLE and MICHAEL SERKIN-POOLE; VEGAVAHINI SUBRAMANIAM and VAIJAYANTHIMALA NAGARAJAN; ELIZABETH REIS and BARBARA STEELE; and MICHELLE ESGUERRA; and BOO TORRES DE ESGUERRA, Respondents, v. KING COUNTY; RON SIMS, King County Executive; and DEAN LOGAN, King County Director of Records, Elections and Licensing Services Division, Appellants, STATE OF WASHINGTON, Appellant, SENATOR VAL STEVENS; REPRESENTATIVE GIGI TALCOTT; COALITION FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND RENEWAL; NUWANDA ADAMS; TRACEY ARMSTRONG; GERALD BAKER; RICHARD BLAIR; ED COOK; RICK DANNER, SR.; BILL DEMPS; HARVEY DRAKE; GEORGE FROST; ELVIN GLADNEY; AARON HASKINS; RICK KINGHAM; SAMUEL K. LAW; JIMMIE W. LEE; DAN MAGALEI; DANA McCLENDON; TONY MORRIS; NATE MULLEN; PAUL OLVER; JOSEPH PHILLIPS; DAVID PIERSON; JOHN PENTON; KENNETH J. RANSFER, SR.; WILLIE C. SEALS, JR.; PAUL STOOT; WASHINGTON TALAGA; DANIEL VILLA; DAVID WALLACE; THOMAS L. WESTBROOK; DOUG WHEELER; EARNEST WILLIAMS; REGGIE WITHERSPOON; NATHANIEL WOLF; GRANT ZWEIGLE; and WASHINGTON EVANGELICALS FOR RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT, Appellants/Intervenors. CELIA CASTLE and BRENDA BAUER; PAMELA COFFEY and VALERIE TIBBETT; GARY MURELL and MICHAEL GYDE; CHRISTINA GAMACHE and JUDITH FLEISSNER; KEVIN CHESTNUT and CURTIS CRAWFORD; JEFF KINGSBURY and ALAN FULLER; LAURI CONNER and LEJA WRIGHT; ALLAN HENDERSON and JOHN BERQUIST; MARGE BALLACK and DIANE LANTZ; TOM DUKE and PHUOC LAM; and KATHY and KARRIE CUNNINGHAM, Respondents, v. STATE OF WASHINGTON, Appellant.
Gallagher Law Library, May Abbreviate Common acronyms (e.g., YMCA) &, Assn, Bros., Co., Corp., Inc., Ltd., and No. Exception: if it begins party name Lots more in citations. » R (c)
Gallagher Law Library, May Omit Partys job title – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, not – Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense » R (e)
Gallagher Law Library, May Example Whitman, Administrator of Environmental Protection Agency, et al. v. American Trucking Associations, Inc., et al. becomes in text: Whitman v. American Trucking Assns and in citations: Whitman v. Am. Trucking Assns
Gallagher Law Library, May State Name In the states own court – State v. Blakely, 111 Wash. App. 851,.. In another court – Blakely v. Washington, 542 U.S. 296 » R10.2.1(f)
Gallagher Law Library, May Geographical Terms PUD No. 1 – Not PUD No. 1 of Jefferson County But include if part of full name of business or organization; include City of: – ACLU of Washington v. City of Seattle » R (k)
Gallagher Law Library, May Omit First names – Miranda v. Arizona Unless thats all there is – Michael M. v. Superior Court Or its a company name – Shelton v. Oscar Mayer Foods Corp. » R (g)
Gallagher Law Library, May In citations, abbreviate Everything in T.6 States (T.10) unless the state is the whole party name – Wash. Dept of Ecology » R
Gallagher Law Library, May Do NOT abbreviate United States if thats the partys whole name. – United States v. Microsoft Corp. » R
Gallagher Law Library, May Reporters Parallel – State v. Blakely, 111 Wash. App. 851, 47 P.3d 149 (2002) Regional only – Hawkins v. McGee, 146 A. 641 (N.H. 1929) » R. 10.3
Washington Rules Always give parallel citations Use Washington abbreviations: – Wn.2d (not Wash. 2d) – Wn. App. (not Wash. App.) Gallagher Law Library, May 2011
Jurisdiction, Court, Year If you cant tell by the reporter, include in parentheses – Hawkins v. McGee, 146 A. 641 (N.H. 1929) » R. 10.4
Gallagher Law Library, May No Superscripts! Right: Lara v. Ryan, 455 F.3d 1080 (9th Cir. 2006) Wrong: Lara v. Ryan, 455 F. 3rd 1080 (9 th Cir. 2006) » R. 6.2(b)
Gallagher Law Library, May Parentheticals (unpublished) (en banc) (Sanders, J., dissenting) (citing Erie R.R. v. Tompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938)) (upholding Three Strikes law)
Gallagher Law Library, May Prior & Subsequent History, affd,, vacated,, cert. denied,, modifying, » R & T. 8
Gallagher Law Library, May Short Form Whitman v. Am. Trucking Assns, 531 U.S. 457 (2000) In American Trucking Assns, the Court … » R. 10.9(a)(i)
Gallagher Law Library, May Help & Examples Legal & General Writing Resources Cite-Checking & Library Research Princes Dictionary of Legal Citations Columbia, Harvard, Penn & Yale Reference librarians, of course!
Gallagher Law Library University of Washington School of Law Box Seattle WA We are happy to have our guides used by other libraries, librarians, and legal researchers. Before copying or adapting one of our guides, please contact Cheryl Nyberg (cnyberg [at] uw.edu) to obtain permission. Then give appropriate attribution, such as: "Adapted from a guide by Mary Whisner at the Gallagher Law Library website." Gallagher Law Library, May 2011, | <urn:uuid:75b4c81e-9299-4026-b3cf-cea74420a42d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://slideplayer.com/slide/1625407/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00121-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.748769 | 1,962 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Three Belgians survive air disaster in Congo
More Belgians could be among the victims but Belgian diplomat says no further details could be released due to inaccurate list of passengers.17 April 2008
BELGIUM - Three Belgians were among the survivors of Tuesday's air disaster in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Thirty-seven people died in the crash. Over 100 people were injured. Most of the people on the aircraft itself survived the crash.
The accident occurred just after the aircraft had left the eastern city of Goma.
Most of those who perished were residents of the neighbourhood where the plane came down.
The aircraft was a McDonnell-Douglas DC-9 owned by Hewa Bora Airways. It had 79 people on board.
First reports suggest an engine problem caused the crash.
The plane was on a flight from Goma to the Congolese capital Kinshasa.
The Belgian survivors are being repatriated via the Rwandan capital Kigali.
One Belgian diplomat said that more Belgians could be among the victims, but this was difficult to tell as the details on the passenger list did not seem very accurate.
Congolese airlines have a reputation for failing to maintain their craft properly. As a result they are not allowed to fly to destinations in the EU.
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And a similar argument might apply to the small but whole blastula of echinus, and to all other cases.
Then coasting along the shore 100 stadia, we find above it, echinus.
It cannot be our task to follow all the points of organogenesis of echinus in detail.
The projection of the echinus beyond the fillet of the abacus should be equal to the size of the eye.
echinus sphra is the most common on the Norfolk coast; E. miliaris, a small species, is also very abundant about Cromer.
When a perpendicular surface is reached, the echinus may either ascend it or not, as in the case of the Star-fish.
A name in our northern isles for the sea-urchin, echinus marinus.
Several interesting questions arise with reference to these righting movements of echinus.
This is sometimes done, which proves that the energy required to perform the feat is not more than a healthy echinus can expend.
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Story: Clare and Irene were two childhood friends. They lost touch when Clare’s father died and she moved in with two white aunts. By hiding that Clare was part-black, they allowed her to ‘pass’ as a white woman and marry a white racist. Irene lives in Harlem, commits herself to racial uplift, and marries a black doctor. The novel centers on the meeting of the two childhood friends later in life, and the unfolding of events as each woman is fascinated and seduced by the other’s daring lifestyle. The novel traces a tragic path as Irene becomes paranoid that her husband is having an affair with Clare (the reader is never told whether her fears are justified or not, and numerous cues point in both directions). Clare’s race is revealed to her husband John Bellew. The novel ends with Clare’s sudden death by “falling” out of a window. (Wikipedia Summary)
Version: Penguin Classic, 2003
- “I’ve often wondered why more colored girls…never ‘passed’ over. It’s such a frightfully easy thing to do. If one’s the type, all that’s needed is a little nerve” (25).
- “Later, when she examined her feeling of annoyance, Irene admitted, a shade reluctantly, that it arose from a feeling of being outnumbered, a sense of aloneness, in her adherence to her own class and kind; not merely in the great thing of marriage, but in the whole pattern of her life as well” (34).
- Clare: “I nearly died of terror the whole nine months before Margery was born for fear that she might be dark. Thank goodness, she turned out alright. But, I’ll never risk it again. Never! The strain is simply too – too hellish” (36).
- Zulena: “It’s funny about ‘passing.’ We disapprove of it and at the same time condone it. It excites our contempt and yet we rather admire it. Why shy away from it with an odd kind of revulsion, but we protect it” (56).
- Irene: “It’s easy for a Negro to ‘pass’ for white. But I don’t think it would be so simple for a white person to ‘pass’ for colored” (78).
- “She was caught between two allegiances, different, yet the same. Herself. Her race. Race! The thing that bound and suffocated her. Whatever steps she took, or if she took none at all, something would be crushed. A person or the race. Clare, herself, or the race” (98). | <urn:uuid:fe84d6af-76d4-45ee-a5c1-34c6e2c78106> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mixedreader.com/tag/book-quotes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.96877 | 595 | 2.59375 | 3 |
If you look past the oiled up muscles and ads promising the latest and greatest supplements, T-Nation is one of the best resources online for the discussion of new ideas about training. Sure, some articles there are based on inaccurate hearsay or seem written more for the author to hear his own voice, but it also collects together input from some of the top young minds in athletic development looking to teach and learn like Wil Fleming, Chad Smith, and Derek Woodske. All three are former throwers and run their fantastic blogs of their own. But no matter the author, the site always leave you thinking and help on developing your own training philosophy.
A few weeks ago Chris Cralle pointed out an article on change, one of my favorite topics. In the article trainer Todd Bumgardner essentially makes the assertion that changing exercises in training is a bad thing. Merely adjusting volume and intensity is all the change an athlete needs. As he puts it “A new exercise variation typically isn’t the solution; an innovative way to load a proven exercise typically is.” The author makes a few good points: change done to make things interesting is bad and training needs to focused on the event. But after that our opinions diverge. I think change is one of the most crucial factors in developing a good training plan.
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A traditional margarita is made with tequila, triple sec and lime juice. A frozen strawberry margarita is made by combining these ingredients -- plus strawberries -- with ice cubes and blending until smooth.
A frozen strawberry margarita with 1 oz. tequila, ½ oz. strawberry schnapps, 1 oz. strawberries, 1 oz. lemon juice and ½ oz. triple sec, poured into a 4-oz. glass, has 168 calories. A homemade frozen strawberry margarita recipe from allrecipes.com, with strawberries, pink lemonade, tequila, triple sec and ice cubes, has about 311 calories per serving.
A margarita glass has a double bowl -- a narrow bowl on the bottom topped by a wide bowl -- as well as a wide upper rim to allow for salting. A traditional margarita glass holds only 6 oz., but specialty glasses come in a variety of sizes.
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“You do not represent me! I am the 1 percent!” shouts a gray-haired man in a suit pulling a wheeled suitcase down Broadway past Zuccotti Park. “If it wasn’t for the 1 percent, the 99 percent would all starve!”
The crowd ignores him, save one lackadaisical retort: “We are starving.”
Well, perhaps figuratively; the Occupy Wall Street protesters, now in their fourth week of encampment in the park, are quite well-fed, in an ecosystem that so far belies the classic Onion article “Marxists’ Apartment a Microcosm of Why Marxism Doesn’t Work." But like most people, I had received the bulk of my information about the protest from the media, which tend to focus on the sexier or more risible sound bites of rebellion: video of violent police skirmishes during marches; photos of dreadlocked drummers; quotes from burned-out hippies or the occasional liberal-arts grad. But what’s a day like in Zuccotti Park? How does the operation sustain itself? And who, exactly, constitutes this 99 percent? On Friday, I spent a day inside the occupation to find out.
In the morning, the 33,000-square-foot concrete-paved park, wedged between towering buildings, could be an establishing shot from “The Grapes of Wrath 2: The Joads Take Manhattan,” with gutter punks cast as the migrant laborers. On Friday, organizers estimated 400 people sleep out each night in the cramped space, in clusters of sleeping bags and on mangled mattresses. As the day progresses, more people filter in. It is believed that at least 1,000 regulars are at the site daily; the number swells each morning with supporters, curious passersby and throngs of media members bumping into each other as gawkers on tourist buses snap pictures. To paraphrase Don DeLillo’s "White Noise," it is currently the Most Photographed, Live-Streamed and Tweeted Park in America.
Among the campers is a 26-year-old Wiccan man who goes by the name Natalie Kobra Puke. A long shock of hair springs from his shaved head, metal cuts through the bridge of his nose, his makeup wouldn’t look out of place on Halloween, and a cat’s-eye lens rests unsettlingly in his left eye. The back of his leather jacket reads “Kill Me Now.” (“It’s not a joke,” he tells me.)
Natalie, who has been sleeping in the park for two weeks, is Fox News’ dream protester, someone whose appearance seems to delegitimize all liberal politics since FDR. But he’s intelligent and lucid, and in a rapid monotone he tells me about running away from his Seattle home at 13 to become a musician, writer and filmmaker.
“Primarily, I’m here against police brutality,” says Natalie. “Corporate greed is a serious issue, too. We’re just trying to make this world a better place by setting a good example. It’s not that anarchy can work, it’s that it really does work. This is a microcosm of what could happen on a larger level. Of course, there’s a lot more variables that could come in, but it could all be dealt with. We’ve had people coming in drunk, selling drugs, fighting, but we’ve dealt with it very successfully ourselves without having the cops come in.”
If Natalie represents one extreme of the protesting spectrum, 87-year-old Dave Silver, a native Brooklynite and World War II veteran whose hat proudly proclaims his participation in the Battle of the Bulge, stands at the other. Silver taught social studies in Brooklyn and Harlem high schools for decades after the war, and his business card now bills himself as a “political analyst/writer with a Marxist perspective.” He’s seen a few other WWII vets at Occupy Wall Street over the last few weeks, and was active in protests in the 1960s. How do they compare to this occupation?
“In the ‘60s, there was leadership; this is mostly people with an anarchist perspective and they shun any hierarchy,” Silver says. “They’re not focused, they don’t have specific demands; most of the signs are feel-good signs like ‘Fuck Greed’ that are not sending a coherent political message.” He’s unsure whether Occupy Wall Street will survive, but cautions against Natalie’s philosophy: “There’s been no movement in history, to my knowledge, that was anarchist in its politics that achieved revolutionary change. Without a sound theory, you can’t have very effective practice.”
I drift over to the ledge at the southern barrier of the park, where teams of construction workers from the nearby World Trade Center site are on lunch break. Carlos, a Staten Island carpenter and father of three who emigrated from Puerto Rico 35 years ago, has been coming to the protests every day for lunch and lingers an hour or two after work. His union endorses the cause and he believes everyone he works with unofficially supports it — and assumes the other construction workers who eat lunch in the park do, too.
But it’s not so simple. Down the ledge, a construction foreman, Eric, is irked by the protesters’ lack of patriotism. “I support unionized labor. I will not support anyone who desecrates the American flag, though,” he tells me, pointing to various flags hanging upside-down, the official signal of distress. “There’s a better way of doing it instead of camping out in the middle of Manhattan. Vote out the people that have fucked the system up.”
As a small group marches past us, a 30-year-old general contractor laborer in Eric’s cohort -- a Queens native and five-year Army veteran with two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan (where he hopes to be redeployed in the future) -- is more ambivalent.
“I understand their cause, I understand their movement, I agree,” he says. “I’m ex-military, I have a college degree, and look what I’m doing: dirty, sweaty, making hardcore money -- yet I get taxed crazy. I agree with everything they’re doing, but this is something out of 'Lord of the Flies.' I’m waiting for the conch to come out and people to start burning pigs.” He looks around at the more bombastic characters on the scene — a tear-streaked man angrily yelling “I need money!” while banging an empty white bucket, a woman in a Marie Antoinette costume holding a platter of cake. “This is so unorganized,” the laborer says. “The protesters aren’t doing anything that people are gonna listen to and say, ‘You know what, they’re right.’”
Boycotting corporate America, he argues, would be more effective. “Watch these people during the day,” he laments. “They go to Starbucks, they go to McDonald’s. Educate, learn how the system works, and then cripple it. That’s how you start a movement.
"I’m just one person,” he says. “I play by the rules. I come to work every day, I’m here at 5 in the morning to start work while they’re sleeping. I come out on coffee break, they’re still sleeping.”
It’s true that not everyone is up with the dawn. Drum circles with dancing keep the protesters energized at night, when, says Noah Fischer, an artist who has been coming from Queens since the third day, the younger crowd shifts to one side of the park to let others sleep. “It feels a little summer campish,” he says. “There’s a tinge of romance in the air.” Has he observed any sexual activity? “Well,” he admits, “we are only human. We’re flesh and blood. You can’t really tell what’s going on under the sleeping bags. But I think everyone is generally respectful of each other and discreet.”
But despite some Burning Man elements, Occupy Wall Street is fairly organized on a functional level, and for every anarchist in a “Kill Me Now” jacket, several earnest-looking youth in H&M apparel who could pass for Oberlin grads working at a nonprofit are pitching in. The central cog in the machine is the food area, near the middle of the park. Servers lay out three vegetarian or vegan meals a day, from pizza to stew-like concoctions, with a bucket of granola bars and packaged snacks available around-the-clock. The occupation receives food and monetary donations on-site and on the Web, and score price breaks from area stores on bulk orders. Carts — many of which are halal — lining the park have generally seen an increase in business, with the exception of the smoothie vendor (perhaps because fruits and vegetables, but not meat, are available for free in the park). Volunteers wash dishes, with a gray-water filtration system cleaning out enough contaminants to reuse the water for the park’s plants and flowers. Others sweep and pick up trash.
Personal hygiene is more bare-bones. Like John Travolta’s character in “Pulp Fiction,” activists eschew the Burger King on the west side of the park for the restroom at McDonald’s half a block north on Broadway. A custodian there reports that management has thus far frowned only upon people sleeping in the stalls. A signup sheet for showers from volunteers opening their homes can accommodate just five or six people a day. To make up for this, donated boxes of clean clothing sit in stacks.
Free Wi-Fi comes from networks labeled owsnyc and owsnyc-guest; a charging station run by a generator lets people plug in. “The People’s Library” provides hundreds of free left-wing books, journals and magazines to share, with authors from Adorno to Zinn. Small teach-ins pop up during the day; I watch one on stereotyping in the media.
The rest of the “working groups,” about 15 splinter organizations, focus on other needs. The medical center is staffed by nurses and a few doctors who put in time after work. Most of their medicine is homeopathic, but early in the day, under a doctor’s supervision, they administer insulin to a protester in diabetic shock. Legal aid members seek out protesters who have been arrested. The media group facilitates interviews; Jeff Smith, a freelance media planner who has scaled back his own work, has been arranging and conducting about 50 interviews a day for others and himself.
Brian Harris, a bartender in the East Village, works in outreach. Like most members of working groups, he doesn’t seem enamored of the prevailing free-floating ethos. “It would be great if we could have it more organized — that’s what we’re trying to do,” he says. “Get everything in a database, get it on the Web, have complete transparency. But that takes a lot of people and time and an infrastructure that just hasn’t happened yet.”
The infrastructure, such as it is, comes in the form of the General Assembly, an open meeting held every day at 1 p.m. and 7 p.m., in which one person speaks at a time, grabbing the “people’s mic” by calling “Mic check!” and waiting for an affirmative response of “Mic check!” from the crowd (I confess that, when I first heard it, I thought they were chanting “My check!” as a way of demanding their own federal bailout). As has been well-documented, to overcome the law against megaphones, listeners repeat each snippet of speech in booming unison, and agree or disagree silently by waving their hands above or below. During the nighttime General Assembly, a striking amount of attention is paid to the concept of voice, metaphoric and literal; how to make one’s voice heard is a frequent subject, one woman who has lost her voice has another speak for her, and an actual voice coach offers a training session on protecting one’s larynx.
If nothing else, the General Assembly serves as a corrective to outside perception that the movement is too anarchic, and without its existence and the working groups, I doubt the protest would be gathering steam. Vans from national news stations — which largely ignored the protests until the union-endorsed march on Oct. 5 — arrive in the afternoon to supplement the local (NY1, PIX11) and less familiar (mtvU, Current TV) stations that have been present since morning. Noted Columbia economics professor Jeffrey Sachs and "Nickel and Dimed" author Barbara Ehrenreich make speeches. The Granny Peace Brigade, 18 women ranging in age from 66 to 96, have been coming for weeks. And it wouldn’t be a New York City tourist attraction without an appearance from the Naked Cowboy.
At sundown, I walk over to Isamu Noguchi’s giant Red Cube structure opposite the park. In what might be the surest sign of mainstream acceptance, several hundred observant Jews are gathered there for Yom Kippur services, with congregants reading Hebrew prayers off their iPhones. Police reinforcements, who don’t enter the privately owned park, mill about nearby, gearing up for the evening shift. Any anxiety I might feel at the sight of cops twirling nightsticks is quelled; if ever there were a place not to fear police violence at a protest, it is in the middle of Yom Kippur services in Mayor Bloomberg’s Manhattan.
Though the movement is expanding each day, the majority of occupiers are white in a city that, according to the 2010 Census, is only 44 percent Caucasian. Where’s the diversity of the so-called 99 percent? Carolina, a Latina woman studying literature and politics at Manhattan’s Baruch College who has come to the protest for the first time, points out that minorities have suffered from economic injustice and police brutality long before 2008. They may feel little motivation to protest alongside middle-class whites who are just now waking up — and may even feel resentful.
And architect John Lowe, an African-American who has been coming to the park for several days, says he'd hoped for a larger minority presence as well. “I expected to see more — I wanted to see more.” He moves on to President Obama, who he thinks is doing “a decent job under the circumstances.” But as he discusses the president’s Clinton-vintage and corporate-friendly Cabinet, he becomes less apologetic. “Paulson, Rubin, Summers, Geithner — he hired them and has to take some of the blame,” he says. “He needs a couple of brothers up in there, and I ain’t talking about Clarence Thomas.”
Lowe roams into a thicket of tangents, which hints at the key criticism levied against the movement: that it lacks a defined platform. But by not focusing on a single issue, people are discussing a multitude of concerns, all of which are relevant to economic inequality — as occupier Jesse LaGreca recently made clear. A blogger for Daily Kos, the Queens resident shot to fame after adroitly turning the tables on Fox News producer Griff Jenkins in an unaired interview that other protesters captured on video. LaGreca, who said he hadn’t slept in 44 hours and who had 28 messages on his phone at the end of our five-minute chat, has since been contacted by a large number of news outlets. “My life has changed dramatically,” he says. “I am astounded by the outpouring of support. It’s elation from people who want to see us be able to fight back against those who would attack us.”
Were LaGreca, and others like him, to receive more attention from the media and a more visible position in the protest, maybe the laborer I spoke to would have a higher regard for the occupation. But while more than a few Zuccotti Park protesters do fit his stereotype of Washington Square Park denizens — each time I pass by Natalie’s friends, I see them doing nothing but hanging out and smoking cigarettes — the movement would have fizzled out by now if it weren’t manned by responsible, hardworking people. Even Natalie seems weary of signs of too much anarchy when I run into him later at night.
“I’m depressed,” he says. “I mean, I’m depressed all the time, but some guy was smoking pot around us. It just makes us all look bad.”
“It’s a protest,” he adds. “It’s not fucking Woodstock.”
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Who Is Pentagon Going to Call to Fill Shortage of Air Force Drone Pilots? Private Contractors.
By Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military’s extensive use of drones against the Islamic State and other terrorist groups has resulted in a shortage of Air Force pilots and other personnel to operate the aircraft, leading the Pentagon to rely more on private contractors for reconnaissance missions in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the Pentagon has used contractors to perform many duties traditionally carried out by uniformed personnel, like protecting military bases and feeding service members. The contractors who are now serving as drone pilots are based in the regions where the drones are flown, and they are legally prohibited from being “trigger pullers” and firing weapons, Air Force officials said. But there is no limit on the type of reconnaissance they can perform, and they are providing live video feeds of battles and special operations.
As the Obama administration has accelerated its campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq, Syria and Libya over the past 10 months, the Pentagon has added four drones flown by contractors to the roughly 60 that are typically flown every day by uniformed Air Force personnel.
Over the next two years, the Pentagon plans to add six more operated by contractors, the officials said. The number and identities of contractors working on the drone flights are considered classified information, the Air Force said. But Pentagon officials said there are at least several hundred contractors, many of them former drone or fighter pilots who are making double or triple their military salaries.
“This is opening up a whole new can of worms — we have seen problems with security contractors on the battlefield since 9/11, and there’s been an improvement in oversight in that area, but that came after a decade of problems,” said Laura A. Dickinson, a law professor at George Washington University, who has written extensively about the United States’ use of military contractors. “With drones, this is a new area where we already do not have a lot of transparency and with contractors operating drones there’s no clearly defined regime of oversight and accountability.”
Drones were first used extensively by the U.S. military in the Balkans in the 1990s. By the mid-2000s, the Air Force was flying more than a dozen drones a day in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere. The number of flights rose steadily to about 60 in 2010, when the military began plans to scale back because the war in Iraq was winding down.
But in 2014, President Barack Obama ordered a stepped-up military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. Later that year, Obama, who had said that a small number of troops remaining behind in Afghanistan would have no combat role, decided to authorize a more expansive mission for them.
The Air Force was not prepared for this increased demand. Finding pilots was difficult. They typically work long hours in windowless rooms staring at computer monitors and do not get many days off. Many of those who fly armed drones have been found to have post-traumatic stress disorder because they have witnessed so many airstrikes. There is also a powerful perception in the Air Force that drone jobs are less prestigious and glamorous than flying more traditional military aircraft, and recruitment has been hard.
The pilots have also become targets for terrorists who say drones have been used to indiscriminately kill civilians.
This past spring, the Islamic State released a detailed list of several dozen senior Air Force officers who the group said were connected to the drone program. The list included photographs of the officers, their home addresses and other personal information.
Operating drones requires an extensive support network. One pilot and a camera operator typically control a drone, and since a drone is expected to be constantly in the air, each one must have several crews. The analysis of the footage taken in by the drones is even more labor intensive. For every drone, there is a need for up to four dozen analysts who can look at the many hours of footage to assess the targets and other intelligence.
With little alternative, the Air Force initiated a “get-well plan” in January 2015 that included several measures — among them an increase in pay — to try to alleviate the significant “stress on the force” that had developed.
“Airmen have delivered time-critical data, prosecuted targets and supported combatant commanders without fail but we cannot sustain this pace indefinitely,” Deborah Lee James, the secretary of the Air Force, said at the time. “While threats have evolved, the demand for this capability remains constant.”
Both armed drones and those only involved in surveillance have led to significant success on the battlefield, but the Obama administration has been widely criticized for not being transparent about their use.
Air Force officials said there are many safeguards in place to train and monitor contractors. But the officials declined to provide many details about the flights, including where the contractors are deployed and which companies are operating the flights.
The officials also declined to address the role that contractors play in a select group of highly classified drone flights that the Air Force conducts daily for the CIA. Air Force pilots, who are essentially on loan to the CIA, fly those drones while the agency does its own preflight target planning and post-mission analysis.
Erika Yepsen, a spokeswoman for the Air Force, said the missions flown by the contractors “have oversight from both a government flight representative and a government ground representative.”
She added: “Additionally, planning and execution of these missions are carried out under the same oversight currently provided for military aircrews, and the resulting sensor information will be collected, analyzed, transmitted and stored as appropriate by the same military intelligence units.”
But the Air Force would not disclose many details about the drone contractors. Contractors are typically compensated far more than service members, and some current and former senior Air Force officials said that their use could actually exacerbate the shortage in military drone pilots because the pay of the private sector may lure them away.
“The Air Force is the one creating unmanned pilots who have experience — there is nowhere else to draw on pilots from,” said Frederick F. Roggero, a retired major general.
Roggero, after his Air Force career, became president and chief executive of Resilient Solutions, which provides consulting on unmanned aircraft safety and security. He compared the situation to after World War I.
“We are at the same point now culturally — the only pilots with drone experience are coming from the Air Force and that industry is going to experience exponential growth for unmanned pilots,” he said, adding that it would create a new demand that will lure them away from the military.
To Learn More:
Air Force Adds Civilian Contractors to Drone “Kill Chain” (by Noel Brinkerhoff and Steve Straehley, AllGov)
Pentagon Outsourcing Spy Missions to Drone Maker (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
Little Chance of Promotion or Respect Fuels Drone Pilot Shortage in U.S. Air Force (by Noel Brinkerhoff, AllGov)
U.S. Drone Killing Program Threatened by Disconnect between Contractors and Military (by Noel Brinkerhoff and David Wallechinsky, AllGov)
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DNA Microarray Market Trends (Installed Base, Applications, Purchase Plans and the Impact of Next-Gen Sequencing)14 Nov 2011 • by Natalie Aster
New York — DNA Microarrays are utilized heavily by research labs for a number of tasks such as gene profiling, RNA detection and SNP analysis. But as Kalorama Information's report “DNA Microarray Market Trends (Installed Base, Applications, Purchase Plans and The Impact of Next-Gen Sequencing)” indicates, the market for these systems is about to experience change. The report is the result of surveys carried out with microarray labs to determine the current state of the microarray market and attempt to predict the future direction of the technologies.
DNA Microarray Market Trends (Installed Base, Applications, Purchase Plans and The Impact of Next-Gen Sequencing)
Published: October 2011
Price: US$ 3,500.00
Report Sample Abstract
“We are looking to do next-gen sequencing more for methylation. But for gene expression profiling, it is not really there yet.”
“We will still be using microarrays a lot; because we do a lot of LCM, and they haven’t developed tools yet for next-gen sequencing for that. There are some things that we have never done with microarrays, like SNPs (because it is a long setup with Affymetrix) that might be done with next-gen sequencers. We are looking at a mixed platform like the HiScan, to do SNPs on arrays and sequencing on the same system.”
“We are not sure yet; we've done microarrays for 10 yrs, and it is still going strong. Next-gen sequencing is the big thing right now, so there is some competition. But microarrays will hold for a few years. If we buy something new, it would probably be a next-gen sequencer, just because there is probably not enough additional demand to justify buying another microarray system.”
“Next-gen sequencing will replace microarrays. Illumina has been good with the RNA-seq being low-priced, and providing more information. Our university has two next-gen sequencers installed, and we will try to transition to that in the next 2 years. SNP arrays will still be needed, but gene expression arrays to a lesser extent.”
“There are definitely different uses for the microarrays vs next-gen sequencers, because next-gen sequencers don’t handle gene expression analysis as well as hoped. That is because there is not enough power in the data to measure changes in about XX% of the genes... only about XX% have enough reads and have sufficient quality of data.”
“Right now there is not much effect; we run the same number of samples. Microarrays are still cheaper by a factor of three-fold for an RNA-seq experiment; but prices will keep coming down and throughput will go up, and we will switch over. Exon arrays are actually pretty close in price now. In our lab, one challenge is the large number of samples in the 100s per month. The data analysis, the large number of data points, also gets complicated. Transferring the data around is challenging, with terabytes coming from next-gen sequencers.
More information can be found in the report “DNA Microarray Market Trends (Installed Base, Applications, Purchase Plans and The Impact of Next-Gen Sequencing)” by Kalorama Information.
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A recent Ed Driscoll column spells out the ways in which The America That Worked(TM) came apart in 1968.
[W]e now know that we’re witnessing Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce versus 1968.The title of the post is "Off the Rails," and Mr Driscoll weaves the Penn Central debacle into his chronology. Apparently the destruction of Pennsylvania Station contributed a plot complication to an earlier Mad Men episode. Corporations attempting to pass off a crap sandwich as a service improvement, and hiring Morale Conditioners to do so are nothing new. In those days, the railroads increasingly saw their passenger service function as providing subsidized commuter trains who could dash to or from their trains, without much requirement of great public spaces or spacious corridors. Apparently the prospects for business development weren't as good in Baltimore or Philadelphia as in Boston, Chicago, and New York, which is why the former two cities have proper big-city stations to this day.
Or perhaps it’s the other way around, given how the year of 1968 came close to tearing the country apart. In many ways, the events of that year shaped our current world in ways that are still playing themselves out, so it’s worth exploring just how badly the nation imploded. Apologies for the length of this post, but it’s merely a partial list of 1968′s horror stories.
But it's not necessarily the destruction of a few classic railroad stations that matters. More salient may be the loss of guardrails for troubled people.
“Life is difficult,” wrote psychiatrist M. Scott Peck at the outset of his international best-seller, “The Road Less Traveled.” Stress, difficulties, disappointments, accidents, disease, misfortune, cruelty, betrayal – they’re unavoidable in this life.I wonder, though, whether it will be harder to rebuild a common culture, or to get rid of Madison Square Garden in order that New York may have a proper intercity passenger terminal. In the modern world of professional sports, an arena more than 20 years old is often an embarrassment, with one exception.
Yet, during eras when society and families are stable, unified and fundamentally decent and moral – as, say, America during the 1950s – the stress level for each person is minimized, or at least not compounded by a perverse society. Conversely, when – as is the case today – we have widespread family breakdown, a depraved culture that mocks traditional moral values, a chaotic economy and disintegrating monetary system and a power-mad government dominated by demagogues and sociopaths, the normal stresses of life are greatly multiplied.
Thus it has come to pass that America, long the hope of the world, has grown increasingly dispirited and angry, which in turn breeds anxiety, fear, confusion, hopelessness and depression.
The fourth incarnation (and hopefully there's never a fifth) of Madison Square Garden has been through enough history that it's surprising there's never been a battle fought inside its walls.The battle was fought outside, over whether it was proper to demolish Pennsylvania Station. At the time, one of the advocates for building the Garden anticipated that when the time came to remove it, in another fifty years, there would be protests seeking to preserve it. Those protests are likely to come from pro basketball junkies. We have much to look forward to.
While battles raged between Reggie Miller and Spike Lee, the clinching title game in 1970, the first Ali-Frazier fight and countless pop culture figures rolling through, the Knicks endured all.
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the small tea co-operative
The small tea co-operative was established by Kel Kelly and Peggy Carswell, community development workers from Canada's west coast.
Since 1999, we've provided information, technical assistance and encouragement that's helped make it possible for small-scale independent tea growers to cultivate, process and market organically-grown teas.
The small co-op works closely with Fertile Ground: East/West Sustainability Network, a non-profit organization based on Vancouver Island, located off Canada's west coast. Fertile Ground works in northeast India with tea growers, farmers, educators, NGO's to promote organic and traditional farming practices. Members and volunteers have also worked with residents of Digboi, Assam and members of their local Rotary Club to develop Adarsh Seuj Prakalpa, a 2 acre demonstration garden and resource centre. With support from staff at the garden, visitors of all ages and from locations across Assam are learning how to make compost, identify and control insect pests and take a more eco-friendly approach to growing crops.
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IMF Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (OAP)
Scholarship for Government Officials
The Japan-IMF Scholarship Program for Asia (JISPA) was first introduced in 1993. It is funded by the Government of Japan, administered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and conducted at various graduate schools in Japan. Its objective is to contribute to institutional capacity building in economic policymaking to promote the sustainable growth of emerging and developing economies in Asia and the Pacific. By training future macroeconomic managers in these countries, the JISPA aims to enable them to better formulate sound economic and financial stability policies needed for sustainable growth and development.
The JISPA targets highly motivated government officials who may serve as future macroeconomic policy makers with the capacity and vision to contribute effectively to the economic development of their countries. Scholarship awards are made on the basis of the candidate’s academic record and work background, mathematical and statistics skills, English language proficiency, and potential for contributing to the macroeconomic and financial management and economic development of their country. The assessment also includes qualities such as the candidate’s commitment to public service, willingness to learn, and openness to new ideas.
Currently, the JISPA is open to qualified candidates from the following countries:
Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Lao P.D.R., Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pacific Island Countries, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
The scholarship covers tuition-related costs and most living expenses for the scholar herself/himself. Officials who receive the JISPA scholarship cannot accept other scholarships. Scholars are expected to devote full time to their studies while in Japan.
The program comprises two tracks: the partnership track and the open track. Because of the strong competition for scholarships, the JISPA is highly selective. In 2017-2018, a total of 35 new scholarships are available to candidates for the partnership track. There is no fixed limit on new scholarships for the open track, but generally only a small number of scholarships are awarded.
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Workers from the Center for Orangutan Protection take blood sample from a tranquilized female named Yeti getting a medical checkup at Taman Satwa Taru Jurug Zoo. Orangutan populations in Indonesia's Borneo and Sumatra are facing severe threats from habitat loss, illegal logging, fires and poaching. Conservationists have predicted that without immediate action, orangutans are likely to be the first great ape to become extinct in the wild.
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An exhibition of the European Organization for Nuclear Research entitled the Universe of Particles features a slow-speed representation of traces left by the collision of particles. U.S.-based physicists Tuesday reported finding strong hints of the Higgs boson, the elusive "god particle" believed to give objects mass, but said European data is needed to confirm any potential discovery. If physicists can confirm the existence of the Higgs boson, the last missing piece in the standard model of physics, the announcement would rank among the most important scientific breakthroughs of the last century.
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A helicopter drops water on a wildfire racing up Vitosha Mountain near Sofia. Israel has dispatched two special planes to help Bulgaria battle the large fire raging in a nature reserve.
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David Ferrer of Spain exults after defeating Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina to advance to the quarterfinal round of the All England Lawn Tennis Championships at Wimbledon.
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Luke Isaacs, 7, of Stanford leads Leeanne out of the arena after winning a ribbon during the Open/Youth Holstein and Jersey Show at the Lincoln County Fair near Stanford.
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Members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard celebrate after launching a missile during maneuvers in the Iranian countryside. The Revolutionary Guard test-fired several ballistic missiles on Tuesday, including a long-range variety capable of hitting U.S. bases in the region as well as Israel, Iranian media reported.
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Indian women carry material in pans on their heads at a construction site. The Indian economy grew at just a 5.3% rate in the first quarter, its slowest quarterly expansion in nine years.
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Belarusian athletes perform during a parade celebrating Day of the Republic, Belarus' independence day. The holiday commemorates the day of liberation of Belarussian territory from Nazi Germany's troops in 1944.
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Sudanese refugees rejoice in prayer in a makeshift church at the Yida refugee camp close to the border with North Sudan in Yida. The Yida refugee camp has swollen to nearly 60,000 as refugees flee from South Kordofan in North Sudan, with new arrivals numbering 300 to 600 a day.
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An image released by the Syrian opposition's Shaam News Network shows a man dousing a fire with water as the flames engulf his shop in the restive central city of Homs. The Syrian army kept up its bombardment of rebel neighborhoods of Homs, activists said, after 79 people were killed in violence across the country the previous day.
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A Kashmiri Muslim woman wails outside the Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani shrine, which was damaged in a fire last week, after it was reopened to the public in Srinagar. The fire destroyed the revered Muslim shrine in Indian-administered Kashmir last week, prompting anti-government protests by residents angered over an alleged slow response by firefighters.
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An Indonesian worker checks silkworm at a silk fiber factory in Bogor. The silk industry in Indonesia has a longstanding history in traditional handicrafts, mostly in batik clothing and textiles.
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A ladybird crawls across an ear of barley. The barley harvest has begun in Saxony.
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Two girls take photos of the "Torch bearer" statue, seen in front of dark clouds bathed in dark red by the setting sun, at Maschsee in Hanover.
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Levi Leipheimer of the U.S., at center in light blue jersey, rides in the pack during the second stage of the Tour de France cycling race over 129 miles with the start in Vise and finish in Tournai, Belgium.
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Najmeh Arshad, an Iranian woman whose father was killed when a U.S. warship shot down an Iranian airliner 24 years ago, scatters flowers into the Persian Gulf during a ceremony remembering the 290 passengers at the spot where the airliner was downed. The Vincennes shot down the Iran Air A300 Airbus on July 3, 1988, shortly after it took off from Bandar Abbas for Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
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A tree sitting atop a vehicle is offered as free firewood, as cleanup continued after Friday's storm. Around 2 million utility customers are without electricity across a swath of states along the East Coast and as far west as Illinois as the area recovers from a round of summer storms that has also caused at least 17 deaths.
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Jane Blais, left, owner of River Rise Resort, and her friend Jeanne McDonald, paddle past the roof of a gazebo that is submerged in the flood waters from the Santa Fe River, which covered much of the 50 acres at the resort, in High Springs.
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CHARLOTTE - Uptown Charlotte went dark on Saturday night for Earth Hour.
The World Wide Fund for Nature encourages people, cities, and businesses to switch off the lights at 8:30 p.m. Saturday to show support for environmental causes.
According to Charlotte Center City, participating buildings include the Bank of America Center, Duke Energy Center, Convention Center, NASCAR Plaza, Heart Tower and more.
Channel 9’s Charlotte Cam shows a time lapse of the hour leading up to the lights switching off.
To read the full list of participating buildings, click here.
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Submitted to: American Dairy Science Association Abstracts
Publication Type: Abstract only
Publication Acceptance Date: 7/27/1998
Publication Date: N/A
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Technical Abstract: Two levels of supplemental vitamin E were included in calf milk replacers to evaluate performance, scour data and vitamin E status of Holstein bull calves. A total of 162 calves with an initial weight of 43.9 kg were randomly assigned according to body weight and blood gamma globulin concentration to one of two vitamin E treatments, 100 or 200 IU/calf/day. Milk replacers were formulated to contain 22% protein and 20% fat and were medicated with neoterramycin. Calves were individually housed in crates and fed 2 times daily at 0700 and 1615 hr. No dry calf starter was fed. Weight gains, milk replacer DM consumption, feed efficiency scour scores (1-4 scale; 1=normal; 2=loose; 3=water separation; 4=3 with severe dehydration), duration of scours and medication costs were calculated weekly and for the total 4-wk period. Serum vitamin E concentrations (ng/ml) of calves were measured at the beginning of study and at day 28. Total weight gain, milk replacer DM consumption, feed efficiency, scour score, duration of scours, and medication costs of calves fed milk replacer supplemented with 100 or 200 IU/calf/day of vitamin E were 11.79, 11.79 kg; 21.09, 21.08 kg; 2.16, 2.25; 1.18, 1.14; 3.76, 2.89 days and $5.29, $.46, respectively (p more than .05). Day 0 serum vitamin E concentrations were 531.6, 455.7, respectively (p more than .05). Day 28 serum vitamin E concentrations were 1667.3, 2577.8 ng/ml, respectively (p less than .05). These data indicate that there is no added benefit by increasing total vitamin E intake from 100 to 200 IU/calf/day except for increasing the concentration of vitamin E of serum. | <urn:uuid:806d8b51-1c50-40bf-81db-8a548d398d70> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.ars.usda.gov/research/publications/publication/?seqNo115=86989 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719453.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00230-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924531 | 454 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Indian Biosimilars Guidelines were introduced at BIO 2012 event last week and now, they are officially published at India’s Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) websites.
The guidelines were developed in coordination with the industry and academics; the full list of task force members are also published transparently in the guideline.
The “Guidelines on Similar Biologics” prepared by CDSCO and DBT set up the regulatory pathway for a biologic claiming to be similar to an already authorized reference biologic . The guidelines address the regulatory pathway regarding manufacturing process and quality aspects for biosimilars in India.
Indian biosimilars guidance also address the pre-market regulatory requirements (i.e. comparability exercise for quality, pre-clinical and clinical studies) and post market regulatory requirements for biosimilars.
Similar biologics can only be developed against an authorized reference biologic that has been approved using a complete data package in India. In case the reference biologic is not authorized in India, it should have been licensed and marketed for at least 4 years with significant safety and efficacy data.
According to the new Indian guideline, in case of no medicine or only palliative therapy is available or in national healthcare emergency, this period of 4 years may be reduced or waived off. Any product can be considered as similar biologic only if it is proven to be similar using extensive quality characterization against the reference biologic. Further product development should only be considered once the similarity of the product/molecule is demonstrated in quality. The guidelines are applicable for similar biologics developed in India or imported into the country.
At BIO 2012, DBT Secretary Maharaj Bhan said: “India needs drugs at reasonable prices so we have to worry about the issue of access so we have to spur innovation and manufacturing in India. We also need to create an environment where international companies will be interested in using India as a place to manufacture drugs.”
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The Value of Those Stalks
Thursday, February 1, 1996
filed under: Fertility
Even the casual observer driving around Great Plains sunflower areas in winter can attest to the obvious difference in snow trap in a tilled or flattened harvested field versus one with thousands of upright stalks per acre. But just how much difference is there? And how much benefit do those standing stalks provide in terms of postharvest soil erosion control?
USDA’s Natural Resources Conserva-tion Service (NRCS) was seeking some quantifiable answers when it asked researchers at the USDA-ARS Central Great Plains Research Station to undertake studies documenting the impact of standing sunflower stalks. After three years and five studies at the Akron, Colo., station, lead investigator David Nielsen has reported some revealing data — data which should be helpful to NRCS as it updates its sunflower residue erosion control formulas.
It’s common for sunflower ground in the central Great Plains to be fallowed following the sunflower harvest, with winter wheat then planted on those fields the next August or September. For years, however, there has been widespread concern about wind erosion during that fallow period, Nielsen notes, “due to the assumption that low residue amounts left after harvest provide inadequate protection for the soil surface.” But based on his research, the USDA research agronomist believes those stick-like standing stalks have a significantly bigger impact than what they’re credited for in the soil-loss calculation models used to date.
Nielsen’s research — which stretched from the fall of 1992 through the spring of 1995 — was designed to measure the effects of differences in standing sunflower stalk height and population on (1) wind velocity within the sunflower residue, (2) snow depth and (3) changes in soil water content during the winter and spring months following the sunflower harvest. Nielsen looked at the relative effect of flattened stalks and those at two different heights (ranging from 17 to 29 inches, depending upon the respective study).
Stalk populations ran from about 10,600 to 26,100 per acre. Three of the studies were conducted in USDA plots at Akron; the other two in commercial sunflower fields near the northeastern Colorado community. Row spacings were 30 inches in all instances.
To obtain accurate readings of wind speed, “cup anemometers” (see above photo) were placed at various heights among the flattened and standing stalks; and an anemometer and wind vane were also set up in the fields at a height of 79 inches above surface level. Wind speeds were measured every minute, with 15-minute average values computed and saved by on-site dataloggers. Measurements from the 79-inch height were used as the reference wind speed against which lower-elevation speeds were compared.
Soil water content was measured at various depths and times throughout the studies. Snow depth measurements were taken at four locations in each plot of four of the five studies.
Stalk diameters of 40 plants surround-ing each anemometer mast were measured as part of the effort to gauge the “silhou-ette” factor (i.e., cumulative effect of height times diameter times population).
What were the conclusions of the three-year USDA research project?
First, cutting height of the stalks plays the key role in reducing wind velocity, and hence soil erosion, as well as in trapping snowfall. All three factors — cutting height, plant population and individual stalk diameter — are important, Nielsen states, but cutting height leads the group.
Based on his research, Nielsen has developed a formula to predict the effects of the various parameters. Utilizing this formula, he offers an example:
In a field with 16,000 stalks per acre at an average stalk diameter of two-thirds of an inch (measured at roughly two inches below the top of the stalk), changing the cutting height from 10 to 30 inches would triple the silhouette factor and end up reducing wind speeds by 26 percent (this at eight inches above the soil surface).
What does all this imply for NRCS soil-loss calculations? According to Nielsen, such a magnitude of change in the silhouette factor corresponds to a reduction from 45 percent down to 19 percent in the soil-loss ratio used by NRCS in its revised wind erosion equation.
Does wind direction as compared to sunflower row direction play a role in this equation? Yes, but a small one, Nielsen says. He finds only about a four-percent reduction in wind velocities at the soil surface when those winds are blowing perpendicular to the rows as opposed to being parallel with the rows.
Nielsen found no consistent relationship between plant population or cutting height and the quantity of residue mass. That inconsistency was, he says, due to substantial variability in water availability during sunflower growing seasons and the resulting amounts of residue mass in the respective studies.
Do higher plant populations necessarily increase a field’s total silhouette factor since there are that many more stalks? No, says Nielsen. The increased number of stalks is largely offset by the decrease in individual stalk diameter; so total silhouette area remains about the same.
The effect of sunflower stalk height on snow depth in the Great Plains studies is illustrated by Figure 1. While the four studies reflected in Figure 1 consistently showed an advantage from higher cutting heights, that advantage was more pronounced in some fields than others. That’s due to the varying amounts and timing of snowfall received by the respective fields — and to differences in measured wind speed.
For example, “the overwinter period for Study 1 was one of nearly continuous snow cover from November 21, 1992, through March 15, 1993,” Nielsen reports. “Conse-quently, with each new snow event, the effect of differences in snow catch due to stalk height increased.” As of January 11, 1993, the 27- to 29-inch standing stalks in Study 1 had trapped more than three times the snow trapped by the flattened stalks.
By comparison, during the winter of 1993/94, the Akron area did not receive any large snowfalls accompanied by high winds; nor were there extended periods of continuous snow cover. So the differences between standing stalks and flattened areas — while still evident — were not nearly as pronounced (Figure 1 / Studies 3 and 4).
Not surprisingly, the taller sunflower stalk heights and corresponding increases in snow catch translated into significantly better overwinter soil water storage (Figure 2). For the two studies in which snowfall was accompanied by strong winds, about three inches of additional soil water were stored under the tall standing stalks as compared to soil where the stalks had been flattened. “Water use-yield relationships for this area of the central Great Plains suggest that this amount of increased soil water would result in an increase in wheat yield of about 18 bushels per acre in a wheat/sunflower rotation,” Nielsen observes. (Strong winds did not accom-pany snowfall in the other two studies. Correspondingly, there were not any significant differences in snow trap and resulting soil water storage between standing and flattened stalks.)
One final related note: Most soil erosion in the central Great Plains is produced by winds of 35 miles per hour or greater, Nielsen states. Picking a wind speed of 35 mph, he analyzed the nine-year period of 1987 through 1995 to see how many times in each month that particular wind speed was achieved or exceeded at Akron. “March/April/May is the big erosive period here,” he comments. “If we can protect the soil during those months, we generally don’t have a lot of problems.”
Over that nine-year period, Nielsen found that each of those three months averaged just one day with potential for winds of 35 mph or greater. His message? If central Great Plains sunflower stalks can be left standing well into May, they will not only trap moisture during the winter months, but will also be of significant help in reducing soil erosion throughout the spring. | <urn:uuid:66b052ea-4272-4281-b6fc-69975b5b426b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sunflowernsa.com/magazine/articles/default.aspx?ArticleID=2803 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00481-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965205 | 1,667 | 3.53125 | 4 |
“When I want to achieve something, creatively speaking, I tend not to give up,” says 18-year-old photographer and inventor David O’Regan on how he started making cameras of his own. It was anything but simple, and there were quite a few stumbling blocks along the way. But he’s managed to produce something quite unique and has no plans to stop soon.
In an era where kids his age would are hooked on Fornite or Minecraft, David O’Regan fell in love with photography. A chance retweeting of his photo by a NASA astronaut gave him the boost he needed, and he hasn’t looked back since.
Technical and material challenges presented themselves quickly when he began designing his own camera. Pushing them aside, David has made a handful of cameras and lenses to satisfy his large-format cravings. In this interview, he shares what drives his passion for photography and tinkering with cameras.
The Essential Photography Gear Used by David O’Regan
David told us:
My large format camera really was just an experiment at first. But I really do dig it now. I can’t use it as often as I’d like, the sheer size and weight tired me out quickly. I have an idea for a photographic project with it, but I won’t be sharing details of that with the world quite yet.
The Phoblographer: Hi David. Please tell us about yourself and how you got into photography.
David O’Regan: My name is David O’Regan. I am 18 years old. My family moved here to Ireland from Germany when I was around two years old. Apparently, my mother liked my Dad’s place of birth so much, she convinced him to uproot and move back here. I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I said that photography is my life. It is a rare occasion to see me put down a camera and not pick it up again after more than a couple of minutes. I have been taking photos seriously since my early teen years.
What got me into photography is a bit of a strange story, I think. I grew up looking over my Dad’s shoulders as he learned photoshop CS2. Of course, my 4-year-old self would get bored after five minutes and walk away or nag him for some chocolate, but regardless the foundation of my mind was being poured at the time.
I eventually developed an interest in video. I made friends who had similar interests at the time; one of them showed me a video editor called Sony Vegas Pro 13 (I think it was called at the time), and I fell in love with video from there. I never used a camera at the time but instead recorded gameplay of the games I would play, edit them, and feel proud that I could edit just like the professionals. Compared to what I can do now, it was terrible, but I enjoyed doing that at the time. My interest did eventually fade, though.
It wasn’t until I was in secondary school that I got the idea to take on photography, and it happened by chance. We went on an ice-skating trip as a class, and I did not want to get on the ice. I instead opted to take photos for the school.
I was prompted by the supervising teacher to join the photography club, and a few months later, I finally decided to do so. Originally, I wasn’t very interested and ended up missing many of the meetings because I simply forgot about them.
Eventually, we took an astrophotography trip to Knockadoon. I distinctly remember forgetting my jacket, and despite the grip that the bitter cold took on me, especially my feet, I found the experience really enjoyable. That trip is where I got my first taste of a DSLR, and I loved it.
I even got a photo I took retweeted by NASA’s own Douglas Wheelock. I think that this moment was probably the spark that finally took me to the point of no return.
The Phoblographer: What camera gear do you use for your work?
David O’Regan: I have amassed a large quantity of gear over the last six years. My main camera is the Canon EOS 5D Mark III, which I acquired not long ago. I also have a Canon EOS 70D and a Canon EOS 1D Mark II, that is probably almost as old as I am.
In addition to this, I own three or four film cameras, ranging from the Brownie Box cameras to my grandfather’s Voigtländer Vitomatic II, a Rangefinder. I use these combined with a variety of lenses, including a Canon 50mm f/1.4, a Canon 50mm f/1.8 (STM), a Canon 17-40mm f/4, a 70-200mm f/2.8, and a variety of M42 Primes, which include a Pentacon 50mm f/1.8 and a Helios 44-2 58mm f/2, and occasionally a lens that with a. Did I mention that Large Format 6×4” camera I built?
I use the old 1D Mark II as an everyday camera. I got it at a surprisingly good price. I got it mainly because I wouldn’t be upset if it broke. It has an APS-H sensor, which is bigger than what the Canon Rebel series cameras possess, and is built like a tank. It also has a low megapixel count, which makes for small raw file sizes, and by extension, a lesser bottleneck in post-production. The horrible LCD also helps prevent chomping.
My 5D Mark III is my favorite camera of the lot. It has a bit of everything, really. It performs brilliantly in low light, and the autofocus is fantastic. It also takes full advantage of the old m42 mount lenses.
My first camera was the 70D. It was the camera my parents got me and the one I have put through the most ordeals. It has ended up in my reserves, although I do still use it for product photography work, as it has a built-in flash, which can activate my speedlights, freeing them up for other lighting purposes.
It usually comes with me, and I occasionally find that it comes in handy when I have no choice but to work live view or need a video B-Cam.
The film cameras are used less often. When I Have a bit of spare cash, I’ll go to my local print lab and get a film, usually whichever is cheapest, and have some fun for the day.
I Find my film SLRs to be very useful in designing lenses, As I have direct access to the shutter mechanism. It also doesn’t bother me if I shatter the mirror in a Canon EOS 500n.
The Phoblographer: Where did the idea to make a camera by yourself come from? What was the inspirational trigger?
David O’Regan: I can’t say that anything “Inspired” me per se. To be honest, I wish I recorded that early phase better; I might better be able to retrospectively see what on earth I must have been thinking to take this kind of project on.
I played with the idea for a long time. I started building pinhole “lenses” and cameras within about a year of picking up photography, nearly as soon as I got my 70D actually. When I found out about large format, it seems that a mystical red button labelled “Don’t Click Me” appeared in my brain.
Large format is incredibly expensive, and I just couldn’t have it. I think everyone has that feeling at times, an envy of sorts. I think I just wanted it because it exists, and when I want to achieve something, creatively speaking, I tend not to give up for better or for worse.
The Phoblographer: When you decided to go ahead with it, what were the plans you set out for yourself?
David O’Regan: It wasn’t until I moved closer to the nearby city that I started making my own lenses using the disassembled lenses I pulled out of old musty, fungus-infested lenses that I could consider the idea more seriously.
I found a combination of lenses from a magnifying glass and the front element of a Vivitar telephoto lens. Needless to say, my big, red luminous button had been pushed to the point of no return. My idea started simmering over the course of around a year. Just before my Summer Holidays last year, I finally decided I would act on it. I consulted with the physics teacher at my school and got some formulas that I really didn’t understand at the time.
It was planning time, and I had little in the way of ideas. I started with what I had the most experience in. I designed a few focusing helicoids for lenses on paper. I felt that if I used one of those designs, I would risk accidentally letting the lens fall off the camera body.
As well as that, having an excessively large tube would constrain the Image circle, so I scrapped that and went for the bellows design.
I didn’t want to use film. At the rate with which I make photographs, I would bankrupt myself, my family, and the entire European Union by using film. I settled instead on another idea. Most large format cameras have ground glass onto which the photographer focuses their image.
I decided that scanning such a ground glass would suffice. I could choose to use a flatbed scanner, but it’s too slow and the “rolling shutter” too extreme. I considered a phone, but the camera apps are all about as frustrating as humanly possible, and the manual focus resets to continuous autofocus every time I take a photo. I don’t have any compact cameras, so there was only one logical conclusion in my mind: Use my Canon EOS 70D as the “taking” camera.
There are two ways to set this up: I could put the taking camera on the lens side of the large format camera and photograph a reflected image (less light is lost this way), or put the taking camera behind ground glass, thus photographing a refracted image. I chose the refracted image, as using a reflection would infer changing the focus of both the taking and large format cameras simultaneously, which is finicky at best, in my opinion.
You get the idea. There are many variables that go into the production of a camera, even a project as “simple” as the camera obscura I made here. I had some shortcuts that helped me along; I didn’t need to make a shutter because I am not using film, for example. I also don’t need it to be 100% lightproof (although it does help in terms of contrast and image clarity) because light leaks cannot destroy a film emulsion that doesn’t exist.
The Phoblographer: Was it easy to find resources for the raw materials and designs?
David O’Regan: I made the camera out of 18x44mm pine wood, as well as plywood we had lying around. These are all things you might find in a hardware store or something like that. I was lucky with regard to tools. My Dad has amassed a considerable collection of tools over the years I guess that’s where my camera hoarding problem comes from.
The main ones I used were a bench hook, a tenon saw, a coping saw, chisels, some files, and rasps too. The only thing I didn’t really touch were the power tools, other than a hand drill, as they are too unwieldy and unpredictable for my taste.
The most difficult material to source was a translucent, ground glass-like material. I initially used one of the light diffusers you might find in an LCD panel. It did the trick but suffered from a hot spot in the center of the image, resulting in almost unusable levels of vignetting.
Luckily I happened across a great solution. It was thanks to the staff in the print lab I use and visit who had the idea to use some backlight paper. It cut enough light to eliminate the hotspot while having a texture smooth enough to avoid a blotchy image, not unlike what you might expect by placing a sheet of normal paper between you and a bright light source.
The Phoblographer: There might have been at least a handful of hurdles to getting this pet project achieved. What were the top ones you tackled?
David O’Regan: This is a very good question. The bellows were a particularly nasty piece of work to try and produce. I could have bought some for upwards of €100.
But as evidenced by the very existence of my project, I have some thrifty tendencies, so I opted to spend €20 on some fake leather in the local vibes and scribes and make them myself. It’s not difficult to do as such. It was just tedious and required me to be paying very close attention as I worked.
I didn’t touch the leather until I practiced through a lot of A3 paper over the course of a couple of weeks.
The most gut-wrenching of my hurdles was the slow realization that the redesign of my bellows slider to improve the smoothness of adjustment resulted in a flange distance.
The distance between the image sensor and the lens mount] is too long for the 119mm f/2 doublet lens I designed the whole camera around. The reason it had been such a low point in the build is that the full-frame equivalent of the lens was around 33mm f/0.56.
I still wish that I could have made that lens work with the camera. It rendered what was, in my opinion, a really exquisite and unique image. I eventually settled for two lenses, a 183mm f/3.1 and a 200mm f/3.3. Both are also doublet designs.
The Phoblographer: What was the feeling like when you got past those barriers, and when you finally shot your first photograph with your hand made camera?
David O’Regan: I must admit, I didn’t think I would actually pull those bellows off. Once I had them glued together, I had to look at them more than twice to register that I had actually just folded them together without a single incision into the material. I’m still quite proud of that aspect of my build, even now.
There’s no denying that I learned a thing or ten from those bellows alone. The main takeaway from that experience for me was that it is a terrible idea to use a spray adhesive on this material; it will stay tacky for months.
As for my first photograph taken on the camera? I would need a pretty good definition of “first” in the context of my situation to properly answer that. For testing purposes, there was no time when I wasn’t taking photos through it.
I had improvised ground glass on my camera in one form or another from the very start and shot photos throughout the project. Most of them were a pile of hot trash, as they were only to affirm that I wasn’t losing infinity focus or something trivial like that.
As for the first photograph taken on the fully finished camera? It was pretty surreal. I didn’t have my tripod with me, so I rested the meter-long behemoth on a little stone wall and took a photo of my Dad.
The Phoblographer: In terms of film stock for these cameras, what emotional factors help in the decision-making?
David O’Regan: As I already mentioned, film and especially large-format film, is pretty unaffordable for me. I could have opted to use paper, and it doesn’t take an awful lot of modification to do that. All I really need is a lens cap (to act as a shutter) and a way to stop light from entering the rear.
It’s not too much of a stretch to modify the camera to do that if I’m honest. I just don’t think it is necessary. There isn’t really an “emotional” choice for choosing to do it the way I did. I used the simplest, most cost-effective methods that work.
It allows me to focus on creating rather than worrying about the cost of what I’m doing. If I’m worried about the cost, I stop creating anything whatsoever because I get very precious about materials available to me. I don’t want to miss potentially portfolio-worthy shots because I am scared of wasting something.
The Phoblographer: With infinite choices for the focal length of your first handmade lens, tell us why you went with your final choice.
David O’Regan: The reason behind my choice of focal length? It simply happened to be what worked, namely with the materials I have. I hesitate to call it handmade, though; I think homemade suits what I do just fine.
The lenses are made from the optics of other things (Magnifying glasses, irreparable camera lenses, projectors, etc.) that I take apart. I interpret handmade to mean grinding my own lenses, which requires many hours or even days in an ultra-expensive grinder.
If a machine takes that long to do this, I can forget about doing it by hand, not in the least because the glass dust is some nasty stuff that no one wants near their eyes or their lungs. I neither have a grinder nor the desire to spend entire days transforming entire chunks of glass into an abrasive powder.
I considered using some form of two-part epoxy resin to mold them, and I still plan on trying it out in the future, but my current situation has inhibited me, at least for another while.
Plastic lenses like that are a very real possibility. I can always add more lenses to my lens mount, and I can reuse my proprietary lens mount on any hypothetical future projects if I were to bring them to fruition. I’m sure there is a way to do this; there must be.
The 183mm f/3.1 renders a really psychedelic image. With a bit of effort, It can produce a really disturbing image. -That’s due to the severity of the distortion around the edges. I find that pincushion distortion causes more unease than barrel distortion, probably because we see less of it in the real world.
Car mirrors, for example, are slightly curved depending on the vehicle. They have a certain degree of barrel distortion. My lens is a bit different. The field curvature causes a sense of barrel distortion (what you see is really just slightly swirly bokeh). Mix this with the actual distortion (pincushion), and we get a really unsettling image, characteristics not really seen in the pixel-perfect ultra-sharp optics of today.
The 200mm f/3.3 is quite soft really, but it renders a very even image relative to the other lens. It lacks even more contrast than the other lens, but it is definitely more “usable” for general applications.
It is really hard to measure the sharpness of each lens. I think the sharpness definitely depends on what you point it at; any bright lights or specular highlights and the lenses just begin to render a really bright glow. That’s the lenses’ spherical aberrations talking, I think.
There isn’t a final choice of lens for my camera. I will keep adding to the collection. I would like at least a couple of sharp(er) lenses for my camera. A couple more that look psychedelic wouldn’t hurt either.
The Phoblographer: How long did that first camera (and lens?) take to make and finish? Relief aside, what other feelings did you experience?
David O’Regan: I have made a total of three cameras to date. Number one was a matchbox camera which I created in the best part of an hour or two. The second is one I never actually finished because the summer holidays ran out, and I lost interest.
I finished the latest one. I started it much earlier in the summer than the previous model and made sure to have enough materials to start with. It was at least a two-month ordeal, much more if you factor in planning. Regardless I felt a sense of joy throughout the process of building the camera.
To be honest, I think the pride about it could be seen by the grin permanently plastered on my face. When that initial energy boost died down a little bit, I tried doing a little bit of street photography with it.
To my horror, every time I passed a person or saw someone approaching, I began losing my composure. I descended into bouts of uncontrollable laughter as I saw the faces of passers-by. I remember putting myself in the shoes of the passers-by and seeing a teenager holding a one-meter-long contraption that looks like it is held together by some electrical tape. Somehow they were the ones who kept a straight face.
I have made so many lenses over the last three to four years that I simply don’t remember which came first. It doesn’t help that I usually pull them apart after a little while to make something else I have an idea for.
My two large format lenses have never been disassembled for any reason whatsoever though. I think they must hold my record for longest-lasting homemade lenses to date.
To give some perspective as to the amount of time I have been doing this, I go to the local print lab often. I end up meeting all different kinds of interesting photographers there.
The staff there know me well. I seek advice from them often with these projects. Over the years, I have brought in some things that are so absurd that when they see something unusual in my hands, they don’t question how I did it, rather upholding an attitude of, “yeah.. that does sound like something David would do.” I like that. It helps me stay grounded when the crowds overhype what I have built over the years.
The Phoblographer: Were there any inspirational designs or brands that you looked up to for completing this camera?
David O’Regan: No specific brands inspired me in a significant way. The people around me though, are a very different story. Many have helped out in what to them seems an insignificant way, or without knowing that they have set off a light bulb in my brain.
The simple act of handing me a special type of paper in the print lab set off a chain reaction that resulted in me completely rethinking the design of my ground glass. These are the real inspirations.
Another example would be my younger brother questioning my choice of tools. This is something I didn’t really appreciate at that moment (we get along like oil and water), but ultimately it resulted in me getting the job done more efficiently and safely.
Even my easy access to the woodworking tools my Dad has is, in a way, a significant inspiration. If you have ever wanted to do something, just to find out you didn’t have the resources to do it, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. It is very possible that without access to his tools, I probably wouldn’t be writing this. It can be really discouraging to not have what you need to get the job done.
My school also helped me out in a way. I don’t know about other areas of the world, but here in Ireland, we have access to subjects like woodwork and metalwork for our junior cycle, with the Leaving Certificate equivalent being Construction Studies and Engineering. It is because of subjects like this that I have the skills for such an undertaking.
If I was to be left with no choice but to pick a design that inspired me, it would have to be the two Box Cameras I own, One being a brownie, the other one worn to the point where the logo is completely unrecognizable. Those box cameras are a marvel of engineering just by virtue of how simplified they have been made.
I need to shamefully admit that I don’t know a single large-format camera brand, despite my love for the medium. I only used them one or two times to see how the bellows were folded.
The bellows system is mounted on a slider; I guess it is arguable that the inspiration for the focus mechanism came from one of those video sliders you can get on amazon for really quite cheap. I eyeballed one of those for a while. I don’t do enough video to justify one of those to myself.
The Phoblographer: We’d like to see the most challenging photograph that you took with your camera. Why would you rate this one as the most difficult?
David O’Regan: That’s a much more difficult question than I think you realized. I have never had an easy time taking photos with that camera. The camera itself is the challenge if you will. I think that the most difficult was definitely that self-portrait I took on the cardboard test rig if that counts.
I don’t know if you have ever tried to focus on yourself manually with a lens that has only a few millimeters of the depth of field whilst using your phone for wifi live view connection while you fight against the sun to avoid losing what little light you have, and all while minimizing your motion blur on a one or two-second shutter speed.
What I do know is that it is at least as hard to do as it is to read this paragraph without taking a breather and still comprehending every letter and the implication it has.
The editing was an even greater nightmare. By virtue of this being taken with a homemade lens I was working with, the photo was incredibly soft straight out of the camera.
This was caused by none other than a complete lack of literally any micro-contrast, as well as chromatic and spherical aberration issues that plagued every frame. Let’s say that I spent a few hours travelling between photoshop and Topaz Sharpen AI.
It was undoubtedly worth it though. I would personally rate the resulting photo near the top of the best photos I have ever taken, with the 2017 Hennessy Portrait Prize winner Jack Hickey saying simply, “The portrait is art.” He did also hint that it might be worth cropping out the masking tape.
I also asked Claire O’Rourke, a Wedding and Portrait photographer and member of the IPPVA, what she thought of my image. I was told that “the black and white tones, the lighting, and your expression all come together to make it a stunning portrait.” Most of my photographs would never have solicited such a response from other artists and photographers, to be honest.
The Phoblographer: What would you say you could improve upon in the next edition or model of camera?
David O’Regan: Next model? That is a pretty ambitious system of thought, but here goes!
Retrospectively, I found that the guide rail of the camera is way too close to the lens. Because of this, I get a big wood-colored stain at the bottom of my image. To fix that would be an instant improvement. The next would be a shorter flange distance to accommodate wide-angle lenses.
Other than this, I do have a plethora of ideas. I could experiment with an 8×10 or 8×12 version. That behemoth would end up twice the size and four times the weight of my current setup. It’s definitely worth noting that my current setup is already wobbly on my tripod. And it’s not a small tripod.
It is designed to hold up to seven and a half kilograms, and to nearly quadruple that; now that would be really impractical. Then again, my current camera is already incredibly impractical, so it’s not a great stretch to do that. Whether or not this issue will stop me from trying, well, that’s a decision for future me to make.
I definitely won’t promise a “next model” or “redesign,” at least not too soon. I want to use the camera I have here for a while first. Besides that, I think it is more worthwhile to upgrade the lenses from here on out. I’m sure that at some point, I will get bored and decide to work on the next model, but it’s not on the table quite yet.
The Phoblographer: Any plans to make a digital DIY or film/digital hybrid camera in the future?
David O’Regan: Wow. You gave me an idea with that question. As I already said, I have no plans for anything currently, but a film/digital hybrid sounds like an engineering nightmare. Would that stop me from trying? Not really.
When you mentioned the film/digital hybrid, something instantly came to mind. I took a projector apart last year. It is one of those 3LCD projectors. It’s a similar concept to the 3CCD television broadcast cameras but in reverse. 3CCD cameras allow light into the lens.
From there a prism splits the light three ways: The reds go one way, the greens another, and the remaining blue goes somewhere completely different. A Charged Coupled Device lives at the end of each of these outputs. 3LCD is the exact opposite, the LCDs at the three inputs are combined into one output at the projector lens side by the prism.
In theory, I could make a camera like that. Right in the center output, I could put a focus screen and mirror, on one end a CCD or CMOS sensor, and on the other side, a shutter with a film winding system behind it. It would require some mechanisms beyond my *current* level of knowledge.
But I’m more than willing to change that. I think that it’s a really cool idea. I’m sure someone, somewhere has already built something like this.
There are whole communities built around building cameras. Look at the Homemade Camera Podcast for instance. They deal primarily with film, on the other hand, Olexiy Bo Shportun had a Facebook group called DigitalObscuraCam, dedicated to people sharing ideas about digital camera obscuras.
I only found it when I was halfway through my build unfortunately, I could have saved an awful lot of time with the group behind me. Unfortunately, Facebook took the group down. It was a kind place for advice with these things, and I hope that he will get it back up and running soon.
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Black history experts call for apology, reparations
The Canadian government should apologize and pay reparations to descendants of Black people who were slaves in Nova Scotia before Canada became a country, Black history experts told a Senate committee.
An apology and reparations would allow Canada to take a “leadership role” in eliminating racism around the world, they said during a February 28, 2018 committee meeting in Ottawa.
Slavery is often associated with American history, but from 1605 until the late 1700s, Nova Scotia was part of the Atlantic slave trade, said Marjorie Villemarche, director general of La Maison d'Haïti, a Montreal-based agency that helps immigrant families, especially those from Haiti and Nigeria.
“What we’re asking for includes two steps: first, recognition and an apology; then, demonstrate leadership so that other western countries that have had a slave trade do the same thing,” Ms. Villemarche said.
“This crime against humanity should be dealt with in terms of reconciliation and reparations,” she said.
Witnesses raised the issue during a special Black History Month meeting of the Senate Committee on Human Rights that was devoted to a consideration of the United Nations’ proclamation of the International Decade for People of African Descent.
The UN designated the 10-year period beginning in 2015 as a time to promote and protect the human rights of the approximately 200 million people of African descent living in the Americas.
“I’m hopeful that, working together, we can and will combat systemic anti-Black racism and discrimination in this country. But it’s quite clear, it needs partnerships,” said committee chair Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard, the first African-Nova Scotian woman in the Senate.
“On January 30, 2018, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the international decade offers a framework to better address the very real and unique challenges that Black Canadians face. By working together, we can combat anti-Black racism and discrimination and deliver better outcomes for Black Canadians,” Senator Bernard said.
An apology would go a long way toward reconciliation with Black Canadians, said Craig Smith, an RCMP sergeant from Nova Scotia, who is also president and chair of the Black Cultural Society for Nova Scotia.
In the past, the Canadian government has apologized to Indigenous groups for the residential schools system, to Chinese-Canadians for a head tax imposed between 1885 and 1923, to Japanese-Canadians for their internment during the Second World War and to the LGBTQ community for the government’s previous discriminatory practices.
If all Canadians had a better understanding of Black history, it would encourage tolerance and reduce racism, Sgt. Smith testified.
“… [If] you don’t know (Black history), it’s so much easier to dismiss a people and their culture, but if you know, even just a little more than we were slaves, then it starts you on a journey of discovery,” Sgt. Smith said.
Committee deputy chair Senator Salma Ataullahjan agreed it’s important to “change this narrative” about Canada’s Black history.
“African cultures have existed for thousands of years. They have a history. They had traditions. Why are we not hearing of that?” Senator Ataullahjan said.
Committee deputy chair Senator Jane Cordy commended witnesses for reminding Canadians that some contemporary social issues have historical roots.
“It makes it more exciting when we have people here to recognize Black History Month, challenges that still await us and good things that are also happening,” Senator Cordy said.
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In another day of escalating violence with Gaza, three Israelis were killed in a rocket strike on Kiryat Malakhi on Thursday, and Hamas rockets hit the Tel Aviv area for the first time. The IDF renewed aerial strikes on Gaza on Thursday night.
Meanwhile, Israeli forces prepared for a possible ground invasion of Gaza. Government spokesmen said Israel was not interested in a cease-fire now but rather in continuing the offensive in the words of one spokesman, "until Hamas begs for a cease-fire."
Altogether, military sources said, Palestinians have fired more than 275 rockets at Israel since Israel's assassination of Ahmad Jabari, the head of Hamas' military wing, on Wednesday. Some of Thursday's launches landed in Holon and Rishon Letzion, but the two rockets that were apparently aimed at Tel Aviv landed in the sea.
The Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted 105 of the rockets launched from Gaza on Wednesday and Thursday.
11:15 P.M. The United States has asked countries that have contact with Hamas to urge the group to stop its recent rocket attacks from Gaza, a White House adviser said on Thursday. "We've ... urged those that have a degree of influence with Hamas such as Turkey, and Egypt and some of our European partners to use that influence to urge Hamas to de-escalate," said Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor, in a conference call with reporters.
Asked whether the United States was concerned that Israeli ground forces would enter Gaza, Rhodes said: "Ultimately it's up to the Israeli government to make determinations about how they're going to carry out their military objectives." (Reuters)
11:00 P.M. According to Hamas figures, 16 Palestinians have been killed and 151 wounded in Gaza since the start of Operation Pillar of Defense. Hamas says it has fired 527 rockets at Israel, while Islamic Jihad has fired 138. (Avi Issacharoff)
10:41 P.M. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon notifies Israeli government of an upcoming visit to Jerusalem, Cairo, and Ramallah, to take place on Tuesday, following the escalation of the situation in the Gaza Strip.
The Foreign Ministry adds that at this stage, the UN Secretary General is not expected to visit Gaza. In addition, it is still unclear if Ban will arrive equipped with a plan for a cease-fire. (Barak Ravid)
10:15 P.M. Israeli aircraft attacked targets throughout the Gaza Strip, according to eyewitnesses. Residents said the military assault destroyed an electricity generator that fed the house of Hamas's prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh. It was unclear whether he was at home at the time.
Israeli aircraft also bombed a police station in central Gaza and tunnels on Gaza's border with Egypt through which basic civilian goods and arms destined for militant groups pass into the Strip, which is under a tight blockade by Israel and Egypt. (Reuters)
9:50 P.M. IDF has attacked 70 targets during the most recent comprehensive aerial attack. Palestinians report some 20 wounded. (Gili Cohen, Jack Khoury)
9:21 P.M. The group of hackers "Anonymous" attacked numerous Israeli websites on Thursday, including IDF and bank sites, as a response to the attack on Gaza, according to a New York Times report.
9:11 P.M. Israel's Broadcasting Authority preparing emergency broadcasts ahead of Sabbath. Educational channels to broadcast only calming programs for children.
8:53 P.M. IDF resumes widespread aerial strikes on Gaza (Gili Cohen)
8:39 P.M. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold talks with Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman; IDF ordered to renew assault on Gaza.
8:38 P.M. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh eulogizes Jabari in a televised speech: "What a martyrdom and what a glorious day," he says. "Congratulations. Rest in peace. Feel blessed."
8:35 P.M. Rocket hits near IDF truck in western Negev, light damaged caused to truck. (Gili Cohen)
8:20 P.M. Be'er Sheva home hit by rocket. The house was damaged, one person is being treated for shock. (Yanir Yagna)
8:18 P.M. IDF Spokesperson says army will ask to call up 30,000 reservists to participate in operation in Gaza.
8:02 P.M. IDF source says air assault on Gaza will be renewed over the coming hours, adding that the IDF has approved plans for the next stage of the operation.
8:00 P.M. IDF says it has hit 250 sites in Gaza since the beginning of the current operation, while 274 rockets have hit Israel.
7:35 P.M. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney says President Obama condemns the rockets fired at Israel; "there is no justification for these cowardly acts."
7:30 P.M. Israel Police confirm that two missiles fired at Tel Aviv area landed in open areas.
7:23 P.M. Five more rockets intercepted by Iron Dome systems over Be'er Sheva. In total, there have been 274 rockets fired and 105 intercepted. The IDF has attacked 250 targets in Gaza.
7:05 P.M. IDF spokesman says no missiles landed on ground in Tel Aviv, adds that residents of central Israel should prepare for a night that "won't be calm".
6:57 P.M. Rocket warning siren goes off in Be'er Sheva. (Yanir Yagna)
6:55 P.M. Islamic Jihad claims responsibility for rocket fired at Tel Aviv. (Reuters)
6:44 P.M. Rocket lands in Holon, just south of Tel Aviv.
6:40 P.M. Names of casualties in Kiryat Malakhi rocket attack released: Mira Sharf, 29-years-old, and Aharon Samadja, 46-years old. (Yaniv Kubovich)
6:38 P.M. Rocket warning sirens sound in Tel Aviv and Bnei Brak, for first time since Gulf War in 1991.
6:38 P.M. Four rockets fall in open areas in western Negev. No wounded or damage. (Yanir Yagna)
6:30 P.M. Egyptian prime minister and security officials to make one-day visit to Gaza, according to Egyptian cabinet minister. (Reuters)
6:22 P.M. Classes canceled again on Friday for all kids living within 40 km of Gaza.
6:08 P.M. Iron Dome intercepts two rockets over Be'er Sheva. (Yanir Yagna)
5:00 P.M. Iron Dome shoots down rocket headed toward Ashdod. Warning sirens go off in Sderot.
4:48 P.M. Two rockets fall near Rishon Letzion, some 12 km south of Tel Aviv. No casualties reported.
4:52 P.M. Number of civilian casualties in Gaza rises to 15, according to Palestinian news agency Ma'an.
4:45 P.M. Rocket alert warning siren goes off in Rishon Letzion, south of Tel Aviv. Eyewitnesses report two blasts.
4:40 P.M. Five rockets fired from Gaza land in northwestern Negev, damaging buildings. Iron Dome missile defense system shoots down 5 rockets over Sderot. (Gili Cohen, Yanir Yagna)
3:53 P.M. IDF: Since beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense, Iron Dome systems intercepted 87 rockets, with 138 projectiles exploding in Israeli territory. IDF attacked 227 Gaza targets.
3:09 P.M. A barrage of 5 rockets fired at Eskhol Regional Council. All five exploded in open areas, no damage or casualties reported. (Haaretz)
3:00 P.M. Two soldiers lightly wounded, one moderately wounded, in rocket attack on Eshkol Regional Council (Gili Cohen and Yanir Yagna)
2:30 P.M. Meretz to hold protest against continued fighting and for a long-term resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in Tel Aviv on Thursday (Haaretz)
2:10 P.M. Funeral of assassinated Hamas leader Ahmed Jabari ends in Gaza City (Haaretz)
2:00 P.M. Six-rocket volley fired at Eshkol Regional Council, explodes in open fields (Yanir Yagna)
1:24 P.M. Hamas political bureau head Khaled Meshal speaks of Jabari's assassination at an Islamic conference in Sudan, saying, "Jabari and those who, together with him and Allah, devoted their lives to the (Palestinian) homeland are heroes… They lived as heroes and fell as heroes. They are the ones who waged the war." Meshal promises: "We will continue the ways of jihad and the resistance."
Meshal adds that he called Hamas leaders in Gaza, and says their "morale is high." Meshal speaks of Egypt's role in the current battle: "Israel is trying to test Egypt and other Arab states post-Arab Spring. I expect Egypt to adopt a new policy. The Egypt of today is not the Egypt of the past. Arab states need to change their direction; enough with defeatism… New initiatives are needed in the battle for Palestine." (Jack Khoury)
1:11 P.M. Defense Minister Ehud Barak: "We're in the midst of a struggle. It isn't certain that it'll be short, but we're determined to regain deterrence" (Haaretz)
12:56 P.M. Two rockets explode in open land in Shaar Hanegev Regional Council (Yanir Yagna)
12:50 P.M. Egypt's Morsi says working with U.S., UN, EU, and Arab League to prevent expansion of Israel's military operation in Gaza Strip (Jacky Khoury)
12:43 P.M. IDF: Israeli forces strike 100 targets in Gaza Strip since beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense (Gili Cohen)
12:40 P.M. IDF: Since Wednesday at 4 P.M., 198 rockets fired by Gaza militants, Iron Dome intercepts 48 (Gili Cohen)
12:37 P.M. Barrage of rockets fired from Gaza toward Be'er Sheva and Ashkelon (Yanir Yagna)
12:15 P.M. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas cuts short European visit over escalation in Gaza Strip (AP)
12:07 P.M. GOC Southern Command Maj. Gen. Tal Russo: We are slowly climbing the scale of responses. The Fajr array suffered a fatal blow (Gili Cohen)
12:05 P.M. Rocket launched by Gaza militates strike house in Sderot (Yanir Yagna)
12:02 P.M. Four-year-old boy, who was moderately wounded by the rocket that hit Kiryat Malakhi, is hospitalized at Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer; the boy was taken to hospital by a passerby (Haaretz)
11:04 A.M. Iron Dome battery intercepts rocket over Ashkelon; 4 rockets explode in Eshkol Regional Council (Yanir Yagna)
10: 41 A.M. Thousands attend Ahmed Jabari funeral in Gaza (Avi Issacharoff)
10:37 Iron Dome intercepts volley of rockets fired at Kiryat Malakhi and Ashdod (Yanir Yagna)
10:32 A.M. Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee to convene at 1 P.M. to vote on Defense Minister Ehud Barak's request to summon army reserves (Jonathan Lis)
10:15 A.M. Israel's envoy to UN: We will not play Russian roulette with the lives of Israeli citizens (Natasha Mozgovaya )
10:10 A.M. Rocket launched by Gaza militants hits factory in the Eshkol Regional Council (Yanir Yagna)
9:55 A.M. Rocket volley explodes in open fields at Eshkol Regional Council; none wounded, no damages reported (Yanir Yagna)
9:48 A.M. Since midnight, 45 rockets were launched from the Gaza Strip toward southern Israel, of which Iron Dome intercepted 13 (Gili Cohen)
9:43 A.M. Iron Dome intercepts four rockets fired toward Ashdod; shrapnel lands in the city (Yanir Yagna)
9:40 A,M. Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch visits site where rocket made direct hit in Kiryat Malakhi (Yaniv Kubovich)
9:32 A.M. Labor Chairwoman Shelly Yacimovich suspends campaign over Operation Pillar of Defense (Haaretz)
9:28 A.M. Baby girl moderately wounded in Kiryat Malakhi (Yanir Yagna)
9:13 A.M. Three killed in Kiryat Malakhi after succumbing to their wounds from direct rocket fire on family home (Yanir Yagna)
8:49 A.M. Three seriously wounded as rocket hits private house in Kiryat Malakhi; Magen David Adom at site, attempting to resuscitate victims; more rockets fired toward Eshkol Regional Council; car and chicken coups damaged (Yanir Yagna)
8:33 A.M. One seriously wounded and one lightly wounded from direct hit by rocket fire on private house in Kiryat Malakhi (Haaretz)
8:24 A.M. Overnight, rocket hits school in Ofakim, causing damage to a building; none wounded.
8:23 A.M. Heavy rocket fire on southern communities; 10 rockets fired toward Eshkol Regional Council, which explode on open land; rocket explodes in open land in a community, none wounded, no damage reported.
7:54 A.M. Iron Dome intercepts give rockets above Be'er Sheva; sirens sound in Ashkelon and Ashdod (Haaretz)
7:45 A.M. Two rockets explode in Eshkol Regional Council. Two additional rockets fired toward Ashdod; Iron Dome intercepts one of them, and the other explodes in open land; none wounded and no damage reported; overnight, a rocket struck a factory in the Ashkelon area, none wounded but damage done; roads in areas surrounding Gaza closed to traffic; only military vehicles permitted access (Haaretz)
7:32 A.M. Home Front Defense Minister Avi Dichter tells Haaretz, "The operation is going according to plan." According to a military source, overnight strikes in Gaza damage a substantial portion of Hamas' long-range missile infrastructure. However, it is as yet unclear as to whether this refers to all rocket stockpiles of organizations in the Strip. According to Dichter, it will now be much more difficult for the Palestinians to strike long-range targets, but "there is no difference between a strike on Tel Aviv, to a strike on Ashdod or Be'er Sheva."
In the meantime, the IDF is continuing to prepare for the possibility of expanding Operation Pillar of Defense and entering the Gaza Strip with ground forces. Reserve soldiers have been recruited to Special Forces, including military reconnaissance squads, emergency forces, and others. Engineering tools and tanks are being moved into Israel's south. IDF begins sealing off areas as closed military sites near some of the areas surrounding the Gaza Strip, which indicates a concentration of military forces in the region. Dichter refers to the possibility of a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, saying, "We are not sacrificing soldiers because we have nothing else to do. The task being imposed on the army is a necessary one." (Haaretz) (Haaretz)
7:25 A.M. Israeli military estimates that heavy rocket fire from the Gaza Strip will continue Thursday morning, and after Ahmed Jabari's funeral today at 11:30 A.M.
7:00 A.M. IAF distributes leaflets in Gaza calling upon citizens to distance themselves from weapons stockpiles and rockets (Haaretz)
6:50 A.M. Thursday morning Gaza summary: Three Hamas operatives killed in two separate Israel Air Forces airstrikes in the Khan Yunis region; Israel Defense Forces strikes in the Gaza Strip throughout the night leave 15 wounded (Haaretz)
6:45 A.M. Thursday morning Israel summary: Throughout the night some 25 rockets fired from Gaza toward Israel; since the beginning of Operation Pillar of Defense began Wednesday, 104 rockets have been fired toward Israel; 28 people suffer anxiety; two lightly wounded (Haaretz)
6:44 A.M. At UN Security Council emergency meeting, Israeli Ambassador to UN Ron Prosor insists on Israel's right to defend itself. Palestinian envoy Riad Mansour accusees Israel of committing war crimes against the Palestinians and calls on International community to stop Israel's "illegal" actions (Haaretz)
6:28 A.M. IDF kills motorcyclist in Khan Younis, Gaza (Ch. 10)
6:25 A.M. Sirens alarm in Be'er Sheva (Israeli Radio)
6:20 A.M. Since midnight, 25 rockets have been fired from Gaza (Israel Radio)
6:06 A.M. The UN Security Council closed emergency meeting ends, no decision reached (Israel Radio)
6:02 A.M IDF strikes two targets in Gaza, three Hamas militants killed (Israel Radio)
04:41 A.M. Tally of rockets from Gaza since operation launched reaches more than 90 (Haaretz)
04:04 A.M. One Gaza rocket hits open field in Be'er Sheva (Haaretz)
03:32 A.M. White House releases read out of President Obama's phone calls with Netanyahu and Egyptian President Morsi. Obama and Morsi agreed on the importance of working to de-escalate the situation as quickly as possible and agreed to stay in close touch in the days ahead. Netanyahu and Obama agreed that Hamas needs to stop its attacks on Israel to allow the situation to de-escalate (Natasha Mozgovaya)
03:00 A.M. Two rockets fired towards Be'er Sheva, no casualties reported (Haaretz)
02:28 A.M. The UN Security Council will hold a closed emergency meeting on Wednesday to discuss Israeli strikes against the Gaza Strip, France said, as Israel threatened a wider offensive in the Palestinian enclave to stem rocket salvoes by Hamas militants. The French UN mission announced on its Twitter feed that the meeting would be a "closed private debate" beginning at 9:00 P.M. EST (0200 GMT Thursday). Council diplomats said Israeli and Palestinian envoys would speak at the meeting. (Reuters)
2.19 A.M. Egyptian media reports that the military wing of Hamas claims it has fired a rocket toward Tel Aviv. The report also said Israel did not confirm the attack (Haaretz)
1:39 A.M. National Jewish Democratic Council says it stands with Israel against Hamas' rocket attacks (Natasha Mozgovaya)
1:19 A.M. Palestinians report 15 dead in Gaza, 118 wounded since Operation Pillar of Defense was launched (Haaretz)
1:13 A.M. 15 Rockets fired at Be'er Sheva (Haaretz)
1:09 A.M. Two sirens sounded in Be'er Sheva (Haaretz)
12:35 A.M. Two rockets fall in open areas in Be'er Sheva (Haaretz)
12:24 A.M. In total on Wednesday, 83 rockets were fired into Israeli territory (Haaretz)
1218 A.M. Alarm sounds in Be'er Sheva (Haaretz)
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Thought for the Day
“Without followers, evil cannot spread.”
~ Mr. Spock, character StarTrek TV Series
( 2230 – )
Born: 2230, Shi’Kahr, Vulcan
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Inheritance in the expression of amplicons for four microsatellite primer pairs was determined using 10 families created from gametes of wild lake sturgeon (Acipenser fulvescens). Loci Afu34 and Afu68 expressed a maximum of two even-intensity bands per individual and had progeny genotype ratios that fit disomic inheritance (P > 0.05). Some variation exhibited at Afu34 and Afu68 was attributable to a null allele. Genotype expression at both loci also indicated that one female parent had transmitted unreduced gametes. Primer Afu39 amplified products that exhibited four gene doses, where genotype counts fit expected ratios for disomic inheritance (P > 0.05) indicating amplification of products from two disomic loci that share alleles. Meiotic drive was evident at the Afu39 loci based on a test for random segregation (P < 0.05). Only the expression of Afu19 gave evidence of tetrasomic inheritance based on a single progeny potentially produced by a double reduction gamete. No evidence for proposed octoploid inheritance was observed.
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University of Scranton research indicates that only eight-percent of people achieves their New Year’s resolutions each year. Luckily, horse people are gritty. Tenacity and ability to stick with a task that’s difficult is evident in the sport of choice. Few things in horseback riding come easily: not the lead transitions, the early mornings at the show or on the trail, nor the twice-daily bandaging and medication administration required to successfully treat an injury.
Horsemen take pride in their ability to stick with a commitment, and put in the daily effort to reach it. Sometimes, when making a lifestyle change, such as improving our personal fitness, it’s easier to fall short. Learn seven approaches that’ll help you apply the same persistence to your wellness goals as you do to your horsemanship.
Without a Plan, Plan to Fail
The adage of planning is true—with work projects, riding-related goals, and your personal wellness—your success comes down to your plan. Prepare your meals ahead of time, keep healthy snacks available, pack a water bottle and your gym bag before you leave the house, and designate a specific gym time. If you create a routine, and then stick to it, it’ll be much easier to stay the course long-term and you’ll start to see progress.
Put Yourself First
When you’re busy, it’s easy to feel guilt about taking a half hour or hour to go to the gym. Remember, exercise isn’t self-indulgent. Healthy employees, parents, riders, people are more productive. They’re sharper, have more energy, and are generally happier. So, treat it like any other meeting. Block time out in your calendar and think of it is personal and professional development.
Track Your Progress
Keep a journal to track workouts, body weight, and daily eating and hydration. This’ll allow you to see your progress over time, and give you perspective when you think you’re stuck in a rut. Realize that progress isn’t just what you see on the scale, it’s improvements to your strength, endurance, and flexibility, which translate to the saddle; your inches around the body, which indicate increased muscle and body tone; and increased energy.
Find an Accountability Buddy
If you struggle to make it to the gym or eat healthy on a regular basis, an accountability buddy with similar goals can help you stay on track—even better if he or she is a rider. Set workout dates and hold each other accountable to show up for them. Talk to this person when you feel unmotivated or like you’re in a rut, and celebrate victories (yours and theirs). Like with riding, improving your fitness can sometimes be a lonely endeavor. Find like-minded people to share with.
Be Realistic, Set Small Goals
When you have a sizeable, long-term goal, some days feel daunting and like all the work you’ve put in is for naught. While you definitely want to set long-term goals, it’s equally important to set achievable milestones for yourself along the way. Create SMART goals, and then stop to celebrate when you reach them. Treat yourself to a new pair of boots or a night out with your friends. Do something that refreshes and recharges you so you can keep moving forward.
Life is about balance. Sometimes other priorities get in the way of a well-intended plan and set us temporarily off course. Progress toward your goals is a marathon, not a sprint; set realistic expectations for yourself and give yourself grace when you hit a speed bump. Instead of kill yourself to eat clean 100 percent of the time until you reach your goals, strive for 80 or 90 percent. Or, aim to workout just one more day per week than you had previously.
If you reach a point that you feel overwhelmed, worn out, or like you don’t care anymore, it’s not you, it’s the program. The program you follow is only as effective as your commitment to it, so choose something that’ll work for you and your lifestyle.
Remember Your Why
Did you start because you wanted to have more energy for riding, because you want to be stronger or have more stamina to improve in the saddle, or because you want to look and feel better in your clothes? It doesn’t matter what your why is, it only matters that your reason for making changes is compelling enough to keep you motivated. When you feel stuck, revisit your why. Is it still important to you? Hopefully, yes. Revisit this reason whenever you need a boost in motivation.
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HACCP in Retail Establishments
What is HACCP?
Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) is a seven-step process that a food producer or establishment can use to develop an effective food safety plan. The HACCP process establishes the procedures used, identifies critical control points and aids in the development of effective control measures.
What are the seven HACCP steps?
- Identify potential food safety hazards.
- Identify critical control points.
- Establish control procedures.
- Establish monitoring procedures.
- Establish corrective actions.
- Establish effective record keeping procedures.
- Establish procedures for verification.
A HACCP plan is the formal documentation of the seven steps in HACCP.
Who is required to have a HACCP plan?
- Retail food establishments that:
- Cure or smoke food products as a method of preservation
- Use food additives to preserve food or extend the shelf life of foods.
- Use a reduced-oxygen method for packaging food.
- Retail food establishments that apply for a variance when:
- Using more than one tagged shellstock container at a time.
- Deviating from required cooking times and temperatures for raw animal foods.
- Using molluscan shellfish lifesupport system tanks used to store and display shellfish offered for human consumption.
Must Retail HACCP Plans Be Approved?
Yes. HACCP plans required by the Food Code must be approved by the inspecting agency. Approval must be obtained before engaging in the activities listed above that require a HACCP plan. Contact the agency that conducts your inspections for approval guidelines.
The FDA Food Code is a valuable resource.
- Chapter 3. Food
- Chapter 4. Equipment, Utensils and Linens
- Annex 5. HACCP Guidelines
- Annex 6. Food-processing criteria
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HTTP for Web Developers
Slim framework has recently invaded my life, I picked it up for a hobby project, recommended it to a client who then contracted me to do quite a lot more development, and it's also used for m.joind.in. One thing that has tripped me up a couple of times is how to return not-HTML from Slim as it just bins any headers you try to send yourself. I think also that the "right" way to do this may have changed between versions as I also found some examples that didn't work! What did work for me was this:
$app variable is the Slim\Slim instance for your application, once you have that, you can just add on any headers you need to with this call to
header(). It wasn't obvious to me and there weren't a lot of resources for this, so I thought I'd share!
In case you missed it, Twitter updated their APIs recently, so that you have to authenticate to use even their search APIs to return publicly-available results. This is an increasing trend for API providers, to provide either very limited or nonexistent access for unauthenticated users, I think so they can rate limit consumers that swamp them. To cut a long story short, that meant I needed to update my dashboards that keep an eye on twitter searches to do more than just call
file_get_contents in the general direction of the right URL. Continue reading
Today's quick tip is something that was widely retweeted after my "Debugging HTTP" talk at the ever-fabulous WhiskyWeb conference last weekend. When working with JSON on the commandline, here's a quick tip for showing the JSON in a nicer format:
curl http://api.joind.in | python -mjson.tool
You need python installed, but the JSON extension is probably included, and that's all you need for this tool. The result is something like:
You can also use this approach to present JSON data that has been captured to another file, for example, it's a handy trick that I use often when developing something with JSON as a data format.
While working on a book ("PHP Web Services" from O'Reilly, not out yet but soon!) recently, I was looking for some place I could make HTTP requests to, to show off how to make different kinds of requests with different tools. On my own machine, I have a couple of scripts that chatter back giving debug information about the requests that were made, but I wanted to get the tools examples going without any additional dependencies at all. I hadn't used anything like these tools before, but I found quite a few alternatives, so I thought I'd share what I came up with. Continue reading
Yesterday, I saw this tweet:
I have lots of advice for Olly (whom I know personally) but there's no way it will fit into a tweet! So here it is, in rather longer form :)
I'm working on an API which uses OAuth2, but it also has an HTML output handler so I actually do quite a lot of my development in the browser for read-only stuff (I wrote an earlier article about output handlers including the HTML output handler). I fell across an extension for Chrome called ModHeader (WTF kind of URL is that, google?) which does this trick for me!
Once I have the access token, I add the Authorization header using ModHeader and it sends it on all requests to this API, so I can still use my HTML output handler and be logged in. It's useful for sending custom headers of all kinds for different tools, so I thought I'd mention it!
Once upon a time, what seems like a lifetime ago, I was away for a couple of weeks, and I wrote a series of posts about serving RESTful APIs from PHP to keep my blog going while I was away. Fast forward a few years and those posts are outdated and still wildly popular - so I thought it was about time I revisited this and showed how I'm writing RESTful PHP servers today!
In the first part of this (probably) 3-part series, we'll begin with the basics. It might seem boring, but the most important thing to get right with REST is parsing all the various elements of the HTTP request and responding accordingly. I've put in code samples from from a small-scale toy project I created to make me think about the steps involved (should I put the code somewhere so you can see it? Let me know). Without further ado, let's dive in and begin by sending all requests through one bootstrap script: Continue reading
Recently I started playing with the google analytics API, looking at ways to bring analytics onto dashboards and generate simple reports from the data in there. Very shortly after I started to look at the API, I had working data retrieval, so I thought I'd share my experiences (and code!). Continue reading | <urn:uuid:64ce2f22-d07b-435e-b35a-de3897b5f642> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://lornajane.net/posts/tag/http | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00129-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963884 | 1,017 | 2.0625 | 2 |
We are going to use a very specific format called an Ignite talk. Before we go any further, a big tip of the hat to microbiologist Dr. Siouxsie Wiles, who developed the material for this week’s exercise.
First off: Don’t panic!
Preparing talks is usually a very time consuming affair for scientists. This exercise is not like that in any way.
So what is an Ignite talk? Ignite talks are a very specific way to talk to the public about something you are really passionate about. Ignite talks are 5 minutes in length, which leads to Ignite’s motto: enlighten us, but make it quick! Each participant brings 20 slides to accompany their talk and each slide auto-advances every 15 seconds (whether the speaker is ready or not). As you can imagine, this makes the Ignite format a challenge, but it’s a challenge that leads to better talks.
Start by watching a few Ignite talks. Check out Hillel Cooperman’s Ignite talk on Lego:
And here is Dianne Stronks’ talk on smiling.
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By Lisa Smith (W&M Regular Contributor)
After the Battle of Rocoux (11 October, 1746), several Dutch prisoners of war were held in Beaune (Burgundy). Townsmen were recruited as guards, with local lawyers and physicians – men of responsibility – as captains. Physician Vivant-Augustin Ganiare (1698-1781) expressed concerns about the prisoners being a potential source of contagion in November. They had dysentery and seemed to be the source of a local worm outbreak.
Over Christmas, several young captains provided their men with wine and tobacco to help morale, which led first to “bacchanals” and then to the worst-ever hangover: a flu-like epidemic for the whole town. Men, especially those who had been on recent guard duty, were the main victims. Women and children in turn caught it from male family members.
An unnamed ‘Monsieur’ aged 37 was typical. He spent two nights on watch with his friends, where they drank and danced with the prisoners. Off duty, he ran about the streets in “excessive joy”. The alcohol’s effects were worsened by sudden temperature changes between the heat of revelry and the cold outside.
Fraternization was bad enough, but the underlying problem was failed leadership. Ganiare was unsurprised that nearly all of Monsieur Navetier’s men had died since Navetier had been particularly generous. The captains should have known better than to give their men booze. The entire town now suffered from their foolishness!
Ganiare maintained detailed notes of interesting cases and monthly summaries of general health trends, crops and weather. As a man of science, Ganiare wanted to identify patterns in epidemics and weather; as a religious man, he hoped to see the hand of God in nature. By uncovering nature’s secrets, he hoped to control disease outbreaks.
This time Ganiare had no need to search further for nature’s secrets. His conclusion? The epidemic, caused by fraternization and carousing, had been entirely preventable.
A cautionary tale for the festive season…
Lisa Smith is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Saskatchewan. She writes on gender, family, and health care in England and France (ca. 1600-1800).
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As we provide child care in Rockville, Maryland, we have long learned the fact that kids love to have fun. They are drawn towards things that make them happy. This natural attraction to having fun can be used by parents and teachers when teaching things to kids.
In some institutions such as a Montessori school, creative teaching methods are highly encouraged. Fun can always be integrated into a child’s learning process, and it can even help them learn better. With that, let us discuss several fun ways that can help kids learn.
- Learning through Games
Kids love playing all sorts of games. Parents and teachers can choose to relay information through game format. There are already many games that are educational for kids. But teachers can be creative and create games of their own as well.
Many people also use the power of songs to convey information to kids. Nursery rhymes have long been used to help kids with speech. Information in song format may also be easier to recall, which makes the learning experience better for children.
- Role Play and Pretend Play
Some kids also love role play and pretend play. These types of play can spark the imagination of kids and can help them visualize the world from a different perspective. They can learn new information through acting.
Make sure your child is having fun as they learn more about their world. Call us here at Norbeck Montessori to learn how we can help your kids learn in creative ways. We are a preschool in Maryland that provides several education programs for kids. | <urn:uuid:c0dc6197-7299-4040-b68a-01d996f72f6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.norbeck.com/fun-and-creative-ways-to-teach-children-new-information | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.968615 | 314 | 3.484375 | 3 |
Krochet Kids is an organization that helps artisans around the world make a fair living creating and selling handmade items. They are launching a new campaign today, starting at 9am PST, called #KnowWhoMadeIt.
I love fair trade crochet, which refers to crochet that is done by artisans in other countries who are treated fairly, given a living wage and able to use their creative skills to earn money.
I thought I’d check out what Red Envelope offers in crochet and here’s what I found.
Crochet from Hearts, which works with 2000 artisans around the world to promote eco-friendly, sustainable products and support freedom and human rights around the world.
I love seeing these different crochet jewelry techniques used in a luxury-style item that looks so different from what people normally think of as crochet.
I have written a lot about fair trade crochet, including highlighting the work of Same Sky. Here’s what it’s all about.
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Learners and teachers instructed U.S. Dwelling customers during a Thursday listening to that their right to communicate about race and LGBTQ+ concerns in public schools is currently being silenced thanks to an onslaught of new state laws as very well as pressure on faculty boards from right-wing advocates.
“To be crystal very clear, this is about disrupting and destroying public training,” James Whitfield, a former principal in Texas and a single of the witnesses, explained to lawmakers.
The House Oversight and Reform Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Subcommittee, which is led by Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin (D), held the hearing to analyze the effects of new condition legal guidelines that bar educators from discussing American background, race and LGBTQ+ difficulties in K-12 public lecture rooms.
Florida not long ago handed a “Don’t Say Gay” invoice that prohibits discussion of gender identification and sexual orientation in general public classrooms in kindergarten as a result of third grade and will allow it only when age-suitable amid older children. One particular of the witnesses, Jennifer Cousins, a mother from Orlando, stated the legislation would imply her little ones would be prevented from talking about their more mature sibling, who is nonbinary, in the classroom.
“Laws like Florida’s officially named ‘Parental Rights in Education’ find to erase (LGBTQ+ people’s) existence for our youngest of youngsters, who by character are currently far more open to learning about diversity and accepting one one more even with their discrepancies, and undoubtedly deny parents like me a safe studying surroundings for my children,” Cousins stated.
Young people from Texas, Michigan and Ohio advised Dwelling lawmakers that the constant attacks from ideal-wing advocacy groups and absence of guidance from faculty administrative officers are getting a toll on their psychological wellness and affecting their education.
“Teachers are remaining vilified,” Elle Caldon of Dallas County, Texas, said.
She informed a tale about how stickers supporting LGBTQ+ pride, displaying rainbows or flags, were scraped off classroom doors in her school without an rationalization. When Caldon’s teacher pushed college officials to give a reasoning, her contract was not renewed, Caldon explained.
States restrict discussions of race
An evaluation by Instruction Week found that due to the fact January 2021, 42 states have released legislation or other measures to prohibit the teachings of crucial race idea, or dialogue of race and sexism in the classroom.
Significant race theory is not taught at the K-12 stage, but Republicans at the point out, community and federal stage have drummed up the wrong narrative that youngsters are remaining taught an educational concept – that is meant to research how race intersects with the authorized discipline — in the classroom.
Claire Mengel of Hamilton County, Ohio, instructed Property members about how their school’s Range Day was canceled, an optional party the place pupils, who want to get parental authorization to go to, could pay attention to speakers from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
Mengel explained they and their classmates before long learned that the most recent college board members ran on a system opposed to vital race principle and canceled the occasion.
“Our party is not about CRT, our celebration is about variety,” they explained. “The faculty board introduced politics into our universities when they attacked our function. Their steps have harmed our education and learning, our mental health, and our local community.”
Krisha Ramani of Oakland County, Mich., pointed to the new book bans throughout the country and argued that youthful folks like herself have the potential to speak, debate and keep tough conversations.
“For the moms and dads of individuals who may well disagree with these many views, banning publications for all students infringes on their have proper to hold discussions about the social landscape,” she mentioned.
2nd congressional hearing
This is the 2nd of the subcommittee’s hearings on attacks on flexibility of speech. In early April, the panel examined why hundreds of books, predominantly published by marginalized authors, have been banned from public faculties, and the impact of these steps on students and instructors.
“The classroom censorship legislation becoming handed and proposed are the hallmark of authoritarian regimes — eliminating just about anything from the community sphere that does not comport with a rigorous bash-line and then demonizing it,” Raskin claimed in his opening remarks on Thursday.
Suzanne Nossel, the chief government officer of PEN America, said her business has tracked textbooks that have been banned in lecture rooms and in libraries due to the fact 2021. PEN America is an firm that advocates for the independence of speech.
She claimed there is a “wave of censorship that is engulfing our classrooms.”
Nossel said a report by PEN The united states found from July 2021 to the close of March this calendar year, much more than 1,500 books ended up banned in 86 school districts in 26 states.
The witness tapped by Republicans, Virginia Gentles of the Impartial Women’s Forum, argued that dad and mom must have the preference not to send their little ones to general public school and ought to be provided with vouchers to mail their children to non-public institutions that have a curriculum with which they agree.
Gentles is the director of the Education Independence Heart at IWF, a suitable-wing public plan team that is backed by the Koch brothers.
Whitfield reported that type of rhetoric is “a ploy to divert public school bucks to subsidize personal education and learning in the name of ‘choice.’”
“Educators who pour their coronary heart and soul into the advancement and growth of younger people today have been positioned squarely in the crosshairs of political teams who are established to ruin community schooling,” he said.
Whitfield, who is Black, had to resign from his job soon after he was accused of marketing important race idea thanks to a letter he wrote to pupils about the summer season protests of 2020 pursuing the murder of George Floyd. He was the school’s initial Black principal.
Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, the major Republican on the panel, stated she felt point out and community governments should be capable to make their possess conclusions about classroom curriculum and that pupils really should be concentrated on education and not tough topics these kinds of as race.
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Set during the Second World War, the main theme of the book is to bamboozle Hitler for the D-Day invasion plans. Whether the Germans should approach Normandy or Calais for the France invasion? So, basically it is a war-fiction. Peter Jordan, an American engineer, arrives in the wartime Britain for the construction of an artificial harbour and also becomes the important part of the top secrets related to D-Day.
Then there is very intelligent man Alfred Vicary, a British academic, also a good friend of Winston Churchill who introduces him to MI5 (the British Counterintelligence Operations). As the war is on, Abwehr, a spy network of Germans, is very much active in the Britain. Alfred Vicary devises a plan in which Abwehr will keep receiving the information about the Britain’s moves but the information relayed will not be truth. It will be rather fabricated, so as to deceive their spy network. However, the real worry is to dig out the sleeping agents of Germany as they are more detrimental than the normal ones. One such terrific agent is Catherine Blake, a cold-hearted assassin, working under the direct orders of Hitler, whose real name is Anna Stein, she works in a hospital as a volunteer during the air raids.
As per the plan, she romantically encounters Peter Jordan. Next, she ensnares Peter Jordan by masking a melancholy love affair with him. However, her real intention is to get the correct information about the construction of the harbor as that would help the Germans to counterattack the Allies for D-Day. So, she wants to use that American guy. After getting access to top secrets through her lover, she realizes that so far Germans have been deceived by MI5 via Double Cross Operation, headed by Vicary. But before she can leak the truth, she is uncovered by Vicary and in the process of fleeing through the sea route she is killed by the British Martial Ship arranged by Vicary. Peter and Catherine's love affair ends with their deaths in the sea. Catherine dies while eluding but Peter saves a blonde girl's life in a failed effort to save himself.
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Greek Police on Monday were searching for the vandals who sprayed anti-Semitic slogans during the night on the outer walls of the Jewish cemetery in the district of Nikea, in southwestern Athens.
The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) condemned the vandalism by suspected neo-Nazis in a statement, saying the slogans were the same “used by the Nazis themselves 80 years ago to displace millions of Jews from their homes.”
KIS also welcomed the prompt reaction by Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis who sent out crews to clean walls.
“We express our confidence that the Greek state will take all necessary measures to arrest the perpetrators and bring them to justice,” it added in its statement.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said he was “saddened and appalled” by the vandalism. “Nazism and its followers have no place in our society and in any society,” he said in a statement on his official Twitter account.
Government spokesman Stelios Petsas said “Nazism, anti-Semitism and their followers have no place in Greece” and “there will be no tolerance towards them.”
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Steamboat Springs A survey last summer showed that 70 percent of South Routt residents were interested in commuter transit to Steamboat Springs, but as transportation feasibility studies continue, it's becoming clear that transit services are desired beyond the 9-to-5 crowd.
Colorado Springs-based LSC Transportation Consultants and the project's citizens advisory committee are discussing numerous options for South Routt, including traditional fixed-schedule transit, rideshare and vanpool programs, and park-and-ride.
In January, the Routt County Board of Commissioners approved a contract laying out the study's shared funding agreement. Routt County is contributing $5,000, half in cash and the remainder as in-kind services. The Colorado Department of Transportation is funding the remaining $20,000.
"We're hoping that it will show that something in terms of transit is feasible," County Commissioner Diane Mitsch Bush said.
CDOT's portion of the funding stems from the Federal Transit Authority's 5311 program, which provides grant funding for transit services in rural areas. The study will be completed by June, so South Routt transit projects can apply for operational funds in the next 5311 grant cycle, Mitsch Bush said.
Consultants are using various assessment techniques, including examining traffic counts and census figures, to give them an idea of who's going to ride. The study also includes a scientific telephone survey, LSC consultant Kyle Kosman said.
The goal of the study is to determine appropriate service levels, appropriate service vehicles and how to fund it, Kosman said. A transit system in South Routt is unlikely to be able to sustain itself without charging user fees, however those fees cannot be so high that the community will not support or use it, he said.
The study will take into account rising gas prices - and whether $4 a gallon gasoline will make people get out of their cars - as well as South Routt's continued growth and development and relieving traffic congestion on Colorado Highway 131 and Routt County Road 14, Kosman said.
Residents from across South Routt - as well as employers from Steamboat Springs -turned out in force Wednesday night to share their input about how a transit system could best serve them. One common discussion thread was that Routt County's service industry is not 9-to-5, which complicates fixed-schedule buses, particularly to small communities.
Residents also voiced concerns that senior citizens and Steamboat shoppers would like to ride during non-commuter hours - and that many people would enjoy late-night rides rather than driving back to South Routt after a night on the town.
"You need some flexibility in the routes and how often," Yampa Town Board member Karen Tussey said. "It needs to be more continuous during the day, so housewives and people with children can get into town to do things separate from the commuter traffic, and so elderly people can get to their doctor appointments."
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Is this the European Union’s approach to ‘digital partnerships’ in the Indo-Pacific just fluff? At the very least one can say it is much too timid.
The EU’s climate and human rights ambitions have long been thwarted by its free trade policies. The European Commission is now showing signs of rectifying this, but it has some way to go – write eight leading NGOs.
The current French presidential contest is tight and tense. The outcome of the run-off vote in ten days that will oppose incumbent Emmanuel Macron and the national-populist Marine Le Pen will determine whether the European Union as we know it has a future. Speaking of trade policy in this context …
As the new EU International Procurement Instrument sails through approval in Council, European Parliament rapporteur on the file Daniel Caspary explains how he sees the new legislation.
The anti-coercion instrument that the European Commission is proposing for adoption this year coinciding with a crisis with China over its economic bullying of Lithuania is not only a risky institutional power transfer – it might end up being a damp squib.
Just two years after the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement entered into force, the EU and Singapore are ready to take our economic cooperation to the next level by pursuing a comprehensive digital partnership, write European Commission executive vice-president Valdis Dombrovksis and Singapore’s minister in charge of trade S. Iswaran.
In a guest contribution for Borderlex, four Members of the European Parliament call for a trade policy that is better adapted to the European Union’s new Critical Raw Materials strategy as it rolls out its Fit-for-55 climate package. Concluding outstanding free trade agreements with Chile and Australia is seen as …
The European Union needs an anti-coercion instrument given the reality of an increasingly harsh geopolitical landscape, writes Bernd Lange in a guest contribution for Borderlex. An effective instrument requires a comprehensive definition of economic coercion and more international coordination with like-minded countries.
The United States’ crashing into a submarine agreement Australia concluded with France, getting Paris kicked out of it and replace it with its own nuclear-powered technology, all done in secret and revealed suddenly last week is a shock to everyone.
In the new geo-economic era, trade policy does not just follow trade logics, but also the logic of security policy and geopolitics. The EU needs an effective and credible anti-coercion instrument to meet the challenge. Here is how the EU could go about it. | <urn:uuid:d7e241a2-49d0-4c5f-a275-761eac3077a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://borderlex.net/category/special-products/free-comment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.926176 | 524 | 1.828125 | 2 |
When I’m not unhealthily hunched over my laptop consuming my nth cup of nuclear coffee, I quite like to relax in front of Star Trek Discovery on Netflix. Gibberish science, cod philosophies and mawkish sentiments notwithstanding, I still find it eminently watchable. Wormholes into parallel future universes often feature, so does dark matter, supremely enigmatic but nevertheless thought to comprise 85% of all the matter in the universe and of course, the world got its first view of a black hole into which all things get sucked but no light appears.
So imagine this episode through a wormhole into a universe far into the future and a meeting of the Inter-Galactic Health Organisation being addressed by the Conference Chair Madame Chaargg from the planet Thaarrgg; “We thought you might appreciate some light relief from the serious business of the day, not least the galactic pandemic of brussel sprout-related fever, we would delve into the Federation Drug Archive (FDA) to see what quaint views our ancestors held about public health and in particular the dangers of vaping with a device called JUUL, one of several devices which of course we now know had a hugely beneficial health impact on smoking-related diseases on that little blue dot we sometimes see known as Earth. So here goes:
“Vaping causes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Nicotine is a carcinogen. Juul delivers carcinogens to users. Juul is designed to transition users to cigarette smoking. Juul is defectively designed on the basis that it very effectively delivers nicotine. Juul aggravates nicotine addiction in cigarette smokers.”
(Gales of laughter from the audience)
“Wait there is more. Governments decided to make it harder to get hold of vaping products than the far more dangerous cigarettes. One government decided to ban sales in most of the outlets where underage vapers don’t obtain these devices anyway (apparently they were obsessed about teenage vapers) with the risk that the adult smokers who really needed to switch would just be put off and stick with the cigarettes that remained on sale everywhere even in those stores that swept vaping devices off their shelves. Oh, and they banned all the flavours of e-liquid except those flavours most like cigarettes”.
(Audience now hysterical including Ambassador Spong from the Outer Neutron Galaxy who dies because the paramedics were only able to resuscitate in time one of his ten hearts).
A science fiction scenario, yes, but all those allegations against JUUL are central to a current court case in Florida claiming that JUUL and Altria are in cahoots to get kids hooked on nicotine no doubt with the perceived outcome of more kids smoking. Can’t quite figure why JUUL would want kids smoking, but I’m sure the eminent firm of Messrs Sue, Grabbit & Run will wangle a way.
A science fiction scenario, yes, but overall no more scientifically fictitious than the gibberish spouted by the anti-vaping lobby trying to convince governments about the alleged ‘dangers’ of safer nicotine products in the face of the balance of population level independent evidence. On this side of the wormhole, we are still faced with the black hole of fake news which sucks in all the evidence-based science and proportionate and pragmatic legal responses into its maw, allowing no light of ideologically-free public health measures to escape. Instead we have the dark matter of at least 85% myth and misinformation threatening the lives of millions of smokers.
The WHO recently announced that global outbreaks of measles have soared recently largely due to the propaganda pumped out by the anti-vax movement. This has an eerie read across to the anti-vape movement. Vaccination is the tried and tested intervention to prevent the spread of infectious disease. But on the basis of highly discredited evidence, there is an army of parents who believe that the measles vaccine causes autism. So they don’t vaccinate their kids who may well go on to contract measles and pass the disease onto other kids who have yet to be vaccinated or have only had their first dose of MMR. ‘I have a right not to vaccinate my child’ they say. Maybe, but you don’t have the right to pass on measles to somebody else’s kid because of your dangerous views.
Anti-vapers are doing their level best to legislate safer nicotine products out of existence but promoting so much discredited evidence about the dangers of these products that the kids who might otherwise have been using nicotine relatively safely may well turn round, should all the hysteria bear fruit, and say ‘OK. I’ll just smoke then seeing as you haven’t banned cigarettes and I can get them in any store’. So these anti-vapers who keep trumpeting ‘think about the children’ are potentially setting up a situation where other peoples’ children could be at risk from the second hand smoke courtesy of their former- vaping mates who have turned to cigarettes having been denied access to the healthier option. The word ‘epidemic’ is used in relation to the increase in American teenage vaping with no detailed published evidence to back it up. But supposing it is an epidemic and the government is successful in closing off all routes to vaping for young people. What do they think will happen?
And as a harbinger of crack downs on access to legitimate vaping devices, US customs seized an international package from China containing over 1000 counterfeit JUUL pods, three chargers and a JUUL device. With no sense of irony, a Customs official said that counterfeits pose “potential health and safety threats” to consumers – as do legislative anti-vaping moves at a national and federal level which could lead to consumers turning to counterfeits exposing them to unknown and potentially hazardous chemicals and dangerous devices bereft of any quality standards.
Before I go, just a reminder that on this small blue dot of ours, some clear, blue light does shine to illuminate the sense buried in the nonsense of the public health controversy over tobacco harm reduction. It’s called the Global Forum on Nicotine which this year does exactly what it says on the tin and considers the whole issue of nicotine. Be there. You know it makes sense. https://gfn.net.co/ | <urn:uuid:ec709db9-6327-4c6a-99f6-6ee1c7ef6933> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nicotinepolicy.net/blogs/harry-shapiro/1952-harry-s-blog-86? | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.950339 | 1,304 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Story Quilt Storytimes
Tuesday, September 13, 2011The Forsyth Public Library invites children ages 3-5 to attend storytime in a new Story Quilt format beginning September 22 and ending November 10. We will meet Thursday mornings from 10:00-10:45 a.m. in the conference room of the library. In addition, two sessions will be repeated at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, September 26 and Monday, October 24. Each week includes stories, rhymes, games and simple crafts, all geared toward preschoolers. No registration is necessary; just come to the library and join the fun!
Fall storytimes will feature pumpkins, bats, and other favorite signs of the season. Children’s Librarian Rachel Miller encourages families with children ages 3-5 to join her for storytimes and adds that these sessions go beyond fun to develop imagination, strengthen listening skills, build vocabulary, and provide opportunities for social interaction.
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English: Vandenberg AFB Space Launch Complex 4, which included two launch pads, 4-East and 4-West. SLC-4E was deactivated in 2005 and SLC-4W was deactivated in 2003. As of 2015, spaceflight company SpaceX has converted SLC-4E into a launch pad, and SLC-4W into a landing pad, for its Falcon 9 rocket.
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Published on July 16th, 2016 | by Geetika Bhasin
3D Printing Uses Plastic Items to Create Freehand Sculptures
3D printing technology can use plastic for remodeling to make freehand sculptures. A new company is using 3D printing pen called Renegade to transform plastic filaments into a gel that harden when they come in contact with air, to create these sculptures. The company plans to take this technology a step further and make use of old bottles, folders, and other plastic equipment for its experiment. As of now, it is seeking investors on Kickstarter.
3Doodeler is a 3D pen that commences this technology. A plastic rod is inserted into the pen and a heating element is fit inside the pen to soften the plastic. A motor pushes out the gel to create 3D shapes. This whole mechanism gets pretty expensive with a pack of 3Doodler with 25 filaments is priced at $9.99.
The use of Renegade can tackle the problem of filament availability and cost. The makers of this pen have developed a device named ChupaCut that can turn old plastic bottles and folders into thin plastic strips that can be devoured by the pen. The pen takes in 5-7 mm strips from plastic bottles and sheets that are 0.14 to 0.35 mm thick.
The only disadvantage of this project is that the use of old plastics offers limited color usage to the user. But, here also, Renegade can accept standard color filaments like all other 3D pens to add the color punch to the design.
An early bird offer of the Renegade and ChupaCut combo offer is priced at $99. The two are also available separately. The price of the 3Doodler is fixed and there will be no compromise in quality and production due to the crowdfunding campaign.
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As kids get older, peer pressure can get in the way of how well they do in school.
Why? By the time they turn seven, children start caring more and more about what other kids think of them — and less about what their parents or other adults think.
Kids who want to get approval from their peers and become more popular will often take part in risky behavior like cheating in class, shoplifting, tagging, drugs, alcohol, and sex — all which can send them on a downward spiral and take them away from focusing on their education.
Here are six other ways to help your child resist peer pressure and stay on the right path:
1. Don’t overreact
When your child talks with you about what friends are doing, you may hear things that upset you. But if you overreact or lecture, your child won’t want to bring these issues up again. Stay as calm as you can, without yelling, blaming, of lecturing. Instead, use these moments to get your child thinking about the consequences of risky behavior: “I wonder if your friend realizes she could be arrested for shoplifting?”
2. Talk about what makes a true friend.
Help your child understand that a friend who is pressuring him to do something dangerous, hurtful, or illegal is not much of a friend.
3. Get to know your child’s friends.
Encourage your child to invite friends home. Having his peers around will help you decide whether they are good or bad influences.
4. Talk about what independence really means.
At this age, your child wants more independence. Point out that if this is a goal of his, he shouldn’t let other kids decide what she should be doing — that’s not independence!
5. Role play peer pressure.
Ask your child what he wishes he could say to his friends if he didn’t have to worry about what they’d say if he said “No.” Then suggest ways he can say it. Keep your advice short and to the point. Remind him it’s easiest to stick with simple things that he can say comfortably. (Check out “Five steps to resisting peer pressure” for ideas on what your child can say to a friend who is pressuring him.)
6. Model saying “No”.
When your child hears you setting limits clearly, firmly, and without a lot of explanation, this helps him see that it’s OK to do the same. When you say, “No, that’s not okay with me,” you’re giving your child the same language he can say when someone tries to talk him into doing something he shouldn’t. | <urn:uuid:dd989bdd-8cd9-4290-b52f-323ee247f3fd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/6-tips-resisting-peer-pressure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00151-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966385 | 571 | 3.140625 | 3 |
There is no doubt that a warm rider is far safer than one who is frozen solid in the winter chill.
Being too cold can lead to shivering, exhaustion, confusion, memory loss, slurred speech, drowsiness, low energy, slow reaction times, and stiff and sore joints. None of these is advisable for a rider to stay safe.
There is nothing macho about braving cold conditions that bring on hypothermia. Riders who don’t prepare for the cold are a danger to themselves and others.
Warm and comfortable riders are more alert, more supple, better able to deal with emergency situations and therefore safer road users.
Not that safety is much of a concern for these guys in the annual Red Bull Twitch ‘n Ride!
There’s cold and then there is bitterly cold with black ice and other dangers. A little bit of cold can be invigorating, but prolonged bitter cold is dangerous and could even lead to permanent frost bite damage.
So we have provided a list of 10 hot tips for staying warm and comfortable in the coming winter months.
But first, here’s a tale from my early years of riding before the invention of many rider products to keep us warm.
I used to ride from Ipswich to Toowoomba after work about 1am on Saturdays to spend the weekend and in winter that would include sub-zero temperatures. My riding gear consisted of jeans, tracksuit pants over the top and sometimes even fishing waders over them, army boots with two pairs of woollen socks, a shirt, jumper, newspaper in between and a padded leather flying jacket, woollen balaclava, woollen gloves and rubber dishwashing gloves over the top.
I could hardly move and I certainly couldn’t feel the levers very well, yet I was still bone-cold on my naked BMW R65.
One night I came across roadworks on the highway with limited warning signs and I couldn’t move my frozen feet or right hand to hit the brakes and wash off speed. The bike slewed, bucked and kicked but miraculously made it out the other side of the 100m stretch of thick gravel. I was lucky.
10 HOT TIPS FOR WINTER RIDING
Motorcycle and outdoor outfitter stores sell a wide range of thermal underwear which is thin but effective. It will keep you warm without having to put on several layers of bulky clothing and limit your free movement. The Oxford ChillOut range is particularly good and includes long underwear, balaclavas, glove liners, knee warmers, socks and neck tubes.
2 GEAR UP
Today’s riding gear features materials that keep you warm without having to be extra bulky. You usually pay for what you get, but good quality textile gear is usually warmer than leather. A nice leather jacket may cut the wind, but the leather can get cold and stiff. Make sure the sleeve, neck and ankles can be tightly closed as the wind and cold can get in. A neck warm is a good addition to stop that sneaky breeze down your back.
You can wear the warmest jacket and pants, but if you’re extremities are still cold, you will not be able to work the levers properly. Get good quality winter gloves and wear warm, woollen socks to keep you fingers and toes from going numb. Just because gloves are thick doesn’t mean they are warmer. Usually the price you pay relates more to effectiveness than thickness.
4 WIND CHILL
Estimating wind chill is a complex calculation involving ambient temperature and wind speed, but at 0 degrees ambient temperature, travelling at 100km/h on the highway, you will be in -17.4 degrees. Do your best to get out of the wind. Difficult on a naked bike, but you can at least tuck your legs into the tank, crouch down a bit and maybe slow down a bit. Some bike modifications you can make are a quickly detachable windscreen and/or handguards like Barkbuster BBZ-01 shrouds.
5 BIKE MODS
If you want to spend a bit more money, you can also add grip, seat and even foot warmers to your bike, although these will all draw power from the battery so you might also need to consider an alternator and/or battery boost.
6 STOP OFTEN
We can all brave a quick ride home in near-freezing temperatures, but a long ride in the cold will numb your fingers and toes which is dangerous to you and other road users. Stop frequently, have a warm drink and thaw out the extremities. Find public toilets with hand blow dryers which will quickly thaw out your fingers. If you are constantly shivering, pulling over for just a couple of minutes and move around briskly to get your blood pumping.
7 STAY DRY
Even fine mist can soak your clothing and amplify the effects of wind chill, so consider wearing a waterproof layer or at least spraying your gear with water repellant.
When we’re cold we don’t feel as thirsty as when we are hot, so there is a tendency to not drink enough. That can lead to fatigue, so stay hydrated.
9 ALCOHOL & COFFEE
They may go down nice and warm, and make you feel like they are heating up your insides, but they can be a danger in the cold. Alcohol and caffeine increase the blood flow to the skin which may make you feel warmer, but it is actually causing you to loose body heat. Alcohol also affects your judgment which may already be impaired by the cold.
10 EAT WELL
Our metabolism slows when we are cold so we start to shiver to create internal heat. Good nutrition helps keep you warm as your body heats up to burn calories. Eat food loaded with nutrients, antioxidants, and immune-boosting powers to fight off the cold. Carbohydrates, fruit, soup, ginger and spicy foods are particularly good. Hot foods tend to make you feel warmer, but a piece of fruit can be just as effective. | <urn:uuid:11e006c5-1b9d-4824-a46c-1d93e28cb421> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://motorbikewriter.com/10-tips-to-riding-safe-and-warm-in-winter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00566-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94155 | 1,262 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Clematis recta SERIOUS BLACK™ is completely different than vining Clematis, SERIOUS BLACK™ is a bush type that it can stand up on its own but also is the perfect companion for taller perennials like Delphiniums which can be used for support. It is easily grown in decorative patio containers as well.
The name SERIOUS BLACK™ references its extraordinarily dark purple new foliage which matures to deep olive green.
In late spring to early summer, antique ivory colored blossoms about the size of a nickel appear in clusters reminiscent of Sweet Autumn Clematis. They often reappear in midsummer, blooming on the deep purple new growth, and silvery seed heads follow in fall. You can imagine how the light-colored blossoms jump out against the dark foliage; the effect is stunning!
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The Avanza just managed to achieve four stars for Adult Occupant Protection despite the structure and footwell area rated as unstable.
The Honda Amaze achieved a solid four stars for Adult Occupant Protection in the frontal crash test at 64km/h. The vehicle structure was rated as stable as well as the footwell area.
The Ignis achieved three stars for Adult Occupant Protection in the frontal crash test at 64km/h. The vehicle structure was rated as unstable and offered weak chest protection for the driver.
The Avanza just managed to achieve four stars for Adult Occupant Protection despite the structure and footwell area rated as unstable. The restraint systems in the car worked properly which, together with the two Seat Belt Reminders (SBR), for driver and passenger, just met the requirements to achieve a four-star safety rating for the adults.
The Avanza achieved only two stars in Child Occupant Protection, which was explained by the detachment of the rear bench from the anchorages to the structure of the car as it was pulled by the CRS from the 3-year-old dummy attached with ISOFIX to the rear bench.
The Ignis achieved three stars for Adult Occupant Protection in the frontal crash test at 64km/h. The vehicle structure was rated as unstable and offered weak chest protection for the driver. Child safety of the Ignis achieved a low score because Suzuki did not recommend a CRS for the test. Global NCAP considers that car manufacturers are responsible for all occupants in the car and for this reason they must always recommend the CRS to be used in the test.
When they decline to do so, the car manufacturer is not awarded points during the test. Comparing this car with the same model for Europe, while the South African Ignis has two airbags and ABS as standard, the European version of the car offers as standard: 6 airbags (2 frontal, 2 side body and 2 side curtain airbags) and Electronic Stability Control.
The Honda Amaze achieved a solid four stars for Adult Occupant Protection in the frontal crash test at 64km/h. The vehicle structure was rated as stable as well as the footwell area. The car offers seatbelt pretensioners for both front passengers and seatbelt reminder for the driver. Using the child seats recommended by Honda, the Amaze only achieved a one-star rating for Child Occupant Protection. The child dummies contacted the interior of the car, showing evidence of head exposure and the probability of injury.
In the case of the 18-month-old CRS, the armrest opened (deployed) during the crash hitting the CRS, braking the handle lock and causing a rotation of the CRS that ended in the head of the dummy contacting the seat backrest. In the case of the 3-year-old dummy, despite using a CRS with ISOFIX, its head contacted the interior of the car in the rebound phase. Both head contacts of both child dummies brought the head score to zero and with the broken CRS for the 18-month-old dummy, the full points of the dynamic test for this dummy were lowered to zero.
POOR CHILD PROTECTION RESULTS
Global NCAP and the Automobile Association of South Africa launch the third round of #SaferCarsForAfrica crash test results today with the welcome support of the FIA Foundation and Bloomberg Philanthropies. The three models tested show reasonable safety performance for adult occupants but disappointing results for child occupant protection.
The models tested by Global NCAP are the Toyota Avanza, Honda Amaze, and Suzuki Ignis. The Avanza is a very popular model in South Africa for public transport and fleet use. Global NCAP chose the entry-level version of each model and each was fitted with at least two airbags as standard. The results highlight significant differences between adult and child occupant protection.
FOR CAR AND MOTORCYCLE SAFETY LAUNCHES IN SOUTH AFRICA
For the first time in Africa, the #StopTheCrashPartnership hosts live demonstrations of crash avoidance technologies in support of the United Nations Global Goals and the Decade of Action for Road Safety.
Launched at the Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit in Johannesburg with the support of the AutomobileAssociation (AA) of South Africa, the#StopTheCrash Partnership event has a special focus on the life-saving benefits of Electronic Stability Control (ESC), Autonomous Emergency Braking(AEB), and Anti-lock Braking Systems (ABS) for motorcycles. | <urn:uuid:edffc54d-543a-424f-aadd-5f2d44ea61de> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aa.co.za/2019-crash-test-results/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.936698 | 988 | 1.546875 | 2 |
CHANGE FOR THE BETTER!
Learn to create world-class logistics and supply chains in any industry using kaizen's seven main principles
At a time when businesses are restructuring to become more competitive, many seek a road map to improve their operations. Kaizen in Logistics and Supply Chains is at the forefront of this journey--and can point youin the right direction to help your company in implementing innovative production and logistics systemsand changing its culture for the better.
Based on the themes of Masaaki Imai's bestseller, Gemba Kaizen, considered the "bible" of the quality/management movement, this new work provides the first highly detailed explanation of how to create world-class logistics and supply chains regardless of industry. It includes more than 200 photographs, flow diagrams, value stream maps, and tables--and features a case study that illustrates how a company became more competitive by successfully implementing kaizen principles. There's never been a better guide to lead your company's quest for improvement.KEY FEATURES:
- Explanation of how the seven main kaizen principles can be applied to transform world-class logistics and worldwide supply chains
- Prerequisites for implementing these systems, including stabilization and change management activities
- Concrete steps to implementing kanban systems, internal and external logistics loops, design flow production lines, and supermarket systems
- Detailed real-world case study to illustrate successful implementation of the book's theories, and scorecards so readers can evaluate their progress in practice
- Foreword by Masaaki Imai, Founder and Chairman of the Kaizen Institute, and author of the bestseller Gemba Kaizen | <urn:uuid:94e28846-ce60-4b0c-8675-c62f6bd0c3e2> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/kaizen-in-logistics-and-supply/9780071811040-item.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719416.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00364-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910466 | 333 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Quantum Simulator for Complex Electronic Materials
Researchers from Mainz, Cologne and Jülich simulate complex electronic insulator with ultracold atoms in artificial crystals of light
04.12.2008The design of new materials with specific properties is an important but demanding challenge in physics and chemistry. Already in 1982 Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman therefore suggested to build a "quantum simulator" in order to understand and predict the properties of complex materials by simulating them using an artificial, but highly controllable quantum system. In the latest issue of the journal Science researchers from the University of Mainz, the University of Cologne and the Forschungszentrum Jülich show how to simulate the properties of electrons in a real crystal by using ultracold fermionic atoms trapped in an artificial crystal formed by interfering laser beams - a so-called optical lattice.
The researchers succeeded in demonstrating one of the most dramatic effects of the electron-electron repulsion: When the interactions between the electrons get too strong, a metal can suddenly become insulating. The resulting so-called Mott-insulator is probably the most important example of a strongly correlated state in condensed matter physics, and it is a natural starting point for the investigation of quantum magnetism. Furthermore, high temperature superconductivity is found to arise in close proximity to it. "Atoms in an optical lattice are a nearly perfect quantum simulator for electrons in a solid, as they offer a very flexible model-system in a clean and well-controlled environment," explains Ulrich Schneider from the University of Mainz.
A direct investigation of complex materials and high temperature superconductors is difficult because of the presence of disorder and many competing interactions in the real crystalline materials. "This makes it very hard to identify the role of specific interactions and, in particular, to decide whether repulsive interactions between fermions alone can explain high temperature superconductivity." In the experiment, a gas of potassium atoms is first cooled down to temperatures near absolute zero. Subsequently, an optical lattice is formed by overlapping several laser beams. To the atoms, the resulting standing-wave field appears as a regular crystal of hundreds of thousands individual micro-traps, similar to an array of optical tweezers. The ultracold atoms, which play the role of electrons in real solids, will line up at the nodes of this standing-wave field.
By investigating the behavior of the atoms under compression and increasing interaction strength, and thereby measuring their compressibility, the experimentalists led by Prof. Immanuel Bloch of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have been able to controllably switch the system between metallic and insulating states of matter and find evidence for a Mott-insulating phase within the quantum gas of fermionic atoms. In such a Mott-insulating phase, the repulsive interactions between the atoms force them to order one-by-one into the regular lattice structure. The observation of the fermionic Mott-insulator in the context of optical lattices opens up a new possibility to simulate and study strongly correlated states and related phenomena. This is affirmed by the excellent agreement achieved in comparing the experiment with theoretical calculations of modern condensed matter theory performed in Cologne and Jülich, which included extensive simulations on the Jülich based supercomputer system JUGENE. | <urn:uuid:b7335c40-3f2a-4c34-9eb2-a8aefac0fefe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.uni-mainz.de/eng/12901.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00392-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910814 | 685 | 3.359375 | 3 |
WHITBY -- The fate of a heritage building in Whitby hangs in the balance while the Town works with a developer to find a suitable use for the structure.
Dating back to 1918, a house known as the Doctors' Residence sits near Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences in south Whitby, and is the only remaining building from the original Whitby Psychiatric Hospital.
The building fronts onto the south side of Harbourside Drive, where Senator Homes Inc. is building a new subdivision. While it was the developer's initial plan to refurbish the building for adaptive re-use purposes -- a community centre and private school were some of the ideas tossed around -- that now seems unlikely.
"With the assistance of a heritage design architect and a number of other professionals to assess the building for its abilities to accommodate those future uses, it became more apparent (to) us that it was going to be an awful challenge to get that up and running to accommodate and meet Ontario Building Code requirements," said Bruno Nazzicone of Senator Homes, at a public meeting on Jan. 28.
It was really quite sad to see what had happened t
Independent assessments of costs to retrofit the building have shown it to be uneconomical and impractical, he said, adding that in some cases he's heard the work could cost upwards of $700,000.
But many residents of the area believe the true value of the site stems from its place in Whitby's roots and would like to see it preserved.
"We all bought in this neighbourhood being told by Senator that it was going to be a historical building and we all were (of) the understanding that it was going to stay that away," said Bevin Moolenschot, who moved to the area with his family about two years ago.
The modern Ontario Shores facility at 700 Gordon St. was constructed from 1993 to 1996 to replace the former Whitby Psychiatric Hospital, built between 1913 and 1916. There were originally more than 30 buildings on the site but most of them were torn down after being destroyed by vandals over the years.
Mayor Pat Perkins recalled visiting the site during the 2003 to 2006 term of council to assess the structural integrity of the buildings.
"We went into one of the buildings down there that had been a recreational hall with beautiful wooden floors and (vandals had) put a bonfire on the inside of the building and burned out the floors," she said.
"It was really quite sad to see what had happened to a lot of the buildings there, and we were hoping that we could preserve something of the history of that old facility."
The Doctors' Residence was in the best physical condition, compared to all the other buildings, and council made a decision at the time to restore the site.
During Monday's meeting, Mayor Perkins raised a motion that was supported by council to refer the report back to staff and hold a public meeting to involve residents in the process of finding a potential use for the building.
"Even if it's just the facade that's kept, which in some cases is all you can do, if we can keep it and do something rich and good for the community with it, I think that it would be beneficial," the mayor said.
"I'd hate to see it lost."
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approach to life and appearances
The following is a description of Anne's basic stance toward life, the way others see her, the way Anne Baxter comes across, the face she shows to the world. In the page about motivation you will read about the inner Anne Baxter - her real motivation, which describes the kind of person she is at heart and where her true priorities lie. Study this page and the next one and compare them - there may be significant differences between the two, in which case "the inner Anne Baxter" may not shine through and others may be in for so a few surprises once they get to know Anne a little better. This page describes the disguise Baxter wears, her role in life, while the page about motivation talks about the real person beneath the disguise.
She is very strong-willed and proud, but intensely private and not easy to know well. Behind Baxter's quiet exterior lies a great deal of emotional depth, sensitivity, complexity, and also fierce determination. When Anne Baxter wants something she goes after it rather quietly but insistently and wholeheartedly - and what Anne Baxter wants, Anne Baxter usually gets.
She is not a person who lives haphazardly or superficially. Anne wants to live passionately and intensely and is not averse to challenge, danger, or to facing the darker side of life - human pain and struggle. Anne Baxter functions well in crisis situations and she often seeks them out, for she enjoys the feeling of living at full capacity.
She is very intuitive about other people and especially about their unspoken feelings and hidden motives. Anne Baxter usually has strong, immediate gut reactions, either positive or negative, which prove to be correct. Baxter approaches life very instinctively and is not always fully conscious of why she feels or acts the way she does. Anne Baxter also has a very strong affinity with animals - an acute sensitivity and a nonverbal rapport with them.
In new relationships she is rather cautious, sometimes even suspicious, until she gets to know and trust someone - and trust does not come easily to Baxter. When Anne Baxter commits herself emotionally to someone, be it friend or lover, she is intensely loyal and devoted to them and she also expects the same kind of unwavering, undying loyalty in return. If she is ever betrayed by someone she cares deeply for, Anne Baxter is capable of hating and retaliating with as much fervor as she once loved. Nothing is done halfway. In fact, she is intensely involved and often jealously attached to whatever she cares about, be it person, idea, or cause. There is definitely a streak of emotional fanaticism in her.
Because of her natural reserve, others may see Anne Baxter as something of an enigma. She is quite self-protective and often defensive. Anne Baxter also has a very magnetic quality, especially to members of the opposite sex.
There is a certain intensity, charisma or compelling attractiveness about Anne Baxter that may have little to do with her physical features. It is energy, a subtle sexuality that she emanates. Moreover, Baxter tends to do everything wholeheartedly and with passion, which is quite fascinating to other people. Her instincts and psychological perceptions about others are quite incisive.
The initial impression Baxter makes on people may be somewhat deceiving, in that the way Anne thinks and her true opinions are not always readily apparent. Anne Baxter may try to clothe her ideas and thoughts in terms that tend to mute rather than clarify them. For instance, she may have a very definite, unambiguous opinion, but state it in such a gentle, tactful manner that it seems as though she does not stand behind it as vigorously as she would like. This creates miscommunication or misunderstandings at times. On another level, Anne Baxter tends to become scattered and nervous when she is out of balance. She needs clarity and order in her environment to be at her finest.
Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:
Pluto Trine Asc.
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Cutting edge artists have always looked to advances in science for new materials and techniques. But where our innovations centre on digital media and information technology, the crossover science of the Victorian era was chemistry. We owe today’s rich visual culture to the pioneers who mastered the interactions of chemicals, minerals, ceramics, celluloid and light.
Lizzie Le Prince was the daughter of Sarah and Joseph Whitley of Leeds. She trained under Carrier-Belleuse at the Sèvres pottery in France, and in 1869 she married Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince, also a student of pottery. Louis had been instructed by Louis Daguerre, inventor of the Daguerreotype, and specialised in applying photographic techniques to pottery and brass.
The Le Princes settled in England where Louis started work for the Whitley family brass-founding business. It’s clear that the marriage was a true partnership. They both joined the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. Together they ran the Leeds Technical School of Art from their townhouse in Park Square, providing training in materials which were literally the new media of their age. Lizzie records that in Park Square Louis began experimenting with “moving photographs” and the best materials for films.
In 1881 the couple moved to New York where Lizzie taught art at the Institute for the Deaf. Louis is said to have projected his first moving pictures on the walls of that building. Lizzie is described as “a splendid helpmate”. In October of 1888, back in Lizzie’s parents’ garden in Roundhay, was recorded the world’s oldest surviving motion picture. The dating is precise because the pictures show Lizzie’s mother who died just a few weeks later.
By 1890, the Le Princes were ready to go public with the invention, well ahead of rivals including the Lumière brothers and American Thomas Edison. Lizzie had by this time founded the New York Society of Ceramic Arts and held regular meetings in Manhattan’s Jumel Mansion. Assisted by her son Adolphe, she began preparing for a public unveiling in New York. It should have been a grand occasion securing Louis’ place in history as the inventor of the the cinema.
But Louis never arrived back in New York. He was last seen at Dijon, boarding a train to Paris. Wild rumours surrounded his disappearance and Lizzie suspected foul play. She believed competitors including Edison himself had wanted her husband out of their way.
Lizzie Le Prince spent the following decades in America trying to prove Louis’ claim to be the inventor of cinema. Her tragedy was compounded by Adolphe’s unexplained death in 1901, shortly before a judge delivered a verdict in favour of Edison’s motion picture patent which the Le Prince family had contested.
A number of articles have sought to posthumously restore Le Prince to his rightful place in cinematic history. One of his cameras is in the National Media Museum at Bradford, and Leeds has not one but two blue plaques commemorating him. “Roundhay Garden Scene” is listed in the Guiness Book of Records and can be seen on Youtube. Sarah and Joseph Whitley are the oldest born actors to be credited in the Internet Movie Database.
But today is Ada Lovelace Day, an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science. From my reading of the story, Lizzie Le Prince is equally deserving of the honour, not as the tragic, devoted wife and mother that she clearly was, but as an artist, technologist, educator and advocate.
Fittingly, the wonderful Sydney Padua illustration for this year’s Ada Lovelace Day shows the world’s first computer programmer in Victorian dress holding up a string of punched cards…
Replace those punched cards with a reel of celluloid (the first reel of celluloid!) and you have Lizzie Le Prince. Should the credit for the first moving pictures really go to a husband and wife team?
Happy Ada Lovelace Day!
- A Technological History of Motion Pictures and Television, article by E. Kilburn Scott
- A Movie Murder Mystery, by Richard Howells
- Louis Le Prince Centre for Cinema, Photography and Television website article
- Louis Le Prince: the body of evidence, by Richard Howells
- Wikipedia entry on Louis Le Prince
- The Missing Reel, Christopher Rawlence
- “Embellish your Country with useful inventions & elegant productions” – my post from Ada Lovelace Day 2009
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Adjunct faculties are actually part time professors within a university setting. While they are highly experienced individuals, they are never offered permanent jobs and cannot acquire the benefits that go with a regular job.
Adjunct faculty professionals perform typical duties of an educator; they plan lessons, grade papers, perform research activities and even write papers that are eventually published in educational journals or websites. They are sometimes required to be a temporary part of the faculty but are usually kept out of major decision making activities. Members of the adjunct faculty usually have one specialization and are responsible for imparting knowledge in that particular field. They may also work as consultants for agencies outside the university depending on their skills and experience.
If you are an adjunct professor looking for a job in this capacity, the following resume objective statements may come in handy when you write your resume:
Adjunct Faculty Resume Objective Examples
• Adjunct Professor position with Keral University utilizing excellence in imparting knowledge relevant to Biochemistry and providing expertise in researching activities
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• To obtain a position of Adjunct Instructor with Acme University using profound skills in lesson planning in order to achieve academic success
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7 Early signs that indicate you need to focus on self-care
Self-care for researchers
As a researcher there is a lot you need to deal with, not to mention balancing your research with the demands of your personal life. Often, in the struggle to navigate academic life, researchers neglect themselves. One thing you can do to manage your own physical and mental well-being is practice self-care. In this series we bring you a set of posts that talk about self-care in academia and how you can go about taking care of yourself.
Stress is something most of us have accepted to be an indivisible part of our life. Between managing deadlines, planning career progression, dealing with supervisors, and keeping your family happy, do you feel that you’re spreading yourself thin?
It is a well-documented fact that a majority of academics struggle with mental health problems. How do you know if you are at the risk of facing mental health issues? It is common to feel stressed in certain situations. However, we may get so accustomed to the presence of stress, anxiety, and self-doubt that some subtle, yet telling, changes in our thought patterns and daily routines may go unnoticed.
Admittedly, it is not easy to know whether you’re facing a mental health issue without professional help. However, some common early signs or indicators can help you reflect on and work toward your mental well-being. Let’s have a look at them.
1. Changes in sleep pattern
“A good night’s sleep…what’s that?”
Most of you would have worked overnight to finish writing a paper or analyze a data set. If, however, you’re persistently experiencing problems such as having difficulty falling asleep, not feeling rested in the morning, or feeling sleepy through the day, it is a sign of an underlying problem. Stress can at times manifest itself in not-so-obvious ways, so if your mind is unable to feel calm it is likely for your sleep pattern to get disturbed. It is a good idea to pin down the factors that are causing the feelings of restlessness. You can also try listening to some relaxing music or meditate before hitting the bed to enhance the quality of your sleep.
2. Appetite changes
“I am feeling terrible. I need a bag of chips.”
When you feel stressed or anxious, do you find yourself reaching for sugary or fried food? Or, do you lose your appetite altogether? Stress can disrupt our hunger cues and this can lead you to seek comfort in food, which is also popularly called “stress eating.” However, some people under stress develop an aversion to food. Any sudden or extreme eating patterns should prompt you to take a closer look at the causes behind this behavior.
3. Emotional outbursts
“How dare they get my coffee order wrong?”
If, over time, you’ve observed that you’re unable to control your anger, have emotional outbursts, or are experiencing distress over things that otherwise didn’t bother you as much, it’s time for you to pause and analyze your reactions closely. Mood swings and emotional outbursts typically indicate anxiety, stress, or fatigue. This can have an impact on your daily life and work as well. So if this behavior pattern persists, it is advisable to speak with your primary healthcare provider.
4. Feeling disinterested
“I want to park myself on the couch all day!”
Do you feel as though you need to drag yourself out of bed to work or lab every day? If you’ve been feeling demotivated while engaging in activities that brought you joy or a sense of purpose, you’re likely in need of self-analysis and self-care. Take time out to identify what is triggering this sense of disinterest. If you have supportive colleagues or friends, seek their help in finding out whether they have seen a change in you and how they may be able to support you to feel better.
5. Difficulty in making decisions
“Do I want water or soda? I just can’t decide!”
Most of us have found ourselves thinking for an extra few minutes when accepting a party invitation or scheduling a meeting. However, when we’re under constant stress, making any decision can seem a like a huge test. If you’re finding it tough to think rationally or evaluate various aspects of a situation adequately before making a decision, you probably should take a moment to think about your mental wellbeing.
6. Feelings of worthlessness
“I’m good for nothing.”
We all know that academia is highly competitive, which can prompt you to become self-critical. Now, being a little critical of yourself helps you have bigger aspirations. However, if you are finding yourself engaging in negative self-talk all the time, please take it as a strong indicator that you are in need of self-care. Feelings of inadequacy or worthlessness can lead one to feel like a failure and trigger a state of depression. Try to burst the bubble of negative self-talk by accepting your limitations and celebrating your wins, whether small or big.
7. Feeling unwell
“Why do I have a headache?”
It’s not uncommon to experience backaches or headaches. However, if these aches don’t seem to have a plausible explanation, they may be stemming from extreme levels of stress. Our body reacts to stress in various ways. So if you’re experiencing aches or are displaying other symptoms such as palpitations or dizziness at times of distress, treat it as a sign that you need to focus on your mental health.
How do I take the first step toward self-care?
Know that it is absolutely normal to experience negative feelings and thoughts. Several academics have shared their stories of facing mental health related problems and emerging stronger and better. If you’ve noticed any fluctuations or deviations in your behavior and thoughts, you now know that you need to take care of yourself.
Self-care essentially means listening to and focusing on the need of your mind and body at a particular time. Whether it is a break from work or some ‘me’ time, indulge in activities that make you feel content and reduce your stress.
You can seek help from a close friend or a family member to manage the things that make you feel stressed. Based on how you feel you could also consult a mental health professional who could help you break away from negative thought patterns and cope up with stress.
No one but you can make yourself feel happy and content. So take that first step toward self-care today, right now. All the best!
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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Hundreds of actors lined up for a chance to hit it big. HBO has once again chosen Baltimore to shoot its latest production, based on the 2008 campaign trail.
As Gigi Barnett reports, the movie needs thousands of extras.
This open casting call at Stevenson University could be the start of something big. HBO is looking for extras on a new film called “Game Change.” It’s based on the book that follows John McCain and Sarah Palin on the 2008 campaign trail.
With headshots in hand, hundreds of Hollywood hopefuls came calling.
“It is on my bucket list to have one speaking line in a movie,” said Hope Gerecht.
Acting is a hobby for Hope Gerecht. She’s been an extra in several series, but she’s still waiting to see herself on the silver screen.
“My husband jokes about it. ‘You’ve done all of these things and we’ve never seen you,'” she said.
It’s why Nathaniel Fields goes to every casting call he can find.
“You’re always searching, keeping your ears to the ground, hoping you’ll find that break,” said Fields. “You wouldn’t be here if you didn’t want something to come out of it.”
There’s no auditioning at this casting call but there will be many callbacks.
Dagmar Wittmer is the casting director. She says little to no experience is OK.
“They don’t have to be actors. Sometimes, I even think people who are not actors have so much more fun. They show up, they have fun. They don’t mind waiting,” Wittmer said.
According to Maryland Film Office Director Jack Gerbis, production of “Game Change” is already underway.
Baltimore is fast becoming a favorite destination for big film projects. That means more future casting calls.
“When a show like this comes to Maryland, they employ hundreds of people. They do business with hundreds of Maryland businesses and the economic impact is huge,” said Gerbis.
Thousands of extras are needed for this movie. This is the seventh time HBO has visited Baltimore to film.
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For example, if a sitting member of congress ("She") misleads the public on a TV news interview regarding the fiscal impact of proposed legislation. If the lie would adversely impact the taxes paid (or decrease income received) by certain constituents of her district, or increase the national debt, might those constituents file suit claiming fraud or negligent misrepresentation?
Extending that, if She first secretly works with an identifiable official of the executive branch ("He") to further such deception of the public. If He then commits an overt official act (in violation of official policy or the Hatch Act) and She later admits her participation (on TV) while still misleading the public. Would that demonstrate conspiracy actionable by constituents?
Who has the standing to raise such concerns in civil court? Might stockholders in a corporation in the representative's district who are particularly disadvantaged by the legislative goals of the misrepresentation have standing? Would such standing be reserved to those She represented directly?
Clarifications after further research
Please assume that either Washington State and Federal rules could apply. Based on an otherwise good answer, I've updated the original question to change "fraud" to "fraud or negligent misrepresentation". I add this with the understanding that the latter is when a person does not lie directly but has made a statement about a subject with no reason to believe it to be fact.
I posit that both government employees have a pecuniary interest in the passage of partisan legislation through their employment salary and campaign contributions. In addition, their future revenue as consultants might be at stake. How might "special duty to disclose" apply?
I'm assuming that neither She nor He is appropriately acting within their official capacity, but they are operating under the color of law. I think there's some Latin phrase for that, but I don't remember it.
I suggest the potential harm could be realized imminently by the passage of legislation. Both government employees should well know the potential for such harm, but fail to mention it publicly, and that omission is at the heart of the deception. They take care to hide it.
Could stockholder-constituents use civil rights law without demonstrating actual particularized financial harm?
Gravel v. the United States (408 US 618, 1972[?]) seems to provide some related guidance and citations re the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution. I recognize the specific circumstances of Gravel are inapplicable; I'll leave it up to more experienced members to find more appropriate authorities and determine how this would apply to my hypothetical civil action.
I'd also welcome any speculation about how an individual might act to mitigate my (hypothetical) representative's conduct. Please assume they are not looking for personal gain but to seek disgorgement of any income the representative or her campaign might obtain by way of said deception(s). The primary motive I posit is to block the legislation.
Would it be necessary to precisely identify any controversial income to raise this in civil court?
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When it comes to exercise, many of us tend to ignore our backs while working out. According to fitness experts, maintain a strong back by back workout is very crucial when it comes to strengthening your upper body. Firstly, maintaining a strong back fixes your back posture and creates upper body stability.
Secondly, an efficient back workout creates a strong back and reduces the risk of injury. Moreover, these workouts boost your energy and enhance your lifts by supporting your spine. Thirdly, to have a balanced, well-rounded physique training your back ensures you have a V-shape body. Finally, back workout helps you reduce lower back pain.
Top Back Workouts
Here is a list of top back workouts to get a shredded physique and to improve your overall body physique.
Barbell Deadlift Back Workout
The barbell deadlift is a full-body workout that ensures you build stronger legs, back, shoulders and arms. This exercise ensures that all your upper-back muscle groups are involved. Firstly, squat down on a flat surface and grasp a barbell with your hands wide-apart. Secondly, keep your chest and shoulders apart and look straight ahead when lifting the bar. Thirdly, keep the weight off your back onto your heels and place the bar close to your body. Finally, lift the bar up to your thigh level and return to the starting position and perform 8 – 10 reps of 2 to 3 sets each.
Push-ups For Back Workout
Push-ups are considered to be the most preferred and effective exercise when it comes to tone your back. Firstly, lay down on a flat surface in a plank position and lift yourself in a high plank position. Secondly, slowly push your shoulders together without bending your elbows. Thirdly, keep your core tight while you return to the starting position and perform 10 – 15 reps of 2 to 3 sets each.
Bent-over Dumbbell Row
Using a pair of dumbbells you can easily strengthen your back muscles. Firstly, stand with your feet and shoulder-width apart while holding a dumbbell in each hand. Secondly, bend your hips slightly at the knees and lower your chest parallel to the floor. Thirdly, while keeping your core tight, bring your arms closer and row the weighted dumbbells towards your chest. Finally, perform the row towards your chest without bending your elbows and perform 12 – 15 reps of 2 to 3 sets each.
Another effective exercise when it comes to strengthening your back muscles. Firstly, using an overhead hand grip and pull your shoulder blades towards the floor. Secondly, move your shoulders up and down away from your ears. Thirdly, continue to raise your body below your chin and hold the position for few seconds. Finally, return to the starting position to the hanging position and perform 8 – 10 reps of 2 to 3 sets each.
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Many who use the location-based services also are looking to dine and shop.
Consumers who enjoy checking in at locations through mobile apps that can pinpoint a person’s precise whereabouts use their phones to shop and review dining options to a greater degree than mobile consumers that do not use check-in services, new research shows.
ComScore Inc. analyzed the behavior of 16.7 million mobile phone subscribers in March and found that 12.7 million used a smartphone to check in using a location-based service such as Facebook Places, Foursquare or Gowalla, comScore says. Some merchants offer coupons and discounts for patrons who announce their presence through these services.
The analysis shows that many smartphone owners who use check-in services also use their devices for activities related to shopping and dining. 32.6% of smartphone users who check in use their devices to visit mobile commerce sites compared with 17.9% of all smartphone users. 45.9% of smartphone check-in users looked up restaurant information compared with 27.6% of all smartphone owners.
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Cities around the world are struggling with growing populations of homeless individuals and families. Also there is a large number of couch surfers, and young people moving back home, after having lived independently. In some cultures the tradition was to remain at home until marriage, but even that has begun to change in many countries. The challenge is providing a place where these people can live that is affordable.
Affordable housing is not emergency shelters, hostels or rooming houses in most countries. What is affordable housing defined as, depends on the country, Canada and the USA commonly defines it, as housing that does not exceed 30% of a families gross income. Australia defines it as a minimum of a 20% discount to the prevailing market rate for the area, for lower or middle income earners. The United Kingdom defines it as those households whose needs are not met by the market. India sets the definition at 40% or less of the household income.
Here in Vancouver Canada and indeed most of the major cities of Western Canada affordability comes at a high price. In February 2012 the Burn’s Block was renovated into micro lofts, of approximately 226 square feet each, which is considered small here in Canada, they were quickly snapped up at a price of $850/month utilities included for furnished suites. The median cost of a 1 bedroom apartment within Vancouver is $1350/month utilities not included.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC Hydro showcased a home of the future with energy saving ideas and efficient design features. This inspired Atira a social housing society in Vancouver to think outside the box, in providing social housing at a cost of $82,000/unit for hard construction costs. This compares to $220,000 for just slightly larger units built by Atira in Vancouver, using more traditional methods. How did they keep the costs down, well they used standard shipping containers as the basis. Yup those ones you see around businesses, on trucks, trains and ships around the world as the building blocks. They have been used as site offices on construction sites for years, so it’s not that much of a stretch to imagine them as a shell for a house.
Could this be a way to help those in the lower income brackets of our societies have safe, affordable accommodation, time will tell, however it is a step forward.
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- French legislative election, 1986
The French legislative elections took place on
March 16 1986to elect the 8th National Assemblyof the Fifth Republic. Contrary to other legislative elections of the Fifth Republic, the electoral system used was that of Party-list proportional representation.
Since the 1981 election of
François Mitterrand, the Presidential Majority was divided. In March 1983, Prime Minister Pierre Mauroyrenounced the left's radical "Common Programme" which had been agreed in the 1970s. Wages and prices were frozen. This change of economic policy was justified by the will to stay in the European Monetary System. One year later, the Communist ministers refused to remain in Laurent Fabius's cabinet.
In opposition, the two main right-wing parties tried to forget their past quarrels. They were able to win the mid-term elections (1982 departmental elections, 1983 municipal elections, 1984 European Parliament election) and succeeded in forcing the government to abandon its policy of limiting the financing of the private schools in 1984. The
Rally for the Republic(RPR), led by Jacques Chirac, abandoned the traditional dirigisteand EuroscepticGaullist doctrines about the economy and European integration. It was then able to sign an electoral platform with the Union for French Democracy(UDF). It proposed notably to sell the companies nationalized by President Mitterrandand Pierre Mauroy.
However, France had also witnessed the electoral rise of the
National Front(FN). Its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, made nationalist and xenophobic remarks. He appealed to a part of the conservative electorate, notably some RPR voters. The right-wing opposition was divided about the question of an alliance with the FN. In 1985, President Mitterrand's decision to re-establish the Party-list proportional representationat the legislative election caused a political outrage. The RPR/UDF opposition accused him to want strengthen the FN in order to weaken the Republican Right, which was favourite according to the polls. Indeed, the proportional representation was the only electoral system which permitted the election of FN deputies.
While the polls indicated a win of RPR/UDF coalition, the former UDF Prime minister
Raymond Barreargued that the next parliamentary majority should refuse to govern if President Mitterrand did not resign. Advised by Edouard Balladur, Jacques Chirac noted, however, that impeachmentdoes not exist in the French Constitution. Instead, the next majority would "cohabit" with Mitterrand. The right-wing cabinet would enforce its domestic policy programme and Mitterrand kept control of foreign and military affairs.
Finally, the RPR/UDF coalition obtained only a two seat majority. The Socialist Party saved more seats than the polls indicated. The FN could form a parliamentary group with its 35 elects. The decline of the
French Communist Partycontinued. Mitterrand nominated Chirac as Prime Minister. The first "cohabitation" of the Fifth Republic started. The new cabinet abolished the proportional representation for the next legislative elections. The "cohabitation" ended with the 1988 presidential election.
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These activities illustrate place-based education by presenting core curriculum within the local context - directly relating to students’ own local environment and community.
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Why would a loving God send people to Hell?
Published: 16 October 2012 (GMT+10)
There are a lot of charges brought up against the God of the Bible; perhaps one of the most common is, “If God is supposed to be loving, how could He send people to Hell just because they didn’t worship Him?” It’s implied that it’s deeply unjust for God to judge sin at all, and even worse to do so by sending the sinners to a place of eternal punishment. However, these critics often profess they don’t believe in the God they are accusing, and also deny any objective standard of right and wrong anyway. Sometimes believers also struggle with this question, wondering how God could condemn someone who never heard of Jesus and so never had a chance to believe in Him, for example.
The question of Hell is not an appealing one even for people who affirm its existence. No one likes the idea of many people suffering judgment in the life to come. But the ‘Good News’ of the Gospel requires that there be ‘Bad News’—salvation in Jesus Christ would not bring glory to God if there were actually nothing to be saved from. So it’s important to be able to give an answer, even in the case of a subject that no one particularly likes contemplating.
Who goes to Hell?
When unbelieving critics talk about Hell, they sometimes speak like it will be full of innocent people (like themselves!). However, the Bible doesn’t indicate that innocent people will spend a single moment in Hell. Rather, Hell is God’s answer to the fundamental injustice of this life. There are many murderers, rapists, and other people who wreak havoc in the lives of others, who never experience judgment in this life. Everyone knows that it is wrong that these people never be brought to account for what they’ve done; something in the human heart demands justice. And Hell is God’s answer.
Randy Alcorn writes:
Without Hell, justice would never overtake the unrepentant tyrants responsible for murdering millions. Perpetrators of evil throughout the ages would get away with murder—and rape, and torture, and every evil.
Even if we may acknowledge Hell as a necessary and just punishment for evildoers, however, we rarely see ourselves as worthy of Hell. After all, we are not Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Bundy, or Dahmer.
God responds, “There is no one righteous, not even one. There is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one” (Romans 3:10–12).1
For the majority of people who are not guilty on the scale of these obviously (even to us) depraved people, it’s hard to understand that we deserve punishment, too. But most people have grievances against others—if someone stole from you, or hurt your children, or if you were a victim of something fundamentally unjust, you would want justice; your sense of what is right would demand that the person at fault pay a penalty for wronging you. Every time we break God’s law, that’s an affront to God, and He demands justice, just as we do imperfectly on a smaller scale. If you’ve ever said in your heart, “That person should pay for what he did!” then you fundamentally agree with the idea of Hell, because the doctrine of Hell says somebody is going to pay for every sin, eventually.
Sin: Rebellion against our loving Creator
God didn’t create people to go to Hell, and He didn’t create people to sin. In fact, the place He made for people originally was perfect. The Garden of Eden had everything Adam and Eve could ever want. It was safe and pleasant, God lovingly provided everything they needed, and they enjoyed a perfect relationship with the Creator. God gave them some simple commands (have children, tend the Garden, and don’t eat the fruit from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil), and their continuing perfect relationship with God only required them to obey. It was a position that we can only imagine today.
Even though Adam and Eve had everything they could ever possibly need, they disobeyed God and ate from the Tree that God had forbidden. Sin immediately broke the perfect fellowship that they had enjoyed with God. They realized that they were sinful, and they were ashamed and aware of their wrongdoing—as is shown by their initial attempts to cover themselves with fig leaves.
God is holy, meaning that He is completely separated from anything sinful. And as their Creator, He had the right to judge them when they disobeyed—in fact, His nature and His justice demanded that He respond when they rebelled against Him. He could have instituted the death penalty instantly, and He would have been perfectly just if He had done so. But God is also loving and merciful, so He did not put a premature end to the human race. Adam and Eve had spiritually died, meaning that their relationship to God was broken, but they would continue to physically live long enough to have children, who would inherit their propensity to sin.
What was the purpose of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?
Some say that a lot of trouble could have been avoided if God had just left the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil out of the Garden. But this misunderstands the vital function of the Tree. The other commands God gave Adam and Eve were fairly self-explanatory and had pleasant outcomes for them, but what was the purpose of the command not to eat from the Tree? It may seem surprising, but God had a loving purpose in putting the Tree in the Garden.
God created human beings to be in a relationship with Him. But a true loving relationship has to be freely given or chosen—one could program a robot to think it loves its programmer, but that would be meaningless because the robot didn’t have a choice. God wanted human beings to love Him freely, for who He is, not just for what He had given and provided for them. But that required the chance to not love Him, to rebel. The function of the Tree was to give Adam a chance to obey or rebel, and Adam chose to eat the fruit and to rebel against God.
There were two pivotal times in history when God freely gave and made a way that mankind could choose to have a relationship with Him, the Creation and the Incarnation. This also highlights why the battle of Creation is so important. The Fall from grace in the original Creation should help us understand our plight in this sin cursed world, and make it that much easier to recognize what God has done through Jesus. But if people reject the Bible’s account of origins, they will not understand humankind’s plight and the choices that God gave/gives us.
Even after Adam and Eve sinned, God still loved them and provided for them. He agreed with them that their new sinful state required them to cover themselves; but the fig leaves were inadequate. He killed animals instead and made clothes out of their skins for Adam and Eve. This is the first place in Scripture where anything is killed—and for thousands of years, animals would continue to be killed in an attempt to cover over man’s sin, and to delay God’s wrath against humanity.
God was not willing to leave all of humanity to perish (cf. 2 Peter 3:9), so He promised that Eve would have a descendant who would defeat Satan (Genesis 3:15). This is called the ‘protevangelion’ because it’s the first hint of the Gospel in Scripture. The rest of the Old Testament can be characterized as God dealing with sin in various ways by judging it or putting off judgment, and getting ready for the descendant of Eve who would deal with the sin problem once and for all.
Adam and Eve were driven out of the Garden into a world that was now largely hostile to them. And when Genesis tells us that Adam had a son (Seth) “in his image and likeness”, it leaves no ambiguity about whether the sinful state was in fact passed on from father to son.
What is sin?
Simply put, sin is anything that doesn’t conform to a holy God’s standard of perfection. A sin can be something we do that is wrong, or something that we don’t do that we should do. God gets to set this standard because He is the Creator—and this standard is not arbitrary, but has its source in God’s own nature. We often make judgments about some sins being worse than others, but all sin is an offense against God because He is holy.
In addition, humans have a sin nature. This is a ‘bent’ toward sin. So while we might not sin at every possible opportunity, or to the greatest possible extent, everyone will sin, given the opportunity (Romans 3:23). In fact, the struggle against the human propensity to do things that we don’t want to (warring against the flesh), should be reminder that we are not perfect and are born sinners. That’s exactly why we need a Savior.
Jesus: the loving God incarnate
Scripture affirms that Jesus is the fulfillment of God’s promise to Eve. The only way that humanity could be saved is if there was a single person who was both fully God and fully man, who was related to every single person through Adam—because He could only redeem us if He was related to us, and so would be qualified to be our Kinsman-Redeemer (Isaiah 59:20). In addition, this person would have to live a perfect human life—avoiding every sin and perfectly obeying every command of God’s Law. And this is precisely who Jesus was and what He did.
It’s important to understand that this was the only way that humanity could be saved. We can’t save ourselves even by our best efforts; no other god or religion or philosophy can save us. If Jesus had not gone to the cross for us, and if He had not been raised on the third day, we would be completely and totally without hope.
When a person repents of their sin and trusts in Christ, God accepts Jesus’ sacrifice as payment for that person’s sins (Isaiah 53:6), and credits Jesus’ righteousness to that person (2 Corinthians 5:21). This brings the person into a right relationship with Him in a legal sense; they have an ‘innocent’ instead of a ‘guilty’ sentence (this is called justification). Furthermore, the Holy Spirit indwells that person and starts the process of actually making them righteous (this is called sanctification, and continues until the process is finished after death, and must not be confused with justification). The believer also has a host of privileges as part of being an adopted child of God.
Those who rebel against their loving Creator
So we see that because of Adam’s rebellion, all people are born with a sinful nature which is offensive to God. We’re not blameless, because we not only have the sinful nature, but we cooperate with it and enjoy sin. So we are culpable for the sinful things we do. We deserve to go to Hell, every single one of us, but God in His love provides a way out, so that anyone who repents will not be judged for their sin, but rather Jesus’ sacrifice pays for it. And He did this without us doing anything to merit it: “For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly” (Romans 5:6) and “God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8).
But there are many who don’t repent. There are some who never hear the Gospel; there are others who hear it and reject it for any number of reasons. There are those who even descend into conscious hatred of God; they recognize Him and hate Him, much like Satan and the fallen angels. And many of these same ones complain that God is not loving because they chose Hell of their own accord.
If Jesus’ sacrifice is the only way to salvation, yet someone rejects Jesus, what is God supposed to do with that person? God cannot apply the salvation they’ve rejected (because remember God gave people the choice to reject Him in the Garden of Eden, and so He won’t override that when they actually do). When someone sins and rejects salvation, the only option left is to punish the rebellious creature.
Hell: a place for those who reject the loving God
It can be hard for the person who loves God to comprehend that there are people who hate God as much as we love Him. That there are people who hate Him so much that if they saw Him finally, they would not embrace Him and turn from their rebellion, but they would shake their fist all the more and damn themselves for eternity.
Just as through the Spirit, the believer is finally sanctified after death, something happens to the unbeliever at death that makes him unable to ever repent. He has chosen to hate God and he will hate God for all eternity. Jesus reminded us that some will not believe even if He rose from the dead. The unbeliever cannot inhabit Heaven, because he embodies everything that can never enter Heaven; and to be in the presence of God is not Heaven for him in any case, but the most exquisite torment. He has lost the ability to experience God as anything but terrifying.
For such a person, Hell is God giving him what he asked for all along—a place where His presence is not manifested as it is in this life. But this also means that there are none of the blessings and providence that even the unbeliever experiences in this life.
Many people ask how God can condemn people to Hell who have never heard of Him or who never had the chance to repent. This often involves the perception, however, that people are in a ‘neutral’ state and either choose for or against Him when they hear the Gospel. In reality, everyone is in a ‘default’ setting of rebellion against God and His law, and only the work of the Holy Spirit is able to change that. So the people who have never heard are already rebelling against what they know about God; and they will be judged proportionately to the revelation of God and His law they’ve had from nature. Romans 1:18–28 points out that some truth about God is obvious (in the heart) from creation, so that people are ‘without excuse’. Romans 2:14–16 says that people also have a conscience, and don’t even live up to their own standards, let alone God’s.
Of course, the importance of preaching the Gospel and doing missions work is highlighted by the ‘problem’ of those who have never heard. The answer is instead of questioning God’s justice (despite “Shall not the God of all the earth do right” Genesis 18:25), we should be spreading the message until everyone has heard.
The loving God became our Savior
So why would a loving God send someone to Hell? Because that person has chosen in such a way that God has no other choice. The existence and reality of eternal judgment for the person who does not repent is sobering, and no one really wants to contemplate it too deeply. But the person who goes to Hell must reject Christ, who died so that anyone who repents can be saved. So God is not to be blamed when an unrepentant, rebellious creature chooses a destructive path that leads to Hell. In fact, we all deserve hell due to our sin nature that separates us from God, but thank God for Jesus.
The good news is that anyone reading this article is still alive, and so if you haven’t repented of your sins and trusted in Jesus yet for salvation, there is still time to avoid the terrible fate that awaits those who rebel against the Creator, or to tell your unbelieving friends or family members about the Gospel. If you consider yourself a good person that doesn’t need salvation then just consider the following questions: Have you ever told a lie? Have you ever stolen something, committed adultery, blasphemed etc? If you are truly honest with yourself you will find that you have failed to reach God’s standard for holiness and entrance into eternity with Him. And if you haven’t accepted Jesus as your Savior then you will have to represent yourself in God’s ‘courtroom’ when you die and answer for your sins. But for those who believe, “we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous” (1 John 2:1). Read our Good News article for more information!
- Alcorn, R. If God is Good: Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil (Colorado Springs: Multnomah Books, 2009), p. 308. Return to text.
Many responses to this article show that a major problem in many Christians' minds is that of those who have never heard the gospel - in past generations as well as currently. The thinking is that God is unjust in sending them to hell, since the have never positively rejected Christ. Referring to Romans 3:20 "... they are without excuse", because they have natural revelation all around them testifying to the reality of God; testimony which they all reject; raises a further question. Why did God not, in all fairness, arrange for them to hear the gospel, and either accept it or reject it?
Surely the answer lies in the fact that no one; not the Buddhist in the Himalayas nor the person brought up surrounded by evangelical churches, deserves any mercy at ball. Were God to send us all to hell, that would be absolutely just. But He does not. He saves those who hear the gospel and repent. And who are they? "Those who are called according to his purpose" (Rom 8:28).They are called, justified and glorified, as the following verse says, because in eternity God freely set his love upon them; and predestined them to be conformed to the image of Christ. The biblical doctrine of God's gracious and free election of enemy sinners accounts for the fact, not only that only some who hear the gospel obey it; but also that many millions never hear at all. Paul's argument about all being without excuse, whether of not they have heard the gospel, makes sense only in his insistence upon God's loving election of a remnant of enemy mankind. "He chose us in (Christ)before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him."
All glory to the merciful God of our salvation.
Lita, thanks for your reply to my comment. I agree that God will judge justly, but that was not my point. My point was the dissonance between your statement "mankind could choose to have a relationship with Him," and the fact that millions have already lived and died without hearing the Gospel.
I think the hard truth is that some people are not given the opportunity to believe the Gospel, because God has not seen fit for the Gospel to reach them. Some may not like to think of God in this way, but if we remember that in the case of the fallen angels, God did not provide any way of salvation at all for them. So we see that simply being created by God as a responsible moral agent (as people and angels are) is no guarantee that God will provide a way of salvation for those who sin. God is not obliged to save any sinful angels or sinful people. If he were so obliged, then salvation would no longer be a gift.
This in no way excuses us from fulfilling the Great Commission as best we can. But we must also appreciate that our God who is called "Holy, Holy, Holy" has condescended to save a portion of sinful humanity. The fact that he has not seen fit to allow the Gospel to be heard by every person ever born should not trouble Christians who understand that salvation is an undeserved gift, and God gives this gift to whom He wills.
At some point a lot of believers question the purpose of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.
I think the name itself says quite a lot.
An all powerful, all knowing, ever present God would have the foreknowledge of what free will could bring. Hence the name Tree of KNOWLEDGE of Good AND Evil.
Genesis states that when God created man He said he was good. God with His infinite wisdom and knowledge knew that man, with a free will, would have the possibility to make a choice contrary to his good nature.
It makes me think of Hebrews 11:1 "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Like someone else commented, it was accepting and believing God's will by being obedient and not eating from the tree even though they might not have fully understood why.
The tree was a physical representation of man's ability to act against the good nature God made him with.
God didn't create us to save us, yet ultimately Christ is He's plan for us all along. That we can be his children and have an intimate relationship with Him.
Excellent article Lita. I am really blessed by them.
I would like to add a few comments that have really help me understand this.
God's very fair way is basically explained at Ezekiel 18. God has no pleasure that any should die, but that we all turn and live (Ez 18:23). Please see Ezek 18 and see also Act 3:19.
Basically, to sin is to break God's 10 commandment law (Rom 3:20, 4:15, 5:13, 7:7, 13:8-10, 1Cor 15:56... i.e. know law, know sin; no law, no sin), hence to hurt God's creation/man (#5-10) and to hurt God/Creator and ourselves (#1-4).
The penalty for breaking God's law (heart) is death. But God will forgive anything we did, and give us life, if we turn either thru our conscience (Holy Spirit nudges, i.e without the law/Bible) or by being nudged when inspired by the Bible. No matter which way, our death sentence is removed only by Christ atoning sacrifice.
Consider also this parable on death: dark is absence of light, cold is absence of heat, death is therefore absence of life. The eternal death sentence is therefore to loose our life, in a lake of fire (hell/judgement), as we did not want to change our way. Somehow, we must have felt better than those we hurt (Creation or Creator).
This is therefore why Creation ministries are so vital to bring about changes thru understanding of Creation/Creator. Please continue your excellent work. God bless.
The Bible is clear about the eternal existence of the unsaved in Hell. But the Bible never calls this existence 'life', because spiritual life is characterized by being in the correct relationship with God. Apart from God, we can have no life.
John chapter three has much to say about this question, unfortunately most stop reading at verse 16. I have always found verses 17-21 to be a satisfactory and succinct answer.
Why is a man worth crucifixion but not the work of the Holy Spirit to change his heart?
God opens the way for salvation through Jesus' sacrifice, but man is exhorted to repent, to turn to Christ, etc, throughout Scripture. And when people are judged for their sins, God will be just in doing so, because those people have rejected Christ. So it's not a matter of people "not being worth the work of the Holy Spirit", it's a matter of people not turning in repentance. Scripture emphasizes God's gracious provision of salvation, and when people do not turn to God in Scripture, they are the ones who are blamed for being hard-hearted.
Thank you Lita for bringing this topic up. I think it is very important that we become "fully persuaded..." and develop a response that is almost as a reflex to this question.
My own response has come from a life experience that had me seeking God for peace about the eternal destination of someone very close and dear to me. This person had a major impact on my own salvation and a life of enjoying that salvation and a commitment to full-time ministry. In their last few years they then let this question consume them and they began to question God and even His 'right' to condemn 'innocent' people. He was even resentful of God having the 'right' to be 'unfair'. When they passed away it ripped me up emotionally. I cried out to the Lord and asked Him, "Am I to spend the rest of my life not knowing where my own dad is spending eternity?" Almost immediately it was like God was saying to me, "Leave it to Me. You can trust me on this." And a lasting peace about my dad came over me,and is still with me. I can't say where he is but I have complete peace.
I used to say to my dad that God is the One who invented and gave us life so that we could enjoy Him forever. He invented salvation. Scripture tells us that no one is without excuse and that God is not willing that any should perish etc. But the punchline for me is that the Almighty God invented grace; how could we ever even start to think we could upstage Him on grace. He is more passionate than we are for the salvation of even His worst enemies, (Romans 5). Yes, so true Abraham, the God of all the earth will certainly do it right.
The part about having the Tree of Good and Evil simply to give men free will reminds me of a section in C.S. Lewis’s “Voyage to Venus”. The main character, Ransom, explains to Venus’ Eve that the only reason she is not to sleep on the “fixed lands” is so that she can obey. She is to obey simply for the sake of obeying. He showed her that because she understood the reason for all God’s other laws, it was the law she did not understand the reason for that was the real test.
Please note that I say the following in the kindest possible tone. I just take it very seriously. I understand this is only relevant to a small part of the full article above but I still believe it is highly relevant. Thank you.
The concept that people who have never heard of Jesus cannot be saved is a horrific commentary on the character of God and one of the most evil and unbiblical doctrines in existence.
Consider the implications for just the country of Australia. For 4000 odd years of its history every person born there has been automatically condemned to eternal hellfire, not because of any decision they have even had the opportunity to make, but rather simply because of where they were born! Moreover as God knows us before we were born, and we are each His personal creation, we can only conclude that he personally created all those people for the sole purpose of burning them for eternity. Go figure, no wonder so many thinking people who hear these doctrines hate God . . .
The most evil human alive today would immediately recognise this situation as being grievously unjust. This doctrine is a direct attempt by the devil to paint the character of God as more evil than any human who has ever lived. No wonder so many have said "If that is what God is like, I hate Him" It is unbiblical doctrines such as these that create atheists and give Dawkins unlimited and very credible ammunition to fire at Christians.
So here is what the Bible says.
1. When God judges (writes the book of life) he does take into account the circumstances under which a person is born
Psalms 87:6 The LORD shall count, when he writeth up the people, that this man was born there. Selah
2. God does not hold us accountable for what we do not have the opportunity to know. but rather turns a blind eye to our unavoidable ignorance
Acts 17:30 And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
Note: This does not give you the opportunity to close your ears and avoid the truth. If God makes the truth available, you are accountable.
II Timothy 4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
3. The Bible describes people in Heaven who have never heard of Christ
Zachariah 13:6 And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he (Jesus) shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.
4. Paul describes how Gentiles who have never heard the truth are saved
Romans 2:11 - 15 For there is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Lets break this passage down to make it easy to understand
Romans 2:11 - 15 For there is no respect of persons with God. For as many as have sinned without law (those who have never heard of the law) shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law (those who have the law) shall be judged by the law; (For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, (eg. Aboriginal people living in Australia 2000 years ago) do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: (the phrase "law unto themselves means that they keep the law) Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
Conclusion: There are two ways of following Christ
1. By following His teachings written in the Bible
2. By following His teachings coming to us through our conscience while ignorant of the existence of Christ.
Obviously option number one is the best means of salvation by a very wide margin, but not the only means.
So what about this verse?
Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
Easy, identify who the "we" are in the verse. Peter is addressing those who know about Christ not those who are ignorant of Him.
Thank you for responding.
Harley, I get why this way of thinking is attractive. Unfortunately, it isn't biblical. Think about it: if someone who was ignorant about Christ would be judged righteous by works, why would Christ come at all, and risk that these sorts of people would be condemned when they rejected Him? In fact, what good does Christ's death do these people at all? You cite Romans, but Paul goes on to say that "by the works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin" (3:20). In the context, we know that Paul is talking about both the Mosaic Law, and the 'law' that is written on the hearts of the Gentiles who do not have the Mosaic Law. This is because "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (3:23).
Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me." (John 14:6). That doesn't leave any loopholes. And if we try to make loopholes, we end up lessening the importance of salvation in Christ.
Wonderful article Lita! Regarding those that have never had the chance to hear of Jesus, I have heard it taught that God seeks out some (example) in their dreams/or other ways (besides a missionary) and this seems fine. I also recognize Acts 17:26 ("...and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings...") may be teaching us that God (who the Bible teaches knows the heart) may have placed those who never would choose Him on that desert island etc. I certainly don't believe God would be unjust; I just know the Bible teaches He knows the Heart.
I would have to agree with Lita's answer (as it is the answer I already held even before reading her answer) that the reason for the forbidden Tree in the Garden was to allow Adam & Eve the ability to have free will.
Otherwise, if there was no free will then there was no way to sin against God, and if there was no free will, then there was no ability to sin against God. If there was no ability to sin against God, there was no ability for God to ever demonstrate his justice.
Lita, you wrote:
"There were two pivotal times in history when God freely gave and made a way that mankind could choose to have a relationship with Him, the Creation and the Incarnation."
That statement begs the questions, “What about those who have never heard the Gospel?”
You deal with that question later in your article, and you rightly point out that all of us are guilty, and none deserve Heaven. You conclude with these words, “The answer is instead of questioning God’s justice (despite ‘Shall not the God of all the earth do right’ Genesis 18:25), we should be spreading the message until everyone has heard.”
I certainly agree that we should be spreading the Gospel. But even if we succeeded in preaching the Gospel to everyone on Earth tomorrow, we would still be left with the question of “what about those who never heard before today, and died without hearing the Gospel?”
For His own reasons, God has chosen to allow millions of people throughout history to live and die without ever hearing the Gospel or the name of Jesus. Yet you wrote, "mankind could choose to have a relationship with Him." What about those millions from past generations who never heard? How could they have chosen to have a relationship with Him?
I think the answer is that God will judge justly, even if He doesn't tell us how He's going to judge certain cases beforehand. The Bible tells us everything we need to know about salvation, not everything we'd like to know about salvation. What we need to know is that the normal way that God saves people is through belief in Jesus Christ for the salvation of sins, and that we've been commanded to go and declare the Gospel so people can do so.
I would like to ask regarding your answer to the question – ‘What was the purpose of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil?’ Just because Genesis itself gives no answer to this question doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Quite the opposite. We know that whatever God does, He does for a reason. But regarding your answer, how do you know that this was God’s purpose?
This is a very good question! The answer is that having looked at the various possibilities, this one seems the most logical and consistent with God's purposes as revealed in Scripture. But if anyone has an idea which may be better, I would certainly consider alternative scenarios that also fit with Scripture.
Another excellent article by Lita. I just shared it on FB.
It's helpful to remember that in one sense, God didn't "invent" Hell. People do it to themselves. It is just what happens if people spend their whole lives rejecting His offer of the free gift of forgiveness. In the end, they will be cut off from God and from the blessings we take for granted in this life - with all the torture, pain and anguish that goes with being cut off (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9).
As believers, we are often reluctant to talk about Hell at all, and so was Paul, who was in tears about it (Philippians 3:18-19).
Thank you Lita, for a timely reminder (personally) of the basis of salvation in Jesus Christ (God incarnate - Good news), the reality and necessity of Hell (Bad News) and the importance of sharing the "Good News" (and the relevance of not compromising the Genesis account of Creation - which shows our need for a Saviour). - Blessings
I've always thought that hell was self-imposed, that is, if you know of God, know of Christ, but still reject them, it is entirely your responsibility. I don't know that the problem of the unevangelized can be solved so easily though, for example, let us postulate that the person in question would accept Christ with all their heart and soul, but being a victim of circumstance, never once hears the Gospel, or is even taught about religion or any theism in general, and is thus unaware of even the concept of God.
In this case, it seems the unevangelized one is in no way at fault for his/her unbelief. And if they would accept Christ into their life, should they be presented to Good News, I'm not sure that hell is a warranted response to this person.
I don't want to sound skeptical, I'm not, but there are two main issues I have trouble with at the moment, one alleved slightly from this article. The problem of evil and the problem of the unevangelized are the only two great obstacles to belief I recognize in the Christian faith, and the latter seems to put the person 'on-trial' as a victim of circumstance rather than personally accountable for their actions (or non-action, as it were.)
In considering this question, I find Abraham's rhetorical question (with its obvious answer) in Genesis 18:25 to be immensely comforting: "Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?" At the final Judgment, no one will be able to accuse God of being unjust. I think it's almost presumptuous in a way to ask: "Well, what about those who haven't heard?" when we've been commanded in no uncertain terms to tell them so that they will have heard. If we knew that God was going to go easy on those who hadn't heard, hypothetically, wouldn't that make us less likely to evangelize?
I don't think we're meant to go around stressing about what God is going to do in the case of people who haven't heard (and this group is often little more than an abstraction). Rather, we're to make sure first that we are saved an in a right relationship with God, and then we are to obey God's command to spread the Gospel.
"Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows." James 1:17
When we reject God i.e. sin, we also reject every good and perfect thing He gives us, including the gift of eternal life. It is no surprise then, that eternal death in Hell is the result for those who persist in rejecting God.
In fact, there is a real sense that sending people to Hell is actually an act of love; God giving unrepentant sinners what they want - namely, eternal separation from all the good things God offers, and which they have rejected.
As C.S. Lewis has written:
"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, in the end, 'Thy will be done.' All that are in Hell choose it." (C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce, Ch 9)
The Bible is clear that God's justice will be done, and will be seen to have been done; no one who goes to Hell will have cause to feel unjustly treated.
The question is not 'Why God would send us to Hell?' but 'Why are we not all in Hell right now?' since this is what we deserve. The answer the Bible gives is that God is incredibly loving and patient with us, not wanting any of us to go to Hell, but rather - through Jesus - giving us a chance to repent and turn back to Him for forgiveness and everlasting life.
The loving God has been giving abundant equal opportunities to every single soul right from the first Adam to repent and accept His righteous salvation freely and willing regardless of whether one is smart or not, poor or rich, male or female or defective.
Jesus did not shy away from being the perfect sacrifice for our salvation though He knew that Judas Iscariot, Pilate and other would betray, torture and crucify Him. We can see this in the parable of the vineyard in Matthew 21:33-39
Our salvation that Jesus offers is not founded on the betrayal and injustice of Judas Iscariot, Pilate and others.
Even if Judas Iscariot, Pilate and others refused to betray, torture and crucify Him, God would offered the perfect sacrifice Jesus as it had been determined by God and Jesus.
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Earthquake Damage Prediction: A Technological Assessment
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This series includes technical reports prepared by faculty, students and staff who are associated with the John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center at Stanford University. While the primary focus of Blume Center is earthquake engineering, many of the reports in this series encompass broader topics in structural engineering and materials, computational mechanics, geomechanics, structural health monitoring, and engineering life-cycle risk assessment. Each report includes acknowledgments of the specific sponsors for the report and underlying research. In addition to providing research support, the Blume Center provides administrative support for maintaining and disseminating the technical reports. For more information about the Blume Center and its activities, see https://blume.stanford.edu.
This report was prepared in conjunction with Stanford University by URS/John A. Blume & Associates, Engineers (URS/Blume), as part of a general study on seismic hazard and risk mitigation under a grant from the National Science Foundation to Stanford University. This study was conducted to compare the technology behind three damage prediction methods that have been used in recently published seismic investigations. Damage prediction methodology developments can be beneficially utilized in identifying the potential loss from a seismic event, assisting in disaster mitigation planning, and improving construction design practices. In the report, damage is predicted using the three methods for three San Francisco blocks. These blocks are used for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to represent the general seismic behavior of the city.
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- Blume, JA, Wang, ECW, Scholl, RE, Shah, HC. (1975). Earthquake Damage Prediction: A Technological Assessment. John A. Blume Earthquake Engineering Center Technical Report 17. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/wx136jt7403
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