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Cascades - A peaceful cascade at the Tijuca Forest (Floresta da Tijuca in Portuguese). Tijuca Forest is a mountainous hand-planted rainforest in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the world's largest urban forest, covering some 32 km² (12.4 mi²). It is a mountainous region and the forest contains a number of attractions, most notably the statue of Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado mountain. Thank you very much for your support! | <urn:uuid:bf29d960-20c0-4fa7-9a1c-6e580e22dd37> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.pinterest.com/pin/317433473720944959/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00336-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.87907 | 107 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Additive manufacturing processes such as laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) and Electron Beam Melting (EBM) deal with large scales of data. Components can have a build envelope of 30 cm, the material melt pool is only around 100 microns, while the laser needs to travel 10s of kilometres on its path to build a full part. Combined with cooling rates of 1 million degrees per second, a vast array of variables need to run seamlessly, quickly and leave little margin for error to create accurate and predictable components.
By their nature, additive processes like LPBF can create structures with more complex geometries, manipulating material properties to build them point by point. This means localised areas can vary within a single part. For example, the hardness or stiffness can vary throughout the microstructure, or pores can be included in certain regions of the part. Tailoring properties location by location in any given part can optimise the efficiency and performance of the components, but can be difficult to achieve – and produce consistently.
Developing a simulation process that can accurately predict the outcomes of the LPBF process will help to drive the adoption of the technology across regulated industries like aerospace and automotive when it comes to producing safe and accurate end-use parts consistently. For these simulations to be viable, the results need to justify the added cost. It needs to be accurate, timely and able to predict the performance of components to be worth the added investment. The best simulation in the world is of no use if it takes months to complete versus the 2-3 days it takes to print a prototype that can be tested.
We have learned through research that to predict the performance of a component accurately, specific features need to be considered. For example, if a small defect like surface roughness in a particular location of a part is missed out or ignored during the simulation process, it can alter the overall performance at the component-level completely. Simulations, like the processes themselves, need to be multi-scale to provide accurate results. For data-heavy processes like LPBF and EBM, however, the challenge is to find and maintain the balance between accuracy and computation time, so a simulation remains viable.
This balance is very difficult to achieve, especially when it comes to addressing the smaller scales of a single melt pool and the minute details contained in the microstructure, but we are starting to see some promising results. For example, we can now calculate how well a component will perform based on its material properties by deriving these from sample parts.
The ultimate goal is to find a way to connect all of the different scales within a component’s design – including the part-level, multilayer and melt pool – into a complete framework, which is not as simple as it may sound. By achieving that all important balance and tackling the issue of multi-scale data processing, simulation technology will be mature enough to create value out of the LPBF and EBM processes.
Future vision: real time simulation
Simulation is normally viewed as part of the design process; as something that is required before the manufacturing takes place. It is seen as a tool to verify that the part set up to print will come out well and perform as expected. This perception is changing, however. Future steps will include using simulation tools to support the control of the printer itself.
By moving the interaction between the simulation and control software to the machine level, it becomes part of the manufacturing process, helping to ensure that the component is produced with the expected conditions every time. This shift lays the groundwork for the ability to perform simulations in real time in future – essentially testing the components during printing to allow for modifications and corrections to be made as part of the process.
Real-time simulation is still a technology of the future, as calculations need to be fast enough to correct the local process parameters during the additive process. We are limited by hardware currently, as computers aren’t fast or powerful enough yet, but we can simplify the simulations to tackle the issue of speed in the meantime. Using modelling to adopt a semi-analytical approach allows us to speed up the simulations significantly, making them more viable and of interest to a range of regulated industries including energy, aerospace and, perhaps most surprisingly, automotive.
While speedy, accurate simulations will not necessarily shift AM from being primarily a prototyping technology to a production one for the mainstream automotive industry, there is growing interest in the ability to test functional prototypes as final components to gauge performance level. Using a reliable, multi-scale simulation process to achieve an accurate prediction of how well end-use parts will perform, can therefore help to fuel further opportunities for prototypes and the adoption of additive processes in the automotive and other mass producing industries.
Michele Garibaldi - Senior Research and Technology Development Engineer at Siemens Industry Software
Michele is just one of the expert speakers us this year’s Additive International summit, which runs from 10th-11th July at the Nottingham Belfry. | <urn:uuid:e1e574bb-58a7-4dbe-a926-438ceba10b73> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theengineer.co.uk/content/in-depth/using-simulation-to-predict-additive-outcomes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.942355 | 1,023 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Training Equipment Every Baseball Athlete Needs
Looking for that extra edge this upcoming baseball season? Training aids are a great way to gain a competitive advantage and avoid slumps. To really be effective and improve your performance, a training aid must be able to directly translate to the work you do on the field. (See How to Construct a Baseball Workout.) From heavy bats to hitting tees, a lot of products promise results but end up being cheap plastic. Avoid wasting money with my top five picks in baseball training aids. In my opinion, all competitive baseball players need these in their arsenal to benefit their game.
The Hitting Tee
This is the most basic and essential tool for hitting. Although it comes in different shapes and sizes, a hitting tee is the most effective training aid of them all. Baseball can quickly become a complicated game, so it's refreshing that such a simple training tool can help hitters get their swing on the right path. A tee can be used for countless hitting drills. I recommend using a tee whose height can be adjusted and which can easily be moved to different locations around the plate. Tanner Tees have always proven to be durable options in my opinion. (Struggling at the Plate? Try Easy Hitting Drills, Batting Tee Drills That Power LSU Baseball and Baseball Hitting Drill For a Balanced Swing.)
Short Bat Trainer
Used in a variety of drills, a short bat trainer is great for improving a hitter's bat speed. It works by shortening your swing path, helping you keep your hands inside the ball at contact and reinforcing proper technique. Small bats can also be used with two hands to teach young players proper technique without sacrificing form due to strength and coordination issues.
Flat Glove Trainer
Flat glove trainers are traditionally used by infielders, but they are valuable for all defensive positions, especially catching and outfield play. They are inexpensive and versatile training tools, suitable not only for high school and college players but also for younger players learning the game. (Read why it's the best tool a baseball athlete can have.)
Although they are a little more expensive, this is a great investment, because it can serve as your own private batting cage. Plus, it's very durable and doesn't require a great deal of space. It's an ideal training tool if you don't have your own stash of baseballs to use. There are a lot of options, but the Solo Hitter doesn't require any additional equipment.
Particularly useful for infielders and catchers, mini baseballs are extremely effective in developing hand speed and quickness. One of my favorite drills with mini balls works with catchers and their receiving skills. The smaller-sized baseballs force the catcher to see the ball in or "stick their nose on it" when receiving a pitch. Ping-Pong balls or whiffle golf balls are inexpensive alternatives. | <urn:uuid:654acc2c-3d75-4405-9bed-1f00db6e4b1c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.stack.com/a/training-equipment-every-baseball-athlete-needs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721278.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00148-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953839 | 585 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Celebrating over 25 Years of Mine Land Reclamation, Conservation, & Economic Development in the Wyoming Valley
Earth Conservancy is a nonprofit organization dedicated to addressing the impacts of historical coal mining practices in northeastern Pennsylvania. Our focus: reclamation, conservation, and economic revitalization. In 1992, supported by Congressman Paul E. Kanjorski, leaders from area businesses, colleges, nonprofits, and communities joined together to address the lands of the Blue Coal Corporation, which had declared bankruptcy in the mid-1970s. Generally located to the west of Wilkes-Barre, many of these 16,000 acres situated among the small villages and boroughs have mostly been ignored, the mine-scarred land seen only as permanent eyesores and reminders of the past. Earth Conservancy, however, views them as an opportunity for growth, progress, and transformation. After obtaining $14 million in grants and an additional $2 million in private loans, EC purchased the Blue Coal lands in 1994. After the sale was finalized, Earth Conservancy began working to return the lands to productive use.
Vision & Mission
In 2004, Earth Conservancy’s Board of Directors developed the following vision and mission statements to guide its work.
Vision: Earth Conservancy will lead our communities in the reclamation of mine-scarred lands and streams, returning strong economic, environmental, and social value to the region by creating a well-planned vibrant valley, protected by green ridgetops.
Mission: Earth Conservancy is a nonprofit organization committed to the reclamation and return of 16,000 acres of former coal company-owned land to the region. It collaborates with local communities, government agencies, education institutions, and the private sector to spearhead the creation and implementation of plans that restore the land’s economic, recreational, residential, and ecological value.
To fulfill its mission, Earth Conservancy
1. Develops sustainable land-use plans
2. Commits to provide 10,000 acres for recreation and open space
3. Leads reclamation efforts of mine-scarred lands and water resources and guides their reutilization
4. Funds its work through the sale of Conservancy land and other resources, and through public and private sector partners
5. Partners with local communities to achieve our mission
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The B.C. government is launching the BC Heat Alert and Response System to more directly inform the public of extreme weather events.
On Monday, the province announced that extreme heat emergencies will be added to the province’s Alert Ready system, which issues public safety alerts through TV and radio broadcasters, as well as mobile devices, for floods, wildfires, potential tsunamis and Amber Alerts.
“Last summer’s unprecedented heat dome tragically resulted in hundreds of fatalities – making it clear we need to do more to be better prepared for future extreme heat events,” Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth said.
“We’ve developed a new heat framework so we’re ready for the next heat event, and we are ready to issue Broadcast Intrusive alerts for extreme heat emergencies to ensure people are aware.”
At least 595 people in B.C. died from summer heat wave, coroners service says
The province has been under intense pressure to act after the BC Coroners Service concluded 595 people died from “heat-related deaths” in the province between June 18 and Aug. 12, 2021. Most of the the fatalities were people 70 years and older.
The record-breaking heat wave that scorched western North America last June was among the most extreme ever recorded globally, according to modelling and analysis by researchers at universities in the United Kingdom.
Human Rights Watch later determined the B.C. government’s inadequate support during the extreme heat wave summer “compounded risks” for people with disabilities and older adults.
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“It’s vital that we take the lessons we learned from last year’s devastating heat dome to make sure that the Province – and our health-care system – are as prepared and resilient as possible during extreme heat,” Health Minister Adrian Dix said.
Uncovered documents surrounding B.C. heat wave show growing concern at E-Comm
Two levels of alerts will be delivered through the national public alert system: heat warnings and extreme heat emergencies.
The province also announced a new preparedness guide for extreme heat that encourages people to identify cool zones inside and outside their homes, such as community centres or libraries, taking cool baths or showers, drinking plenty of water, and checking in with vulnerable neighbours.
The response system will be activated when two or more consecutive days call for daytime maximum temperatures to reach or exceed regional temperature thresholds, and nighttime minimum temperatures are expected to be above regional temperature thresholds, the province said.
Staff at B.C.’s 911 dispatcher flagged understaffing up to a year before deadly heat wave: emails
Extreme heat emergencies will be declared when maximum temperatures are expected to substantively increase day over day for three or more days in a row.
The province also announced more supports to the ambulance system to better respond to a spike in 911 calls during a heat emergency.
– With files from the Canadian Press
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Andrew Vine: Monuments to bravery that should be cherished
THE council workman paused for a moment in his cleaning of the stonework, as we exchanged a few words.
“Makes you sick, doesn’t it?” he said, nodding towards the meaningless, pointless spray-painted scrawl that defaced one side of a stone cross bearing the simple legend “To the Unconquered”.
Yes, it does make anybody with a sense of respect sick to see a war memorial defaced by some baseball-capped moron looking for a blank wall on which to leave his mindless mark.
The stonework is pristine again now, thanks to the workman, but I wish someone had the means to scrub clean the psyche of whoever thought it was a good idea to vandalise it.
I take heart, though, from the conviction that he’s part of a very small minority. It seems to me that more people are pausing for a moment or two before war memorials these days, taking a few minutes to linger at landmarks they pass perhaps every day of their lives, to read the inscriptions or the names.
I’ve seen school parties on field trips listening attentively to their teachers explaining what the crosses and columns represent, and read leaflets from community groups raising funds and helping hands for a clean-up.
So many memorials were, for years, rendered almost invisible by their familiarity. They are so much a part of the landscape that too many people stopped noticing them, let alone reflected for the briefest of moments on what they represent, the sacrifice, the bravery, the loss. But people are noticing once more. Part of the reason has to be the long run-up to the commemorations of the 100th anniversary of the start of the Great War, with next Monday marking the day of Britain’s entry into it. Perhaps, too, last month’s 70th anniversary commemorations of the D Day landings played their part.
There is something else that has made the scales fall from the eyes of those who might once have hurried by on their way to work with barely a glance towards the memorial they know so well, or the wreaths that remain at its base from the most recent Remembrance Sunday.
It is the inescapable realisation that the memorials are as much a part of our present as the past, sacrifice, bravery and loss reaching down the decades through two world wars to our own times.
Too many names have been added to memorials in recent years as Union Flag-draped coffins have been flown home from Iraq and Afghanistan for them to remain invisible. As new conflicts began – whatever the public’s misgivings over their wisdom – Britain rediscovered its sense of gratitude to Armed Forces personnel who had made the ultimate sacrifice, and wanted to show it. The people of the village of Royal Wootton Bassett led the way, lining the streets to pay their respects to every one of the lost flown in to nearby RAF Brize Norton.
The announcement at the beginning of this month that £3m of Government money was being made available to renovate and repair as many as 10,000 memorials that have fallen into disrepair was a timely one, given the centenary of 1914. They should be kept in the best state of repair possible, venerated and cherished, as a mark of how much we value those they commemorate.
Looking after them with care would also underline that war memorials are not only about the lost, but also monuments to the bravery and sacrifice of those who survived, many of whom with terrible physical or mental scars, whether they be the dwindling band of Second World War veterans, or those from any of the conflicts since.
Memorials remind us that the lot of those who lived can be harsh. Wars are fought by the young, and can leave long years afterwards blighted for men and women who never flinched in doing their duty.
One of the most sobering statistics of the work of the Royal British Legion, the custodian of Britain’s acts of remembrance, is that of the 500,000 ex-service personnel and their families it helps every year, half are below pensionable age.
Many will be nowhere near it, but in their 20s and 30s, and the road ahead for them is a hard one.
The work of the Legion – and all the rest of the organisations who do so much help the casualties of war – is vital, and so is our support for it as well as our remembrance.
A veteran of the Falklands War, whose closest friend was killed right in front of him, once told me sadly of how he and his comrades viewed the public. “They’ve forgotten, you know,” he said. “Once it’s all over with, they just forget. I wish I could.”
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Children develop and learn through spontaneous, self-directed activities, combined with the introduction of a more structured learning environment. Students cultivate a natural desire to learn, develop social skills and ethical responsibility, and understand and demonstrate basic concepts.
A love for learning starts young.
Maryknoll School is renowned for its excellent early education program in Kindergarten, which lays a solid foundation in reading, writing, math, and science. Our caring faculty and staff get to know every student at Maryknoll and help to nurture their unique interests, passions, and talents as early as Kindergarten.
Lessons in Phonics Plus build verbal skills and make reading fun to cultivate students’ enjoyment of storytelling and ease of communication. Students learn about God, Jesus, and Mother Mary through word and song. Science and math start with showing students the wonder of the world around them, and inviting them to explore, question, and discover. Self-directed activities combined with the introduction of a more structured learning environment teach students social skills and responsibility as they adjust to the grade school environment.
For the 2022-2023 school year, parents of students who will attend Kindergarten will continue to have the option of participating in our Mandarin Immersion Program, the first Mandarin language immersion program in Hawaii, during the regular school day. Mandarin Immersion students receive daily instruction in a 50/50 model, 50% of each day in Mandarin and 50% in English.
Other curricular highlights include participation in a Big & Little Brothers & Sisters program, where Kindergarten and sixth-grade students partner for combined activities throughout the school year; introduction to Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a STEM-based curriculum in which Maryknoll won the “Distinguished Award” for its K-5 Launch program in 2020; beginning classes in art, music, and physical education. | <urn:uuid:969424a9-ab56-4eeb-9216-217e4194e79a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.maryknollschool.org/academics/kindergarten | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.942187 | 377 | 2.375 | 2 |
Prisoners of war
"Hungry! Nobody unless they have been through the torture of starvation can realise what agonies are endured"
Private Raymond Ayres, 13th Battalion
Raymond Ayres was one of more than 1,100 Australians captured at Bullecourt, the most Australians taken in any battle of the war. The British blockade of German supplies caused shortages in food and clothing, which affected Germans and prisoners alike. The Australian Red Cross Prisoner of War Department supplied prisoners with parcels of food and supplies, which helped the men survive captivity.
Mary Elizabeth Chomley, Secretary of the Prisoner of War Department, was a link between prisoners and those at home. Miss Chomley and her team kept detailed records of where the men were and what they needed. From 1916 till the end of the war, thousands of food parcels were packed and sent to the camps.
Private Herbert Horner of the 3rd Machine Gun Company was captured at Bullecourt. The Prisoner of War Department maintained contact with Horner and supplied him with regular parcels. Donations from Horner’s family and friends allowed the Red Cross to send him “special parcels of extra comforts”. This small basin was given to Horner by Belgian prisoners, and the identity discs were issued by his German captors.
“An unmistakable figure”
Douglas Grant had been adopted by a white family at the age of two in 1881. He enlisted in 1916, but was discharged because of regulations preventing Indigenous people from serving. He successfully re-enlisted, and while serving with the 13th Battalion was wounded and captured at Bullecourt in April 1917.
During his time as a prisoner of war in Germany, Grant, a talented artist, was of great interest to German scientists and anthropologists. One scientist described him as “an unmistakable figure” because of his dark skin and a Scottish accent, courtesy of his adoptive parents. He was elected Secretary of the British Help Committee, which put Grant in charge of receiving and distributing relief parcels. | <urn:uuid:49c4f55e-5093-4177-a99c-60acd32d0499> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.awm.gov.au/exhibitions/anzac-voices/prisoners-war/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00573-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979698 | 423 | 3.625 | 4 |
This time we talk about visualization; scripts, plugins, more importantly the use of open source software.
Enise Burcu: What do you do currently?
James Melsom: Outside the ETH I am working in collaborations with firms throughout Europe more or less. More recently, research work with some colleagues based in Barcelona, that is also crossing back over into the research work here. Also competition work with architectural offices, mainly in Switzerland.
EB: So you work your own and collaborate with different offices?
JM: Yes. In the past years that is meant more or less competitions with other offices and some consulting work in the case of international projects. I am also involved in a sustainability organization in Rotterdam called EXCEPT, and worked on a wetland project in China with another planning bureau. More recently I won a competition in Bern so in that case I will be sharing that project with a colleague, and that will continue into the next year or two.
EB: Sounds like generally large scales projects.
JM: Yes, also because they tend to have a longer time frame Secondly because it is the kind of work with which I am more familiar with, project work in South-east Asia, in Singapore, and Thailand so often very urban work which suits to very large-scale.
EB: Introducing new software second module updated our accustomed workflow in terms of visualization. What is your workflow? What tools do you use?
JM: In terms of visualization and in using tools such as Grasshopper, it has actually evolved very much parallel to professional work. Actually one of the philosophies which has been encouraged by the work at the chair is that work is really project or solution based, then the resulting tools are not only much more useful but can really be extremely efficient as well. For example using Grasshopper and SAGA-GIS applications together, was developed because I literally had to: I was consulting on a project for a landscape architect in Zurich who was not so well equipped, and the project was not so far that she could do necessary volume calculations. She had no idea how much material was being produced by the building works, foundations and car parking within the project. So I was able then to take that problem and actually generate a workflow using different possible project outcomes, using Grasshopper for example to dynamically generate volume calculations; really useful project tools which otherwise would not exist. These could also be given to the engineer even before they had even look at the problems themselves.
EB: They certainly open new windows as far as you know how to utilize. But if you are not confident they are even scaring I would say.
JM: I think so and the other trick is generating ways that you can also verify your results, because when you are developing a new tool or a method, you still need to have some control, ie. where you can check that the volumes are correct. You need to have a background that you can really be confident in the results that you are putting out and reliably share them with other consultants or clients. Once you’ve developed that tool (even if it sometimes seems like inefficient process to develop it) then you can easily deploy that to another project. The more projects you work on, somehow you pick up steam and it becomes even more efficient.
EB: What other tools do you use? Would you tell us unless they are professional secret?
JM: The main tools I use day-to-day, in terms of tools made by others, would be Rhino, Grasshopper and some particular plug-ins. One is “Elk”, for getting/dealing with Open Street Map data. Another is “GHowl”, which allows you to call dynamically data from Google Earth; also “Weaverbird” which extends the abilities to work with meshes in Rhino. Apart from this I use Lightwave for rendering as well as Vray, and 3D Coat which is a voxel modeling program…
EB: All of them are for 3D. Do you start with modeling? And I wonder don’t you ever use Illustrator for example?
JM: I use a lot of Illustrator. All of my plans for competitions for example are produced in Illustrator. All of the vectors are produced in Rhino; (I might even render out shadows or textures out of the 3D model) so I try to generate something accurate enough that I can lay on the top and all of those aspects can be re-used in the final output, which also makes updates much more simple.
EB: During the module you mentioned very often of open source software, and gave a couple of examples. What is the significance of open source software today?
JM: A good example I would give is Blender. Blender first started off as a 3D application for rendering. It has evolved to the point where it is now a compositing tool – so you can literally mix and grade video inside it; you can do motion tracking (you can actually import the video and solve where the camera is moving based on the video frames); you can do character animation… In its kind it is turning in to many headed beast which actually makes it harder and harder to use. You can imagine now you have hundreds of menus, it is becoming more and more specialized and less a general tool you can open intuitively and get a hold on. The other problem with the open-software of that form is that it has so many developers now; you have 20 different universities each developing some small functionality which then they give to Blender, but there is no overarching control over the workflow (or even keystrokes) that they would make sense, that these tools would work well together. Although it is extremely powerful, it is also somewhat trapped in terms of complexity of software. The other aspect is that it is putting a lot pressure onto existing software developers to generate new business models.
EB: Is it a market already? Do they develop these software in order get them purchased by the bigger companies?
JM: It is. What is interesting is that open source software now generate most of its incomes through sponsorship and through selling off training material. Basically you have programs like Blender who generates more less all of the revenue by having sponsors for the films and projects (you are listed in the trailer literally like you are honored for your contribution), or they sell training for that software. It is a self supporting system because software is getting more and more complex and it is getting less and less possible to learn it by yourself. For this reason I think it is extremely important to support it, but actively. In a way open source projects should not be ‘free’ in the sense that you should donate – somehow [testing, sharing findings].
EB: I guess you donate so many of them.
JM: Probably too many. This makes the software better. And the great thing about some of these projects is that if you do involve yourself you can literally talk to the developer. For example we have been able to talk directly to the developer of SAGA and actually have been changed the software for our needs. This is huge in the sense that beyond any kind of programming which we might teach in MAS (which his maybe not so conventional for landscape architects), just the understanding of the whole process behind it means you can actually talk “shop” to these people – and they will actually listen.
EB: There are too many of them. How do you choose among the thousands which one to use? Is there a kind of network that you follow?
JM: There is a very interesting site called osalt.com. That stands for open source alternatives. You can put in Photoshop and it will get you back a list of open source alternatives. It is a database which tries to show new software, it gives a few lines what the positive and negatives are, what operating systems are available on and so on. What is interesting is that just based on the feedback and donations they get [open-source developers], they continue or don’t continue development. For every open-source project currently active, there is about 15 times as many (and it is increasing) which have been discontinued. This a little bit the problem that often an active programmer is studying, during their dissertation, and when they have a big paid job then they might not release some kind of open source alternative. Unless they really get a lot of involvement, feedback, monitory donation or recognition, probably they will stop supporting it at some point. The other phenomenon which has happened: there is an application called MeshMixer, which has started of as a pet project of a programmer, where you could have a bunny (for example) and add these geometries together however you would like. It was a free software and amazingly done but then Autodesk bought it – now it is still available but it is being cannibalized into Autodesk products which is actually fine, as long as it is available, but probably it is going to disappear soon as well.
EB: What other networks are common?
JM: In general there is open source applications and then there is also a massive amount of plug-ins and scripts. For almost every 3D program there are plug-in and scripts being developed, also for free. This is the other huge area which definitely needs to be supported. This is also where we try at least to teach experimentation and trusting your intuition, and not necessarily taking one product and using it because “it is the only product to do what you want to do”, but actually experiment and try many products within a project; take just try one aspect, one very narrow feature set of the software and integrate that in an efficient way within the production or the generation of landscape design. Because in any case, software will come and go, have strengths and weaknesses. It is about being flexible , flexibility is certainly something which needs to be learned, a kind of fluidity jumping between these softwares and keeping them all efficient.
EB: LVML is basically working on landscape visualization. What should we understand from “landscape visualization”? Is it future landscapes or present landscapes that is meant?
JM: I think it should be flexible as a terminology. The idea why we use so much, for example, point clouds, is the fact that is not such a static data set. You can more or less imitate transparency and color and season just by loading different sets, or you can overlay easily different scenarios at the same time. We would, in the future, like to not only talk about present landscapes (which is obviously what we are talking about what we scan) or potential landscapes by the integration of 3D models, but also integrate for example recreations of historical landscapes. For example: the previous landscape before a dam was put into a valley and was flooded; to recreate the actual previous valley bed, and town in some cases when we have photographic material to reconstruct that. So it should be much less tied to a specific moment and should keep that kind of [temporal] flexibility. As you would notice ,we don’t spend too much time rendering if we can help it.
EB: It is not about creating the best 3D image.
JM: No. In fact, that should be possible of course, we should have the capabilities of generating any number of different possibilities. In our case, it is also about the overlay of data of the site which we cannot see but as well this idea of testing possible futures, which is for example where GIS is extremely under-utilized in its typical usage: we are usually talking historical or current, or instantly a kind of depreciated state, in terms of potential zoning plans, so extremely abstract whenever it comes to future scenarios. This is something we try to challenge.
In terms of research we are already dealing with the Computer Vision Lab at the ETH Zentrum, involved in a nationally funded research project, which involves not only the automatic stitching of point cloud data but also the automatic recognition of photographs within that landscape. You could literally throw images into this database and recognize from where it would be taken and have chronological information generated on a temporal database, which really relates to geographical space. Aims from then on would be to continue that into video or literally movement within the landscape, and even sound within such a geographic and 3D landscape database. Apart from that chiefly in research projects such as that the one which was presented in San Francisco, that was with IAAC, with Luis, with whom I will also be running a workshop in London in April. That will be another quite huge event in which we will do temporal data capture of spatial environment, temperature, light, humidity, sound and map people’s movement and relate all of these within one geographic real-time database.
EB: Thank you for the interview James. These all sounded to me very virtual, like in sci-fi.
JM: This will be quite physical. We will definitely try to relate it to the real way people act and react in space – not a simulation. Rather than the typical mode in which usually micro-climate is talked about in terms of simulation, or creating 3D models which imitate how we think it might be; this is about literal data capture and recording, and then reacting to existing micro-climates which we find on the site. The workshop scenario simply allows us map and manipulate this data, as we receive it. | <urn:uuid:f30703f9-9459-44c7-89de-541515b20151> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blogs.ethz.ch/girotmasla1213/category/interview/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.972649 | 2,755 | 1.601563 | 2 |
If you love learning new trades, saving money, and home decorating, it’s time you pick up a new hobby and test your creativity with woodworking! The art of woodworking combines craftsmanship, style, and functionality to create personalized items for decoration and use. Keep yourself busy at home by trying your hand at these DIY woodworking projects perfect for all skill levels.
Indoor DIY Woodworking Projects
Time: 1 hr or less | Skill Level: Beginner | Cost: $20-50
Tired of soaked bathroom mats after you hop out of the shower? Opt for this cedar bath mat instead and make it yourself with just three easy steps. Keep in mind that this particular DIY woodworking project uses cedar for its style and rot resistance, but you can use any wood that matches your preferences
Time: Multiple days | Skill Level: Intermediate | Cost: $100-250
Whether you have kids constantly tracking in dirt or struggle to keep bags and backpacks organized, these mudroom cabinets are a heavensend! With lots of space and customizable design plans, you can create unique lockers to store everything from boots, coats, umbrellas, and more. Use plywood instead of stained wood to save extra money and apply a fresh coat of paint to bring some color to your home.
Time: Few hours | Skill Level: Beginner | Cost: $100-250
Floating shelves are one of the hottest design trends right now and for good reason! They complement your walls and provide much needed storage space off the floor. Rather than purchasing them from a store, take on this practical woodworking project and make them in just a few hours.
While this project may not save you money in the long run, it gives you the freedom to create shelves that meet all of your requirements. Choose the exact size, thickness, and style you want, and finish them to match your home’s furnishings.
Time: Full day | Skill Level: Intermediate | Cost: Free
Choose from pallets made of pine, oak, poplar, or maple for this practical woodworking project. Side tables aren’t cheap when you buy new, so this project definitely gives you the chance to save a pretty penny as you hone your skills in lumber preparation and simple joinery. This square-shaped, modern side table is a great furniture piece for your living room table lamp or decorative houseplants.
Time: Few hours | Skill Level: Intermediate | Cost: $45 plus lumber
Need decor for your living room coffee table? This industrial-style serving tray is a stylish and functional DIY woodworking project that will garner many compliments from your guests! With some dark barnwood and black iron handles, you can create a vintage decor piece that doubles as the perfect tray for breakfast in bed.
If you use reclaimed wood for your rustic look, make sure to inspect the wood prior to starting. Check for nails and rot to ensure it is sound throughout.
Time: Full day | Skill Level: Advanced | Cost: $50-100
Complete your entryway with a mid-century modern platform bench by trying this practical woodworking project. What makes this bench especially exciting is that its design is based on George Nelson’s iconic bench made in 1946. Rather than seeing it in museums across the country or buying pricey imitations online, create your very own replica!
Outdoor DIY Woodworking Projects
Time: Multiple days | Skill Level: Intermediate | Cost: $100-500
Get your home ready for beautiful spring weather with this garden arbor! Complete with a swing as well, this DIY woodworking project is much easier to assemble than it may seem at first glance. For this specific project, the swing is store bought, leaving just the arbor as your main piece of work. If you can handle a saw and drive screws, you should be able to get this backyard seating up and running in just a couple days.
Time: Multiple days | Skill Level: Beginner | Cost: $100-250
Transform your patio into a comfy entertaining area for family and friends by crafting up this relaxing patio set. The wonderful part about this practical woodworking project is that it can literally blend into any backyard. All you need to do is adjust the measurements of the sofa and chair to make them smaller or larger for your space.
Another convenient feature of this patio furniture is the wide arms that double as end tables for drinks and food. Kick back on your outdoor sofa and enjoy a peaceful dinner at sunset.
Time: Multiple days | Skill Level: Intermediate | Cost: $100-400
Not every backyard has room for a large shed, which is why this small garden closet is such a necessity for homes with limited space. Have a durable and convenient spot to place all of your yard tools and supplies by spending a couple of weekends on this DIY woodworking project. Attach it to the back or side of your house for discreet storage and save about $75 by using treated lumber, pine, and asphalt shingles instead of cedar.
Time: Multiple days | Skill Level: Intermediate | Cost: $100-250
Are you a fan of Craftsman-style furniture? If so, this pedestal picnic table is the ideal design for you! Great for dinner parties, morning mimosas, or a game of cards, this picnic table’s assembly is strong and simple with a long-threaded rod rather than complex dowels or joints. Plus, no one will ever need to complain about a table leg in their way when they sit. The pedestal feature is streamlined and optimal for comfortable seating.
Time: Multiple days | Skill Level: Intermediate | Cost: $500-1000
Ask for a helping hand from a friend or family member and finish off your backyard with a ground-level deck. This practical woodworking project may be higher in cost, but it’s maintenance-free, easy to build, and a unique addition to display patio furniture. It’s also a creative way to cover up the less appealing parts of your lawn!
Time: Multiple days | Skill Level: Intermediate | Cost: Varies
If you’ve ever owned an outdoor umbrella, you know the struggle of trying to keep it (and its holder) stable during blustery days. Luckily, you can put that problem behind you with this petite but sturdy umbrella table! With a distinct, tapered design, this DIY woodworking project is stylish, functional, and perfect for poolside lounging.
Grab your plywood, No. 2 cedar, and knot-free cedar to get things started. Keep in mind that experience with pocket screws and miter saws is preferred for a smooth and quick building process.
There’s a lot of work that goes into making your house a home, and you can get first-hand experience in the process by mastering the art of woodworking. Customize your home furnishings with these DIY woodworking projects and enjoy learning a new hobby along the way! If you’re looking for more ideas on how to decorate your home on a budget, check out 15 ways to decorate with what you have. | <urn:uuid:afb8ed1a-bf75-40e5-abf9-d0a9d96262b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fusionfurnitureinc.com/blog/diy-woodworking-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.922104 | 1,478 | 2.0625 | 2 |
"21st Century" in the title, but when I arrived at dinner on Thursday evening hosted by Renee Hobbs director of Temple's Media Education Lab I thought "I am totally out of my element... Here I am hob nobbing with journalists, and news people, what is my purpose" You will see that I discovered that by the end of my post ;-)
The format of the conference followed the Open Space Philosophy. There was very little scheduled in the way of formal sessions, again something that made me a little unsure as to what my goal was in being here...In a nutshell, they started with some overall goals:
- Consensus statement on need for civic/news education frameworks in K-12 teaching
- How to make news a vital part of education
- Knowing how to use news lit / media lit to create a culture that thinks deeply and communicates effectively.
- Coming up with new idea about what “news” means
- Opening up new possibilities to work together for news literacy
- Thinking about if we can change the economic structure of the news industry so it isn’t profit driven but focused on the public interest?
- Talk about how can journalism education be reinstated in school curriculum
- What news literacy really looks like in a middle school or high school classroom
- A news literacy outline that everyone agrees would work in classrooms.
- A consortium of people in different fields pushing for cross-curriculum media literacy.
...and ended with creating statement that to me really represents literacy across the curriculum
I was really blown away not only by the process, but that by the end of the weekend we had reached a consensus statement about the importance of news literacy. Here is what was concluded:
A consensus statement of participants in "Rebooting the News:"At the beginning of the weekend the focus was on news literacy...how do we get students / people to critically analyze the news, how do we involve the news in curriculum...But I realized that it is not just NEWS to which this statement applies AND it is not just the ed tech folks who are concerned about
News surrounds us and as such news literacy is an essential life skill for everyone. To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson: Knowledge of current issues is essential to informed citizenship in a democracy. We are concerned about the effects of media messages on children and others. Modern participatory culture makes every citizen a potential creator of news in social media, blogs, email and the web. We believe a literate citizen understands the purposes, processes and economics of news.
Therefore, it is time for American education to include the acquisition of 21st-century, critical-thinking skills for analyzing and judging the reliability of news, differentiating among facts, opinions and assertions in the media we create and distribute. News literacy standards can be research based in multiple content areas. It can be taught most effectively in cross-curricular, inquiry-based formats at all grade levels. It is a necessary component for literacy in contemporary society.
Signed at Philadelphia, Saturday, Oct. 25, 2008:
- 21st-century, critical-thinking skills for analyzing and judging
- differentiating among facts, opinions and assertions
- research based in multiple content areas
- inquiry-based formats at all grade levels
WHAT ARE THE necessary component(s) for literacy in contemporary society?You know what...journalists should have some concern about what is happening to news, the form it takes and the consequences of it.
On Tuesday, the Christian Science Monitor announced they would no longer be creating a print version...
Wednesday, October 27th David Carr New York Times: Mourning Old Media's Time was a wake up call to everyone who grew up in a world where we took newspapers for granted.
Did you know that this coming Sunday marks Opus's Last Day in the Sunday Comics
The funny thing is... we were still in a paper only era, I would never have come to know ANY of this "news", as I found the article via Will Richardson's message on twitter regarding a post he wrote about this article that I am sure he found via his RSS reader. I also learned of the connection between Reading, Writing, and Social Media literacy from following Will on Twitter. Dennis Richards summarized this information from the NYTimes Article on his blog regarding the challenges of reporting news in the future...
In the comments of Will's post, David Jakes left a great comment referencing EPIC 2014 a video created by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson with music by Aaron McLeran based on a presentation they gave at the Poynter Institute which explores the effects that the News aggregators, Web 2.0 technologies, blogging, social networking, and user participation may have on journalism and society at large in a hypothesized future. I was glad to read Joel Adkin's comment leading me to Chris Brogan's post: Reach Outside your Fishbowl ~ which led me to 2 people outside of MY fishbowl to follow and learn from. I found reading my own aggregator that David Warlick put his 2¢ in on Going online Only.
1 - number of movie reviewers left on staff of The Los Angeles Times
1 - number of dollars TV Guide was sold for
2 - number of days the Christian Science Monitor will publish each week in the future
5 - number of days the Christian Science Monitor will not publish each week in the future
40 - percent of people The Star-Ledger of Newark, the 15th-largest paper in the country, will cut from it’s editorial staff
50 - percent of people The Los Angeles Times has left in the newsroom after 7 years of reductions
90 - percent of revenue the newspaper industry still derives from the print product
600 - number of people Time Inc., the Olympian home of Time magazine, Fortune, People and Sports Illustrated, announced that it was cutting
3,000 - number of people Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the country, plans to lay off 10 percent of its work force
~ Information from Mourning Old Media’s Decline, David Carr
As I was still pondering the conference and all of these recent articles surrounding news, and the importance of "news literacy" as an important learning skill, I came across a pretty heated conversation on twitter that Jakes had stirred up, that may have been sparked by the panel he recently moderated at Tech Forum...“Are there new literacies that connective technologies create? ..or do these tools afford the attainment of a literacy in a different way?“
AND “People want schools to be better, but not different.” Do you believe this to be true? How exactly does Web 2.0 make schools better? Rather than trying to summarize all of the great arguments about tech, and news, and skills and learning, I used summize, skitch, omnigraffle, and scribd to put together a montage of a conversation I am calling Twitter on Literacy! Go on read for yourself...
What I find most interesting about all of this is that I am pretty sure ALL of the folks I linked to in this post will find it with the subscriptions they have through technorati to their own citizen journalism....
Citizen Journalists, New Media, News Literacy, Web2.0 for School Reform, Critical Skills for 21st Century...
We are all saying the same thing...and we all should be concerned until we can work TOGETHER outside of our fishbowls or echo chambers to tackle these tough questions..
SO... I go back to the original question(s) that have been rattling around in my head for ...well quite some time now...
WHAT ARE THE necessary component(s) for literacy in contemporary society?AS Will eloquently put it...The problem for us is that we’re still teaching like our kids are going to be reading those edited, linear, well-written newspapers when the reality is they’re not. And the bigger problem is that, by and large, we still don’t know enough about the “new” media world in our personal practice to push those conversations about change in any meaningful way.
How do we break out beyond our own "learning networks" to cross pollinate and share the same message?
Would love to hear your thoughts?
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Lore Borsoni, Iacopi Farms
1 bunch leek greens (about 4 inches long)
3-4 sprigs of rosemary (or other fresh herb, such as sage, thyme)
3-4 cloves of garlic (lightly smashed)
3-4 sprigs of Italian parsley
1 pound dried Italian butter, prim manteca or cranberry beans, rinsed and picked over.
12 cups water
6-8 cloves of thinly sliced garlic
½ teaspoon crushed hot red pepper flakes (less or more to you taste)
1 large bunch of coarsley chopped swiss chard (including the stem, may also use other greens such as, kale, escalore)
Extra virgin olive oil
Toasted plain or garlic bread
- Place rosemary, garlic and Italian parsley inside a bunch leek greens. Bind them tightly with kitchen twine to make a bouquet garni. In a large pot combine beans and bouquet garni. Add water and bring to a gentle boil. Reduce the heat and simmer until tender, 2 to 2-½ hours un-soaked). Add more hot water if needed.
- Drain the beans, discard the bouquet garni and reserve the water. In a large pot, heat oil. Add garlic until lightly browned. Add red pepper flakes and cook for approximately 1 minute. Add water and bring to a simmer.
- Stir in swiss chard and cook stirring occasionally until the greens are quite tender, around 15 minutes. Add the beans and continue to cook for an additional 5 minutes (just enough to warm the beans). Season with salt. Serve with a drizzle of olive oil along with bread.
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THE NIGERIAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 12, No. 2, (2014)
Cooperative Societies in the Development Discourse of Ibadan, South-western Nigeria
Olayinka Akanle, Abidemi Folashade Omotara & Dauda A. Busari
Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social Sciences University of Ibadan Ibadan, Oyo State
Corresponding author: firstname.lastname@example.org, email@example.com
Development remains a fundamental challenge confronting Nigeria. Hence, governments at all levels and development partners continue to experiment with different innovative frameworks and approaches. Many of the experimented approaches are however poorly understood leading to ineffective programming. Among the strategies for development are cooperative societies. However, more scholarly works are needed to actually understand the development potentialities of cooperatives, sustainability of cooperative societies as agents of development as well as threats to their existence and effectiveness. Against this backdrop, this article examined issues that may impact development capabilities of cooperative societies in Ibadan.
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Published on January 9th, 2011 | by Julie Finn0
Six Sweet and Simple Skirts that You Can Sew from Recycled Fabrics
Whether you’re a novice sewer or a well-experienced one, skirts are some of the easiest and most satisfying items of clothing to produce. Seriously, what other article of clothing can you possibly sew with one cut, one hem, and fifteen minutes of free time, that has the potential to look nice on at least half the population?
The simplicity of the skirt also makes it highly suitable to be sewn from a variety of recycled fabrics. Depending on the look and the fit that you want, you could sew a skirt from vintage sheets or other linens, a well-fitting pair of pants, another skirt or dress, or a lovely blanket.
Need something a little more unusual? Sew a skirt from a shower curtain, a bath towel, or your favorite curtains!
For more inspiration and step-by-step tutorials, check out these six projects that use recycled fabrics to sew up some really sweet and simple skirts.
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Kids love learning about rocks and minerals! I love it too! I've found a few rocks and minerals sites that may help you and your kids as you "dig" into your unit. I've also included a freebie to help you assess your students' understanding of weathering and erosion that includes a grading key. Just click on the link below! Hope your kids enjoy it! | <urn:uuid:a2777bb1-12d4-4215-adcf-c30f05a90d3b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.classroomfreebiestoo.com/2014/12/get-rockin.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00248-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970675 | 77 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Midnight Christmas Mass by Charpentier
MIDNIGHT CHRISTMAS MASS BY CHARPENTIER
1h30 without interval
Messe de minuit
In nativitatem Domini canticum
Alongside his ensemble Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé passionately revives the music of the 17th century. Adamant about giving a new life to forgotten composers, he also defends masterpieces of more established repertoire. The Midnight Christmas Mass can be classified in this latter category, and is the reason for Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s (1643-1704) worldwide success. A tasteful mix of scholarly and popular tradition, of simple melodies and of complex arrangements, gives a universal taste to this Christmas music and makes it accessible to all. | <urn:uuid:8ea98607-4c0a-45c5-8590-928525c4569c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.insulaorchestra.fr/en/e/midnight-christmas-mass-by-charpentier/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.804453 | 182 | 1.5 | 2 |
I remember doing this project in elementary school. We mixed up a batch of Plaster of Paris, let it set in a recycled small milk carton (the ones from the school cafeteria) and then used spoons to scratch out a sculpture. We repeated the project with a slight variation in middle school. That time we mixed up the Plaster of Paris and let it set up in a baggie that we held in our hand to create an abstract shape. I still remember how the Plaster grew warm as it set. Although the finished pieces were hardly masterpieces… I still remember enjoying the projects. After reading about Mount Rushmore in our State Studies, I thought this would be a perfect time to do this project with the kids. You may want to research modern art sculpture (as a modern looking pieces will be more easily accomplished by young artists). I suggest looking at work by Henry Moore and Jean Hans Arp… but be careful and pre-screen art websites. You may find some content inappropriate for your kids.
This project is better suited to older elementary school children and up. Pixie had a very hard time trying to work on it. You may want to wear goggles while working on this project… if you are aggressive in your sculpting, pieces may fly. We worked on it several times over the course of two weeks… and my kids still don’t feel like they are done. Life of an artist… never quite done. This is a process not product project and can be pulled out again and again.
- Plaster of Paris
- Wax coated paper cups or cardboard milk cartons
- mixing device (we used old plastic forks)
- metal spoons, nails, or other utensils for scratching the plaster
- nail file or sandpaper for finishing
- optional – craft paint to paint finished sculpture
Cover your work area. Write your name on the bottom of your cup.
Mix 2/3 cup plaster with 1/3 of a cup of water in your cup and mix thoroughly.
You want a thick frosting texture.
Let your plaster harden for about 20-30 minutes. Check out how warm the plaster gets as it hardens. You may want to work with it while it is still a bit soft to do the initial carving (removing the biggest pieces).
Remove the plaster base from your cup. You can tear away the cup.
Use metal utensils to scratch away the plaster to create your sculpture. We had a hammer and pick left over from one of those digging for dinosaur bones kit, old spoons, a spread knife, and the favorite… a paint can opener.
Go for big basic shapes. Use any air bubbles or holes as part of the design.
When you have your design set, let it harden complete. You can then use sand paper or nail files to smooth out the surface. You can paint or seal your final design if you would like. | <urn:uuid:ee377dc5-8352-43b8-8955-a069b94b559e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://weefolkart.com/plaster-paris-abstract-sculptures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00015-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946183 | 599 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Coronavirus Wastewater Surveillance Study Receives $4.7M NIH Grant
A team of infectious disease experts and engineers at Columbia University have received a $4.7 million grant from the NIH to investigate the use of urban wastewater as a cost-effective and rapid means to detect new outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2.
The project is led by Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, MD, associate professor of medicine in the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Kartik Chandran, PhD, professor of environmental engineering in the School of Engineering.
One of the painful lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic was the nation’s inability to determine the location and prevalence of the virus quickly and accurately. Testing of individuals provided some data, but the process was slow, incomplete, and piecemeal and the data were typically 7-10 days behind the actual spread of the virus.
Wastewater surveillance, by contrast, would enable population-level monitoring, would allow for earlier detection of acute outbreaks, and would overcome hurdles to individual testing such as stigma and lack of access.
The term “domestic wastewater” refers to human urine and feces and other bodily streams in combination with water that has been used for washing, flushing, bathing or cooking— essentially anything that flows down the toilet or sink. In this project, Uhlemann and Chandran will test wastewater from the dormitories, classrooms, laboratories, and medical facilities of Columbia University.
Though wastewater testing has great promise, the best methods and protocols and the most effective ways to utilize the data are still being developed. This study will answer the following critical questions: How do the levels and diversity of the virus in wastewater from a single building or an entire campus correlate to the prevalence of coronavirus in the population encompassed by the testing? What are the most accurate water testing technologies? And how can the data be made available and interpreted in real time?
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according to a press release issued by lindows.com inc. on monday, a federal court has denied microsoft's attempt to thwart the os startup from using its “lindows” name.
in december, microsoft filed a motion in federal court claiming that the lindows name infringed on its windows trademark and that this would cause confusion for consumers. (see our previous news item.) the ruling not only gives lindows the right to continue to use its name, but also questions the validity of microsoft's windows trademark. this was supported by evidence that lindows submitted showing that the term “windows” was used in the computer industry in the early '80s, well before microsoft was given the trademark on it in early 1995.
lindows.com ceo michael robertson said that his company was “obviously satisfied” with the ruling and that it will “continue to battle in a trial if necessary.” lindows.com is currently developing a linux-based operating system that will be capable of running windows programs. the software is expected to cost approximately one-third of microsoft's windows operating system when available.
when i first heard that microsoft was filing a suit against the lindows name, i have to say that i was not very surprised. although in the past microsoft has allowed many companies, websites, and periodicals to use the windows name, i suspected that it was the nature of the lindows.com business that got microsoft to stand up and take notice.
the ruling, however, did not surprise me. it appears to me that lindows.com provided much evidence to support its case to use the lindows name. the judge agreed. lindows.com is now (for the most part) in the clear to move ahead with the branding of its product.
one of the more interesting aspects of this ruling is that it appears as if this case may be used in the future for other cases involving the windows trademark. the fact that microsoft did not own the trademark until well after the “windows” term was in use in the industry may seriously undermine any attempts microsoft makes in the future to retain sole use of the name.
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Matthew Arnold’s work deals with the difficulty of preserving personal values in a world drastically transformed by industrialism, science, and democracy. His poetry often expresses a sense of unease with modernity. He asserted his greatest influence through his prose writings as a social critic, calling for a renewal of art and culture. His forceful literary criticism, based on his humanistic belief in the value of balance and clarity in literature, significantly shaped modern theory.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Child of the Headmaster
Arnold was the eldest son of Dr. Thomas Arnold, an influential educator who became, in 1828, headmaster of the prestigious Rugby School. His family took many pleasant holidays in England’s Lake District where they became acquainted with William Wordsworth. Much of the imagery in Arnold’s landscape poetry was inspired by the locale.
Arnold’s poetic landscapes also are indebted to the region around Oxford University, which Arnold attended after being offered a scholarship in 1840. At Oxford he met Arthur Hugh Clough, who became his close friend and correspondent. After leaving Oxford, Arnold took a temporary post as assistant master at Rugby for one term before accepting a position in London as private secretary to the politician Lord Lansdowne.
Success as a Poet
While holding this position, Arnold wrote some of his finest poems. He published them, signed with the initial A., in two separate volumes: The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems (1849) and Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (1852). Arnold published the bulk of his poetry, including Poems in 1853, in the eight years following the publication of The Strayed Reveller. However, his best-known poem, ”Dover Beach,” was not published until 1867. The poem, often viewed as a meditation on the importance of love, describes a locale on the coast of England that Arnold is said to have visited in 1851.
At the age of thirty-four, Arnold was elected to the poetry chair at Oxford University, an appointment that required him to deliver several lectures each year. Traditionally, the lectures had been read in Latin, but Arnold decided to present his in English. He used the occasion of his first lecture in 1857 to discuss his views about the worth of classical literature. In the first lecture, entitled ”On the Modern Element in Literature,” later published in Macmillan’s magazine (1869), Arnold advocates a liberal education that features wide-ranging knowledge and the use of the comparative method to build knowledge and to shape understanding.
Arnold’s next major prose work, On Translating Homer, was a series of three lectures given at Oxford in 1860 and 1861. In these essays, he evaluates selected translations of Homer, noting the strengths and weaknesses of each in an attempt to establish the characteristics of a well-written translation. They are lively introductions to classical poetry and urge English writers to imitate Homer’s ”grand style.”
In his prose works, Arnold pursued many of the same ideas he had introduced in his poems, especially man’s need for spiritual and intellectual fulfillment in a materialistic, provincial society. In his Oxford lectures and in his education reports, Arnold suggested a single solution to humankind’s problems—a liberal education. As an essayist, Arnold continued to address the subject of intellectual and spiritual growth.
Of the several books that Arnold wrote on politics and sociology, the most important is Culture and Anarchy (1869). He criticizes nineteenth-century English politicians for their lack of purpose and their excessive concern with the machinery of society. The English people— and the narrow-minded middle class in particular—lack ”sweetness and light,” a phrase that Arnold borrowed from Jonathan Swift. England can only be saved by the development of ”culture,” which for Arnold means the free play of critical intelligence and a willingness to question all authority and to make judgments in a leisurely and disinterested way.
The subject of four of Arnold’s books was the threat to religion posed by science and historical scholarship. The most important of these is Literature and Dogma (1873). He argues that the Bible has the importance of a supremely great literary work, and as such it cannot be discredited by charges of historical inaccuracy. And the Church, like any other time-honored social institution, must be reformed with care and with a sense of its historical importance to English culture.
Arnold focused on social and literary topics during the last ten to twelve years of his life, offering more elaborate or definitive statements of his views on matters that had long interested him. In 1883 and 1886 he toured the United States and gave lectures in which he tried to win Americans to the cause of culture. Many of Arnold’s late essays deal with literature and, more specif-ically, with sound criticism of literature. The best known of his later collections is Essays in Criticism, Second Series, which Arnold began discussing with his publisher in January of 1888, but which was not actually printed until November of that year, seven months after Arnold’s sudden death from a heart attack.
Works in Literary Context
One of the dominant themes of Arnold’s poems is that of the intellectual and spiritual void he believed to be characteristic of nineteenth-century life. Looking about him, he witnessed the weakening of traditional areas of authority, namely the dwindling power of the upper classes and the diminishing authority of the Church. He believed man had no firm base to cling to, nothing to believe in, nothing to be sustained by.
Arnold’s early poetry, such as Alaric at Rome (1840), had the brooding tone that would become characteristic of his mature work. In ”To Marguerite—Continued,” he concludes that the individual is essentially isolated. The theme of man’s alienation and longing for refuge is echoed in later poems such as ”Rugby Chapel” and ”Dover Beach.”
For Arnold, the German poet Heinrich Heine truly possessed the critical spirit. Heine cherished the French spirit of enlightenment and waged ”a life and death battle with Philistinism,” the narrowness Arnold saw typified in the British. Arnold felt that the English romantics had failed to reinstitute the critical spirit. The German romantic Heine, however, he believed, was able to accomplish what the English romantics could not.
Despite his criticism, however, the two romantics Arnold held in highest esteem were Lord Byron and William Wordsworth. He praised Byron at length for his stand on social injustice, and ranked Wordsworth only after William Shakespeare, Moliere, John Milton, and Johann von Goethe in his list of the premier poets of ”the last two or three centuries.”
Works in Critical Context
As E. D. H. Johnson has pointed out, Arnold tried ”to reaffirm the traditional sovereignty ofpoetry as a civilizing agent.” Arnold believed that great art, functioning as a civilizing agent to enrich the intellectual and spiritual life of man, had universal application. But his views were not the same as those of his contemporaries, who felt that art should have immediate, practical application to everyday experience.
Arnold’s first collection, The Strayed Reveller (1849) was a failure; sales were poor and the book was withdrawn. Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems (1852), after a sale of only fifty copies, also was withdrawn. Critics charged that Arnold’s first two volumes of poems did not consistently deal with contemporary life. Charles Kingsley’s comments in 1849 are representative: ”The man who cannot… sing the present age, and transfigure it into melody, or who cannot, in writing of past ages, draw from them some eternal lesson about this one, has no right to be versifying at all.”
Poems (1853) included works from the two earlier collections as well as new ones, notably ”Sohrab and Rustum” and ”The Scholar Gypsy.” That volume contains his famous preface outlining why he did not include the title poem from Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems. Arnold declared that it did not fulfill the requirements of a good poem and therefore did not qualify as meaningful art. Alba Warren explains that ”great poetry for Arnold is not lyric, subjective, personal; it is above all objective and impersonal.” H. F. Lowry says of Arnold that ”[t]he deepest passion of his life was for what is permanent in the human mind and the human heart,” and that he found this in classical literature.
Because, perhaps, of the mournful tone of his verse, Arnold was not a popular poet in his day. However, many of his poems—most notably ”The Scholar-Gypsy,” ”Empedocles on Etna,” ”Thyrsis,” and ”Dover Beach”— are still studied and respected as some of the best verse of the Victorian period. T. S. Eliot stated that ”the valuation of the Romantic poets, in academic circles, is still very largely that which Arnold made.”
“Culture and Its Enemies”
In ”Culture and Its Enemies,” published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1867 and later included in Culture and Anarchy, Arnold continues to wage war against complacency. But his views were met with considerable scorn. Readers claimed that he was an elitist, a snob, and they labeled his ideas inadequately developed and impractical. Henry Sidgwick found the essay ”over-ambitious, because it treats of the most profound and difficult problems of individual and social life with an airy dogmatism that ignores their depth and difficulty.”
Arnold responded to his critics in a series of five essays published in 1868, entitled ”Anarchy and Authority.” In the essay series Arnold continues his championship of culture by stressing the present need for it.
Essays on Religion
Arnold also championed religion as a profound cultural force. However, Ruth Roberts shows that Arnold is guilty of ”over ingenuity” in his religious works. His argument is not as disinterested as he claims, and he often glosses over biblical passages inconsistent with his position. For Arnold, the Bible was literature and must be read as such. J. C. Shairp, a contemporary of Arnold’s, argued, ”They who seek religion for culture-sake are aesthetic, not religious.” The same charge was later echoed by T. S. Eliot, who found that Arnold had confused ”poetry and morals in the attempt to find a substitute for religious faith.”
Basil Willey summarized Arnold’s view in Literature and Dogma as being a ”false approach to the Bible which seeks to extract dogma from poetry.” Unsurprisingly, Literature and Dogma stirred even more controversy than his previous religious works. Many of Arnold’s critics were clergymen, such as John Tulloch, who was not alone in accusing Arnold of dabbling in ”amateur theology.
”The Study of Poetry”
One of Arnold’s most important later essays, ”The Study of Poetry,” first appeared in 1880 as the introduction to The English Poets, an anthology edited by T. Humphry Ward. R. H. Super reminds that the essay was intended ”to give some guidance to a middle-class public not sophisticated in the reading of poetry. ”The Study of Poetry no more remained unchallenged than had any of Arnold s other works. Many, including contemporary critics, have disagreed with Arnold s choice of touchstone passages, and many have taken offense at Arnold s pronouncements about the merits of individual authors. Despite such objections, the essay remains an historically important piece of criticism and an important guide to Arnold s own tastes.
As John Holloway observes, in Arnold s prose, it is ”his handling of problems that is more important than his solutions to them. One of Arnold s contemporaries, John Burroughs, writing two months after Arnold’s death, claimed that Matthew Arnold deserved to be read extensively, for only then could he be fully appreciated. In Arnold’s prose, Burroughs wrote, ”his effect is cumulative; he hits a good many times in the same place, and his work as a whole makes a deeper impression than any single essay of his would seem to warrant.
- Culler, A. Dwight. The Imaginative Reason: The Poetry of Matthew Arnold. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1966.
- Eliot, T. S. ”Matthew Arnold.” In The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism. London: Faber & Faber, 1933.
- Lowry, H. F., ed. The Letters of Matthew Arnold to Arthur Hugh Clough. London: Oxford University Press, 1932.
- Madden, William A. Matthew Arnold: A Study of the Aesthetic Temperament in Victorian England. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967.
- Russell, G. W. E., ed. Letters of Matthew Arnold, 1848-1888. London: Macmillan, 1895.
- Trilling, Lionel. Matthew Arnold. New York: Meridian, 1939.
- Buckler, William. ”Studies in Three Arnold Problems. PMLA 73 (1958): 260-69.
- Donovan, Robert. ”The Method of Arnold’s Essays in Criticism” PMLA 71 (1956): 922-31.
- Goodheart, Eugene, George Levine, Morris Dickstein, and Stuart M. Tave. ”The Function of Matthew Arnold at the Present Time.” Critical Inquiry 9 (March 1983).
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The household goods carrier gave you this booklet to provide information about your rights and responsibilities as an individual shipper of household goods. Your primary responsibilities are to ensure that you understand the terms and conditions of the moving contract (bill of lading), and know what to do in case problems arise.
2013 Update - Furnished By Your Mover, As Required By Federal Law
Table of Contents
Your Rights and Responsibilities When You Move
Page 2) General Requirements
Page 2) Regulations and Interstate Transportation
Page 2) Legitimate Movers and Brokers
Page 3) Customer’s Responsibilities
Page 4) Estimates
Page 5) Binding Estimates
Page 5) Non-Binding Estimates
Page 6) Your Mover’s Liability and Your Claims
Page 6) Full (Replacement) Value Protection
Page 7) Waiver of Full (Replacement) Value Protection (Released Value of 60 cents per pound per Page article)
Page 7) Third Party Insurance
Page 8) Reducing your Mover’s Normal Liability
Page 8) Loss and Damage Claims
Page 8) Delay Claims
Page 9) Moving Paperwork
Page 9) Order for Service
Page 10) Inventory
Page 11) Bill of Lading
Page 13) Freight Bill
Page 14) Weight Tickets
Page 15) Collection of Charges
Page 16) Transportation of your Shipment
Page 16) Pickup and Delivery
Page 17) Early Delivery
Page 17) Storage in Transit
Page 18) Weighing Shipments
Page 19) Resolving Disputes with your Mover
Page 21) Important Points to Remember
Page 22) Definitions used in this Booklet
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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) regulations protect consumers of interstate moves and define the rights and responsibilities of consumers (shippers) and household goods carriers (movers).
The household goods carrier gave you this booklet to provide information about your rights and responsibilities as an individual shipper of household goods. Your primary responsibilities are to ensure that you understand the terms and conditions of the moving contract (bill of lading), and know what to do in case problems arise.
The primary responsibility for protecting your move lies with you in selecting a reputable household goods mover or household goods broker, and making sure you understand the terms and conditions of your contract and the remedies that are available to you in case problems arise.
Regulations and Interstate Transportation
FMCSA’s regulations apply to motor carriers that engage in the interstate transportation of household goods and brokers that arrange for such transportation. These regulations require your mover to perform certain services and provide you with specific documents. The regulations only apply to your mover when the mover transports your household goods by motor vehicle in interstate or foreign commerce – that is when you move from one State to another or internationally. The regulations do not apply when your move takes place within a commercial zone (defined at the end of this booklet) or between two points in the same State.
Legitimate Movers and Brokers
Legitimate movers and brokers are registered with FMCSA to engage in interstate operations involving the interstate transportation of household goods. A legitimate mover explains whether they are a broker or a mover. A household goods broker arranges for the transportation of your shipment but does not provide line-haul transportation. A household goods mover actually transports your shipment.
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Household goods brokers or movers must provide you with basic information before you move. You should expect to receive the following information:
You should avoid brokers and movers that are not registered with FMCSA, refuse to perform a physical survey of your household goods, and require cash only transactions. You can determine if your broker or mover is registered with FMCSA by accessing www.protectyourmove.gov, or calling FMCSA at (202) 366-9805 for licensing and (866) 637-0635 for insurance information.
As a customer, you have responsibilities both to your mover and yourself. They include:
The two most important things to understand for your interstate move are: the types of estimates offered and the mover’s liability in the event of loss or damage. As you read further, you will discover that movers offer different types of estimates – binding and non-binding. The type of estimate you select determines how the charges for your shipment will be calculated. The estimate provided by your mover will notify you of the two liability coverage options: Option 1 - Full (Replacement) Value Protection and Option 2 - Waiver of Full (Replacement) Value Protection (60 cents per pound). The mover’s liability is discussed in detail in the next section.
FMCSA requires your mover to provide written estimates on every shipment transported for you. Your mover’s verbal quote of charges is not an official estimate since it is not in writing. Your mover must provide you with a written estimate of all charges including transportation, accessorial and advanced charges (defined at the end of this booklet). This written estimate must be dated and signed by you and the mover.
The estimate provided to you by your mover will include a statement notifying you of two options of liability coverage for your shipment: Full (Replacement) Value Protection and Waiver of Full (Replacement) Value Protection, Released Value of 60 cents per pound per article.
If you are moving from a location within a 50 mile radius of your mover’s (or its agent’s or broker’s) place of business, the estimate must be based on a physical survey of your household goods, unless you waive this requirement in writing before your shipment is loaded.
Please be aware that a household goods broker may only provide an estimate on a mover’s behalf if it has a written agreement with the mover and uses the mover’s published tariff.
You and your mover may agree to change an estimate of charges based on changed circumstances, but only before your shipment is loaded. Your mover may not change an estimate after loading the shipment. There is more information about changes to estimates in the following sections.
Never sign a blank or incomplete estimate. Movers may not require you to sign blank or incomplete estimates. Unscrupulous movers could use the blank or incomplete estimate to change the terms of your move, including the cost, without your knowledge or consent.
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A binding estimate guarantees that you cannot be required to pay more than the amount on the estimate. However, if you add additional items to your shipment or request additional services, you and your mover may: agree to abide by the original binding estimate, negotiate a new binding estimate or convert the binding estimate into a non-binding estimate.
If the mover does not give you a new binding estimate in writing, or agree in writing to convert the binding estimate to a non-binding estimate before your goods are loaded, the original binding estimate is reaffirmed. Under these circumstances, your mover should not charge or collect more than the amount of the original binding estimate at delivery for the quantities and services included in the estimate.
If there are unforeseen circumstances (such as elevators, stairs, or required parking permits) at the destination the mover can bill you for these additional expenses after 30 days from delivery. Charges for services required as a result of impracticable operations (defined at the end of this booklet) are due at delivery, but may not exceed 15 percent of all other charges due at delivery; any remaining charges will be billed to you with payment due in 30 days.
If you are unable to pay 100 percent of the charges on a binding estimate, your mover may place your shipment in storage at your expense until the required charges (including the cost of the storage) are paid. Your mover may charge a fee to prepare a binding estimate.
A non-binding estimate is intended to provide you with an estimate of the cost of your move. A non-binding estimate is not a guarantee of your final costs, but it should be reasonably accurate. The estimate must indicate that your final charges will be based upon the actual weight of your shipment, the services provided, and the mover’s published tariff. Therefore, the amount of your mover’s non-binding estimate may be different than the amount you ultimately have to pay.
A non-binding estimate must be in writing and clearly describe the shipment and all services provided. Under a non-binding estimate, the mover cannot require you to pay more than 110 percent of the original estimate at the time of delivery. This does not excuse you from paying all of the charges due on your shipment. The mover will bill you for any remaining charges after 30 days from delivery.
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Your mover must give you possession of your shipment if you pay 110 percent of a non-binding estimate or 100 percent of a binding estimate, plus 15 percent of the impracticable operations charges (if applicable). If your mover does not relinquish possession, the mover is holding your shipment hostage in violation of Federal law.
Your Mover’s Liability and Your Claims
In general, your mover is legally liable for loss or damage that occurs during the transportation of your shipment and all related services identified on the bill of lading.
The extent of your mover’s liability is governed by the Surface Transportation Board’s Released Rates Order. You may obtain a copy of the current Released Rates Order by visiting the Surface Transportation Board’s website at: http://www.stb.dot.gov/ Decisions/readingroom.nsf/(search-10.192.5.24-19306)?OpenView&Count=5000. In addition, your mover may, but is not required to, offer to sell you separate third-party liability insurance.
All moving companies are required to assume liability for the value of the household goods they transport. However, there are two different levels of liability that apply to interstate moves Full (Replacement) Value Protection and Waiver of Full (Replacement) Value Protection - Released Value. It is important you understand the charges that apply and the amount of protection provided by each level.
Full (Replacement) Value Protection
This is the most comprehensive option available to protect your household goods, but it will increase the cost of your move. The initial cost estimate of charges that you receive from your mover must include this level of protection. Your shipment will be transported at this level of liability unless you waive Full Value Protection. Under your mover’s Full Value Protection level of liability, subject to the allowable exceptions in your mover’s tariff, if any article is lost, destroyed or damaged while in your mover’s custody, your mover will, at its option, either 1) repair the article to the extent necessary to restore it to the same condition as when it was received by your mover, or pay you for the cost of such repairs; or 2) replace the article with an article of like, kind and quality, or pay you for the cost of such a replacement.
The exact cost for your shipment, including Full Value Protection, may vary by mover and may be further subject to various deductible levels that may reduce your cost. The minimum level for determining the Full Value Protection of your shipment is
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$6.00 per pound times the weight of your shipment. Your mover may have a higher minimum value or you may declare a higher value for your shipment (at an additional cost). The charges that apply for providing Full Value Protection must be shown in your mover’s tariff. Ask your mover for the details under its specific program.
Under this option, movers are permitted to limit their liability for loss or damage to articles of extraordinary value, unless you specifically list these articles on the shipping documents. An article of extraordinary value is any item whose value exceeds $100 per pound (for example, jewelry, silverware, china, furs, antiques, oriental rugs and computer software). Ask your mover for a complete explanation of this limitation before your move. It is your responsibility to study this provision carefully and to make the necessary declaration.
Waiver of Full (Replacement) Value Protection (Released Value of 60 cents per pound per article)
Released Value is minimal protection; however, it is the most economical protection available as there is no charge to you. Under this option, the mover assumes liability for no more than 60 cents per pound, per article. For example, if a 10 pound stereo component valued at $1,000 were lost or destroyed, the mover would be liable for no more than $6.00 (10 pounds x $.60). Obviously, you should think carefully before agreeing to such an arrangement.
Third Party Insurance
If you purchase separate third party cargo liability insurance from, or through your mover, the mover is required to issue a policy or other written record of the purchase and to provide you with a copy of the policy or other document at the time of purchase. If the mover fails to comply with this requirement, the mover is liable for any claim for loss or damage attributed to its negligence.
Shipments transported under a mover’s bill of lading are subject to arbitration in the event of a dispute over loss or damage claims. However, disputes with third party insurance companies might not be subject to arbitration in the event of disputed loss and damage claims as those companies are not within the jurisdiction of the FMCSA. Third party insurance companies are subject to the regulations of the States in which they are licensed.
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Reducing your Mover’s Normal Liability
The following are some actions that may limit or reduce your mover’s liability for loss or damage to your household goods:
1. Your acts or omissions cause the loss or damage to occur. For example, improper packing of containers you pack yourself do not provide sufficient protection or you include perishable, dangerous, or hazardous materials in your shipment without your mover’s knowledge. Federal law forbids you to ship hazardous materials in your household goods boxes or luggage without informing your mover.
2. You chose the Waiver of Full Value Protection – Released Value level of liability
(60 cents per pound per article) but ship household goods valued at more than 60 cents per pound per article.
3. You declare a value for your shipment which is less than the actual value of the articles in your shipment.
4. You fail to notify your mover in writing of articles valued at more than $100 per pound. (If you do notify your mover, you will be entitled to full recovery up to the declared value of the article or articles, not to exceed the declared value of the entire shipment.)
Loss and Damage Claims
Movers customarily take every precaution to make sure that while your shipment is in their possession, no items are lost, damaged or destroyed. However, despite the precautions taken, articles are sometimes lost or destroyed during the move. You have the right to file a claim with your mover to be compensated for loss or damage. You have 9 months from the date of delivery (or in the event of loss for the entire shipment, from the date your shipment should have been delivered) to file your claim.
The claim must be submitted in writing to your mover or to your mover’s third party company for claim processing. After you submit your claim, your mover has 30 days to acknowledge receipt of it. The mover then has 120 days to provide you with a disposition. The mover might be entitled to 60-day extensions if the claim cannot be processed or disposed of within 120 days.
Delay claims are processed when you have contracted with your mover for guaranteed service for pickup and delivery. Your mover will outline on the bill of lading any penalty or per diem entitlements when there is a pickup delay and/or delivery delay.
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Do not sign blank or incomplete documents. Verify that the documents are complete before you sign them. The only information that might not appear in your moving paperwork are: the actual weight of your shipment, in the case of a non- binding estimate, and unforeseen charges that occur in transit.
Order for Service
Your mover is required by law to prepare an order for service for your shipment. The following 14 elements should be listed on the order for service.
1. Your mover’s name, address and the USDOT number assigned to your mover.
2. Your name, address and if available, telephone number(s).
3. The name, address, and telephone number of the delivering mover’s office or agent at or nearest to the destination of your shipment.
4. A telephone number where you may contact your mover or its designated agent.
5. One of the following three dates and times:
a. The agreed-upon pickup date and delivery date of your move.
b. The agreed-upon period(s) of the entire move.
c. If your mover is transporting the shipment on a guaranteed service basis, the guaranteed dates or periods of time for pickup, transportation, and delivery. Your mover must enter any penalty or per diem requirements upon the agreement under this item.
6. The names and addresses of any other motor carriers, when known, that will participate in the transportation of your shipment.
7. The form of payment your mover will accept at delivery. The payment information must be the same as was entered on the estimate.
8. The terms and conditions for payment of the total charges, including notice of any minimum charges.
9. The maximum amount your mover will demand, based on the mover’s estimate, at delivery to release the shipment, when transported on a collect-on-delivery basis.
10. A complete description of any special or accessorial services ordered and minimum weight or volume charges applicable to the shipment.
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11. Any identification or registration number your mover assigns to the shipment.
12. For non-binding estimated charges, your mover’s reasonably accurate estimate of the amount of the charges, the method of payment of total charges, and the maximum amount (110 percent of the non-binding estimate) your mover will demand at the time of delivery for you to obtain possession of the shipment.
13. For binding estimated charges, the amount of charges your mover will demand based upon the binding estimate and the terms of payment under the estimate.
14. An indication of whether you request notification of the charges before delivery. You must provide your mover with contact information.
You are entitled to a copy of the order for service when it is prepared. The order for service is an important part of the contract (bill of lading) between you and the mover. Should you cancel or delay your shipment, or if you decide not to use the mover, you should promptly cancel the order. If you cancel your shipment more than three days after signing the order for service, you mover may charge you a penalty.
The order for service provides you with written confirmation of the services you have requested to be performed in conjunction with your shipment. This document lists the agreed dates for the pickup and delivery of your shipment, the amount of liability that you requested, along with any special services that you have ordered and a place and telephone number where the mover can contact you during the move.
The order for service also shows the charges that you may be assessed for your move. If you are moving under a non-binding estimate, the order for service will indicate the amount of the estimated non-binding charges, the method of payment for the charges, and additional charges that may occur prior to loading.
If you are moving under a binding estimate, the order for service will show the charges that you will be required to pay and the terms of payment. You and your mover must both sign the order for service.
If you or your mover changes any agreed upon dates for pickup or delivery of your shipment, or agree to any change in the non-binding estimate, your mover must prepare a written change to the order for service. The written change must be attached to the order for service.
Your mover must prepare an inventory of your shipment. This is usually done at the time the mover loads your shipment. The mover is required to list any damage
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or unusual wear to any items. The purpose is to make a record of the existence and condition of each item before it is moved.
After completing the inventory, both you and the mover must sign each page of the inventory. It is important that before signing you make sure the inventory lists every item in your shipment and that entries regarding the condition of each item are correct. You have the right to note any disagreement. When your shipment is delivered, if an item is missing or damaged, your ability to recover from the mover for any loss or damage may depend on the notations made on this form.
The mover will give you a copy of each page of the inventory. Attach the complete inventory to your copy of the bill of lading. It is your receipt for the shipment.
At the time your shipment is delivered, it is your responsibility to check the items delivered against the items listed on your inventory. If new damage is discovered, make a record of it on the inventory form. Call the damage to the attention of the mover and request that a record of the damage is made on the mover’s copy of the inventory.
After the complete shipment is unloaded, the mover will request that you sign the mover’s copy of the inventory to show that you received the items listed. Do not sign until you have assured yourself that it is accurate and that proper notations have been entered regarding any missing or damaged items. Movers are prohibited from having you sign documents that release the mover from all liability for loss or damage to the shipment in exchange for delivery.
Bill of Lading
Your mover is required by law to prepare a bill of lading for your shipment. The bill of lading is the contract between you and the mover for the transportation of your shipment. The information on a bill of lading is required to be the same information shown on the order for service. The driver who loads your shipment must give you a copy of the bill of lading before or at the time of loading your shipment. The bill of lading is an important document: do not lose or misplace your copy. Have it available until your shipment is delivered, all charges are paid, and all claims, if any, are settled.
IT IS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO READ THE BILL OF LADING BEFORE YOU ACCEPT IT
The bill of lading requires the mover to provide the service you requested and requires you to pay the charges for the service. It is your responsibility to understand the bill of
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lading before you sign it. If you do not agree with something on the bill of lading, do not sign it until you are satisfied it is correct.
The bill of lading serves to identify the mover and specifies when the transportation is to be performed. Be sure that the portions of the bill of lading that note the dates when pickup and delivery are to be performed are completed and that you agree with the dates. It also specifies the terms and conditions for payment of the total charges and the maximum amount required to be paid at the time of delivery for shipments moving under a binding estimate. In the case of shipments moving under non-binding estimates, the bill of lading will not include a final calculation of charges because that cannot be determined until the shipment is weighed. However, the bill of lading must contain all relevant shipment information – except the shipment weight that will be determined after the shipment has been weighed and any unforeseen charges that occur in transit.
The bill of lading must include the following 14 elements.
1. Your mover’s name and address, or the name and address of the mover issuing the bill of lading.
2. The names and addresses of any other mover, when known, who will participate in the transportation of your shipment.
3. The name, address, and telephone number of the office where you can contact the mover for matters relating to the transportation of the shipment.
4. The form of payment your mover will accept at delivery. The payment information must be the same as entered on the estimate and order for service.
5. When your mover transports your shipment under a collect-on-delivery basis, your name, address, and telephone number must be listed so the mover can notify you about the charges.
6. For non-guaranteed service, the agreed-upon dates or period of time for pickup and delivery of the shipment.
7. For guaranteed service, the dates for pickup and delivery and any penalty or per diem entitlements due you under the agreement.
8. The actual date of pickup.
9. The identification number(s) of the vehicles(s) in which your mover loads your shipment.
10. The terms and conditions for payment of the total charges including notice of any minimum charges.
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11. The maximum amount your mover will demand from you, based on the mover’s estimate, at the time of delivery for you to obtain possession of your shipment, when your mover transports under a collect-on-delivery basis.
12. Evidence of any insurance coverage sold to or procured for you from an independent insurer, including the amount of the premium for such insurance.
13. Each attachment to the bill of lading. Each attachment is an integral part of the bill of lading contract. If not provided to you elsewhere by the mover, the following three items must be added as an attachment: a. The binding or non-binding estimate
b. The order for service
c. The inventory 14. The two options for liability of which you will select either: Option 1) Full (Replacement) Value Protection or Option 2) Waiver of Full (Replacement) Value Protection.
The copy of the bill of lading must accompany your shipment at all times while in the possession of your mover or its agent(s). When your mover loads the shipment, the bill of lading must be in the possession of the driver responsible for the shipment.
At the time of payment of transportation charges, your mover must give you a freight bill identifying the service provided and the charge for each service. It is customary for most movers to use a copy of the bill of lading as a freight bill.
Except in those instances where a shipment is moving on a binding estimate, the freight bill must specifically identify each service performed, the rate or charge per service performed, and the total charges for each service. If this information is not on the freight bill, do not accept or pay the freight bill.
Your mover must deliver your shipment upon payment of 100 percent of a binding estimate or 110 percent of a non-binding estimate, plus the full cost of any additional services that you required after the contract was executed and any charges for impracticable operation, not to exceed 15 percent of all other charges due at delivery. If you do not pay the transportation charges due at the time of delivery, your mover has the right, under the bill of lading, to refuse to deliver your shipment. The mover may place your shipment in storage, at your expense, until the charges are paid.
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On shipments paid in advance, your mover must present its freight bill for all transportation charges within 15 days of the date your mover delivered the shipment. This period excludes Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal holidays.
On shipments paid upon delivery, your mover must present its freight bill for all transportation charges on the date of delivery, or, at its discretion, within 15 days calculated from the date the shipment was delivered at your destination. This period excludes Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal holidays. Bills for additional charges based on the weight of the shipment will be presented after 30 days from delivery; charges for impracticable operations not paid at delivery are due within 30 days of the invoice.
Your mover’s freight bills and accompanying written notices must state the following five items:
1. Penalties for late payment
2. The period of time for any credit extended
3. Service or finance charges
4. Collection expense charges
5. Any applicable discount terms
Your mover must obtain weight tickets if your shipment is moving under a non- binding estimate. Each time your shipment is weighed, a separate weight ticket must be obtained and signed by the weigh master. If both weighings are performed on the same scale, one weight ticket may be used to record both weighings. The weight tickets must be presented with the freight bill. Each weight ticket must contain the following six items:
1. The complete name and location of the scale.
2. The date of each weighing.
3. The identification of the weight entries as being the tare, gross, or net weights.
4. The company or mover identification of the vehicle.
5. The last name of the individual shipper as it appears on the bill of lading.
6. The mover’s shipment registration or bill of lading number.
Additional information regarding weighing shipments is located later in this booklet.
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Collection of Charges
Your mover must issue you an honest and truthful freight or expense bill for each shipment transported. When your shipment is delivered you will be expected to pay either: 1) 100 percent of the charges on your binding estimate, or 2) 110 percent of the charges on your non-binding estimate. You will also be requested to pay the charges for any services that you requested (for example, waiting time, an extra pickup or delivery, storage) after the contract with your mover was executed that were not included in the estimate, and any charges for services performed in conjunction with impracticable operations, not to exceed 15 percent of all other charges due at delivery. Your mover will bill you after your shipment is delivered for any remaining services.
You should verify in advance what method of payment your mover will accept. Your mover must note in writing on the order for service and the bill of lading the forms of payment they accept at delivery. Do not assume your mover will accept payment by credit card unless it is clearly indicated on the order for service and bill of lading.
If you do not pay the charges due at the time of delivery the mover has the right
to refuse to deliver your shipment and to place it into storage at your expense until the charges are paid. The regulations provide that when your mover arrives at the destination, the mover may collect the charges due before the shipment is unloaded from the truck.
If your shipment is transported by two or more trucks, the mover may require payment for each portion as it is delivered. You mover may delay the collection of all the charges until the entire shipment is delivered, at its discretion. When you order your move, you should ask the mover about this policy.
Your mover can only collect the charges on the percentage of the shipment that was successfully delivered. For example if you receive a binding estimate of $1,000 to move 1,000 pounds of your goods and 50 percent of that shipment is lost, then the mover can only collect 50 percent of the estimate or $500. If the estimate is non- binding then only 50 percent of the actual charges, not to exceed 110 percent of the estimate can be collected which would be $550.
Your mover is forbidden from collecting, or requiring you to pay, any freight charges (including any charges for accessorial or terminal services) when your shipment is totally lost or destroyed in transit, unless the loss or destruction was due to an act or omission by you.
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Transportation of your Shipment
Pickup and Delivery
Before you move, be sure to reach an agreement with your mover on the dates for pickup and delivery of your shipment. It is your responsibility to determine on what date your shipment will be picked up and the date or timeframe you require delivery. Once an agreement is reached, your mover must enter those dates upon the order for service and the bill of lading. Upon loading your shipment, your mover is contractually bound to provide the service described in the bill of lading.
The mover might use the term “delivery spread” as the timeframe in which you can expect your shipment to be delivered. This means that your shipment could arrive anytime during the delivery spread. The mover will usually give you a 24-hour advance notice of when it plans to arrive with your shipment. At that time, you must be available to accept delivery or your shipment could be placed in storage at your expense.
When you and the mover agree to a delivery date, or to a range of dates, it is your responsibility to be available to accept delivery on any of those dates. The same applies when you and the mover agree to alternate delivery dates.
Do not agree to have your shipment picked up or delivered “as soon as possible.” The dates or periods you and your mover agree upon should be definite.
If you request the mover to change the dates for your shipment, most movers will agree to do so providing that the change will not result in unreasonable delay to their equipment or interfere with another customer’s move. However, the mover is not required to change the dates and can place your shipment in storage at your expense if you are unwilling or unable to accept delivery on the agreed dates.
The only reason your mover would be excused from providing a service as described in the bill of lading is because of “force majeure.” This is a legal term which means an unforeseen change of circumstances beyond the control of the mover. For example, if there were a major snow storm that prevented your mover from servicing your shipment as outlined in the bill of lading, your mover would not be responsible for damages resulting from its nonperformance.
If your mover fails to pickup or deliver your shipment on the agreed date or during the delivery spread, and you have expenses that you otherwise would not have, you may be able to recover these expenses from the mover through a delay of shipment claim.
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Ask your mover before you move what payment or other arrangements you can expect if your shipment is delayed through the fault of the mover.
Your mover must transport your household goods in a timely manner. This is also known as “reasonable dispatch service.” If you have arranged for a guaranteed delivery date, the terms of that agreement with your mover apply.
When your mover is unable to meet either the pickup or delivery dates or provide service during the periods of time specified in the bill of lading, your mover must notify you of the delay at the mover’s expense. The mover must advise you of the dates or periods of time it may be able to pickup and/or deliver your shipment. Your mover must provide this information in writing.
If you are unable to accept delivery before the first day of the delivery spread, then your mover may place your shipment in storage in a warehouse located in proximity to the destination. If your mover exercises this option, your mover must immediately notify you of the name and address of the warehouse where your mover places your shipment. Your mover has full responsibility for the charges for re-delivery, handling, and storage until it makes the final delivery.
Storage in Transit
You may request your mover to store your household goods before delivering them. Your mover must notify you in writing or in person at least ten days before the expiration date of:
1. The specified period of time when your mover is to hold your shipment in storage.
2. The maximum period of time provided in its tariff for storage-in-transit.
If your mover holds your household goods in storage-in-transit for less than ten days, your mover must notify you, one day before the storage-in-transit period expires of the same information specified above.
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When the storage period is about to expire, your mover must notify you in writing about the following four items:
1. The date when storage-in-transit will covert to permanent storage.
2. The existence of a nine-month period after the date of conversion to permanent storage, during which you may file claims against your mover for loss or damage occurring to your goods while in transit or during the storage- in-transit period.
3. When your mover’s liability will end for loss and damage.
4. When your shipment will become subject to the rules, regulations, and charges of the management of the storage facility.
If your mover transports your household goods on a non-binding estimate, your mover must determine the actual weight of your shipment on a certified scale in order to calculate its lawful tariff charge. If your mover provided a binding estimate, the weight of the shipment will not affect the charges you will pay, so there is no requirement to weigh shipments moving under binding estimates.
Most movers have a minimum weight charge for transporting a shipment. If your shipment appears to weigh less than the mover’s minimum weight, your mover must state the minimum cost on the order for service. Should your mover fail to advise you of the minimum charges and your shipment is less than the minimum weight, your mover must base your final charges upon the actual weight, not upon the minimum weight.
Usually, your shipment will be weighed in the city or local area where the shipment originates. The driver has the truck weighed before coming to your residence and then has it weighed again after your shipment has been loaded. The difference in these two weights is the weight of your shipment.
The mover may also weigh your shipment at destination when the shipment is delivered. The driver will have the truck weighed with your shipment on board and then weighed a second time after your shipment has been unloaded. Each time a weighing is performed, the driver is required to obtain an official weight ticket signed by the weigh master of a certified scale and a copy of the weight tickets must accompany your copy of the bill of lading. Shipments of less than 3,000 pounds may be weighed on a certified warehouse scale.
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You have the right, and your mover must inform you of your right, to observe all weighing of your shipment. Your mover must tell you where and when each weighing will occur. Your mover must give you a reasonable opportunity to be present to observe the weighing. You may waive your right to observe weighing; however, you must waive that right in writing.
If your shipment is weighed at origin and you believe that the weight may not be accurate, you have the right to request that the shipment be reweighed before it is unloaded. The mover is not permitted to charge you for the reweighing, but the final charges due will be based on the reweigh weight, even if it is more than the initial weight.
If you request notification of the actual weight and charges of your shipment, your mover must comply with your request if it is moving your household goods on a collect-on-delivery basis. This requirement is conditioned upon you supplying your mover with contact information.
You must receive the mover’s notification at least 24-hours before the scheduled delivery, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and Federal holidays.
Your mover may disregard this 24-hour notification requirement on shipments subject to one of the following three situations:
1. When your mover weighs your shipment at destination.
2. When pickup and delivery encompasses two consecutive weekdays, if you agree.
3. When the maximum payment at time of delivery is 110 percent of the estimated charges, if you agree.
Resolving Disputes with your Mover
The FMCSA maintains regulations to govern the processing of loss and damage claims, however, we cannot resolve these claims on your behalf. If you cannot reach a settlement with your mover, you have the right to request arbitration from your mover. All movers are required to participate in an arbitration program and your mover is required to provide you with a summary of its arbitration program before you sign an order for service.
Arbitration gives you the opportunity to settle loss or damage claims and certain types of disputed charges through a neutral arbitrator. You may find submitting your claim
to arbitration is a less expensive and more convenient way to seek recovery of your
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claim than filing suit in court. Arbitration is not mandatory for you but it may be for your mover. If you request arbitration for a claim for $10,000 or less, the mover must agree to arbitration and the arbitrator’s decision is binding on the parties. However, the mover is not required to agree to arbitration if the claim exceeds $10,000. If the mover does agree, the arbitrator’s decision will be binding on both you and the mover.
You may choose to pursue a civil action in an appropriate court having legal jurisdiction in lieu of arbitration. Legal action may be initiated by filing a claim in your State and serving papers on the mover’s process agent in that State. You may obtain the mover’s process agent information in your State by contacting FMCSA at (866) 637-0635. You may also obtain the name of a process agent via the internet by following the instructions below.
1. Go to http://li-public.fmcsa.dot.gov
2. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on CONTINUE
3. At the top of the screen click on CHOOSE MENU OPTION, for the drop down box and select CARRIER SEARCH, then press GO
4. Type in the USDOT or MC number for the carrier
5. Click on HTML
6. Scroll to the bottom of the page, see BLANKET COMPANY, and click on the link.
7. You will see a list of process agents by State, locate the process agent for your State.
The FMCSA cannot settle your dispute with your mover.
You must resolve your own loss and damage and/or moving charge disputes with your mover. You entered into a contractual agreement with you mover. Therefore, you are bound by each of the following three terms and conditions:
1. The terms and conditions you negotiated before your move.
2. The terms and conditions you accepted when you signed the bill of lading.
3. The terms and conditions you accepted when you signed for delivery of your shipment.
You have the right to take your mover to court or request arbitration from your mover to settle a dispute.
If your mover refuses to deliver your shipment unless you pay an amount the mover is not entitled to charge – contact FMCSA immediately at (888) 368-7238.
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Important Points to Remember
1. Movers must give written estimates. The estimates may be either binding or non-binding. Non-binding estimates are “approximations” only and the actual transportation charges you are eventually required to pay may be higher than the estimated price.
2. Do not sign blank or incomplete documents. Verify the document is complete before you sign. The only information that might not appear in your moving paperwork is: the actual weight of your shipment, in the case of a non- binding estimate, and unforeseen charges that occur in transit.
3. Be sure you understand the mover’s responsibility for loss or damage, and request an explanation of the difference between valuation and actual insurance.
4. Understand the type of liability you sign for. Ask yourself if 60 cents per pound is enough coverage for your household goods or whether you need to purchase additional valuation.
5. Notify your mover if you have high value items. High value items are valued at more than $100 per pound per item.
6. You have the right to be present each time your shipment is weighed. You also have the right to request a reweigh at no charge.
7. Confirm with your mover the types of payment acceptable when your shipment is delivered.
8. Consider requesting arbitration to settle disputed claims with your mover.
9. You should know if the company you are dealing with is a household goods motor carrier (mover) or household goods broker, and if they are registered with FMCSA. Go to www.protectyourmove.gov for this information.
10. Do not sign the delivery receipt if it contains any language releasing or discharging your mover or its agents from liability. Strike out such language before signing, or refuse delivery if the mover refuses to provide a proper delivery receipt.
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Definitions used in this Booklet
Accessorial (additional) services – These are services other than line-haul transportation, such as packing, unpacking, appliance servicing, or piano carrying that you request to be performed or are necessary because of landlord requirements or other special circumstances. Charges for these services may be in addition to the line- haul charges.
Advanced Charges – Charges for services performed by someone other than the mover. A professional, craftsman, or other third party may perform these services at your request. The mover pays for these services and adds the charges to your bill of lading.
Agent – A local moving company authorized to act on behalf of a larger national company.
Appliance Service by Third Party – The preparation of major electrical appliances to make them safe for transportation. Charges for these services may be in addition to the line-haul charges.
Bill of Lading – The receipt for your shipment and the contract for its transportation.
Broker – A company that arranges for the transportation of household goods by a registered moving company.
Carrier – The mover transporting your household goods.
Cash on Delivery (COD) – This means payment is required at the time of delivery at the destination residence (or warehouse).
Certified Scale – Any scale designed for weighing motor vehicles, including trailers or semitrailers not attached to a tractor, and certified by an authorized scale inspection and licensing authority. A certified scale may also be a platform or warehouse type scale that is properly inspected and certified.
Commercial Zone – A commercial zone is roughly equivalent to the local metropolitan area of a city or town. Moves that cross state lines within these zones are exempt from FMCSA jurisdiction and, therefore, the moves are not subject to FMCSA regulations.
For example, a move between Brooklyn, New York, and Hackensack, New Jersey, would be considered to be within the New York City commercial zone. Although it crossed states lines, this move would not be subject to FMCSA regulations.
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Estimate, Binding – This is a written agreement made in advance with your mover. It guarantees the total cost of the move based upon the quantities and services shown on the estimate.
Estimate, Non-Binding – This is what your mover believes the cost will be, based
upon the estimated weight of the shipment and the services requested. A non-binding estimate is not binding on the mover. The final charges will be based upon the actual weight of your shipment, the services provided, and the tariff provisions in effect.
Expedited Service – An agreement with the mover to perform transportation by a set date in exchange for an agreed upon additional charge.
Flight Charge – An additional charge for carrying items up or down flights of stairs. Charges for these services may be in addition to the line-haul charges.
Guaranteed Pickup and/or Delivery Service – An additional level of service featuring guaranteed dates of service. Your mover will provide reimbursement to you for delays. This service may be subject to minimum weight requirements.
High-Value Article – These are items valued at more than $100 per pound.
Household Goods – As used in connection with transportation, household goods are the personal effects or property used, or to be used, in a dwelling, when part of the equipment or supplies of the dwelling belong to an individual shipper. Transporting of the household goods must be arranged for and paid by you or another individual on your behalf.
Household Goods Motor Carrier – A motor carrier that, in the normal course of its business of providing transportation of household goods, offers some or all of the following additional services: (1) Binding and Non-binding estimates, (2) Inventorying, (3) Protective packing and unpacking of individual items at personal residences, and (4) Loading and unloading at personal residences. The term does not include a motor carrier when the motor carrier provides transportation of household goods in containers or trailers that are entirely loaded and unloaded by an individual (other than an employee or agent of the motor carrier).
Individual Shipper – Any person who:
1. Is the shipper, consignor, or consignee of a household goods shipment;
2. Is identified as the shipper, consignor, or consignee on the face of the bill of lading;
3. Owns the household goods being transported; and
4. Pays his or her own tariff transportation charges.
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Impracticable Operations – Conditions which make it physically impossible for the mover to perform pickup or delivery with its normally assigned road-haul equipment so that the mover is required to use specialized equipment and/or additional labor to complete pickup or delivery of your shipment. A mover may require payment of additional charges for services required due to impracticable operations, even if you do not request these services. The specific services considered to be impracticable operations by your mover are defined in your mover’s tariff.
Inventory – The detailed list of your household goods showing the number and condition of each item.
Line-Haul Charges – The charges for the transportation portion of your move. There may be additional charges that apply for accessorial services, such as climbing stairs, using elevators, storage or other charges.
Long Carry – A charge for carrying articles excessive distances between the mover’s vehicle and your residence. Charges for these services may be in addition to the line- haul charges.
May – An option. You or your mover can do something, but it is not a requirement.
Mover – A household goods motor carrier and its household goods agents.
Must – A legal or regulatory obligation. You or your mover are required do something.
Order for Service – The document authorizing the mover to provide all of the services described in your mover’s estimate.
Order (Bill of Lading) Number – The number used to identify and track your shipment.
Peak Season Rates – Higher line-haul charges that may be applicable during busy moving season (usually between May and September.)
Pickup and Delivery Charges – Separate transportation charges applicable for transporting your shipment between the storage-in-transit warehouse and your residence.
Reasonable dispatch – The performance of transportation on the dates, or during the period of time, agreed upon by you and your mover as shown on the Order for Service and/or the Bill of Lading. The term “reasonable dispatch” excludes transportation provided under your mover’s tariff provisions requiring guaranteed service dates.
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Shipment – Your personal property (household goods) that is being transported from your origin address to your destination address.
Should – A recommendation. We recommend you or your mover do something, but it is not a requirement.
Storage-In-Transit (SIT) – The temporary warehouse storage of your shipment, pending further transportation, with or without notification to you.
SurfaceTransportation Board – The federal agency that regulates household goods mover tariffs, among other responsibilities. The Surface Transportation Board’s address is: 395 E Street, SW, Washington, DC 20423-0001, telephone (202) 245-0245, and website www.stb.dot.gov.
Tariff – A document, issued by the mover, containing rates, rules, regulations, classifications, or other provisions. The Surface Transportation Board requires that a tariff contain three specific items. First it must contain an accurate description of the services the mover offers to the public. Second, it must contain the specific applicable rates (or the basis for calculating the specific applicable rates) and service terms for services offered to the public. Third, the mover’s tariff must be arranged in a way that allows you to determine the exact rate(s) and service terms applicable to your shipment.
Valuation – The monetary value that you declare for your shipment. This is the maximum amount that your mover is liable for in the event of loss or damage to your shipment.
Warehouse Handling Charge – The charge that may be applicable each time SIT service is provided. Charges for these services may be in addition to the line-haul charges.
We, Us, and Our – The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).
You and Your – You are an individual shipper of household goods. You are a consignor or consignee of a household goods shipment and your mover identifies you as such in the bill of lading contract. You own the shipment being transported and pay the transportation charge.
You may find other terms used in this booklet defined by Federal statute, 49 U.S.C. §
13102 or Federal regulation, 49 CFR part 375. This statute controls the definitions in this booklet. Terms in this booklet that are not defined in the statute or regulations will have the ordinary practical meaning.
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Father Michael Drury of St. Luke's Parish on West Mill Road said a prayer, remembering those who died and those working on the rescue efforts. Mayor John Krickus, reading from a resolution, condemned last Tuesday's attack calling it "wicked and reprehensible." These attacks "were targeting symbols of American strength, and success, were clearly intended to intimidate our nation and weaken its resolve," Krickus said.
"We extend our deepest condolences to the victims of these heinous and ungodly actions as well as to their families and their friends," Krickus said.
"We commend the heroic actions of the passengers and crews of the aircraft, the rescue workers, the volunteers, the local officials and so many of the victims, themselves, who responded to these tragic events with courage, compassion, determination and skill," Krickus said.
He added that Washington Township stands ready to provide any manpower or supplies that rescue and recovery efforts may need at the Twin Towers.
Krickus and the Township Committee also declared Sunday, Sept. 23 a day of National Unity and mourning and called on all residents to mark that day.
Township Committeeman Tracy Tobin said one of the goals of the attacks was to promote religious strife in the country.
"These terrorists don't represent any religion, much less Muslims," Tobin said .
Tobin said that he was in businesses days after the attacks where people from the middle east are employed and shoppers made derogatory comments about the workers.
"It's sad if they could be able to turn the United States into a land where people are persecuted for their race, religion or national origin," Tobin said.
It is also important, Tobin said, to let those who would discriminate against others that it will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. He also asked the Board of Education to make sure that staff members and students understand that type of activity will not be tolerated at any time.
Township Committeewoman Margaret Nordstrom, who is also a Morris County freeholder, said the county has a large Muslim population. She asked the churches and the schools to reach out to Muslim clerics and representatives of area mosques to come into the township and share their views, discuss their faith and the occurrences of Tuesday, Sept. 11 with students and residents. | <urn:uuid:5302d4c0-1917-4f7b-8a7f-830e6102c4c1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newjerseyhills.com/township-committee-honors-victims-rescuers-warn-against-biased-attacks/article_5c03ba34-d2df-5af9-a2e8-5b17aa6e1a52.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00557-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979648 | 473 | 1.5 | 2 |
The focus of this one-day seminar is to provide educators gender-specific strategies, activities and insights that can be used to confront and avoid relational aggression and bullying. These interventions can be used to revive, launch or sustain efforts to prevent emotional violence among girls. Without help, girls who are targets often suffer lasting effects – including academic withdrawal, social withdrawal, depression, substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, delinquency, crime, dysfunctional relationships, self-injury and even suicide. Unfortunately the target herself all too often becomes a bully.
Relational aggression among girls has intensified with the explosion of online communication/social media. While texting and Facebook are still widely used, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, Vine, Google+, Skype, Oovoo, Facetime, Omegle, Whisper, Yik Yak, Ask.FM, reddit, Digg, Pinterest, Polyvore, Kik and WhatsApp are growing fast, and 91% of North American teens now have access to a smart phone, according to 2015 Pew Research. Except for gaming, girls are far more likely than boys to access these online options.
This seminar will help attendees understand the latest research around female bullying and relational aggression – which often exhibits as exclusion, isolation, rumoring, gossiping, pitting friends against one another, revealing personal secrets and/or altering personal secrets. Attendees will be provided tools for instilling social/emotional connections among girls that reduce relational aggression and improve academic outcomes.
In this seminar you will learn to:
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Conheça o livro e compre online. Managing Pain In Children – Twycross, Alison – ISBN: 1405168943.
All children have a right to appropriate prevention, assessment and control of their pain. Managing Pain in Children is an evidence-based, practical guide to care in all areas of children´s pain management, providing nurses and other health care practitioners with the skills and expertise necessary to manage children´s pain effectively. The text first explores the relevant anatomy and physiology of children, the latest policy guidelines surrounding pain management and ethical issues involved in managing children´s pain. It then goes on to look at the various pain assessment tools available for children and non-drug methods of pain relief. The text then goes on to apply these pain management principles to practice in relation to acute pain, chronic pain, palliative care and the management of procedural pain. Each of these chapters covers the evidence base, assessment techniques, pain relieving interventions, and guidance for best practice in both hospital and community settings. Special features: Practical and accessible, with best practice´ points in each chapter Written in the context of latest policy developments Provides the necessary evidence-base for care throughout With contributions from experts in the field | <urn:uuid:78e2b3f2-0672-4f5c-b2e9-bfed27f06e75> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mairipa.com.br/managing-pain-in-children.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00002-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897221 | 248 | 2.71875 | 3 |
floats above the green Umbrian plains atop a high,
flat-topped rocky outcrop. The exceptional views commanded by the city, as well as the beautiful skyline of Orvieto
itself, can be enjoyed from the top of the 13 C Torre del
Moro, the highest vantage point in town. Orvieto is a
rare Italian car-free haven. Access to the city is either via the funicular that runs from the railway station below up to the old town centre, passing directly by the
Albornoz fortress, or up the system of escalators dug into the
cliffs from the parking lot at Campo della Fiera. There is
also a regular minibus service that covers the entire city.
Orvieto has a number of fascinating and attractive churches,
but it is known worldwide for one spectacular structure and that's
it cathedral (Duomo), the great glory of Orvieto and a masterpiece of Italian Gothic art.
The basic structure is quite sober, constructed of bands of black and white
stone, but a most extraordinary façade has been applied to it: bronze dragons, gables with mosaics resplendent in gold, and
marvelous marble bas-reliefs by Lorenzo Maitani - an early
14 C interpretation of the sculptural style of imperial
Rome. The interior is also quite simple except for one large chapel entirely covered in dramatic frescoes by Luca
Signorelli, famous in their own right, but also the chief inspiration for Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel.
The historical Palazzo dei Papi (Palace of the Popes) is the site of the
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, and contains some of the area's Etruscan artifacts, including a full-scale tomb. Excursions of the Etruscan and mediaeval "Underground City" are available. Though sacked and pillaged by the Romans, many of the original Etruscan mills, cisterns, pottery works, quarries, canteens and burial chambers remain preserved beneath the city. Other Etruscan artifacts can be found in the Museo Civico and Museo
In the oenological field, Orvieto is best known for its white wines which are a blend of
Grechetto with some
Trebbiano, sold as
Orvieto (DOC) and Orvieto Classico (DOC). Blended red wine and
several varietal reds are sold under the Rosso Orvietano
DOC. The region has been producing wine since the Middle Ages, when Orvieto wine was known as a sweet, golden yellow wine. Today's white Orvieto is dry, but a semi-sweet style, known as
Orvieto Abboccato, and a sweet (dolce) are also produced in small quantities.
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LE BOURGET, FRANCE—Aviation agencies around the world should draw up new rules requiring medical workers to warn authorities when a pilot’s mental health could threaten public safety, French investigators recommended Sunday in their report on the Germanwings plane crash.
Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had been treated for depression in the past, and the investigation found that he had consulted dozens of doctors in the weeks before he deliberately crashed a jet into the French Alps on March 24, 2015, killing all 150 people on board.
But the doctors didn’t tell authorities of any concerns about Lubitz’s mental health, France’s BEA air accident investigation agency said, even though one even referred Lubitz to a psychiatric clinic just two weeks before the crash.
“Experts found that the symptoms (two weeks before the crash) could be compatible with a psychotic episode,” said Arnaud Desjardin, leader of the BEA investigation. This information “was not delivered to Germanwings.”
Because Lubitz didn’t inform anyone of his doctors’ warnings, the BEA said, “no action could have been taken by the authorities or his employer to prevent him from flying.”
Germanwings and parent company Lufthansa have strongly denied any wrongdoing in the crash, insisting that the 27-year-old was certified fit to fly. There was no immediate comment from Lufthansa on Sunday after the report was released.
But relatives of those killed have pointed to a string of people they say could have raised the alarm and stopped Lubitz, going back to the days when he began training as a pilot in 2008.
The BEA investigation is separate from a manslaughter investigation by French prosecutors seeking to determine eventual criminal responsibility for the crash of Flight 9525 from Barcelona to Duesseldorf. The focus of its report was recommendations to avoid such events in the future, notably about pilot mental health issues and better screening before a pilot gets certified.
The agency found that the certification process failed to identify the risks presented by Lubitz. It said one factor leading to the crash might have been a “lack of clear guidelines in German regulations on when a threat to public safety outweighs” patient privacy.
Germany’s confidentiality laws prevent sensitive personal information from being widely shared, though doctors are allowed to suspend patient privacy if they believe there is a concrete danger to the person’s safety or that of others.
Desjardin described Germany’s privacy rules as being especially strict, and said doctors fear losing their jobs if they unnecessarily report a problem to authorities.
“That’s why I think clearer rules are needed to preserve public security,” he told reporters at a press conference in the French city of Le Bourget.
The BEA recommendations also included peer support groups and other measures to remove the stigma and fear of losing a job that many pilots face for mental health issues.
“The reluctance of pilots to declare their problems and seek medical assistance ... needs to be addressed,” the BEA said.
Doctors who treated Lubitz for depression and mental illness refused to speak with the BEA investigators, according to victims’ family members who were briefed Saturday on the report.
Half an hour into the Germanwings flight, Capt. Patrick Sondenheimer handed the controls to Lubitz and went to the restroom. When he returned, Sondenheimer found the cockpit locked from the inside. Lubitz, it seems, had disabled the safety code that would have allowed the pilot to open the door.
Shortly afterward, the Airbus A320 hit the ground near the French village of Le Vernet.
Lubitz had previously been treated for depression and suicidal tendencies, and documents seized by prosecutors show he partly hid his medical history from employers.
Lubitz interrupted his Lufthansa training for several months due to psychological problems. He was allowed to return in 2009, having received the “all clear” from his doctors — though his aviation record now contained the note “SIC” meaning “specific regular examination.”
Lufthansa said after the crash that it was aware of Lubitz’s depressive episode, but Germanwings, which he joined in 2013, said it had no knowledge of his illness.
The French investigators determined that systematic, deep psychological tests every year for all pilots would be “neither effective nor beneficial,” Desjardin said.
Instead, the BEA recommended tougher monitoring of pilots who had mental health issues in the past.
It also said that cockpit security rules shouldn’t be changed because it was still very important to protect the cockpit from outside attackers. Current cockpits are equipped with a code system to prevent the kind of hijackings that occurred on Sept. 11, 2001, in the United States, where planes full of passengers were turned into weapons.
“A lockage system cannot be created to prevent threats coming from (both) outside and inside the cockpit,” Desjardin said.
After the Germanwings crash, many airlines and aviation regulators began to require at least two people in the cockpit at any given time to prevent such crashes.
Many of the relatives of the Germanwings victims were still upset after hearing about the report Saturday from BEA officials.
“People were not happy at all with some of the explanations. Some of the family members felt as if these BEA representatives were Lubitz’ lawyers — making excuses as to why Germanwings didn’t take action knowing what they knew,” Robert Tansill Oliver, whose son died in the crash, told The Associated Press.
“How is it possible Germanwings would let a crazy guy fly a plane? He was mentally unbalanced, tremendously unbalanced,” Oliver said.
For many victims’ families, the biggest hope of holding someone to account lies in taking Lufthansa to court. Their frustration is heightened by the fact that the company has offered little more than the standard compensation required under German law — 25,000 euros ($27,560) for each victim — plus 10,000 euros to each of the victims’ immediate relatives.
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In this debut book on women’s health, Citrin (Fatal Error, 2010), a breast cancer specialist at Cancer Treatment Centers of America, provides an easy-to-follow, no-nonsense explanation of cancer detection and treatment.
Citrin’s primary goal is to convey the seriousness of breast cancer without striking an alarmist tone, and as a result, he acknowledges that misunderstandings and a lack of communication often prevent women from receiving proper treatment. “I believe the main reason women delay seeking treatment is fear,” he says. “Some women deny the presence of cancer, others refuse treatment, and many are not appropriately educated about their cancer or given the opportunity to completely understand their condition and the options before them.” The book guides readers through basics, including the biology of breast cancer and the usefulness of diagnostic techniques from mammogram to biopsy. Citrin, a veteran physician, then proceeds through an explanation of cancer treatments, with particular emphasis on recent developments that produce more effective and less debilitating results. He advocates an integrative approach to treatment as the best way for patients to make informed decisions and receive the most accurate, effective care. The driving theme throughout the book is one of empowerment, as Citrin counsels patients to continue asking questions until they feel fully informed; he chastises doctors who dismiss patients’ beliefs or wishes and lay out treatment plans in impenetrable jargon without ensuring that patients understand and agree. While the tone is generally upbeat, focusing on the fact that properly diagnosed breast cancer is nearly always treatable, the book does not shy away from acknowledging that complicating factors exist, and a concluding chapter goes into detail regarding situations that require a more careful approach, from genetic risk factors to breast cancer in males. Throughout the book, patient stories offer concrete examples of the topics discussed, serving as examples of different stages of progression and the varying levels of success. Appendices offer further resources, including a glossary and a comprehensive list of questions patients should ask their doctors.
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Foods designed to help manage type 2 diabetes currently often are sequestered in drugstores or low-traffic areas next to pharmacies in grocery stores, but that could change in the next five years as the extent of the disease’s threat becomes better understood...
Researchers baked cookies using Versafibe 1490, a branded resistant starch by Ingredion, and another batch without it. Then they had 28 healthy participants eat either one cookie to compare Versafibe’s effect on postprandial blood glucose levels, and...
While fiber hasn’t quite reached the same superstar status as protein, consumer interest in the ingredient is rising rapidly as they look for ways to manage their weight while still enjoying food and beverages with high quality taste and familiar mouthfeel.
The composition of our microbiota may change through the development of pre-diabetes and diabetes, thus predicting risk and potentially leading to new ways to aid blood sugar management, say researchers.
With diabetes rates rising, many healthy people are starting to consider the effects of blood glucose levels and keeping them in the healthy range. In this gallery we look at the key ingredients in this growing sector.
'The first such patented drinks ever been made in the world': Hydro One CEO Sammy Nasrollahi
As part of our special edition on blood sugar, Elaine Watson caught up with Dr. Sandy Chien, VP Innovative Products at California-based HORN Nutraceuticals, which is introducing a new cinnamon-based blood sugar control ingredient called MealShape to the...
Special edition: Tackling diabetes. Formulating for healthy blood sugar
Given that one in three American adults is expected to develop type 2 diabetes by 2050, and poor diet and lack of exercise may be largely to blame, what can food and beverage manufacturers do to tackle this epidemic?
A new-onset type 2 diabetic who developed diarrhea after being prescribed the drug Metformin resumed regular bowel movements, lost weight and experienced a dramatic reduction in fasting blood sugar after taking a novel ‘cobiotic’ ingredient, according...
Vinegar (acetic acid) should be ‘purposefully’ integrated into more food matrices, say the researchers behind a new study which reports the potential blood sugar management potential of a vinegar beverage.
A firm co-founded by Whole Foods Market chairman John Elstrott is in talks with top consumer healthcare firms about developing medical foods containing a novel ingredient claimed to improve blood glucose control and metabolic function in pre-diabetics...
Gluten-free giant Boulder Brands has moved into new territory today with the acquisition of a controlling (80%) stake in GlucoBrands, the owner of Level Life Foods - a specialist in diabetes management products.
The Florida-based firm behind Emulin - the star ingredient in GNC’s glucose control supplement GC7X - is seeking a big gun in the ingredients supply market to help it engage with the biggest food and beverage brands in the US and Europe.
Sipal Partners has developed an organic fructose syrup with
exceptionally high fructose content, providing a sweetener low in
calories and with a low glycemic index for a growing market sector
Reuteran - a novel alpha-glucan produced by the bacteria
Lactobacillus reuteri - could be finding its way into
bakery and dairy products as a weight management ingredient, Dutch
scientists have reported.
Low-glycemic products are only just gaining momentum, according to
Packaged Facts, which predicts that the glycemic-control angle will
be an ever more pressing consideration for marketers and
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This is a continuation of a team project. In the last project, we selected an idea and now we are furthering that idea into a detailed description and implementation plan for our innovation. My section is highlighted below. The first section is what the instructor provided; the second section is what we agreed on as a team for delegation of work. From our team discussion, it does not look like anyone will be including graphics with their work, so if you could incorporate any kind of graphics as outlined in section 5 below that would be great. I have included our prior group submission as an attachment that you will need to reference. Please put all cites/sources/references into the assignment.
Please let me know if you have any questions or require any additional information, or if you need me to pay for more pages, charts, etc… Thank you.
These are the details the professor gave on how to complete the project, my section is highlighted in yellow.
|CLC: Phase 2-Developing the Implementation Plan||
· My Group
· Group Forum
This is a CLC assignment.
In Phase 2, your team will work together to develop a detailed description and implementation plan for the innovation you selected to pursue in Module 3. Each team member must research and describe a product development or management process, methodology, or model that could be utilized to implement the innovation. The group should select and use one of these models for developing its own implementation plan.
For this assignment, write a paper of 2,000-3,000 words that addresses the following:
- Finalize the name and include a one- or two-sentence description of the innovation.
- Describe the value the new product or service will provide to customers and describe the need it will meet. THIS IS MY SECTION. Please add graphics as you see necessary and if it will enhance the writing.
- Utilizing the model selected by the team, create the detailed implementation plan for the innovation. Make sure the plan accounts for contingencies/risks in the implementation process and includes realistic timeframe and budgeting considerations.
- Use graphics such as organizational charts, process maps, and/or budget tables as appropriate to increase the readability and professional appeal of the plan.
- Include in-text citations from at least six secondary sources. Each person on the team must contribute an article from the research that was completed on product development or management processes, methodologies, and/or models.
Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the directions in the Student Success Center. Only Word documents can be submitted to LopesWrite.
This is what we agreed upon as a team, my section highlighted in yellow.
Re: Forum for CLC: Phase 2-Developing the Implementation Plan
I did some research and I have not seen any discussion posts from our 5th team member Melinda, so we will have to tackle this with the four of us. Here is my recommendation on how to proceed. Number three seems like it would be difficult to break up, as the information would need to flow well for it to make sense, please let me know if you think otherwise, whoever takes on number 1 might be able to assist with number three if needed.
- Finalize the name and include a one- or two-sentence description of the innovation. Plus putting everything together to have a final assignment and submit the project to the professor.Approximately 100-200 words.
- I will take on this one…. Describe the value the new product or service will provide to customers and describe the need it will meet. – Daniel – Approximately 800 plus words.
- Utilizing the model selected by the team, create a detailed implementation plan for the innovation. Make sure the plan accounts for contingencies/risks in the implementation process and includes realistic timeframe and budgeting considerations. – Approximately 800 plus words
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The problem of prevention
Many disasters are foreshadowed by insufficient preventative care. In this paper, we argue that there is a true problem of prevention, in that insufficient care is often the result of rational calculations on the part of agents. We identify three factors that lead to dubious efforts in care. First, when objective risks of a disaster are poorly understood, positive experiences may lead to an underestimation of these risks and a corresponding underinvestment in prevention. Second, redundancies designed for safety may lead agents to take substandard care. Finally, elected officials have an incentive to underinvest in prevention for some disasters, especially those that are relatively unlikely.
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The oldest established school in North Walsham in the 19th century was the Paston School which was founded and endowed as a Free Grammar School in 1606 by Sir William Paston for the instruction of 'forty sons of the inhabitants of the hundreds of Tunstead, Happing, North Erpingham and East and West Flegg.' Sir William believed the school would help to discipline the youth of the area, whom he felt had 'over-much liberty'. In addition to teaching grammar, boys would be taught 'good manners, learning and true fear, service and worship of Almighty God, whereby they might become good and profitable members of the Church and Commonwealth.' The Master's house was re-built in 1796 and other additions and alterations were made to the school during the 19th century.
In the earlier period senior positions in education were, by custom, filled by men in Holy Orders, although this was not a necessary qualification. In the 19th century the eight masters who were in charge of Paston School were all clergymen of the Church of England.
Paston School, like many schools endowed to provide free education for local boys, gradually took more fee-paying pupils and free places declined. In fact, by 1813 the school was entirely supported by fee-paying boys. The school was, however, compelled to re-introduce free pupils, for which the school was originally established. A governors' meeting in 1813 recorded a Minute requiring 'that the 40 free boys ... to be selected in equal numbers' from the original catchment area and that no boy was to be admitted into the school without a Presentation signed by three of the school governors residing nearest to North Walsham.
The then Master, the Rev. William Spurdens (who was master at the school from 1807 until 1825) was less than appreciative of this move. He later complained in a letter to the governors that he had not been told he had to teach forty free boys nor had he 'ever heard of such an obligation' in the seven years he taught there before he became master. He complained that if he had known this he might have hesitated to apply for the post. He also stated 'I was certainly much surprised when the late Mr. Petre, offended at a peccadillo of one of my pupils, first threatened to enforce the Statutes of the School and send me forty free boys.' It would seem, therefore, that the re-introduction of free pupils may well have come about as a result of the actions of Mr. Petre of Westwick Hall. Some of the parents of boys at the school appear to have held the same opinion of free scholars being brought into the school as Mr. Spurdens who went on to report that although the full number of forty free pupils was not sent, the numbers of fee-payers in the boarding school went down as soon as free boys were admitted. He reported notices for 23 removals, 17 of which stated that the reason for leaving was due to the admission of free pupils. However, it seems that free scholars did not become significant in the school. In 1832 there were only six although, according to the Charity Commissioners, some of the 56 boarders were given some reduction in fees. In 1845 it was reported that there were 'seldom more than 8-10 free boys'. Fee payers in this period, paid £50 a year.
Free places were almost certainly filled by children from better-off families since poor families were unable to afford the 'extras' and the loss of earnings by allowing their children to stay on at school. A free place did not provide free tuition in all subjects. The report of the Charity Commissioners, published in 1836, stated that at Paston School - 'Scholars are taught Latin and Greek and also algebra, mathematics and English history without any charge but for instruction in writing and accounts it has been usual to charge 8gns a year'. In addition 30s each half year was charged for books, stationery and heating.
Little is known about the provision of comfort and welfare of the boys. Boarders lived in the schoolhouse with the master and a matron was responsible for their welfare. In the middle of the century Thomas Dry was master of the school living in the schoolhouse with his wife, four daughters and one son. In addition to the matron, other living-in staff comprised a cook, two housemaids and a young boy servant. It is possible that daily staff may also have been employed, particularly on wash-days!
By the 1850's the number of pupils had declined and the family sometimes out-numbered the boarders in the schoolhouse! It seems that by this date the standard of education provided at the school had deteriorated and pupil numbers continued to fall in the following decade. The Norfolk Chronicle, reported early in 1874, that the school, some years previously, had decayed until there remained only the master and no scholars. In 1869 the Report of the Taunton Commission, set up in 1864 to Enquire into the State of Endowed Schools in England and Wales, concluded that Paston School could no longer succeed as a classical school. It was said that the 'better classes' sent their children to larger schools and the poorer did not want Latin.
The Endowed Schools Act, which was passed as a direct result of the Taunton Commission, appointed special Commissioners to reform endowed schools and it was under the Commissioners that Paston School was re-organised and the building renovated. The curriculum still included Latin and Greek but greater emphasis was to be given to mathematics, history, geography, natural science and drawing and other subjects were added. The Rev. Frederick Pentreathe was appointed master and Mrs. Pentreathe was in charge of 'domestic comforts' of the boarders. The School opened on the 24th February 1874 with 11 boys; after the Easter vacation the number had increased to 31. Further improvements in accommodation took place towards the end of the 19th century including the building of a science laboratory and a gymnasium. By 1904 the school had 34 boys.
There had, in the past, been some difficulties with clerical heads of the school taking on the responsibilities of several parishes in addition. The Rev. William Spurdens had, at one time, held the cure of several parishes whilst Master of Paston School. Under the new scheme formulated for the school in 1873 it was laid down that the head, who need not be in Holy Orders, was not to hold other employment. The tradition of a clerical head persisted, however, as the Rev. Frederick Pentreathe was Master from 1874 - 78. By the beginning of this century a non-cleric was headmaster.
Paston School's most famous pupil was Admiral Lord Nelson, who was born in Norfolk, at Burnham Thorpe, and attended the school for two years before joining the Navy when he was twelve years old. A school's worth, however, should not be judged by its famous pupils alone. After the transformation of the school by Rev. Frederick Pentreathe it became an academic and sporting institution which continued to contribute to the life of the county until, in 1984, 378 years after its foundation, it became a sixth form-college.
Reports of the Charity Commissioners, Norfolk, 1815-1839, N.L.S.L. W.White's 1845 Norfolk Directory. Norfolk Chronicle 1874
C. D. Forder, A History of the Paston Grammar School, 2nd Edition, 1975. Census Return 1851.
In addition to a parish school and the endowed Paston School a number of 'private' fee-paying schools were opened in the town during the nineteenth century. Most were small establishments and most were short-lived. North Walsham, like many small market towns, had several schools described as 'day and boarding schools', as children from the surrounding area needed to board since lack of transport made it difficult to attend on a daily basis.
What standards of education these schools gave is, unfortunately, not known due to the absence of documentary records. It is likely that most offered a fairly basic syllabus, consisting of reading, writing and arithmetic. Some were, no doubt, dame schools, which were, as a rule, little more than child-minding establishments being set up by failed tradespeople or elderly ladies. Nevertheless, some of the schools which opened in the town may well have provided a more advanced curriculum together with those refinements considered necessary for young ladies and gentlemen in this period such as dancing, deportment, French and embroidery for girls.
In July 1803 there was an advertisement in the Norwich Mercury for what appears to be a boarding school as washing was included in the fees.
"North Walsham Academy - T. Dix begs leave to inform the public that he intends opening an Academy at North Walsham on Monday next, July 18th., and proposes teaching the most useful branches of English education. Terms:- 20gns a year including washing and all other charges, except stationery articles. Entrance 1gn".
Whether Mr. Dix's academy was ever formed is not known. There is no mention of it in any Directories and no further advertisements have been found.
Piggott's Directory shows there were five private schools in the town in 1830; of these, only John Crickmore's boarding school, in Free School Road and Sarah Saul's school for 'young ladies' remained by 1835 although the number of schools had not decreased since three new ones had opened. One had been set up by the Rev. James Browne in Chapel Street, Mary Ann Pope had a school in The Market Place and Amy Clements ran a boarding school, the address of which is not known. White's Directory shows that by 1845 some of these schools had closed and new ones had replaced them. There were seven private schools at this date. These were -
The Rev. James Browne's school, now in Antingham Road.
Mary Ann Davidson, Chapel Street (is this Mary Ann Pope, now married?).
William Wiggett, Low Street.
Joseph Webster, Reeves Lane.
Samuel Blyth, boarding school, Low Street.
Miss Sophia Cross, boarding academy, North Street.
Sarah Saul's school, also a boarding academy, had been taken over by Harriet Simpson and her daughter Sarah.
In 1846 a Miss Sarah Browne is found running a school in Antingham Road and it seems very likely that she is the daughter of James Browne, who is now excluded from the list. By 1858 Sarah, herself, is no longer in charge and it seems that a Miss Sarah Fitt has taken over this school, now described as a 'seminary and boarding school' at Belle Vue House in Antingham Road. Miss Fitt also described herself as ' a modeller of wax flowers and ornamental Ieatherwork on frames, baskets, etc' By the mid-sixties Sarah's sister was assisting with the running of the school; it seems to have closed some time during the following decade.
Despite several schools being described as boarding schools the 1851 Census Return shows that only three schools in the town had boarders at that date. They were Paston School, the Simpson's School and the school run by Miss Sophia Cross which had now moved to Yarmouth Road. This school had moved again, by 1863, to King's Arms Street.
In addition to the provision of education for the young, people of all ages in North Walsham could take the opportunity of further education or acquire a new skill (providing they were able to pay) from tutors who advertised within the town. Tuition was given in a variety of subjects including languages, dancing, drawing, music, navigation and writing. William Smith, in the Market Place, for example, offered tuition in French in the middle of the century and John Mower, the bookseller and stationer, also advertised as a teacher of music.
In the sixties Mrs. Elizabeth Webster ran a seminary in White Lion Lane. It is sheer speculation to suggest she was possibly the wife or, more likely, the widow of Joseph Webster, who ran his own school in North Walsham fourteen years previously.
Schools continued to open and close during the second half of the century. During the 1860's there seem to have been five private schools in the town of various kinds; in 1883 there were six - one of which, Mrs Hindry's school at 4, The Terrace, advertised as a dame school. This is the only school of this type found although there were, no doubt, others. By the end of the nineteenth century only three private schools seem to remain. These were Miss Elizabeth Hunter's 'private girls school' in The Terrace. Miss Rae's 'girls' private school', Norwich Road, and the school belonging to the Miss Cookes.
Of the numerous schools set up during the nineteenth century only three survived over a period of time. The earliest reference to the Ladies Academy at 15, Aylsham Road, under Miss Sarah Saul, is found in Piggott's Directory of 1830. By 1835 Harriet Simpson and her daughter, Sarah, had taken it over and continued the academy for a number of years at the same address. In 1865 Kelly's described the school as being in Angel Street but this is because the name of the street had changed - it later reverted back to Aylsham Road! In 1841 there were eleven boarders at the school between the ages of 5 and 15 years old. In 1851, the number was down to six, although it is presumed there were day girls in addition. At that date Harriet Simpson was 73 years old, her daughter Sarah was still with her although it is found that a few years later Sarah was running the school alone. Harriet must have retired or, perhaps, had died. Sarah gave up the school sometime between 1865 and 1871 as an Elizabeth Ladell is recorded as proprietor in 1871, living at the school with her husband Richard and three sons. Mrs Ladell continued the school until 1883, when she is found in Kelly's Directory of that year, and perhaps for a few years after that but by 1896 the school had closed as one of her sons, Henry Richard, is found living at the address, which is described as a private house. Ivy Cottage, as it is called today, had been a school for young ladies for over fifty years during which time it must have been attended by many young girls in the neighbourhood.
Miss Sophia Cross had established her ladies school by 1845 in North Street and this too survived for many years in the town. By 1851 the school had moved to Yarmouth Road and by this time Sophia had been joined in the enterprise by her sister Lydia. By 1863 the school had moved again, to King's Arms Street, perhaps to a larger building. The sisters were still working in 1871 when Sophia was 65 and Lydia 61 and, like Harriet Simpson, it seems they worked until illness or old age forced them to retire. It may indeed, have been due to financial need rather than for pleasure that they worked so late in life for there was no state pension in this period to provide for a few comforts during their last years. It is believed the school closed sometime during the 1870's, it is not included in Kelly's 1883 Directory and Sophia, then aged 77 years old, was living in a private house in School Road by that time.
Another long-established school in the town and one which became significant for the education it provided was set up by the Misses Maria and Jane Cooke in 1877 and described as a 'small select ladies school'. This was established at Kyneton, a private house on the corner of Cromer and Mundesley Road. The school moved soon after to The Elms, North Street, where it remained until early this century. The type of education provided for middle-class girls had always been different to that provided for boys. Girls were not expected to become intellectuals but during the last quarter of the nineteenth century there was some concern that girls should have the opportunity of academic education and schools offering this were established in some areas. North Walsham was fortunate that The Elms was providing a higher standard of education for girls in the neighbourhood whose parents could afford to pay the fees which were, of course, beyond the reach of ordinary working families. The school, which employed specialist teachers, prepared the girls for matriculation which could lead to university and a professional career.
That there were fewer private schools at the end of the century when the population of North Walsham was almost double what is was in 1800 is not really surprising. This is a trend that took place in many towns. As more places in National and later,in Board Schools, were provided and standards of teaching rose in these schools there was less need for small private schools offering very basic skills. Moreover, when state education became free parents were generally unwilling to pay for such schools unless they gave an education the state did not provide. Thus, the number of these schools declined and, in the main, only the better private schools succeeded.
1851 & 1871 Census Returns.
(from North Walsham and The Broads. F. Bohn, 1911)
At the beginning of the 19th century there was little education for children whose parents were unable to pay fees except for a few who gained places in endowed schools and charity schools. The main purpose of the Sunday Schools which were established was to teach children their Catechism and to learn to read the Bible.
A small school had been set up in North Walsham by the parish for poor children in the late 18th century. There are few details of this. A meeting in April 1795 agreed that the school should continue and the children who wished to attend were to be chosen by a committee who would also watch over the school. There are a few references to applications from parents wanting to send their children there and at a Vestry meeting in May 1800 a Decker Edinthorp applied for a pair of boots for his son that he might attend Mr. Trivett's school. He was granted the boots on the condition that the boy did attend the school. It is presumed that the school was kept up from the parish poor rate and, perhaps, donations.
The attitude of many people towards education for the poor was shown by David Giddy, M.P., who, when opposing a Bill proposed by Samuel Whitbread (the brewer) to provide two years free education to children in 1807, said that education to the poor.."would be prejudicial to their morals and happiness; it would teach them to despise their lot in life, instead of making them good servants in agriculture and other laborious employments."
Nevertheless, there were those who felt some type of schooling should be given to children of the poor which would instil moral and religious behaviour and that they should be taught to read. With this in mind, in 1810 Joseph Lancaster, a Quaker, founded the Royal Lancasterian Association, which, in 1814, became the British and Foreign Schools Society, a non-sectarian group where the religious emphasis was on Nonconformist lines. These schools were commonly called 'British schools'. Teaching was, at first, conducted on the monitorial system, that is, some of the older children were taught to teach the younger ones. A British School opened in North Walsham in Frere Road in 1847.
An Anglican society, with a similar teaching system, was formed about much the same time; The National Society for Promoting the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, usually referred to as The National Society and their schools 'National' schools. The Society was founded in 1811 and a Norfolk Branch inaugurated the following year in 1812, at a 'numerous and respectable meeting of nobility, clergy and gentry' in Norwich. The aim of the Society was to instruct the poor in 'suitable learning' and where it was not possible to establish day schools to encourage Sunday Schools. The schools were not free, usually parents paid on a graded scale of about Id - 2d a week for poorer families and 3d for those earning more. Some schools charged less per child if several children from the same family attended. The Society saw education as a 'patriotic duty' and one which could not be considered without the Christian faith. One was, it was considered, more of a friend to the poor if they were helped to help themselves rather than to give to them when they were in distress.
A 'National' Sunday School had been set up in North Walsham by 1813. It is most likely that this took over the parish school described, if indeed it still existed at that date, since no further records have been traced. The school was held in a large room in the workhouse superintended by a Mr. Hay. There were 150 pupils on the register made up of 67 boys and 83 girls. By 1815 the school also met one day during the week but the number attending was now only 89-51 boys and 38 girls. The school was described as 'extensive by 1818 and was meeting two days in the week to teach the girls needlework, in addition to Sundays. The Vicar, the Rev. W. F. Wilkinson felt that the poor of North Walsham were not ' without means of education'. By 1827 the school was meeting in the parish church and in addition to the Sunday school sewing was taught on three half days each week. There were two teachers, William Moyes and Susanna Pope to manage 33 boys and 45 girls. The youngest children at the school were five years old and the eldest 12 and 14 years of age.
Voluntary Visitors inspected the school, generally on an annual basis to test the childrens' progress. A Visitors Report of North Walsham school, written in 1827, shows the emphasis placed on learning to read the Bible.
NORTH WALSHAM SCHOOL (supported by subscriptions)
Visitors Report 25th July, 1827.
Class 1 (8)* Spelling, Graces and prayers, Collect all perfect.
Catechism better "if not in too much of a hurry."
Bible reading good.
2 (6) Reading and Spelling from Old Testament tolerably well.
3 (5) Spelling words of 5 letters nearly perfect.
4 (5) Imperfect Prayers and spelling.
5 (4) Learning alphabet, Lord's prayer perfect.
Class 1 (8)' Read Old Testament very well, Catechism, Collect all perfect.
2 (10) Read New Testament well, Spelling, Catechism and Collect
3 (9) Read 1st book very well, Catechism 6 perfect 3 imperfect.
4 (5) Catechism imperfect.
5 (6) Learning alphabet.
The girls are taught sewing three times in the week.
Note: ' number of children in class.
Class 1 was the "top" class and Class 5 the infants.
It was in 1833 that the first grant towards education was made by government; this was towards the building of schools but the Voluntary Societies (i.e. the National and British societies) had to raise half of the cost first before applying for a grant. From 1840 more financial aid from government was granted, generally in relation to what was raised voluntarily. Moreover, from this date standards gradually improved as Inspectors were appointed to inspect schools which accepted government grants. A pupil teacher training scheme was implemented, where young girls could train in the classroom; a few were fortunate enough to go to training college. Emphasis was placed on teaching the '3 RV - reading, writing and arithmetic. It was not until later in the century that P.T. (physical training) and recreational subjects were generally introduced in elementary schools.
It must have been difficult to organise the school in North Walsham church but it continued there until 1845 when the former Fisher Theatre in Vicarage Street was bought and adapted as the National School. It is very likely that the money was raised by donations and a government grant. The building was described, after alterations as a 'large and commodious school capable of accommodating between 200 - 300 children' but how many children were on the register at this time is not known. It seems there was just a staff of two. A Mr. Charles Feltham was master and his wife mistress. Mr. Feltham was still in charge 13 years later, in 1858. Another married couple, Mr. Jonathan and Mrs. Margaret Badcock were in charge in 1865. Unfortunately, no records of the school in this period seem to survive.
According to the Norfolk Chronicle the children had an annual treat. On the 3rd October 1863 it was reported that the children of the National Day and Sunday School had their annual treat with a dinner in the schoolroom and ' by the liberality of Mr. Samuel Sewell, farmer, who kindly loaned his horses and "five wagons, had a visit to Mundesley in the afternoon ' The children, it was said, enjoyed the sea air and returned to the schoolroom for tea; ' all enjoyed a happy day. Indeed, for many children this must have been an exciting day and the only time in the year they visited the seaside.
In the middle of the century there were about 590 children in North Walsham between the ages of 5 and 13 years of age, although not all of these children would have attended school. The Rev. W. Wilkinson complained, in 1838, that 'the agricultural population do not attend to the education of their children' but working life began early for most of these children and poor parents needed the income they could bring in, however meagre.
It is usually found that many of those on the school register attended far from regularly. Sickness, bad weather and seasonal work kept children away and sometimes girls were kept at home to look after younger children so that mothers themselves could go out to work. The Summer vacation took place as soon as the harvest began since few would have attended school at a time when there was work for most of the family. Many Norfolk schools closed for a week or so in the Autumn when the children went acorn gathering.
The cost of building and maintaining schools was considerable and was a continuing burden for the voluntary societies. The National Society held a meeting in North Walsham in the autumn of 1863 when it was stated the Society had helped to establish hundreds of schools. Nevertheless, it needed more help 'from the wealthy classes of the county' and thanked all those who helped to support the school in the town in the past. At the close of the meeting a collection was taken towards their work.
In 1870, under Forster's Act, the government took responsibility to provide and maintain schools under School Boards where the voluntary sector could not do so. It was under this Act that an elementary school was built for the children of North Walsham in Manor Road replacing the converted buildings in Vicarage Street. The school, made up of three departments, opened in 1874. Children who attended on the opening day were given a bun and an orange. This school soon became too small, it was enlarged and altered four times in the next few years - 1888, 1892, 1897 and in 1899!
School attendance did not become compulsory under Forster's Act; nor did it become free. In 1880 attendance was made compulsory on a full time basis with a minimum leaving age of 10, if 'proficient'; if not, the child stayed until 13. Part-time attendance was allowed between 10 and 13 years of age. In 1891 elementary education became free.
N. Walsham Town Minute Book, Parish Papers
Visitors' Reports C/ED 3/211, 212, N.R.O.
Articles of Inquiry. ND Records, N.R.O.
Census Return 1851
White's & Kelly's Norfolk Directories.
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|North American beaver (Castor canadensis)|
|Distribution of C. fiber.|
|Distribution of C. canadensis.|
|Fossils of C. californicus|
The beaver (genus Castor) is a large, primarily nocturnal, semiaquatic rodent. Castor includes two extant species, the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) (native to North America) and Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) (Eurasia). Beavers are known for building dams, canals, and lodges (homes). They are the second-largest rodent in the world (after the capybara). Their colonies create one or more dams to provide still, deep water to protect against predators, and to float food and building material. The North American beaver population was once more than 60 million, but as of 1988 was 6–12 million. This population decline is the result of extensive hunting for fur, for glands used as medicine and perfume, and because the beavers' harvesting of trees and flooding of waterways may interfere with other land uses.
- 1 General
- 2 Etymology
- 3 Species
- 4 Habitat
- 5 Social behavior
- 6 Commercial uses
- 7 In culture
- 8 References
- 9 Further reading
- 10 External links
Beavers, along with pocket gophers and kangaroo rats, are castorimorph rodents, a suborder of rodents mostly restricted to North America. Although just two closely related species exist today, beavers have a long fossil history in the Northern Hemisphere beginning in the Eocene, and many species of giant beaver existed until quite recently, such as Trogontherium in Europe, and Castoroides in North America.
Beavers are known for their natural trait of building dams on rivers and streams, and building their homes (known as "lodges") in the resulting pond. Beavers also build canals to float building materials that are difficult to haul over land. They use powerful front teeth to cut trees and other plants that they use both for building and for food. In the absence of existing ponds, beavers must construct dams before building their lodges. First they place vertical poles, then fill between the poles with a crisscross of horizontally placed branches. They fill in the gaps between the branches with a combination of weeds and mud until the dam impounds sufficient water to surround the lodge.
They are known for their alarm signal: when startled or frightened, a swimming beaver will rapidly dive while forcefully slapping the water with its broad tail, audible over great distances above and below water. This serves as a warning to beavers in the area. Once a beaver has sounded the alarm, nearby beavers will dive and may not reemerge for some time. Beavers are slow on land, but are good swimmers, and can stay under water for as long as 15 minutes.
Beavers do not hibernate, but store sticks and logs in a pile in their ponds, eating the underbark. Some of the pile is generally above water and accumulates snow in the winter. This insulation of snow often keeps the water from freezing in and around the food pile, providing a location where beavers can breathe when outside their lodge.
Beavers have webbed hind-feet, and a broad, scaly tail. They have poor eyesight, but keen senses of hearing, smell, and touch. A beaver's teeth grow continuously so that they will not be worn down by chewing on wood. Their four incisors are composed of hard orange enamel on the front and a softer dentin on the back. The chisel-like ends of incisors are maintained by their self-sharpening wear pattern. The enamel in a beaver's incisors contains iron and is more resistant to acid than enamel in the teeth of other mammals.
Beavers continue to grow throughout their lives. Adult specimens weighing over 25 kg (55 lb) are not uncommon. Females are as large as or larger than males of the same age, which is uncommon among mammals. Beavers live up to 24 years of age in the wild.
The English word "beaver" comes from the Old English word beofor or befer (recorded earlier as bebr), which in turn sprang from the Proto-Germanic root *bebruz. Cognates in other Germanic languages include the Old Saxon bibar, the Old Norse bjorr, the Middle Dutch and Dutch bever, the Low German bever, the Old High German bibar and the Modern German Biber. The Proto-Germanic word in turn came from the Proto-Indo-European (PIE) word *bhebhrus, a reduplication of the PIE root *bher-, meaning "brown" or "bright", whose own descendants now include the Lithuanian bebras, the Czech bobr and the Welsh befer, as well as the Germanic forms.
The North American and Eurasian beavers are the only extant members of the family Castoridae , contained in a single genus, Castor. Genetic research has shown the modern European and North American beaver populations to be distinct species and that hybridization is unlikely. Although superficially similar to each other, there are several important differences between the two species. Eurasian beavers tend to be slightly larger, with larger, less rounded heads, longer, narrower muzzles, thinner, shorter and lighter underfur, narrower, less oval-shaped tails and shorter shin bones, making them less capable of bipedal locomotion than the North American species. Eurasian beavers have longer nasal bones than their North American cousins, with the widest point being at the end of the snout for the former, and in the middle for the latter. The nasal opening for the Eurasian species is triangular, unlike that of the North American race, which is square. The foramen magnum is rounded in the Eurasian beaver and triangular in the North American. The anal glands of the Eurasian beaver are larger and thin-walled with a large internal volume compared to that of the North American species. The guard hairs of the Eurasian beaver have a longer hollow medulla at their tips. Fur colour is also different. Overall, 66% of Eurasian beavers have pale brown or beige fur, 20% have reddish brown, nearly 8% are brown and only 4% have blackish coats. In North American beavers, 50% have pale brown fur, 25% are reddish brown, 20% are brown and 6% are blackish.
The two species are not genetically compatible. North American beavers have 40 chromosomes, while Eurasian beavers have 48. More than 27 attempts were made in Russia to hybridize the two species, with one breeding between a male North American beaver and a female European resulting in a single stillborn kit. These factors make interspecific breeding unlikely in areas where the two species' ranges overlap.
The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) was nearly hunted to extinction in Europe, both for fur and for castoreum, a secretion from its scent gland believed to have medicinal properties. However, the beaver is now being re-introduced throughout Europe. Several thousand live on the Elbe and the Rhône and in parts of Scandinavia. A thriving community lives in northeast Poland, and the Eurasian beaver also returned to the Morava River banks in Slovakia and the Czech Republic. They have been reintroduced in Scotland (Knapdale), Bavaria, Austria, Netherlands, Serbia (Zasavica bog), Denmark (West Jutland) and Bulgaria and are spreading to new locations. The beaver became extinct in Great Britain in the sixteenth century: Giraldus Cambrensis reported in 1188 (Itinerarium ii.iii) that it was to be found only in the Teifi in Wales and in one river in Scotland, though his observations are clearly second hand. In 2001, Kent Wildlife Trust successfully introduced a family of beavers at Ham Fen, the last remaining ancient fenland in the county close to the town of Sandwich; these are now established and are breeding. In October 2005, six Eurasian beavers were reintroduced to Britain in Lower Mill Estate in Gloucestershire; in July 2007 a colony of four Eurasian beavers was established at Martin Mere in Lancashire, and a small population of probably Eurasian beavers is being monitored in Devon. A trial re-introduction occurred in Scotland in May 2009. Feasibility studies for a reintroduction to Wales are at an advanced stage and a preliminary study for a reintroduction of beavers to the wild in England has recently been published.
North American beaver
The North American beaver (Castor canadensis), also called the Canadian beaver (which is also the name of a subspecies), American beaver, or simply beaver in North America, is native to Canada, much of the United States and parts of northern Mexico. This species was introduced to the Argentine and Chilean Tierra del Fuego, as well as Finland, France, Poland and Russia.
The North American beavers prefer the (inner) bark of aspen and poplar but will also take birch, maple, willow, alder, black cherry, red oak, beech, ash, hornbeam and occasionally pine and spruce. They will also eat cattails, water lilies and other aquatic vegetation, especially in the early spring (and contrary to widespread belief, they do not eat fish).
These animals are often trapped for their fur. During the early 19th century, trapping eliminated this animal from large portions of its original range. Beaver furs were used to make clothing and top-hats. Much of the early exploration of North America was driven by the quest for this animal's fur. Native peoples and early settlers also ate this animal's meat. Through trap and transfer and habitat conservation, beavers made a nearly complete recovery by the 1940s. The current beaver population has been estimated to be 10 to 15 million; one estimate claims that there may at one time have been as many as 90 million.
The habitat of the beaver is the riparian zone, inclusive of stream bed. The actions of beavers for hundreds of thousands of years in the Northern Hemisphere have kept these watery systems healthy and in good repair.
The beaver works as a keystone species in an ecosystem by creating wetlands that are used by many other species. Next to humans, no other extant animal appears to do more to shape its landscape. Beavers potentially even affect climate change.
Beavers fell trees for several reasons. They fell large mature trees, usually in strategic locations, to form the basis of a dam, but European beavers tend to use small diameter (<10 cm) trees for this purpose. Beavers fell small trees, especially young second-growth trees, for food.
Broadleaved trees re-grow as a coppice, providing easy-to-reach stems and leaves for food in subsequent years. Ponds created by beavers can also kill some tree species by drowning, but this creates standing dead wood, which is very important for a wide range of animals and plants.
Beaver dams are created as a protection against predators, such as coyotes, wolves and bears, and to provide easy access to food during winter. Beavers always work at night and are prolific builders, carrying mud and stones with their fore-paws and timber between their teeth. Because of this, destroying a beaver dam without removing the beavers is difficult, especially if the dam is downstream of an active lodge. Beavers can rebuild such primary dams overnight, though they may not defend secondary dams as vigorously. Beavers may create a series of dams along a river.
The ponds created by well-maintained dams help isolate the beavers' homes, which are called lodges. These are created from severed branches and mud. The beavers cover their lodges late each autumn with fresh mud, which freezes when frosts arrive. The mud becomes almost as hard as stone, thereby preventing wolves and wolverines from penetrating the lodge.
The lodge has underwater entrances, which makes entry nearly impossible for any other animal, although muskrats have been seen living inside beaver lodges with the beavers who made them. Only a small amount of the lodge is actually used as a living area. Beavers dig out their dens with underwater entrances after they finish building the dams and lodge structures. There are typically two dens within the lodge, one for drying off after exiting the water and another, drier one, in which the family lives.
Beaver lodges are constructed with the same materials as the dams, with little order or regularity of structure. They seldom house more than four adults and six or eight juveniles. Some larger lodges have one or more partitions, but these are only posts of the main building left by the builders to support the roof. Usually, the dens have no connection with each other except by water.
When the ice breaks up in spring, beavers usually leave their lodges and roam until just before autumn, when they return to their old lodges and gather their winter stock of wood. They seldom begin to repair the lodges until the frost sets in, and rarely finish the outer coating until the cold becomes severe. When they erect a new lodge, they fell the wood early in summer but seldom begin building until nearly the end of August.
Water quality and beavers
The term "beaver fever" is a misnomer coined by the American press in the 1970s, following findings that the parasite Giardia lamblia, which causes Giardiasis, is carried by beavers. However, further research has shown that many animals and birds carry this parasite, and the major source of water contamination is by other humans. Norway has many beavers but has not historically had giardia, and New Zealand has giardia but no beaver. Recent concerns point to domestic animals as a significant vector of giardia, with young calves in dairy herds testing as high as 100% positive for giardia. In addition, fecal coliform and streptococci bacteria excreted into streams by grazing cattle have been shown to be reduced by beaver ponds, where the bacteria are trapped in bottom sediments.
Urban beavers in United States
Beavers were trapped to near extirpation and had not been seen in New York City since the early 1800s. After 200 years, a beaver has returned to New York City, making its home along the Bronx River.
In Chicago, several beavers have returned and made a home near the Lincoln Park's North Pond. The "Lincoln Park beaver" has not been as well received by the Chicago Park District and the Lincoln Park Conservancy, which was concerned over damage to trees in the area. In March 2009, they hired an exterminator to remove a beaver family using live traps, and accidentally killed the mother when she got caught in a snare and drowned.
Outside San Francisco, in downtown Martinez, California, a male and female beaver arrived in Alhambra Creek in 2006. The Martinez beavers built a dam 30 feet wide and at one time 6 feet high, and chewed through half the willows and other creekside landscaping the city planted as part of its $9.7 million 1999 flood-improvement project. When the city council wanted to remove the beavers because of fears of flooding, local residents organized to protect them, forming an organization called "Worth a Dam".
As an introduced non-native species
In the 1940s, beavers were brought from northern Manitoba in Canada to the island of Tierra Del Fuego in southern Chile and Argentina, for commercial fur production. However, the project failed and the beavers, ten pairs, were released into the wild. Having no natural predators in their new environment, they quickly spread throughout the island, and to other islands in the region, reaching a number of 100,000 individuals within just 50 years. They are now considered a serious invasive species in the region, due to their massive destruction of forest trees, and efforts are being made for their eradication. The drastically different ecosystem has led to substantial environmental damage, as the ponds created by the beavers have no ecological purpose (wetlands do not form there as they do in the beavers' native territory) and there are no native, large predators. They have also been found to cross salt water to islands northward; a possible encroachment on the mainland has naturalists highly concerned.
In contrast, areas with introduced beaver were associated with increased populations of native puye fish (Galaxias maculatus), whereas the exotic brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) had negative effects on native stream fishes in the Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve, Chile.
The basic units of beaver social organization are families consisting of an adult male and adult female in a monogamous pair and their kits and yearlings. Beaver families can have as many as ten members in addition to the monogamous pair. Groups this size or close to this size build more lodges to live in while smaller families usually need only one. However, large families in the Northern Hemisphere have been recorded living in one lodge. Beaver pairs mate for life; however, if a beaver's mate dies, it will partner with another one. Extra-pair copulations also occur. In addition to being monogamous, both the male and female take part in raising offspring. They also both mark and defend the territory and build and repair the dam and lodge. When young are born, they spend their first month in the lodge and their mother is the primary caretaker while their father maintains the territory. In the time after they leave the lodge for the first time, yearlings will help their parents build food caches in the fall and repair dams and lodges. Still, adults do the majority of the work and young beavers help their parents for reasons based on natural selection rather than kin selection. They are dependent on them for food and for learning life skills. Young beavers spend most of their time playing but also copy their parents' behavior. However, while copying behavior helps imprint life skills in young beavers, it is not necessarily immediately beneficial for parents as the young beaver do not perform the tasks as well as the parents.
Older offspring, which are around two years old, may also live in families and help their parents. In addition to helping build food caches and repairing the dam, two-year-olds will also help in feeding, grooming and guarding younger offspring. Beavers also practice alloparental care, in which an older sibling may take over the parenting duties if the original parents die or are otherwise separated from them. This behavior is common and is seen in many other animal species, such as the elephant and fathead minnow. While these helping two-year-olds help increase the chance of survival for younger offspring, they are not essential for the family, and two-year-olds only stay and help their families if there is a shortage of resources in times of food shortage, high population density, or drought. When beavers leave their natal territories, they usually do not settle far. Beavers can recognize their kin by detecting differences in anal gland secretion composition using their keen sense of smell. Related beavers share more features in their anal gland secretion profile than unrelated beavers. Being able to recognize kin is important for beaver social behavior, and it causes more tolerant behavior among neighboring beavers.
Territories and spacing
Beavers maintain and defend territories, which are areas for feeding, nesting and mating. They invest much energy in their territories, building their dams and becoming familiar with the area. Beavers mark their territories by constructing scent mounts made of mud, debris and castoreum, a urine based substance excreted through the beavers castor sacs between the pelvis and base of the tail. These scent mounts are established on the border of the territory. Once a beaver detects another scent in its territory, finding the intruder takes priority, even over food. Because they invest so much energy in their territories, beavers are intolerant of intruders and the holder of the territory is more likely to escalate an aggressive encounter. These encounters are often violent. To avoid such situations, a beaver marks its territory with as many scent mounds as possible, signaling to intruders that the territory holder has enough energy to maintain its territory and is thus able to put up a good defense. As such, territories with more scent mounts are avoided more often than ones with fewer mounts. Scent marking increases in August during the dispersal of yearlings, in an attempt to prevent them from intruding on territories. Beavers also exhibit a behavior known as the "dear enemy effect". A territory-holding beaver will investigate and become familiar with the scents of its neighbors. As such they respond less aggressively to intrusions by their territorial neighbours than those made by non-territorial floaters or "strangers".
Occurrences of beaver aggression, however, have been reported. In April 2013, an angler, near Minkovichi in the Brest region of Belarus, died after being bitten twice on the leg by a wild Eurasian beaver.
Both beaver testicles and castoreum, a bitter-tasting secretion with a slightly fetid odor contained in the castor sacs of male or female beaver, have been articles of trade for use in traditional medicine. Yupik medicine used dried beaver testicles like willow bark to relieve pain. Dried beaver testicles were also used as contraception. Beaver testicles were used as medicine in Iraq and Iran during the tenth to nineteenth century. Aesop's Fables comically describes beavers chewing off their testicles to preserve themselves from hunters, which is not possible because the beaver's testicles are inside its body. This belief, also recorded by Pliny the Elder, persisted in medieval bestiaries.
European beavers (Castor fiber) were eventually hunted nearly to extinction in part for the production of castoreum, which was used as an analgesic, anti-inflammatory, and antipyretic. Castoreum was described in the 1911 British Pharmaceutical Codex for use in dysmenorrhea and hysterical conditions (i.e. pertaining to the womb), for raising blood pressure and increasing cardiac output. The activity of castoreum has been credited to the accumulation of salicin from willow trees in the beaver's diet, which is transformed to salicylic acid and has an action very similar to aspirin. Castoreum continues to be used in perfume production.
Castoreum can be used as an enhancer of vanilla, strawberry and raspberry flavorings. It is sometimes added to frozen dairy, gelatins, candy, and fruit beverages. Due to the difficulty and expense in obtaining castoreum, it is only very rarely used in common food products.
Much of the early European exploration and trade of Canada was based on the quest for beaver. The most valuable part of the beaver is its inner fur whose many minute barbs make it excellent for felting, especially for hats. In Canada a 'made beaver' or castor gras that a native had worn or slept on was more valuable than a fresh skin since this tended to wear off the outer guard hairs.
Beavers have been trapped for millennia, and this continues to this day. Beaver pelts were used for barter by Native Americans in the 17th century to gain European goods. They were then shipped back to Great Britain and France where they were made into clothing items. Widespread hunting and trapping of beavers led to their endangerment. Eventually, the fur trade declined due to decreasing demand in Europe and the takeover of trapping grounds to support the growing agriculture sector. A small resurgence in beaver trapping has occurred in some areas where there is an over-population of beaver; trapping is done when the fur is of value, and the remainder of the animal may be used as feed. In the 1976/1977 season, 500,000 beaver pelts were harvested in North America.
In wider culture, the beaver is famed for its industriousness and its building skills. The English verb "to beaver" means to work hard and constantly.
Beverly or Beverley, a placename found at various locations in the English-speaking world and also commonly used as a first name, derives from Old English, combining the words befer ("beaver") and leah ("clearing").
The show Happy Tree Friends features Toothy and Handy who are beavers.
The animated Nickelodeon show The Angry Beavers features Daggett and Norbert.
As a national emblem
The importance of the beaver in the development of Canada through the fur trade led to its official designation as the national animal in 1975. The animal has long been associated with Canada, appearing on the coat of arms of the Hudson's Bay Company in 1678. It is depicted on the Canadian five-cent piece and was on the first pictorial postage stamp issued in the Canadian colonies in 1849 (the so-called "Three-Penny Beaver"). As a national symbol, the beaver was chosen to be the mascot of the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal with the name "Amik" ("beaver" in Ojibwe). The beaver is also the symbol of many units and organizations within the Canadian Forces, such as on the cap badges of the Royal 22e Régiment, the Calgary Highlanders, the Royal Westminster Regiment and the Canadian Military Engineers. Toronto Police Services, London Police Service, Canadian Pacific Railway Police Service and Canadian Pacific Railway bear the beaver on their crest or coat of arms.
Others who have used the beaver in their company or organizational symbol or as their mascot include:
- Beaver Buzz
- Roots Canada
- Beaver Lumber
- The Beaver (magazine)
- Buc-ee's, a chain of convenience stores in Texas
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Bemidji State University
- California Institute of Technology
- City College of New York
- Harper Creek High School (Battle Creek, Michigan)
- London School of Economics
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- McMaster University Society of Off-Campus Students
- Parks Canada
- New York City
- The State of New York
- The State of Oregon
- Oregon State University
- St Anne's College, Oxford
- The University of Toronto
- The University of Alberta Engineering
- Buena Vista University
- Washington State Parks & Recreation Commission
- Wilfrid Laurier University
- Huron University College
- F.C. Paços de Ferreira
- Beverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, UK
In dietary law
In the 17th century, based on a question raised by the Bishop of Quebec, the Roman Catholic Church ruled that the beaver was a fish (beaver flesh was a part of the indigenous peoples' diet, prior to the Europeans' arrival) for purposes of dietary law. Therefore, the general prohibition on the consumption of meat on Fridays did not apply to beaver meat. The legal basis for the decision probably rests with the Summa Theologica of Thomas Aquinas, which bases animal classification as much on habit as anatomy. This is similar to the Church's classification of other semi-aquatic rodents, such as the capybara and muskrat.
In computer science
In computability theory, a busy beaver (from the colloquial expression for "industrious person") is a Turing machine that attains the maximum "operational busyness" (such as measured by the number of steps performed, or the number of nonblank symbols finally on the tape) among all the Turing machines in a certain class.
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It's hard to believe, but this week marks the 20th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a disaster many of us watched unfold live on television.
It's one of those moments in American history that punches you in the gut and momentarily takes your breath away, and people of all walks of life remember it vividly still.
"Four, three, two, one, liftoff. Liftoff of the 25th space shuttle mission, and it has cleared the tower."
January 28, 1986. 11:39 a.m.:
"Engine throttling up at 104 percent."
"Challenger, go with throttle up."
"Roger. Going with throttle up."
The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
David Hechler says, "I just remember things falling from the sky. I turned on the television and there it was."
Goldie Hechler says, "The explosion, pieces going all over the sky, falling, and not realizing immediately what happened."
Miguel Monroy says, "I was in Mexico actually, and over there it was big news too."
Gene Sutton says, "They stopped classes to actually show what happened, and then we were devastated."
Barbara Stansell adds, "You just feel like you can't possibly be looking at something true, but it was, and it was very sad."
And because school teacher Christa McAuliffe was on board that day, an unprecedented number of school children across the country were watching.
Kathy Safford-Osborne was teaching in Orlando then and had taken her sixth graders outside to watch.
Kathy Safford-Osborne says, "It was especially difficult for me because I had actually had an application for the Teacher in Space Program, but never actually sent it in because at that time I had three small children."
NASA would later blame the Challenger disaster on an O-ring failure in the right solid rocket booster. It was a failure that claimed the lives of Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Judy Resnick, El Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe.
Dr. Norm Thagard, an astronaut, says, "None of us expect to die. We didn't get into this program to die, but we understand full well that it's a dangerous business."
Astronaut Norm Thagard has flown five shuttle missions including two on the Challenger before its demise. He was training at Kennedy Space Center that day.
Norm Thagard says, "If you sit on a rocket and feel the noise and feel the vibration and then you lift off, your thought is it doesn't take much to go wrong and it's all over, but you always have that childlike faith that it's going to be alright."
Ronald Reagan said, "I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's a all part of the process of exploration and discovery, the chance of expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the faint of heart, but to the brave."
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Published on February 3rd, 2014 | by The Town Crier0
Local History – The Crest Hotel, Crowborough
When Alfred Chilton built The Crest Hotel in Crowborough, he probably did not realise he was constructing a hotel that would outlast all the others in the town.
Chilton had already made his mark in Uckfield by creating one half of the High Street, but Crowborough’s hotel business was far more competitive. Twelve hotels were built overall to take advantage of Crowborough’s newfound reputation as ‘Scotland in Sussex’ and the new Beacon Golf Club.
Indeed, the 100-bedroom Beacon Hotel was the finest in Crowborough and, initially, The Crest played a quieter role, catering mainly for older visitors. However, by the 1920s, the Automobile Association was ranking them as the top two places to stay in the town and The Crest’s hard work was paying off.
The Crest, situated on Beacon Road, had a good reputation from the start. Lady Churchill stayed there in 1909 during the early stages of her marriage to the future Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. Subsequent steady management meant the hotel maintained its reputation, while others began to falter during the forties and fifties. It also managed to attract big names to entertain its guests, including the Barron Knights and the Searchers.
Crucially, The Beacon Hotel was unceremoniously demolished in 1956. About this time, Crowborough was experiencing a decline in visitors and many of the other hotels closed. Consequently, more and more local organisations relied on The Crest and it hosted Crowborough’s Rotary Club for over 20 years. When the Country House Hotel in Croft Road closed, the Round Table joined The Crest and the hotel then served its community by hosting the Chamber Of Commerce’s annual dinner.
Improvements were made which saw the hotel through the next few years but, unfortunately, the decline in visitors that had claimed The Beacon finally caught up with The Crest, now renamed Winston Manor, in accordance with its link to the Churchills.
Successive management teams still kept very high standards, but the reduction in bookings was inexorable. Then, in 1999, the supermarket ‘Safeway’ applied to demolish the building and utilise the land in a new plan to regenerate the town centre. Public opinion was against destroying the old hotel and Safeway retreated. That year, Eclipse Hotels bought Winston Manor, but the signs did not look positive: both the hotel’s restaurant and leisure centre were closed. Then, only a year later, the building was closed down and used to house the homeless. This was quickly stopped after Police and public concerns and, in 2001, Safeway sidestepped the hurdles it has previously met by buying the hotel themselves.
If Alfred Chilton could not guess he would build the last standing hotel in Crowborough all those years ago, he certainly could not have known how the final chapter would play out. On Burns Night, 2002, Winston Manor burnt to the ground in the biggest fire Crowborough had seen for over a century. Eighty firemen from eight stations fought the fire, but to no avail. The magnificent Crest had lost its final battle. | <urn:uuid:b4207c6b-3d09-466b-8c70-aa723b047a28> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.twtowncrier.co.uk/articles/local-and-topical/local-history-the-crest-hotel-crowborough/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.982277 | 663 | 1.914063 | 2 |
According to CNR.CN news, a woman from Liaoning Province in mainland China is selling her mother through an online auction to any man who is willing to marry her and is prepared to pay for all her medical expenses as she is suffering from cancer.
With her mother's consent, Du Chunmei, 31, said that since she could not afford thousands of RMB in medical expenses and was desperate to save her mother's life, she felt that the only way was to sell her mother on the Internet.
Du said that she and her brother had spent all their savings on their father who also suffered from cancer. They borrowed money from neighbors and relatives. Later, their father passed away and now they are heavily in debt and have nowhere to turn to for help, and so have turned to the Internet.
This “mother-for-sale” advertisement online has attracted the attention from many mainland Internet surfers, and has triggered heated debate. Some people criticized this kind of action, saying this discarded the entire Chinese traditional filial piety. But some believe this is a good way to attract the media's attention and to seek help.
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You have your truth, I have mine. – Has there ever been a more absurd yet widely accepted idea? For those of you who are not aware of this theory, it is a widespread and intrusive plague that is more or less the bane of modern society. I can imagine that this all sounds rather dramatic and hyperbolic, if you care enough, however, read this, and then translate that into how contemporary governments and civilizations act. Relativism has penetrated society under the guise of liberation and freedom, and is now a philosophy that is widely accepted but rarely admitted to, one of its greatest assets is the denial of its existence. It needs to be exposed and eradicated.
The 21st century has spawned many concepts and beliefs, most of which have originated from man’s fallen thirst for self –acceptance and desire for so called liberation. None, however, have spewed more toxic fallout than Relativism. I would even go so far as to label Relativism as the scourge of the modern era. You don’t have to look far in order to find the infectious consequences this theory has had on society. Whether it is politics, religion, or any other forum in which there is human interaction; relativism has made its mark.
Everyone has the right to live the way they want and do what they want. It’s their right! Is this not a gross self-indulgence of man’s fallen nature? Man should be educated on what is good for his development as a human being and instructed on how to recognize and respect the innate dignity that he and every other person has from conception to natural death. This culture of “everything goes” is hedonistic, selfish, decadent and in need of replacing! We should not be afraid of hurting people’s feelings. Our global community needs to grow a backbone and stand up and say “Sorry to burst your bubble, but there is such a thing as a moral absolute!”.
I should clarify that there are various branches of Relativism and that in this particular rant I am referring to moral relativism. This is basically the idea that there is no objective right and wrong thing to do, or way to behave, and that all forms of behaviour, no matter how contentious, should be accepted and tolerated. In the timeless words of the Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, “Tolerance applies only to people but never to principles and Intolerance applies only to principles but never to people.” This perfectly addresses and refutes the misconception that everyone has the right to believe and live in accordance with their own personal desires and ideologies. It is vital that this distinction is made. I am not insinuating that everyone should believe the same thing and behave the same way. I am, however, adamant that instead of accepting every whimsical idea of how to live and treat others that pops into John Smith’s head, we should sit Mr. Smith down and teach him. Teach him via Ethics, Theology, History, and Philosophy, and the classical education that forms a mind in such a way that it can correctly identify right from wrong.
Whether it is Mother Theresa, Robert Mugabe, Joseph Stalin, Mahatma Gandhi or your local shop owner down the road, every man has his struggles and every man falls, it is having the courage to look that man in the face and say “that is a wrong thing to do, let me show you what is right”, that will make the difference. I’m not suggesting that there is a simple magic formula that will eradicate all the world’s problems. Nevertheless, I believe that with a combination of a proper understanding of objective truth and the courage to stand up and witness to that truth, we can sow a seed of hope that can take us to a place where mankind can look at himself in the mirror and say “Relativism is no longer a pernicious threat to our society!”
Let’s extinguish this smarting flame.
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From the Budapest Business Journal print edition: Although their room for maneuvering shrinks, offshore tax dodgers still manage to keep one step ahead of regulators by constantly finding new ways to minimize tax payments. With the introduction of the Stability Savings Account, bringing the money back to Hungary will not be a problem any more, either.
In the global fight against tax evasion, tax authorities are moving from bilateral to multilateral cooperation and from exchange of information on request to an automatic system. Hungary signed the most comprehensive multilateral instrument tackling tax avoidance, the OECD’s Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters, in November 2013. Besides that, there are the ‘customary’ bilateral double taxation treaties that also provide grounds for the exchange of information as well as bilateral tax information exchange agreements, typically between a tax haven and a country with an average tax burden.
Hungary has concluded double taxation treaties with almost 80 countries so far, among them all EU and OECD member states. All of these include the possibility of information exchange, but in most of the cases oblige the other country to do so only upon the request of Hungarian tax authority NAV rather than automatically, says PwC tax partner Dóra Máthé.
The automatic exchange of information involves the systematic and periodic transmission of ‘bulk’ taxpayer information by the source country to the home country, explains Máthé. It may concern various categories of income, such as dividends, interest, royalties, salaries and pensions. Automatic exchange can also be used to transmit other types of information such as changes of residence, the purchase or sale of property and value added tax refunds. This is the type of information exchange that has, in fact, a real deterrent effect.
According to a 2012 OECD survey, 14 of the 80 countries do, however, provide information on Hungarian taxpayers automatically, under protocols agreed separately under double taxation treaties, says attorney Pál Jalsovszky. Neither the list of these countries, nor the type of information shared, has been made public though.
Speedy progress in the EU
The European Commission has sped up legislative work on the fight against tax evasion, primarily because EU tax revenues of up to €250 billion still disappear each year in various offshore centers, says Jalsovszky. The direction of EC legislation has also been influenced by the U.S. Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act to be introduced this year, on the basis of which the Internal Revenue Service will be able to automatically obtain bank account information on U.S. taxpayers.
The automatic exchange of information was first introduced in the EU in 2005 through the Savings Directive. Currently, 26 countries apply the automatic exchange of information. Austria and Luxembourg are allowed, for a transitional period, to apply only a withholding tax with a 35% rate. Besides, the EU has concluded savings tax agreements with five neighboring countries: Switzerland, Andorra, Monaco, Lichtenstein and San Marino.
The main limitation of the directive is that it is applicable only to the savings of private deposit holders, thus the anonymity of the account holder can easily be kept by opening a corporate account. In 2008, the Commission proposed a revision of the directive in order to capture payments made through trusts and foundations and to close other loopholes.
In addition to the above treaties, the EU’s new Administrative Cooperation Directive, which generally entered into force in January 2013, will also introduce automatic exchange of available information in five income categories from 2015, says Máthé. These are the income from employment, director’s fees, life insurance products, pensions, and immovable property.
Tricks and loopholes
How will these all work in practice? Full transparency is still more like a distant dream than reality, a private banker told the Budapest Business Journal. Even without trying to dig too deep, the BBJ could easily identify a number of tricks and loopholes to find a way around regulations against tax evasion.
One way a taxpayer may be excluded from the Savings Directive is holding an account that is not impacted by the rules. By opening a bank account that bears no interest, no information will be provided on the savings. Banks have been quite innovative in creating savings instruments that are very similar to deposits in their nature, but the return they provide does not qualify as interest income as defined by the directive.
Another option is to open an account in Austria, the last country to hold out against automatic information exchange. The Luxembourg government has already announced that it will end the transitional period and introduce the automatic exchange of information under the Savings Directive as of January 2015. Austria is expected to be able to resist political pressure to follow suit for at least a couple more years.
What about double tax treaties? Hungary is expected to conclude such treaties with several more countries including well-known tax havens. Thus, there are no 100% secure offshore refuges that shelter tax dodging and money laundering any more, says Jalsovszky. A “glimmer of hope” for tax evaders is that information exchange based on these treaties does not work efficiently in practice due to a lack of capacity on the part of the tax authorities. In addition, many countries do not take this seriously enough or obstruct the whole procedure outright by providing too general or simply useless information, such as, for instance, Cyprus. Finally, initiatives to fight tax evasion are hampered by conflict of interest, and there will always be one way or another to hide the assets of the wealthiest elite.
Where do tax dodgers try to hide their money in the current regulatory environment? While there are no safe bets, Jalsovszky observed three main tendencies. Some still have faith in the distant exotic tax paradises. They believe that no matter how many treaties they sign, these countries will always do their best to sabotage information exchange. Another direction is Singapore and Hong Kong. Both countries are strong and well able to protect their own interests. In addition, they are far away from both the EU and the United States. The third tendency is moving assets to the aforementioned Austria.
The other main issue ‘tax planners’ face is how to bring the money back home. In the past few years, there has always been some kind of amnesty available. The latest option, the Stability Savings Account (SSA), is an amnesty that offends several legal principles, pointed out Jalsovszky. He believes that this amnesty is not sustainable in the long run as it represents a gaping loophole. SSA holders may benefit from tax exemptions, while they do not have to justify the origin of these assets. At least HUF 5 million has to be deposited and the same individual can open an unlimited number of accounts. Tax liability arises only when a part or the total sum is withdrawn from the account, however, if this happens after more than five years, the income is fully tax exempt.
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We live in rapidly changing times. So every business person must understand potential effects of various environmental factors. In this report as an example of manufacturing company was choose one of the biggest brands in the world L’Oréal USA, Inc. The company which I found interesting is engaged in beauty industry. Cosmetic business in widely spread all over the world as nowadays not only females but also males and children are interested in their appearance. L’Oréal USA, based in New York, NY, is a subsidiary of L’Oréal, headquartered in Paris, France, is a total beauty care company. The well-known slogan of company is “Because I’m Worth It.”, which represents the essence of the L’Oréal Paris brand as a whole.
The history of L'Oréal refers to a many years ago – in 1909 young chemist and natural entrepreneur Eugène Schuller design, produced and sold one of the first hair dyes to hairdressers in Paris. In the beginning it was founded as Cosmair, Inc. Later, company established by Eugène Schuller become L'Oréal, started to grow rapidly thanks to its innovations and quality, encompassing all aspects of beauty for everyone, everywhere.
All product division headquarters and operation department of L’Oréal USA, Inc. are located in New York City. The Strategic Committee consists of 12 members, including six heads of product divisions and six heads of corporate functions. In 2009 in the company (USA) was fixed around 9,000 employees. L’Oréal USA is wholly owned subsidiary of L’Oréal.
L’Oréal USA, Inc. and its products
One able to buy L’Oréal USA products in 130 countries. All over the world L’Oréal has 64,600 employees in 66 countries. Also, there are 5 development centres of L’Oréal worldwide (Shangai, Rio de Janeiro, Dubai, New York, Paris). Company is engaged in a wide-range of in-house tailored programmes as well. L’Oréal USA has many such a famous brands as L’Oréal Paris, Garnier, Giorgio Armani Parfums and Cosmetics, Lancóme, Maybelline New York, Vichy, Diesel and many others.
The main competitors of L’Oréal in cosmetics market are Procter & Gamble and Revlon. Revlon only sells cosmetics, while only small part of Procter & Gamble’s business is cosmetics. Also L’Oréal is much larger than its competitors such as Avon and Estee Lauder. It means that L’Oréal spends more money on marketing which is very important to success in the cosmetics industry. For this reason, L’Oréal is proved to be a leader in the cosmetics market. L’Oréal occupies 15.8% of North and 10.5% of South America cosmetics market.
Success of any business is depends on its environment. The demand for L’Oréal USA, Inc. products depends on economic indicators as well. (All financial figures based on an exchange rate €1=$1.42)
Economic growth is the annual increase in a country’s Gross Domestic Products (GDP). If there is a high level of economic growth in the country the income level of its population would be relatively high. For this reason the demand for cosmetic products will increase respectively. As it is shown in Figure 2.1, GDP rate increased till 2007, which reflected to L’Oréal USA, Inc. revenue (Figure 2.2) and stock prices (Figure 2.3) in the same year, while stock price and revenue are indicators of company’s value. Then, because of financial crisis United State’s GDP rate started falling down from 2008, which lead decreasing of demand for L’Oréal USA, Inc. products in 2008 and consequently falling share prices from the year 2008.
Figure 2.2 (From Annual Report of L’Oréal, 2009)
Figure 2.3 (From Annual Report of L’Oréal, 2009)
Income level of population
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck all the marrow out of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or, if it were sublime, to know it by experience,
and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
Henry David Thoreau captures his motivation for a two-year experiment in simple living at Walden Pond in these words from his essay “Where I Lived and What I Lived For,” later published in Walden or Life in the Woods. The record of his time at Walden was never meant for himself alone. Thoreau’s intention to “publish” or “give a true account” of the world as he found it show reminds his readers that he documented the experience with them in mind, understanding its shared significance as well as its personal meaning.
Though Thoreau was writing to an audience, only a handful of his readers could communicate directly with him in return and this long after his sojourn at Walden Pond had ended. The book Thoreau wrote based on the Walden years was not ready for publication for seven years after Thoreau left the pond. While it did find its way into a small circle of like-minded souls during Thoreau’s lifetime, it was not until after his death that the work became iconic in American literature and nature writing.
Like Walden itself, the idea of conducting a personal experiment in ecologically-conscious living which is then shared with others has not only survived Thoreau’s lifetime but gained popularity. A growing number of individuals, from professional writers and activists to online journalists are recording their experiments in green living in the interactive public space of the blogosphere, offering a vast array of answers to the question of what it means to be an environmentalist. They, too, are sharing the stories of where they live and what they live for. However, their words can reach an audience on a scale and with an immediacy that Thoreau never could have dreamed of. (Though, here, one blogger imagines how Thoreau’s journals would have read as a blog.)
I am interested in the contemporary, online incarnations of green living experiments. In what ways are these blogs personal projects that help to shape the writers’ ideas about certain environmental issues? In what ways are they political projects, intended as activism? How do the blogs’ digital format shape the way the writers’ stories are shared? Received? Discussed?
Perhaps the most famous example of a “Thoreau 2.0”-style green living experiment recorded via blog (and video, and eventually as a book)is Colin Beaven, A.K.A. “No Impact Man.” Here is the trailer for the documentary made about Beavan's and his family's experience.
Beavan is quite self-reflexive in his choices to make this private experiment public via the web and other media. I asked nine other green living bloggers to add their experience with these issues to the mix.
Though blogs on green living are many and various, I focused on those in which most posts were personal stories about the author’s own attempts to live more sustainably (rather than blogs that feature mostly news items, product reviews, general how-to’s, etc.). And, I included only blogs to which the authors had recently posted. You can follow my conversations with the bloggers by clicking each of the following links.
The Accidental Environmentalist
The Clean Bin Project Blog
The Crunchy Chicken
Green Bean Chronicles
It’s Not Easy To Be Green
The Last Biscuit
One Green Generation
And, MANY thanks to Cynthia of Withywindle Nature for joining this conversation! She has been kind enough to share some thoughts in the comment section below.
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The proposed Keystone XL pipeline is a hotly debated project that, if realized, could have a vast environmental impact. Public discourse about the pipeline in the forms of media coverage and statements to the press speak to possible technical solutions to the project’s environmental harms: some recommend moving the pipeline’s location; others suggest replacing it with alternative energy sources. However, I propose that the root problem of the Keystone pipeline is not so much technological as ideological. The project proposal exists as a result of a set of unsustainable cultural narratives: suppositions about consumption and “the good life,” notions about science, and the perceived separation between humans and non-human nature. These tacit assumptions are the forces driving Keystone XL, the impetus of its negative environmental impact. And yet, they are virtually invisible in public discourse about the pipeline. Examining the proposed project through a cultural studies lens reveals that Keystone XL is a symptom of a deeper problem and that this problem is social, not merely technological. A lasting solution to the pipeline’s ecological dangers will mean reimagining the destructive narratives from which it springs. It will mean shifts in perception and political will, without which technical fixes will be impracticable or ineffectual.
This is an abstract for a project I've been working on in CLST 315, Qualitative Field Research Methods with Dr. Paul Faulstich.
In this ethnographic study of knitting/crochet and sewing groups in the Las Flores ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in La Verne, California, I explore the communal practice of hand-making goods as it impacts participants’ relationships to material culture and consumption. In particular, I examine the differences between the needlecrafters’ engagement with the products they make and their perception of goods obtained commercially, where production is performed by invisible others. I investigate the mythic significance of needlecraft, approaching the activity as a cultural practice that signifies a set of values and assumptions about the self in relation to the material environment. Observation of and interviews yield data on three major themes: perceptions of labor, definitions of the beauty and value of material products, and the bearing that needlecraft practice has on community/human relationships. The data I gather from participants is analyzed against theoretical proposals about the importance of hand-crafted products in the shift toward a more ecologically and economically sustainable culture. I conclude that, while participants to do not frame their activities as revolutionary, creating hand-made goods in this group setting offers important points of entry for reconsidering destructive assumptions about labor, beauty and community that currently prevail in mainstream material culture and in standard patterns of consumption.
Then things began to change. I was introduced - through my professors' own work and through that of others, like Jean Rouch, who pushed the boundaries of the traditional ethnography - to a way of working that was intentionally self-reflexive and collaborative. At first, I had believed that my authority to tell the stories of my consultants came from the connections we shared. I saw my job as giving voice to those stories on the participants' behalf as responsibly as possible. I thought "good ethnography" meant letting participants speak for themselves, and so was uncomfortable introducing my own interpretations of the group's activities or theoretical questions/observations into the narrative. However, I came to realize that it was as undesirable as it was it impossible to avoid my own perspective. Further, I began to see that a theoretical framework was crucial to explaining the significance and larger cultural implications that I saw in the activities of my consultants.
Instead of thinking of the study as a monologue that I was helping to facilitate, I began to understand it as a conversation: one that involved the voices of participants in the study, my own voice, and the voices of other theorists. Together, these voices would contribute to a shared narrative. Moreover, that narrative was not fixed but ongoing: readers of my study would also bring their interpretations to it. Donna Haraway's work on feminist ethnography helped me to understood that, just as the result of the study were necessarily collaborative, so too would be determining the meaning of those results.
I remember a conversation in my VRM class in which we were discussing the concept of performing one's identity. Dr. Juhasz noted that we each do this all the time, in all of our actions and interactions. None of us, she said, wants to be understood as a stereotype; we do not want our identities to be a projection of the assumptions and labels of others. Performing one's identity on one's own terms manifests and reinforces one's own ideas about the self. It can even help to change perceptions of others about oneself. This helped me understand my ethnography as a potential site of power. Originally, I saw it only as a place where the stories of my consultants and myself would be made vulnerable by becoming objects of the gaze of others. And, I suppose that is still true, in a sense. But, now I also see the study as a locus of authority as a collective, interactive performance of our identities. It is a vehicle to that we can use to share something of ourselves with the world on our own terms.
Of course, this is all much easier because I like the people with whom I conducted this study and I concluded that what they're doing has value. It is easy to collaborate with people to whom you already feel connected and whose activities I see as positive rather than harmful. How would this experience have been different if I had felt otherwise? What will happen when this is the case? What will it be like to try to forge a collaborative narrative when the participants in your study are hostile to my presence? When they are doing something I feel is misguided or harmful? I do not believe the answer is to always shy away from experiences like this. In that case, I could only ever study people who were not very different from myself -- and that seems very undesirable. The honest effort to learn from others who are not like me is important too - and too important to avoid out of discomfort. These classes have helped me to see that critique and even deep disagreement can indeed be a part of an open, respectful ethnographic process. Perhaps my next ethnographic project will be an opportunity to put this conviction into practice.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
What it is that I can say about people’s blogs that the blogs themselves are not communicating? And, even if my comments on the digital storytelling of others are valid, are they useful? Am I offering anything new to the conversation about digital storytelling? Or, are my comments just a mash-up of pre-existing concepts – the blogs I’ve researched, what I’ve read for this class, other people’s comments in class – remixed in a peculiar way? Is this blog, for example, like a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox and the ideas with which I’m working have less and less integrity each time they’re are reproduced?
Or, is my remix more than the sum of its parts? Does the stealing and welding and reshaping of ideas I’ve found interesting form something unique – an original work?
In my search for the blogs of digital storytellers, I happened upon the site of one artist who would say “yes.”
In class, we discussed the possibility of using a blog as a place to try out ideas, to have unfinished thoughts, to make a mess. At the beginning of this blog, I made a post about how uncomfortable I was using this space that way. I was loath to post anything that wasn’t “finished;” as soon as it was “out there” it could be graded and judged. I didn’t see the blogosphere as a place where I could ask dumb questions, or sift through ideas without having fully articulated my arguments. But Kleon’s blog – for better or worse – made me feel a little more free to think of ideas as a jumping-off point for mine; to not wait for perfection before making something – even if what you make turns out to be a mess.Messes – the many, many awful ideas you try out before reaching one you think you like – seem a necessary part of the creative process, but it’s one I think the schools I’ve attended have encouraged me to keep to myself. The web offers thinkers the opportunity to do the opposite. I’m not sure how I feel about that yet, but I’m giving it a try. I’m basing this take on my academic work on the suggestions of a non-academic. Here’s to letting everyone see you sweat.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
How is the amateur digital storyteller different from the expert digital media-maker?
At what point does an amateur become an expert?
What is the role of the "experts" - the "compassionate, highly experienced facilitators" in that transformation?
“Put down your camera and join us.”
I saw this sign through the roiling sea of faces, voices and signs that made up the 10/15/11 Occupy Movement's International Day of Action. It was scrawled in black marker on a ragged piece of cardboard carried by a teenage girl.
“Put down your camera and join us.”
I passed her in the crowd several times and never without a jolt of discomfort - probably because, each time, I was video-recording her holding her sign.
I had come to the Occupy LA site that day to protest corporate "personhood" under the law, to challenge corporate corruption of the democratic process and to advocate for participatory democracy. My interest in the movement grew from a conviction that "business as usual" is destroying the landscape on which we collectively depend for survival, that for everyday community-members to abdicate democratic power is to invite tyranny.
But, while I considered myself to be one of “the 99%,” I also saw myself as a recorder and interpreter of these events. Clutching a low-tech camera the size of my hand, I was now a newbie filmmaker. I intended to help tell the story of this moment from the inside out, to contribute my one, admittedly idiosyncratic, perspective to the creation of a collaborative narrative about the Occupy movement.
The footage I was taking was meant for the group video project for a CLST 355 Visual Research Methods course at Claremont Graduate University (above). My collaborators and I set out to make a video that explored the “demand for a list of demands” that mainstream media had imposed on the Occupy movement. Certainly, criticisms of the movement as having either no demands or too many demands, were ubiquitous in televised news. But was this the right question to ask? Who would gain from extracting a list of demands from the movement at this stage?
“Put down your camera and join us.”
I could understand why this sign-maker protester might assume that those holding cameras were not on her side. But, the same coverage of the Occupy that may have led her to be skeptical of media-makers inspired me to bring my camera to the demonstration. The notion that reflection on and scholarly interpretation of current events should be left to disinterested observers has been around a long time. But, I’m not sure I buy it. Since we are never entirely able to check our biases and our own agendas at the door when interpreting human behavior, “pure scholarly objectivity” is largely a myth. I agree with those, like cinema verite pioneer John Rouch, that developing practices of self-examination in shared anthropology is not just possible, it is vital.
Further, I do not believe it is necessary to wait for someone else to interpret our actions for us. We can and must participate in that work ourselves. Making media is a way of engaging that task; it is a vehicle for self-expression but also of self-reflection.
Finally, believe that scholarship and activism are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they are necessarily connected. Once we engage in scholarship, once we attempt to know the world around us, we must decide what to do with that information. That choice of how – and when and whether - to employ knowledge, is always a political act, whether or not we intend it to be.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
It is meant to reveal and reproduce the strengths and weaknesses inherent in parody as a means of deconstructing culture (the kind of "culture jamming" Kalle Lasn embraces and made famous through Adbusters).
The video explores Marx's notion that cultural constructions, including the construction of self-identity, is determined by the way one participates in the economy. As much as they might disagree with Marx on other points, it's seems that major advertisers wish to promote this idea. In the ads included in the video, advertisers can be seen to engaged in what Marx calls commodity fetishism - associating abstract concepts with a product or object that goes beyond and even obscures the product as a commodity representing labor. In these cases, self-expression and individuality are said to be possible through participation in the economy in the form of consumption -- specifically, through buying the items advertised, be they computers, cell phones, clothes, hair-styling products, or sandwiches. This, they say, is how to be yourself.
Here, I also examine parody as a way of engaging in the kind of resistance to commodity fetishism described by Michel de Certeau -- using the products of the dominant culture in unintended ways. While parody is useful in deconstructing commodity fetishism, it has its own limitations. Because it constantly refers to the status quo, parody must always operate within the bounds of the existing cultural system. By adopting the form of the message being deconstructed, parody is forced to speak in its language, to reinforce the ways of communicating on which the original message relies. In short, parody can tell us why the system is broken but only by reinforcing the formal limitations of the very system it criticizes. Marshall McLuhan would argue that this formal language is by no means "neutral" but laden with meaning and specific as to what kind of messages it can enable and constrain.
As Louis Althusser points out, even as we deconstruct the messages of others, we ourselves are consolidating signifiers and the signified. I chose to frame the video in the form of an ad parody to reinforce the idea that, in parody, I too am reliant on the expressive forms of the messages I attempt to unpack. | <urn:uuid:3c6986aa-7b39-47d4-95bf-e80d6dd295c2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://artplaceidentity.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00545-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969993 | 3,981 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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Fur Fin Feathers...
Anyone think of a phrase/saying with the first letters of each word being B, M, W, to do with fur, fins or feathers?...ie, first word begining with B, second word begining with M and last word begining with W?or another, I L a LOL a L? Thanks
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It’s kinda strange to be doing this in April instead of January, but as the RetroChallenge schedule has changed, it is time to get my plan together.
Inspired by previous attempts, my modest entry to RetroChallenge this time is to interface a PS/2 keyboard to a 1987-vintage 68hc11 micro-controller; enough to at least read the scan-codes and twiddle the keyboard LEDs. And to write it up, hopefully illuminatingly, here.
Of course, thar be some equipment needed, and here is what I have gathered already…
The Adapt-11 is a 68hc11-based SBC. In fact, it is not much more than a 68hc11 adapter. Apart from the MPU, the board contains:
- 8MHz crystal oscillator can connected to the MPU via a couple of capacitors and a resistor.
- MAX-232 serial-port voltage-level shifter, connected directly to the MPU serial-port pins.
- 5V voltage regulator.
- Manual reset button connected to the MPU bidirectional-reset pin via a pullup resistor.
- a pair of two-position switches connected directly to the MPU “run-mode” pins.
- a very small handful of capacitors and resistors, and a power LED.
- a pin-header providing external access to the MPU pins.
So, as you can see, basically just a mounting adaptor for the MPU.
To make sure the 1980s MPU chip was working, I connected a terminal emulator (PuTTY running on an 1999 HP OmniBook 500) to the MPU serial-port…
and you can see it running the Buffalo Monitor from on-chip PROM. What’s more, I recognise that program code at address B600 in the on-chip EEPROM – basic chip-initialisation code I wrote when I was playing with this particular chip in my Motorola EVB SBC two years ago.
Observant readers may notice something unusual about running code from on-chip PROM on this particular model of 68hc11 chip, but that’s a subject for next time. Stay tuned! | <urn:uuid:b6194ef4-cd4e-4cb9-b962-a6583171e04c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sparc90s.wordpress.com/2017/04/02/with-a-cherry-on-the-side/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.906527 | 471 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Is there anyone who does not know Salah Al-Din (known to westerners as Saladin)?! He is Salah Al-Din Al-Ayyubi, the great Muslim leader and commander who led Muslim armies to liberate Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque from the Crusaders on 2 October, 1187 AC (27 Rajab, 583 AH).
Indeed, the story of his parents’ marriage was as amazing as his own character and achievements. His father, Najm Al-Din Ayyub, Emir of Tikrit (City in Iraq), did not get married and stayed as a bachelor for a long time.
As a sign of true concern, his brother, Asad Al-Din Shirkuh once asked him: O brother! Why do not you get married?
Najm Al-Din replied: I cannot find a suitable woman!
Asad Al-Din said: Let me ask for someone’s hand in marriage on your behalf.
Najm Al-Din asked: Who is she?
Asad Al-Din said: Either daughter of the Seljuk Sultan Malik Shah, or that of Wazir Al-Mulk, the Grand Vizier.
Najm Al-Din said: They are not suitable for me!
Asad Al-Din was amazed at his answer but further asked: And who is it that suits you?!
Najm Al-Din replied: I only want a righteous woman who would help me enter Heaven (Jannah); who gives birth to my boy child who would be properly educated by her until he becomes a great knight who would restore Jerusalem to Muslims!
That was his dream!!!
Notwithstanding, Asad Al-Din did not like his brother’s words and remarked: Where would you find such a woman?!
Confidently and assuredly, Najm Al-Din answered him as saying: Allah the Almighty accomplishes the desires of those who purify their intention (niyyah) for Him, Glory be His.
After a while, Najm Al-Din was once having a conversation with a Muslim scholar in one of Tikrit’s masjids (mosques) when a young woman came in and called upon the Muslim scholar from behind a curtain. The scholar asked for Najm Al-Din’s permission to attend to her and Najm Al-Din heard the following dialogue:
The Muslim scholar: Why did not you accept the man I sent to your house to propose to you?
The young woman replied: O Muslim scholar! He is a man of excellent qualities, good looking and high social status; however, he is not the right person for me!
The Muslim scholar asked: What do you want then?
The young woman replied: My dear Muslim scholar! I only want a righteous man who would help me enter Heaven (Jannah); to beget him a child whom I would educate well until he becomes a great knight who would restore Jerusalem to Muslims!
These were just the same words as previously pronounced by Najm Al-Din in answer to his brother’s thoughtful and passionate inquiries!
Najm Al-Din refused to get married to any of the two daughters of a sultan and a grand vizier regardless of their natural beauty or noble social status and wealth!
Similarly, the young woman refused to get married to the man who had all known excellent characteristics as well as lofty social status, wealth and good-looking.
However, the question that begs answering is: why?!
Simply because both of them wanted someone who would take the other by the hand to Heaven; to have a unique son who would become a courageous knight who would eventually restore Jerusalem to the fold of Islam and the dominion of Muslims.
Upon attentively listening to the conversation that went between the Muslim scholar and the young woman, Najm Al-Din stood up and called upon the Muslim scholar and proposed to her in marriage.
Surprisingly, the Muslim scholar remarked: She is only a common poor young woman!
Najm Al-Din said: That is the woman of my dreams!
Najm Al-Din got married to that young woman whose name was Sit Khatun and the dream became real. Indeed, Allah the Almighty gives everyone in accordance with their intention. Afterwards, Salah Al-Din was born to them and he later became the long-awaited great knight who gained victory over the Crusaders and restored Jerusalem to the Muslims by Allah’s Grace. One can say that he was born of good intentions.
This story represents a glimpse of the great history of Islam and the deep-rooted legacy of Muslims. Indeed, this is what should be taught to our children and the whole world to let them all know and understand something about Muslims and their great unprecedented legacy and glory and the make-up of the true and faithful Muslim character throughout the ages.
Dr. Ali Al-Halawani is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Translation, Kulliyyah of Languages and Management (KLM), International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He was Assistant Professor and worked for a number of international universities in Malaysia and Egypt such as Al-Madinah International University, Shah Alam, Malaysia (Mediu) and Misr University for Science & Technology (MUST), Egypt; Former Editor-in-Chief of the Electronic Da`wah Committee (EDC), Kuwait; Former Deputy Chief Editor and Managing Editor of the Living Shari`ah Department, www.islamOnline.net; Member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS); and member of the World Association of Arab Translators & Linguists (Wata). He is a published writer, translator and researcher. You can reach him at [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:8ee0dc6c-9b91-420f-a66f-bf16dd82d18d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intellectinislam.com/2021/11/21/born-good-intentions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.972159 | 1,228 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The word “squid” calls to mind enormous, mysterious attackers, the menaces of campy horror films. A science writer who speaks Wednesday night in Long Beach about squid, including some Pacific Ocean dwellers, seeks to tell more of that animal’s story.
These creatures called cephalopods — sea animals with prominent heads and feet — may not have spines. But they’ve been the backbone of Nobel Prize-winning research in marine science, biology and neurology. Writer Wendy Williams says that discovery astonishes her.
There’s a hundred years of research that’s gone on to study how human neurons function by studying how they function in the squid, because they’re basically the same cell.
The same — but in squid, nerve cells are much, much bigger. That’s great for medical research into questions like Alzheimer’s disease, Williams says. The part of the neuron that acts as a nervous system transmission line is an axon, and in a squid, that part’s much bigger too.
That axon is sometimes as thick as a pencil lead. So you can see it and handle it and study it.
Those same squid that reveal so much for medical research can elude marine scientists. Over a decade or more in Southern California, 5-foot-long Humboldt squid have attacked divers and washed up on beaches.
Suddenly these huge numbers of jumbo squid arrived on the California coast and began swimming in large numbers on the coast, and some all the way even to the coast of Alaska.
In her new book, Williams also writes about her travels with Stanford University researchers, who’ve been tagging and tracking the squid to try and learn their patterns.
It’s a great mystery. No one really knows why they came. And it turns out that this year there are not really many of them on your coast at all. So suddenly they’ve somewhat disappeared. They come and they go, and no one really knows why.
To study squid is to embrace mystery, Williams says. She named her book for a mysterious sea monster, a legend of Scandinavia, a giant creature with a head and arms that would wrap around ships and pull sailors to their deaths. She’ll talk about “Kraken: The Curious, Exciting and Slightly Disturbing Science of Squid” Wednesday night at the Aquarium of the Pacific. | <urn:uuid:c8b1b011-022f-4c98-8804-59f9965e9b37> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.scpr.org/news/2011/11/30/30119/squid-so-misunderstood/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00066-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953432 | 507 | 3 | 3 |
Time is a big healer as anyone who has been through anything traumatic will know. It just takes time.
Military Paralympian Dave Henson joined the Army in 2008, serving with the Royal Engineers. In February 2011, he was deployed to Afghanistan and on a “normal day on operations” he stood on an IED.
“It was just a normal day on operations. I went across the compound to gain line of sight with the infantry guys we were working with and turned around and then then that was it. Blown up….
“The next thing I knew I was awake in Camp Bastion hospital in the evening after my lads had loaded me on the helicopter. And that was that – legless.”
That was the moment that changed everything for Dave. With both legs amputated above the knee his time in the Army was over and he was facing a long, difficult recovery.
“I think adjustment takes quite a while and it’s certainly a big challenge” he explains, but, for Dave, the process started long before he set foot on the battlefields of Afghanistan: “You’re operating with an idea that something might happen to you so the possibility of injury is always in the back of your mind.” Even with this attitude it took a long six months before he had fully adjusted, both physically and mentally, to his injuries.
For some, losing their legs would be the greatest blow. However, for Dave, it was the loss of the career he had set his heart on since he was a teenager that hit the hardest. Dave was pragmatic about the situation, “you just get on with it!” he explains, “I decided around age 14 or 15 that I was going to join the Army. I lost my legs aged 26, that’s 10 years and I wasn’t done with it yet. That was the biggest blow for me – having that choice taken away.”
After leaving hospital and returning to his parent’s house Dave’s first interaction with Help for Heroes wasn’t on the track but with a mattress: “I couldn’t get up the stairs so had to sleep in the lounge. We didn’t have anything other than a sofa and it wasn’t working. I put a grant request in to Help for Heroes to get a decent sofa-bed. They provided it straight away. It made my family realise I was going to be looked after and they wouldn’t have to worry.”
It was at the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Headley Court that his association with Help for Heroes and sport really began: “When I was injured my family wanted to raise some money for Help for Heroes so they set about organising a series of open-water swims. When my wounds healed I joined them and I used the Help for Heroes Rehab Complex at Headley as a key part of my training routine.”
“Time is a big healer as anyone who has been through anything traumatic will know. It just takes time. Probably at 6 months in I had fully adjusted – not only to the physical side of the injury but to the mental side and the loss of career. That was probably the hardest adjustment to make.”
The next stop on Dave’s sporting journey was competing in swimming and volleyball at the Warrior Games in Colorado Springs in 2012 as part of the Help for Heroes Sports Recovery Team: “It’s a US competition for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines to compete against each other in different sports, and they invited a British team. Actually, it ended up inspiring the Invictus Games.”
Returning the following year, Dave met Roger Keller, the team’s photographer and a former semi-professional sprinter: “We got on really well so when I moved to London to do my Masters I gave him a call and asked if we could train together. It was through Help for Heroes Sports Recovery that I met my Coach.”
“People underestimate the amount of care wounded servicemen will need over a lifetime. Without charities like Help for Heroes we would be lost”
The two were funded by the Charity to go to Gran Canaria for intensive consolidation training. “The benefits were huge; getting time solidly with my coach in stable weather conditions was absolutely invaluable.” Help for Heroes has also funded a set of racing blades and sockets for Dave: “This grant is an absolute game-changer for me; the new sockets will change the way I run, opening up a whole new avenue of opportunity and will hopefully help me to secure some really good times this season.”
Dave is quick to stress the importance of sport in his recovery as it has enabled him to move on after his injuries: “For the military, sport is massively important because it forms such a key part of our normal everyday working life pre-injury. To have the ability to regain what we might have thought was lost is huge.”
He’s certainly got stuck in with all Help for Heroes Sports Recovery has to offer; cycling, skiing, volleyball, wheelchair basketball and, of course athletics. “Trying so many sports has led me to where I am now.” That is the whole point of the Charity’s Sports Recovery Programme – to give those suffering due to service the chance to transform their lives through sport.
And what a transformation it has been for Dave. In three short years he went from being ‘legless’ [in his own words] to winning a gold medal in the IT2 200m race at Prince Harry’s inaugural Invictus Games in London, 2014. He was also the British Armed Forces Team Captain.
“The moment in my heart where I knew ‘this is real’ was at the opening ceremony. That was when I knew the Invictus Games is really going to change lives, not only for the people competing but everyone that’s watching too. That was a pretty special moment. I have to admit, I was a little bit teary.”
After the Invictus Games, Dave trained hard to become quicker, and 2 years later qualified for the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio. He ran his way to a bronze medal in the 200m.
“My goal for sports is to keep on doing it while I still enjoy it. There will probably come a time where my body starts to say ‘Dave, you’ve got to start taking it easy’. Certainly on the blades, because they are quite a big impact on your body. There’s a bit of a price to pay with running that quickly but at the minute my body is feeling alright and I’m still enjoying it so that’s my aim for sport – to go as far as I can, as fast as I can while I’m still smiling!”
Dave is quick to champion the support he has always received from the Charity: “I got the help I needed. That’s absolutely essential from my point of view. It’s a huge part of recovery.
“I think people underestimate the amount of care wounded servicemen and women will need over a lifetime. Without charities like Help for Heroes, and the support they offer, we would be lost. The people there are making sure we’re getting the most out of life for the long-term rather than just for now.”
As for any wounded servicemen and women thinking of asking for help, he is clear: “I urge you to just get in touch because there are so many different avenues of support on offer – it’s not just sport although sport just happens to be the one that ticked my boxes. Help for Heroes is going to make a real difference to the rest of your life and the sooner you get in touch the easier it’s going to be later on.”
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A dentist treats a young boy in central Athens, Greece, October 27, 2015. Photo: Reuters/Alkis Konstantinidis
Across the globe, news reports have put in the spotlight the vulnerability of dental professionals to infections of coronavirus during the pandemic – foregrounding equal attention to be paid to the profession of dentistry.
Dentists are more prone to infections in an outbreak like this because they are exposed to aerosols and droplets coming out of the patient’s oral cavity. The use of drills during dental treatment carry fine water particles in the air which could carry the coronavirus for up to three hours.
A study reported that a large number of dentists, like other health workers, feared getting infected with the coronavirus by their patients or their staff and hence have been sceptical of providing treatment. The death of seven dental professionals and a senior dental nurse in Italy and the UK respectively from COVID-19 have substantiated these fears.
This scare of coronavirus has also unmasked the crevices in the integration of oral health professionals into the public health system of India. According to National Health Profile 2018, the number of dentists registered with the Dental Council of India (DCI) is over 2.7 lakhs, of which the government employs 7,239 dentists, amounting to a meagre 2.7% dentists working in the public health sector.
The roots of this incongruity of the oral health professionals with the government system in India are embedded in the larger structural discrepancies. Right from the inception of the medical sciences, mouth and body have always been treated as separate entities which have led to building of domains of medicine and dentistry and perceived as discrete professions. This differentiation among these two sub systems is seen across populations by their “separate training programs, professional identities, payment structure and delivery system.”
This has simultaneously translated into underrepresentation of dentists in the “bare bone” Public Health System of the country highlighting the negligence for the profession. For instance, less than 20% of the Primary Health Centres (PHCs) across India have a dentist and at the level of Community Health Centres (CHCs) having a public health dentist seems a distant dream.
However, during this pandemic, dentists have been a source of additional manpower to the famished public health system of the country. A telephonic interview with one of the dentists from Delhi working in tertiary care public hospital, revealed that regular dental OPD has been suspended and the dentists in public sector are offering administrative and logistic support to the general staff for corona related activities, catering to only emergency dental services.
At the same time, it is appalling to note that the additional guidelines issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare have created an environment of doubt and confusion among dentists working in the public sector. Labelling the dental OPDs as moderate risk, advising the dentists to use N95 masks, latex gloves and goggles and recommending the use of face shield only if body fluid splash is expected during dental treatment, leaves many questions unanswered. This notification comes at a time when there are cases of asymptomatic patients of the coronavirus which makes it increasingly important to note the influence of this pandemic on dentistry.
Certainly, dentistry has an unsavoury reputation of being controlled largely by the private sector. Besides, India is home to 310 dental colleges out of which around only 40 are government-run. With each dental college having the capacity to absorb around 100 students, there will be a surplus of more than 1,00,000 dentists in India by 2020. This commercialisation of dental education has its subsequent influence on the profession of dentistry and the dentists consider private practice to be more fruitful due to their non-absorption in the public sector.
It is imperative to note that increased number of dentists in the private sector and public sector offering fewer vacancies raises the cost of dental treatment. Despite the availability of dentists, the utilisation of oral health services in India is low due to high costs involved in oral health care, widening the oral health gap between various socioeconomic classes.
A news report in Visakhapatnam has highlighted that besides the regular expenses of the dental clinic, dentists in private practice will need to buy PPE and disinfectants to protect patients, staff and themselves from the coronavirus, increasing cost of providing dental care. Moreover, India enjoys a worldwide market share of 14% in dental tourism, which might be affected due to travel restrictions and increased cost of care.
While few dentists are contemplating raising fees by 30% on elective dental procedures, the dentists in Karnataka have demanded that minimum wage support should be given to the dentists and their staff till the situation normalises, including subsidised supply of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and other infection control material. These scattered reports on worries of dentists in private practice point to the fact that the cost of getting a dental treatment in the private sector will see an additional increase after the crisis subsides, as the government sector is not well equipped to provide advanced dental treatment.
In this scenario, it becomes important to acknowledge that health is a state subject and states are already reeling under the financial burden for subsistence. Due to a non-responsive public health system and insubstantial absorption of the dentists in the public sector, a supply-demand imbalance has been created in the profession.
It should be recognised that when India is already reeling under the crunch of human resource in the public health sector, the registered dental graduates in India can prove to be an excellent resource during the spread of a pandemic like that of the coronavirus. All of them should be recruited and trained at an early stage so that they can also be used in crisis situations as has been done by the NHS in the UK.
It is also highly important to mention that oral health is directly related to the general health of the population and can be of extreme significance in preventing various chronic diseases. However, the susceptibility of dentistry to risks associated with the coronavirus needs timely recognition and redressal by the health system of the country, allowing dental care to be provided while mitigating the spread of this virus.
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Colombia is about to open the longest cable cart system in the world. The impressive structure is located in the Santander department and took 14 months to complete. The official opening is scheduled for January 24th, with president Uribe set to attend.
The cable cart operates in the Chicamocha national park in Panachi and is no less than six kilometers long. The system contains 39 cabins, each of which has a capacity of eight passengers. The maximum speed of just over twenty kilometers per hour allows for about 4500 visitors to be transported on a normal day.
The system covers the entire Chicamocha canyon from La Mesa de los Santos to Panachi and includes three stations in between, allowing people to get out for a moment and enjoy the park by foot.
Panachi director Carlos Fernando Sánchez Aguirre is expecting good things to come from this project. “There isn’t a similar system anywhere in the world at this moment,” he said.
“This will certainly be the number one tourist attraction in Colombia, we don’t doubt that for a minute.”
The project cost about 35 billion Pesos (19 million USD), but if it indeed attracts the amount of visitors Sánchez hopes for, the expenses should eventually be made up for.
The system is opened from Tuesday to Sunday, from 9am to 6pm. If the Monday is a national holiday the system will open that day, but will be closed the following Tuesday. That remaining day is to be used for maintenance.
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User name and password solutions are termed single-factor because you only use something that you know to access the network. Multi-factor authentication systems overcome the issues of single-factor authentication by a combination of requirements, including:
Something the user knows, such as a password or personal identification number (PIN).
Something the user has, such as a hardware token or smart card.
Something the user is, such as a fingerprint or retina scan.
Smart cards and their associated PINs are an increasingly popular, reliable, and cost-effective form of two-factor authentication. Users must have their smart cards and know the PINs to gain access to network resources. The two-factor requirement significantly reduces the likelihood of unauthorized access to your organization’s network.
Check out this article on how to enable smart card authentication for VPN connections over at:
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How Did Technology Improve City Life?
How Did Technology Improve City Life? explains the changes that transformed a city. Electric trolleys made transportation easier, telephones revolutionized communication, and electricity transformed cities. You will learn about the importance of each of these innovations in modern city life. And then, you’ll discover how a smart phone application can improve city life. These applications send citizen requests directly to city administrations, increasing the efficiency of the response. And don’t forget about the Internet!
The trolley bus was first operated in 1882. The concept was similar to an omnibus, but instead of gasoline, it was powered by electricity. It was used to bring more modern transportation to towns that were less important industrial centers. Later, San Francisco engineers adapted pulley technology from the mining industry to introduce cable cars that transformed steep hills into middle-class neighborhoods. These improvements improved city life significantly, but they were not able to move through crowds well in large cities.
Electric trolleys improve city life by reducing carbon emissions and air pollution. They also require significantly less electricity than traditional cars and have much lower total energy use. Seattle City Light generates 98% of its electricity from sources that do not produce greenhouse gases. Because of this, electric trolley buses are more environmentally friendly than their diesel-powered counterparts. They also save money by not causing air pollution. For Seattle’s residents, this means a better quality of life and less pollution.
After the electric trolleys came on the scene, the process of replacing them was more complicated than most people realize. There were a total of 174 trolleys in the fleet. But, now, the city is replacing them with battery-powered trolleys, and is phasing the rest out over the next two years. The trolleys will use 30 percent less electricity than the existing fleet and lower operating costs. In the process, the Metro is also testing battery-powered buses and is preparing to replace the remaining trolleys with them.
Before the introduction of cars, the Philadelphia omnibus system had already become a success. It transported more than 100 million passengers annually. However, the Great Epizootic disease that struck the nation forced streetcar operators to look for alternatives to horse-powered vehicles. Electric streetcars transformed the city and its inhabitants’ quality of life. There are still many electric trolleys operating throughout the world today. These cars are no longer the exclusive domain of rich and famous people.
Telephone revolutionized communication
The invention of the telephone was a huge breakthrough for humankind. Although many people considered it unnecessary, it was eventually invented by Alexander Graham Bell. This technological invention allowed people to communicate without speaking, even though they were separated by miles. Bell and his colleagues took decades to perfect the invention and patent it. Today, the telephone is used to make phone calls and connect people all over the world. And thanks to modern technologies like mobile phones, communication has never been easier.
The telephone revolutionized city life by making it possible for people to communicate at any time. During this time, many households could communicate with each other with ease. People were no longer confined to stationary buildings. In addition, people were no longer required to wait for a loved one to answer their phone calls. The invention of the telephone led to the introduction of car phones. The phone was bulky and could be plugged into a car’s radio or into a wall. The telephones also brought about the development of pagers, a form of communication that allowed one-way messages.
After the telephone was invented, the government nationalized the telegraph and telephone lines. In return, the government permitted AT&T to operate as a regulated monopoly under the FCC jurisdiction. As a result, the telephone became an integral part of city life. It also helped save lives. In 1909, two employees of the Sebasticook Light and Power Co. fell into a river and were rescued by a phone call. The Bangor Daily News reported the story on April 9th. Meanwhile, logging camps and fire towers started to install telephones. Some farmers even installed them in their barns. Meanwhile, the telephone became a handy tool for middle-class housewives.
Electric trolleys modernized less important industrial centers
The early motor vehicle market consisted of a variety of different modes, including horse-drawn carriages, bicycles, and steam-powered “horseless” carriages. In the United States, electric streetcars were introduced in 1897 and quickly replaced horse-drawn carriages, but they were plagued by poor road conditions, international competition, and social unrest. As these problems were overcome, electric vehicles quickly took over as the primary means of transportation. By 1902, electric vehicles were considered the most convenient, efficient and environmentally-friendly mode of transportation.
While early streetcars were horse-drawn and operated on storage batteries, these were both expensive and inefficient. Electric trolleys improved the city’s life and gave citizens a modern tempo. The telephone, invented by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876, made communications much easier. At the same time, the air was full of pollution and the streets were crowded with the poor. After the Civil War, speculators began to construct tenement houses, which were small homes for the working class. In New York City’s Eleventh Ward, 986 people lived on an acre!
As the American economy expanded, the nation’s cities became crowded and noisy. Traffic jams and slums became common. Electric streetcars became the means of mass transit, and by 1907, they had over 34,000 miles of track in the U.S. Most major cities had trolleys or cable cars. The modernity of these machines allowed citizens to enjoy better products and a better quality of life, while also cutting the time they spent commuting between different locations.
Electric trolleys improved transportation
In the late 1800s, early electric trolleys played a crucial role in the growth of cities, as they were used to move workers and freight from one place to another. Trolley lines were a vital source of income for all involved, from the factory owners to the residents. Trolleys were an excellent way to test the ‘new’ technology of electricity. And, for a time, they were more important than electric light.
While trolleys are the most energy-efficient form of transportation, buses and trams will probably be the most efficient. Electric vehicles require less infrastructure and are less polluting than their gas-powered counterparts. In addition, electric buses can run uphill and are longer than motor buses. However, if you are considering switching to electric vehicles, it’s important to be aware of the costs and potential issues associated with the change.
The electric railways were not only useful for transportation, but also provided a new way to socialize and shop. They also encouraged city expansion and the growth of suburbia, which allowed more people to own homes. The trolley system eventually grew to 92 cars, making it the largest in the United States. They became a major part of everyday life in cities throughout the country. You could even use the trolleys to reach Washington, DC!
Today, many cities have revived their streetcar systems. Memphis, Tennessee launched its first trolley line in 1993, and Portland, Oregon built the first modern streetcar system in 2001. Many other cities have adopted similar systems, including Denver, San Francisco, and Savannah, Georgia. These systems also run on overhead wires, making them a cost-effective means of transportation. The system also helps maintain the city’s historic character and appeal.
Electric trolleys improved transportation in crowded areas
In the early 1900s, electric trolleys operated on metal tracks in city streets, setting the stage for an industrial boom. They were run by the Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville Railroad, an interurban trolley service. Eventually, the need for transportation between large cities and suburban areas led Charles H. Vollmer to establish a franchise for a bus service. He opted to operate in the Park Hill neighborhood, near the Bigelow-Sanford carpet mills, and the trolley bus service was born.
Today, around 16 percent of buses in the U.S. are electric, according to C40, a coalition of 100 city governments. But the switch to electric buses must accelerate in urban areas. As more people rely on informal mass transit, cities must create attractive electric bus and trolley systems to attract commuters. This means improving mass transit to be more efficient and pollutant-free. Asked what the future holds for electric buses, Askeland responded, “There’s a big challenge ahead for cities in Asia and Africa.”
The electric streetcar was invented in the mid-1880s by American engineer Frank Julian Sprague. The electric trolley was powered by an overhead electric wire and could move several cars at once. These electric trolleys resembled railroad carriages, but could travel twenty miles per hour. The electric trolley also reduced the average fare. The streetcar was much more efficient and cheaper to operate than a horse-and-buggy.
The popularity of electric vehicles made electric vehicles more practical for short trips within cities. The gasoline-powered carriages were noisy and prone to fierce vibration. Their speed was not high enough to allow people to enjoy joyriding. As a bonus, they could stop and rest their batteries, so it was practical for urban commuters to use them instead. A trolley was even practical for trips in crowded areas. It also did not require maintenance. | <urn:uuid:bb2ad49f-4f34-4bdd-bce9-56f93b062866> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://filepk.org/how-did-technology-improve-city-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.975657 | 1,974 | 3.125 | 3 |
How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? What are the causes of discrimination?
Write a 150 to 250 word response to each of the following questions: How is discrimination different from prejudice and stereotyping? What are the causes of discrimination? How is discrimination faced by one identity group (race, ethnicity, religious beliefs, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability) the same as discrimination faced by another? How are they different?
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While many cities are known for their expanding skylines, action-packed nightlife, and bustling communities, Kansas City, Kansas has all of that incorporated into a small, diverse, and family-oriented community. It has some of the big city amenities with a small town down-home appeal. Kansas City, Kansas is the third largest city in the state of Kansas and is the county seat of Wyandotte County. The city was incorporated in 1886 and for 73 years was governed by a three-member elected Board of Commissioners. In August of 1982, the city held an election and voters approved a change in the form of city government. Under the Charter Ordinance No. 84 the city changed to a seven-member, Mayor-Council-Administrator of government in April, 1983. On April 1, 1997, voters unanimously approved to consolidate the governments of the City of Kansas City, Kansas (the “City”) and Wyandotte County, Kansas (the “County”), into one jurisdiction; The Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas effective October 1, 1997. The Unified Government, with a 2000 County population of 165,429, covers 155.7 square miles. Kansas City, Kansas is in an ideal location. Located on the eastern border of the State of Kansas and situated at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers, we’re part of a greater metropolitan area of nearly 2 million people. The bistate region encompasses Kansas City, Missouri, and suburbs on both sides of the state line. Wyandotte County citizens set the stage for today’s economic development successes in 1997 when they overwhelmingly agreed to consolidate the county government and City of Kansas City, Kansas government. The community was suffering from years of economic hardships and decline. Citizens were ready for a rebirth. The new form of government was the beginning of the landmark renaissance in the community. The fresh political dynamic created by consolidation allowed the community to take new, bold approaches to many issues, including economic development. Soon after the Unified Government was launched, the economic development opportunity of a lifetime landed in Wyandotte County. The Kansas Speedway and Village West developments are the most successful economic developments ever built in the State of Kansas, turning mostly undeveloped land into one of the most popular tourist, shopping and entertainment attractions in the Midwest. | <urn:uuid:366f103e-3bb9-4cf2-8b89-a8837439f3a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wyedc.org/about/economic-development-partners/p/item/17687/unified-government-of-wyandotte-countykansas-city-kansas?cat=partners | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.961187 | 478 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Here at the Lifewise Centre, we deliver and manage many different and bespoke projects to a diverse audience within the community. These include:-
a. Internet safety to school year groups
b. Events for vulnerable people
c. Events for Epic relating to diverting people away from crime
d. Events for home schooled and foster children
e. Asylum seekers and refugees awareness of life in the U.K.
f. Community Service Accreditation Scheme training
g. South Yorkshire Police cadet scheme
h. South Yorkshire Police Volunteers scheme
Crucial Crew is an interactive, engaging, but also fun, personal safety educational provision managed by South Yorkshire Police, but delivered in collaboration with South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue and South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership.
The educational provision is a free offer to all mainstream primary schools, Special Educational Needs schools at Pupil Referral Units and Learning Centres in South Yorkshire.
The mainstream provision is offered to Year 6 pupils, where they take part in eight different scenarios during the day to learn how to keep themselves safe whether in the home or outside and the consequences of committing crime.
The Special Educational Needs provision is tailored to sessions that address personal safety to assist in independent living and in school activities. The sessions help reinforce safety messages in school by taking part in interactive activities and physically demonstrating their knowledge in a realistic setting.
Sessions are offered on a basis of a half day or full day, based on need, and are open to Y6 primary pupils until sixth form.
The Pupil Referral Unit and Learning Centre provision is again tailored to suit the audience and the personal safety messages that would be beneficial to the pupils. This provision is offered on a half day basis and covers 5 valuable scenarios for Y6 primary pupils until Y11 secondary school age pupils.
The Guns and Knives Takes Lives Initiative, provides an hour long effective and impactive presentation, which educates the school pupils in years 7,8,10,11,12 on the dangers of carrying and using these weapons as well as the following topics:
Law on knives
Knives and associated injuries
Operation Sceptre – Knife Crime
Home Office #knife free campaign
Law on guns
Law on using others to carry weapons
Advice on disposal of weapons
YOURLIFE YOUR CHOICE, provides an 80-minute, hearts and mind presentation, which educates the school pupils in year 9 on the potential dangers of getting involved with gangs (Organised crime groups).
What are the consequences for the gang members and then the consequences for others, victims and family members.
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Ontario is reporting 2,467 patients in hospital with COVID-19 on Monday, as the number of patients receiving treatment for the illness in intensive care units continues to climb.
Of the patients hospitalized with COVID-19, there are 438 people with the illness in ICUs. That's a jump from 412 patients the day before and up from 248 just seven days ago.
The number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 is up from 1,232 patients on the same day last week.
Health Minister Christine Elliott shared the figures and noted that not all hospitals report on weekends, which means the hospitalization number is likely an undercount to some degree.
The ministry also recorded the deaths of 12 more people with COVID-19, pushing Ontario's official death toll to 10,378.
The province reported at least 9,706 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday. As Ontario recently changed its guidelines to significantly limit who qualifies for a PCR test, the case total for today is likely a drastic undercount of the real situation. Ontario's COVID-19 Science Advisory Table estimates that roughly one in five cases are currently being confirmed by the province's testing regime.
For the 40,692 tests that were completed, Public Health Ontario reported a positivity rate of 26.7 per cent.
COVID-19 patients in Ontario hospitals and ICUs
The cases confirmed through the limited testing available include:
1,879 in Toronto
1,310 in Peel Region
1,033 in York Region
680 in Durham Region
565 in Ottawa
456 in Waterloo Region
437 in Halton Region
412 in Hamilton
404 in Simcoe Muskoka
333 in Middlesex-London
333 in Niagara Region
333 in Windsor-Essex
181 in Eastern Ontario health unit
126 in Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph
116 in Brant County
111 in Lambton County
Meanwhile, public health units collectively administered another 93,741 doses of vaccines on Sunday and 133,661 the day before.
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Opens a pop-up menu allowing you to enable/disable tool bars.
Opens/Closes the Project Explorer dock window, which gives an overview of the structure of a project and allows the user to perform various operations on the windows (tables and plots) in the workspace.
Opens/Closes a panel displaying a history of all data analysis operations performed by the user.
Shows/Hides the matrix Undo/Redo Stack window. The Undo/Redo stack contains the history of editing changes for a selected matrix. When any matrix is selected, its Undo/Redo information will be copied into this window. If another matrix is selected, the data for that matrix will be swapped into the list. Only one matrix can have it's Undo/Redo information showing at a time. The depth of the stack (i.e., number of possible undo steps) is set in the "Applications" tab in the "General" section of the Preferences dialog. Each list entry consists of the name of the matrix followed by the identity of the cell that was edited. Each edit pushes another entry onto the list. The current position in the Undo/Redo history is highlighted. Undo (Ctrl-Z or ) or Redo (Ctrl-Shift-Z or ) will move the highlight as appropriate. The history can be rapidly traversed by clicking on a stack entry, which will move the highlight to the clicked entry and revert the matrix to that point in the history. Each time the project is saved, the save-project icon ( ) is placed next to the stack entry that was highlighted at the time of the file save operation. This serves as a reminder to the user of exactly what version of the matrix resides on disk. | <urn:uuid:73a021bd-57d0-451d-ad0b-d2ec66ff916c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.qtiplot.com/doc/manual-en/x1260.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.913487 | 361 | 1.601563 | 2 |
En español | Imagine the loved and respected 80-year-old matriarch of a tight-knit clan living in the same neighborhood as her extended family. After serving hundreds of Sunday dinners and doing a thousand after-school pickups while her three teenage grandsons were growing up, Antonia knows they are accustomed to seeing her regularly, going in and out of her small house and helping themselves to snacks in her well-stocked pantry. But the COVID-19 pandemic has made her afraid. She's heard that her happy and carefree grandsons have been playing basketball with their friends without masks on, as if they are immune to the virus. How can she tell them she is worried that they might already be infected without knowing it and could inadvertently make her sick if she allows them to visit her?
It can be hard for close family members to set limits with one another under the best of conditions. In this excruciating period of national health crisis, when relatives of different ages have varying degrees of tolerance for infection risk, it can be harder than ever. Some may prioritize togetherness over caution. Some may interpret prudent safety measures as rejection. No family-loving grandparent wants the guilt of telling her sweet grandchildren to stay away until they've quarantined for a while.
Antonia doesn't want to be apart from her grandsons for month after month. She told her best friend on the phone, “I so miss their big hugs!” But she reads the news reports that the pandemic is mostly affecting Americans over 65. She hopes that her grandsons are reading them, too, and realize that she feels vulnerable. Still, she knows it's time to have a frank talk with them to make sure they understand — and will comply.
How can grandparents like Antonia have a conversation with their grandchildren about setting limits without hurting their feelings? Here are some ideas.
Your sense of safety first
"Safety” seems like a cut-and-dried term, but it can be subjective. I may feel safe driving 10 miles over the speed limit, but you may not. You may feel safe carrying a loaded pistol, but I may not. Even though few of us doubt the lethal nature of the coronavirus for some, there has been debate and confusion about what behaviors are safe and unsafe for particular people, in what states and at what time. Peers, adult children and grandchildren may try to convince you that you are less vulnerable than you imagine. But that's beside the point. You need to communicate to them what you require to feel safe and ask them to defer to your level of concern.
Be sensitive and empathetic but firm
Keeping distance from you to ensure your safety during this pandemic is a loving act. Wanting to be close to you and hug you at any time is a loving sentiment. Proceed from the assumption that your grandchildren love you and are only pressuring you to see them because they miss you terribly. But it is crucial to be explicit. Have a phone conversation with them in which you carefully explain what you are feeling and why — and how, specifically, you would like them to interact with you at this time. Tell them this is as much or more of a loss for you as it is for them. Remind them that you love them and don't fear them but do fear COVID-19 and that, as the old saying goes, “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”
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Maintain the frequency, if not the mode, of contact
There is no way to fully relieve the sense of absence that comes with lack of in-person interaction. But grandparents should take steps to shore up their relationships with their grandchildren under these trying conditions. If you saw your grandchildren weekly before the coronavirus, then make sure you talk with them at least weekly now. The means of contact may be different, but the frequency needn't be. If anything, more effort should be made to somehow connect.
Discuss baby steps toward resuming in-person visits
A sense of safety isn't typically restored in one fell swoop. Once coronavirus cases have greatly waned in your community, then it will be important to have another direct conversation with your grandchildren about how to slowly increase the closeness of your interactions. Try socially distant front-lawn meetings; then front-porch meetings, with masks on; then front-parlor meetings, with masks on. These are gradual steps that grandparents and grandchildren can hash out for revising safety rules, reassuring one another of love, and restoring access to snacks — eventually.
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Item description for The Way it Was: The Narrative of the Birth of Jesus by Matthew Byrne...
The Way it Was is a look at the evangelists' account of the birth of Jesus, to light up the background of what they've written, and to try to see more closely the personalities they glance at, and who play so large a part in the events surrounding the birth. It's no more than an attempt at an exposition of the familiar Gospel text we hold in our hands, in the hope of feeling a way through the mists and notions that cloud the evangelists' record, to see the birth the way it was.
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Shaping Your Strong-Willed Child
- Whitney Hopler Live It Editor
- 2011 2 May
Editor's Note: The following is a report on the practical applications of Kendra Smiley's book, Aaron’s Way: The Journey of a Strong-Willed Child, (Moody Publishers, 2004).
Don’t despair if you have a strong-willed child, with intense opinions and a demanding nature. Although your child’s determined attempts to control his or her own life can frustrate and exhaust you as a parent, there’s hope. You can come to understand your child and learn to shape the will without breaking the spirit.
Here’s how you can help your strong-willed child:
Focus on the positive. Keep in mind that your child is a gift from God, with great potential. Realize that a strong-willed temperament can be a strength just as much as a weakness. Know that a strong-willed child can apply his or her determination to something as noble as finding a cure for cancer, or as destructive as organizing a crime ring. Recognize that the key lies in directing your child’s strong will toward positive purposes rather than negative ones.
Discipline wisely. No matter how hard the battles become you and your child become, never give up. Understand that your child doesn’t hate you; he or she is just more persistent in testing you than a more compliant child would be. Know that your child longs for you to provide consistent, firm, and loving discipline, because that provides the security he or she needs. Realize that a strong-willed child needs discipline even more than a compliant one. Never discipline in anger; ask God to help you calm down before you punish your child for bad behavior. Choose your battles wisely, considering what truly matters and what doesn’t affect your core values. Be as clear about instructions as you are about consequences. Always follow through; never make a threat you can’t keep. Ask God to give you the patience you’ll need for the long journey of raising your child, and take heart that your efforts to discipline will pay off eventually.
Recognize the tender child underneath the tough behavior. Remember that your child, like everyone else, wants to be loved, appreciated, and respected. Ask God to help you see your child as He sees him or her. Catch your child doing something right as often as you can, then encourage him or her to keep it up. Affirm your child through your words and actions; show him or her regular affection. Be your child’s advocate in challenging situations at school and elsewhere. Help prevent him or her from being mistreated or ridiculed. Surround your child with adults who understand and encourage him or her; limit your child’s contact with adults who discourage him or her. When helping your child deal with a conflict, don’t always assume that your child is either right or wrong. Instead, carefully evaluate the situation to search for the truth, and discuss it honestly with your child.
Know that you’re not alone. Understand that a strong-willed child isn’t an anomaly. Recognize that plenty of other strong-willed children exist, and get to know the parents of a few of them to support each other.
Give your child responsibilities. Remember that strong-willed children are born leaders, with exceptional abilities to solve problems. Give your child as many responsibilities as you can that are appropriate to his or her age, such as pet ownership, household chores, and a paper route or other part-time job. Show your child that you respect his or her abilities.
Listen to your child. Encourage your child to express him or herself. Show a genuine interest in his or her thoughts and opinions as you discuss them together. Converse with your child about whatever he or she is interested in – not just what interests you.
Motivate your child. Encourage your child to ask you questions about any subject, and do your best to answer them honestly. Help your child discover passions and develop talents in order to contribute to the world. Affirm your child to give him or her confidence to continue thinking creatively. Urge your child to take risks to pursue dreams.
Be a good role model for your child. Ask God to help you live with integrity so your child respects you. Know that your child is constantly watching you to see if you’re living up to the core values you’re trying to teach him or her.
Pray for – and with – your child. Daily ask God for patience, wisdom, guidance, and blessings for your child. Help your child see his or her significance in God’s eyes. Encourage your child to connect with God often through prayer.
Envision your desired destination. Ask God to show you the vision He has for your child’s future, and what specific and measurable goals you and your spouse should set to help your child get there. Don’t share your parenting strategy with your child, but celebrate with your spouse when you achieve successes along the way. Help your child seek God’s plans for his or her life and set his or her own goals. Teach your child to come to conclusions about what actions will be the most beneficial as he or she moves closer to those goals.
Previously posted May 26, 2006
Adapted from Aaron’s Way: The Journey of a Strong-Willed Child, copyright 2004 by Kendra Smiley. Published by Moody Publishers, Chicago, Ill., www.moodypublishers.com.
Kendra Smiley is a popular conference speaker, and hosts a daily radio show called Live Life Intentionally. She is a regular contributor to Christian Parenting Today and Hearts at Home magazines. Kendra is the author of five books, including High Wire Mom, and Empowering Choices. She and her husband live on their family farm in Illinois. | <urn:uuid:623a4caa-973b-4834-95c3-b8d512e43254> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.crosswalk.com/family/parenting/shaping-your-strong-willed-childs-will-1397872.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.962711 | 1,240 | 1.96875 | 2 |
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Truvada (Tenofovir) has been hailed as a miracle drug in the fight against HIV. The drug is taken ahead of time to prevent sexually active people from contracting HIV during sexual activity. While Truvada is not a vaccine, it functions as a preventative drug. Truvada has certainly rang the cash registers for Gilead Sciences, the company that makes and sells the drug. However, there are some key facts about Truvada that Gilead has been alleged not to have told consumers taking the drug, namely that it can cause serious health problems by causing
- Bone density loss
- Kidney failure
- Bone fractures
Gilead Has Made Billions off Truvada Sales
Gilead began selling Truvada back in 2004. The drug is also known by consumers as PrEP. This drug is viewed as a revolutionary drug that has reduced the rate of HIV transmission. Gilead books between $4-5 billion in HIV sales each quarter. Even though the company has now lost its exclusivity on Truvada, sales still remain strong, as the company has built up brand value in this lucrative market.
However, there is an unpleasant truth lurking under the surface. Lawsuits have alleged that Gilead has known of the dangerous side effects of the drug dating back to practically the time when it began selling the drug.
Truvada’s Effects on Bones and Kidney Function
Customers need to take a certain dosage of Truvada in order to achieve protection from HIV transmission. However, that dosage can present serious problems for the bones and kidneys. Some customers who have taken the drug have developed osteoporosis because of the loss of bone density. Others have been far more likely to suffer broken bones because Truvada has been shown to cause bone density loss.
There have been studies that have linked Truvada usage to bone density loss. One of the main studies was released in 2018. However, this is something that a company that should routinely test its own products and monitor side effects should have known.
The other major side effect of Truvada is kidney damage. The kidneys are responsible for filtering toxins and other materials out of the body. Many drugs have had a particular impact on the kidneys because the substances can build up there with regular use. In the case of Truvada, the kidneys have not been completely able to filter out harmful substances from the body. Thus, there has been a track record of patients suffering a loss of kidney function from the buildup in the kidneys after routine use of Truvada. Some patients have even suffered complete kidney failure, requiring them to wait on long lists for life-saving transplants.
There were initially reports of potential kidney damage linked to Truvada the same exact year that the drug went on the market for the first time. These conclusions have been repeated in numerous research studies since then. Gilead should have known of the potential danger of its drug and performed its own investigation. It should have shared the information with the public and let them make their own decision in consultation with their physicians.
Gilead Allegedly Knew of These Dangers and Did Not Warn the Public
Product liability lawsuits have alleged that Gilead has sold a defective product in numerous respects. First, the design of the drug itself is alleged to be defective because of the impact that it has on the bones and the kidneys. Second, manufacturers have a legal obligation to warn the general public of any dangers of their product about which they knew or should have known. Instead, Gilead kept on selling Truvada without any warnings on the label because it was making so much money off the product.
This is far from the first lawsuit that Gilead has faced related to injuries caused by its product. The company has a very checkered safety record to say the least, with scores of product liability lawsuits and those that allege profit-maximizing sales practices that come at the expense of your health and finances.
What makes the facts of these lawsuits look even worse for Gilead is that the company had a second HIV prevention drug waiting in the wings that was far safer for consumers. However, Gilead continued to sell Truvada for years while withholding the new drug from the marketplace. Gilead finally decided to sell the safer drug when its exclusivity for Truvada expired. The company apparently saw no reason to stop selling Truvada, even though the company was obviously receiving many reports of injured consumers.
The First Truvada Cases Are Going to Trial Soon
As of this writing, there are over 2,000 cases against Gilead in federal court in California. The first trials in these cases are expected to happen in the summer of 2022. Gilead has not yet settled these cases, in spite of their large potential liability.
In addition, there are many cases in California state courts, where juries have been known to harshly punish companies like Gilead that put profits over people when they sold dangerous products with the knowledge of the potential harms. If juries rule against Gilead, there is a possibility that the company may then try to settle the rest of the cases. Gilead had tried unsuccessfully to have these claims dismissed from state court.
Damages in a Truvada Product Liability Lawsuit
If you have suffered kidney failure or osteoporosis after regularly taking Truvada, you may be entitled to the following potential damages:
- The full cost of your medical bills
- Lost wages if your medical condition kept you from working
- Pain and suffering for the ordeal that is associated with your injuries
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Emotional trauma and distress
In cases like these, juries will often assess punitive damages against companies like Gilead when there is clear evidence that the company knew of the dangers of its product and withheld information that the public needed to know. Here, the fact that Gilead waited to introduce a new and safer product may work against the company when the case goes to the jury.
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Finally we decided to go up on the roof. Very cold as we climbed by the fire escape. Firewatchers were like ants below. White frost on all the roofs, and in the direction of Portobello Road there was the sound of a crackling fire. We knew it was near. Other fires round about. We well deserved pneumonia, but could not resist such an amazing sight from the roof.
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The latest urban planning strategy for Melbourne envisages the creation of neighbourhoods that are far easier to negotiate on foot in order to foster the development of healthier communities.
Plan Melbourne, which was released by the state government toward the end of 2014, outlines an overall vision for urban growth in the Victorian capital over the next several decades until mid-century.
One of the key long-term objectives of the strategic plan is the creation of more “walkable neighbourhoods” throughout the city, where all key facilities can be reached on foot within 20 minutes.
According to Plan Melbourne, these neighbourhoods will be places where “housing is within walking, cycling or public transport distance of employment, education, social, cultural, recreational and health facilities, and where people have access to open space and places where they can gather.”
The creation of neighbourhoods structured to incentivize regular travel on foot could have a highly positive impact on the health of residents, and in turn dramatically cut down on medical costs.
According to Better Health Victoria, walking for just 30 minutes a day can have a slew of health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and stroke, increased cardiovascular and pulmonary fitness, as well as improved management of conditions such as hypertension and high cholesterol.
The National Physical Activity Guidelines recommends a minimum of 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity on most days of the week to achieve a minimum threshold of health, while a study commissioned by Medibank Private estimates that the economic cost of failure to maintain this level of health by the general population to be as high as $13.8 billion per year in 2008.
Facilitating access to key facilities via public transport will also improve traffic flow in Melbourne, where a sharp rise in the state’s population from 3.5 million to 4.2 million between 2002 and 2012 has already resulted in worsening congestion and lengthier commute times.
While the potential benefits of more walkable neighbourhoods are evident, whether or not such designs will change the behaviour of residents is another matter.
An analysis by BIS Shrapnel sought to determine the extent to which distance from transportation and services affected daily levels of walking.
Their study found that throughout total Metropolitan Melbourne distance did indeed affect walking activity, with residents living within a kilometre of a train station averaging 1.3 walking movements a day (defined as a journey from one destination to another on foot) as compared to 0.9 movements per day for those living between one and three kilometres from a train station, and 0.57 movements per day for those living more than three kilometres from a station.
The impact of the proximity of train stations remains highly variable, however, with average walking activity remaining roughly the same in outer Melbourne irrespective of distance from public transportation facilities.
BIS Shrapnel's conclusion is that other design factors have an impact on walking activity, with train stations in outer suburbs most frequently adjacent to either large car parks or low-density housing.
In other parts of Melbourne, however, greater housing density in the immediate vicinity of train stations fosters increased density of services and facilities, which in turn helps to incentivize travel on foot.
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Congress must reach a compromise bill to avert deep automatic spending cuts beginning next year that would cut too deeply into defense, Robert McTeer, the former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas said in Fort Worth Thursday.
Problem is, the fall elections are in the way, McTeer, who served as Dallas Fed chief between 1991 and 2005, said during a speech at a National Center for Policy Analysis luncheon at Colonial Country Club. The specter of big defense cuts, on top of ones already underway, "might bring the Republicans into a compromise attitude," McTeer said.
But those talks need "to be done real soon, and I don’t see any prospect of that," McTeer, who referred to the looming fight as a "fiscal cliff," said during an interview after the lunch.
The automatic cuts of more than $1 trillion over a decade will occur since Congress didn’t reach an agreement to cut the federal budget deficit last year.
McTeer, a distinguished fellow at the conservative Dallas-based think tank, said the nation’s economic recovery is weaker than appears.
"The numbers really haven’t improved all that much," he said.
Unemployment rates look better because a large number of discouraged jobseekers have left the workforce, housing hasn’t recovered, the fourth quarter’s gross domestic product gain was propped up by a buildup in inventories, and consumers are still smarting from the recessionary hit to their market portfolios and home equity, McTeer said.
Savers are shunning excess spending and boosting savings, good news for the future that nevertheless hurts the economy now, because it’s 70 percent driven by consumer spending, McTeer said.
"We’re better off, unless everybody does it," he said of the savings trend.
He lauded the Federal Reserve’s money-easing policies. "In my opinion, they saved our cookies," McTeer said.
The federal bank bailout, engineered by the Bush Administration in its final weeks in office, "saved the banking system and didn’t cost the taxpayers any money," McTeer said.
The massive federal stimulus package promulgated by President Obama and the Democrats "probably did a bit of good, but at a great fiscal cost," McTeer said.
McTeer was also critical of Obama’s campaign rhetoric proposing higher taxes for the wealthy.
"That’s created a lot of uncertainty and caused people to withdraw," he said.
McTeer questioned Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s recent announcements of its internal forecasts projecting a continued slow recovery.
"I worry about the flexibility he gives up," McTeer said in the interview.
McTeer also said he "personally" believes Bernanke is being conservative in the forecasts and may be looking for a recovery to pick up steam faster than the forecasts.
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A grandmother develops a boil that turns out to be a difficult-to-treat staph infection (MRSA). She needs high-powered antibiotics. A middle-aged man who received a blood transfusion decades ago now has hepatitis C and needs anti-viral medicine. A young woman with HIV develops golf-ball-size lesions in her brain, has toxoplasmosis and needs anti-parasite medicine.
The marvel of medicine today is that we can treat all three infections, and save the lives of these patients and countless millions of other Americans. Yet the nightmare of medicine today is the absurd price we have to pay.
Pfizer Pharmaceutical charges $56.31 per pill of Zyvox which treats the MRSA infection. So a 10-day treatment course costs over $1,000, equivalent to the cost of a dozen doctor visits.
Gilead Pharmaceutical charges $1,000 per pill of Sovladi to treat hepatitis C. So a 12-week treatment course costs over $84,000, equivalent to over a month’s hospital stay.
Turing Pharmaceutical charges $750 per pill for Daraprim to treat toxoplasmosis. So a course of treatment is hundreds of thousands of dollars, equivalent to providing health insurance to hundreds of individuals.
As an infectious disease doctor who sees the plight of such patients daily, I feel there is something wrong about the cost of medicines in our health care system. In a market-driven economy, I am OK with medical services to flourish and providers to prosper. But when there is price-gouging because a pharmaceutical company has monopoly on a drug, I feel someone has to step in.
Over the years, the government has regulated the payment from Medicare and Medicaid to providers. For the most common outpatient visit, doctors are paid $70, and for an average inpatient day, hospitals are paid over a thousand dollars. Now even insurance companies must apply 80 percent of the premium towards clinical care of patients. Yet government does not regulate the prices patients have to pay for medicines at the pharmacy.
This is not an accident, but by design. In fact, Congress specifically prohibits Medicare from negotiating lower drug prices with pharmaceutical companies. And so the irony is drugs are countless times cheaper overseas and across the border, since other countries sensibly negotiate with pharmaceutical manufacturers to get the best price for patients.
A few years ago during a family vacation to Canada, my father made sure to purchase his medicines at the pharmacy there. And recently when he needed a blood thinner, he called his sister in India to mail him the medicines. Ironically, it is the same manufacturer and the identical medicine that he would have had to pay far more for at his neighborhood drugstore.
Oftentimes drug manufacturers blame the high prices on research and development costs and the arduous FDA approval process necessary to bring a drug to market. Yet studies and a report in the Wall Street Journal show that is not the case. And much of the basic science research is conducted by government-funded researchers and agencies such as the National Institutes of Health.
Experts agree that drug pricing is not research- or manufacturing-cost driven, but rather profit-driven. Take the case of Daraprim and Turing Pharmaceuticals. A hedge fund manager purchased the company and raised the price of the drug from $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill overnight. Some pharmaceutical companies making cancer drugs and cholesterol drugs are doing the same.
As I watch patients and families forgo the optimal and sometimes the only treatment, I wonder how greed overrides sanity — even basic morality and humanity. What can we do?
Sadly the voice of the pharmaceutical lobby is Washington is louder than that of sick patients, the grandmother, the middle-aged man, and the young woman. They are us. Unless the public is outraged and raises a voice with Congress, the pharmaceutical companies will continue to reap a profit at the cost of patients’ pain — both physical and financial.
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Subconscious Mind Control and Limiting Beliefs
It is essential that an individual learns to control his limiting beliefs that are being produced by his subconscious mind in order to take control of his life. If one changes the way he perceives things, these things may actually change based on how he perceives it- that is how powerful the subconscious mind control is. It can change one’s life based on how he wants it to be.
Some people say things like “ I can never pass”, “ I can never be good enough” or “I always have bad luck”; all these statements are called “limiting beliefs”. Limiting beliefs are thoughts that an individual’s mind believes whether it is a fact or not. Our subconscious mind documents all experiences in our life, all the things that has been said to us, all these become part of our limiting beliefs.
“I’m not good enough” is the most common limiting belief. Almost each one of us may have used this statement some time in our life. Most predates back in their childhood days when the expectations are higher and most failed to meet those. Once an individual fails to overcome this statement and have it removed from his subconscious, this will affect all the positive things left to oneself. Even if he can do it, a person may think that he is not good enough.
The statement “I’m not good enough” can give birth to more negative statements such as “I don’t deserve it”. This new statement may affect the person’s willingness to change- to be good enough because he thinks he doesn’t deserve it. His subconscious will perceive that he is not good enough; therefore he doesn’t deserve to be better which may cause him to miss all great opportunities and feel even more miserable. If you are the type of person who are resistant to changes or is always pessimistic on things, then you might have limiting beliefs.
If one wants to be successful, he might be willing to find a way to develop the power of subconscious mind control. Battling with our limiting beliefs may be tough since we are battling with our own self. The advantage though is that “it’s all in the mind”. One may follow these steps to empower the subconscious mind control.
- Identify all the limiting beliefs that you have. Once an individual is able to identify them it will be easier to deal with. The problem has been identified therefore one can start identifying the possible resolutions to eradicate them. There will be more room for new thoughts and the energy that used to be consumed by the negative thought may be used for something else.
- List all the limiting beliefs in a piece of paper. It is important that you write them in detail: when did it happen, why it happened, how it happened and what can be done to resolve it. It is not required that you write them all at once, try to focus on one item first.
- Go over your list. Ask yourself if what you have written is a fact. Once you have realized the limiting belief that needs to be worked on, you may start using different techniques to help control the mind such as visualization or meditations. Change the negative statement to a positive one like “I’m not good enough” to “I’m good”; “I don’t deserve it” to “I deserve it”. Putting these positive thoughts in your head will start a new change.
- Replace the negative with positive. Reward your body with a relax mind, loosen up and constantly feed your mind with happy thoughts. Practice using the statements as an exercise, meditation statement, or a regular food for the mind.
During the process, you might have realized that most of these limiting beliefs that are associated with your life experiences were facts. Before changing your beliefs, make sure that the new beliefs that you will be feeding your subconscious are real. Soon, you will see that your subconscious mind control is able to bring a positive change in your life and all things will get better and better each day. | <urn:uuid:f919b9f2-c66c-4a98-b5cf-3859b58d7aae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wearetherealdeal.com/2012/04/16/subconscious-mind-control-and-limiting-beliefs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00384-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954202 | 860 | 2.25 | 2 |
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This speech is full of bias, fallacies and rhetorical devices. From the very start of this speech, Kane uses bias against the governor Jim W. Gettys. The campaigner says “rid the politics of this state of the evil domination of Boss Jim Gettys.” This is showing that Kane is using political bias. The campaigner makes Kane out to be the ally for the common man. The campaigner clearly has an argument but no facts to support his claim.
“With one purpose only: to point out and make public the dishonesty, the downright villainy of Boss Jim W. Gettys.” This statement is bias and uses the rhetorical device Hyperbole. Some would say that it is an exaggeration.
“I had no campaign promises, because until a few weeks ago I had no hope of being elected.” This is an argument that has no facts to support it.
“Now however, I have something more than hope. And Jim Gettys – Jim Gettys has something less than a chance.” This is an argument that has no supporting facts and it is also the fallacy Ad Hominen.
“The working man – The working man and the slum child know they can expect my best efforts in their interests.” This statement is ethnic bias. I also think it is the rhetorical device Paradox.
“The decent, ordinary citizens know that I’ll do everything in my power to protect the underprivileged, the underpaid, and the underfed.” This statement is the rhetorical device Alliteration. I also feel that this statement continues the ethnic bias.
“Well, I’d make my promises now if I weren’t too busy arranging to keep them.” This statement is the rhetorical device Paradox.
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"Before, one person cleaned one floor. Now it's a floor and a half--45,000 square feet," says janitor Adolfo Tipaz, 28, as he piles rags onto his cleaning cart. "We don't get any breaks, even for lunch," he says, a practice being challenged as illegal in a pending union lawsuit against Advance. The company said its practices are legal and that, like many businesses, it pays the minimum wage.
Standing amid ammonia bottles and boxes of bathroom tissue, Tipaz adds: "The company will never tell you your rights. This union is opening my eyes."
Janitors, the union contends, often are treated like garbage by cleaning companies. Most building owners contract with janitorial companies rather than employ in-house crews--a trend that has allowed owners to slash their cleaning bills. Janitors are expected to scour the same square footage as the average-sized house every 20 minutes, a pace that often precludes breaks.
Union lawsuits allege that janitors are routinely asked to work up to four weeks for free as a "training period." Other janitors contend that they have had to work 12 hours a day to earn eight hours pay, and they say they often are not provided gloves or face masks to protect against constant exposure to chemicals--which, because the bottles are sometimes unlabeled, the janitors must sniff to identify.
"We ask for gloves. We don't get them," said one worker at the Mattel factory, who blamed daily use of cleaning chemicals for open, festering sores on his hands.
Mattel's Durik said no worker has filed such a complaint, adding: "We wouldn't condone anyone having their health or safety jeopardized."
Workers such as Tipaz are trained to help implement SEIU's strategy: to hit cleaning companies and building owners with an array of tactics so onerous that surrender becomes preferable to remaining non-union.
The union plies janitors with a three-page "Cal-OSHA questionnaire," asking them to point out a host of violations, such as frayed vacuum cleaner electrical cords, lack of safety training, unlabeled chemicals or those labeled only in English, and a list of 27 possible ailments their job may have caused.
Organizers grill workers for evidence of sexual harassment or violations of wage and hour laws, and they send minority workers to apply for jobs to test for hiring discrimination. Cleaning crews have shown up en masse at zoning meetings when a building owner they are pressing to go union wants approval to erect a new building.
"This is a war," said Rocio Saenz, a Justice for Janitors organizer in Los Angeles.
But the "Maalox moment" comes, usually on a daily basis, when hordes of janitors show up at targeted buildings bent on disruption and causing a public relations nightmare for building owners. There are sit-ins and marches in which--unlike other unions whose rank and file politely walk circles with signs outside--janitors scream, chant and bang drums as they snake through a building's offices, risking trespass charges, and sometimes even piling trash in marbled building lobbies.
"Being polite doesn't get you anywhere," said Stephen Lerner, national director of Building Service Division Organizing for SEIU. He said the union creates excitement by appealing to a sense of dignity among workers, who speak of making $30 a night cleaning offices where, by day, lawyers make $300 an hour.
Workers' resolve was evident in 1990 when 400 janitors staged a march from Beverly Hills to Century City against ISS International Service Systems Inc.
"You will not pass," janitor Isabel del Real heard a Los Angeles police officer shout. She and other marchers pressed on. She said officers lashed out with batons and whacked pregnant women, older janitors, even children; two of her co-workers had blood flowing down their faces from head wounds. The aggressive action paid off and proved a crucial turning point for the union. Two weeks later, it had a contract with ISS.
"The strategy is attack, attack, attack," del Real said of this and other mass arrests.
Justice for Janitors skips the slow process of seeking government-supervised union elections, saying the rules have been skewed in recent years to companies' advantage. Instead, the organization hounds a cleaning firm until it recognizes the union. The technique, its leaders say, puts them in a better position to hammer out strong contracts. Strikes are used only as hit-and-run maneuvers to disrupt, putting members at less risk of being fired.
"They pick a target and beat them into submission by whatever methods are necessary," said Allen G. Siegel, legal counsel to Washington, D.C., cleaning concerns that are banding together to fight tactics he called vicious. Union members chained themselves to the front doors of his office buildings, and others burst into the law firm's conference rooms, spooking clients with their shouts. | <urn:uuid:b4863515-034d-41c9-bf2f-ae157c2bbc69> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://articles.latimes.com/1993-08-19/news/mn-25409_1_building-owner/2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720238.63/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00190-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972087 | 1,021 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Wedding and marriage tradition in Ukraine
A marriage and wedding In Ukraine is filled with traditions that originate in both Eastern Christian and in Ukraine's ancient pagan past. Part of the Ukrainian marriage takes place at the bride's house. If you are not a close family member, you will most likely miss this part of the wedding. Ukrainian church weddings are not considered official, and so couples wanting to get married must exchange their wedding vows at a Russian marriage civil ceremony. Here, the bride and groom receive bread and salt, symbolizing health, prosperity and long life.
Before the church ceremony, the bride, the groom and their families meet at the home of the bride's parents for the blessing, the "blagoslovenya". At the blessing, the parents express their approval and good wishes for the couple. The Ukrainian marriage and Wedding civil ceremony is often considered unimportant to friends and relatives of the bride. The main affair is the wedding reception, a great two day celebration with music, dancing, feasting and drinking. Once the reception celebration has begun, a relative or close friend will make a wedding toast to the bride and groom. In keeping with Ukraine custom, everyone throws their champagne glasses on the floor. It is considered good luck if the glasses break when they hit the ground. Throughout the wedding and marrige reception, the traditional Ukrainian dance called the "kolomiyka" will take place as well as the singing of a song called "Mnogie Leta". It is a song of good wishes and means "many happy years".
Ukrainian wedding bread:
The korovay is a traditional wedding and marriage bread that symbolizes community, and it takes the place of wedding cake at a Ukrainian reception. The korovai is adorned with periwinkle, flowers and bread doves
Ukrainian wedding dresses:
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The Republic of Ireland (formerly the Irish Free State), born in revolution and baptised in civil war, is one of the few states established in the aftermath of the 1914–18 European war to have survived as parliamentary democracies throughout the succeeding century.
Irish Parliamentarians is a directory of the 1,780 men and women who have been deputies (TDs) or senators in the parliament of the Irish state since the first meeting of Dáil Éireann in January 1919. It profiles the founders of modern Irish democracy and their successors, with details of their families, education, and careers inside and outside politics. In these pages we find, for example, Constance Markievicz, Michael Collins, Éamon de Valera, W.T. Cosgrave, Seán Lemass, Jack Lynch, Liam Cosgrave, Charles J. Haughey, Garret FitzGerald and Mary Robinson, along with a host of major and minor figures who contributed to Irish life and the evolution of the modern Irish state.
Emerging from a society with virtually no industrial structure, the early parliamentarians were mostly minor public servants, farmers, teachers, journalists and merchants, along with lawyers, medical doctors and other professionals. Their profile widened in later years, reflecting changes in Irish society and the economy, most notably in the increasing number of women elected in recent decades.
1,302 have been deputies and 478 senators, with 318 TDs also serving terms as senators. Of the total, 189 have been women. Those elected to the Dáil and Seanad have come from over 20 political parties, with a significant number of independents.
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You’d be surprised how much information lurks on most of the documents you have in your home. Even address labels from magazines, catalogues, or junk mail contain the beginning of a trail that leads all the way back to every facet of your identity. While such paranoia assumes a dumpster diver is smart enough to work that trail, the fact remains that not all ID thieves are lazy individuals who only seek out targets of opportunity.
So start with anything with your name and address on it and work up from there. Banking records come next: statements, receipts, expired ATM cards, cancelled checks, voided checks, and any notice from your bank with a PIN number or an account number on it.
Did you have to photocopy any vital documents, recently, such as a birth certificate? Shred that ASAP. You will also want to get rid of any pay stubs, insurance records, medical or dental records, resumes, report cards, or transcripts. Did you check your credit report recently—on paper? That was a good move. Now shred it.
Next, let’s have a look at your bills. Credit card bills are a definite shred. While you’re at it, shred any of those pre-approved credit offers you have floating around. You will also want to shred utility bills, car note bills and mortgage statements. These items are just as bad as your banking information for leaving you wide open to a rip-off.
Any records of your stocks, bonds, 401K plans, or legal transactions have got to go. Your tax records contain the SSNs of everyone in your family, so they absolutely have to go. Do you have any copies of your signature on anything? Shred them so that thieves and forgers can’t duplicate them.
Even old plane tickets, itineraries, and luggage tags can represent a danger. Be safe rather than sorry and shred those too.
And all of the ID cards we get on a regular basis, the ones that eventually expire? Student IDs, driver’s licenses, medical insurance cards? Shred those too, even if you can’t make heads or tails of what an ID thief would do with them. The answer is “more than you think they can,” and it doesn’t cost you more than a few second’s worth of time to take them out of an identity thief’s hands.
You might even want to shred letters from old friends or family members, Christmas cards, and anything else that you got through the mail that you might want to throw away. If it’s nobody’s business but your own, then make sure nobody else can read it or exploit it. | <urn:uuid:89fbc703-3b76-48fa-80c1-37f96d269930> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.safeidentityprotection.com/what-kind-of-mail-should-i-shred-to-keep-my-identity-safe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00361-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962092 | 559 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Was Michael Jackson's death preventable?
So many people are speculating about what caused Michael Jackson's death. Was it due to drugs? Drug abuse? Prescription drug interactions? Did he have a bad heart? If toxicology tests are going to take six to eight weeks (according to Ed Winter, assistant chief coroner for Los Angeles County), then we have plenty of time to speculate and throw ideas around. Will we discover the truth, or will it be hidden from the public?
A recent article in CNN talks about the possibility of drug interactions rooted in prescription opioid medications such as OxyContin and Demerol. Was Jackson in denial about potential drug problems? Demerol can have significant drug-drug interactions and cause serious problems. It's often used to treat patients who present to the emergency room for acute pancreatitis (in reality, almost any opioid will work to relieve pain, but demerol is used in "classic textbook cases." I won't go into the sphincter of Oddi right now). In a highly visible case, 18-year-old Libby Zion died in a New York hospital in 1984 presumably because of drug-drug interactions.
So, was Jackson's death a preventable death? If it was due to drug-drug interactions that could have been avoided, perhaps his story will serve as a public health campaign. To view the CNN article, click here. Image source: CNN | <urn:uuid:2d377a4b-b62c-468f-8856-de0b20d6bfc2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.medicineandtechnology.com/2009/06/was-michael-jacksons-death-preventable.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00075-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957981 | 295 | 2.3125 | 2 |
The Government of Malawi (GoM) is proposing to implement a large-scale Energy Efficient Lighting Program (EELP) with the aim of reducing the evening system peak demand. This report covers the design for the Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) Program and Implementation Plan.
This resource was produced by TI-UP – a DFID-funded resource centre for technology, infrastructure and urban planning, managed by IMC Worldwide Ltd.
Gooneratne, F.; Visser, A. Malawi: Development of a large-scale energy efficient lighting program. CFL program design and implementation plan. Final Report, July 2010. TI-UP Resource Centre, London, UK (2010) 87 pp. | <urn:uuid:f9b05264-b350-4533-b38d-ae7088ca935e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.gov.uk/dfid-research-outputs/malawi-development-of-a-large-scale-energy-efficient-lighting-program-cfl-program-design-and-implementation-plan-final-report-july-2010 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00218-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.825127 | 147 | 2.125 | 2 |
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If you buy something through a link on this page, we may earn a small commission. How this works. If blood pressure is too high for too long, it can cause serious damage to the blood vessels. This damage can result in a range of complications, some of which can be life threatening. They include heart failure, vision loss, stroke, kidney disease, and other health problems. There are ways of managing high blood pressure, or hypertension. High blood pressure often does not cause symptoms, but regular screening can help a person know if they need to take preventive action. In this article, we look at the causes of high blood pressure and how to treat it. We also explain the blood pressure measurements that health authorities consider to be healthy and too high. | <urn:uuid:699edaf6-f821-4dba-9311-336ddee10494> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthek.eu/can-high-blood-pressure-cause-a-rash/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.954544 | 286 | 2.671875 | 3 |
EAT guidance on hearing discrimination cases
This report relates to 1 case(s)
Tchoula v Netto Foodstores Ltd EAT/1378/96 (0 other reports)
In Tchoula v Netto Foodstores Ltd the EAT has issued general guidance to employment tribunals when dealing with race or sex discrimination cases.
Mr Justice Morison took the opportunity of this decision to urge tribunals to keep the following points in mind:
"(1) Whether justified or not, it is a fact that many people of minority ethnic origin distrust the judicial system and do not believe that they are likely to receive a fair trial of their complaints. Industrial tribunals should be particularly careful in the way they approach complaints made by people of such background, so as to make sure that they give no grounds for the belief that a case has not been approached in an entirely even-handed manner. | <urn:uuid:d69d01bf-705a-448f-a3d5-471a2f980bcd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.xperthr.co.uk/law-reports/eat-guidance-on-hearing-discrimination-cases/66567/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00193-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955377 | 187 | 1.585938 | 2 |
In a world where most of us spend a lot of time looking at screens instead of truly interacting in meaning fun ways, it is important to keep family time a priority. Studies have shown that the simple act of having nightly family dinners does wonders for the emotional, academic, and even physical development of the children in the home. Imagine how much more could be achieved with regular, fun activities that will also help you all bond and become even closer as a family! Below are thirty days of family activities to get you started…
Family activities are wonderful opportunities to bond and create amazing memories with your kids. Always be sure that everyone can enjoy themselves, and that not everything is a competition. Just be creative and have fun with it, and it will be a wonderful 31 days of family activities the whole family will love.
Let everyone choose something they want to bake together as a family. It could be cookies, cake pops, muffins, a pastry—anything yummy and bake-able! Then, you all work together as a family to get the ingredients, and make something super delicious everyone can be proud of being a part of. If you have a big family, you can even do a different baking project every other day until everyone has had a chance to make their favorites!
Gardening is a very useful skill, and can be a lot of fun to get into. You can start a little vegetable, herb, or flower garden depending on the space you have. If you have a lot of space, everyone can have their own little plot where they can grow what they want as well! Gardening is a great way to show your kids how patience, hard work, and perseverance can pay off in big ways! Some ideas for easy to grow seeds:
To get the whole family involved in a favorite story, try acting it out instead of just reading it! Everyone will become part of the story, and you will all have an amazing memory to look back on forever. Bonus points for going all in with costumes, funny voices, and homemade props!
Sometimes just a relaxing day of playing board games is a great way to pass the time. If you want to add a little something extra, try making up some new rules and change the same old games up a bit! You can also create your very own games like themed charades, or scavenger hunts! Unleash your creative side, and play by your own rules.
Coloring, collages, slime making, painting, etc. are all examples of super fun crafts you can do with your family. Art is something that can be therapeutic, so make sure this is a positive experience with no bad ideas or critiques. Art styles are all different, and there is no wrong way to be creative. Just have fun! Need inspiration? Visit Pinterest.
All you need is dough, toppings, sauce, and an oven to have your very own family pizzeria! Everyone gets enough dough for a personal sized pizza, and they can top it however they want. Then, you just bake and enjoy! This makes personal pizzas truly personal, and makes for great bonding time with food and fun!
One person can make a pretty awesome pillow fort, but a whole family can make an epic pillow CASTLE! Use cardboard boxes, blankets, couch cushions, pillows, and more to create a huge pillow fort to hang out in.
(This is a great add-on to pillow fort day) Get comfy and watch a movie series for a day with lots snacks and finger food. Stay in your pajamas for extra coziness!
Learn Sign Language
Sign language is a very useful language to know, and it is actually a lot of fun to learn. You can use books and/or online tutorials, help each other practice, and even try going a whole day communicating with just sign!
Film For A Day
Use your phones, or an old camcorder to document a whole day with your family. Then you can watch it back and even edit it into a fun family movie if you want to! As the years go by, it will be fun to look back and remember what a fun day you had, and how you lived at that time.
Make a playlist with everyone’s favorite songs, and have big dance party! Go crazy and have fun just shaking out all your troubles. You will get a great workout for it, too!
Speaking of workouts, Pilates and Yoga are fantastic ways to help with flexibility and fitness. Start with beginner positions, and practice daily until everyone is super comfortable with learning gradually more complex positions. Never overdo these exercises, and they can be a really amazing way to promote a healthy body and mind. This site might be helpful if you are a beginner:
This can be indoor or outdoor, depending on your situation. Pack up some food, drinks, snacks, pillows, and blankets. Then set up a nice little picnic spot in your house or backyard! Picnics are always a lot of fun and much more relaxing than a typical formal meal at a table.
Make Cards/Write Letters
Letters and cards can mean so much to elderly in nursing homes, troops overseas, and family and friends. Make some handmade cards with happy messages, or write some kind letters, and send them out. This is a wonderful way to boost morale and spread love to people who may be lonely and discouraged.
Let the kids try on some old clothes from your closet, and make the craziest outfits they can think of… Then, the parents can pretend to be fashion show judges and score everyone’s costumes. The judges can even have their own eccentric outfits on for extra fun!
Write A Story
This can be done in a lot of ways. You can use a white/chalk board to add words while everyone takes turns adding one word at a time. You can also write one all together and put it on paper you can bind together into a homemade book. This also works with filling in mad-libs if you need a starting point to get your creativity rolling!
Tie dye is a lot of fun, and is also a great outlet for creativity! You can tie dye just about any article of clothing, and there are a million ways to tie and dye them! Once they are all finished, you will have a great memory every time you wear whatever you made!
Check out “5 easy tie-dye instructions — plus, 4 tie-dye patterns to try” here: https://www.care.com/c/stories/3341/5-easy-tie-dye-instructions-and-4-tie-dye-pat/
Learn To Sew
Sewing is a skill that always comes in handy at one time or another. Even knowing how to sew on a button can be the difference between an awkward situation and a quick fix with no fuss. Basic stitches are also good to know in any future fashion emergencies.
Order a model airplane, building, robot, car, etc. and build it together as a family. Model building is an awesome way to learn about how things go together, and how to work together as a team.
Family Video Games
A lot of modern video games and systems have awesome multiplayer options that make family fun super easy! The Wii in particular has some of the best games and features for this, but you can use any system if you take turns playing one single player game. Keep it pressure free and have fun! Games are meant to be played to have FUN, not just to win.
Check Out Old Photo Albums
Learning about family history is a great way to keep memories and traditions alive. Great grandma’s cookie recipe will mean that much more if your kids have a face to place with the stories. Pictures are worth a thousand words, and they also preserve the memories of the past.
Make A Scrapbook With New Photos
To make your own memories for your family’s future, take pictures and add them to a new album! You can even try out scrapbooking to make it even more meaningful and organized. Everyone can fill out a page in their own style and write their own little memory notes next to each picture.
Life Sized Drawings
Get a big piece of poster board and have someone lay down on it. Then you can trace around their body so you have a template. Once that is done, everyone can work together to fill in the template and make a life sized drawing of the family member!
Karaoke is a lot of fun, and making it a family affair is sure to get lots of laughs. You can even hold a contest for silliest song/voice combo… Bonus points for interpretive dance! Here are some ideas:
Look For Four Leaf Clovers
Clovers with four or more leaves are actually very rare. Looking for some outside can pass a lot of time! Finding them is always very rewarding and exciting. You can also choose something else to hunt for: mole hills, spider webs, pine cones, or dandelions!
Make A Critter House
A typical birdhouse can be a home for lots of animals besides birds! Chipmunks, squirrels, mice, and other small mammals can also make their homes in birdhouses. This is a great way to keep these little guys warm and sheltered in the rain or cold that may be coming up where you live.
Follow An Online Tutorial
This can be anything from cake decorating, to wreath making, to knitting a scarf! Just find a beginner video of something cool, and if you have the supplies you need—give it a try! It can be a lot of fun to see how your finished product compares with the video’s. This can be a team effort to do one big project, or each family member can work on one small project! This is a great way to see how differently each person can do the same thing. Use this as an opportunity to teach your kids about individuality, and help them see that everyone is different in awesome ways!
Play In The Rain
Rain is usually an excuse to stay indoors, but you can have a lot of fun stomping in puddles and playing in the mud. Just make sure it is not too cold out, and that there is not any lightning nearby.
Scavenger hunts are really awesome ways to get the brain and body moving. There are also lots of ways to set up a scavenger hunt! You can theme it by color, size, room, and more! Set a time limit if you have older kids; and make sure if you have younger kids, that they can have fun without feeling too pressured to “win.” Family days and activities should be all about fun! Here are some ideas:
Have everyone find a cool rock outside. Then, you all can use your imaginations to see a shape of something specific in that rock. Once you have figured out what your rock looks like, you can paint it so it becomes that thing. For example, a lumpy rock might look like a toad; so you can paint legs and eyes and spots on it to make it look like a real toad!
Quiet time is an opportunity for the kids to think, play by themselves, and give mom and dad a break!
Here are a few ideas to try for quiet time:
2. Word search
4. Educational worksheets
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|Title:||An Intervention for Infants and Toddlers with Visual Impairment: Independence through the Mealtime Routines Model|
|Principal Investigator:||Ferrell, Kay||Awardee:||University of Northern Colorado|
|Program:||Early Intervention and Early Learning [Program Details]|
|Award Period:||3 years (7/1/2016-6/30/2019)||Award Amount:||$1,291,048|
|Type:||Development and Innovation||Award Number:||R324A160139|
Co-Principal Investigator: Jamie Erskine
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to develop an intervention that trains providers to work with families on positive mealtime routines for infants and toddlers with severe visual impairment. Mealtime routines encourage children to develop behaviors that foster independence, a critical skill for success in classroom settings. However, most infants and toddlers with visual impairment require assistance at mealtime due to their inability to observe and imitate mealtime skills and engage in positive social interactions through eye contact. To address this need, this study will develop a family-centered intervention, the Mealtime Routines for Visual Impairment (MRVI) Intervention, to support infants and toddlers with visual impairment in gaining independent mealtime skills.
Project Activities: The intervention will be developed and pilot tested iteratively through a series of studies. In Study 1, the research team will survey Early Interventionists and Teachers of Students with Visual Impairment — Early Intervention (TSVI-EI) providers to learn their current knowledge about independent mealtime skill development for infants with visual impairment. Across Studies 2–4, the team will develop the intervention, including a professional development training for TSVI-EI providers, and collect provider and family data to inform intervention refinement. Study 5, the pilot study, will use a small randomized controlled trial to investigate the promise of the MRVI Intervention for increasing family confidence and positive mealtime interactions and promoting a variety of child outcomes related to mealtime independence (e.g., age-appropriate mealtime behaviors and food selectivity).
Products: The product of this project will be a fully developed intervention to support positive mealtime skills in infants and toddlers with visual impairment, peer-reviewed publications, and presentations.
Setting: This research will take place in family homes and other natural environments of infants and toddlers with visual impairments across seven states — Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, Utah, and Washington.
Sample: There will be approximately 400–500 TSVI-EI providers and other Early Interventionists working with children with visual impairment across the country participating in the initial survey. For the next series of three studies, 12 TSVI-EI providers with 12 infants/toddlers and their families will participate. For the pilot study, a new group of 14 TSVI-EI provider/family pairs will participate. Participating infants must be diagnosed by a pediatric ophthalmologist as having a severe visual impairment.
Intervention: For the MRVI Intervention, TSVI-EI providers will use a family-centered approach for helping families with children with severe visual impairment during mealtime routines to develop the child's independent eating and other mealtime skills. The provider training will include face-to-face professional development, online learning resources, and possible distance coaching. Providers will use guided decision-making tools in partnership with parents (or other caregivers) to develop individualized family mealtime routines (e.g., making tactile adaptations, encouraging the use of utensils) that address measurable family and child outcomes.
Research Design and Methods: The intervention will be developed in a series of iterative steps. In Study 1, TSVI-EI providers and other Early Interventionists working with children with visual impairment will complete an online survey about their current knowledge of independent mealtime developmental skills. Data from this survey will be used to help develop the intervention. Studies 2 — 4 will be conducted with a sample of 12 TSVI-EI provider/family pairs across the three studies. Study 2 will include only the providers, focused on developing provider training using evidence-based professional development practices. They will be trained on the initial version of the intervention, and feedback during this phase will be used to make improvements. Study 3 will examine whether there is a substantial benefit of adding distance coaching after training, with half the providers assigned to receive online coaching and the other half assigned to receive no coaching as they work with their participating family. Feedback from this stage will guide revisions to the intervention as well as establish implementation fidelity guidelines for the pilot study. Study 4, conducted simultaneously with Study 3, will examine the preliminary outcomes for families receiving the MRVI Intervention from the 12 participating providers. Families will identify individualized goals and strategies, and change in family and child outcomes will be measured. For Study 5, the pilot study, researchers will conduct a small randomized controlled trial with a new sample of 14 TSVI-EI provider/family pairs to examine whether there is evidence of promise for family outcomes (i.e., parent-child interaction, parent confidence in working with child on mealtime skills) and child acquisition of independent mealtime skills (i.e., age-appropriate mealtime developmental skills, food selectivity, and behavioral responsiveness to family members during mealtime).
Control Condition: During the pilot study, the families in the control condition will receive their usual early intervention services for their visually impaired child.
Key Measures: Family and child outcome measures include the Nursing Child Assessments Feeding and Teaching scales, the Behavioral Pediatric Feeding Assessment, anthropometric measures to assess growth (e.g., length, weight), the Early Intervention Development Profile, the Ehrhardt Developmental Prehension Assessment (i.e., fine motor development), scales of parent confidence and efficacy, checklist of foods the child eats, samples of observed mealtime parent-child communications, and parent surveys. Usability for the provider will be measured through a researcher-developed survey, online mastery quizzes, and journals of their impressions. Feasibility and fidelity of implementation will be measured through monthly video recordings of provider sessions with families and of coaching sessions with providers.
Data Analytic Strategy: Survey and feasibility rating data will be examined through descriptive statistics and correlation matrices. Qualitative data (e.g., impression journals) will be analyzed for thematic content. Video recorded sessions for fidelity will be coded for practitioner behavior in the home and the parent's ability to implement the intervention in a routine setting, with chi-square analyses of expected and observed criteria. To analyze the child and family outcomes in the pilot study (parent report measures and observational scoring), the research team will use repeated measures analysis of variance. | <urn:uuid:04eee6c6-6534-48fa-83e5-77068a4c003a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ies.ed.gov/funding/grantsearch/details.asp?ID=1858 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.912413 | 1,413 | 2.359375 | 2 |
A multilevel view of DevOps (with more balance)
My take is that DevOps Means Don't Be An A-Hole. That's kind of a compliment to what you are saying I think - devops is about improving communications.
I don't think it's this simple. Instead I think that the broad label of 'DevOps' is a reaction to three different sets of organizational problems, which I am going to list in decreasing order of severity.
First is the blame problem, where developers get blamed for not delivering features and operations gets blamed for services not being available. If you have the blame problem it trumps everything else, because the interests of developers and operations are fundamentally opposed to each other. All of the communication in the world cannot fix that.
Next is problems of ignorance, where development and operations don't understand each other's environments, problems, and constraints. It's stereotypical for sysadmins (me included) to see this as primarily a development problem where developers have ignored issues like installation, logging, performance, and operational reliability, but I'm sure that there's things about development that operations doesn't get. Fixing this requires education and possibly making development and operations care enough about each other's problems to get that education.
(See Tedd Dziuba for some ways to make developers care.)
The final set of problems are cultural ones, where the two groups are assholes to each other mostly because that's how they've always behaved and it's just how operations and development deal with each other. If this is your only 'DevOps' problem, you can indeed fix it with just better communication and more respect.
(The quibble here is that sometimes cultural issues have roots in things like the amount of respect and pay that goes to various groups, because people are people.)
Each level of organization problem creates the levels of problems below it (unless you're really lucky and have a staff of selfless, motivated saints). An organization with the blame problem is going to have cultural problems and almost certainly ignorance problems; an organization with ignorance issues is going to grow cultural ones. It follows that you need to fix problems from the top down in order to make lasting changes.
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When someone dies without a will, the impact on his or her estate depends on the state in which the decedent resided. A handy new intestacy calculator — the central feature of a Web site called MyStateWill.com — helps determine the outcome of intestacy on a state-by-state basis.
The calculator is the work of Kurt R. Nilson, a lawyer in State College, Penn. It is the outcome of more than 1,000 hours of legal research along with time for programming, design, implementation and testing.
As an example, take my state of Massachusetts. The calculator begins by asking for the value of my estate and whether I am married. I enter $500,000 (I wish) and select married. It then asks whether I have living children and how many (two) and whether I have deceased children (no). With this information, the calculator says my wife will receive $250,000 and each of my children will receive $125,000.
Of course, some states’ laws are more complex. Nilson says that among the more interesting are Arkansas, California, Missouri and Texas.
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About the LSAT
The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a half-day, standardized test administered eight times each year. It is currently being administered fully online, in a live, remote-proctored format, and will continue to be administered in this way through at least June 2023. The LSAT is the admission test accepted by and required by most American Bar Association (ABA) approved law schools. (Some law schools will accept the GRE in lieu of the LSAT.) The test is designed to provide law schools with a common measure of applicants’ aptitude for legal study.
The LSAT consists of four, 35-minute multiple choice sections and a 35-minute (unscored) writing sample section. Three of the multiple choice sections contribute to the test taker’s score. The unscored (experimental) multiple choice section is used to pretest new test questions. The kind and placement of this section will vary. A 35-minute (unscored) writing sample section is taken separately from the multiple choice portion of the test. Copies of the writing sample are shared to the schools to which you apply. The score scale for the LSAT is 120 to 180, with a median score of roughly 150.
The LSAT is designed to measure skills that are considered essential for success in law school: the reading and comprehension of complex texts with accuracy and insight; the organization and management of information and the ability to draw reasonable inferences from it; the ability to think critically; and the analysis and evaluation of the reasoning and arguments of others.
The three multiple-choice question types in the LSAT are:
1.) Reading Comprehension Questions
These questions measure your ability to read, with understanding and insight, examples of lengthy and complex materials similar to those commonly encountered in law school work. The reading comprehension section contains four sets of reading questions, each consisting of a selection of reading material (either a single complex passage or two shorter related passages), followed by five to eight questions that test reading and reasoning abilities.
2.) Analytical Reasoning Questions
These questions are designed to measure your ability to understand a structure of relationships and to draw logical conclusions about that structure. You are asked to make deductions from a set of statements, rules, or conditions that describe relationships among entities such as persons, places, things, or events. They simulate the kinds of detailed analyses of relationships that a law student must perform in solving legal problems.
3.) Logical Reasoning Questions
These questions are designed to evaluate your ability to understand, analyze, criticize, and complete a variety of arguments. Each logical reasoning question requires you to read and comprehend a short passage, then answer a question about it. The questions test a variety of abilities involved in reasoning logically and thinking critically.
Registering for the LSAT
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In the context of public health, risk assessment is the process of quantifying the probability of a harmful effect to individuals or populations from certain human activities.
In most countries, the use of specific chemicals, or the operations of specific facilities (e.g. power plants, manufacturing plants) is not allowed unless it can be shown that they do not increase the risk of death or illness above a specific threshold. For example, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates food safety through risk assessment. The FDA required in 1973 that cancer-causing compounds must not be present in meat at concentrations that would cause a cancer risk greater than 1 in a million lifetimes. | <urn:uuid:8d4ab666-9582-4e90-884a-0c25069a9116> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.onestoptesting.com/risk-analysis/public-health.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00213-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920447 | 136 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Which is the quintessential Scotch whisky island? Islay? Not a bit of it, says Neil Wilson. Instead, take a ferry to Brodick and sample a little of the historically prized ‘Arran Water’.
When I first researched the Hebridean distilleries in the early 1980s, I ignored Arran, simply because there was no distilling activity on the island at that time. The last legal distillery had closed in 1837, so it was of no intellectual interest to me at that time.
It also meant that I did not visit the island until the summer of 1996 when, lo and behold, the new distillery at Lochranza had been in production for a year. I had a lot of catching up to do and I have come to realise that Arran is, in a way, the whisky island, largely due to its well-recorded relationship with smuggling and illicit distilling activity that went on over the 18th and 19th centuries. Islay, on the same basis, struggles to compete.
Any journey to Arran for me is not so much about what the island has to offer the visitor (which is a helluva lot), but rather about what more it can reveal to me about its distilling past. Oh, and another word is going to crop up a lot here… water.
All roads to Arran are over the water, courtesy of Caledonian MacBrayne, and terminate at the island’s largest township, Brodick. The introduction of the RET (Road Equivalent Tariff) in October 2014 by the Scottish Government has meant a huge reduction in fares and a massive increase in visitors. (A return Ardrossan/Brodick fare for a driver and a car is £37.70 as I write).
Many of these visitors will make sure they visit the distillery at Lochranza, which is now drawing some 65,000 punters each year, but most of them will simply be ticking it off the island itinerary and leaving with a bottle or two (most likely including an Arran Gold cream liqueur – try it and you’ll see why) and a souvenir. Only the hardened whisky geeks will stock up on the Arran whiskies and want to know why the distillery was built there.
The answer is of course, water. Or rather, access to it. Water may be God-given on Arran, but to whom it belongs after that is a matter of much barroom disputation (depending on your point of view).
Local hero: Arran's distillery draws 65,000 visitors a year (Photo: VisitArran.com)
On my last visit I stayed in chic, boutique The Douglas Hotel, a red sandstone affair directly opposite the ferry terminal, and renovated from 2009-11 by Sean Henry, who left the island and made his fortune in Russia in property, and who also owns the Merchant House Hotel in Tallinn, Estonia.
He spent a tidy sum (it shows) on The Douglas, putting something back into the island on which he had been brought up as an adopted child by the Campbell family. His foster-sister Elaine helps run the place now. If money is not too tight, this is a great base from which to explore.
The roads on the island are very variable and, due to the high watercourses that tumble down the slopes to the sea, landslips and debris lying over them are not uncommon after a storm, so go canny. My Fiat Panda was ideal for getting around the place, as it could squeeze past the buses and trucks on the narrow sections.
From Brodick, the A841 road encircles the island, but a couple of cross-country routes effectively create a rough figure-of-eight by way of the String and the Ross roads.
The top loop goes around the mountainous north, while the southern loop explores the relatively pastoral coastal fringe. It’s good bicycling country, but if you leave the coast roads, be prepared for major hillclimbs.
Arran is a food and drink brand today and you are never far away from quality produce. Arran Visitors Centre, just north of Brodick at Home Farm, is where the Isle of Arran Cheese Shop and the Smokehouse Shop are based, alongside Arran Aromatics.
A bit further on is the Isle of Arran Brewery, one of Scotland’s leading independent brewers, where you can tour the brewery and sample the beers as well.
Further along on the A841, Brodick Castle stands above the woodland garden that stretches down to the road. Once it was a seat of the Dukes of Hamilton, but since 1958, when it was acquired from the Fforde family, it has been a National Trust for Scotland (NTS) property and is open to the public. From its grounds it is possible to access another NTS property, the 874m Goatfell, the highest mountain on the island.
Family seat: Brodick Castle was the ancestral home of the Dukes of Hamilton
However, a part of Arran still remains under the ownership of the Fforde family, who maintain around 16,000 acres in the north of the island – and who have played a part in the re-establishment of whisky distilling on the island.
Very few illicit distillers operated in the north of the island but, as the Duke of Hamilton owned the entire island in the late 18th century, he had to deal with the practice wherever it occurred.
Much of the Excise collection was ‘farmed’ out to landowners in the remoter parts of Scotland back then. This meant they paid the Excise an estimated amount quarterly (known as ‘composition’) and were left to collect what they could from their tenants.
Some of them distilled legally but, along the more pastoral southern coast, illicit distilling was rife, with 50 known stills operating in the late 18th century, and 17 in 1817, all of them serviced by the Campbeltown plumber Robert Armour, who kept secret accounts of his transactions.
I have seen the site of an illicit still at Knochenkelly, above Whiting Bay, and another bothy at Lochranza was broken up over 60 years ago when it was discovered being used as a play den by a local girl.
When illicit distilling was at its height, the stuff that was smuggled across to the mainland was known as ‘Arran Water’ and was regarded as the best that could be had.
John MacCulloch, a geologist and traveller, stated in 1824 that Arran Water was “in the older days … the Burgundy of all the vintages”. It was this historical reputation that helped bring distilling back to Arran.
When the Currie family from Ayrshire were convinced by David Hutchison, a Glasgow architect with property on the island, that Arran was perfect for their vision of building a new malt distillery, they set about the search for the water.
Round the far north of the island, with the help of David’s geologist son Mark, and after discounting a source in Glen Sannox, they assayed the water from Loch na Davie, high up Gleann Eason Boirach to the east of Lochranza, and found it to be perfect.
Standing proud: Six stone circles are found on Machrie Moor (Photo: VisitArran.com)
It also happened to run down past a greenfield site at the end of the village where a distillery could be built. All they had to do was secure the water and the site.
The Ffordes wanted to charge a rate per litre drawn from the river, but Hutchison and the Curries refused as they were firmly in the God-given camp (see above), so the estate withdrew their demand and also sold them the land for “pennies”, as Hutchison recalls.
Within the bounds of the village, on a spit of land stretching out into the sea loch, stands Lochranza Castle – used in the 1960s as the model for the castle in The Black Island, one of The Adventures of Tintin comics. It is a Historic Scotland property and admission is free, but bear in mind that this is a maintained ruin.
Meanwhile, Lochranza Hotel sports an impressive range of malts in the bar, and the owner even has a cask lying up at the distillery.
Down the west coast, the villages of Catacol, Pirnmill and Blackwaterfoot follow. The former has a unique, pale blue corrugated iron kirk and the latter is just south of Machrie Moor, where six ancient stone circles exist, some with stones over 5m in height.
The coast road then takes us round to the south side of the Arran Water story. At Lagg, a hamlet deep in a dell on the banks of a river, the last legal distillery operated until 1837.
Now only The Lagg Hotel remains as a reminder of that time. Established in 1791, it too had a part to play. In 1860, three casks of whisky were landed nearby, but the Excise officers were diverted by the brother of the innkeeper (whose whisky it should have been) to share a convivial drink. On returning to their haul they found the casks had been filled with seawater.
Return to Brodick up the east coast by way of the Kildonan Hotel on Arran’s most southerly point, which enjoys the best views of any hotel I know. On a summer’s day, it is bliss.
Whiting Bay follows, where a walk up to the Glenashdale Falls will get rid of the cobwebs, and then to Lamlash where the Holy Isle ferry takes nature lovers and those in need of spiritual succour of another kind to the Buddhist retreat out in the bay.
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About this project
Ototo After Kickstarter
We've been overwhelmed by the response from you on Kickstarter THANK YOU! We're super excited to get Ototo into the world and to see all the things that you will make.
If you've missed the campaign or you have backed and would like to order more Ototo boards or sensors, we'll be setting up an order system on our website.
Ototo has got everything you need to make sound interactive: it’s a synthesiser, it’s got 12 onboard touch sensitive inputs and a range of different sensors which can be connected to 4 sensor inputs.
How it works
You can make sounds straight out of the box by touching the keys to trigger notes. By connecting conductive materials or objects to the keys on Ototo you can make them react to touch; turning anything you can imagine into an instrument. The keys on the Ototo are arranged like one octave of a musical keyboard. When you connect an object to a key using crocodile clips, you can trigger that note on your object.
Sensors change the sound
There are four sensor inputs which control the different elements of the sound, one each for pitch and loudness and two that control the texture of the sound. Connect a light sensor to control the pitch or create a sound that reacts to your breath - it’s up to you!
Combine to make musical inventions
Combining these inputs allows you control over all elements of the sound: the loudness, pitch and the texture of the sound (timbre). Whether you’re prototyping a controller idea, learning electronics, creating an interactive sound installation or just having fun Ototo can get you making with no coding or computer required.
Ototo has two sound generating modes: a synthesiser and a sampler. It’s monophonic with an amplitude envelope, a modulation envelope, a LFO and a low pass filter. The sampler plays back short samples such as drum sounds from the flash memory with the ability to change the pitch of samples. The presets for the synthesisers are stored on the Ototo which you can cycle through by pressing the buttons. There will be regular software updates so expect more features to be added as the product develops.
Once connected via USB Ototo can act as a MIDI controller. This allows you to use the instruments and synthesisers on the computer using the touch keys as note inputs and the sensors as control messages. This means you can keep the flexibility of building with Ototo but expand your range of sounds by playing instruments in Ableton Live, Apple Garageband and many more. The best of both worlds!
What can you make with Ototo?
There's lots of ways you can make with Ototo: it can be as simple as experimenting by connecting different objects and sensors or building a complex instrument or installation. We've been running workshops over the last few months - here's some of the things that our participants have come up with:
- 12 key capacitive touch keyboard (1 octave) with connectors
- 4 sensor inputs, 5V analog input
- Onboard speaker and 3.5mm headphone output
- Powered by 2 x AA batteries or micro USB
- No coding required
- 128 Mbit Flash memory
We're producing 7 different sensors which we think are great for music making. You connect the sensors to the Ototo using the sensor cable provided.
This is a potentiometer - you turn it to change the sound. Perhaps you use it as part of the control panel of a cardboard synthesiser.
This is a light dependent resistor which changes the sound according to the amount of light it receives. Cover it up or point it directly at the light.
This is another potentiometer; this time you slide it to change the sound. It’s great for making trombones!
This is a thin touch strip that changes the sound when you slide your finger along it. It's great for precise control, especially for pitch bend.
This sensor changes the sound depending on how hard you press it. You could put it in a shoe and make music while you dance.
The harder you blow into this sensor the bigger the change in sound. With the breath sensor you can make a drainpipe saxophone.
The joystick sensor is just like the analog stick on a gamepad. Move it around to control two sounds at once — with extra precision.
How does the touch sensing work?
It's using a technology called 'capacitive sensing'. The Ototo is measuring the capacitance of the objects attached to it, once you touch the object it can sense the additional capacitance added from the human body which then triggers the note. It's a simpler version of what's happening on laptop trackpads and smartphones.
Ototo will work with any conductive material, for example aluminium foil, water, plants, fruit and veg, conductive fabrics, conductive threads, conductive paint and ink, pencil drawings, any metal objects and more!
Ototo is built on open source software and we will release the Ototo source code once we start shipping. By making the firmware open source we're able to give you complete control how your synthesiser works. We also hope to inspire community firmwares for the Ototo for even greater sound possibilities.
Why we created Ototo
In our careers working in interaction design and electronic music, we’ve seen that many people would like to create new ways of interacting with sound yet find it a struggle. There’s a steep learning curve in both electronics and software programming before even getting to the sounds and the interaction that you would like to make. We wanted something that could be more hands on and experimental, that you could have an idea and just try it out really quickly.
We want to empower people to create, whether that’s a kid playing with electronics for the first time or a musician who wants more control how they perform or create sounds. We believe when you have this power then you can see the potential in things - like as a child imagining all of the different things a cardboard box can be.
Where we are now
The Ototo project started in early 2013 when we were approached by Near Now to collaborate on a project. We proposed our ideas behind Ototo, and we got a great response. We got to work designing and developing how these ideas could work in a product. We received our first prototypes early September and demonstrated these for the first time at AND Fair in Liverpool. We produced 40 prototypes and along with Near Now, we ran the first public invention workshop during Game City on the 19-20 October 2013.
Video with Near Now showing the development of Ototo
Since then we've been refining Ototo in workshops, at universities such as ECAL and London College of Communication and public workshops such as ELMO works. We're now ready to bring Ototo to a much wider audience, with your support we can make it happen.
We've had two rounds of prototypes so far, the first round we made 4 prototypes for which the components were placed by hand. For the second round we produced 40 prototypes which were assembled by our manufacturing partners. We've been putting these boards through their paces in workshops for the last few months and we have been delighted with their performance.
We've spent the time to carefully to learn the processes involved in create Ototo, and believe we are ready to take this design, with a few minor modifications, into production.
- February: end of Kickstarter campaign, pre-production prototype ready
- March: ordering components, EMC testing, software development, packaging and guide design
- April: Receive Ototo boards, start fulfilling orders
- May: Ototo goes on his journey to backers
- June: Backers get to meet Ototo!
We wouldn't have made it this far without our friends, collaborators, early testers and workshop participants, a really big thank you to everyone!
Near Now, ELMO Works / Nous Vous, ECAL, London College of Communication, University of East London
Mat Trivett, Stefan Dzisiewski-Smith, Jamie Johnson, Dan Duran, Jacqueline Ford, Yashaswini S. R., Jakub Pollag, Gemma Roper, Bike Ayaskan, Amiera Mohey, Tico Doubleday, Matthew Phillips, Sam Strudwick, Naomi Elliott, David Chatting...and everyone else who was involved!
Risks and challenges
Any hardware project is a challenge so producing and shipping Ototo out into the world won't be easy. We've spent considerable time assessing the potential risks, such as delays in component sourcing, issues with the electromagnetic compatibility testing or fulfillment. Through understanding these processes we have strategies in place to keep the the project on time. Therefore we're confident that when we will face the challenges that inevitably come our way, we will be prepared to tackle them head on.Learn about accountability on Kickstarter
It's using a technology called 'capacitive sensing'. The Ototo is measuring the capacitance of the objects attached to it, once you touch the object it can sense the additional capacitance added from the human body which then triggers the note. It's a simpler version of what's happening on trackpads and smartphones. Which also means touching connected objects through other conductive materials will have the same affect. For example, playing a pot and pan drum kit with metal drumsticks would have the same affect as using your hands.
Anything that's conductive works, that is anything that will allow the movement of electrical charge. There are hundreds of objects and materials that allow this including: aluminium foil, water, plants, fruit and vegetables, conductive fabrics, conductive threads, conductive paint and ink, pencil drawings and any metal!
Ototo comes with a set of preset sounds that you can change by using the buttons on the board. We're planning a wide a range of sounds so that you can always find the right sound for whatever you want to create. Each preset is manipulated by the sensors in a different way, so there's lots of different combinations to play with.
Once Ototo has been funded we plan to develop some software which will allow you to add new sounds to Ototo via USB, allowing you to tweak the synthesiser parameters and download new sounds from the Ototo community.
Yes, it's a class compliant MIDI implementation which means it will be recognised in any MIDI compliant software and OS: Linux, Mac, Windows and iOS. This means you can control as wide a range of software as possible, including integration with the iPad using the Camera Connection Kit.
Using USB MIDI means you can control sounds being generated on another device. This means you can access a wider array of sounds: use Ototo to control professional music software such as Ableton Live or Logic, plug Ototo into an iPad and you can control Garageband, or create your own custom application which interfaces with the real world using Ototo.
For example in Ableton Live you could trigger loops or samples by using conductive materials while changing effects using the sensors, allowing you in perform with power of Ableton without having to use a keyboard and mouse.
Yes definitely, the inputs on Ototo are 5 volt analog inputs so most sensors that work with the Arduino will work with Ototo. The connectors are a 2.54mm Molex style connector which we've found are quite easy to get hold of. There are many different types of sensors available to try out; you can use accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetic sensors and more. We'll be expanding our range of sensors in the future, but we encourage you to build your own!
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The vast majority of employers have made no changes in their matching contribution to 401(k) plans, and only small fraction of employers have eliminated the match, according to a survey by WorldatWork.
Seventy-four percent of respondents reported no change in the employer matching contribution, and only three percent reported eliminating the match. Fifteen percent have either increased or are considering increasing the employer match. Eight percent have either decreased or are considering decreasing the 401(k) match.
The survey found that more than nine out of ten U.S. companies offer a 401(k) plan to employees. Ninety-four percent of companies provided some type of employer match to the employee’s individual 401(k) contribution.
“These statistics reflect that employers are clearly committed to providing retirement savings opportunities to their workers, even in tough economic times,” said Cara Welch, public policy director for WorldatWork.
The impact of the shrinking economy and the reality of financial stress felt by Americans can be seen in some employee behavior, WorldatWork notes. Nearly half (49 percent) of respondents said that employees are increasingly taking loans from their retirement accounts.
“The real importance of these findings is that the 401(k) plan system is an integral part of our retirement system in this country,” said Lynn Dudley, senior vice president, policy, for the American Benefits Council. “Our study shows it remains both strong and popular.”
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Upon examining the asphalt, we may see the first signs of deterioration such as chipping, crumbling, or cracking. This occurs more often in heavy traffic. When you witness chipping or crumbling, you're looking at the creation of a pothole. Asphalt pothole repair in parking lots, driveways, and roads is most often caused by standing water. Removing the damaged asphalt and replacing it with new asphalt isn't enough to ensure that the issue doesn't recur. Pothole repairs should contain enough new asphalt and slope to redirect the water issue. To prevent water from getting into and enlarging the crack, a crack seal may be put to the asphalt. Asphalt crack sealing is the process of sealing a crack in the asphalt using a sealer that adheres to the surface and fills the crack to prevent water from entering.
Water and ice may worsen already-existing cracks, resulting in even more costly repairs. More repairs, lost time and money will be incurred if you don't maintain and repair the concrete damage surrounding your home. There are a wide range of specifications for commercial concrete pavement, surfaces, and fixtures. Curbing and drain collars must all be in sync for parking lot water runoff to be efficiently removed. Concrete surfaces may be damaged by snow plows, automobiles crashing into curbs, and trash trucks. Water and ice may exacerbate existing cracks, causing severe damage. Maintaining and repairing concrete damage surrounding your property may help prevent subsequent repairs, time and money losses.
Walkways, curbs and drainage are all necessary if you're going to use asphalt for your parking lot. Concrete provides a surprising number of benefits that you may not have considered for your parking lot. You can rely on us to provide the most cost-effective commercial concrete pouring services around. When it comes to Riverton parking lots and associated flatwork, Go Pave Utah is the go-to specialist in concrete pouring.
Contact Go Pave Utah today to learn more about our asphalt paving and other asphalt services in Riverton.
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South China Morning Post: China Faces Us$6.5 Trillion Green Financing Gap To Reach 2060 Net Zero
Jul 24, 2022
China will need to raise about 140 trillion yuan from green bonds and other environmentally friendly funding tools to become carbon neutral by 2060, but will fall short by 44 trillion yuan, said the report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and consulting company Oliver Wyman.
This means it needs to fill a funding gap of 1.1 trillion yuan each year between 2020 and 2060 in the financing of green innovative technologies across all sectors including electricity, steel, mobility and construction, said the report.
“China’s net-zero commitment will require a revolutionary transformation of its economy driven by the widespread adoption of green technologies, all of which will require enormous investment,” said Qian Hang, a partner at Oliver Wyman in a statement. “China’s unique economic model will shape this transition.”
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Leaky gut syndrome, also called “intestinal permeability,” is a chronic gut health issue that many people suffer from. Most people with leaky gut are unaware of it, but if untreated, leaky gut syndrome can lead to even further health issues. When someone has leaky gut syndrome, gaps form in their intestinal walls, allowing bacteria and other toxins to pass into the bloodstream. This can lead to numerous other ailments as toxins in the bloodstream are then distributed to other organs and tissues in the body.
In this article, we will talk about dietary management and leaky gut repair. For more general information about leaky gut syndrome, check out our article “Leaky Gut: Everything You Need to Know.”
Understanding the Causes of Leaky Gut
For any form of health treatment to be holistic, it must do more than address the symptoms. It also needs to focus on removing the cause. Suppose you only focus on symptoms without understanding the cause. In that case, you are bound to have the same issue recur again and again until the underlying cause is altered.
Symptoms are language. They are a way for the body to communicate that something is out of balance. You don’t want to suppress and get rid of symptoms. Instead, you want to listen to them. What are they trying to tell you about how you’ve been living, eating, or thinking? What areas of your life be out of balance? Suppose you can look at symptoms in this way. In that case, you can go much further with your health than you ever could by suppressing your symptoms without inquiring into their underlying cause.
When it comes to leaky gut syndrome, many possible causes can lead to it. Remember, the leaky gut syndrome is a condition in which small gaps form in your intestinal lining. The intestinal lining is a semi-permeable barrier that allows broken-down nutrients to pass through into the blood while keeping out bacteria, undigested food, and other toxins.
When gaps form in the intestinal lining, these toxins can enter the bloodstream. The blood delivers nutrients to all of the organs and tissues of the body. If the blood is contaminated with toxins, these will be delivered to the tissues and organs. Thankfully, the liver filters much of our blood. Still, even our liver function can be impaired by poor dietary and lifestyle practices (though this is another topic of discussion).
The leaky gut syndrome can be caused by anything that creates small gaps in the intestinal lining. The most common causes are:
- Poor diet — If your diet includes common allergens and inflammatory foods such as GMOs, refined oils, added sugars, synthetic food additives, conventional dairy products, pesticide-grown produce, and un-sprouted grains, it can lead to leaky gut.
- High toxic load— Every day, we are exposed to numerous toxins, some much more than others depending on lifestyle and environment. The toxins most likely to lead to leaky gut include antibiotics, pesticides, tap water, aspirin, NSAIDs, and alcohol.
- Chronic stress— Stress is a major cause of illness and is especially harmful to the gut, where significant parts of the autonomic nervous system exist. Chronic stress can lead to various health issues, including leaky gut syndrome.
- Genetic predisposition — A genetic predisposition can also make people more prone to a leaky gut because they are sensitive to environmental factors that trigger their bodies into initiating autoimmune responses.
- Bacterial imbalance — an imbalance between beneficial and harmful species of bacteria in your gut, also called dysbiosis, can be a contributing factor to the leaky gut syndrome. A large body of evidence shows that gut microbiota is essential in supporting the intestinal lining and preventing autoimmune reactions.
- Candida overgrowth— When Candida cells begin to grow hyphae – the long branches that grow out of the fungus can invade the cells in your intestinal lining, creating inflammation and permeating the membrane that prevents harmful substances from leaking out. (Read our article “How to Heal Leaky Gut & Candida Overgrowth” to learn more about this.
There is no one specific cause of the leaky gut syndrome, as the leaky gut syndrome is more of an effect resulting from gut inflammation and weakening of the intestinal walls. Any number of things can cause this.
To get to the root of a leaky gut, you must address the possible factors contributing to it. For example, do you eat a healthy diet, or is your diet full of toxins? Do you eat healthily or have unhealthy eating habits like overeating, eating too frequently, or not chewing your food well? Are you often under stress? Do you suffer from digestive issues? All of these factors need to be considered.
Leaky Gut Syndrome Diet
In terms of the leaky gut syndrome diet, there are a few different components to consider. For one, the leaky gut diet addresses one of the major underlying causes of leaky gut—inflammation. Therefore, the diet for leaky gut involves consuming more anti-inflammatory foods while reducing the number of foods known to cause inflammation.
Additionally, a genuinely healing leaky gut diet will include specific foods and nutrients that repair the gut lining.
Remember that a leaky gut diet is not a diet that promotes a specific way of eating, such as being vegetarian. Still, it encourages you to remove certain foods and include them in your diet—regardless of your other dietary preferences.
Leaky Gut Diet Food List
As mentioned above, there are a few categories of food to consider for the leaky gut diet. First, you want to ensure you are eating a balanced, nutrient-dense diet with plenty of fruits, vegetables, healthy fats, and protein.
That being said, here are the three main categories of foods to consider.
Inflammatory Foods to Avoid
First and foremost, you will want to cut out all foods that are potential causes of inflammation. Some foods cause inflammation, while others are common food allergens that may cause inflammation in sensitive groups. Some of the recommended foods to avoid include:
- Fried foods
- Fast food
- Processed foods (chips, junk food)
- Processed sugar
- Processed meats (bacon, sausage, hot dogs, ham, bologna)
- Red meat (burgers, steaks)
- Refined grains (white bread, white pasta, white rice)
- Gluten grains (wheat, barley, rye)
- Industrial oils (vegetable oil, canola oil, palm oil, safflower oil)
- Soda and other sugar-filled beverages
Additionally, cigarette smoke and chronic stress are known to cause inflammation.
On a leaky gut diet plan, one of the most important things to do is to add more anti-inflammatory foods to your diet, such as:
- Leafy greens
- Nuts (especially brazil nuts, walnuts, and almonds)
- Seeds (especially chia seeds, hemp seeds, and pumpkin seeds)
- Fatty fish (salmon, tuna, mackerel)
- Healthy oils (olive oil, hemp seed oil, coconut oil)
- Wild rice
- Brown rice
- Steel-cut oats
- Most fruits and vegetables
Foods That Build the Gut Lining
In addition to avoiding inflammatory foods and eating more anti-inflammatory foods, it is also beneficial to eat more foods and nutrients that support the integrity of the gut lining, such as:
- Raw dairy
- Bone broth
- Butyric acid
Leaky Gut Diet Plan
An example of a good leaky gut diet plan could be:
Leaky Gut Diet Breakfast Options
- Fruit salad (berries, banana, mango)
- Fruit smoothie
- Chia pudding
- Steel-cut oats
Leaky Gut Diet Lunch Options
- Salad with leafy greens, avocado, tomato, hemp seeds, olive oil, and lemon
- Stir-fried vegetables with brown rice
- Quinoa bowl with sweet potato, kale, and miso dressing
Leaky Gut Diet Dinner Options
- Salmon, wild rice, and asparagus
- Stuffed peppers
- Steamed vegetables and brown rice
Of course, there are many more leaky gut diet recipes and meals that you can create using the food list above. There are also many more anti-inflammatory foods that you can include in your diet. The important thing is to focus on eliminating foods that cause inflammation or poor gut health while focusing on anti-inflammatory foods that rebuild the gut lining and overall gut health.
Repair Leaky Gut with Our Complete GI Protocol
In addition to following a leaky gut diet, you may be able to repair leaky gut with our Complete GI Protocol. This protocol was created to help you restore your gut health and integrity with crucial nutrients. The protocol includes:
- butyric acid (helps to lower gut inflammation and repair the gut lining)
- colostrum (helps to heal damaged intestinal tissue)
- probiotics (colonizes the gut with beneficial bacteria)
- a free PDF guide including dietary and lifestyle recommendations
The Complete GI Protocol provides the essential tools for improving the terrain in the gut, recolonizing the gut with beneficial bacteria, repairing the intestinal lining, and fighting inflammation in the gut.†
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Yes, the ancient Spring rituals probably included chanting, drumming, dancing/movement. Many anthropologists and ethnomusicologists believe that early humans’ attempts at what we now call music, came from their attempts to imitate the sounds of nature. The wind through the pines and the palms, the waves lapping the shore, the babbling brooks, and the gentle rain. Then there are the beautiful bird songs, the crickets chirping, and all of the cicadas.
Recently, I’ve been marvelling once again about the glorious beauty of Spring, and how a few little bulbs can keep coming up year after year after year! The flowers and trees in Louisville, KY have truly outdone themselves this year and every time I step outside my home, my breath is taken away by the beauty of the white Bradford pear trees, the golden forsythia, and the gorgeous tulips and daffodils. I’m assuming that these plants have been popping up for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, but did you know that music, singing, dancing, and rhythm have also been an integral part of Spring festivities?
For thousands of years, people have celebrated the return of
“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.” Abraham Lincoln
There are many types of book club friends. Different book personalities (and I mean book personalities not daily personas) that make a book club so entertaining and thought provoking. Every book friend brings an interesting spin at discussion time. Some personalities are down right funny and others take some time to adjust to. Even with the ‘rainbow’ of reading personalities let this be your pledge,”We will always be good listeners, non-interrupters, respectful of comments, and finally, embrace our book natures”. If you follow that oath you will find at the end of the rainbow ‘reading as a group’ pot of gold.
Classifying the book type:
The Classic Austen: Prefers to read only novels from the 1800’s
The Flower Child: Wants to change the world in their reading and picks books that, well, will change the world
The Debbie Downer: Likes novels with no HEA (happy ever after)
The Fighter: Will fight to the end to get their book choice picked
The One Hit Wonder: Only loves one or two authors and be damned all others
The YA’er: Can’t seem to grow
Making a life cast of any part of the live human body is a complex and interesting project. However, a life cast cannot get more intricate, and therefore more enjoyable, as making a portrait cast.
This is a three dimensional cast of the head, shoulders and chest of a person and is also called a bust. It involves an elaborate and multifaceted process that calls for a lot of experience and skills. Life casting artists first try their hand at various life casts and make numerous face casts before even attempting to make a portrait casting!
How to do it?
Portrait casts require special care because the artist is making a mold of both the front and back of the model’s face. They have to carefully capture the exact shape and dimensions of the nose, ears, eyes and chin. Extra caution is required so as not to disturb or harm the model in any manner whatsoever.
Generally, alginate is the mold making material of choice for life casts. It has to be reinforced with a shell mold of cheese cloth and plaster bandages that will make the mold
If you are planning to host a few friends or colleagues for dinner or an official event, it is wise to look for an ideal venue that you can rent. Here are some of the primary factors that you should consider when looking for an event space.
Different facilities charge varying prices to use their amenities. Hence, it is wise to compare prices to find the one that best fits your budget. Keep the venue cost low to allow more room in your budget for beverages, entertainment, food, and other miscellaneous expenses. You can also save money by being flexible on the date, as there are certain days of the week when some facilities charge low prices.
If you intend to serve food, consider looking for a facility that has a kitchen to reduce your expenditure on dining. In most cases, facilities that do not have a kitchen hire a catering company or allow clients to bring in their own food or caterer. Other amenities that you should consider include an internet connection, audio-visual equipment, and clean up services.
Your selected event space should accommodate all your
Creating art has a lot in common with authentic leadership. This article delves ever so lightly into how two deep subjects display many of the same characteristics.
To begin with, the path to true leadership is a journey that begins with attaining an understanding of who you are really. The ethical leadership of others requires that you first understand your own values and perspectives, your own vision, your own mission in life. In creating art, in order to ultimately produce quality work with meaning, a similar journey must be undertaken. You must know you—your own values and perspectives, vision, and mission to ensure that the art you are producing is grounded in authenticity and that you are pursuing truth, whatever that means to you. In visual arts like painting, are you just copying a scene from nature or how someone looks to you, or are you capturing light, shadow, color, texture, and value to express meaning beyond superficial appearance? In music, are you repeating someone’s song to sound like them or are you searching for your voice and bringing out the emotion from deep within,
Stereolithography is a unique process of creating three-dimensional objects with a computer within a few hours. It is also called 3D printing, 3D layering or additive manufacturing.
It employs a novel technique to create a solid object in its entirety. The base is a drawing (CAD) and the computer uses the drawing to create the three dimensional object. The computer literally creates the object layer by layer and this is why it is also called additive manufacturing.
How it works?
A liquid polymer – like polyurethane resin or silicone rubber – forms the base for forming the solid plastic object.
The technician has to first design a CAD drawing of the desired object. The computer will then break up the CAD program into layers before ‘printing’ it on the material.
Indeed, the computer literally prints (or paints) the cross section pattern of the base of the object using the desired polymer in the vat. A thin layer is formed which quickly hardens when exposed to the computer-controlled laser beam. The computer again traces another layer of the object and the liquid polymer hardens quickly enough on laser contact.
The nature of all emotion is as a smooth progression of one emotion leading to another by increases or decreases in volume or intensity. More or less of one emotion leads you into the next nearby emotion above or below it.
In general, everyday experience carries us through an ebb and flow of emotions within a limited range. But under those rare circumstances, human emotion gets rattled by an intense personal experience that changes the smooth ebbing and flowing and turns it into a jagged, tumultuous mental environment.
This is what makes art, in all its forms, a focal point in all cultures because it expands the normal range of our emotional experiences through our perceptions. If the art possesses just the right formula it disturbs the landscape of consciousness and activates the mind’s scanners.
As these scanners detect the source of disturbance and focus on it, attention begins to pool and collect in that area and reverberates. Attention pours into that starting point and will rise into a stretched wave, suspended across time, as the mind continues receiving a constant stream of information. The wave rises
The intensity of emotion is best expressed by using the dynamic methods of an art form. Every creative subject has its own formalized approaches for dynamic usage, but in general dynamics are tools we can use as options for increasing or decreasing the amount of emotion flowing between artist and audience.
The flow of emotion through art is a two-way flow occurring between two terminals – the artist’s mind and the audience’s mind. The flow is smooth when the emotional impact sends a feedback signal that is regular and consistent, but rough and jagged when inconsistencies cause disturbances to the balance of smoothness. Both of these effects change by manipulating the types of emotions in question with their artistic dynamic equivalents.
The emotional impact of a dynamic component can be altered in one of two basic categories: suddenly and gradually.
A sudden impact will manifest as a punch or direct influence with no subtlety about it, but sometimes it will occur as a harmonious and seamless emergence within a work of art. In contrast, a gradual emotional impact will usually seem to come from a far distance
Indecision stops the flow of creative energy and prevents an artist’s vision from taking shape. It fills us with low-order ideas and points us in numerous unproductive directions.
Fear causes indecision and paralyzes us from moving forward. It prevents us from committing to specific ideas and making efforts in certain directions. Fear leads to second-guessing, doubts about our abilities, undermines our desire for creative expression.
The creative clog in our minds caused by indecision and fear eventually overflows and becomes a dispersal of creative thought that wastes good ideas and motivations in solid artistic directions.
Challenging artistic creations that have a daring edge to them can sometimes shock us and cause us to hesitate from bringing them to completion. Fear of transmitting this shocking effect to others and the way we imagine their resultant opinions about our new ideas, which could be our best work is another form of artistic indecision, which stems from the fear of hurting or offending others with ideas, manners, or through the violation of a societal norm.
Decision opens our mental valves to allow the flow of creativity to fill our works of
I think sometimes we people in the arts take ourselves way too seriously, sometimes we think way too highly of ourselves. Yes we’re creating something, yes we can do great things with God’s guidance and help. And always with his help. Some of us leave out God altogether, some of us think we’re smarter than God, heck some of us even say we created God and not the other way around. Whatever, but anyway.
And yes, the world is a better place because of art. But that doesn’t mean everyone is going to like what we do, what we profess to be ‘art’. That doesn’t mean that we should expect everyone to applaud our efforts. Sometimes a fair amount of crap passes as art, because it is different, because it challenges industry standards and in some way disturbs the mind. But there should always be a standard, there must always be form and substance. If not, then it’s just a lifeless disaster, a blob of mess, not art, be it in whatever format.
And it certainly doesn’t mean that we are better than anyone else because
OK, come on, just admit it. Everyone loves balloons. Kids love them. Adults love them. You love them too, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this article, right? Some people love balloons openly and passionately while others love them deep down, but bring a balloon artist into the picture, hand adults some balloon sculptures, and all of a sudden you have adults talking to their neighbor with their balloon character just like they did when they were eight years old. These little bubbles of joy have a tendency to bring out the kid in you.
It makes sense really. Think back on the parties and events you went to when you were a kid. What do you remember? If you’re like me it’s usually not much. What sticks with us are the things that made that time different, special, or more emotional than the rest of life’s experiences. Balloons were unique, fun, and something you didn’t experience day in and day out. When you did encounter them they were items of wonder and amazement, and they were a blast to play with. Even something as simple
Molds and casts have emerged as popular and accepted art forms for reproducing a sculpture, artwork or almost anything else. Indeed, using the basic techniques of mold making and casting, it is possible to recreate just about anything in its entirety. A variety of products and materials can be used based on the requirements and it is even possible to replicate the live human body. You can easily create a spitting image of a person’s face, hands or any other part you wish!
However, a layperson often gets confused between the two terms of mold making and casting. The following explanation will shed clarity on the methods and help you to understand them:
Mold making: A mold is nothing but a negative or reverse impression of an object or sculpture. It accurately captures the surface detail of the object right down to every fold and undercut.
Molds can be made with different materials such as clay, wax, plaster, moulage, polyurethane rubber, silicone rubber, thermoset mold rubber, liquid latex rubber and more. Plaster bandages yield rough form molds and are generally used to make supportive shell molds. Body
Creating a haunted attraction isn’t just about profits. For a lot of haunt owners, a haunted attraction is a work of art. It’s an opportunity for self-expression. Many haunted attractions are immersive works of art with a spectrum of experiences for the senses. But there are psychological principals that haunt owners can incorporate into their works of art to make them even better for patrons. Because when it comes to haunted attractions, the details often go unnoticed.
When people get really scared, parts of the brain shut down. In a crisis situation, like when a person is attacked on the street for example, the victim may actually lose their eyesight temporarily, or they may go deaf very briefly. In an emergency, the brain will shut down sense information that isn’t useful. So, in a dim environment, a person may experience tunnel vision, or lessened vision due to trauma or fear. In a situation that doesn’t offer any auditory cues regarding a threat, like a really loud environment, a victim may simply “go deaf” and have no memory of auditory data during a fearful event. A
Most people spend a fair amount of their lives in a trance state without ever realizing it. Being hypnotized is a common experience and in fact, a pleasurable one for most people. It’s a state of consciousness in which the brain is oscillating between 7-10 Hertz. Haunt owners can create more intense experiences by recognizing the fact that their patrons may be somewhat suggestible inside their haunted attraction. Many patrons naturally go into a trance first thing as they enter the haunt without ever realizing it.
There are ways to encourage people to go into trance without having to actively hypnotize them. For haunted attraction owners, encouraging trance can be as simple as overwhelming patrons with a lot of sensory stimuli. Patrons should see, hear, smell, and touch things that are unfamiliar to them all at once. This is an experience that’s easy to create in a haunted attraction, which is why most haunt owners can assume that a fairly high percentage of their patrons walk through their haunts in state of trance.
So, as a haunt owner, how can you use your patron’s suggestible state
As a magician I have found the magician’s art to be an excellent tool to assist in developing rapport in many situations. Corporations, schools, motivational presenters and organizations that help people at risk, can enhance their ability to connect with their audience by including magic tricks as they present their message.
Many magicians specialize in children’s shows, for which the demand is very high. Many just present shows as entertainment, however, the potential for including life lessons within the presentation is huge and provides a vehicle for the magician that wants to make a difference to the lives of the young, at an age that they are shaped a great deal by their experiences and those that make an impression on them.
There are numerous magicians that specialize in this type of show and they are always in demand. If this is a format that you wish to pursue, develop a message and develop a show that uses effects that pertain to and illustrate the life lesson that you want to convey. The underlying message must be simple, clear and easy to grasp. A show built
For book lovers, libraries are the most wonderful places in the world. If you enjoy reading, you should never miss visiting the legendary reading areas that not only look wonderful but also house some rare collections of books from around the world.
#1 Admont Abbey Library, Austria
If you are religious, you will fall in love instantly with the Admont Abbey library in Austria, the largest monastery library. It was built in 1776 and it houses 70,000 volumes of monastery literature. When you look up at the ceiling, you will find numerous frescoes that depict human knowledge including Divine Revelation.
#2 The Royal Library of Copenhagen, Denmark
This library nicknamed as Black Diamond is the largest library found in the Nordic countries. Right from the first Danish book printed in 1482, this library holds almost all the books ever printed in Danish. Unlike conventional libraries, this is located at the waterside, allowing students to relax with a book in hand soaking up the sun.
#3 Trinity College Library, Ireland
This library of University of Dublin and Trinity College is the only library in Ireland called as copyright library. All books
Approximately every poet of the world has described moon light in his poetry. Poets have written different rhymes on the beauty of moonlit light. It has a pet scene for the lover of arts including literature, artist, painter etc. It is one of the beautiful heavenly bodies. It adds beauty and splendor to the darkness of night. It shows that moonlit light is an integral part of the universe. Moonlit light looks like a lake of silver which exercises a peculiar fascination on our hearts and minds. Walk in a moonlit night has its own charm and beauty. It is really a refreshing and interesting experiences for us.
Walking in a moonlit night is pleasant and delightful. It releases our tensions and gives pleasure. It also elevate our spirits, brighten our souls and refresh our minds. We cannot enjoy the walk under the burning sun and at night since it is dark. The atmosphere remains calm and quiet during moonlit night which makes out walk peaceful. Moreover, the cool air, the cool and soothing beams of the moon, kisses every object of nature, present a
Weekends are meant to have fun. So, you should not stay put inside the home and rather go out and enjoy the best times of the week. You should take the family out on an outing to a place where every member can get something to feel engaged and excited at the same time. Rather than taking the family to the same place over and again, you should rather look for something new this time, something not tried earlier. You can try trampolining as it enables a range of unique and energetic activities that will suit each and every member of the family.
Trampoline parks are one of those rare places to offer something for every member of the family. So, be it kids, teens or adults, all will find something to look up to and something to enjoy. Kids love being to these parks and they can spend many non-stop hours having unlimited fun. Similarly, adults get a chance to bring the child in them out in the open. Age hardly matters at such parks as people of any age group can leverage the | <urn:uuid:a8c2021a-3537-4c93-a86b-2d2a324c5759> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rustpaint.net/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00465-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95586 | 4,110 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Agar makes an Impact
6 January 2012
One of Dr Jon Agar's research projects has been named in a recent AHRC report on the impact of projects it has funded. Jon's collaboration, "Locating Communications Heritage: engaging the mobile user," was cited for its exploration of new technologies:
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Tax season is typically the most vulnerable time for organizations when it comes to the potential of being scammed. Cyber criminals continue to use ever changing technology to push the limits regarding identity theft, data breaches, compromising business emails and engaging in business email spoofing scams.
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) is warning about phishing emails involving payroll direct deposits, wire transfers, Form W-2 scams, among other fraudulent activity. Additionally, the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) warns about recent scams involving social security numbers. This criminal activity can present itself in many forms, including impersonations of a company representative, employee or executive “sent by” email correspondence or by phone. These communications are typically requesting personal or financial information.
If you receive a suspicious email communication, it is important to take swift action, which may include one (1) or more of the following steps:
Read the communication carefully and be on the lookout for grammatical and spelling errors. Most fraudulent communication will contain these errors.
Should an employer be threatened by a potential Social Security scam, the employer should report the activity to SSA by calling 1-800-269-0271 or by submitting an online report at https://oig.ssa.gov/report.
The top source of security incidents is the employee workforce. Therefore, it is critical that all employees know how to recognize data breaches or fraudulent activity, and, feel comfortable bringing those concerns forward.
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With more than 300 volcanoes crowded into a finger of land roughly the size of California, Russia's Kamchatka peninsula is home to the world's highest concentration of active volcanoes.
Only 29 volcanoes are active, occasionally spilling lava down their slopes or shooting steam and ash into the sky. On Jan. 11, NASA's Terra satellite snapped a picture of a fearsome foursome, as a quartet of Kamchatka's volcanoes erupted at the same time.
The four volcanoes — Shiveluch, Bezymianny, Tolbachik and Kizimen — are separated by only 110 miles (180 kilometers), according to NASA's Earth Observatory.
The eruption style varies among the volcanoes, the Earth Observatory noted. At Shiveluch and Bezymianny volcanoes, thick, pasty lava is forming a mound called a lava dome, similar to the caldera at Mount St. Helens in Washington.
Further south, at Tolbachik volcano, thin, runny lava streams down the slopes of the volcano, forming low and broad flows similar to those at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. Glowing hot lava is visible in the near-infrared light of the satellite image.
Finally, Kizimen’s lava is a mix: not as viscous and sticky as Shiveluch and Bezymianny, but not as fluid as Tolbachik's. The intermediate lava forms thick, blocky flows. The dark, fan-shaped deposits seen on the volcano are rocks and ash that fall from Kizimen's summit.
More than 100 volcanoes on the Kamchatka peninsula have erupted in the past 12,000 years. The land sits above a subduction zone, where two of Earth's tectonic plates meet and one slides beneath the other into the mantle, the deeper layer beneath the crust. As heat and pressure from the mantle squeeze water out of the lower plate, the water escapes. The water helps partially melt the nearby mantle, creating magma. The magma rises upward, drilling through the Earth's crust and, when it reaches the surface, eventually forming volcanoes.
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Kitchen Sink Island. This island loop, which first appeared in the uniform plumbing code in 1958, was later recognized in most other model plumbing codes, and has remained largely unmodified throughout the years. Having a sink there interrupts that flow and eats into available countertop space for that.
We believe it is ideal for the sink to be on the island (or one of the sinks). Kitchen island sinks are a great way to compliment your workflow and save you space on your main counter. A regular kitchen sink, adjacent to a wall, has a vent hidden in the wall that connects to the drain.
Japanese Meteorological Agency Data Shows Warming On Japanese Island.
A massive cargo ship carrying luxury vehicles from germany to rhode island sank in. During parties, another great use of that sink on the island is using it as a large ice bucket, filling it with ice, wine, beer or soda cans. The gorgeous waterfall edge of the marble countertop makes this kitchen island a focal point.
Having A Sink There Interrupts That Flow And Eats Into Available Countertop Space For That.
Kitchen island dimensions with sink the standard size for a kitchen island is usually two feet by four feet. So it won’t plug up, the vent must rise six inches above the overflow level of the sink before the pipe goes horizontal. Today’s kitchen island sinks are more than utilitarian fixtures.
We Believe It Is Ideal For The Sink To Be On The Island (Or One Of The Sinks).
Kitchen island sinks are a great way to compliment your workflow and save you space on your main counter. 1 day agocargo ship carrying luxury cars to rhode island sinks in atlantic ocean after firea large cargo vessel carrying luxury cars from germany to rhode island has sunk in. Obviously, a vent pipe in a kitchen island can’t do that.
The Sink Fittings Are By Chicago Faucets, And The.
See more of this home here. Minimalist islands help your kitchen area look less busy and cluttered by offering storage space, seating, and typically an appliance or sink integrated into the island. The massive kitchen island in the home of alexandre de betak and his wife, sofía sanchez de betak, was made to alexandre’s exacting specifications.
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Lara Schrijver - Radical Games – Popping the Bubble of 1960s’ Architecture
Through three radical critiques of Modernist architecture, illustrated by the iconic–and very different–works of the Situationist International, Venturi Scott Brown and Archigram, Radical Games offers new perspectives on the architecture of the 1960s. It illuminates some of the pitfalls of contemporary architectural thought and questions a number of preconceptions that remain with us from the prevalent discourses of the 1960s. Perched on the cusp of Postmodernism and global capitalism, the critiques in this volume demonstrate a perceptive understanding of Modernism, as well as contemporary conditions, such as our increasingly image-saturated society. It is also clear, however, that these radical projects were so entwined with Modernism that the architectural conversation of the 1960s was driven to an impasse, which the contemporary debate has not yet been able to escape. | <urn:uuid:1fd4a828-ca7c-4e9b-aa09-0b485c8fe32a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://underbelly.nu/product/radical-games-popping-the-bubble-of-1960s-architecture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.944616 | 196 | 1.59375 | 2 |
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a prefabricated, tunnel-shaped shelter made of corrugated metal and having a concrete floor; Quonset hut: first used by the British army in World War I.
a military shelter of semicircular cross section, made of corrugated steel sheet US and Canadian equivalent Quonset hut
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Nissl substance (nĭs’l) n. Material consisting of granular endoplasmic reticulum and ribosomes and occurring in nerve cell bodies and dendrites. Also called Nissl body, Nissl granule.
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BackdoorsMany of the viruses that are circulating around the Internet are backdoor programs. A backdoor is a secret entrance into your computer. The virus opens that backdoor, and sends a message to the backdoor writer and/or to a whole list of people who share these backdoors. They allow anyone with the key to enter your computer over the Internet and do whatever they want with your machine, including download pornography or set up a server for illegally obtained music.
DefinitionsWhen your antivirus or anti-spayware program searches your hard drive for malware, looking all the way through every single file would just take too much time. Luckily, there's a quicker way to check for a virus. Every virus has a "fingerprint," a unique identifier, some specific code that it must have to do its dirty work. Every antivirus or anti-spyware program as a set of these fingerprints, called "definitions," which it uses to match against malware. When new viruses or spyware come out (which they seem to be doing daily!), the good guys update their definitions in order to be able to detect the new malware.
EnginesThe "engine" of an antivirus or anti-spyware program is the part of the program that actually does the job - searches the hard drive, deletes bad files, etc. Because the bad guys are always figuring out new ways to at you, the good guys need to update their engines to block those new ways.
Keystroke LoggersSmall programs that hide in the background, recording every key you type. Eventually, they send that information to someone out on the net, and that person hopes that they have recorded your credit card numbers, bank account information, passwords, social security number, and other important information.
MalwarePretty much everything we're talking about here. It's a constructed word that basically means "bad software."
Script KiddiesMost of the basic malware is written by a small handful of programmers. They create "kits," or "scripts," with which other people with no real talent or ability can create their own malware. These "scripts" are used by "script kiddies" to create most of the stuff we're seeing out on the net. "Script kiddie" is a seriously derogatory term. It implies that the person in question has no actual talent of his or her own, and is barely smart enough to follow someone else's script.
SpywareSmall programs that hide in the background, spying on what you do and where you go on the Internet. Eventually, they send that information to someone out on the net, and that person will have information about your surfing habits.
TrojansPrograms that pretend to be one thing, when they are really something else. For example, a program that purports to be a funny (or dirty) picture of Bill Clinton or Saddam Hussein, but, while you're looking at the picture, it's deleting files from your hard drive. The name, of course, comes from the tale of the Trojan Horse in Homer's Iliad.
VirusesComputer code that is designed to do something unexpected, and usually malicious. Viruses are usually designed to spread from one computer to another, much like real-world viruses, hence the name. They can be transmitted via email, Web ads, downloads of programs or music, or via CDs and diskettes. Some viruses do their damage immediately, but most wait a while, which gives them time to infect your whole system, and all your email and diskettes. Effects can range from the silly (playing "Happy Birthday" or putting a cute picture on your screen) to totally destructive (wiping out your hard disk). The worst are the ones in between - they do something sneaky like change numbers in spreadsheets, but never "announce" their presence.
WormsViruses, Trojans, etc. that spread themselves from computer to computer with very little human intervention. They will, for example, set up their own email server and send out email from your system without you ever knowing it is happening.
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France is such a country where you can live peacefully and start your own business in France easily without having any difficulties. The reason is that the government of France is very co-operative and it wants the public to live satisfactorily.
Economy of the France
The economy of France is highly developed and free-market-oriented. It is the world’s 7th largest economy by 2019 nominal figures and the 10th largest economy by PPP figures. It is the 2nd largest economy in the European Union after Germany.
France has a diversified economy, that is dominated by the service sector (which represented in 2017 78.8% of its GDP), whilst the industrial sector accounted for 19.5% of its GDP and the primary sector accounted for the remaining 1.7% The fifth largest trading nation in the world (and second in Europe after Germany), France is also the most visited destination in the world, as well the European Union’s leading agricultural power.
France is the most visited destination in the world
France was in 2020 the largest Foreign Direct Investment recipient in Europe, Europe’s second largest spender in Research and development, ranked among the 10 most innovative countries in the world by the 2020 Bloomberg Innovation Index, as well as the 15th most competitive nation globally, according to the 2019 Global Competitiveness Report (up 2 notches compared to 2018).
France Economic Indicators
France GDP Growth Rate
France is the seventh largest economy in the world and the second largest in the Euro Area. the biggest sector of the economy is household consumption (55 percent) followed by government expenditure (24 percent) and gross fixed capital formation (22 percent). Exports of goods and services account for 29 percent of GDP while imports account for 31 percent, subtracting 2 percent from total GDP.
France Interest Rate
France is a member of the European Union which has adopted the euro. France’s benchmark interest rate is set by the European Central Bank. The official designation for the rate is main refinancing operation.
France Inflation Rate
In France, the most important category in the consumer price index is services (48 percent of total weight), in particular actual rentals and services for dwellings (7 percent), health services (6 percent), transport (3 percent), and communication (2 percent). The index also includes: manufactured products (26 percent) such as medical products (4 percent) and clothing and footwear (4 percent); food (16 percent); energy (8 percent) such as petroleum products (4 percent); and tobacco (2 percent).
France Unemployment Rate
In France, the unemployment rate measures the number of people actively looking for a job as a percentage of the labour force.
France Government Debt to GDP
France recorded a government debt equivalent to 98.10 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product in 2019
France Balance of Trade
Since 2004, France has been recording trade deficits due the gradual erosion of the export-oriented industry, the appreciation of the euro and the increasing dependency on imports of energy and manufactured products. In 2017, the biggest trade deficits were recorded with: China & Hong Kong, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Belgium; while the biggest trade surpluses were recorded with: the Middle East, the UK, Africa and Switzerland.
France Currency Euro
The euro is the official currency of France, which is a member of the European Union. The Euro Area refers to a currency union among the European Union member states that have adopted the euro as their sole official currency. In France, interest rate decisions are taken by the Governing Council of the European Central Bank.
France Stock Market
The CAC 40 Index is a benchmark French stock market index. It tracks the performance of 40 companies selected among the top 100 market capitalization and the most active listed equities traded on the NYSE Euronext Paris. The CAC 40 Index is free floating, modified capitalization-weighted index. The Index has a base value of 100 as of December 31, 1987..
France Ease of Doing Business
France is ranked 32 among 190 economies in the ease of doing business, according to the latest World Bank annual ratings. The rank of France remained unchanged at 32 in 2019 from 32 in 2018. The Ease of doing business index ranks countries against each other based on how the regulatory environment is conducive to business operationstronger protections of property rights. Economies with a high rank (1 to 20) have simpler and more friendly regulations for businesses.
France Business Confidence
Business Confidence in France decreased to 93 points in October from 94 points in September of 2020.
In France, Business Climate measures industrial entrepreneurs’ sentiment about current business situation and expectation about business conditions. The survey sample comprises about 4,000 enterprises in the manufacturing and mining industries. The indicator is calculated using factor analysis technique. The index is then calculated in a way to measure the current sentiment in relation to the historic index values of the period 1993-2011. A value over 110 indicates unusually high optimism and a value under 90 indicates unusually high pessimism. The value 100 indicates neutrality.
France Consumer Confidence
Consumer confidence in France fell to 94 in October of 2020 from 95 in September and compared to market expectations of 93. The index remains below its long-term average of 100 since April when the coronavirus pandemic started. Households have been less optimistic about their future financial situation (-8 vs -5); the share of households considering it is a suitable time to save has declined (32 vs 34); and those considering making major purchases were stable (-18). The standard of living in the next 12 months is seen deteriorating (-54 vs -47) and unemployment is seen higher (73 vs 71).
In France, the consumer confidence index is based on a survey of about 2 000 households. The questionnaire focuses on: past and future economic situation in France, past and future personal financial situation, unemployment, intention to make major purchases, current savings capacity and expected savings capacity. The indicator is calculated using factor analysis technique. The index is then calculated in a way to measure the current sentiment in relation to the historic index values of the period 1987-2011. A value over 110 indicates unusually high optimism and a value under 90 indicates unusually high pessimism. The value 100 indicates neutrality.
France Bank Lending Rate
Bank Lending Rate in France remained unchanged at 1.13 percent in September from 1.13 percent in August of 2020.
In France, the bank lending rate is the average rate of interest charged on loans by commercial banks to private individuals and companies.
France Corruption Rank
France is the 23 least corrupt nation out of 180 countries, according to the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index reported by Transparency International. The Corruption Perceptions Index ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. A country or territory’s rank indicates its position relative to the other countries and territories in the index.
France Credit Rating
Standard & Poor’s credit rating for France stands at AA with stable outlook. Moody’s credit rating for France was last set at Aa2 with stable outlook. Fitch’s credit rating for France was last reported at AA with negative outlook. DBRS’s credit rating for France is AA (high) with stable outlook. In general, a credit rating is used by sovereign wealth funds, pension funds and other investors to gauge the credit worthiness of France thus having a big impact on the country’s borrowing costs. This page includes the government debt credit rating for France as reported by major credit rating agencies.
Taxation in the France
Taxes in France are made up of taxes in the narrow meaning of the word, plus social security contributions. Most of the taxes are collected by the government and the local collectivities, while the social deductions are collected by the Social Security. There is a distinction to be made between taxes (impôts), which applies to production, importations, wealth and incomes, and social contributions (cotisations sociales), which are part of the total wage paid by an employer when he remunerates an employee. Taxes and contributions together are called in French prélèvements obligatoires (compulsory deductions).
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|31% (on profits over €500,000)
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15% (not over €38,120)
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10% (restaurants, transpor-
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Oliver Enzo has an amazing talent. It comes from something innately embedded in his nature but developed by him and honed to a high degree of skill. He is 15 years old now and has his own business in drone video work. At the age of 13 I bought him his first high quality video Drone. At age fourteen he took his talent to Burning Man and was approved for one of just 30 Drone Pilot Permits out of 70,000 Burning Man participants. While there he Shot some drone footage for a You Tuber with over ten million subscribers to his channel. Ollie’s footage can be seen in the You Tube Video the guy produced. His flying skill is impressive. It is matched by his eye for the shot and his ability to edit moving images and music together into a beautiful final product.
I know I already said it, but he is a really good pilot. But he is also a fifteen year old kid. Under the rules for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (Drones) you have to have an FAA issued Commercial operators certification in order to do commercial work. To be eligible to get the certification you have to be 16 years of age. What’s up with that? Well, the FAA controls all the country’s airspace and drones are just one of the users of that airspace. Actually They’re the new kids on the block in terms of airspace users.
Though many view drones as a nuisance or as as irritating toys, or unwanted invaders of their privacy, Drones occupy a respected place in aviation and provide an impressive array of services beneficial to society. They can also pose a danger. That’s why the FAA requires commercial users to take a test demonstrating adequate knowledge of the airspace regulations to operate safely and in a coordinated manner with both manned and other unmanned aerial vehicles. Within the language of the FAA Part 107 regulations (That’s the rules governing drone use) there is a stipulation that every mission must be under the control of a Remote Pilot in Command. That is the person holding the Certification. But the person doing the actual flying need not be the RPIC (Remote Pilot in Command). The person actually piloting the drone is referred to as “The Person Manipulating the Controls”. This person is under the supervision and direction of the RPIC but isn’t required to be FAA Certified. The RPIC just has to be able to take control of the drone should an emergency arise.
Here’s the little dance with words that has allowed Ollie to operate commercially: I am the RPIC. As a gift to Ollie for his fifteenth birthday I studied the regulations, completed an in-depth online course and took the FAA Proctored exam and have received my Part 107 Certification. This allows me to be the Remote Pilot in Command and Ollie to be the person manipulating the controls. He is a much more skilled pilot than I will ever be. In fact I haven’t even flown one of his good drones before getting certified. You don’t even have to demonstrate competency flying the drone in order to become a certified SUAS Remote Pilot by the FAA. I expect they will tighten that loophole pretty soon. But for now it has worked out for us.
I have since begun to learn to fly drones and how to shoot still images and video with them. Nothing spectacular. When our family were on an annual camping trip to Mono Hot Springs last Summer there were fires in the mountains and some of them were said to be getting within a few miles of the campground. The Camp Host, Jen had been in contact with Cal-Fire who were keeping her updated on the fire status and making contingency plans with her for how to evacuate or lock down the campgrounds should that become necessary. She said evacuation would be unlikely given the nature of the terrain, the woods, the abundance of water in camp and the limited capacity of the roads to facilitate a quick exodus. Also she said that if fire fighters were needed in the area the roads would need to be clear for them and their equipment, so anyone trying to leave under those conditions could get into trouble for obstructing an active firefighting effort.
There were days with helicopters circling for hours, trailing buckets that they were filling in a nearby lake and dropping on the fires. One day, after Making sure the choppers had ceased their activity several of us went on a hike up to a ridge to see if we could see any nearby plumes of smoke. Over an hour had passed since the last sight or sound of helicopter activity was registered. Ollie let me use his Mavic Pro drone to take up in the air and see what that vantage point could afford me. It is strictly forbidden to fly a drone anywhere near where aerial firefighting operations are in progress, and for good reason. You could cause the crash of a helicopter and endanger the lives of the crews in the air and on the ground. So I waited until there was absolutely no other air traffic for an extended period before I launched. From atop a granite outcrop I ascended straight up to a height of 200 feet, through an opening in the trees. Using my iPhone as a monitor the drone was sending me real-time video of the surrounding area. I did a 360 degree rotation and could see no nearby smoke or fires. That was a relief. I buzzed around above the tree tops for a few minutes shooting some video of Thule Lake with its high vertical granite wall standing from the smooth surface of the water up over a hundred feet high. I tried to spy the other hikers who had come out on the adventure with me, but I didn’t get a glimpse of them. I could hear them calling out like peacocks from below, I just couldn’t see them from the air.
After I landed and reported the fire status to the group we hiked back toward camp. One of the group asked if there was any interest on a side trip to Doris Lake for a dip before returning to camp. I wanted to go to get a shot of the lake and of Eagle Rock, which is a granite promontory rising some 45 feet or so above the lake and is a popular spot for thrill-seekers to jump off and enjoy that brief moment in the air that stretches out time, but compresses space into a tiny concentrated point while the experience lasts.
Sarah, her Labradoodle Charlotte and I broke off from the others and ambled the twisting, rugged trail to the top end of Doris. We scrambled over the bouldery stretch to the spot where access to the water is easy. There Sarah and Charlotte went in for a swim. The surface of the lake was as smooth as I had ever seen it. The skyline was beginning to blush as the Sun arced toward the place where it would intersect the profile of the peaks to the West. The quiet added to the beautiful stillness of the scene… It would be a majestic shot. I was excited and nervous as I unfolded the arms of the compact flying camera.
I went through my pre-flight procedure: Pairing the drone to my phone, making sure the drone and the transmitter were functional, removing the brace and cover that protect the delicate camera and gimbal assembly. My heart was pounding and my hands a little shaky as I lifted off. Sarah and Charlotte were just past halfway across the lake, already on their return leg of the swim, making a smooth wake of ripples as they plied the serene water. I flew toward them shooting video as I approached the midway mark of the lake where I intended to hover in place and rotate the drone 180 degrees to frame up the shot of Eagle Rock with the sunset bursting behind it. Instead of rotating the position of the drone though I mistakenly rotated the camera into a downward position, straight at the surface of the water. No big deal. I could edit that glitch out later.
I corrected that and drew the aim of the lens back to the plane I was after, pivoted into position and enjoyed the way I was able to arrange the shot. The smoke from fires brought out all the glory of the Sunset backlighting the scene. There was still more than enough light so the lake and the face of Eagle were fully exposed though. It was as lovely as I had hoped. There is a dynamic way of enhancing a scene like this when making video with the drone. What you do is line up the shot and then fly upwards and backwards, away from the subject. I have seen Ollie use this technique many times and thought it would be the perfect way to record the splendor of nature and preserve that moment. So that’s what I did.
Up and away, the field of view enlarging as I drew further from my side of the lake. Nice. Very nice. Another second or so should do it. Better get a visual on the drone to be sure I’m above the trees on the opposite bank. Just a quick glance up. Oh Fuck!
The drone was close to a tall Pine tree growing out of the rock right on the edge of the far shore and only about halfway up its height. I reversed the stick to full forward in an effort to avoid hitting the tree. But the drone was going fast and its momentum couldn’t reverse instantaneously. My heart landed in my stomach, maybe even my small intestine as I watched the little Mavic Pro impact the needled branch of that High Sierra Pine so close to the water’s edge.
My first worry was that the thing would bounce off the tree into the lake and sink. That would be the worst case. If it went into the water, of course the electronics would be fried and the drone would be ruined. Ollie has it insured, so if I could retrieve it we could replace it. But the water is deep and dark under the limbs of that tree. My heartbeat stopped while I waited for it to tumble down the limbs and splash. My breath caught high in my chest as I awaited the worst. One, two , three seconds passed and the red and green lights signaled that the drone remained high up in those arboreal clutches. Thank God! I moved the two control sticks into the down and inward position shutting down the motors to keep them from burning up, unable to spin as they were.
This is Bad! I have to get that drone out of that tree before it falls out! Before the Sun goes down. I can’t leave it there overnight. “Sarah, I got Ollie’s drone stuck up in a tree on the other side of the lake. You and Charlotte don’t have to stay with me, but I have to go over there and try to get that drone back. I can’t leave it in the tree”. “Oh my God Miguel!”, Sarah responded, “Where is it? “. It’s right across the lake about 40 feet up a tree”, I told her. “How am I going to get over there? I could swim, but then I’ll be across the lake having to climb that tree in just my shorts. That won’t work. I’m going to have to hike around the back of the lake, up and over that high rock and down to where the tree is.” “Of course we’re going to stay with you. There’s no way we could let you do that by yourself. What if something happened? What if you fall out of that tree? I think you should just leave it. You’re never going to be able to get up there and get it back”. “I may not be able to get it, but I have to do my best to try. It’s Ollie’s drone and I can’t just give up on it without trying”. Sara was doubtful, “I don’t see how you mean to get at it. It’s way up there. You aren’t going to be able to climb that tree are you? How do you know you won’t fall?” I was feeling desperate, “I am not going to take any unreasonable risks. I need to get over there and see if the tree is strong enough to climb. The Sun is getting pretty low already. I hate to drag you through this, but I have to get moving or it’s going to be dark.” Sarah was obviously not comfortable with any of this, but she is too solid a person to abandon me to my stupidity and misadventure. She was picturing me lying under that tree on the bare granite, fractured and unable to help myself. I felt terrible putting her through this.
We set off retracing our steps around the back of the lake. “How are we going to get over to where it is?”, Sarah asked as we pounded out a brisk cadence. “I’ve been over there with Ollie before, one of the times we camped out up here”, I told her… “the year before we did it with you and Noah”. There’s a trail that goes up and over those rocks and that big humpbacked hill, down to the other bank”. Continuing to walk fast she confided in me, “I should tell you my depth perception is not good once the light is low. I may have a hard time picking out my footing as it gets darker. And also I don’t care for scrambling and off-trail hiking. Jeanie LaPage always wanted to do hikes that way when we would go hiking and I never got comfortable with it.”. “I’m sorry Sarah. I really appreciate your willingness to stay with me. That means a lot. Let’s try to get over there quickly and I’ll see if I can even get into that tree. If I can, then I’ll go up and try to get Ollie’s drone back. If it looks like there’s no way up to it we’ll be able to say we tried and we’ll go back to camp”.
We made pretty good time humping through the back country. Sarah, her caveats acknowledged, had no difficulty arriving on the far side of the lake with sunlight to spare. She didn’t come all the way down to where the tree stood. I think she didn’t want to be that near if I should fall. She did sort of run a monologue of how I might fall. I couldn’t get all the way up there. The limbs probably wouldn’t hold my weight. Though I did appreciate her concern and especially her presence I had to say to myself, “To Hell with that!” I was resolved to get up into that Pine, figure a way to reach out the 8 feet or so from the trunk where the drone was suspended and safely retrieve that thing! I can get very determined and willful when I have to. This was one of those times. I had flown my son’s drone into a tree on the far side of a lake and I could not go back to camp without doing my absolute damndest…without pushing my limits to their utmost so I could to return it to him.
Sarah and Charlotte sat on a naturally formed granite bench about 50 yards up the slope from where I stood testing the the strength of the lower limbs. From ground level it looked promising. The limbs started only about 4 1/2 feet up the trunk and were about 5 inches in diameter. That should be strong enough. The spacing of the limbs appeared to be such that a climber should be able to reach from one to another without having to be a contortionist. I shouted to Sarah, “The limbs seem strong enough. I’m going to give it a try!” “Just be careful Miguel!”, came her reply.
I turned my cap around with the bill toward the back of my head, reached out gripping the dry rough bark of the first branch and hung my weight from it. 200 pounds is a lot to ask of a tree limb to hold. No problem. No crisp crackling noises like the wood was going to pieces. No sagging down. So I put a foot against the trunk, leaned back and pulled myself up into that pine. Once I was standing on that lower limb I could see there was a little issue. There were going to be spots where I was going to have to use little dead limb stubs to transition from branch to branch. That could be a problem. “If I’m going to fall that’s how it will happen”, I thought to myself. Better just test one of them now, while I’m still only a few feet up to see what happens.
These stubs are just about four to eight inches long. They are dead-wood with no bark and many of them are cracked and look to be just dangling from the trunk, waiting for the next breeze, or chipmunk to knock them onto the rocks or into the lake below. 200 pound chipmunk…Jesus Christ, what am I doing? I’m not ten years old anymore. My best tree climbing days are clearly far far behind me. Do I really have any business at more than halfway through my fifties assaulting this dignified, centuries old sentry of the mountain lake? Stop it Miguel! Those thoughts are not going to help you get all that way up there and complete your mission. It is time to simplify your thoughts and refine your focus. Take a few breaths and become one with the tree. Envision your success and then perform the physical steps that bring you to it. You still have that ten year old tree climbing aficionado inside you. Access him and bring that drone safely down.
Upward I continued, testing each branch, each stub, with first a little weight and then more, satisfying myself that that would not be the one to give way. By the time I was fifteen feet up I was crawling with ants. They were everywhere! At first I thought there was just a line of ants in the lower branches and once I was higher I would be out of them, but they were in every inch of the tree. I tried brushing them off. There were just so many! I got the ones off my neck and face and carried on. Every few feet I had to swipe some more off, the most distracting ones anyway. You have got to be kidding me! This is how it’s going to be? “You have gotten yourself into this situation Miguel”, I chided. “These damn ants are just going on with their lives. You go on with yours”. Refocus. Calm. But “Shit!” They’re getting in my nose and mouth! Fuck it! I’ll just have to do my best to ignore them until I get back down.
Let me just say that the bark of this old tree is really sharp and jagged. It is scratching up my skin something fierce! It’s beginning to burn on my arms and legs. At least it almost gets my mind off the ants. Am I breathing this hard because I’m exerting myself at 7’000 feet elevation, or because I’m nervous I wont be able to get the drone back safely, or because I fear I may fall out of this ant farm? Not sure, but I certainly am not used to breathing this fast. Just slow down a bit. Not much further to go. Make your movements deliberate. Now is not the time to rush.
I can’t say how much time I’ve spent in these prickly, ant crawling pine boughs, but I’ve finally reached the level of the drone. The red and green lights are at eye level. Looking down I’d say at least 40 feet up. In against the trunk as I worked my way to this point I haven’t had any real reason to worry about falling, but now I am faced with the problem of how to reach the drone that looks like it’s more like ten feet out the limb than the eight feet I had guessed from the ground. There’s nothing I can use to reach for it. That means I am going to have to go out to it, hang myself ten feet out these limbs. Their diameter isn’t as broad up here as it was below. Hmmm, the branch the drone is in is pretty strong looking. I can put some weight on that one, but not all my weight. I wouldn’t trust it for that. About five feet down there’s another decent sized one. It looks like my best bet is to distribute my weight between the two of them… stand on the one below and hold onto the upper one, not putting too much weight on either. That should work. Hopefully. If one fails, I will need the other to do all the heavy lifting and keep me this side of the River Styx.
A few inches at a time I test the competency of the two limbs I am suspending my life from. Away from the safety of the trunk, where the branches are thick and strong, I continue outward. There is Sarah with Charlotte up the slope a ways. I don’t really know her that well. We have camped together up here with our sons, away from the rest of the group that once. We have shared carpool driving from Bonny Doon to Santa Cruz where our kids are in school together. Her husband, Sam and I are in the same loose-knit group known as the Bonny Doon Gentlemen’s Leisure Club. (Great group by the way!) We have been at numerous social gatherings where we have friends in common… that is what it is to be a Dooner. Everyone knows everyone and everyone helps each other out. Now she’s standing by me in this harebrained photo op come off the rails. She didn’t have to stay. I wouldn’t have blamed her if she had left. Would I have done the same for her? I would. Without hesitation. Does she know that? I hope she could guess.
Just a few feet more to go. At this point there’s a fair bit of dead material in the branches between the drone and me. That doesn’t reassure me. I want these to be the healthiest, most verdant goddamn pine boughs I have ever seen! Nothing to do for it though. This dead stuff is in my way. I have to remove some of it to be able to reach the drone. So I snap off a few little twiggy bits and drop them. It doesn’t occur to me that Sarah is going to hear this and think I’m falling. I’m just honestly not thinking about that right now, okay. Who are you to judge? Almost there. I move out a little further. Really. Not. Digging. This! A little further. What if I stretch? Can I reach it? Balancing as best I can I extend my arm as far as I can. I don’t want to test the good nature of these branches any more than I already have. But I have to. I can’t reach. Out I shimmy. Just another half a foot. Reach. Got It!
Unbelievable! I don’t believe it myself! I really, truly don’t. I have Ollie’s little Alpine White Mavic Pro drone in my hand. It appears grossly intact. I powered down the battery. I haven’t fallen. I am going to have to tell him what happened. When I get back to camp I shall have to confess what I have done. It is totally my fault. I did not maintain awareness of my surroundings. But I have rescued the drone. Well almost. I still have to get down from this high pickle, but compared to the climb, when I didn’t know if it could be done… the descent should be easy. Fold the arms and props into their compact positions. Stow it into the cargo pocket of my shorts. (It fits!). Get back in toward the central column of the tree trunk and down I go.
Once I felt my feet back on the ground I let out a grateful sigh. The worst had been averted. The drone wasn’t in the lake. It wasn’t in the tree. It was in my pocket. I couldn’t be sure it wasn’t damaged. It has some delicate parts I had no way to assess at that moment, but it wasn’t obviously destroyed. Now we just had to get back down to camp. After I get these ants off me. I was actually lucky. The ants weren’t too interested in biting and the tree was strangely absent of sap. The scrapes from the bark were the worst I had suffered.
The Sun had fallen below the horizon while I was up the tree. It would be dark before we saw camp. We still had to scramble off trail for a good distance, then it would be a mile hike over rugged granite down to the the streamside campsite where our families would be, worrying over what had become of us. I thought they would be anyway. But Sarah had called them. Her cell phone got reception all the way out there! So much for remote back country experience! She had already told them what had happened and what I was attempting. (That took some of the sting out of the confession I was going to have to make to my son). She called again to let them know we were headed back down.
It was difficult going at first, skirting over, around and sometimes through thickets of wild roses. The major feature of these flowers is not the flowers. It is the thorns. An unreasonable abundance of them. What function can that many thorns serve? Half as many would be twice what’s needed to deter any creature from wanting anything to do with them! I tried to hold them aside, or down for Sarah when I could. Even so this was the worst part of the hike. There was no rhythm and we had to invent our route, since there was not trail on this stretch. Charlotte didn’t seem to mind.
She guided us enthusiastically once we were back on the trail. We had to watch our step. Luckily no rattle snakes had encamped in the trail. They are common up there and enjoy stretching out in the evening. We never heard a buzz. No-one tripped as the twilight deepened.
Before long we were back at camp, where the others were finishing dinner. There was some saved aside for us. The confession I thought I was going to have to make was never needed. Ollie, mindful of the stipulation that I am to supervise him when he flies a mission relished this opportunity to tell me he is going to have to supervise me when he lets me fly his drone in the future. That little turnabout filled him with a certain pride and gave him a good natured way to show he had the upper hand on me. Fair enough. He wasn’t angry. He doesn’t really get angry. (I’m not sure how he does that.) He was gracious enough, not forgetting that he, too has had mishaps in the air. Nothing was lost. The drone wasn’t even damaged we determined. The trouble I was in had trickled away down over boulders and up into the air. I learned through heart pounding adrenaline to maintain awareness of my position relative to potential hazards. Best of all, now I have this tale to tell. | <urn:uuid:d9028d17-097c-429e-828f-7ecf08573ebc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://welcometothegoatrodeo.com/2018/10/23/i-knew-i-was-in-trouble/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.980217 | 5,803 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Listen to this devotional:
Listen while you read: "Only Trust Him"1 (Lyrics)
1 Corinthians 9:22b – I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. (NKJV)
What is understandable to one person isn't necessarily understandable to someone else.
Our good friends had moved to South Carolina from Colorado. The wife, Jan, was a native Coloradoan, and the husband a native South Carolinian. When Jan's mother-in-law sent her to the store to get loaf bread, she assumed that it would be an easy mission. After all, who doesn't know what bread is?
A few minutes later, Jan called. "I don't see any loaf bread."
"You mean, the store is completely out of bread?" her mother-in-law replied.
"No, I see plenty of bread. There is just no Loaf brand."
I'm with Jan. In the neck of the woods where I grew up — the lower regions of South Carolina — bread was just called bread. At the most, I might say that I was going to get a loaf of bread, but never did I refer to it as loaf bread. Since bread is cooked in loaves, calling it loaf bread seemed redundant. Then again, I didn't grow up in upstate South Carolina where that's a familiar term — just like hose pipe. I always knew it as hose or garden hose. After all, they are hoses, not pipes. Of course, I have sayings that my wife — an upstate girl — isn't familiar with either.
As an early missionary, Paul, too, faced customs — and probably terms — that he wasn't familiar with. His goal was to find common ground with people, at least as much as was possible without compromising the gospel message that he preached.
Having grown up in church, I'm familiar with a host of churchy words that others who haven't grown up in church might find foreign — words like justification, sanctification, glorification, millennialism, vestibule, pulpit, sanctuary — and the list goes on.
Like Paul, my mission as a believer is to share God's love and offer of forgiveness with all people, regardless of nationality, race, language, culture, or social standing. Doing so means learning their "language", so that I can modify — but not compromise — my churchy language. Then, they can understand what God has done for them in Jesus Christ and accept His forgiveness. Otherwise, they will go on their merry way in an unforgiven state.
Let us all learn to find common ground with those who don't know Christ, so that we can point them to His gracious love.
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Tyson's Welfare Audit Program
The company plans to include chicken and cattle farms by January 2014
Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:22 AM
Tyson Foods, Inc. on Friday, Oct. 12 announced the launch of a program to audit the treatment of animals at the livestock and poultry farms that supply the company.
Others on Welfare Audit Wagon
The food industry has seen a variety of companies taking measures to ensure welfare of animals.
McDonalds announced in February it would require all its US pork suppliers phase out the use of sow gestation stalls.
In March Burger King pledged to transition its US supply chain to 100 percent cage-free eggs by 2017, and only purchase pork from suppliers that can demonstrate documented plans to end their use of gestation crates for breeding pigs.
In July, Kraft Foods said it would eliminate gestation crates from Oscar Mayer's pork supply chain by 2022.
Just last month Dunkin' Donuts and ConAgra Foods pledged to eliminate the use of pork from gestation crates from their supply chain. At that time, Dunkin' also announced it will be switching to cage-free eggs in its breakfast sandwiches.
"We know more consumers want assurance their food is being produced responsibly, and we think two important ways to do that are by conducting on-farm audits while also continuing to research ways to improve how farm animals are raised," says Donnie Smith, president and CEO of Tyson Foods
Tyson works with more than 12,000 independent livestock and poultry farmers, including 5,000 family poultry farmers, 3,000 family hog farmers and 4,000 family cattle farmers. The company employs more than a dozen veterinarians and maintains an Office of Animal Well-being.
Tyson has started trial pilot programs at some hog farms; plans to expand to poultry and beef facilities.
Smith says he wants people to know that Tyson cares enough to check farms, "and we're determined to help find better ways to care for and raise healthy animals," he says.
"We believe the farmers who supply us are the best in the world, and I think the audits will verify this. But, if we find problems, we want them fixed right away. To our knowledge, no other major U.S. meat or poultry company offers this kind of service to its farmers, customers and consumers," Smith adds.
The audits - called the Tyson FarmCheck Program - have already begun on a trial basis on some of the 3,000 independent hog farms that supply the company. Auditors are visiting the farms to check on such things as animal access to food and water, as well as proper human-animal interaction and worker training.
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Teaching literary evaluation is essential to teaching secondary ELA. Crafting a great literary essay requires each effort and time, which makes it only natural for college kids to get stressed. With the intention to write a literary essay, college students symbolism in slaughterhouse five should first read the e-book they're supposed to write down on. It takes a while to finish studying the book; it is better to start reading effectively upfront as you might have to read it a few occasions for lucid understanding.
If the literature assessment is a part of your dissertation or thesis, reiterate how your analysis addresses gaps and contributes new information, or focus on how you've got drawn on present theories and strategies to construct a framework in your analysis. This will lead straight into your methodology part.
The concluding paragraph is just as vital because the introduction; it is wanted to make your essay nicely-rounded. On your conclusion restate the thesis assertion, summarize the details and keep away from revealing new info at this stage. Ensure you make use of compelling conclusive remarks to encourage the readers to behave accordingly based on your suggestion or name-to-action.
The introduction ends with the thesis statement. It's a declarative sentence which states the point you'll make and is the important thing to your essay's success. It's possible you'll present background info related to your thesis to assist your audience perceive the subject. It's essential include the creator's identify & the title of the poem you are going to analyze.
Why is that this subject necessary to investigate? Describe the importance of the research downside and state why a case study design and the subject of analysis that the paper is designed around is appropriate in addressing the problem. The final line of your introduction needs to move the reader to the primary body of your essay. Very often, that is where we place the THESIS as a result of is clarifies the query that the topic asks.
Because information is arranged in thematic columns, you will get a helpful overview of all goals, or all strategies at a look. You may add new columns as your understanding improves. Thus the evaluate matrix may also be a strong device for synthesising the patterns you determine across literature, and for formulating your personal observations.
It is advisable hook the reader right from the start. Draw them in by portraying the subjects and points in a tempting manner so that your readers will hold studying. W.5.9a: Apply grade 5 Studying standards to literature (e.g., "Evaluate and contrast two or extra characters, settings, or occasions in a story or a drama, drawing on specific particulars within the text e.g., how characters interact").
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