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We recently recapped how the “War on Christmas” is non-existent and is a ridiculous excuse for some Religious Right activists to throw a pity fest for themselves and pretend they’re oppressed while politicizing inclusive holiday greetings, decorations and religious symbols.
In parts of China, government officials are going around to Christian churches and pulling down the crosses. That’s religious persecution.
But being expected to mind your own business while people do things that your religion doesn’t approve of is not religious persecution.
Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore, who heads up the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty, seems confused on this point. Lori recently complained about “bloodless persecution” of religion in America.
Authorities in China’s Zhejiang province have removed 1,200 to 1,700 crosses from Christian churches over the last two years, The New York Times reported in May.
Some Christians have rebelled against the cross removals; approximately 50 church members were injured in one recent confrontation with authorities.
“It was quiet late last year,” one anonymous Christian told The Times. “But the government is now making it clear that all of the crosses will go.”
In what is a genuine case of government-sponsored religious persecution, Chinese authorities have reportedly removed crosses from 1,200 to 1,700 churches over the past two years in an apparent attempt to keep the symbol from public view.
The New York Times reported last week that the campaign has been mostly restricted to the country’s heavily Christian Zhejiang province, but human rights activists fear it will soon expand.
For nearly two years, Americans United has detailed the truth behind Hobby Lobby v. Sebelius, a case brought by a chain of craft stores that claims it has a religious freedom right to deny important preventative health care to its employees.
Yesterday Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council (FRC), issued a rather hysterical email appeal for funds. No news there. Perkins does that all of the time.
This particular message, headlined “Help stop secular tyranny,” took a line that’s increasingly popular with the Religious Right these days: “Woe is me! We’re being persecuted.”
While researching my book Close Encounters with the Religious Right in 1999, I visited the headquarters of Focus on the Family (FOF) in Colorado Springs.
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"It's important to think about what you want students' writing to look like at the end of the year."
- Kelly Quintero
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In preparation for the year ahead, teachers featured in this workshop noted that they often read books about writing and teaching writing during the summer. Susie noted that, in 2003, she read Tom Romano's Blending Genre, Altering Style: Writing Multigenre Papers. Here's a list of other books on writing you might want to use to reinvigorate your teaching.
You can also consult this article of peer-recommended books to find other useful references. These recommendations are from an article in NCTE's English Journal.
The teachers in this workshop noted that, as they think about the first
few days of classes, they often plan to help their students get to know them
better as teachers and writers. Kelly Quintero used this
activity to start off her 2003-2004 school year. This activity builds
on a writing exercise that was part of a writer's workshop led by Judith
Ortiz Cofer. You can participate in this activity through the interactive
This list of the top ten myths of writing (prepared by the NCTE) might be a good starting point for your first discussions with student writers.
A good lesson plan helps you put your goals for the year into action. GEM, the Gateway to Educational Resources and The Educator's Reference Desk, formerly AskERIC, (both sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education) offer extensive lesson plans related to writing. Use the site's search function to locate them, entering terms such as "writing," "essays," or other specific writing genre.
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I use pihole extensively for blocking advertisements in my home network as well as on my servers. It’s a very easy to use tool which also gives you basic analytics. Pihole is no rocket science – it’s just a bunch of great utilities packaged together. A few weeks back I was lurking around trying to see if I can quickly deploy it on my servers using puppet instead of the manual way. Finally I found that there’s a docker image available for pihole and then I quickly wrote a puppet wrapper around it. Originally pi-hole was made for using raspberry pi as a DNS blocker but since then the project has moved ahead quite a lot. You can read up more about it here https://pi-hole.net/Continue reading
Well, if you have been driving for long time then I am sure you must have heard about this question many times.
I have explored this a lot, tried both strategies in after all that all my conclusions are here:
- Brake first always when you are driving on highway or at higher speeds (above 40-50 km/h) consistently
- In city – mix between brake first and clutch first as per your comfort.
- Get your leg off clutch whenever possible – even when you are in city
- Always always brake first when driving downhill.
If you use python then you might have used “python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000” at some point in time to share files with your friends on LAN. Sometimes we want to share large files from one computer to another and we need it. Sometimes it also happens that you are taking a session and you need to share a large file with everyone else. SimpleHTTPServer of python is good but it’s single threaded. It can only handle one client at a time so if you want to share file with a large number of people on LAN it is a bad option. Also SimpleHTTPServer doesn’t work properly if you are sharing large files. Continue reading | <urn:uuid:64e4bc13-ba6c-4647-8c78-c3f3a2263f44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://viky.co.in/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.963367 | 413 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Let’s treasure the old along with the new
On the dawn of the most historic inauguration of our time, we nervously await “change we can believe in.”
Politicians and pundits analyze every pre-presidential utterance and come to quick conclusions about what will happen under the new administration.
A “wait and see” attitude dampens our euphoria. Will we come together or will even harder times drive us apart?
In the din of expert voices on everything imaginable, what we don’t hear is informed conversation on how central culture is to our national well-being.
Our culture provides all the proof we need that we are together, that we have always been and, in spite of difficulties, will continue to be.
It’s time for us to build a new mythology based on our many cultural triumphs instead of fixating on our never-ending missteps and conflicts.
The best of America was displayed during this election. That America is in the poetry and promise of the Constitution and the writings of Hawthorne, Twain and Hemingway, in every Negro spiritual. It sings through fiddlers’ reels, in the lilting interpretations of ragtime, in the optimistic majesty of John Phillip Sousa.
That America transformed the whole world of music through the horn of Louis Armstrong and has passed it down through the sound of all jazz musicians everywhere. It is the well-woven cultural tapestry of America that will endure and see us through these and other unfortunate times.
At the root of our current national dilemmas is an accepted lack of integrity. We are assaulted on all sides by corruption of such magnitude that it’s hard to fathom.
Almost everything and everyone seems to be for sale. Value is assessed solely in terms of dollars. Quality is sacrificed to commerce and truthful communication is supplanted by marketing.
The type of gamesmanship that separates races, genders and ages by “preferences” is a most cynical brand. The integrity and dedication shown by American artists throughout our history provides a most needed and unequivocal counterstatement.
On the eve of Dr. Martin Luther King’s birthday, let’s recognize the pernicious effects of separating people by generic categories. In the fields of science and technology, we accept that one generation builds on another.
But in the popular worlds of culture, there’s a generation war in which “young” is considered energetic and good and “old” equals passé and tired. So inaccurate. Culture provides a stream of forever-fresh ideas. The generations need one another.
When I was a kid, I was caught up in that same confusion. I met the great Roy Eldridge when I was in high school in New Orleans. He’d been a star for more than 40 years by then, and he was … well … old. I had no real idea of who he was. I had a nice big Afro and he made it clear he didn’t like it.
I was playing the flugelhorn that day and he wanted me to know he had been responsible for bringing that instrument to America. I couldn’t have cared less about what some old man might have done in what seemed to me like slavery times.
Some years later, at a function for the Louis Armstrong house in Queens when I was 26, Roy showed me how to play with a plunger mute and then invited me to visit him at home. I remembered our first acrimonious meeting and didn’t call. He passed away soon after, and his daughter reminded me, “My father wanted you to come by.”
Then I realized he had needed me and I needed him. Later, someone showed me a film of Roy in a French club playing drums back in the 1930s. He lit the club up. People were all around him, loving him and his sound. His presence was electric. I thought, “This is the old man I saw New Orleans? Hmmph! I may be making stuff happen, but a lot more went on before I was born.”
The most natural revolutionary requires a conservative establishment to rebel against. The most stilted tradition must have some new vivifying energy and imagination.
At this delicate time, all of us are called upon to support and participate in this new administration. The new president cannot cure all of our ills as if waving a magic wand. But if we focus on who we are as a nation and the culture that brings us together, we will face the uncertain future with supreme confidence.
Our artists, from Melville to Coltrane, have told the tale for us and for all times. Coming together is the American way. The Founding Fathers came together. We came together after the bloody Civil War. During the Civil Rights movement, we came together.
After Hurricane Katrina, the nation unified to help the citizens of New Orleans. Jazz musicians and dancers have come together on bandstands and in ballrooms for generations. And now, with the election of Barack Obama, we once again come together on a matter of national survival.
President Obama’s inauguration is not a beginning, but the continuation of a glorious history that is hallmarked by the American people’s desire to be one. Our Constitution demands it. And it forces us to a life much greater than the Founding Fathers could have possibly imagined. In the words of Duke Ellington, supreme master of the blues, “The people are my people.” Hallelujah.
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In 2009, Dutch teenager Laura Dekker announced that she planned to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world. Alone.
Growing up, Laura loved sailing. She was born in New Zealand while her parents were on an around-the-world voyage, and then spent the first five years of her life on a boat. As Laura got older, she fell more in love with life on the water and more anxious to leave Holland. And when she was 13, she began dreaming about the record-setting journey.
Her plan was to set out from Gibraltar in her boat, Guppy, sail across the Atlantic, through the Panama Canal, across the Pacific, into the Indian Ocean, around the southern tip of Africa, then back home. She knew the journey would be difficult. But she didn’t realize the challenges would start before she ever set sail. For a year, the Dutch government tried to stop her before finally OK’ing the trip. Laura began her voyage as a 14-year-old in August 2010. When she pulled into port at St. Maarten in the Caribbean on January 2012, she was 15 years old and officially the youngest person to sail around the world solo.
Filmmaker Jillian Schlesinger captures Laura’s epic journey in the new documentary Maidentrip. The film opened in New York last week, and will be traveling around the country until April. Sports Illustrated Kids spoke with Schlesinger recently about the film, the challenges Laura faced, and why Laura’s story is an important one — especially for kids.
How did you first learn about Laura Dekker, and what was it about her story that appealed to you as a filmmaker?
I originally read about Laura in 2009. There was an op-ed piece in the New York Times with the headline "How Young is Too Young to Sail Around the World Alone." She was 13 at the time, and the Dutch government had just gotten involved in the situation and it made international headlines. The story immediately intrigued me. I started to read more and more about it and, obviously, it sparked a lot of discussion and really strong opinions in a lot of different directions. But I found that Laura's point of view seemed to be all but missing from the conversation about it. So I reached out to her with this idea of making a collaborative film that would help her to tell her story from her point of view.
Why do you think her voice was being left out of the story?
In such an easily sensationalized story like a kid sailing around the world, it's hard to really have a reasonable conversation about that. And so I think when she did try to speak about her experience or about her point of view, often very small soundbites would be selected to twist what she was saying into something else. And I think she felt like she wasn't really being represented accurately, especially in the Dutch media. But people said really nasty things, and for people to express so much anger towards a young woman seemed really, really strange to me. I think kids, and especially young women, don't always have a platform to be able to speak and express themselves in a public forum. So, in a way, the film does that for Laura.
Early on in the film, there’s a graphic that rattles off words that people used to describe her, like "delusional," "spoiled," "arrogant." You mentioned age and gender bias, but do you think it was more one than the other?
I would say, first it's age, and then I would say the gender aspect of it definitely kind of piles on to the age issue. Kids are capable of a lot, and they have really strong ideas about things and they're not always given credit for that. And I think there's also a lot of messaging in society about young women needing to be protected or not being capable or strong. It's great to have examples and voices of young women who are powerful and can have a voice and can do brave and amazing things.
Was it your idea or her idea to have the video camera on the boat with her? Was that something that she had already planned on doing or was it something that you suggested?
I'm sure she would have been doing that anyway. In this day and age when it's so easy to get cameras, if you're doing something exciting or going on a big trip like that, you would be documenting it no matter what. I had cameras that I could have given her, but she was comfortable using the camera that she owned. And I actually didn't want the filming that she was doing at sea to really be about the film or for the film particularly because I felt like that was such a great relationship that Laura had with the camera. You know, it's a friend out there, it's a confidant, it's a playmate in obviously very isolating circumstances. So I thought it was really important that that really be between Laura and the camera, and I tried not to interfere or give her too much instruction in any direction.
Did you meet up with her at any point on her journey?
Yes. I met up with her about 10 times. I met up with Laura twice in Holland before she left, and then in St. Maarten and Panama. And then in the Galapagos Islands, we ran into these Canadian people who we had met in Panama who were also cruising sailors and this opportunity came up for me to sail across the Pacific. The idea, at the time, was that at some point hopefully along that route we would be able to go near Laura and film her. It was Laura's idea, as well. And then she thought it would be really funny to race and ended up beating the boat that I was on by a couple days. So we never actually saw her in the course of that trip across the Pacific. But now having done that trip and spent a few weeks on the water, I really can't imagine having made the film without that experience of long distance sailing.
At the end of the film, you say she went to New Zealand. But what has Laura been doing since her voyage?
She kept sailing all the way to New Zealand, back to the town where she was born, and she has since settled there. She still lives on Guppy. She's been doing some different things for work. She was working on a dive boat for a while, and she's also been doing some speaking about her trip. She got her driver's license and she was accepted to maritime school, but she's deferred for a little while. I'm not sure what her plans are in that regard. But I think otherwise, she's just planning for the next adventure.
What can kids take away experiencing Laura’s story through your film?
I think the film is universally about just having a dream and going for it. In Laura's case, it was really extreme. She had to fight government and public perception and all of these things to be able to pursue the thing that really mattered to her. And I think the message of that is, if you want something, just to go for it and believe that you can do it and really fight to overcome obstacles. And if you are doing something in the more extreme, risk-taking realm, to do it really safely, to do it responsibly, to do it the way that Laura did it so that it has a triumphant finish.
Visit the Maidentrip website for more information about the film and to see if it’s playing in a theater near you.
This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity and space.
Photos courtesy First Run Features
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OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio -- The social-emotional wellbeing of students during normal times is a priority for school districts; however, during a pandemic, concerns about stress, anxiety or depression are heightened.
That’s why last week the Olmsted Falls City Schools held its first e-assembly, titled “Parents: Pandemic Pressure.” It was presented by the district’s LINK Family Engagement Program and Student Services in partnership with Ohio Guidestone and Olmsted Falls PTA.
“As an adult, I know how stressful it can be some days, so there’s no surprise we’re seeing that in our kids,” Olmsted Falls City Schools Family & Community LINK Coordinator Julianne Allen said.
“It’s what many of us are recognizing within our own homes. I’m also a parent in the school district, so I had some firsthand experience with all of the changes that have happened because of the pandemic. We were just hearing a lot from parents that kids were anxious and isolated. All of these things just start to add up.”
The community need was so strong that “Parents: Pandemic Pressure” found roughly 100 people participating in the virtual event, which was split into two parts. The e-assembly began with an Ohio Guidestone speaker talking about pandemic stressors leading to anxiety, depression, stress and different behaviors.
“It was nice to have that perspective to let our parents know this is a real thing,” Allen said. “That this is not just your kid or your house. This is happening all over. One of the really great things that I heard was just to remember that this was a temporary situation. We will get through to the other side.”
The second part of the program found school counselors speaking specifically about the services and resources available to students and parents.
“We’re compiling all of the resources that were shared at the event, as well as editing the video of the event,” Allen said. “Everyone who attended the event will receive these resources via e-mail.
“We’ll then use our district blog to push out the information to our wider school community, so that all parents have access to the information.”
After the virtual affair, Allen said she heard from numerous parents who commented that the program was helpful.
For those parents in need of further assistance related to the social-emotional wellbeing of their children, Allen encouraged them to reach out to their school building counselors.
“Olmsted Falls has set parent engagement as a priority,” Superintendent Jim Lloyd said. “Our creation of the LINK coordinator position is a prime example.
“I’m so proud of LINK Coordinator Julianne Allen and all of our school counselors that took part in making our first e-assembly a success. It was a great first event,” Lloyd said.
Allen said the district plans on scheduling another event in the spring.
“The plan is to not only have more of these assemblies, but we may even continue it once we’re able to meet in person again,” Allen said.
“I’m looking forward to the next one. I don’t have the topic yet. We’ll see what parents are interested in hearing about next.”
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Vaping, can be defined as the act of inhaling and exhaling vapour with an electronic cigarette or similar device. While many countries are in the debate of either legalizing vaping or banning it, here are 10 reasons why vaping has the upper hand over smoking:
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1) No bad smell and bad breath
Smoking will always leave a bad smell and/or bad breath. However, vaping is odourless because it is vapour and at the same time does not leave a bad breath.
2) No cigarette burns or cigarette butts.
Vaping does not leave behind a dirty ashtray or a dirty floor unlike cigarettes.
3) Healthier compared to cigarette
While this remains a debate, some studies showed that there is a less likelihood of getting cancer or any other smoke related illnesses with vaping. It is said to be 95% less harmful compared to cigarettes.
4) Less chemicals compared to cigarettes
A cigarette contain more than 2000 different types of chemicals, including tar which can cause harm to your body.
5) More cost effective
Cigarette price has been on a rising trend. A pack of cigarette will cost RM 17. With the constant increase in cigarette prices, vaping is seen as a cheaper alternative in the long run.
6) Different type of nicotine strength
Vapers have a choice of different strength of nicotine which ranges from 0mg till 24mg. The majority usually take 6mg nicotine strength which is much lower compared to those in cigarettes.
7) No smoke
Vaping would mean that there would not be any second hand smoke. Everything would be in vapour form compared to cigarettes where the general public would suffer because of the second hand smoke.
8) Many different flavours
With vaping, it comes in many different flavours which usually consist of fruity, tobacco or creamy. Suitable for all taste buds.
9) Help people quit smoking
The vast majority of vapers were former cigarette smokers. Many people have tried and failed to quit smoking with nicotine patch, but with vaping a vast majority of smokers have managed to quit smoking. Because of the variety in nicotine strength, vapers can gradually reduce their nicotine intake to 0mg. But of course it requires willpower too.
10) Vaping helps you live better
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All four of America's biggest and banks which collective own almost two-thirds of the commercial banking assets in the nation, made profits in the first quarter of 2009. All of this is a matter of accounting practices to some extent. But, these small number of data points regarding dominant players in the industry can say a great deal about the state of the industry as a whole.
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According to ALLPUBLICLIBRARIES, Rabat is the capital of Morocco. The city was founded in the 12th century on the Atlantic coast at the mouth of the Bou Regreg river. First, for defense purposes, Rabat was surrounded by a clay wall, in which there are 5 gates. In the 17th century, it was divided into two parts by another wall – the old (Medina) and the new. The main attraction of the Medina is the Kasbah of Oudaya, which is completely built of sandstone.
The main attraction of Rabat is the unfinished minaret of the Hassan Mosque – “Hassan’s Tower”. Construction began in 1195 AD. and its height had to reach 86 meters to become the tallest minaret in the world. But construction was interrupted in 1199 due to the death of Sultan Yakub al-Mansur and the minaret reached a height of only 44 meters. Next to the mosque and minaret is the mausoleum of Mohammed V, where the remains of this ruler are kept, as well as the ashes of his son Hassan II. The mausoleum is one of the few Muslim holy places in the world that non-Muslims are allowed to enter.
Interesting Andalusian gardens, which give the impression of being very ancient, although they belong to the 20th century. On their territory is the Museum of Moroccan Art. Now a huge number of museums are open to visitors in the city, among which are the Museum of Antiquity, the Museum of Archeology, the Ethnographic Museum and the Museum of Natural History. Rabat has long been assigned the title of cultural capital of Morocco. The Mohammed V State University and various scientific associations are located here. The port of the city has not been functioning for a long time, so local residents and tourists are happy to swim here, sunbathe on the shore and go in for water sports.
The international airport “Aeroport de Rabat-Sale” is located 12 km north of Rabat. In the city center there is a railway station, from which it is very convenient to get to Casablanca by train.
Tangier – one of the oldest cities in Morocco, located on the shore of the bay at the foot of the hills, in the place where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Mediterranean Sea. Tangier connects Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, so Moroccan, European and African cultures are mixed here. This port has been mentioned since 500 BC. According to Greek mythology, its name comes from the name of Antey’s wife – Tinga. From Tangier you can take a ferry to the coast of Spain.
Tangier is full of architectural sights. In the Old City (Medina), traditional white houses line the narrow streets. Sokko Square in the center of Tangier. From the Spanish “sokko” is translated as “shop”, but this place has long ceased to be a trading area. There are numerous cafes and restaurants where you can sit on the verandas and admire the city. There are souvenir shops on Sokko, but they overestimate the real price of souvenirs by 2 or even 5 times. A pedestrian street begins from the square, which passes through the main attractions of the city and ends at the Kasbah of Tangier. The Kasbah was erected on the highest point of the Medina and is quite well preserved to this day. Here it is interesting to see the Palace of the Sultans, which was built under Sultan Mula Ismail in the 17th century. The palace has snow-white walls, and inside, in the chambers of the Sultan, you can see ceiling frescoes, arabesques and carpets from Rabat. Now the Palace houses the Museum of Ancient History with the famous Roman mosaic “Journey of Venus” and the Museum of Moroccan Art with ancient manuscripts, ancient weapons and other exhibits. Not far from the Palace of the Sultans are the Grand Mosque and the Mendoubiya Gardens, where trees grow that are over 800 years old.
In the modern part of Tangier is the Place de France , where it is customary to meet friends and sit in cafes, especially in Tangier ‘s most famous cafe, Paris. There are buildings made in the European style, as well as the prestigious La Montagne area with beautiful houses.
In addition to its historical attractions, Tangier is known for its beach holidays. In the city itself, the beaches are not very clean, children are constantly scurrying around and begging. If you want to sunbathe and swim in comfort, then you should go west of Tangier, where wide sandy beaches stretch right at the foot of the hills. There are several interesting places in the vicinity of Tangier. Cape Spartel is located 18 km west of the city along the coast. It is famous for the Caves of Hercules located here. These caves were formed by sea water over many hundreds of years, and later by people who quarried stone for millstones here. According to Greek mythology, this is where Hercules lived after he discovered Tangier created the Strait of Gibraltar. At high tide, the caves fill with water, and at low tide they open up. Not far from the caves on the coast are the ruins of the ancient Roman settlements of Cotta. Here, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of walls that date back to the 2nd-3rd centuries, salt baths and oil factories.
To the east of Tangier is Cape Malabata, on which stands a lighthouse, it offers a beautiful view of the Strait of Gibraltar. From Tangier you can also make a trip through the Rif mountains and get to the village of Kalaa, where you will get acquainted with the traditions of the local people. | <urn:uuid:eff4020a-21b5-469d-bfc6-356fcec120b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agooddir.com/major-cities-in-morocco/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.969553 | 1,229 | 2.578125 | 3 |
A Finnish Covid vaccine company says it risks private investors withdrawing from the endeavour after the state investment agency Business Finland said it would not cover the full cost of a clinical trial.
In April, Rokote Laboratories Finland, the company that developed the vaccine, applied for a grant from the public financier that would have covered 80 percent of the costs of the vaccine’s test phases.
Private funders had tentatively agreed to join the project if the state would ensure that clinical trials would not be interrupted due to lack of funding. That said, the company has not yet signed contracts with private financiers.
Chicken and egg
Now Professor Kalle Saksela, who heads the research team, said he has learned that Business Finland does not have a programme available under which funding could be administered as a grant. Like any other start-up, Rokote Laboratories Finland can apply for a loan from Business Finland, backed by private capital it has already acquired elsewhere.
"This is a big disappointment. If the state rescinds its promise, the timing of the entire vaccine project will have to be reconsidered," Saksela said.
Preparations for clinical trials in humans have already begun. The partner companies have invested money in the trials, but the company's coffers are now empty, making it impossible to launch tests.
The Ministry of Employment and the Economy (MEE) has not been directly in contact with the vaccine team regarding the new guidelines it has reported to MOT regarding this matter.
The Finnish research team claims their nasal spray vaccine works on different variants of the coronavirus. They said they had aimed to employ the spray in Finland's second or third round of vaccinations against Covid.
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Vientiane, Lao PDR, 3rd Oct 2013
Vientiane, Lao PDR, 3 October 2013—The Lao Government has notified the Mekong River Commission (MRC) of its decision to proceed with the development of the Don Sahong Hydropower Project in the Siphandone area of Southern Laos. The run-of-the-river dam will operate continuously year-round and produce 260 megawatts of electricity.
In its notification, submitted to the MRC Secretariat and dated 30 September 2013, Lao PDR also provided the complete technical feasibility study , including the project’s social and environmental impact assessments and fisheries study which will be shared with the other MRC Member Countries—Cambodia, Thailand and Viet Nam.
According to the Government of Lao PDR, the project’s construction is expected to start in November 2013 and finish by February 2018. The commercial operation is set to begin in May 2018. The energy generated by the project will be fully sold to the national power utility, Electricite du Laos (EDL), to supply the increased domestic power demand.
“Lao PDR submitted the project as an intra-basin water use on the Hou Sahong channel under the process of notification. This will enable the notified Member Countries to foresee the project’s water use and any impact stemming from this,” says Hans Guttman, Chief Executive Officer of the MRC Secretariat.
As stipulated in the MRC’s Procedures for Notification, Prior Consultation and Agreement (PNPCA), the notification process mentioned above is one of the three separate prerequisites for the development of different types of water use projects in the Lower Mekong Basin. Notification is required for year-round intra-basin water- use projects and inter-basin diversion projects on the Mekong’s tributaries, and for wet-season water use on the mainstream. Information from this process helps Member Countries plan other water use projects.
The other two processes are Prior Consultation and Agreement. The Prior Consultation applies to proposed water use projects on the mainstream in the dry season, diversion of water from the mainstream to other basins during the wet season and diversion of surplus water to other basins in the dry season. The process for Specific Agreement is required for projects diverting water from the mainstream to other basins in the dry season.
The Lao government submitted a project description which provides a summary of the project’s main features. The submission also includes a cumulative impact assessment, environmental and social impact assessments, environmental and social management and monitoring plans, a resettlement action plan and engineering documents.
The MRC Secretariat has submitted the notification and will further provide the documents to the Joint Committee Members of the other three countries for their consideration.
“The PNPCA recognise the adaptive approach for its implementation. In this regard, the Secretariat will be available to facilitate discussion, provide science-based and objective views and further submit any comments on the notification to the Joint Committee,” said Mr. Guttman. “Lao PDR has indicated its willingness to further discuss the project with the other Member Countries should there be any concerns or comments.”
Until now, in addition to the Don Sahong notification 41 projects on the tributaries of the Mekong have been submitted for the Notification process under the PNPCA—3 projects from Cambodia, 17 from Lao PDR, 2 from Thailand and 19 from Viet Nam. The Xayaburi Hydropower Project is the only one so far to have been proposed on the mainstream and therefore submitted for the Prior Consultation process.
The Don Sahong Project is located in the Khong District of Champasak Province in Lao PDR and situated on the 5-kilometre long Hou Sahong, one of the braided channels of the Mekong River approximately two kilometres upstream of the Lao-Cambodian border. The powerhouse barrage will be 30-metre high and will span across the 100-metre wide downstream end of the channel.
The PNPCA is established under the 1995 Mekong Agreement. It reflects a commitment of the MRC countries to work together to protect the environment and the ecological balance in the basin and prevent harmful effects. For the purposes of the implementation of the Procedures, water use is defined as any use of water which may have a significant impact on the water quality or flow regime of the mainstream.
The MRC is the intergovernmental body responsible for cooperation on the sustainable management of the Mekong Basin whose members include Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam. It is established to promote cooperation amongst the Member Countries and thus it is not a supra-national or regulatory body.
In dealing with this challenge, the commission looks across all sectors including sustaining fisheries, identifying opportunities for agriculture, maintaining the freedom of navigation, flood management and preserving important ecosystems. Superimposed on these are the future effects of more extreme floods, prolonged drought and sea level rise associated with climate change. In providing its advice, the MRC aims to facilitate a broad range of dialogue among governments, the private sector and civil society.
The MRC Secretariat provides technical, advisory and administrative services to the member states. It facilitates regional meetings of the Member Countries and provides technical advice on joint planning, coordination and cooperation. It also works closely with the four countries’ coordinating bodies, the National Mekong Committees (NMCs), and other state agencies. Currently, the People’s Republic of China and the Union of Myanmar are engaged as MRC Dialogue Partners.
Mr. Surasak Glahan, Communication Officer
Office of the Secretariat in Vientiane
Tel: +856 21 263 263 or +856 20 555 28726 (Vientiane mobile number)
Annex C to the 2013 EIA - Report on Fisheries Study in Hou Sahong, Hou Sadam and Hou Xang Pheuak (2010)
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Social media networks are a main resource for both little and massive businesses that are looking to market their brands on the Internet. The All Army Activities message , published February 2017, also reemphasizes that Soldiers are held to the standards of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and Army Values when employing social media, even when off duty. The users should conscious that what ever he/she post in the social media have return outcome to him/her. I also think some people feel safe behind social media, as they are in a position to operate below fake identities and get away with the wrongs they do on-line.
Google+ Communities will enable you to listen into your fan’s feedback and input, truly putting the social back into social media. Leveraging the energy of content and social media advertising and marketing can help elevate your audience and client base in a dramatic way. Do not get me incorrect here and throw the infant out instead of the bath water, your list is wonderful, but there are other factors that need to be cleared up first, like why do you want a social media presence, and what will a social media presence do for your company.
You can alter it in the Widget-location exactly where you dropped the widget (with the social share icons) on the sidebar. Taking the time to listen, and conduct thorough social media monitoring is important to any productive social media effort. Jika Anda tidak yakin mana paket yang terbaik untuk bisnis Anda jangan khawatir, ahli media sosial kami akan memandu Anda melalui proses dan membantu Anda membuat keputusan yang terbaik untuk bisnis Anda. Don’t neglect to put links at the finish of the video to let them click it and be taken to your site or your company’s social media profiles alternatively of throwing up an ending title screen that shows them your URL bear in mind that you can do both.
In general, I’ve discovered individuals who work at nonprofits are intelligent, passionate and tough-working – the makings of a great social media strategy. A lot more recent studies showed that social networking good quality rather that frequency was the essential variable when investigating damaging mental well being such that low quality was linked with depression and a sense of social rejection. You ought to look at whether or not it is value added to put social media feeds like Tweets about your organization in a window on your web site.
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Robert Rapier has an interview with an un-named company CEO about biofuel production from algae - Interview With an Algae CEO .
One of the things I did on the trip was take a tour of an algae farm. I spent some time with the CEO, and got to ask numerous questions. He had some very interesting comments, which I will capture below. Because he has to work in this industry, I am not going to identify him or his company. Below I will indicate his comments as CEO and mine as RR.
RR: Talk about some of the challenges of growing algae.
CEO: The list is exhaustive. It takes a lot of water. It takes a lot of electricity. Solar penetration is only about an inch into the water, so we really have to keep the ponds mixed well. One thing people never mention is the phosphorous requirement. Phosphorous is a limited resource, but a critical one for the algal growth. If you are trying to make oil, then you have to stress the algae and push it into a lipid production mode. But that causes growth rates to stall. If you engineer algae for higher oil production rates, they can't out-compete the native species in the ponds.
RR: I talk to John Benemann on a fairly regular basis, and he has said much the same. He likes algae for the potential, for the water treatment possibilities, and as something that should continue to get funding for lab research. But he is pretty harsh on the uber-optimists.
CEO: Yes, I know John as well. He has done some good work in the field. Have you seen his latest paper?
RR: (He shows me the paper, and I acknowledge that I do in fact have that one).
RR: I was looking at those open ponds and wondering if the evaporation rates wouldn't be problematic. That could create seriously high water usage, especially for those schemes that propose to use open ponds where the solar insolation is high (like in the Arizona desert).
CEO: Yes, those open ponds require a lot of fresh water. You should see our water bill.
RR: What about photobioreactors? Some people envision them as a solution to some of the problems (evaporation, contamination) of the open pond system.
CEO: They are ungodly expensive relative to how much algae they can produce.
RR: So how do you foresee the future of algal fuels?
CEO: There is no future. Look, some of these guys are out there committing fraud with their yield claims. Nobody is making fuel except for small amounts in the lab. I just don't see how anyone will ever make cost-competitive fuel from algae.
RR: How about fermentation approaches like Solazyme? I haven't written that off yet.
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Written by Staff Writer
05 May, 2022 | 12:07 pm
New Delhi: Sri Lanka has sought the supply of fertilisers from India and the deferral of a payment of $2.5 billion to the Asian Clearing Union as part of efforts to cope with the island nation’s worst economic crisis in decades, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday (4), reported the Hindustan Times.
At the same time, an amount of $200 million from the $1-billion line of credit provided by India in March has been set aside to fund the purchases of fuel, the people said. This will be in addition to the $500-million line of credit provided by India in February for fuel purchases.
With Sri Lanka switching back to the use of chemical fertilisers, there is a growing need for the commodity amid a global shortage created by the Ukraine crisis. It is in this context that the Sri Lankan side has made the request for the supply of fertilisers, the sources said, reported the Hindustan Times.
The Sri Lankan government banned chemical fertilisers last year as part of a phased transition towards organic agriculture. The sudden nature of the change and the dearth of adequate supplies of organic fertilisers affected agricultural output, especially rice and tea, and the government recently ended the ban on several key crops.
“There is a growing demand for fertilisers since the use of chemical fertilisers was cleared by the Sri Lankan government. The supply of other items under the $1-billion line of credit, including food items such as rice and pulses and medicines, has already started,” one of the people cited above said.
The Sri Lankan side has also asked the Indian side to defer the payment of $2.5 billion to the Asian Clearing Union (ACU), an organisation with its headquarters in Tehran that includes Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Iran, the Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.
Earlier this year, India had deferred the payment of $515 million to the ACU at Sri Lanka’s request. It had also provided a currency swap of $400 million under the Saarc facility.
ACU is a payment arrangement whereby member countries settle payments for intra-regional transactions among the participating central banks. The main objective of the union is to facilitate payments among member countries to economise on the use of foreign exchange reserves and transfer costs.
Almost $400 million from the $500-million line of credit for fuel purchases has already been expended, and this led to the move to allocate $200 million from the $1-billion line of credit for additional purchases of diesel and petrol, the people said. These arrangements are being worked out by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation and the Indian Oil Corporation.
Sri Lanka’s energy crisis, especially the shortage of fuel and cooking gas, is one of the most worrying aspects of the economic crisis. Diesel-fired power plants account for almost a third of the country’s electricity generation. There are also reports of a shortage of cooking gas across the country.
The total financial aid provided by India to Sri Lanka since the beginning of the year is worth almost $2.5 billion. Sri Lanka has sought India’s help in garnering international support for bridge financing as it enters negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout programme.
Last month, Sri Lanka announced a default on its external debt of almost $51 billion pending a bailout from the IMF.
Source: Hindustan Times
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Queen Development Wheel/Queen Swarm development lifecycle - Updated design
This Queen Development Wheel is also a Handy Queen Swarm development lifecycle tool. We can all use this in our management techniques so you don't have to be a Queen Breeder/Rearer to need this. Easily shows what is happening within the cell during her development. Helpful in knowing when a swarm cell will emerge according to it stage in development. On the back you also have a reference guide of the development of the other castes of the hive too.
If you want to try your hand a queen rearing then this tool makes your time frame super easy. Position the graft day on the day of the month so you can follow the formula. ie. prep cell cups, grafting time, development schedule, fragile period and lots more info.
Comes with an information sheet for ease of use.
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It’s that time of the year again in the United States! Signaled by the changing of leaves in the northern climate or the bombardment of Black-Friday ads no matter where you live, the Holiday season is upon us!
And with the Holiday season comes colder temperatures. For some of you, those temperatures may have started weeks, or even months ago. A recent check of our forecast for the upcoming week was a reminder of how quickly weather conditions can change – we’ve had lows in the teens already and several inches of snow here in parts of Ohio and surrounding states, and I know it’s been worse elsewhere.
Needless to say, this cold weather impacts projects and can be particularly tough on geosynthetic installation projects. Geomembrane installations are especially challenging in cold weather – especially those that require a significant amount of field seaming to be performed such as an HDPE or LLDPE job. Even the pre-fabricated materials such as PVC or Polypropylene will require field seams when project size exceeds that of the maximum panel size of which can be pre-fabricated and cold weather will definitely impact seaming. PVC gets brittle in cold temperatures, making it even harder to deal with to ensure quality welding.
A key to getting through the winter, whether it be hunkering down during a snowstorm, driving across the country in the winter to see relatives, or hiking out in the back country is winter preparedness. There are key supplies that you should maintain, as well as a plan of action. The same holds true for geosynthetic construction projects being performed in cold weather – you need to be prepared and part of that preparedness is a cold weather seaming plan included as part of your CQA Plan.
My goal is to help in that preparedness! It’s surprise quiz time!
Yeah, I always hated when teachers gave me exams right before the holidays too! But, in hindsight, it was probably a better time since I’m not sure I would have had the same information retention if quizzed after the holidays. Since we are talking cold weather in this blog, I thought I would give a quiz on exactly that. And because GRI Test Method GM9 is often the industry go to standard for guidance in cold weather seaming, I am including it as part of the quiz.
Take a few deep breaths to calm the mind while removing visions of a nice turkey dinner and all those squabbling relatives shouting louder than the football game your trying to hear– they’ll all still be there regardless of how you score on the quiz!
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What about cities?
Urban studies is a large field that includes many different disciplines and topics. My interest lies is understanding The Connected City: How Networks are Shaping the Modern Metropolis. I maintain a separate website for researchers interested in urban networks, but I am especially interested in urban networks at two different scales. At the micro-scale, I study how social networks between people in cities influences processes like the formation of neighborhoods. At the macro-scale, I study how economic and transportation networks between cities around the world influence processes like urban growth and economic development.
Research on cities at the micro-scale
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Using agent-based simulation models, I study the relationship between social cohesion (i.e. do people feel like they belong in their neighborhood) and spatial segregation (i.e. do different groups live in different neighborhoods). This research has found that when segregated neighborhoods are likely to be more cohesive, while integrated neighborhoods are likely to be more fragmented. This phenomenon can be traced to the fact that people tend to form relationships with others who are similar (homophily) and nearby (proximity).
Neal, Z. P. (2015). Making big communities small: Using network science to understand the ecological and behavioral requirements for community social capital. American Journal of Community Psychology, 55, 369 – 380. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-015-9720-4 [pre-print]
Neal, Z. P., & Neal, J. W. (2014). The in(compatibility) of diversity and sense of community. American Journal of Community Psychology, 53, 1 – 12. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-013-9608-0 [pre-print]
Using surveys and meta-analysis, I study what leads to neighborhood satisfaction. People are more satisfied in neighborhoods that (they think) have good schools, whether they have children or not, because schools serve as anchors for the community. But, looking at over 400,000 people in cities around the world, the neighborhood itself doesn't really impact whether a person is satisfied with their neighborhood. Instead, neighborhood satisfaction is psychological...it's all in your head. For example, the schools don't actually have to be good, as long as you think they are.
Neal, Z. P., & Neal, J. W. (2012). The public school as a public good: direct and indirect pathways to community satisfaction. Journal of Urban Affairs, 34, 469 – 485. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2011.00595.x [pre-print]
Research on cities at the MACRO-scale
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The World City Network (WCN) is the economic network that connects key financial centers around the world and structures the global economy, fueling globalization. I am particularly interested in how this network changes over time. Looking backward, I have found that cities' network connectivity matters more than their population. Looking forward, I have been exploring ways to forecast how the network will evolve in the future.
Neal, Z. P., Derudder, B., & Taylor, P. J. (2020). Forecasting the world city network. Habitat International, 106, 102146. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102146 [pre-print]
Neal, Z. P. (2011). From central places to network bases: a transition in the US urban hierarchy, 1900 – 2000. City and Community, 10, 49 – 74. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6040.2010.01340.x [pre-print]
Economic and transportation networks between cities are difficult to measure because government sources like the Census do not typically include this information, so I study ways that they can be measured. My focus has been on measuring economic linkages using information about firm co-locations, and measuring transportation linkages using information about airline passengers.
Neal, Z. P. (2017). Well connected compared to what? Rethinking frames of reference in world city network research. Environment and Planning A, 49, 2859-2877. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X16631339 [pre-print]
Neal, Z. P. (2010). Refining the air traffic approach to city networks. Urban Studies, 47, 2195 – 2215. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098009357352 [pre-print]
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This Comment explores three states’ approaches to mental health screenings for earlier identification of impaired mental health functioning in educational settings. The State of Washington has yet to pass any legislation aimed at instituting a mental health schema within its public schools. This Comment argues that the Washington legislature should enact children’s mental health legislation that reflects an integration of the three state positions. Specifically, Washington should adopt a cooperative and transparent mental health scheme for public schools that includes in-school screening, informed and active parental consent, educator training, and emotional health curriculum because it preserves parental rights while also protecting the well-being of mentally ill children.
Part II of this Comment discusses both the current state of children’s mental health and the concepts of prevention and detection. It emphasizes the significance of educating teachers, implementing emotional health curricula in public schools, and utilizing mental health screenings as early detection devices. It also provides a summary of the current state of children’s mental health law as it relates to Washington’s public education system. Part III describes the federal government’s attitude toward children’s mental health and reviews federal statutes pertaining to the distribution of school surveys in public schools. Part IV explains the development of the constitutional right to parent and its application to children’s mental health. It also discusses the tension between parents and schools on privacy issues such as distributing screenings to students. Part V presents children’s mental health legislation from three states: Illinois, Utah, and Connecticut. This Part introduces not only the substance of the various legislative measures but also the radically dif- ferent positions taken. Part VI recommends that Washington adopt a cooperative and transparent system that includes in-school screening, informed and active parental consent, educator training, and emotional health curricula.
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African golden cat
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|African golden cat|
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Distribution of the African golden cat
Possible range or accidental records
The African golden cat (Caracal aurata) is a wild cat endemic to the rainforests of West and Central Africa. It is threatened due to deforestation and bushmeat hunting and listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
Its body size ranges from 61 to 101 cm (24 to 40 in) with a 16 to 46 cm (6.3 to 18.1 in) long tail.
Taxonomy and etymology
|The phylogenetic relationships of the African golden cat|
The African golden cat is placed in the subfamily Felinae and the family Felidae. The species was first described by Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck on the basis of mounted cats from western Africa available for sale at a London museum. Temminck named a reddish-brown-colored skin with faint spots Felis aurata and a greyish skin F. celidogaster that was spotted all over with dark blotches and a red tail. Subsequently, a brownish grey skin from Sierra Leone was described as F. neglecta, a chestnut skin as F. rutilus, a dark grey skin as F. chrysothrix cottoni, and a black skin from Congo-Brazzaville as F. maka.
The classification and phylogenetic relationships of the African golden cat has remained in dispute. It has historically been placed under Catopuma, Felis or Profelis. However, studies in 2006 and 2009 have showed that the African golden cat has a particularly close relationship with the caracal (Caracal caracal). These two species, together with the serval (Leptailurus serval), form one of the eight lineages of Felidae. This lineage evolved nearly 8.5 Mya. More recently, the African golden cat has been considered a species of Caracal. The African golden cat resembles the Asian golden cat, but are not closely related.
- C. a. aurata Temminck, 1827 – Includes the allopatric populations.
- C. a. cottoni Lydekker, 1907 – Sometimes considered a semi-melanistic color morph because of the red or grey polymorphism and due to uncertainties about the type localities. Individuals resembling C. a. cottoni have been found all over the African golden cat's range in particularly humid habitats, and individuals in captivity have even been observed to change skin color between the typical red and dusky grey morphs as they shed their fur.
Some works refer to C. a. celidogaster instead of C. a. cottoni, restricting the supposed C. a. aurata subspecies to the east of the Congo River, and C. a. celidogaster to the west of the Cross River, Gambia and Gabun.
The African golden cat is about twice the size of a domestic cat. Its rounded head is very small in relation to its body size. It is a heavily built cat, with stocky, long legs, a relatively short tail, and large paws. Body length usually varies within the range 61 to 101 cm (24 to 40 in). Tail length ranges from 16 to 46 cm (6.3 to 18.1 in), and shoulder height is about 38 to 55 cm (15 to 22 in). The cat weighs around 5.5 to 16 kg (12 to 35 lb), with males being larger than females.
The African golden cat has variable fur color, ranging from chestnut or reddish-brown, greyish brown to dark slaty. Some are spotted, with the spotting ranging from faded tan to heavy black in color. In others the spotting pattern is limited to the belly and inner legs. Its undersides and areas around the eyes, cheeks, chin, and throat are lighter in color to almost white. Its tail is darker on the top and either heavily banded, lightly banded, or plain, ending in a black tip. Cats in the western parts of its range tend to have heavier spotting than those in the eastern areas. Two color morphs, a red and a grey phase, were once thought to indicate separate species, rather than variations of the same species. Melanistic individuals occur, but are not common. Despite the wide variation in coat color, pelts of African golden cats can be identified by the presence of a distinctive whorled ridge of fur in front of the shoulders, where the hairs change direction.
Overall, the African golden cat resembles the caracal, but has shorter untufted ears, a longer tail, and a shorter, more rounded face. They have small, rounded ears and eye colors that range from pale blue to brown.
Distribution and habitat
The African golden cat inhabits tropical forests from sea level to 3,000 m (9,800 ft). It prefers dense, moist forest with heavy undergrowth, and is often found close to rivers, but it may also be found in cloud forest, bamboo forests, and high moorland habitats. The cat is found from Senegal in the west to Kenya in the east, and ranges as far north as the Central African Republic and as far south as northern Angola.
Ecology and behavior
Due to its extremely reclusive habits, little is known about the behavior of African golden cats. They are solitary animals, and are normally crepuscular or nocturnal, although they have also been observed hunting during the day, depending on the availability of local prey.
African golden cats are able to climb, but hunt primarily on the ground. They mainly feed on tree hyrax, rodents, but also hunt birds, small monkeys, duikers, young of giant forest hog, and small antelope. They have also been known to take domestic poultry and livestock.
Knowledge of the African golden cat's reproductive habits is based on captive specimens. They breed readily in captivity. The mother gives birth to one or two kittens after a gestation period of around 75 days. The kittens weigh 180 to 235 g (6.3 to 8.3 oz), but grow and develop rapidly in comparison with other small cat species. One individual was reported to be scaling a 40-cm wall within 16 days of birth, reflecting a high degree of physical agility from an early age. The kittens' eyes open within a week of birth, and they are weaned at 6–8 weeks. Females reach sexual maturity at 11 months of age, but the males do not do so until 18 months.
These cats live up to 12 years in captivity, but their lifespan in the wild is unknown.
The African golden cat is threatened by extensive deforestation of tropical rainforests, their conversion to oil palm plantations coupled with mining activities and road building, thus destroying its essential habitat. It is also threatened by bushmeat hunting, particularly in the Congo Basin.
The African golden cat is listed in CITES Appendix II. Hunting African golden cats is prohibited in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone. In Gabon, Liberia and Togo, hunting regulations are in place.
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A mere 40-minute drive from Dongzhimen, a trip to the Beijing Botanical Gardens is perhaps the quickest and easiest way to escape the city and immerse yourself in nature; hell, most cab drivers will take you out there. Pay the meagre 10RMB entrance fee and meander through these beautiful gardens; a rambling, exquisitely cultivated space made up of 12 unique areas specialising in different plants, of which there are over 6,000.
Walk straight ahead to the Peony Garden and amble among the 200-plus examples of this traditional Chinese flower. Favoured by emperors and courtesans since the Tang Dynasty (618 AD-907 AD), the flower is an ancient symbol in China and is known, unofficially, as the PRC’s national flower. Due reverence is paid here with a beautiful arrangement of species. Keep going to the equally beautiful rose garden – a large square with parkbenches reminiscent of a garden in an English stately home – or turn left towards the greenhouses.
These rusty, grubby-windowed hotboxes might not look much on the outside, but they hide a world of tropical, rare species of plant inside. The greenhouses are a maze of over a dozen interconnected rooms, meaning you can walk between different areas without going outside – the perfect way to get stuck into nature on a rainy day. For colder and wetter days there is also the Tropical Conservatory, boasting 9,800 square metres of indoor space to the west of the gardens. Every plant in the garden is labelled in English and Chinese (although, frustratingly, many labels only give the Latin names rather than their common household names in English) and the various areas also have large information boards in both languages. Some provide useful information, some are less useful – we could have died happy without knowing that peonies are used to treat gynaecological diseases, for example.
That aside, the botanical gardens make for a fun family day out – the signs make the trip educational if you want, but can just as easily be ignored. This place, after all, is mostly all about strolling along the winding paths and breathing in the fresh air and fragrant flowers. LW
Get there Take Line 1 to Pinguoyuan (苹果园) and then bus 318 (5am-10.20pm) to Beijing Botanical Garden (北京植物园). It takes about one hour and 30 minutes from Pingguoyuan to Beijing Botanical Gardens.
Okay, so we cheated a bit. Chaoyang Park isn’t outside the city, not by a long stretch. But as the biggest slice of nature within the Fifth Ring Road – replete with lakes, grassy knolls, and even a couple of small forests – it’s the best place to get into nature without going out of your way.
But if taking in the natural beauty is a bit too sedate for your liking, the park also has an outdoor laser tag course. Named after, and based on, first-person shooter video game Counter Strike, the action has made the jump from the virtual world to reality near the east gate of the park. The game is essentially laser tag, but outdoors – no sticky floors, black lights or sweaty teenagers to be found here. In fact, the course is an outlandishly fun way to get some exercise and run around a beautiful forest unleashing your inner child. By blasting people with laser guns.
Before the battle begins, each player is kitted out with a camouflage vest and hat, and attached laser sensors. A plastic gun, equipped with videogame-esque shooting and reloading sound effects, completes the look.
Players divide themselves into two camps and navigate the park’s tree-laden terrain to outwit and outmatch each other. Abandoned cars, sandbags, tyres and wooden boards are scattered throughout the battlefield, providing shelter from oncoming laser rays. Running through the course, ducking behind trees, and leaping to the safety of your team’s camp really is as fun as it sounds. This is an activity best shared with friends (groups over 16 people need to book in advance) but those who go it alone will find it hard not to develop camaraderie with their brothers and sisters in plastic arms. Cole Delbyck
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If you like these, check out the satellite edition of the Healthcare Update over at ERStories.
“The only thing that changes is the names.” Canadian patients dying waiting for emergency department care. One patient’s family was told that the emergency department was short two doctors and four nurses and that “there was a 16-hour wait and that I just had to be patient” – as the patient died while sitting next to the nursing station. Nurses are forced to do overtime and then “the health system is not able to retain them.”
When you make the practice of medicine unattractive, not as many providers want to practice and this scenario will repeat itself.
It’s called job security. Survey shows that 61% of adults in the US drink “liquid stupidity,” only 31% of adults exercise regularly, and 20% smoke cigarettes. While 64% get 7-8 hours of sleep per day, 28% get 6 hours of sleep or less. The comments to the study were … interesting, including a post of the text of a now-dead Mississippi House Bill that purported to improve obesity in Mississippi by prohibiting food establishments from “serving food to any person who is obese”.
Think about this before your next one night stand. According to Bloomberg.com, one in six Americans has genital herpes. About half of all black women and 40% of black men have genital herpes. To treat the problem, GlaxoSmithKline sold $1.29 BILLION worth of Valtrex last year. Dang!
Georgia Supreme Court upholds liability protections for emergency medical services. The Georgia legislature passed tort reform in 2005, finding that health care providers in Georgia were having increasing difficulty in locating liability insurance and that when the insurance was able to be found, it was extremely costly, resulting in the potential for diminution in access to health care and an “adverse impact on the health and well-being of the citizens of this state.” Potential litigants must still prove “clear and convincing evidence that the physician or health care provider’s actions showed gross negligence.”
The dissent in the opinion (.pdf file) called the law “arbitrary” because it protected emergency health care providers, but did not afford the same protections to physicians who treat the same conditions in their offices or in the patient’s homes. The dissent forgot one thing – physicians can refuse to provide care to patients in their offices or at their homes. Emergency physicians provide care to all patients all the time. Protect the safety net.
More evidence that “insurance for all” isn’t the answer. This New York Times article describes the difficulty that Michigan Medicaid patients are having when trying to find medical care.
“With states squeezing payments to providers even as the economy fuels explosive growth in enrollment [now 47 million patients nationally], patients are finding it increasingly difficult to locate doctors and dentists who will accept their coverage.” One parent called 4 or 5 pediatricians to see her 2 year old son. None of them accepted Medicaid. She ended up having to go to a public clinic with a four month waiting list.
One obstetrician who stopped providing services “feared being sued by Medicaid patients because they might be at higher risk for problem pregnancies because of underlying health problems.” Only 2 of the 72 surgery residents who trained at one Michigan hospital decided to remain in Michigan.
Not only are states cutting reimbursements for care, but they are also cutting benefits — including dental, vision, podiatry, hearing and chiropractic services for adults.
Realize that, on a “dollars and cents” basis, lack of providers is beneficial to the bottom line. Less access means less provision of services, which means less payments for provision of services. Is this the kind of “insurance” that we’re seeking on a national level?
Kevin MD published a good Op-Ed piece in USA Today about patient satisfaction surveys – showing how the surveys have little correlation to quality of patient care. A couple of the editors at EP Monthly are working on publishing the results of the survey on patient satisfaction surveys taken on this blog a few months ago.
Same law firm obtains $9.7 million dollar judgment on behalf of patient whose cancer diagnosis was delayed and $38.7 million dollar judgment when obstetricians allegedly fail to perform a timely Caesarian section on child who was born with cerebral palsy.
Another firm obtains $22 million judgment against providers after patient ends up paralyzed from waist down when treated for leg fracture.
Is substance abuse a problem with our troops in Afghanistan? The number of narcotic prescriptions written by military physicians has quadrupled since 2001.
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I'm on a system with several LPARS. Each LPAR calls its own database XYZ. In the RDB directory, each LPAR refers to the the databases on the other LPARS by their LPAR name, but refers to itself as XYZ. This means that no matter where SQL runs, CURRENT_SERVER is always XYZ. This is annoying when one is trying to determine which environment something is running in.
Can anyone think of any drawbacks to changing this. We have no applications that check CURRENT_SERVER presently, and it would be pointless if they did.
And assuming we do want to change this, how do we do it?
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Re: Multiple LPARS using same RDB name2013-04-04T13:59:59ZThis is the accepted answer. This is the accepted answer.Shouldn't be any issues in changing it - assuming you don't have active host server jobs (eg, ODBC & JDBC requests) that are connected to that database.
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A golden passport is a country’s investment program for wealthy immigrants that offer citizenship or residency in return for hard cash.
The governments of smaller countries seeking to bolster their foreign currency reserves are not the only ones presenting gold passports to incomers.
Developed countries among the world’s largest economies dangle the golden passport carrot in front of would-be investors as well.
The USA, UK, Canada and Australia have their golden passport programs, as do around half of European Union countries.
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What Is A Golden Passport Or Visa?
Passports or visas gained through an investment program are not golden; it’s just a media term for residence or citizenship that’s bought by a wealthy investor rather than acquired over time.
Governments target wealthy foreign nationals who want to live in their countries and are ready to pay for the privilege.
The golden passports generally include a place for partners, children and sometimes other dependent relatives or family in need of care.
The passports and visas are available to renew indefinitely – or at least as long as the investment stays in place.
One extra benefit from an EU visa or passport is the holder is entitled to visa-free travel throughout the Schengen Area. The Schengen comprises 24 EU countries, plus Iceland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Switzerland. The EU countries outside the Schengen Area are Ireland, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia and Cyprus.
Countries With Golden Visa Programs
This is a list of the most popular citizenship and residency programs.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted most of the programs, so check the details before making an application.
|Country||Program type||Region||Minimum investment||Processing time||Schengen travel|
|Antigua and Barbuda||Citizenship||Caribbean||US$100,000||3-4 months||Yes|
|Australia||Residence||Asia Pacific||AU.5 million||12 months|
|Austria||Citizenship||Europe||€3 million||24–36 months||Yes|
|Canada||Residence||North America||CA$1.2 million||48–56 months|
|Hong Kong||Residence||Asia Pacific||None||4-8 months|
|Jersey||Residence||Europe||£145,000 + annual taxes||N/A|
|Malaysia||Residence||Asia Pacific||MYR 300,000||3-6months|
|New Zealand||Residence||Asia Pacific||NZD3 million||3-12 months|
|North Macedonia||Citizenship||Europe||€200,000||2-5 months||Yes|
|Singapore||Residence||Asia Pacific||SGD2.5 million||9-12 months|
|South Korea||Residence||Asia Pacific||KRW300 million||20 days|
|St. Kitts and Nevis||Citizenship||Caribbean||US$150,000||3-6 months|
|St. Lucia||Citizenship||Caribbean||US$100,000||3-4 months|
|Switzerland||Residence||Europe||CHF250,000 + annual taxes||3-6 months|
|Thailand||Residence||Asia Pacific||THB600,000||2-3 months|
|United Kingdom||Residence||Europe||£2 million||Two–four weeks|
|United States of America||Residence||North America||US$500,000||33–50 months|
What Can You Do With A Golden Visa?
The two main benefits of a golden passport or visa are residence and travel.
Many golden passport applicants want to move because of political instability in their home country. Others are attracted by the freedom of travel taken for granted in the west but eyed with jealously from many other countries.
Beyond the Schengen Area, more than 100 other countries grant visa-free access to European Union nationals.
Whereas many countries allow golden passport applicants to invest in a home, some have stricter controls like the UK and Austria.
The UK has a number of different schemes to allow people to get a golden visa, one of the more popular one is the Tier 1 Investor Visa.
In both countries, expats must invest in businesses that create new jobs.
Other benefits are attached to a golden passport, like the right for children to study, an improved quality of life and better personal security.
Frequently Asked Questions about Golden Visa’s and Passports
What’s the easiest country to get a golden passport?
Many countries process golden visas and passports within a few weeks, but Portugal is reportedly the easiest country to get a golden passport.
The processing time can be as short as three months; the investment is €250,000 – the price of an average home, and the package comes with Schengen Area travel rights and a residence permit.
The cheapest golden passports are offered by the Caribbean countries of St Lucia and Dominica. Both charge US$100,000.
What’s the difference between a passport and a visa?
A passport is issued to nationals of a country to permit them to travel to other countries, while a government grants a visa to allow visitors leave to stay for a certain length of time.
Can I borrow the money to buy a golden passport?
No, you cannot borrow money to buy a golden passport. You or your partner must have the money in the bank and ready for investment.
How do I apply for a golden passport?
Head to your chosen country’s immigration service website and read through the terms and conditions of applying for a golden passport.
Most governments have an online application and instructions on how to prove your ID and financial status.
How much money do I need to apply for a golden passport?
Besides a minimum of $100,000 for investment, you also need cash to cover the application costs for each person, your living costs and other significant expenses.
For instance, the UK demands a healthcare surcharge that can add up to several thousand pounds for a family of four.
Most countries expect applicants to have enough money to pay their way without claiming state benefits or free healthcare.
Building Block For Permanent Residency
Golden visas and passports are the keys that unlock residency.
The programs are a tool for cherry-picking the best talent and wealthy entrepreneurs. In return for their expertise and investment, the passport or visa is a pass that allows immigrants the chance to spend time building life before they apply for citizenship or permanent residency.
The golden passports and visas are popular because the holders don’t have to do much other than fork out some money to gain one.
Unlike other visas, expats don’t need to marry, get a job or start a business to qualify.
How Many Golden Passports And Visas Are Granted?
The answer is not as many golden passports are granted as you might think.
A recent report by Spotlight on Corruption claims these are the numbers seeking golden passports and visas in the UK during the past 12 years. The number of visas granted is in brackets:
- China (4,106)
- Russia (2,526)
- Hong Kong (692)
- United States (685)
- Pakistan (283)
- Kazakhstan (278)
- India (254)
The report claims only 9 per cent of golden visa applications were rejected.
In the USA, a Green Card lottery is held every year. In 2021, 55,000 green cards were granted to allow foreign nationals to live, work and study in the States.
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Software / Programming →Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Build Tools v16.10.0 (x86/x64)
Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 Build Tools v16.10.0 (x86/x64) | 12.84 GB
This is the installer of the build tools from Microsoft (i.e., this is all that is needed to build projects but without a development environment, without an IDE). If you need a development environment, then install this If you only need a C ++ compiler, then instead of this distribution you can limit yourself more compact distribution
More specifically, unlike the full studio, this installer does not include a graphical interface (IDE) component and, accordingly, you cannot install a visual development environment through the BuildTools edition. Through this limitation, an attempt is made to reduce the weight of the installer and reduce the size and impact on Windows. BuildTools does not provide any additional features (that is, it is like a "toolchain from small ones" ... it seems to me it would be worthwhile to name this modification so that everything would be clear at once ... but they called the edition so).
• Disconnect from the Internet ... well, if you do not want pale telemetry
• If the installer does not have access to the Internet, then install certificates for self-diagnosis of the installer by executing Certificates_Setup.cmd as administrator
• Then run Setup_BuildTools
System requirements :
Operating system (both bits are valid) :
Windows 10 version 1703 or higher: Home, Professional, Education, and Enterprise (LTSC and S are not supported ... but people work)
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Windows Server 2012 R2 (with Update 2919355): Essentials, Standard, Datacenter
Windows Server 2016: Standard, Datacenter, Core
Windows Server 2019
Windows 8.1 (with Update 2919355): Core, Professional, and Enterprise
Windows 7 SP1 (with latest Windows Updates): Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate
Hard disk space: from 1 GB to 22 GB, depending on the installed components.
1.8 GHz or faster processor. Quad-core or better recommended
2 GB of RAM; 8 GB of RAM recommended (2.5 GB minimum if running on a virtual machine)
Hard disk speed: to improve performance, install Windows and Visual Studio on a solid state drive (SSD).
Video card that supports a minimum display resolution of 720p (1280 by 720); Visual Studio will work best at a resolution of WXGA (1366 by 768) or higher.
This distribution presents an almost complete BuildTools edition of VS2019 studio. Who needs only a C ++ compiler, see here . If you need to install / update NOT BuildTools studio edition, see here . If you have any problems, try first to check the integrity of the downloaded by running Check_Files.cmd
This distribution presents the BuildTools edition, from which ONLY old C ++ versions have been removed (corresponding to studio versions 16.0-16.9). This had to be done so that the distribution size was smaller and it would already be advisable to have a separate BuildTools distribution from the AIO. Whoever needs old compilers of older versions can install BuildTools from previous distributions of BuildTools or install BuildTools from AIO distribution (in which there are mechanisms for returning everything removed to the fullest)
The removed components are so unimportant that you simply cannot select them from the first tab of the installer. On the second tab, in order not to run into missing components, you should not select those components that contain "14.2x" in their name, where x is from 0 to 8 ... the latest version of the "pluses" (ie 14.29) is naturally left. In short, from the C ++ compilers, only the latest version from the 2019 studio and the version of the compilers from the 2015 and 2017 studios are left.
Apart from the old C ++ components, nothing has been cut out. Those. if you are not interested in C ++ then you can safely put anything you want offline
There may be difficulties with updating BuildTools:
The essence of the problem with updating BuildTools in offline mode is that the installer sometimes does not see some of the downloaded components if the name of the folder from which the installer is launched is NOT the same as when installing BuildTools. If this happens to you, then you need to either restart the installer but from the same folder, or simply rearrange BuildTools, or provide Internet access.
Year / Date of Issue : 2021
Version : 16.10.0
Developer : Microsoft ( docks )
Bit depth : 32/64 bits (and even arm ... who tried it on arm - sign for interest)
Language : English + Russian
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While the limitation and high cost of materials become the biggest obstacles for the development of 3D printing, Dr. Conor MacCormack, the CEO of Mcor believes their paper based 3D color printer is a solution.
In the podcast below Dr. Conor MacCormack talked with Michael Wolf about how they came up with the idea of paper 3D printing to provide an environment friendly and low material cost color 3D printer, how the company was started, how the Staples deal came together, how Staples and Mcor plan to make 3D printing services work at retail, where the market is for paper based 3D printing and the future.
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Neoliberalism seeks economic liberalization and globalization. For these purposes, countries integrate into global markets. But moving directly from imported substitution and welfare policies to neoliberal policies, such as Turkey, can have consequences such as poverty and income inequality. The wrong social policies created to prevent these negative consequences could put the country in a stalemate. In this article, between 1980 and 2000, the impoverishment of neoliberalized Turkey and a number of social policies developed as a result of this impoverishment will be mentioned.
Today, one of the important issues for many countries of the world is migration. Driving factors such as poverty, conflict, war, and attractive factors such as living opportunities in developed regions, education, health, and jobs cause thousands of people to move within and between countries every year. However, this mobility can lead to serious effects and problems in political, social, cultural, ethnic, and religious areas.
Gender equality remains a major problem across the centuries. Even though the fight against this problem has evolved significantly across the globe. Even in the 21st century, this gender inequality persists globally in the Middle East, where this inequality rate is higher, problems such as domestic violence, unequal sharing of housework, and sexual violence already exist, and the pandemic has increased this even more. Within the scope of this study, the position and place of women in the region have been examined.
The Village Institutes project is one of the greatest pioneers of enlightenment both in the social and educational fields in the republican period.
After the geographical discoveries and colonial movements that the British Empire gained a lot through, a power hegemony started to appear concretely on the British axis. It would not be correct to match the age of British power hegemony to US power hegemony after the post-soviet era due to the other actors’ existence such as France and Italy. Naturally, British influence on World politics affected Turkish-British relations too, and bilateral relations gained importance and continued until nowadays
The fact that Afghanistan is in intercontinental strategic geography has attracted the attention of many states to this region from time to time. After being completely occupied by the Russians in 1979, the region naturally attracted the attention of the USA. As a result of the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon in the USA on September 11, 2001, Osama Bin Laden and his organization Al Qaeda in Afghanistan were invaded by the USA with the allegation that this attack was carried out, and the USA started the war against terrorism. Although the Afghanistan construction process lasted for years and the hope of stabilization did not reach a solution, this process was examined in this study.
When the bureaucracy is mentioned, politics and administration are the first terms that come to mind, and this is an indication of how inevitable the relationship between them is. Max Weber introduced bureaucracy to the world as a form of organization. According to Weber, the old organizational structures were insufficient to meet the administrative needs of society after industrialization. Therefore, the role of leaders has gradually diminished, and legality and the system have become important. As a result, the old organizational structures were replaced by a new form of an administrative organization called bureaucracy (Baransel, 1979: 166). We can say that bureaucracy is an effort to be an ideal and rational form of organization.
Yemen has been a country open to foreign interventions throughout its history, it has become visible on the international agenda especially after 2015. The political situation deteriorated due to the lack of control of the political uprisings, still has not recovered. Therefore, in this article, the Yemeni Civil War is analyzed in terms of its socio-political, socio-religious, historical, relationship with global and regional powers.
The DP could not confront the anti-democracy that it promised to be against during its rule, and experienced the gravity of holding power. For example, DP criticized the wrong and unfair proportional electoral system in Turkish democracy, but they did not change it. Because they could not afford not to use the advantage, when the majority was with themselves and they preferred the electoral system, which was on behalf of them, against democracy. In other words, while the DP had a great chance to change and democratize Turkey, they could not take advantage of it. The Turkish soldiers who took part in the Korean War, and the implementation of a policy that sided with the United States, and even in the coup d’etat, the emphasis on allegiance to NATO, has pushed Turkish politics to a great fear and reaction against the left. There was almost an allergy against communism and socialism in the society, and it was tried to be brought into the subconscious of the whole nation that these thoughts could not be accepted. This great reaction against the left caused both the left and the right to become more polarized and radicalized; therefore, Turkish politics has turned into a system which is coming close to fascism.
The ASALA Terrorist Organization, which will be examined in this study, will be discussed within the scope of Armenians and Armenia in the historical process by considering people from different nationalities who were murdered, especially Turkish diplomats, by the organization. ASALA, which is a paramilitary ethnic terrorist organization, has determined its ideologies on the line of Marxism-Leninism and Turkophobia, and it has opposite poles within itself. The expansion of the name of the organization is ‘Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia’. It actively maintained its effectiveness between 1975-1994. This organization was founded by a Beirut Armenian Agop Agopian, who was also known as ‘Harutün Tokaşyan’, with the help of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, in the city of Beirut, during the Lebanese Civil War on 1975 (Çam, 2014). | <urn:uuid:67b757d9-5851-4976-88bb-8cd4c4857fe9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thefeasjournal.com/category/ir/middle-east/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.97063 | 1,161 | 2.96875 | 3 |
“Affordable” housing is becoming one of the defining issues of our day. Despite the fact that average Americans work harder and longer hours and are more productive, increasing numbers of urban dwellers across the country are finding it more and more difficult to afford what should be a basic human right: adequate housing. A generation ago, workers were expected to pay no more than a quarter to a third of their incomes on rent or mortgage payments. Today, simply covering the cost of a single room in which to sleep at night can eat up 60% or more of an average worker’s paycheck. New York City may be the poster child for this problem, but it is hardly alone. It’s happening in cities all over the country – and the downward pressure on wages and salaries exerted by a corrupt, greed-maddened corporate oligarchy is only part of the equation.
One factor is gentrification, driven by the obscene and growing inequality that defines the U.S. economy. Younger, high-paid professionals who are in the top 10% of income earners and who fled the cities years ago are moving back. Lower crime rates and more amenities such as upscale restaurants and shopping facilities, as well as close proximity to urban workplaces where these individuals are employed, make these urban core areas increasingly attractive to high-income, white collar workers. They take up residence in areas that once contained affordable housing, where rental units have been renovated and turned into condominiums. This drives up rentals and land values faster than even construction costs. It’s forcing out the poor and middle class.
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says it doesn’t have to be this way. In an op-ed published Monday, Krugman attributes much of the problem to urban land use regulations. Krugman points out that land-use restrictions are literally preventing the construction of new affordable housing. Fortunately, it is a problem that has local solutions. Krugman writes:
This is an issue over which local governments have a lot of influence. New York City can’t do much if anything about soaring inequality of incomes, but it could do a lot to increase the supply of housing, and thereby ensure that the inward migration of the elite doesn’t drive out everyone else.
Krugman adds that current mayor of New York City, Bill DeBlasio, is aware of what needs to be done. Unfortunately, this problem is not unique to the city of New York. Nor is it confined to the cities. Many members of the upper 10% have summer homes in smaller towns and rural areas – thus creating shortages and driving up prices for those who live and work in these communities year-round. One NYT reader, who identifies himself as “Pilgrim,” posted the following comment: “I live in a desirable beach town where 3 out of 4 houses are second homes. There’s no place left to rent or buy for the locals because of the over inflated real estate prices.” Ironically, there are as many as six empty homes for every homeless person in the U.S. – but that’s a whole other rant.
It seems like a lose-lose proposition for everyone – but the moneyed elite don’t give a tinker’s damn. It doesn’t really affect them, after all. Economic inequality is something over which city governments have little control. However, relaxed land use rules and more intelligent zoning laws, which are the province of municipal government, could go a long way toward easing a problem that is well on its well to becoming an all-out crisis.
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Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. ET Sunday, July 11, 2021.
Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner serves as the Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, which he has led since 2015. Rabbi Pesner also serves as Senior Vice President of the Union for Reform Judaism, a position to which he was appointed to in 2011. Named one of the most influential rabbis in America by Newsweek magazine, he is an inspirational leader and tireless advocate for social justice.
Rabbi Pesner’s work has focused on encouraging Jewish communities to reach across lines of race, class, and faith in campaigns for social justice. In 2006, he founded Just Congregations (now incorporated into the Religious Action Center), which engaged clergy, professional, and volunteer leaders in interfaith efforts in pursuit of social justice. Rabbi Pesner was a primary leader in the successful Massachusetts campaign for health care access that has provided health care coverage to hundreds of thousands and which became a nationwide model for reform. Over the course of his career, he has also led and supported campaigns for racial justice, economic opportunity, immigration reform, LGBTQ equality, human rights, and a variety of other causes. He is dedicated to building bridges to collectively confront anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of hate and bigotry.
Rabbi Pesner has trained and mentored students on all four campuses of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, and gives speeches in interfaith and secular venues all over the world. Rabbi Pesner serves as a board member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, JOIN for Justice, the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, and the New England Center for Children. He is a member of the Leadership Team for the Jewish Social Justice Roundtable, and he has served as a scholar for the Wexner Foundation, American Jewish World Service, the Nexus USA Summit, and Combined Jewish Philanthropies, among others.
Ordained at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1997, Rabbi Pesner was a congregational rabbi at Temple Israel in Boston and at Temple Israel in Westport, Conn. A graduate of Wesleyan University and the Bronx High School of Science, Rabbi Pesner is married to Dana S. Gershon, an attorney. They have four daughters: Juliet, Noa, Bobbie, and Cate.
This program is made possible by the Robert D. Campbell Memorial Chaplaincy Fund.
About Chautauqua Institution: Chautauqua Institution is a community on the shores of Chautauqua Lake in southwestern New York state that comes alive each summer with a unique mix of fine and performing arts, lectures, interfaith worship and programs, and recreational activities. As a community, we celebrate, encourage and study the arts and treat them as integral to all of learning, and we convene the critical conversations of the day to advance understanding through civil dialogue. CHQ Assembly is the online expression of Chautauqua Institution's mission. | <urn:uuid:067693ba-6e02-4376-b3d6-6c32ce0c7f96> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://assembly.chq.org/worship-services/videos/rabbi-jonah-pesner-sunday-2021 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.962834 | 627 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Activation of the recently identified c-Jun N-terminal kinases (JNKs) typically results in programmed cell death (apoptosis) in neurons and other cell types grown in culture. However, the effects of JNK activation in the central nervous system in vivo are unknown. At baseline, JNK activity in mice was on average 17-fold higher in brain than in peripheral organs, whereas JNK protein levels were similar. In brain, JNK was expressed primarily in neurons. Restraining mice or allowing them to explore a novel environment rapidly increased JNK activity 3- to 15-fold in various brain regions, but these manipulations did not increase brain activity of the extracellular signal-regulated kinase. Because noninvasive environmental stimuli that do not induce neurodegeneration elicited prominent increases in JNK activity in the brain, we conclude that acute activation of the JNK cascade in central nervous system neurons does not induce neuronal apoptosis in vivo. In contrast, the high baseline activity of JNK in the brain and the activation of the JNK cascade by environmental stimuli suggest that this kinase may play an important physiological role in neuronal function.
|Original language||English (US)|
|Number of pages||6|
|Journal||Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America|
|State||Published - Nov 11 1997|
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|Version 1 (modified by trac, 12 years ago) (diff)|
Trac macros are plugins to extend the Trac engine with custom 'functions' written in Python. A macro inserts dynamic HTML data in any context supporting WikiFormatting.
Another kind of macros are WikiProcessors. They typically deal with alternate markup formats and representation of larger blocks of information (like source code highlighting). See also: WikiProcessors.
Macro calls are enclosed in two square brackets. Like python functions, macros can also have arguments, a comma separated list within parenthesis.
Macros are still a new feature, and the list of available (and distributed) macros is admittedly not very impressive. In future Trac releases, we hope to build a library of useful macros, and will of course happily include contributed macros (see below).
- HelloWorld -- An example macro, useful for learning how to write macros.
- Timestamp -- Insert the current date and time.
Macros from around the world
The Trac Project has a section dedicated to user-contributed macros, MacroBazaar. If you're looking for new macros, or have written new ones to share with the world, don't hesitate adding it to the MacroBazaar wiki page.
Developing New Macros
Macros, like Trac itself, are written in the Python programming language. They are very simple modules, identified by the filename and should contain a single entry point function. Trac will display the returned data inserted into the HTML where the macro was called.
It's easiest to learn from an example:
# MyMacro.py -- The world's simplest macro def execute(hdf, args, env): return "Hello World called with args: %s" % args
Advanced Topics: Template-enabled Macros
For advanced uses, macros can also render structured output in HDF, to be rendered to HTML using clearsilver templates - like most Trac output. In short, this allows more generic and well-designed advanced macros.
Macros gain direct access to the main HDF tree, and are free to manipulate it.
def execute(hdf, args, env): # Currently hdf is set only when the macro is called # From a wiki page if hdf: hdf.setValue('wiki.macro.greeting', 'Hello World') # args will be null if the macro is called without parentesis. args = args or 'No arguments' return 'Hello World, args = ' + args
You can also use the environment (env) object to access configuration data.
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Nov 17, 2010 at 8:49 AM
Edited Nov 17, 2010 at 8:51 AM
facing an issue with the self extracting file,
on my own pc it works fine, o other pc's when trying to open this file i get this error message box:
".NET Framework Initialization Error
to run this application you first must install one of the following versions of the .NET Framework v4.0..."
my application is targeting the .NET 4.0 framework.
is there some workaround or a way to bundle the .Net framework with the installed if its not installed on the computer ?
here is my code
Protected Sub Download1_Click(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs) Handles Download1.Click
Dim emptyCheckboxList As Boolean = False
Dim ItemsNum As Int32 = chklst.Items.Count()
Dim MyFileStream As FileStream
Dim FileSize As Long
Dim fp As StreamWriter
Using zip As New ZipFile()
For Each lstItem In chklst.Items
If lstItem.Selected = True Then
emptyCheckboxList = True
zip.AddFile(Server.MapPath(".\files\") & lstItem.ToString, "")
' save self extracting file to server
zip.SaveSelfExtractor(Server.MapPath(".\files\temp\") & exeFileName, SelfExtractorFlavor.ConsoleApplication)
MyFileStream = New FileStream(Server.MapPath(".\files\temp\") & exeFileName, FileMode.Open)
FileSize = MyFileStream.Length
Dim Buffer(CInt(FileSize)) As Byte
MyFileStream.Read(Buffer, 0, CInt(FileSize))
Response.ContentType = "application/exe"
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" & exeFileName)
Using fs as New Filestream(Server.MapPath(".\files\temp\") & exeFileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Read)
Dim Buffer2(2048) as Byte Dim n as Int32
Do n = fs.Read(Buffer2, 0, 2048)
Response.OutputStream.Write(Buffer2, 0, n)
Loop While n > 0
If emptyCheckboxList = False Then
ErrorLbl.Text = "No File was chosen for download, please select files "
ErrorLbl.Text = "" End If
Catch ex As Exception
ErrorLbl.Text = "Download_Click: " & ex.Message
Nov 17, 2010 at 11:18 AM
I had typed in a long detailed answer for your question, but my internet connection went down, and I lost it.
An SFX is a .NET application. As such it requires that the .NET Framework be present on the computer that runs the SFX. There is no way for a .NET application itself to guarantee that the requisite .NET Framework is available before running.
One approach to insuring that pre-requisites in general are available on a computer is to package the application into an MSI (Microsoft Installer). You can build one of these using a Setup and Deployment project in Visual Studio. In the project
you can stipulate the pre-requisites, including the .NET Framework runtime. An MSI offers other features as well: the user can choose an installation directory, can review and select optional features for the application, and can uninstall the application
later using MSI. This is probably the best way to distribute a custom .NET application that is beyond simplistic.
The MSI is not a good approach to distribute an SFX application. I said earlier that an SFX is just a .NET application. So why should the SFX be treated differently than other .NET Applications? It's this: the SFX is not intended to be run
repeatedly, and used over the long term. It's typically something you run once. As such, a better way to insure pre-requisites in this case is to tell the user to install the .NET Framework, perhaps by referring the user to a URL where the .NET Framework
can be downloaded, like http://www.microsoft.com/net/download.aspx .
A similar approach may be appropriate for deploying your application. If it's a fairly simple app, then just asking people to install .NET 4 with a URL click, might be the right approach.
Hi Cheeso, i guess this is the right approach.
thank you again for your quick responses.
Using Ionic.Zip v220.127.116.11 to create a self extracting zip.
The FAQ says "The self-extractors require .NET 2.0 on the computer doing the extraction".
When I try to run the self extrator on a machine that only has .Net 2.0 Service Pack 2,
I get a .Net Framework Initialization Error:
"To run this application, you first must install one of the following versions of the .Net Framework: v4.0.30319"
I understand the above answer to buzibuzi. so, I'm not ask HOW do I get 4.0 on a pc.
My question is; Am I missing something, or has the .Net Framework requirement changed?
Sep 28, 2011 at 5:24 AM
This is a bug in DotNetZip. I've already filed a workitem; need to implement the change and fix it.
Has this bug been fixed. | <urn:uuid:74f0d3db-132c-40b1-8609-af6dbb03a7fd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dotnetzip.codeplex.com/discussions/234987 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00233-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.810699 | 1,179 | 1.6875 | 2 |
San Francisco based Divergent Microfactories has unleashed an innovative technique for revolutionizing automobile manufacturing. They have incorporated 3D printing with an aim of lessening pollution, minimum resources and lighter costs associated with building autos and other huge complex structures.
Node, the new blade
The firm has come up with Blade, under the brand name called Node, which is a 3D-printed aluminum coupling that joins chunks of carbon fiber tubing for making up the vehicle’s chassis. Node would help in dematerializing and democratizing the entire production of car manufacturing, echoed Kevin Czinger, the company CEO.
He further added that although the world is looking up towards green cars and majority has already adopted the cleaner cars yet the manufacturing process is far from being environment friendly. Nevertheless, Divergent Microfactories, has taken this issue seriously and they have come up with approach the targets minimum resources and give out relatively less pollution during the manufacturing process of their supercars.
3D Printed Supercar
The first newly fashioned supercar that they have launched can vroom from 0-60mph in just two seconds. Its bi-fuel engine, that is, with any of the two: compressed natural gas or gasoline- can room 700 hp. Overall, the weight amount to just 1400lbs, which is nearly 90% less than conventional cars.
Czinger claimed that Blade has proved it efficacy, as it did not sacrifice on style or substance. He is positive in claiming that their product would lead to a renaissance in car manufacturing.
Platform for small entrepreneurial teams
Concentration of manufacturing would not be limited to only large team of innovators but the idea is to allow large-scale car production affordable for small teams of developers as well. With an aim of going global by placing the platform in the hands of small entrepreneurial teams, Divergent Microfactories is planning to advertise only a limited number of high performance cars fabricated in their own microfactory. | <urn:uuid:d98de1a1-6bf6-4c1f-995e-ea9f8b77ae70> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://techietonics.com/futuretech-tonics/automobile-manufacturing-platform-3d-printed-supercar-built-from-unique-node-system-w-video.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.962769 | 396 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Archrivals Northwest Orient Airlines and Republic Airlines agreed Thursday to merge in a $884 million cash deal that would create the nation`s third largest airline.
The combination of the airlines, both headquartered in Minneapolis-St. Paul, is subject to approval by the federal government and Republic`s stockholders.
Meeting separately Thursday in the Twin Cities, directors of NWA Inc., Northwest`s parent company, and Republic Airlines Inc. approved an agreement under which NWA would pay $17 in cash for each share of Republic`s common stock.
The merger was announced after trading on the New York Stock Exchange had closed for the day. Republic`s stock closed at $14.13 a share, up 50 cents. NWA closed at $47.88, up 38 cents.
William Wren, Northwest spokesman, said it was too early to tell how the merger would effect employment.
Northwest Chairman Steven G. Rothmeier would be president and chief executive of the combined airline, which would fly under the name Northwest Orient, Wren said. Republic would cease to exist after the transaction, he said. The airline would rank in size behind United Airlines and American Airlines.
Last year, Northwest ranked seventh among U.S. carriers and Republic ninth.
Northwest said it soon would file a merger application with the Department of Transportation.
The deal could encounter antitrust problems and stiff opposition from labor because of considerable overlap in the airlines` route systems, some sources speculated.
However, Rothmeier said that he anticipated ``no significant barriers``
or delays in obtaining government approval because industry deregulation has made it easier for new airlines to start up. He said the merger would improve service between major U.S. cities, the Far East and Europe.
The merger could severely reduce competition in Minneapolis and Detroit, where both operate hubs, industry observers said. But, it also would create considerable operating efficiencies and reduce costs for the combined carrier. Northwest said it intends to keep both airlines` major facilities in the Twin Cities. They operate maintenance bases and have large administrative offices there.
Based on 1985 data, the combined carrier would operate 298 aircraft serving more than 100 cities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia. Among U.S. carriers, Northwest is the leading trans-Pacific airline and third largest across the Atlantic.
Northwest has one of the largest fleets of wide-body jets, and Republic operates many short-haul, narrow-body aircraft.
Together, they would employ more than 30,000 and have revenue in the range of $4.5 billion.
According to a Salomon Brothers Inc. study, 65 percent of Northwest`s traffic comes from markets in which it competes with Republic.
Northwest has been under pressure to find a merger partner because its dominance across the Pacific is threatened by United`s pending purchase of Pan American World Airway`s Pacific routes. The Pacific is Northwest`s most profitable market.
In recent months, Northwest also reportedly has discussed a possible merger with Delta, Eastern and American.
Republic, once on the industry`s most endangered list, has climbed back into the black after new money-saving agreements with unions and a
restructuring of routes. The airline has hubs in the Twin Cities, Detroit and Memphis.
Republic has reported dramatic, double-digit ridership increases in the last year. But the airline still is carrying $695 million in debt, leaving its long-term future cloudy.
Republic was formed through a merger of North Central, Southern Airways and Hughes Airwest.
``It`s our intent for the combined airlines to utilize to the fullest extent possible these assets and employees to provide improved service to the traveling and shipping public,`` said Northwest`s Rothmeier.
The merger ``will create the economic mass necessary to provide competitive service in the highly competitive industry,`` Rothmeier said.
For Republic to prosper long-term in the deregulated era, the company would have to grow through an external expansion, said Stephen Wolf, Republic president and chief executive.
``Linking (Republic) with Northwest`s extensive operation will result in employment and career opportunties for Republic beyond those which could be expected if Republic continues on its own,`` Wolf said.
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Walsh, Catherine (2004) Prophet in a righteous land: George W. Bush's rhetoric and the Hebrew Bible. Masters thesis, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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|Additional Information:||Bibliography: leaves 122-130.|
|Department(s):||Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of > Religious Studies|
|Library of Congress Subject Heading:||Communication in politics--United States; Political oratory--United States; Religion and politics--United States.|
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exploring some of the per particle attributes, I started with a fairly old tutorial from Digital Tutores ( advanced shading network ) wherein a simple paintBall gun shoots toward a simple surface .
but for a reason, the following expression which is supposed to return the collision U & V coordination of colliding particles returns very strange results . I don't know why .. here's the expression:
global int $numOfCollisions;
global vector $colUV;
if (particleShape1.collisionU > 0)
print ($numOfCollisions + " " );
( the red lines are just for debugging purposes)
the result should be like this :
1 0.323566 .4562236 0
2 0.652356 .5986664 0
but this is the result the above expression which is not normal:
1 0 0 0
2 0 0 0
I'm using Maya 2011 64bit sp1 on 64 7 windows.
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The calf anatomy includes the gastrocnemius (aka “gastroc”) and the soleus. Get ready to learn about both of these muscles, their locations and their functional anatomy.
This page provides an overview of the calf muscle group. Discover more information about the calf anatomy by clicking the links throughout the page.
The 2 Calf Muscles and Their Main Function
The soleus and gastrocnemius work in tandem to carry out the function of plantar flexion. Plantar flexion is just medical terminology for the movement of pointing/pressing the ball (front part) of your foot downwards.
You perform plantar flexion when standing on your tippy-toes, pressing (or flooring) the gas pedal of a car, walking, and of course, when performing calf exercises.
The gastroc extends from the femur (thigh bone) down to where it inserts into the Achilles tendon. The gastrocnemius is much larger than soleus, accounting for the nearly all of visual bulk of the calf anatomy.
The major characteristics of the gastroc include the following:
- Fast Twitch Muscle Fibers. The gastroc is made up of mostly fast twitch (Type II) muscle fibers. Fast twitch muscle fibers forcefully contract to produce explosive movements, but experience rapid fatigue. They are utilized during anaerobic activities, such as high intensity (very heavy) weight training and sprinting.
- Assists Knee Flexion. The gastroc plays a small role in knee flexion. So it is essentially untrained during any calf exercises where the knee is bent, such as seated calf raises (the soleus does all the work). As you can imagine, it would be a major mistake to do a calf workout with only bent-leg exercises.
Gastrocnemius exercises include any calf exercise where the leg is straight, such as the standing calf raise or calf press.
The soleus extends down from the tibia and fibula to where it is attached to the Achilles tendon. It’s much smaller than it’s good friend, the gastrocnemius.
But not to discount its aesthetic importance, a well-developed soleus muscle does have a some noticable visual impact on the calf, despite being located underneath the gastroc.
Sure, the soleus may not be the most important muscle in the calf anatomy for getting hyoooge calves. But obviously it shouldn’t be ignored, otherwise I wouldn’t be talking about it! Listed below are the characteristics and main function of the soleus muscle:
- Slow Twitch Muscle Fibers. The soleus primarily consists of slow twitch (Type I) muscle fibers, which are highly fatigue resistant. This means that they are utilized for aerobic and endurance-type activities that range from maintaining posture, walking, jogging, or long-distance running. Slow twitch fibers cannot produce the forceful contractions required for creating fast and powerful movements.
- Ankle Stabilizers. As I mentioned in the previous bullet, one function of slow twitch fibers is to maintain posture; and the soleus does just that. Its most obvious functional purpose is to maintain posture by stabilizing the leg’s connection to the foot. Without it, we would all be constantly rolling our ankles, if not completely immobilized.
As I mentioned earlier, the soleus is isolated when the knee is bent, as is the case with the seated calf raise.
The Achilles Tendon and Elastic Recoil
Although the Achilles tendon is not actually a calf muscle, it does directly connect to both the soleus and the gastroc.
What’s important to know about the Achilles is that it can act like a spring. Put differently, it can store a lot of energy and then output the energy with minimal help from the muscles (a.k.a. elastic recoil).
In terms of calf exercises, elastic recoil allows you to perform reps with a lot of weight by “bouncing” the weight. For example, if you perform a seated calf raise – by lowering the weight too quickly and not pausing at the bottom – you do not work the actual calf muscles.
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Wanda Butts lost her only son, Josh, in a drowning accident six years ago, when he was just 16, and since then she has been working to change the world by making it her mission that every child knows how to swim. Wanda says that her son’s drowning gave her life meaning because she can now share with others the importance of knowing how to swim and the importance of knowing water safety.
Since 2007, Butts and her nonprofit, the Josh Project, have helped nearly 1,200 children, most of them minorities, learn how to swim. She has turned a tragedy into a miracle of charity and hope.
Ms. Butts has pulled herself up from the depths of every mother’s nightmare and she has made a difference in the world. Her son's death inspired her to do something about the other children in the world who may be in danger of drowning. She has become the answer to the problem.
We all have times in our lives where we are tested, moments in life where the cream rises to the surface. When we are pushed to our limits, we usually find that we are stronger than we ever thought possible. It is human nature that when pushed we bend, we do not break. The real changes are when we not only bend but we bounce back and stand taller than we once were.
What experience in your life has inspired you to change the way you are in the world?
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Accurate Indirect Branch Prediction
Karel Driesen and Urs H?lzle
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Technical Report TRCS97-19
December 3, 1997
Abstract. Indirect branch prediction is likely to become increasingly important in the future because indirect branches occur more frequently in object-oriented programs. With misprediction rates of around 25% on current processors, indirect branches can incur a significant fraction of branch misprediction overhead even though they remain less frequent than the more predictable conditional branches. We investigate a wide range of two-level predictors dedicated exclusively to indirect branches. Starting with predictors that use full-precision addresses and unlimited tables, we progressively introduce hardware constraints and minimize the loss of predictor performance at each step. For programs from the SPECint95 suite as well as a suite of large C++ applications, a two-level predictor achieves a misprediction rate of 9.8% with a 1K-entry table and 7.3% with an 8K-entry table, representing more than a threefold improvement over an ideal BTB. A hybrid predictor further reduces the misprediction rates to 8.98% and 5.95%, respectively.
Current high-performance superscalar processors use branch prediction to speculatively execute instructions beyond an unresolved branch. If the branch is mispredicted, this work is lost, and execution must restart right after the branch instruction. Newer designs increase instructions issue width and pipeline depth, increasing the relative overhead of mispredicted branches and making accurate branch prediction even more critical to performance.
Conditional direct branches, whose target is encoded in the instruction itself, can already be predicted with reported hit rates of up to 97% ([YP93]). In contrast, indirect branches, which transfer control to an address stored in a register, are harder to predict accurately. Unlike conditional branches, they can have more than two targets so that prediction requires a full 32-bit or 64- bit address rather than just a ?taken? or ?not taken? bit. Current processors predict indirect branches with a branch target buffer (BTB) which caches the most recent target address of a branch. Unfortunately, BTBs typically have much lower prediction rates than the best predictors for conditional branches. For example, an ideal (unconstrained) BTB achieves an average prediction hit ratio of only 64% on the SPECint95 benchmarks.
Though not as common as conditional branches, indirect branches occur frequently enough to cause substantial overhead. Chang et al. [CHP97] predict a reduction in execution time of 14% and 5% for the perl and gcc benchmarks on a wide-issue superscalar processor with an improved prediction mechanism for indirect branches (Target Cache). | <urn:uuid:8494175f-83bf-4a51-85de-d05bfaf1e570> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nzdl.org/gsdlmod?e=d-00000-00---off-0cstr--00-0----0-10-0---0---0direct-10---4-------0-1l--11-en-50---20-about---00-0-1-00-0--4----0-0-11-10-0utfZz-8-10&cl=CL1.124&d=HASH016ff2a6f5f28f79a668243a.1&x=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00251-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900299 | 567 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Satanists Want a Place at the Oklahoma Statehouse
In their zeal to tout their faith in the public square, conservatives in Oklahoma may have unwittingly opened the door to a wide range of religious groups, including satanists who are seeking to put their own statue next to a Ten Commandments monument on the Statehouse steps.
The Republican-controlled Legislature in this state known as the buckle of the Bible Belt authorized the privately funded Ten Commandments monument in 2009, and it was placed on the Capitol grounds last year despite criticism from legal experts who questioned its constitutionality. The Oklahoma chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit seeking its removal.
But the New York-based Satanic Temple saw an opportunity. It notified the state’s Capitol Preservation Commission that it wants to donate a monument and plans to submit one of several possible designs this month, said Lucien Greaves, a spokesman for the temple.
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Rahul Gandhi's speech a cameo performance
The Jaipur conference of Congress was historic in many ways. It witnessed the completion of one of the longest political gestations in Indian history, the coming of age of Rahul Gandhi. This involved two separate events. The first was the anointing of the man as successor and the other was his acceptance speech. The first was greeted with relief and the second was source of celebration at least within Congress. A Congress which was in suspended animation between Manmohan's reticence and Sonia's illness suddenly felt a surge towards the future. There is a sense that Congress has consolidated itself around a future leader. The future can now be seen as battle between Rahul and Modi. While dynastic succession as a ritual was clear, Rahul's speech was the subject of mixed responses.
The speech itself was a cameo performance. The speech writer seems to have produced the right rhythms, the timely rhetorical flourishes. As a message, the speech invoked two points, one about voice and subaltern politics, and the other, about ambiguities of governance. The linking metaphor was one of the families. Rahul invoked the family at three levels. He talked of his mother, the Nehru- Gandhi family, and Congress party as the largest family in India. The family he seemed to suggest provides a sense of history, of intimacy and of inclusiveness and conviviality. The family as a metaphor triggers the problematic part of speech and we shall return to it.
After the protocols of acknowledgement, Rahul Gandhi summoned the politics of the voice. Congress, he claimed magisterially, was the party that listened to voice. He created a potted history of voice by citing the green revolution as liberating the voice of the farmer, bank nationalisation as creating voices for creditors, IT as creating voices for the mobile phone. Voice, he said, was the essence and openness of democracy.
These were two brilliant tropes, one on voice and one on governance, both of which gave a powerful resonance to the speech. The two parts were tied together by an anecdote about Sonia Gandhi. Rahul said that he could not sleep the night before. His mother came into his room not to congratulate him. She was crying and warned him that power was poison. The challenge, he said, was not to be seduced by its attributes but to face up to his responsibilities.
The invocation of the family, the ode to the mother, however threw the monkey's wrench into the speech. Its contradictions unfolded as one asked how could dynastic continuity create party openness.There was an element of schizophrenia where a moment of dynastic anointing becomes a promissory note for internal party democracy. Voice sadly becomes an empty word, as Rahul adds that there is no place for dissenters in the Congress party.
There was a sense that our Indian Hamlet had graduated into a proud boy scout holding forth on governance and voice. The question remained whether he had the guts, the leadership to revamp a party in crisis. Can a party graduation speech appeal to a nation? Viewed as text, there was something impressive and hopeful about Rahul's speech. There was clarity to the thought rhythm to the presentation. There was a touch of innocence to it, a conviction that good intentions could clean up muddy systems like Congress.
If one looks at it, Sonia's speech and Rahul's were inversions of each other. One heralded the problem, the other provided concepts for a positive handling of it. There was an implicit passing of the conceptual torch if one read the speeches together.
There was a second problem to the speech. Voice read as a separate world hermetically sealed off from governance. Governance invoked decentralisation. The text was more managerial while the section on voice was more politically emotional. The first section was a politician's rhetoric. The second often became a managerial solution. Despite all these, one needs to hope and read Rahul's speech as a promissory note to the future. His new found confidence may be the only wager we have against the ambitions of Modi. May be time and events of the next one-and-ahalf years may give him the leadership skills for battle 2014. | <urn:uuid:8e57980d-8a72-4586-9ebb-9839c4a1ddeb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/guest-writer/rahul-gandhis-speech-a-cameo-performance/articleshow/18123721.cms?from=mdr | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722459.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00343-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983146 | 852 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Aura is changing the way we view our city.”
The 78-storey mega-tower, nearing completion on the northwest corner of Yonge and Gerrard Sts., has fast become one of Toronto most recognizable landmarks.
“You notice it from the 401 and Dufferin, or coming down the DVP,” notes Barry Graziani, the architect whose firm Graziani & Corraza designed Aura, Canada’s tallest residential building.
“It reorients you — there’s the financial district and then there’s Aura farther north. It’s expanding our sense of the city and the downtown core.”
Visible from across the GTA, the building also proudly signals that the once-gloomy stretch of Yonge between Gerrard and College Sts. has suddenly become a pretty big deal. Indeed, Aura, developed by Canderel Residential, has helped spur a transformation of the area, a historic part of the city that had fallen into disrepair over the years.
Before the arrival of Canderel in the early 2000s — and its construction of the two-tower Residences of College Park development on Bay St., followed several years later by Aura — the block bound by Yonge, College, Gerrard and Bay Sts. mostly consisted of a bland office complex backing onto forlorn Barbara Ann Scott skating rink park, itself stranded between two surface parking lots.
“It was pretty dreary,” recalls Riz Dhanji, vice-president of sales and marketing for Canderel. “There wasn’t much retail and there wasn’t much happening.” “I remember in 2001 walking down Yonge thinking, ‘Why am I selling this project? Even I wouldn’t want to walk down here.’ ”
Over the past decade, Canderel’s residential developments have brought thousands of new residents to the area. The projects have also added an array of new shops, services and eateries to cater to the sizeable new market. (Canderel owns the adjacent office complex at 777 Bay and has revamped the retail offerings there, including adding a Sobeys supermarket to relieve pressure on the existing Metro.)
“(Aura) has been a great catalyst project,” says Mark Garner, executive director of the Downtown Yonge BIA. “It’s created momentum for change in that area, that block specifically. And you’re starting to see the ripple effect going down Yonge.”
Canderel’s developments are improving the public realm in and around College Park, as well. Aura’s base has been set back from the street, creating a wider sidewalk on Yonge. The builder is also sprucing up Barbara Ann Scott Park, contributing $3 million to give the valuable green space between its buildings a much-needed makeover.
To have a three-acre park in the middle of an urban condition in a big city is rare,” notes Graziani. “We have this jewel in the rough that everybody has been walking by and ignoring.”
The development also will involve restoring a forgotten mid-block thoroughfare, Hayter St., which once connected Yonge to Laplante St., west of Bay.
“Back in the ’70s when they did the redevelopment of the entire block, they closed off Hayter,” Graziani explains. “But there was still this stub of it, opening onto Yonge, which we saw as an opportunity to announce the park on Yonge and create a new main entrance into the park.”
The developments have opened other opportunities, particularly for new retail in the area. Aura’s hefty podium houses a Bed Bath & Beyond and Marshalls stores, as well as the newest and largest location of Madonna’s Hard Candy Fitness chain.
Three restaurants recently opened along Gerrard St.: Reds Midtown Tavern, Scaddabush and Duke’s Refresher + Bar. “We’re seeing people from the Ontario courts and ServiceOntario, and Ryerson faculty members coming over,” notes Amanda Lee, local marketing co-coordinator for SIR Corp., which operates all three establishments. “So we’re already getting some loyal customers in the neighbourhood.”
Jeffrey Roick, who co-owns The Carlu event space in the neighbouring art deco College Park building — once home to Eaton’s College Street — sees the changes taking place in the area as a huge positive. He’s looking to include more live music events on the venue’s calendar and condo dwellers represent an obvious target market. “There’s a whole new group of people moving in,” Roick says, “and that’s good for everybody on the block.”Just north of Aura, at Yonge and Grenville Sts., Canderel is building on its momentum with YC Condos, a 66-storey glass tower. (Penthouses, ranging from 1,000 to 1,500 square feet, are available starting at $930,000.)
The slender, 66-storey building, which will have a pool on its top floor, promises to add architectural interest to an area that hasn’t seen much through the years. “This building is very New York, with a modern look and feel,” says Canderel’s Riz Dhanji. “We think it’s going to be a great architectural and design addition to the area.”
Like its developments at College Park, Canderel’s YC Condos will help rejuvenate that stretch of Yonge St., he adds, with new retail at the ground floor and a focus on enhancing the public realm. “This is going to bring lots of people onto the street, which will help change and improve things along Yonge,” says Dhanji.
Canderel is in good company in the TLC it’s showing Toronto’s main drag. Up and down Yonge, new projects are playing a part in its rebirth. Just north of Wellesley St., an entire block of 19th-century buildings on Yonge is being restored as part of a new condo project, Five Condos at 5 St. Joseph.
“We wanted to restore the fabric of the city, put it back the way it should be, and get good retailers in there,” says Gary Switzer, whose firm MOD Developments is co-developing the project with Graywood Developments. Farther south on Yonge near Queen St., MOD is developing The Massey Tower, a 60-storey building that will incorporate at its base a restored beaux arts-style bank building that for years sat deteriorating behind a chain-link fence.
Up at Yonge and Bloor Sts., Great Gulf Homes is building its massive 75-storey One Bloor mixed-use condo. Down Yonge St., a few blocks south of Aura, construction is under way on the new Ryerson Student Living Centre at Yonge and Gould Sts.
All of these projects are paying homage to Yonge St.’s rich and vibrant history while also helping rejuvenate the city’s spine for another century.
“When you talk about the cultural memory for most Torontonians, Yonge St. has always been the main street,” Switzer says. “It’s where you went on a Saturday night, it was the main shopping street. And it’s because of that that people feel very emotionally tied to it.”
For Dhanji, the change in atmosphere on Yonge St. between College and Gerrard since his company began work there has been dramatic.
“I used to be able to walk down Yonge and I could run back and forth along the sidewalk and never hit somebody,” he says. “Today you have to actually dodge people — it’s such a different feeling from what it was in the past.
“I think it’s great that the development we’ve been doing has really brought this animation back to Yonge that wasn’t there when we started back in 2001.”
Developer: Canderel ResidentialLocation: 460 Yonge St., Yonge and Grenville Sts.Size: 66 storeysStatus: Pre-construction
Developer: Canderel ResidentialLocation: 388 Yonge St., Yonge and Gerrard Sts.Size: 78 storeysStatus: Nearing completion
Developer: MOD DevelopmentsLocation: 197 Yonge St.Size: 60 storeysStatus: Pre-construction
Developers: MOD Developments/Graywood
Location: Yonge and St. Joseph Sts.Size: 48-storey tower with 5, 1870s brick buildings along YongeStatus: Pre-construction
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The Tortoise and the Hare
The Hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals. ‘I have never yet been beaten,’ said he, ‘when I put forth my full speed. I challenge any one here to race with me.’
The Tortoise said quietly, ‘I accept your challenge.’
‘That is a good joke,’ said the Hare; ‘I could dance round you all the way.’
‘Keep your boasting till you've won,’ answered the Tortoise. ‘Shall we race?’
So a course was fixed and a start was made. The Hare darted almost out of sight at once, but soon stopped and, to show his contempt for the Tortoise, lay down to have a nap. The Tortoise plodded on and plodded on, and when the Hare awoke from his nap, he saw the Tortoise just near the winning-post and could not run up in time to save the race.
Then the Tortoise said: ‘Slow but steady progress wins the race.’
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Knowledge and wealth
O Allah (SWT) Hide my Sins..!
The Two Frogs
Flower and Pearl
The Ant and the Dove
The Cat and the Mice
The Mouse and the Camel
The Wasp and the Snake
Once upon a time there was a prince who wanted to marry a princess; but she would have to be a real princess. He travelled all over the world to find one, but ...
A miser sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of ...
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Renowned Heart Surgeon-Scientist to Lead Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at CMC - Archived
August 30, 2011
Charles R. Bridges, MD, ScD, a renowned heart surgeon and scientist, has been selected to chair the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center (CMC). Dr. Bridges joins the CMC and Sanger Heart & Vascular Institute team from The University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he was Professor of Surgery and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Pennsylvania Hospital.
“Dr. Bridges’ career as a cardiovascular surgeon and a translational and clinical scientist has been outstanding. We look forward to the insight he will bring to the overall organizational structure of our cardiovascular program at Carolinas Medical Center and Sanger,” said Paul Franz, Executive Vice President, Carolinas HealthCare System, which owns CMC.
Dr. Bridges’ extensive background in cardiovascular medicine includes minimally invasive heart surgeries and valve procedures. His capabilities will allow patients to receive “transfusion-free” or “bloodless” cardiac surgery that historically has been performed on patients with certain religious beliefs that do not allow blood transfusions. Dr. Bridges has successfully performed these complex and intricate surgeries with excellent results and has helped design some of the processes and techniques used nationally and internationally. His journal series on Jehovah’s Witness patients will appear this year in the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, and will be the second largest series ever published.
“The knowledge and experience Dr. Bridges brings to CMC will not only benefit our employees and staff, but also our patients,” said Paul G. Colavita, MD, President, Sanger Heart and Vascular Institute. “Our current and future patients should know that under his leadership our team will continue to exceed quality and safety measures for our coronary bypass, valve and transplant patients. We look forward to the advancements in cardiovascular care we will be able to provide.”
Dr. Bridges is also the recipient of a $3 million, four-year grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate novel molecular and regenerative therapies as a means to improve heart function in patients with advanced heart failure. Dr. Bridges invented the concept of “molecular cardiac surgery.” The field of regenerative medicine, according to the NIH, has the potential to address the shortage of organs available for donation. It empowers scientists to reinvigorate the patient’s own organs, and to one day grow tissues and organs in laboratories that can then be safely implanted when the body cannot heal itself.
“The addition of Dr. Bridges will bring an unparalleled level of expertise to Sanger, and will build on a tradition of academic excellence at Carolinas HealthCare System,” said James McDeavitt, MD, Chief Academic Officer, Carolinas HealthCare System. “The Southeast is unfortunately well-known for its high incidence of heart disease. Dr. Bridges’ research has the potential to positively impact the care of patients in communities we serve; I expect his influence will be national in scope.”
Besides his teaching and research responsibilities, he currently serves as a consultant to the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Circulatory System Devices Panel and is a regular member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences Study Section.
Dr. Bridges graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University at age 19 with a degree in Engineering and Applied Physics. He continued with graduate studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) while in medical school at Harvard where he graduated with honors and added a Doctor of Science degree from MIT in Chemical (Biomedical) Engineering. His post-graduate medical training occurred at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston as a Braunwald resident and at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He has over 100 published original manuscripts, chapters and reviews. He has been recognized as a “Top Doctor” in Thoracic Surgery in Philadelphia Magazine for eight consecutive years, and is listed among the Top Doctors in America. He was recently elected to serve on The Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons.
The CMC Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery was led from 1968 until 2010 by Francis Robicsek, MD, who is known internationally for his pioneering research and surgical advancements. Dr. Robicsek is now Chairman Emeritus of the department and is Vice President of International Medical Outreach for Carolinas HealthCare System. | <urn:uuid:452f4ec2-4254-4761-99c2-1aabfe783103> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.carolinashealthcare.org/body.cfm?id=14&action=detail&ref=275 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00461-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947562 | 950 | 1.554688 | 2 |
IBM unveils dual-core PowerPC chips up to 2.5GHzPresenting at the Power Everywhere Forum 2005 in Japan, IBM today formally introduced a dual-core version of its PowerPC 970 (G5) processor, which could find its way into Apple Power Macs in the coming months.
The 64-bit chips, code-named Antares, contain two processing units per chip, each with their own execution core and Level 1 cache. Additionally, each core includes a storage subsystem with 1MB Level 2 cache, making the chips twice as efficient as IBM\'s current 970FX PowerPC G5 processors.
Officially labeled the PowerPC 970MP, the chips pack several power conservation features that allow frequency and voltage demands to adjust on the fly. It\'s also possible to completely cut power to one of chip\'s cores when high performance computations are not needed.
According to IBM, the 970MP will be made available in speeds ranging from 1.4 to 2.5GHz. It\'s believed that Apple has been working with prototypes of the chips since 2004 and could use them in a forthcoming update to its Power Mac G5 desktops, the company said.
Along with the dual-core 970MP, IBM today also officially introduced a new family of low-power PowerPC 970FX chips running at speeds up to 1.6GHz with a 512K Level 2 cache. PowerPC 970FX chips are currently used in Apple Power Mac G5 and iMac G5 systems.
Initially, the new 970FX chips will be available in three flavors: 1.2GHz, 1.4GHz and 1.6GHz. IBM says the 1.6GHz version will typically operate at 16 watts while the the two former versions require a cool 13 watts, possibly allowing Apple to release a G5-based PowerBook.
An official press release on the new chips is available in Japanese. As of press time, IBM had yet to update its US website with information on the new chips. A set of slides from the company\'s presentation are also available via ASCII24, a publication based in Japan.
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- Apple's online store becomes unavailable ahead of 'Hello Again' Mac event
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Cole County to Install New Tornado Sirens
JEFFERSON CITY - Cole County commissioners have approved a proposal to place new tornado sirens in areas outside Jefferson City. Fifteen new tornado sirens will be added in the county. Presiding Cole County Commissioner Marc Ellinger says that this project is part of a joint effort by the Cole County Commission and the Jefferson City Council.
Ellinger said, "We've worked together. It's a kind of joint city-county partnership that's allowed this opportunity to come. And we felt this was a good time to go ahead, invest the funds in cooperation with Jefferson City and have about 75% of the population of the county covered by warning sirens."
Ellinger listed some of the benefits of the new siren network. He said, "In the event that there's a storm or some other type of event, these new sirens can be turned on specifically where the storm is at. The current, older system that's in place now has to turn on all the sirens at one time, regardless of where a storm is at".
He added, "These sirens also have voice and multiple tone options, which means if there's something besides just a storm, we can actually give voice warnings in the case of, say, a chemical leak or something like that."
As for money, Ellinger said that how much individual communities pay for their sirens depends on their size. He said, "It depends upon the size of the community. It ranges everywhere from a little over $5000 per siren in the smaller communities and up to about $24,000 or so of the 28, $29,000 cost for Jefferson City."
The sirens themselves cost $25,000 each plus as much as $3,000 in additional costs depending on the installation location. Muncipalities pay a portion and the County Commission pays the remainder. The total cost of the project for the county will be around $400,000 to $450,000.
To visit the Cole County Commission's website, click here.
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How to Respond if Someone Is Pressuring You
Perpetrators of sexual violence often use tactics, such as guilt or intimidation, to pressure a person into something they do not want to do. It can be upsetting, frightening, or uncomfortable if you find yourself in this situation. Remember that it’s not your fault that the other person is acting this way—they are responsible for their own actions. The following tips may help you exit the situation safely.
- Remind yourself this isn’t your fault. You did not do anything wrong. It is the person who is pressuring you who is responsible.
- Trust your gut. Don't feel obligated to do anything you don't want to do. It doesn’t matter why you don’t want to do something. Simply not being interested is reason enough. Do only what feels right to you and what you are comfortable with.
- Have a code word. Develop a code with friends or family that means “I’m uncomfortable” or “I need help.” It could be a series of numbers you can text, like “311.” It might be a phrase you say out loud such as, “I wish we took more vacations.” This way you can communicate your concern and get help without alerting the person who is pressuring you.
- It’s okay to lie. If you are concerned about angering or upsetting this person, you can lie or make an excuse to create an exit. It may feel wrong to lie, but you are never obligated to remain in a situation that makes you feel uncomfortable, scared, or threatened. Some excuses you could use are: needing to take care of a friend or family member, not feeling well, and having to be somewhere else by a certain time. Even excusing yourself to use the bathroom can create an opportunity to get away or to get help. Whatever you need to say to stay safe is okay—even if it may seem embarrassing at the time.
- Think of an escape route. If you had to leave quickly, how would you do it? Locate the windows, doors, and any others means of exiting the situation. Are there people around who might be able to help you? How can you get their attention? Where can you go when you leave?
If you have to find a way out of a situation where someone is pressuring you, or if something happens that you didn’t consent to, it is not your fault. Take care of yourself, and know you’re not alone.
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A manufacturing error at a plant involved in COVID-19 vaccine production affected 15 million doses worth of an ingredient for Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine, according to two sources familiar with the matter, but the company downplayed the situation and said it met its most recent vaccine delivery target.
The issue, which occurred recently at a Baltimore Emergent BioSolutions Inc. facility, was first reported by the New York Times on Wednesday. It isn’t expected to change President Joe Biden’s expectation that the U.S. will have enough vaccine for all adults in May.
In a statement, J&J said a batch of drug substance failed its quality test.
“This quality control process identified one batch of drug substance that did not meet quality standards at Emergent Biosolutions, a site not yet authorized to manufacture drug substance for our COVID-19 vaccine. This batch was never advanced to the filling and finishing stages of our manufacturing process,” J&J said.
The company said it addressed the issue with Emergent and reported it to the Food and Drug Administration.
Johnson & Johnson said it beat its March delivery target, providing the U.S. government more than 20 million doses, and that it expects to deliver another 24 million by the end of April. Biden has set a goal for almost 100 million doses by the end of May. J&J said it still plans to deliver 100 million by the end of June, “aiming to deliver those doses by the end of May.”
J&J is now expanding its presence in the Emergent facility, according to the statement. “Johnson & Johnson is providing additional experts in manufacturing, technical operations and quality to be on-site at Emergent to supervise, direct and support all manufacturing of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine,” it said.
Representatives for Emergent declined to comment, deferring to J&J’s statement.
Johnson & Johnson has committed to delivering 20 million doses by the end of March, and 100 million by the end of June, though Biden had said that he expected nearly all of those to arrive by the end of May. He relied on that in moving up his timeline on when the U.S. would have enough vaccine to cover all adults.
The White House said last week that it expected a surge of 11 million doses this week from Johnson & Johnson. It’s not clear if those are among the affected doses.
The two other authorized vaccine producers, Pfizer Inc. and Moderna Inc., are on schedule for their deliveries.
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In their first collaboration, The Happy Lawyer, the writing team of Nancy Levit and Doug Linder tackled a crucially important subject: how to have a happy life in the law. As part of that project, they interviewed more than two hundred lawyers about what makes them happy in their jobs. Levit and Linder noticed that happy lawyers nearly always talked about doing good work. Curious about the connection, the authors turned to recent research in neuroscience and learned, not to their surprise, that a key to a happy life is, indeed, the sense of doing good work. It is our good fortune that in their second collaboration, The Good Lawyer, Linder and Levit have turned their attention to unpacking what it means to “do good work” in the law.
The Good Lawyer has many uses. It would be an excellent supplemental text for any law school course teaching professionalism, such as Professional Responsibility, Clinic, Legal Writing, or Externship. As part of the externship experience, students could use the text in their reflective writing requirement. Parts of it could be assigned as reading in typical doctrinal courses where the professor is consciously integrating skills and values, as recommended by the Carnegie Report. It would be an excellent basis for a CLE on lawyering & professionalism. It could be a useful part of a law firm’s orientation for its newer associates. Finally, it makes for stimulating reading for individual lawyers seeking to improve their own practice.
11 Legal Comm. & Rhetoric: JALWD 185 (2014).
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The GWP Architecture designed National Heritage Centre for Horse Racing and Sporting Art is in the running for the world’s biggest museum prize – Museum of the Year. The attraction which was opened by Her Majesty The Queen in November last year, is up against the countries top museums in this year’s competition, with the winner set to receive £100,000.
This years finalists are;
- National Heritage Centre for Horse Racing and Sporting Art, Newmarket
- Sir John Soane’s Museum, London
- Tate Modern, London
- The Hepworth, Wakefield
- Lapworth Museum of Geology, Birmingham
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On April 2, 2012, the 1940 United States Census will be released to the public. In the States, they have a 72-year privacy mandate that allows private information taken during a census to be released no less than 72 years after the data has been documented. The following year, 2013, the 1921 Canadian Census will be released. Yes, that's right, in Canada; there is a 92-year privacy mandate. Apparently, we Canadians are a little more stringent with our privacy laws.
Either way, North American researchers will be revved up and ready to go by spring of next year. I know we have some time here, but don’t wait until the night before to prepare yourself for the next census. There are things you can do right now to prepare yourself.
You know what happens if you don’t get organized and prepare yourself, you will hop online the moment they are indexed and go live on Internet and then you will randomly start typing in every ancestor that comes to mind and grabbing those census documents. Will you look at them or just saved them to your shoebox for another time.....we've discussed this before, don't be a lazy researcher, that’s a no-no! Those census documents could tear down some brick walls. Here are a few things you can do now to get ready.
- Set some time aside to get yourself organized so you can make the most of this information once it becomes available. Add it to your to do list for this year, so you will be well organized when they are released.
- Make a list of all your direct line ancestors that you believe were alive in 1940. You can categorize them by surnames.
- Create a “Need to Know List” for each of those ancestors. You can create this in a word document, an excel spreadsheet, cue cards whatever method will be the most convenient to keeping you organized. List all the missing pieces that you don’t know about each ancestor, your "hot points" those key items that perhaps this census could answer for you. This will help you zone in on specifics for each ancestor.
- Create a second ancestor's list, this will be the indirect line and follow the same process.
- When your ready for the census, pull out your spreadsheet or cue cards for each ancestor and one at a time systematically seek out their 1940 census information.
- You can then record the information to the cue card or spreadsheet and then enter the information into your software database and your online tree.
Keep in mind the number of things a census can tell you, such as:
· It can provide a detailed family group picture particularly of siblings.
· It can establish a place and date for a person or family.
· It can reveal a place of birth and or age in light of an absent birth certificate.
· It can provide clues to immigration and naturalization status.
· It can establish an occupation.
· It connect a relationship between one or more persons.
· It can provide information regarding neighbours.
· It can reveal military service.
By preparing a list of ancestors, along with your "Need to Know" Spreadsheet or Cue cards you can be better prepared to not only find them quickly but also solicit any all information the census can provide.
A few other things to keep in mind
- Any children who were teenagers on the last census may be the head of their own household by the next census
- New children may have been born since the last census
- Elderly parents may now have moved back in with children
- Elderly parents may have passed helping you to focus in on a death date if you have yet to locate one.
- Prepare for the possibility that ancestors may have moved since the last census.
- Or perhaps a hired hand once living as a border is now married to a family member
Some may debate, a census is a more valuable genealogy document then a birth or marriage certificate, based solely on the amount of data it can provide us about an ancestor. Regardless of your views on that, we can agree it is certainly no less important.
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The individuals are subject to control orders which a watchdog warned today are likely to cease at the end of 2013.
Independent reviewer David Anderson QC said the terrorism prevention and investigation measures (Tpims) just have a maximum time limit of two years.
Mr Anderson said: "Some subjects who have been judged by the Home Secretary and by the courts to be potentially dangerous will then, absent prosecution or new evidence of terrorism-related activity, be free and unconstrained."
While control orders can be extended year on year without limit, the Tpims can only be extended for 12 months after a year before they expire.
Six people subject to Tpim will see the curbs - such as overnight residence, travel and financial restrictions - expire in January 2014.
One of the terror suspects failed in a 2006 plot to commit mass murder by using a suicide bomb on a transatlantic airline.
While that terror plan led to 12 convictions and eight life sentence, this individual was never arrested or put on trial.
Some subjects who have been judged by the Home Secretary and by the courts to be potentially dangerous will then be free and unconstrained
The report from Mr Anderson also revealed that the men were unlikely to be subjected to further surveillance once the Tpim ceases effect.
He said: "Depending on the risk they are assessed to pose, they could of course remain thereafter the subject of covert surveillance, at least if they chose to remain in the United Kingdom.
"But unsupported by the apparatus of a Tpim notice this is expensive and there are many competing priorities for the limited surveillance resource."
The report was published as Theresa May published the Government response to recommendations for changes to the Terrorism Acts made by Mr Anderson.
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The StepTalk Shell
!! StepTalk Shell
StepTalk shell is a handy tool for interactive scripting with GNUstep objects. The real name of the tool is stshell.
|Important notice: The stshell tool is not built by default by StepTalk, because it requires extra library called libreadline.|
After launching the stshell it will greet you by:
Welcome to the StepTalk shell. StepTalk > _
First steps with the shell
Try following examples, line by line
1 + 1. NSDate date. (NSHost hostWithName:'www.gnustep.org') addresses
StepTalk Shell can do TAB completion of variable names, class names and selectors. Press <TAB> where indicated:
NSFileMa<TAB> defa<TAB>Ma<TAB> curr<TAB>Di<TAB>P<TAB>
|Problem||Example||Get a class of an object||'aString' class|| List methods that an object can respond to |
(superclass methods are not included)
|'aString' methodNames||List class methods||NSString methodNames||List instace methods||NSString instanceMethodNames||Find a selector||Runtime selectorsContainingString: 'init'||Find implementors||Runtime implementorsOfSelector: #compare:|
To use AppKit clases, execute the shell by:
$ stshell -env AppKit
or load the module at the runtime:
> Environment loadModule:'AppKit'
How to get a filename using the Open panel?
NSOpenPanel openPanel runModal ; filename
Create a Workspace object for further experiments
Workspace := NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace
Launch an application:
Open a file
Workspace openFile:'file name'
Workspace openFile:(NSOpenPanel openPanel runModal ; filename)
Unix Shell Equivalents
For Unix commands equivalets, refer to the Unix.txt file in the Shell source directory.
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As we get older and the level of our regular income decreases, controlling our gas and electricity costs becomes more and more important. So it is imperative to ensure that senior citizens are paying as little as possible to heat and light their homes. This guide provides ways for older people to ensure that their domestic energy costs remain manageable.
As older people are typically living on a fixed income, a fixed rate energy tariff may be a good choice. This will ensure that you are protected in the short term against any unforeseen price rises. See our fixed rate tariffs page for more information on these.
Also it is worth understanding that energy companies provide discounts for taking both gas and electricity together (dual fuel) and also for paying via Monthly Direct Debit - many elderly customers prefer to pay on receipt of bill but this is not the cheapest option. There are also discounts available for managing your energy account and receiving your bill online – although understandably this may well not be suitable for many older customers.
As always, the best advice is to compare the whole energy market to find the cheapest and most suitable tariff for your personal circumstances. You can do this by entering your postcode in the box below.
The government offers a winter fuel allowance to anybody over the age of 60 of between £100 and £300 tax-free to help with the cost of energy bills in the winter months. There are a few exceptions and criteria to this so to check if you qualify or to find out how to claim this allowance visit https://www.gov.uk/winter-fuel-payment/overview
As well as ensuring you are on the cheapest and most suitable gas and electricity tariff available to you, it is also important to consider how you can keep your energy usage to a minimum.
The first thing to think about is the energy efficiency of your home. If your walls and roof aren’t insulated then the amount of energy you require to heat your house will be extremely high. There are essentially two types of home insulation to consider, loft insulation and cavity wall insulation. Loft insulation reduces the amount of heat lost through the roof of your property and is easily installed by laying down sheets of insulating material in the loft space of your property.
Properties built after 1920 will typically have been built with a gap between the external walls. A small hole can be drilled into the wall and this cavity can be filled with an insulating material to reduce heat loss through the walls of the property. For the over 70’s, both loft and cavity wall insulation can be provided for free by your energy supplier. To find out if you qualify you’ll need to speak with your energy supplier and ask them about insulation for the over 70’s.
Other things to consider when thinking about reducing your energy consumption are lighting and appliances. Ensure all lighting throughout your house is provided by energy saving bulbs. These bulbs typically use around 80% less energy than regular bulbs. And it goes without saying; ensure that lights are turned off when not in use.
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|Shaina Olmanson is the home cook and photographer behind Food for My Family and Olmanson Photography, a daily contributor to Babble.com’s Family Kitchen Blog and the editor of the food channel for Lifetime Moms. She strives to teach her four children to cook and prepare real food in a day and age where many people have turned to convenience foods because they are so readily available, and she hope to encourage others to do the same. Shaina can usually be found in one of three places: cooking, at the computer or behind the camera.
My kids are always welcome in the kitchen. It’s something I decided long ago when I saw the confidence and pride that having my oldest daughter help in the kitchen created. She would beam when she’d been a part of making dinner, presenting it to her dad and younger brother as if they were in a fancy restaurant.
No matter what we’d made, she was excited, and her excitement translated into her interest in eating dinner as well – this from the girl who used to cry if we added pepper to the green beans. These days my eldest is exploring different spices and flavors and my three younger kids are going through their own developmental stages and picky phases.
One way we embrace the differences and the preferences of each of the kids is by having a family pizza night where each member is in charge of rolling the dough (with help for the younger kids) and topping their pizza with their choice of sauce and toppings. By allowing the kids to make their own choices about what they will eat on their pizza, we have a meal where everyone is happy and satisfied, and it encourages the kids to be involved in how they feed themselves.
No Fail Pizza Crust
This crust is no fail because even if you don’t have time to let it rise, it still works as a great crust. Your results will be different, a bit more like a New York thin-style crust with a crisp bottom and a chewy texture, which you may prefer anyway.
1 cup warm water (about 110 degrees)
1 package (2 ¼ tsp) active dry yeast
2 tablespoons olive oil
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons dried herbs (basil and oregano are my herbs of choice)
3 cups all-purpose flour
Pour water into medium-sized bowl. Sprinkle yeast over and allow to sit for five minutes until slightly frothy. Mix in olive oil, salt and herbs. Add flour ½ cup at a time, mixing after each addition. When all the flour is incorporated, turn the dough onto a flat surface sprinkled with flour. Knead the dough a for example times until smooth.
Place dough into an oiled bowl and cover. Let rise in a warm place for one hour. When the dough has risen, punch down and split into 8 separate balls. Preheat oven to 475 degrees F. Roll dough on a floured surface into ¼”-thick circles.
Sprinkle cornmeal on baking sheets or pizza peels (to transfer to baking stone). Place dough on top of cornmeal. Top dough circles with favorite sauce and toppings. Bake at 475 degrees F for 15-20 minutes until crust is golden and cheese is beginning to brown.
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Canada is an “attractive and permissive target” for Chinese interference that endangers the “foundations of our fundamental institutions, including our system of democracy itself,” according to a recent national security review.
The reason, experts suggest, is because China’s Communist Party has won the support of some influential Canadians by using economic carrots and sticks, while public attention on Beijing’s broad campaign is “almost non-existent.”
The national security review says “for years Canadian Security Intelligence Service has investigated and reported on the threat” of foreign interference. But unlike Canada’s Western intelligence allies, Ottawa hasn’t responded with strong countermeasures.
In an interview, Global News pressed Liberal MP David McGuinty, chair of the national security and intelligence committee, to explain why Canada is “permissive” of China’s methods.
McGuinty said he could only answer by citing the report findings because of its sensitivity. He chose to read this quote: “The People’s Republic of China utilizes its growing economic wealth to mobilize interference operations: ‘with deep coffers and the help of western enablers, the Chinese Communist Party uses money, rather than Communist ideology, as a powerful source of influence, creating parasitic relationships of long-term dependence.’”
The committee’s report named two countries — Russia and China — among those conducting “sophisticated and pervasive foreign interference activities against Canada.”
But intelligence officials and former diplomats, including Canada’s former ambassador to China, believe China is the greater threat, in large part because the country has been successful in “elite capture.”
“China is the No. 1 threat to Canada and has been for some time,” David Mulroney, former ambassador to China, said in an interview.
China has used its economic leverage to secure “the voices” of political and business leaders in Canada with “sweetheart business deals” and “various inducements,” including lucrative board positions or honours in China, he said.
And as a result, Mulroney said he often hears people reciting Beijing’s line on issues such as the extradition case of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou or are silent in the face of China’s mass detention of Uyghurs and incursions on democracy in Hong Kong.
“There are people a lot more senior than I was in government, and they have some serious business links with China,” Mulroney said. “China is very willing to weaponize trade and investment to compel people to say what they want them to say.”
The argument that Mulroney and experts interviewed by Global News make is not that all Canadian politicians and businesses that have traded with China have been influenced. Rather, they say, Beijing has targeted elites and deftly attempted to interweave the CCP’s interests with Canada’s economic interests, seeking to bend major decisions away from Canada’s democratic values.
And they say Canadians should see Hong Kong as a case study.
But recent events in the United States, Australia and Canada suggest that pushing back on China’s interference could have consequences. In 2019, China called for the firing of an NBA executive who tweeted support for Hong Kong, using the NBA’s business in China as leverage.
And Australia has faced trade sanction threats and was targeted in sophisticated state-based cyberattacks, its government said in June. Australia recently pressed for an international probe of Beijing’s actions in the coronavirus pandemic and Australia’s intelligence experts say China is likely behind the attacks. China denies the accusation.
And on Monday, Beijing warned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to “stop making irresponsible remarks,” according to The Associated Press, after Trudeau told reporters Beijing’s decision to charge Canadians Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor with spying was related to the Meng case.
But despite warning signs of China’s incursions, Canadian academics, think tanks and media have been way behind the international curve in scrutinizing China’s “clandestine” tactics, Mulroney said.
“Canada is kind of a sleepy and unaware target,” he said. “We don’t have the same kind of vigilance that you now see in places like Australia and New Zealand. That had better change.”
United Front operations
China uses a vast network of political, business and media operatives directed from Beijing, known as the United Front, in attempts to co-opt Chinese-Canadian communities and leaders, Mulroney and the experts interviewed by Global News said.
In June, Alex Joske, an analyst with the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, released a report aimed at helping international journalists identify and demystify United Front networks.
In it, Joske defines the United Front as “the system at the heart of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to influence foreign politicians, meddle in ethnic Chinese communities and transfer technologies from abroad … it is an exportation of the CCP’s political system (which) undermines social cohesion, exacerbates racial tension, influences politics, harms media integrity, facilitates espionage.”
He believes the United Front could be just as active in Canada as it is in Australia, where an alleged United Front leader, billionaire and casino high-roller became a major funder of Australian political parties. An Australian senator also allegedly accepted funds from Chinese agents and touted China’s South China Sea policy against Australia’s position after the billionaire threatened to withdraw a $400,000 political donation.
Joske said in order to understand the United Front, people should look at China’s patient campaign to control Hong Kong, where China has used front groups to co-opt political leaders, tycoons and institutions since the 1990s.
“Hong Kong is a long way down the track,” Joske said. “But by looking at Hong Kong, you understand how the United Front works.”
Joske’s report also underlined the United Front’s mobilization during the COVID-19 pandemic — in Australia, Canada, the U.S. and U.K., Japan, Argentina and the Czech Republic — “to gather increasingly scarce medical supplies from around the world and send them to China.”
And based on China’s success using United Front networks during the coronavirus pandemic, Beijing can be expected to ramp up the intensity of its United Front interference worldwide as tensions between China and the world rise in the post-COVID-19 landscape, Joske said.
“The CCP’s attempts to interfere in diaspora communities, influence political systems and covertly access valuable and sensitive technology will only grow.”
Joske’s report says United Front pioneers such as Premier Zhou Enlai, a CCP revolutionary, said the United Front should use “the legal to mask the illegal,” and the CCP should be “nestling intelligence within the United Front.”
And Chinese President Xi Jinping has elevated the United Front’s prominence in Beijing’s global plans.
“The United Front … is an important magic weapon for strengthening the party’s ruling position … and an important magic weapon for realizing the China Dream of the Great Rejuvenation of the Chinese Nation,” Xi said in a 2015 speech.
But China does not acknowledge the United Front facilitates espionage.
‘Many elected officials’
Experts describe Beijing as holding out carrots and sticks.
And unfortunately, it is Chinese diaspora communities that often face the sticks. According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, China uses “a range of tactics including threats, harassment, detention of family members abroad and refusal to issue travel documents or visas.”
Chinese-Canadian community leader Gloria Fung, director of democracy advocacy group Canada-Hong Kong Link, says she has seen China’s influence efforts in Canada become increasingly aggressive with both the carrot and the stick.
In the 1990s, United Front networks just made passive political donations to all Canadian political parties, Fung said. Now they are aggressively lobbying for Beijing’s policies, covertly offering political funding from Beijing and attempting to promote covert CCP party members for election, Fung claimed.
And Fung said she believes China has successfully influenced “many elected officials.”
“They could be bribing, offering money or material benefits to targets in the decision-making process,” Fung said. “Many elected officials are offered free tours to China. And many, when they returned, seem to have changed their positions towards China.”
Tensions reached a new level in August 2019, Fung said, when Hong Kong Canadians were targeted in anti-democracy counter-protests in a number of Canadian cities.
Fung pointed to a Hong Kong democracy counter-rally at Toronto’s Old City Hall on Aug. 17, where she says her group was surrounded by students and middle-aged leaders, who Fung associated with Toronto United Front groups.
A similar conflict occurred in Vancouver on Aug. 18 when a pro-China crowd surrounded a church where Hong Kong Canadians were praying.
By comparing photos and video of the event with pictures of meetings involving Chinese consulate officials, Global News sources identified several senior members in the crowd as directors of a pro-CCP association, which Chen Yonglin, a defected Chinese diplomat, alleges is a “controlling level” United Front group in Canada.
The pro-CCP association is part of the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office, a United Front group that Beijing uses to influence the Chinese diaspora, according to a 2018 report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
“United Front work is Beijing’s strategy to influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments and other actors … mainly through economic or financial inducement,” the commission’s chair Robin Cleveland and vice-chair Carolyn Bartholomew told Global News in a statement. “The CCP considers ethnic Chinese everywhere to ultimately be Chinese subjects, regardless of their citizenship, and seeks to treat them as resources to assist in ‘the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation’ whether they like it or not.”
A Chinese-Canadian academic — who is studying Beijing’s influence networks — agreed with Fung’s assessment of China’s efforts to control community groups.
The academic asked to remain anonymous because of fears that officials in Chinese consulates could interfere with their ongoing research.
“Many in the Chinese-Canadian diaspora do not want to have anything to do with the Chinese government. But unfortunately, immigrants from China and Hong Kong are not completely free from the government’s control and surveillance,” the academic said.
How Australia has combated the United Front
Most experts interviewed by Global News said Australia’s legislative reforms should be a model for other countries combating China’s interference campaigns.
In an interview, McGuinty, the intelligence committee chair, said the report underlined how Australia has taken concrete measures since 2018, including adding new offences to its Criminal Code.
The report says the new offences “provide a high degree of specificity on offences and threat activities, including on whether the activity was in the planning stages, intentional, reckless or funded by a foreign intelligence service.”
The penalties range from 10 to 20 years’ imprisonment. And “the legislation creates a new transparency scheme that prescribes the registration of persons acting as agents of foreign principals and requires regular public disclosures.”
In an interview, Mulroney said: “We need to invest in national security and insist on greater transparency.”
He said currently, Canadians have no real idea whether influential politicians and businesspersons are acting for China or Canada. And it is extremely difficult to hold Canadian citizens that may be acting against Canadian interests to account under current laws.
“What Australia have done is give transparency requirements some legal teeth,” Mulroney said. “And they use their intelligence apparatus to make the case against people that are not transparent. And I think we need to consider these things so Canadians become far more aware of who is speaking for whom.”
Gloria Fung agreed.
“Legislative tools on corruption and fishy transactions need to be closely monitored and put under Parliament’s radar,” Fung said. “Australia has all kinds of legislative tools to handle political collusion.”
McGuinty was asked by Global News to explain the evident gap between Canadian intelligence’s strong warnings of China’s interference and the federal government’s response.
McGuinty reiterated that the committee recommendations are bipartisan and straightforward, and the committee purposefully chose Australia as an exemplar to be considered by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government.
“We believe the government needs to up its game when it comes to foreign interference,” he said. “There is lots of room for improvement.”
But University of B.C. China expert Prof. Paul Evans, who has argued for closer ties with China and published research indicating Canadians are losing confidence “about the role of the United States” in global affairs, told Global News “the discourse of ‘capture’ is especially dangerous.”
Evans draws a distinction between influence and “interference activities” and says “it is very difficult to estimate how many such incidents happen in Canada each year.”
“My sense is that they are comparatively rare,” Evans wrote in an email response. “It is unproductive to talk about undermining ‘institutions’ without specifying which ones are being discussed.”
Evans said it is “dangerous” to rely on Australia’s data and examples of foreign interference, and assume the same kinds and scale of interference activity is occurring in Canada.
“We have reached a dangerous phase of our debates about China policy where advocates of engagement, past and present, are being attacked not just for the content of their views and actions but also for their integrity and even loyalty,” Evans wrote. “This is vile terrain and reminiscent of the worst of the McCarthy era and anti-communist actions in the United States in the 1950s.” | <urn:uuid:bdd213e0-9955-4f65-bf3c-4f1c769465aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://globalnews.ca/news/7075248/canada-china-interference-permissive-target/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.952394 | 3,047 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) treatment can sometimes produce side effects. Most patients can manage their side effects without stopping therapy.
Before you start treatment, talk with your doctor about potential side effects. Drugs and other therapies can prevent or manage many side effects. Many treatment side effects go away or become less noticeable over time.
Side Effects of CML Drug Therapy
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Patients with a history of cardiac disease need to be monitored carefully and frequently. It is unusual, but some patients who were treated with Gleevec, Sprycel and/or Tasigna have developed serious side effects such as
- Severe congestive heart failure (a weakness of the heart that leads to a buildup of fluid in the lungs and surrounding body tissues)
- Left ventricular dysfunction (difficulty emptying blood from the left lower chamber of the heart).
A recent trial studying the potential long-term effects among a large group of CML patients who were on Gleevec therapy indicated that many of the patients who developed adverse cardiac effects also had other health problems and risk factors, including older age and a medical history of cardiac disease or they had received prior treatment with cardiotoxic drugs.
A possible side effect of Tasigna, a drug that needs to be regularly monitored, is a potential heart rhythm called "QT prolongation." This condition causes an irregular heartbeat and may be life threatening. Gleevec and Sprycel may occasionally cause QT prolongation in a small number of individuals. Some other medications are also known to cause QT prolongation, and should be avoided whenever possible. Your doctor will give you a list of medications to avoid, and will monitor you for these conditions, as needed, before and during treatment. An electrocardiogram (ECG) is recommended for patients taking QT interval-prolonging medication.
Other Side Effects
Drugs such as interferon and the oral medication hydroxyurea (Hydrea®) are sometimes used when patients react poorly to TKIs. They can have severe side effects, especially in older patients. Side effects, most of which improve after you stop using the drugs, include:
- Flulike symptoms such as fever, muscle aches and weakness
- Prolonged fatigue
- Weight loss
- Hair loss
- Sores in the mouth
- Irregular heartbeat
Side Effects of Graft-Versus-Host Disease
If you undergo allogeneic stem cell transplantation, you're at high risk of developing graft versus host disease (GVHD). The older you are, the higher your risk for GVHD. GVHD develops when the donor's immune cells mistakenly attack the patient's normal cells. GVHD can be mild, moderate or severe - even life threatening.
Long-Term and Late Effects of Treatment
For some patients, side effects may last well after they finish treatment. To read more about lingering side effects, see The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s free publication, Long-Term and Late Effects of Treatment in Adults.
- Managing Side Effects
- Integrative Medicine and Complementary and Alternative Therapies
- Download lists of suggested questions to ask your doctor
- FDA drug information webpage
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NATO to hold emergency talks to discuss Syria’s downing of Turkish jet plane
ANKARA, Turkey — NATO will hold emergency talks Tuesday to discuss Syria’s downing of a Turkish jet fighter, but the alliance is not expected to take military action, even if it confirms Turkey’s claim that the unarmed plane was attacked in international airspace.
The incident has further raised regional tensions over the conflict in Syria, where some 40 people were reported killed Sunday in new clashes between rebels and government troops.
On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sharply criticized Syria for downing the Turkish plane, which Turkey’s Foreign Ministry called an “open and grave violation of international law” that would justify retaliation.
“The United States condemns this brazen and unacceptable act in the strongest possible terms,” Clinton said in Washington. “It is yet another reflection of the Syrian authorities’ callous disregard for international norms, human life, and peace and security.”
Clinton said Washington will maintain close contact with Turkish officials as they determine their response, including via the U.N. Security Council. “We will work with Turkey and other partners to hold the Assad regime accountable,” she said.
Turkish state media reported Sunday that the RF-4E reconnaissance plane’s wreckage was found in the Mediterranean Sea at a depth of 4,265 feet, but officials did not confirm the report. The two pilots remained missing.
Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said the jet was on a training flight to test Turkey’s radar capabilities, not spying on Syria. He said the plane mistakenly strayed into Syrian airspace Friday, but was quickly warned to leave by Turkish authorities and was a mile inside international airspace when it was shot down.
Syria insisted Saturday that the shooting was “not an attack” and that the aircraft had violated its airspace. But Turkish authorities say Syria didn’t warn the Turkish plane or send its own jets to confront it.
At the request of Turkey, NATO’s governing body will meet Tuesday to discuss the incident, said Oana Lungescu, a NATO spokeswoman. The consultations were called under article 4 of NATO’s founding Washington Treaty.
“Under article 4, any ally can request consultations whenever, in the opinion of any of them, their territorial integrity, political independence or security is threatened,” Lungescu said. The North Atlantic Council — the ambassadors of the 28 NATO countries — will decide whether to respond, she said.
The last time article 4 was invoked was nine years ago — also by Turkey — after tensions with neighboring Iraq escalated. However, that case did not lead to the invocation of article 5, which declares that an attack against any single NATO country shall be considered as an attack against them all.
“No one should dare to test Turkey’s capabilities,” Davutoglu said Sunday.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was expected to make a statement Tuesday and might announce some retaliatory steps.
In a telephone interview with Turkish TV news channel A Haber on Saturday, Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said the downing was “not an attack.”“An unidentified object entered our air space and unfortunately as a result it was brought down. It was understood only later that it was a Turkish plane,” A Haber quoted Makdissi as saying. “There was no hostile act against Turkey whatsoever. It was just an act of defense for our sovereignty.”
Despite some opposition leaders’ calls for Western military intervention in Syria, the U.S. and allies have been hesitant to get involved in what could prove a protracted conflict, preferring the diplomatic route. Syrian allies Russia and China have shielded Syria from U.N. sanctions and stridently oppose any military intervention.
It’s unlikely the downing of the Turkish plane will change those calculations, despite Ankara’s appeal for the NATO meeting.
In October 1989, two Syrian MiG-21s violated Turkish air space and shot down a Turkish plane on a geographical survey mission, killing all five crew members. Syria at the time promised to severely punish the pilots, who disregarded Turkish orders not to enter Turkish airspace.
Dogu Ergil, a professor of political science at the Ankara University, told private NTV television that Turkey had repeatedly sent its jets across the Syrian border for several weeks to show its military muscle at the time.
The plane’s downing drew criticism from other countries pushing Syrian President Bashar Assad to end his crack down on an increasingly armed popular uprising. Opposition activists say the conflict has killed 14,000 people, mostly civilians, over the past 15 months.
British Foreign Secretary William Hague said Sunday he was “gravely concerned by the Syrian regime’s action in shooting down” the plane.
“This outrageous act underlines how far beyond accepted behavior the Syrian regime has put itself, and I condemn it wholeheartedly,” Hague said in a statement. “The Assad regime should not make the mistake of believing that it can act with impunity. It will be held to account for its behavior.”
Hague met last week with U.N. and Arab League special envoy Kofi Annan for talks on plans for an international summit, while British officials discussed the issue in Geneva on Saturday with members of Annan’s team. Hague noted Sunday that “the UK stands ready to pursue robust action at the United Nations Security Council.”
Italy’s foreign minister decried the shooting down of the plane as “a further, very grave and unacceptable action by the Assad regime.” In a written statement, Giulio Terzi promised that Italy will play an active role in the NATO meeting Tuesday.
Syrian activists reported violence in different parts of the country Sunday, saying nearly 40 people were killed.
The deadliest incident was in the northern town of Ariha, where a shell hit a home killing seven members of the same family, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. A video posted online showed the seven men’s bodies, some badly mutilated, including one who had part of his head blown off.
Activists also reported intense shelling and clashes between rebels and troops in the eastern city of Deir el-Zour and the central city of Homs. Later in the day, Syria’s state-run news agency SANA said gunmen kidnapped a pro-government Sunni cleric in the city of Deir el-Zour.
Earlier Sunday, activists said rebels captured a military base in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo, confiscating large amounts of ammunition. The Observatory said 16 government troops died in the attacks on the base near the rebel-held town of Daret Azzeh and nearby checkpoints early Sunday.
Area activist Mohammed Saeed said the rebels had removed hundreds of artillery shells from the base. Saeed added via Skype that troops retaliated with intense shelling on the area using helicopter gunships.
Syria’s state-run SANA news agency, meanwhile, said gunmen from Turkey clashed with Syrian border guards in Rabiah, a region in the coastal Latakia province. SANA said several infiltrators died in the late Saturday clash, while others reportedly returned to Turkey. It said several Syrian border guards were hurt, but didn’t specify how many.
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Sites about the science and practices involved in raising ratites under agricultural conditions.
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Animal and Animal Products Import: Ratites and Hatching Eggs
Provides information on the procedures involved in importing ratites and other avian species into the US.
Emu Farming India
Provides information about emu bird breeding and emu farming.
Nutrition Guidelines for Ostriches and Emus
Information on feeding programs which have been developed by using basic physiological and historical information available about ostriches and emus, combined with knowledge about the nutrient requirements of other poultry species. [PDF]
The Oklahoma State Ostrich Book
Provides information on ranching ostriches, handling eggs, incubation, chicks, growing birds, disease control and other management problems.
Ratite Nutrition and Feeding
Recommendations for diets.
Ratite Production: Ostrich, Emu and Rhea
Introduction to ratite production as an alternative livestock enterprise, pasturing, and resources.
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We live in a world full of chaos and commitments. Overtime, busy schedules, long work hours, family obligations, financial and health concerns, traumatic events, and varying life circumstances can lead to burnout and stress. It is no surprise that anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the United States age 18 and older, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA).
Chronic stress and anxiety, if not managed, can send our bodies into a constant state of fight, flight, or freeze, causing the sympathetic nervous system to release high levels of stress hormones such as adrenaline and nor-adrenaline. In this state of hyper arousal, breathing becomes rapid and shallow, heart rate is elevated and muscle tension increases. This elevated response is useful in times of extreme danger, but not in our everyday lives. In addition, chronic stress and anxiety can negatively impact relationships, cause sleep disturbances, health issues, and lack of focus, among many other symptoms.
Bring Balance to Mind, Body, and Spirit
A great way to help manage and alleviate chronic stress and anxiety is to adopt a consistent yoga practice. Originating in ancient India, yoga aims to bring balance to the mind, body, and spirit through physical postures (asana), breath techniques (pranayama), meditation, and deep relaxation. In addition to promoting physical strength, balance, and flexibility, yoga can also positively impact mental and spiritual well-being. While yoga poses (asanas) can help to move stagnant energy, alleviate muscle tension, and release physical stress, pranayama (breath techniques), mindfulness practices, and meditation can also help. The Sanskrit word pranyama, meaning “increasing or restraining the flow of air or aliveness,” is often incorporated into the physical practice of yoga but can also be used before meditation or as a standalone exercise to cultivate a greater flow of “prana,” otherwise known as life
Breathe Your Way to a More Relaxed State of Being
While there are many different breathing techniques in yoga, belly breathing—also referred to as abdominal breathing or diaphragmatic breathing—is the foundation of any yoga practice. Diaphragmatic breathing involves breathing deeply into the belly rather than shallowly into the chest. The diaphragm is a large, dome-shaped muscle located at the base of the lungs that helps control breathing. When inhaling, the diaphragm contracts and moves downward, creating more space in the chest cavity, causing the lungs and belly to expand. When exhaling, the diaphragm relaxes and moves upward, causing the belly to draw in toward the lower spine as the air is released.
Breathing consciously in a way that is slow and controlled can help reduce high levels of fight or flight stress hormones, lower heart rate, and bring the body back into homeostasis. Diaphragmatic breathing helps to stimulate the parasympathetic “rest and digest” response, expand lung capacity, oxygenate the body, improve digestion, lower blood pressure, and inspire a sense of peace and calm. Observing the flow of air moving into and out of the nostrils as well the rise and fall of the belly on each breath in and out increases mindfulness by shifting the focus and attention of the practitioner more fully into the present moment. Diaphragmatic breathing can be done sitting or lying down. Beginners may want to start laying down on a flat surface (knees can be bent).
- Sit comfortably, with your spine nice and tall, shoulders, head and neck relaxed; alternately, if you are a beginner, you may choose to lie down on a flat surface.
- Place one hand on your belly below the rib cage and one on your chest to create a greater awareness of the movement of breath.
- Inhale slowly and deeply through your nose. The hand on your chest should remain as still as possible, while the abdomen expands or rises toward the hand on your belly.
- Exhale slowly through your nose or pursed lips and feel the abdomen move in toward the lower spine as you empty all the air out. The hand on your upper chest must remain as still as possible.
- Repeat for a few rounds and eventually work your way up to 10 minutes or longer as a daily practice.
Living more fully in the present moment as a meditation or mindfulness practice, rather than focusing on the past, helps us to be less emotionally reactive and overwhelmed by what’s happening around us, increasing calm and reducing stress and anxiety.
Lisa Brown, founder of Free Flowing Health, is a whole-foods, plant-based chef, certified Institute for Integrative Nutrition health coach, and yoga teacher servicing the SWFL area. In addition to having acquired a culinary education at the Natural Gourmet Institute in NYC, Lisa received her certifications to teach yoga from the Kripalu Center for Health & Yoga in Massachusetts and Kundalini Yoga East in NYC. She holds a master’s degree in forensic psychology from John Jay College. After overcoming many adversities on her own personal journey of self-discovery and transformation, Lisa’s quest for knowledge, passion for healthy living, and deep desire to be of service to others became insatiable. Today, Lisa combines her work as a chef, coach, and educator to help people around the world achieve greater levels of health, happiness, and harmony. | <urn:uuid:35f76d6b-1ab9-4227-8b84-67a56af4d092> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://essentialnaples.com/can-reducing-stress-really-be-as-easy-as-breathing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.935098 | 1,138 | 3.0625 | 3 |
£11 million pounds could be invested in repairing potholes in Essex. Proposals are being decided on today and if they get the go ahead work could start later this month.
While over 50,000 potholes were fixed across Essex in 2011/12, extreme weather conditions including heavy snowfall in the winter, followed by a hot dry spring and then by severe flooding, have caused damage to the county's roads and increased the need for repairs. More than 50-thousand potholes have been already repaired across the county in the last year.
The first phase of the programme will start this month and will target the number of outstanding defects waiting for repair across Essex. The second phase of work will start in November 2012 and will focus on strengthening the road network to ensure that fewer potholes occur in the longer term.
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The ongoing saga of Berlin’s years-behind, over-budget, white-elephant airport may not have a happy ending, according to multiple people who have been involved with the project. The Times of London reports:
Berlin-Brandenburg airport is five years behind schedule, £5 billion over budget and a national disgrace for a country that prides itself on technical excellence.Dieter Faulenbach da Costa, chief planner for the project until 1999, told theBerliner Morgenpost newspaper that he doubted whether it would ever welcome flights or passengers.He blamed four years of work to change fire safety systems, including removing hundreds of defective firewalls. That topped a catalogue of errors that included hundreds of miles of wiring that had to be ripped out of leaking underground conduits, luggage relay systems stuck on stop and a computer system so complex that nobody could work out how to turn off the lights.Delays are costing £15 million each month, including £120,000 to clean the unused terminals and thousands more keeping them lit to prevent vandalism.Mr Faulenbach da Costa is not the only recent critic of the airport’s progress. Berlin-Brandenburg recently fired its PR chief, who, rather too truthfully, told journalists that claims of the project going well were “bullshit”.Daniel Abbou said: “Believe me. No politician, no airport director and no person who is not addicted to drugs can make a firm guarantee about this airport.” His successor insists, however, that it is on course for an opening next year.
In 2015, WRM pointed out that, while this kind of incompetence might not seem very German, it is in fact just another facet of the national character:
And then there’s the comic tale of incompetence, bad planning, and dolce far niente that is the Willy Brandt Airport in Berlin. Under planning since 1990, the airport wasn’t necessary because of a need for more plane space, or for economic reasons, or for anything so practical as all that—rather, it was supposed to be a grand symbol of reunification. As an excellent, darkly entertaining piece by Joshua Harris in Bloomberg in July recounts, the 2011 grand opening had to be delayed because of the discovery of design flaws that eventually numbered 150,000. 85,000 of these were deemed “serious.” The worst problems of all were related to its fire suppression systems, which were so dysfunctional that at one point the plan was just to have minimum-wage workers with walkie-talkies looking for smoke. Four years later, it looks like that still hasn’t been sorted out.[…] The airport is now slated to open in 2017 at the earliest. | <urn:uuid:666e2d01-582a-42e4-973c-c91c9b9ebf66> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/04/30/berlin-brandenburg-airport-may-never-open/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00298-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964454 | 566 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The San Francisco school board is looking to get into the affordable housing business to help teachers and other district employees who might not otherwise be able to afford to live in the city.
For years, the district has sat on a largely vacant lot at 1950 Mission St., a piece of blighted property in the Mission District.
The land is valued at upward of $9 million, and leasing the property to a market-rate
housing developer could yield $300,000 to $500,000 in annual revenue for city schools, district officials said.
But in the late spring at a committee meeting, a majority on the school board balked at a proposal by Superintendent Carlos Garcia to lease the land and use the cash to build a housing fund that would support mortgage down payments or rent payments for teachers and district employees.
Sunday, July 10, 2011
SFGate: S.F. board considers building housing for teachers
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And the Word Was God: art exhibit at St. Thomas University
Next date: Aug 15, 2022 - click here for time schedule - English
Guest Curator Dainy Tapia presents And the Word Was God, a solo exhibition of paintings by South Florida artist Daniel Marosi. The free exhibition launched June 2, 2022 and will be open to the public visiting the Rev. Jorge A. Sardiñas Gallery, located in the main library of St. Thomas University, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., until Sept. 16, 2022.
The exhibition is comprised of text-based paintings, created from ancient scripture, advertising, sermons, and popular music that artist Daniel Marosi collected during the pandemic. Investigating their implicit authority, Marosi paints short phrases in multiple layers, allowing them to become gestural manifestations of phenomena existing beyond logic. The selection of canvas and works on paper trace the origins of Marosi’s observations of sacred texts and the contemporary relevance of signs signifying nothing.
Dainy Tapia is a cultural practitioner based in Miami. She is the creator and curator of ArtSeen365: a platform dedicated to promoting the visual arts in Miami, South Florida, and beyond by creating and publishing original digital content. Tapia collaborates with several art institutions in South Florida, including the Doral Contemporary Art Museum, the Bass Museum of Art, and the Women Artists Archive Miami (WAAM). She has an independent curatorial art practice and collaborates with artists to support their practices and projects.
St. Thomas University
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“If you have an 8-10 year old, you need to get this book. It’s so fun, too!”
– Candace Cameron Bure, actress and bestselling author of Grow, Candace, Grow
“Danica McKellar is a great teacher! Kids will feel like she’s right by their side.”
– The New York Times
“Brilliant… Multiplies the good times for young mathematicians”
– Kirkus Book Review
“Actor-author McKellar, who has a mathematics degree, uses catchy visuals to teach kids and parents multiplication and division [with] colorful illustrations and appealing cartoon graphics, stories, and rhymes.”
About The Times Machine!
A revolutionary and FUN way to memorize multiplication facts is finally here! New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar has helped more than a million kids finally “get” math and have a great time doing it. Next up? Multiplication and division!
Join Mr. Mouse and Ms. Squirrel and experience an entirely new way of memorizing multiplication facts. Using colorful stories, silly rhymes, and more, actress, author, and math whiz Danica McKellar helps to break down the rules of multiplication and to translate many of the (often confusing!) multiplication and division methods taught in today’s classrooms. This lively “times” travel adventure is an entertaining *lifesaver* for frustrated kids and parents everywhere.
Learn multiplication and division, like, yesterday!
The first few chapters of the book introduce multiplication and division with fun cartoons and exercises. Then comes the Core of the Times Machine – an entire section dedicated to helping kids memorize their multiplication facts, once and for all! There are fun tricks, and colorful stories and poems, making the most challenging facts a cinch to learn!
And finally, the last few chapters explore 2-digit multiplication and long division, along with explanations of all the new Common Core methods you might find in homework – all with cartoons and fun, of course!
“New Math” vs. Memorizing Multiplication Facts!
A Note to Parents
In this book, I’m thrilled to present some super fun and easy ways to learn the multiplication facts—something I wish I had growing up! More on those in a moment . . .
As kids, many of us learned our multiplication facts—times tables—by tiresome memorization and drills, and then applied those (painfully attained!) memorized facts to more complicated multiplication and division problems. Phew! It was often boring and more laborintensive than we liked, but it worked, right?
Nowadays, the “new math” takes a much more visual approach, focused on teaching what it means to multiply and divide. Everything gets broken down into many more steps. While this can be useful in some ways, often it leads to overly complicated-looking third and fourth grade homework and parents wanting to pull their hair out! (See my “New Math” Translation Guide— for Grown-Ups! at the back, and save that gorgeous hair of yours.)
The other issue is that teachers often spend so much of their lessons covering these new teaching methods that they don’t have enough time to help kids memorize their multiplication facts—the foundation upon which much of mathematics is built.
In this book, I take a two-pronged strategy. Yes, I cover the newfangled ways multiplication and division are taught—even for multi-digit multiplication and long division—to make sure kids have success on tests, and to help parents figure out what the heck is going on with the foreign-looking homework! But what I’m equally excited to share is Chapter 5: The Core of the Times Machine. This chapter is filled with truly entertaining ways for kids to learn their multiplication facts, once and for all. You’ll find stories, poems, and fun pictures to help kids learn all of their facts—which will make a huge difference in their success. Being fluent with the times tables (multiplication facts) is key to being able to tackle fourth and fifth grade math with ease—and the rest of middle school and high school math, for that matter!
Best known for her roles on The Wonder Years, The West Wing, and lately for her popular movies on Hallmark Channel, Danica McKellar is also a New York Times bestselling author of math books for kids, with over a million copies sold since 2007. Starting with “Math Doesn’t Suck,” “Kiss My Math,” “Hot X,” and “Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape,” books aimed at middle school and high school readers, she wrote her first children’s picture book, “Goodnight Numbers” in 2017, followed by “Ten Magic Butterflies,” the “Bathtime Mathtime” series, and “Do Not Open This Math Book,” aimed at 6-8 year olds, introducing us to the sweet character of Mr. Mouse while helping kids parents and teachers everywhere with Common Core addition and subtraction! She is also an internationally-recognized mathematician and advocate for math education. A summa cum laude graduate of UCLA with a degree in Mathematics, Danica has been honored in Britain’s esteemed Journal of Physicsand the New York Times for her work in mathematics, most notably for her role as co-author of a ground-breaking mathematical physics theorem which bears her name (The Chayes-McKellar-Winn Theorem). She is incredibly proud that “Goodnight Numbers” was selected for inclusion in Dolly Parton’s literacy charity, The Imagination Library, and her voice can be heard narrating its documentary debuting in Spring 2020.
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The needs of all school organizations are unique–each student population has its own strengths that can be elevated and challenges that can require support. Improving student outcomes remains every educator’s goal as they narrate the story of their schools to their communities.
What will you improve? How do you get there?
Here, we’ll provide you with funding resources and information to assist you in meeting your goals to improve student outcomes. Your state’s guide to SEAs and LEAs funding contains programs-level overview, eligibility, implementation, provisionings, and a view into how Hero by SchoolMint can assist in meeting programs’ requirements.
The Overview section outlines program-level goals and objectives. With your vision for improving student outcomes in mind, this section can help you identify the programs that meet your schools’ unique challenges and needs.
State funding stipulations vary from state to state but all formulas for disbursement require clear delineation of how, what, and why programs are selected.
This section is a quick reference of programs designated towards:
Promoting lasting positive behaviors
Helping students overcome cultural and language barriers
Growing the number of school leaders
Helping students meet academic standards
The Eligibility sections will help you understand which programs meet your schools’ achievement goals and will walk you through funding eligibility requirements.
This section is a quick reference to programs’:
General eligibility criteria
Designation of SEAs and/or LEAs
Application requirements & conditions
And other qualifying information
The Implementation sections highlight the goals and criteria for result-driven programs and initiatives that meet grant-specific provisioning. This section will help gauge whether or not your key programs and initiatives are aligned with meeting your goals for improving student outcomes and achievements.
This section is a quick reference to goals and criteria around:
Bilingual and multicultural instruction
Early interventions services
Purchasing attendance support software
And other implementation stipulations
The sections on Provisions outlines program-level eligibility and further qualifications. It delineated stipulations for surfacing required data, documentation, and/or showing program success.
Reviewing and understanding the different provisions will save you time in the long run and could be the difference in securing your funding in a very competitive landscape.
This section is a quick reference to provisions on:
Data reporting and procedures
Addressing school improvement proposal
Evaluation for determining project successes
Community stakeholders Involved
And other state education board requirements
How Hero Can Help
Our hope is that this guide will assist you in spending less time searching for the funds to make your programs possible and more time with your students, showing them what they can make possible.
Hero by SchoolMint can provide the help you need to improve your schools and prove the results. It can ensure your student achievement goals succeed and are implemented with consistency, fairness, and equity for all.
This section highlights where Hero:
Improves SEL competencies for students
Serves to provide positive behavior support
Supports MTSS & RTI systems for tiered intervention
Addresses chronic absenteeism, & reduces tardiness
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Ever heard the london eye and the singapore flyer ? this happens to be the second most famous ferris wheel in the globe. other then, tianjin town in china has distinctive rainbow. this happens to be the solely ferris wheel built over a bridge. awesome !
A few cities in the globe feature a large ferris wheel. decision it london, singapore, seattle, and nanchang. tourists will climb for getting a surprising panoramic read of each one corner on your town.
Other then ferris wheel in tianjin town, china, has its own uniqueness. the ultimate issue in the globe, tianjin eye may be a ferris wheel built over a bridge.
Coming from the website of china travel, monday, tianjin eye built on yongle bridge that crosses the river hai. this ferris wheel has got a height of 120 meters, being one among four rainbow-altitude equal in china. 3 different ferris wheel ferris wheel namely changsha, suzhou ferris wheel, and zhengzhou ferris wheel.
Inaugurated in 2008, the tianjin eye has 48 capsules to firmly transport passengers. every capsule can possibly be full of 8 folks. ferris will carry 768 folks per hour.
To firmly feel up tianjin eye, tourists will pay 50 yuan for adults and 25 yuan for children. you certainly will be taken up for half-hour, only one lap.
Eye of tianjin, tianjin town you’ll be able to enjoy a height. it feels amazing to discover that the large ferris wheel was built on high on your bridge. so, the tianjin eye may be a mandatory destination when visiting the town of tianjin in china.
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"That's so cool. I have to tell Mom!" Over hearing that phrase makes any winter break project a winner on its own, but this LEGO engineering project was also super easy and covers NGSS standard k-2ETS1-2
"Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an objec helps it function as needed to solve a given problem."
To do this Lego Engineering project you will need
About 20 Legos
other office supplies (optional)
cotton ball (optional)
Disclaimer: Always be sure to monitor flying objects to prevent injury. Fast moving Legos could hurt someone.
Step 1 of your Lego engineering project
Tell your students to build a sling shot that launches a single Lego, or if you want to be a little safer in a large group, a cotton ball.
You could really assign any LEGO contraption, but sling shots are fun. Check out our launcher.
Step 2 of your Lego Engineering Project
Ask your students to, "draw a picture that explains how their Lego launcher works, and label every important part."
That's it. You're done! However, your students may need a little longer to play, like my child did. I just hope he always wants to tell me about it.
LEGO is an amazing learning material! Check out how you can use science with LEGO to make learning fun in every subject with these activities from the Early Elementary Blogging Team!
LEGO Classification - Printable Diagrams from Life Over C's
LEGO number line for Addition and Subtraction from In The Playroom
Hands-On Synonym Blocks Matching Game from Raising Little Superhereos
Spelling With LEGOS! from Preschool Powol Packets
LEGO Boat Engineering Challenge from Handmade Kids Art
Using LEGO to find Syllables from Rainy Day Mum
Area and Perimeter with Lego Duplos from School Time Snippets
Plural Nouns with LEGO from Still Playing School
Combinations of Ten Using Lego Figures from Lemon Lime Adventures
Estimating and Probability with LEGO from Planet Smarty Pants
Lego Bar Graphs for First Grade from Look We're Learning
LEGO Irregular Verb Matching Activity for Second Grade from Sugar Aunts
Exploring Symmetry with a Lego Firefly from Crafty Kids at Home
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IntroductionKurds (kûrds, kŏrds) [key], a non-Arab Middle Eastern minority population that inhabits the region known as Kurdistan, an extensive plateau and mountain area, c.74,000 sq mi (191,660 sq km), in SW Asia, including parts of E Turkey, NE Iraq, and NW Iran and smaller sections of NE Syria and Armenia. The region lies astride the Zagros Mts. (Iran) and the eastern extension of the Taurus Mts. (Turkey) and extends in the south across the Mesopotamian plain and includes the upper reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
As of the late 1990s, there were estimated to be more than 20 million Kurds, about half of them in Turkey, where, making up more than 20% of the population, they dwell mainly near the Iranian frontier around Lake Van and in the vicinity of Diyarbakir and Erzurum. The Kurds in Iran, who constitute some 10% of its people, live principally in Azerbaijan and Khorasan, with some in Fars. The Iraqi Kurds, about 23% of its population, live mostly in the vicinity of Dahuk (Dohuk), Mosul, Erbil, Kirkuk, and Sulaimaniyah.
Ethnically close to the Iranians, the Kurds were traditionally nomadic herders but are now mostly seminomadic or sedentary. The majority of Kurds are Sunni Muslims. Kurdish dialects belong to the northwestern branch of the Iranian languages. The Kurds have traditionally resisted subjugation by other nations. Despite their lack of political unity throughout history, the Kurds, as individuals and in small groups, have had a lasting impact on developments in SW Asia. Saladin, who gained fame during the Crusades, is perhaps the most famous of all Kurds.
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Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate. Originally obtained from the Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines under Combe Down, Somerset, England, its warm, honey colouring gives the World Heritage City of Bath, England its distinctive appearance. An important feature of Bath Stone is that it is a 'freestone', so-called because it can be sawn or 'squared up' in any direction, unlike other rocks such as slate, which forms distinct layers.
Bath Stone has been used extensively as a building material throughout southern England, for churches, houses, and public buildings such as railway stations.
Some quarries are still in use, but the majority have been either converted to other purposes or are being filled in.
Bath Stone is an oolitic limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate laid down during the Jurassic Period (195 to 135 million years ago) when the region that is now Bath was under a shallow sea. Layers of marine sediment were deposited, and individual spherical grains were coated with lime as they rolled around the sea bed, forming the Bathonian Series of rocks. Under the microscope, these grains or ooliths (egg stones) are sedimentary rock formed from ooids: spherical grains composed of concentric layers. That name derives from the Hellenic word òoion for egg. Strictly, oolites consist of ooids of diameter 0.25–2 mm. Rocks composed of ooids larger than 2 mm are called pisolites. They frequently contain minute fragments of shell or rock, and sometimes even decayed skeletons of marine life. Bath stone was taken from the Bath Oolite Member and the Combe Down Member of the Chalfield Oolite Formation, part of the Great Oolite Group.
Use as a building stone
An important feature of Bath Stone is that it is a freestone, that is one that can be sawn or 'squared up' in any direction, unlike other rocks such as slate, which forms distinct layers. In the Roman and Medieval periods, Bath Stone was extensively used on domestic, ecclesiastical and civil engineering projects such as bridges.
The Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, which was founded in 1738, was designed by John Wood the Elder, and built with Bath stone donated by Allen. It is a Grade II listed building. There is a fine pediment on the building, in Bath stone, which depicts the parable of the good Samaritan.
St Stephens church, situated on Lansdown Hill in Bath, was constructed from a limestone sourced from the Limpley Stoke mine, which is situated in the Limpley Stoke Valley. The church has recently been restored.
The material has also been used widely outside Bath itself. Claverton Pumping Station at Claverton, which was built of Bath Stone in about 1810, pumps water from the River Avon to the Kennet and Avon Canal, using power from the flow of the River Avon. The stone was also used for the Dundas Aqueduct, which is 150 yards (137.2 m) long, and has three arches built of Bath Stone, with Doric pilasters, and balustrades at each end.
Much of Bristol Cathedral was built of Bath Stone, and the Wills Tower, which is the dominant feature of the Wills Memorial Building, is constructed in reinforced concrete faced with Bath and Clipsham stone. Bristol's Cabot Tower was also faced with Bath Stone. Arno's Court Triumphal Arch was built from Bath stone in about 1760, and was later dismantled before being rebuilt in its current location.
In London, the neo-classical Georgian mansion Lancaster House was built from Bath Stone in 1825 for the Duke of York and Albany, the second son of King George III, as was St Luke's Church, Chelsea in 1824, and several other churches, including Church of Christ the King, Bloomsbury, were built from the material. Apsley House, the town house of the Dukes of Wellington, was remodelled by the 1st Duke, using in Bath Stone cladding over the original red brick.
In Reading, the original building of the Royal Berkshire Hospital of 1839, together with the wings added in the 1860s, are built of Bath Stone, with slate roofs. They are now listed grade II* by English Heritage. In 1860, the nearby Reading railway station, incorporating a tower and clock, was constructed by the Great Western Railway using Bath Stone, and the company also used it for Chippenham railway station.
In 2002 the East End of Truro Cathedral was completely renovated and restored with some of the ornate Bath Stone replaced with harder-wearing Syreford stone. In 2005 the West Front was restored similarly. Both projects were supervised by MRDA Architects of London, the Cathedral architects.
In the early 18th century, Ralph Allen promoted the use of the stone in Bath itself, and demonstrated its potential by using it for his own mansion at Prior Park. Following a failed bid to supply stone to buildings in London, Allen wanted a building which would show off the properties of Bath Stone as a building material. He acquired the stone quarries at Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines. Hitherto, the quarry masons had always hewn stone roughly providing blocks of varying size. Wood required stone blocks to be cut with crisp, clean edges for his distinctive classical façades. The distinctive honey-coloured Bath Stone was used to build the Georgian city. Stone was extracted by the "room and pillar" method, by which chambers were mined, leaving pillars of stone to support the roof. Allen built a railway line from his mine on Combe Down which carried the stone down the hill, now known as Ralph Allen Drive, which runs beside Prior Park, to a wharf he constructed at Bath Locks on the Kennet and Avon Canal to transport stone to London.
In the 18th century mines at Budbury near Bradford on Avon and Corsham the mines were developed by the Methuen and Northey families. The mine at Monkton Farleigh was leased to quarrymen by the Diocese of Salisbury.
Underground extraction of Bath Stone continues in the Corsham area but on a smaller scale than previously. For example, Hanson Bath & Portland Stone, part of the HeidelbergCement Group, operates Hartham Park Underground Quarry in the Hudswell district (southwest of Pickwick). The Bath Stone Group operates the Stoke Hill mine.
The Box Mine consists of a network of tunnels, which originate from stone mining work. Stone extraction started during the Roman occupation of Britain and ceased in 1968. The mine is now popular for recreational underground trips, and is home to a large population of bats. Up to 10% of the total British population of greater horseshoe bat uses the mine at times, and a maximum of 230 individuals of the species have been counted at the site. The Lesser Horseshoe Bat also uses the mine, as do the four Myotis species: Whiskered, Brandt's, Natterer's and Daubenton's bats.
Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines
Combe Down and Bathampton Down Mines date from the 17th and 18th century when stone was extracted by the "room and pillar" method, by which chambers were mined, leaving pillars of stone between them to support the roof. The mine contains a range of mine features including well preserved tramways, cart-roads and crane bases. The walls and pillars of the mine are studded with pick and tool marks, and show evidence of the use of huge stone saws, all of which bear testimony to the variety of techniques used to extract the stone over the mine's three hundred-year history. No mine abandonment plans of either the tunnels or the caverns, known as voids, were made prior to the 1872 Mining Act. Following their closure, the mines were used for a variety of purposes, including a mushroom farm, and as an air-raid shelter during the World War II Baedeker raids on Bath.
Other uses of stone mines
During the 1930s there was a recognition of a need to provide secure storage for munitions in the south of the United Kingdom, and a large area of the quarries around the Corsham area was renovated by the Royal Engineers as one of three major munitions stockpiles. This ammunition depot was serviced by a spur railway line from the main London to Bristol line, branching off just outside the eastern entrance to Box Tunnel. A portion of the underground quarry complex was developed as a 'shadow factory' for aircraft engines, to act as a fallback should the Bristol Engine company Factory at Filton be taken out of action by hostile bombing. In practice this factory was never used.
In another part of the quarry area, Royal Air Force Box was established as the Headquarters of No10 Fighter Group, Royal Air Force. RAF Box was later renamed RAF Rudloe Manor and expanded to encompass a number of communications functions, including No1 Signal Unit, Controller Defence Communications Network, No1001 Signal Unit Detachment and Headquarters RAF Provost & Security Service. No1SU and CDCN were both housed in bunkers within the quarry complex, which also included an RAF Regional Command Centre for the South West of England.
British defence doctrine during the early Cold War period indicated a requirement for a fallback location for central government outside London, to assume national control in the event of London being destroyed. The quarry complex at Corsham was chosen for this location and development of the site commenced in the 1950s. In the event of imminent nuclear attack, it was assumed that the government would be evacuated from London by rail or helicopter. The facility would provide a safe haven for the Prime Minister, the Cabinet, commanders of the Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, and British Army and supporting civil servants and military personnel. Facilities inside the complex included accommodation and catering for nearly 4,000 people, including a hospital, organic electrical generation and the ability to seal the complex from the outside environment, contaminated by radiation or other threat.
The defence facilities known by various code names like Stockwell, Turnstile, Hawthorn and Burlington have been built in quarries include Military Command & Control, storage and a fallback seat of national government. Some areas of the quarry complex were hardened and provided with support measures to ensure resilience in the event of a nuclear attack. The site was decommissioned and placed in a state of care & maintenance in the mid 1990s following the fragmentation of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war. The site has been offered for sale, conditional on a Private Finance Initiative for the continued use of above ground facilities.
Corsham Computer Centre was built into Hudswell Quarry during the 1980s and current examples of other uses include not only defence establishments, but also a wine cellar at Eastlays (near Gastard) and storage for magnetic media (for Off-site Data Protection) at Monk's Park (near Neston).
The mine at Monkton Farleigh was used as a Central Ammunition Depot during World War II. Part of the site which was not used by the military is now a part of the Brown's Folly site of special scientific interest.
During 1989 a utilities contractor unexpectedly broke through into part of the mines complex at Combe Down whilst excavating a trench. This raised concerns locally, resulting in the then Bath City Council commissioning studies to survey the condition of the mines. It was clear that the mines were in a very dangerous state and some experts considered them to be the largest, shallowest, and most unstable of their kind in Europe. Approximately 80% of the mines, which are up to 9 metres (30 ft) high and cover a total area of about 18 hectares (180,000 m2), had less than 6 metres (20 ft) cover and as little as 2 metres (7 ft) in some places.
In March 1999, the then Department of Environment, Transport and Regions (DETR), now known as the Department for Communities and Local Government, announced a Land Stabilisation Programme, based on the Derelict Land Act 1982. A Parliamentary Statutory Instrument (2002 No. 2053) was needed before the work could be undertaken. Foam Concrete was selected as the best material to use in the large-scale infilling of the old mine workings. Over 400,000 cubic metres (523,180 cu yd) of foamed concrete were placed in the shallower underground mines, making it the single largest application of foamed concrete in the United Kingdom.
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Float Vs Double Java
In Java, data types specify the size and type of values. It is used to store the floating values of an identifier. Data types are classified into two categories, primitive and non-primitive. Primitive data type includes all the predefined data types such as Integer, Character, Boolean, Floating-Point, etc. while the non-primitive data-type includes user-defined data types such as Classes, Arrays, and Interfaces, etc. Both float and double data types store floating values but still, they are different. In this section, we will learn the differences between float and double datatype in Java.
There are two types of Floating-Point data types:
Both, float and double represents the floating-point numbers that store the decimal values.
*The size bits include the following:
Single-Precision: It consists of one sign bit (S), eight exponent bits (E), and twenty-three mantissa bits (M).
Double-Precision: It consists of one sign bit (S), eleven exponent bits (E), and fifty-two mantissa bits (M).
float Data Type
It is a 32-bit, single-precision IEEE 754 (Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic) floating-point number. It means that it gives 6-7 decimal digits precision. It is used if we want to use memory effectively because it takes less memory in comparison to double data type. To define a float value, we must use a suffix f or F. Its default value is 0.0f. By default, float numbers are treated as double in Java.
For example, if we define a float number as:
The above declaration of float variable gives the compilation error. We can correct the error by adding a suffix f or F.
double Data Type
The double data type is a 64-bit double-precision IEEE 754 floating-point number. It means that it gives 15-16 decimal digits precision. It consumes more memory in comparison to the float data type. It is used to store decimal values. Its default value is 0.0d. It is optional to add suffix d or D. For example:
float Vs double Data Type
The double data type is more accurate than the float data type. The following table summarizes the differences between float and double data types.
Similarities Between float and double Data Type
Which floating-point data type in Java we should use?
double is more precise than float. So, if a more precise and accurate result is required use double. Another reason to use double is that if the number is not fitting in the range offered by the float then use double. We should use float if we have memory constraint because it occupies half-space than double.
We recommend you to use double over float if there is no memory and space constraint and when more precision is needed. It is advisable to go with the float, if memory is a concern, and the result in 16 precision decimal digits are not required.
The following two Java programs clearly show the differences between float and double data type.
x/y = 0.33333334
x/y = 0.3333333333333333
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Conservative MPs have blocked a plan to examine the effect of their cuts to disability benefits.
The House of Lords had previously blocked a Government plan to cut Employment and Support Allowance – and said ministers should first conduct an impact assessment into what the cuts’ effects would be.
But on Wednesday Tory MPs overruled the peers, voting to push ahead with the cuts without looking at what their effect might be.
The cuts package, which takes £30 a week away from new disabled ESA claimants who may be capable of work in future, has now been sent back to the House of Lords for a third time.
Research by the Disability Benefits Consortium suggests the benefit's low level is already failing to meet disabled people's needs.
A survey of 500 people in the affected group found that 28 per cent of people had been unable to afford to eat while in receipt of the the benefit.
38 per cent of respondents said they had been unable to heat their homes and 52 per cent struggled to stay healthy.
Elliot Dunster, group head of policy, research and public affairs at disability charity Scope, said the proposal would make life harder for disabled people.
“MPs have again failed to recognise the harmful impact that reducing Employment and Support Allowance will have on disabled people,” he said.
“We’re deeply disappointed that the Government is pushing ahead with its plans despite widespread opposition and the Lords twice raising concerns by voting to amend this flawed measure.
“Half a million disabled people will be affected by this proposal – losing around £30 a week, at a time when they are already struggling to make ends meet.
“Reducing disabled people’s incomes won’t incentivise them to find a job. It will just make life harder.
Rob Holland, parliamentary manager at the learning disability charity Mencap said there was “mounting evidence” the Government’s approach was wrong.
“The Government are intent, based on little evidence, that taking away £1,500 a year from disabled people will incentivise them to find work,” he said.
7 ways the Tories have ‘helped’ disabled people
7 ways the Tories have ‘helped’ disabled people
1/7 Closing Remploy factories
The Work and Pensions Secretary called time on Britain’s system of Remploy factories, which provided subsidised and sheltered employment to disabled people. People employed at the factories protested against their closure and said they provided gainful work. “Is it a kindness to stick people in some factory where they are not doing any work at all? Just making cups of coffee?” Mr Duncan Smith said at the time, defending the decision. “I promise you this is better.” The Remploy organisation was privatised and sold to American workfare provider Maximus, with the majority of the organisation’s factories closed. The future of the remaining sites is unclear
2/7 Scrapping the Independent Living Fund
The £320m Independent Living Fund was established in 1988 to give financial support to people with disabilities. It was scrapped on July 1 2015, with 18,000 often severely disabled people losing out by an average of £300 a week. The money was generally used to help pay for carers so people could live in communities rather than institutions. Councils will get a boost in funding to compensate but it will not cover the whole cost of the fund. This new cash also doesn’t have to be spent on the disabled
3/7 Cut payments for the disabled Access To Work scheme
Iain Duncan Smith is bringing forward a policy that will reduce payments to some disabled people from a scheme designed to help them into work. The £108m scheme, which helps 35,540 people, will be capped on a per-used basis, potentially hitting those with the more serious disabilities who currently receive the most help. The single biggest users of the fund are people who have difficulty seeing and hearing. The cut will come in from October 2015. The charity Disability UK says the scheme actually makes the Government money because the people who gain access to work tend pay tax that more than covers its cost. The DWP does not describe the reduction as a “cut” and says it will be able to spread the money more thinly and cover more people
4/7 Cut Employment and Support Allowance
The latest Budget included a £30 a week cut in disability benefits for some new claimants of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). The Government says it is equalising the rate of disability benefits with Jobseekers Allowance because giving disabled people more help is a “perverse incentive”. The people affected by this cut are those assessed as having a limited capability for work but as being capable of some “work-related activity”. A group of prominent Catholics wrote to Mr Duncan Smith to say there was “no justification” for this cut. Mental health charity Mind, said the cut was “insulting and misguided”
5/7 Risk homelessness with a sharp increase disability benefit sanctions
Official figures in the first quarter of 2014 found a huge increase in sanctions against people reliant on ESA sickness benefit. The 15,955 sanctions were handed out in that period compared to 3,574 in the same period the year before, 2013 – a 4.5 times increase. The homelessness charity Crisis warned at the time that the sharp rise in temporary benefit cuts was “cruel and can leave people utterly destitute – without money even for food and at severe risk of homelessness”. “It is difficult to see how they are meant to help people prepare for work,” Matt Downie, director of policy at the charity added
6/7 Sending sick people to work because of broken fitness to work tests
In 2012 a government advisor appointed to review the Government’s Work Capability Assessment said the tests causing suffering by sending sick people back to work inappropriately. “There are certainly areas where it's still not working and I am sorry there are people going through a system which I think still needs improvement,” Professor Malcolm Harrington concluded. The tests are said to have improved since then, but as recently as this summer they are still coming in for criticism. In June the British Psychological Society said there was “now significant body of evidence that the WCA is failing to assess people’s fitness for work accurately and appropriately”. It called for a full overhaul of the way the tests are carried out. The WCA appeals system has also been fraught with controversy with a very high rate of overturns and delays lasting months and blamed for hardship
7/7 The bedroom tax
The Government’s benefit cut for people who it says are “under-occupying” their homes disproportionately affects disabled people. Statistics released last year show that around two-thirds of those affected by the under-occupancy penalty, widely known as the ‘bedroom tax’, are disabled. There have been a number of high profile cases of disabled people being moved out of specially adapted homes by the policy. In one case publicised by the Sunday People last week, a 48 year old man with cerebral palsy was forced to bathe in a paddling pool after the tax moved him out of his home with a walk-in shower. The Government says it has provided councils with a discretionary fund to help reduce the policy’s impact on disabled people, but cases continue to arise
“The mounting evidence suggests the opposite, that cutting Employment and Support Allowance will push disabled people further from work and closer to poverty.”
Research by a coalition of 60 national charities suggested last year that the cuts to the so-called ESA Work Related Activity Group (WRAG) would actually make it harder for disabled people to find a job.
69 per cent of WRAG claimants surveyed believed their health would suffer were they affected by the cut – and 45 per cent said getting work would become more difficult.
But ministers last night disregarded the charities’ advice.
“The change is urgently needed to ensure that the right incentives—and, importantly, support—are available to help more people with disabilities and health conditions to move closer to, and into, employment,” said Priti Patel, a minister at the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Lords’ proposal was rejected by MPs by 309-274 votes – with most Tory MPs voting against.The Government has now invoked financial privilege on the cuts – meaning it will be harder for the House of Lords to block them a third time.
The Government says the ESA cut will save £1.4bn over the next four financial years.
A Department of Work and Pensions spokesman said: “We are absolutely committed to supporting disabled people and that’s why we continue to spend around £50bn a year on disabled people and their services.
“Our reforms will ensure the right support and incentives are in place to help disabled people move closer to the labour market and, when they are ready, back into work.
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The Portuguese established a colony in India at the beginning of the 16th century. Portuguese India was ruled first from Cochin, and then Goa. Over the next four centuries, Portuguese control spread to various parts of India, mostly along the west coast of the country, but also in the northeast in Bengal.
During this time, the Portuguese left their mark on certain Indian cuisines in two ways: by introducing new ingredients to India – including spices that are seen as an essential part of Indian food today – and by introducing Portuguese dishes that then were adapted to Indian culinary techniques and tastes.
The strongest Portuguese influence was of course in Goa, which Portugal ruled until 1961. In particular, Goan Catholic cuisine has a distinct Portuguese flavour. Blogger Hilda Mascarenhas describes the famous Goan dish pork vindaloo:
The name “Vindaloo” is derived from the Portuguese dish “Carne de Vinha d’Alhos” which is a dish of meat, usually pork, with wine and garlic. The Portuguese dish was modified by the substitution of vinegar (usually palm vinegar) for the red wine and the addition of red Kashmiri chillies with spices, to evolve into Vindaloo. The alternative terms are Vindalho or Vindallo. Traditional Goan Pork Vindaloo is intensely flavored with fragrant spices and does not include potatoes. No celebration and festive occasion is complete without the Goan Pork Vindaloo. It is enjoyed with the most popular and loved accompaniment, Goan sannas, which are prepared with toddy! This speciality is served with pride in every Goan home at Christmas, New Year and Easter.
Gavin Harvey adds:
Vindaloo started as a vinegar and garlic based stew made with pork or other meat but when introduced to India it got revamped with various spices and chillies. Potatoes were also added to the dish and “alhos” became “aloo” (Hindi word for “potatoes”) – so soon people assumed potatoes were a necessary ingredient of this dish.
Further down the coast from Goa is the city of Mangalore, and Mangalorean Catholic cuisine has many similarities with Goan Catholic cuisine. A pork dish common to both is sorpotel (or sarapatel), originally from the Alentejo region of Portugal. At the Goan Recipes blog, Glenn writes:
The word ‘sarapatel’ literally means confusion, probably referring to the mish-mash of ingredients of pork heart, liver and even pork blood!
Moving to the other side of India, some Portuguese influence can be seen in Bengali cuisine as well. Rangan Datta gives us the history of a special kind of cheese:
Originating from the erstwhile Portuguese settlement of Bandel (about 50 km north of Calcutta), Bandel Cheese is perhaps one of the last traces of Portuguese cuisine in Bengal. The Portuguese influence in Bengal dates back to the late 16th century. Almost a century after Vasco da Gama reached the West Coast of India the Portuguese started making their inroads into Bengal. […] It was the probably the Portuguese who introduced the art of cheese making in Bengal and in spite of all odds the technique has survived over centuries. The Bandel Cheese introduced by the Portuguese was probably made by the Mogh (Burmese) cooks under Portuguese supervision. […] This variety of unripened cheese is made from cows milk and comes in two versions plain and smoked. First the the curd is extracted from the cows milk by using lemon juice. The cheese is then shaped and drained in perforated pots. The plain variety is of milk-white colour and comes in disc shapes of about an inch diameter and quarter of inch thickness. The smoked variety comes in the same shape and size but has a crispy brownish crust covering the soft milk-white interior.
Zoe Perrett notes:
The Portuguese influence on Bengal was not pure. Having gone to Goa first, many of the new introductions were delivered with a distinct Western Indian accent, or, indeed, were dishes the Portuguese purloined directly from that small state. The Portuguese also proffered Bengal bounty from travels further afield; fruity beauties like pineapple, papaya, guava, and the lychees from the Orient. Where Goa absorbed the influences, blending Portuguese techniques and dishes with local spices, in Bengal, many of the Portuguese-provided ingredients have retained their own clear identity. Mogh cooks soon mastered Western baking methods; displayed today in Calcutta’s prolific puffs and pastries, and perhaps also in the use of white flour for ‘luchis’ (a Bengali bread).
The Portuguese left a legacy of sweet as well as savoury dishes in India. Kulkuls, or kidyo, are a type of sweet eaten by Goan and Mangalorean Catholics at Christmas. Aparna Balasubramaniam describes them:
Kulkuls are made by deep-frying inch long bits of sweet dough moulded/shaped into small curls (like butter curls) which are often also coated with a sugar glaze which dries out. The kulkuls tend to resemble small worms, hence the name “Kidyo” in Konkani, the language spoken in Goa. If you do not to think of them as “worms” you can think of them as shell-shaped. I like to think that the name Kulkul/Kalkal comes from the rattling sound of these little treats jostling one another when they’re shaken in sugar syrup or maybe in the tin in which they would be stored. Kulkuls are made during Christmas in Goa and are an important item in the Kuswar (a collection of Goan Christmas-time treats), and are distributed to neighbours. They’re also taken along to give away during “obligatory” visits to friends and family. […] Someone pointed out the Kulkuls are actually a variation of the Portuguese Filhoses Enroladas, which is a roll or curvy noodle-shaped Christmas-time sweet that is deep-fried and sugar-glazed. So it is possible that Kulkuls were brought to India by the Portuguese. | <urn:uuid:7cc9b3d7-0786-47f3-8efd-c0afb94b9f32> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://globalvoices.org/2014/02/27/how-the-portuguese-influenced-indian-cuisine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00568-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967704 | 1,306 | 3 | 3 |
This chapter discusses pole-zero analysis of digital filters. Every digital filter can be specified by its poles and zeros (together with a gain factor). Poles and zeros give useful insights into a filter's response, and can be used as the basis for digital filter design. This chapter additionally presents the Durbin step-down recursion for checking filter stability by finding the reflection coefficients, including matlab code.
which is the same as Eq.(6.5) except that we have factored out the leading coefficient in the numerator (assumed to be nonzero) and called it g. (Here .) In the same way that can be factored into , we can factor the numerator and denominator to obtain
Assume, for simplicity, that none of the factors cancel out. The (possibly complex) numbers are the roots, or zeros, of the numerator polynomial. When is set to any of these values, the transfer function evaluates to 0. For this reason, the numerator roots are called the zeros of the filter. In other words, the zeros of the numerator of an irreducible transfer-function are called the zeros of the transfer-function. Similarly, when approaches any root of the denominator polynomial, the magnitude of the transfer function approaches infinity. Consequently, the denominator roots are called the poles of the filter.
The term ``pole'' makes sense when one plots the magnitude of as a function of z. Since is complex, it may be taken to lie in a plane (the plane). The magnitude of is real and therefore can be represented by distance above the plane. The plot appears as an infinitely thin surface spanning in all directions over the plane. The zeros are the points where the surface dips down to touch the plane. At high altitude, the poles look like thin, well, ``poles'' that go straight up forever, getting thinner the higher they go.
Notice that the feedforward coefficients from the general difference quation, Eq.(5.1), give rise to zeros. Similarly, the feedback coefficients in Eq.(5.1) give rise to poles. Recall that we defined the filter order as the maximum of and in Eq.(6.5). Therefore, the filter order equals the number of poles or zeros, whichever is greater.
Filter Order = Transfer Function Order
Recall that the order of a polynomial is defined as the highest power of the polynomial variable. For example, the order of the polynomial is 2. From Eq.(8.1), we see that is the order of the transfer-function numerator polynomial in . Similarly, is the order of the denominator polynomial in .
It turns out the transfer function can be viewed as a rational function of either or without affecting order. Let denote the order of a general LTI filter with transfer function expressible as in Eq.(8.1). Then multiplying by gives a rational function of (as opposed to ) that is also order when viewed as a ratio of polynomials in . Another way to reach this conclusion is to consider that replacing by is a conformal map that inverts the -plane with respect to the unit circle. Such a transformation clearly preserves the number of poles and zeros, provided poles and zeros at and are either both counted or both not counted.
Graphical Computation of
Amplitude Response from
Poles and Zeros
In the complex plane, the number is plotted at the coordinates . The difference of two vectors and is , as shown in Fig.8.1. Translating the origin of the vector to the tip of shows that is an arrow drawn from the tip of to the tip of . The length of a vector is unaffected by translation away from the origin. However, the angle of a translated vector must be measured relative to a translated copy of the real axis. Thus the term may be drawn as an arrow from the th zero to the point on the unit circle, and is an arrow from the th pole. Therefore, each term in Eq.(8.3) is the length of a vector drawn from a pole or zero to a single point on the unit circle, as shown in Fig.8.2 for two poles and two zeros. In summary:
For example, the dc gain is obtained by multiplying the lengths of the lines drawn from all poles and zeros to the point . The filter gain at half the sampling rate is the product of the lengths of these lines when drawn to the point . For an arbitrary frequency Hz, we draw arrows from the poles and zeros to the point . Thus, at the frequency where the arrows in Fig.8.2 join, (which is slightly less than one-eighth the sampling rate) the gain of this two-pole two-zero filter is . Figure 8.3 gives the complete amplitude response for the poles and zeros shown in Fig.8.2. Before looking at that, it is a good exercise to try sketching it by inspection of the pole-zero diagram. It is usually easy to sketch a qualitatively accurate amplitude-response directly from the poles and zeros (to within a scale factor).
Graphical Phase Response Calculation
If is real, then is either 0 or . Terms of the form can be interpreted as a vector drawn from the point to the point in the complex plane. The angle of is the angle of the constructed vector (where a vector pointing horizontally to the right has an angle of 0). Therefore, the phase response at frequency Hz is again obtained by drawing lines from all the poles and zeros to the point , as shown in Fig.8.4. The angles of the lines from the zeros are added, and the angles of the lines from the poles are subtracted. Thus, at the frequency the phase response of the two-pole two-zero filter in the figure is .
Note that an additional phase of radians appears when the number of poles is not equal to the number of zeros. This factor comes from writing the transfer function as
As defined earlier in §5.6 (page ), a filter is said to be stable if its impulse response decays to 0 as goes to infinity. In terms of poles and zeros, an irreducible filter transfer function is stable if and only if all its poles are inside the unit circle in the plane (as first discussed in §6.8.6). This is because the transfer function is the z transform of the impulse response, and if there is an observable (non-canceled) pole outside the unit circle, then there is an exponentially increasing component of the impulse response. To see this, consider a causal impulse response of the form
The signal has the z transform
where the last step holds for , which is true whenever . Thus, the transfer function consists of a single pole at , and it exists for .9.1Now consider what happens when we let become greater than 1. The pole of moves outside the unit circle, and the impulse response has an exponentially increasing amplitude. (Note .) Thus, the definition of stability is violated. Since the z transform exists only for , we see that implies that the z transform no longer exists on the unit circle, so that the frequency response becomes undefined!
The above one-pole analysis shows that a one-pole filter is stable if and only if its pole is inside the unit circle. In the case of an arbitrary transfer function, inspection of its partial fraction expansion (§6.8) shows that the behavior near any pole approaches that of a one-pole filter consisting of only that pole. Therefore, all poles must be inside the unit circle for stability.
In summary, we can state the following:
Isolated poles on the unit circle may be called marginally stable. The impulse response component corresponding to a single pole on the unit circle never decays, but neither does it grow.9.2 In physical modeling applications, marginally stable poles occur often in lossless systems, such as ideal vibrating string models .
Computing Reflection Coefficients to
Check Filter Stability
Since we know that a recursive filter is stable if and only if all its poles have magnitude less than 1, an obvious method for checking stability is to find the roots of the denominator polynomial in the filter transfer function [Eq.(7.4)]. If the moduli of all roots are less than 1, the filter is stable. This test works fine for low-order filters (e.g., on the order of 100 poles or less), but it may fail numerically at higher orders because the roots of a polynomial are very sensitive to round-off error in the polynomial coefficients . It is therefore of interest to use a stability test that is faster and more reliable numerically than polynomial root-finding. Fortunately, such a test exists based on the filter reflection coefficients.
It is a mathematical fact that all poles of a recursive filter are inside the unit circle if and only if all its reflection coefficients (which are always real) are strictly between -1 and 1. The full theory associated with reflection coefficients is beyond the scope of this book, but can be found in most modern treatments of linear prediction [48,47] or speech modeling [92,19,69]. An online derivation appears in .9.3Here, we will settle for a simple recipe for computing the reflection coefficients from the transfer-function denominator polynomial . This recipe is called the step-down procedure, Schur-Cohn stability test, or Durbin recursion , and it is essentially the same thing as the Schur recursion (for allpass filters) or Levinson algorithm (for autocorrelation functions of autoregressive stochastic processes) .
We have introduced the new subscript because the step-down procedure is defined recursively in polynomial order. We will need to keep track of polynomials orders between 1 and .
In addition to the denominator polynomial , we need its
The recursion begins by setting the th reflection coefficient to . If , the recursion halts prematurely, and the filter is declared unstable. (Equivalently, the polynomial is declared non-minimum phase, as defined in Chapter 11.)
Otherwise, if , the polynomial order is decremented by 1 to yield as follows (recall that is monic):
Next is set to , and the recursion continues until is reached, or is found for some .
Whenever , the recursion halts prematurely, and the filter is usually declared unstable (at best it is marginally stable, meaning that it has at least one pole on the unit circle).
Note that the reflection coefficients can also be used to implement the digital filter in what are called lattice or ladder structures . Lattice/ladder filters have superior numerical properties relative to direct-form filter structures based on the difference equation. As a result, they can be very important for fixed-point implementations such as in custom VLSI or low-cost (fixed-point) signal processing chips. Lattice/ladder structures are also a good point of departure for computational physical models of acoustic systems such as vibrating strings, wind instrument bores, and the human vocal tract [81,16,48].
Figure 8.6 gives a listing of a matlab function stabilitycheck for testing the stability of a digital filter using the Durbin step-down recursion. Figure 8.7 lists a main program for testing stabilitycheck against the more prosaic method of factoring the transfer-function denominator and measuring the pole radii. The Durbin recursion is far faster than the method based on root-finding.
function [stable] = stabilitycheck(A); N = length(A)-1; % Order of A(z) stable = 1; % stable unless shown otherwise A = A(:); % make sure it's a column vector for i=N:-1:1 rci=A(i+1); if abs(rci) >= 1 stable=0; return; end A = (A(1:i) - rci * A(i+1:-1:2))/(1-rci^2); % disp(sprintf('A[%d]=',i)); A(1:i)' end
% TSC - test function stabilitycheck, comparing against % pole radius computation N = 200; % polynomial order M = 20; % number of random polynomials to generate disp('Random polynomial test'); nunstp = 0; % count of unstable A polynomials sctime = 0; % total time in stabilitycheck() rftime = 0; % total time computing pole radii for pol=1:M A = [1; rand(N,1)]'; % random polynomial tic; stable = stabilitycheck(A); et=toc; % Typ. 0.02 sec Octave/Linux, 2.8GHz Pentium sctime = sctime + et; % Now do it the old fashioned way tic; poles = roots(A); % system poles pr = abs(poles); % pole radii unst = (pr >= 1); % bit vector nunst = sum(unst);% number of unstable poles et=toc; % Typ. 2.9 sec Octave/Linux, 2.8GHz Pentium rftime = rftime + et; if stable, nunstp = nunstp + 1; end if (stable & nunst>0) | (~stable & nunst==0) error('*** stabilitycheck() and poles DISAGREE ***'); end end disp(sprintf(... ['Out of %d random polynomials of order %d,',... ' %d were unstable'], M,N,nunstp));
A typical formula relating 3-dB bandwidth (in Hz) to the pole radius is
where denotes the sampling interval as usual. Solving for gives
Time Constant of One Pole
where denotes the sampling interval in seconds, and we assume .
Unstable Poles--Unit Circle Viewpoint
We saw in §8.4 that an LTI filter is stable if and only if all of its poles are strictly inside the unit circle () in the complex plane. In particular, a pole outside the unit circle () gives rise to an impulse-response component proportional to which grows exponentially over time . We also saw in §6.2 that the z transform of a growing exponential does not not converge on the unit circle in the plane. However, this was the case for a causal exponential , where is the unit-step function (which switches from 0 to 1 at time 0). If the same exponential is instead anticausal, i.e., of the form , then, as we'll see in this section, its z transform does exist on the unit circle, and the pole is in exactly the same place as in the causal case. Therefore,to unambiguously invert a z transform, we must know its region of convergence. The critical question is whether the region of convergence includes the unit circle: If it does, then each pole outside the unit circle corresponds to an anticausal, finite energy, exponential, while each pole inside corresponds to the usual causal decaying exponential.
The essence of the situation can be illustrated using a simple geometric series. Let be any real (or complex) number. Then we have
Now consider the rewritten case:
where the inverse z transform is the inverse bilateral z transform. In this case, the convergence criterion is , or , and this region includes the unit circle when .
In summary, when the region-of-convergence of the z transform is assumed to include the unit circle of the plane, poles inside the unit circle correspond to stable, causal, decaying exponentials, while poles outside the unit circle correspond to anticausal exponentials that decay toward time , and stop before time zero.
Figure 8.8 illustrates the two types of exponentials (causal and anticausal) that correspond to poles (inside and outside the unit circle) when the z transform region of convergence is defined to include the unit circle.
myFourFiguresToWidthpolesout11polesout21polesout12polesout220.52Left column: Causal exponential decay, pole at . Right column: Anticausal exponential decay, pole at . Top: Pole-zero diagram. Bottom: Corresponding impulse response, assuming the region of convergence includes the unit circle in the plane.
Poles and Zeros of the Cepstrum
From Eq.(8.2), the log z transform can be written in terms of the
factored form as
where denotes the th zero and denotes the th pole of the z transform . Applying the Maclaurin series expansion
Since the region of convergence of the z transform must include the unit circle (where the spectrum (DTFT) is defined), we see that the Maclaurin expansion gives us the inverse z transform of all terms of Eq.(8.9) corresponding to poles and zeros inside the unit circle of the plane. Since the poles must be inside the unit circle anyway for stability, this restriction is normally not binding for the poles. However, zeros outside the unit circle--so-called ``non-minimum-phase zeros''--are used quite often in practice.
For a zero (or pole) outside the unit circle, we may rewrite the corresponding term of Eq.(8.9) as
where we used the Maclaurin series expansion for once again with the region of convergence including the unit circle. The infinite sum in this expansion is now the bilateral z transform of an anticausal sequence, as discussed in §8.7. That is, the time-domain sequence is zero for nonnegative times () and the sequence decays in the direction of time minus-infinity. The factored-out terms and , for all poles and zeros outside the unit circle, can be collected together and associated with the overall gain factor in Eq.(8.9), resulting in a modified scaling and time-shift for the original sequence which can be dealt with separately .
In summary, each stable pole contributes a positive decaying exponential (weighted by ) to the complex cepstrum, while each zero inside the unit circle contributes a negative weighted-exponential of the same type. The decaying exponentials start at time 1 and have unit amplitude (ignoring the weighting) in the sense that extrapolating them to time 0 (without the weighting) would use the values and . The decay rates are faster when the poles and zeros are well inside the unit circle, but cannot decay slower than .
On the other hand, poles and zeros outside the unit circle contribute anticausal exponentials to the complex cepstrum, negative for the poles and positive for the zeros.
Conversion to Minimum Phase
As discussed in §11.7, any spectrum can be converted to minimum-phase form (without affecting the spectral magnitude) by computing its cepstrum and replacing any anticausal components with corresponding causal components. In other words, the anticausal part of the cepstrum, if any, is ``flipped'' about time zero so that it adds to the causal part. Doing this corresponds to reflecting non-minimum phase zeros (and any unstable poles) inside the unit circle in a manner that preserves spectral magnitude. The original spectral phase is then replaced by the unique minimum phase corresponding to the given spectral magnitude.
Closely related to the cepstrum are the so-called Hilbert transform relations that relate the real and imaginary parts of the spectra of causal signals. In particular, for minimum-phase spectra, the cepstrum is causal, and this means that the log-magnitude and phase form a Hilbert-transform pair. Methods for designing allpass filters have been based on this relationship (see §B.2.2). For more about cepstra and Hilbert transform relations, see .
Implementation Structures for Recursive Digital Filters
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The five primarily accepted traits or charachteristics that define us as humans would have to be;
1. Bipedalism- Walking upright may not truly be unique to man, but is remains a very unique trait.
2.Dependent on material culture- This began as far back as the need to use stone tools, and lives out in modern culture with the iPod.
3.Hunting- Now that Humans had tools, they use them to hunt animals, instead of scavenging.
4.Domestication / Farming- Archaeologist suggest that domestication and farming occurred independently three or four times around the world 11000 years ago.
5.Symbolic behavior and culture- The real differences between apes and man lie in our capacity to live in an imagined world.
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The exhibition of geographic identification on various media is Geotagging. This on the handheld device is made possible due to the availability of Internet connectivity that is resident on the Smartphones. It is instrumental to mark a location with respect to a photo, video or other media. Thus, with the advent of the Smartphones, this has become an easy task which can also prove as hindrance if the privacy factor is taken into account. This aspect results in killing the privacy if the geotagging is functional on the respective device.
The concerning aspect is not about the resultant location being tagged; however it serves as a cruel get away for others to access this information by viewing the particular image. From time to time this can be an annoying factor and as well as prove dangerous considering the privacy issues. This can act terribly in some cases as it ends up providing information to the other people by just accessing such posts. If posted online, even the other people can access the same or email them to other people without considering the potential harrowing scenarios that may result out of them. | <urn:uuid:1e5bcba2-d800-43aa-8f38-9b535c2e95fb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.themobimag.com/tag/disable-geotagging-on-smartphones-camera/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00511-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952093 | 213 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Tango in Argentina
A sultry dance of romance and energy, the tango is the very heart of the city...
Historically the origins of this infamous dance are fairly murky. Thought to have started around the late 1800s in the slum areas of Buenos Aires, as the various immigrants from Europe began to arrive into Argentina, the dance was seen as the dance of the working classes...the working man, hungry for some female attention, would go to the cafes and bordellos of Buenos Aires and dance with the prostitutes or waitresses that were serving there.
As a dance, the two partners stay as close to one another as is possible, using a series of hip movements and elaborate kicks to move across the floor. Even today it is seen as a highly erotic and intimate dance and the mood in the air is always electric when it is danced properly.
As the dance become more popular and mainstream, being adopted by the middle and upper classes in Buenos Aires, the dance became known to the wealthy of Europe. It then spent a period abroad, being refined and further publicized. Today the tango is fairly formalized and has become mainstream with singers such as Carlos Gardel, earning world renown.
Today there are very few dance halls left in the capital and, as such, very few places where it is still possible to dance it as it would have been originally. For those that are keen to watch this fantastic piece of drama (practically every dance runs through a range of different emotions and sentiments) then there are many Tango shows that are on offer for tourists. In our view, there is still nothing like going and sitting in a dance hall and watching as the Portenos of the capital practice this fascinating dance, but hotels like the Faena are probably the best places to head to for a little of the authentic feel for how it was originally. | <urn:uuid:a0dba043-d24f-4cb6-9dbb-bd7a26648baf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theargentinaspecialists.com/what-to-do/culture/buenos-aires/tango | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.981877 | 379 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Picture of NY Police Officer’s Random Act of Kindness Goes Viral, Inspires Thousands
According to the New York Police Department’s Facebook page, a woman from Florence, Ariz., witnessed a NY police officer give a homeless man a pair of boots and thermal socks.
Working in law enforcement herself, Jennifer Foster said she so impressed, she had to bring attention to the policeman’s random act of kindness.
“The officer said, ‘I have these size 12 boots for you, they are all-weather,'” Foster wrote, detailing what she saw on that cold November day. “The officer squatted down on the ground and proceeded to put socks and the new boots on this man. The officer expected NOTHING in return and did not know I was watching.”
Of course, after seeing the photo, the New York Police Department knew who the officer was. His name: Larry DePrimo, who — after getting thrust into the Good Samaritan’s spotlight — said, “I didn’t think anything of it.”
But Foster did, and apparently hundreds of thousands of others. The Facebook photo posted by the NYPD has been shared over 114,000 times and counting. It’s been liked nearly 400,000 times and the story has been picked up by the New York Times, News Day and a variety of other news organizations.
According to the New York Times, DePrimo noticed blisters on the homeless man’s feet.
“I had two pairs of socks and I was still cold,” DePrimo told the NY Times.
So DePrimo went into a Sketchers shoe store and purchased a pair of boots and thermal socks. The manager, Joe Cano, offered DePrimo his employee discount, bringing the total to $75.
On the flip side
Earlier this year in Detroit, a paramedic was punished by the city for giving a cold, half-naked man a blanket after a house fire. The blanket was donated to the EMS department, but the city said employees must get permission to give “department property” away. Read that story here.
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Pallet Gates for Work Platforms [Case Study]
Pallet Gates are typically found on mezzanines, but they can be used in other industrial applications. This pallet gate was used on a work platform that was built around an industrial mixing platform. The pallet gate allows for items to be lifted onto the platform (e.g. pallets of materials to be put into the mixer) while at the same time providing safe access to the people working on the platform.
These pallet gates were installed onto an existing work platform with the addition of fall protection railing. OSHA requires that general industry employees working at a height greater than four feet have adequate fall protection. Adding safety railing and pallet gates to these work platforms brought the system into compliance and provided a safer working area for employees.
Pallet gates are special safety gates that open only from the outside. This allows pallets and other items to be pushed into the working area with a forklift. The gates do not swing in the outward direction. Pallet gates come in two standard sizes, but custom options are available. Find out more about our pallet and mezzanine gates. | <urn:uuid:7865aa11-d027-42b8-9bac-91fa18441375> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://simplifiedsafety.com/blog/pallet-gates-for-work-platforms-case-study/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.945132 | 236 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Despite public opinion, which would suggest the contrary, Americans place great trust in us as lawyers. Although we don't deserve most of the negative public opinion, we actually do deserve the trust. We are trusted to hold people's secrets, people's money and people's lives. We understand that our system of justice, in fact our entire American social system, depends upon the preservation of that trust.
One of the keys to keeping that trust is our adherence to a strict ethical code and the public's knowledge that it is enforced. We in Massachusetts have the bar discipline system created by our Supreme Judicial Court in 1974. To administer the ethical code established by the SJC, it created a Board of Bar Overseers, supported by general counsel, for administration and adjudication within the disciplinary system and an Office of Bar Counsel for prosecution of those who breach the code. These are complemented by the Clients' Security Board for the administration of funds for recompense of clients harmed by lawyer misconduct.
It is an impressive and sophisticated system. Most of the staffing throughout the disciplinary system is by lawyers Ñ some paid professional staff, many volunteers. We fund the system entirely from our annual professional dues. We are, to a large extent, a successfully self-policing profession. As our practice assists society in operating according to the rule of law, so also we appropriately govern our profession by it. It is also a system which had existed for over 30 years without substantial review or revision.
I am particularly proud that the MBA, in September 2004, under the direction of President Kathleen O'Donnell, established the MBA Task Force on Lawyer Discipline to study the state's lawyer discipline system. She appointed a committee from the most respected members of our profession with vast experience within the bar, the judiciary and the Board of Bar Overseers. They conducted an extensive review of the system and issued a report: "Protecting the Public: Reforming the Disciplinary Process," which was approved by the MBA House of Delegates in May 2005.
The MBA report describes a complex disciplinary system staffed by talented professionals at the BBO and Office of Bar Counsel together with volunteers at many levels. The report also revealed that numerous programs and operational changes have been made in recent years to improve the delivery of bar discipline. But the committee also found substantial delay still existing in many areas of the disciplinary process, a number of systemic impediments to efficiency and some simply inequitable rules and processes. The report contains 22 recommendations for change.
The SJC requested a review of the system by the ABA in the spring of 2005. The ABA review was undertaken over the summer of last year and its report issued to the public by the SJC in mid January 2006 concurrently with a request to bar associations for comment. The ABA report contains 17 recommendations: many in line with, a few in addition to and a couple at odds with the MBA's. The scope and number of the MBA recommendations s exceeded those of the ABA, presumably because the MBA addressed some issues which the ABA's review did not intend to cover.
The MBA task force is reviewing the ABA report and will be recommending a response to the SJC's request for comment, which will be presented, to the House of Delegates in March. What has been achieved to improve the system of bar discipline in the state thus far is something about which MBA members should be very proud. The improvements to the system which we will recommend to the SJC will certainly lead to improving the public's appreciation for the profession's self discipline as well as the fairness of the system for all involved in it. This is truly an example of shaping the future of the legal profession. | <urn:uuid:779e99c3-9432-40ea-8ace-2facc3848e39> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.massbar.org/publications/lawyers-journal/2006/february/maintaining-the-confidence-of-the | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00546-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966669 | 746 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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Eggs are an ingredient that plays an integral role in baking by acting as a binder for other ingredients. They also act as a leavening agent that incorporates air into doughs and batters to make them rise. Some people, such as vegans or those with egg allergies, may wish to omit eggs in baking; however, without eggs, baked goods won’t be as fluffy and light and may not hold together well. Eggless baking can result in successful baked goods if other ingredients are added to mimic the structural role of the eggs.
When determining egg substitutions for eggless baking, it depends on what role the egg was originally intended to play in the recipe. If eggs are acting as a leavening agent, they can generally be swapped out for one tablespoon (15 ml) of baking powder mixed with one tablespoon (15 ml) of warm water. Baking powder is typically a combination of baking soda and cornstarch that creates carbon dioxide bubbles once it is exposed to liquid. This chemical reaction causes baked goods, such as cookies and muffins, to rise and become fluffy.
Eggless baking substitutions are different if the original recipe used egg as a binder. If egg acts as a binder to provide structure and hold the other ingredients together, the recipe typically only calls for one egg, as opposed to recipes that use eggs as leavening agents and require multiple eggs. A moist ingredient, such as applesauce, pureed fruit, or softened tofu, may be used in the place of eggs to help bind the dry ingredients together in dough or batter. If no binding ingredient is used, the baked good will end up dry and crumbly.
A commonly used ingredient in eggless baking is egg substitute products. The ingredients in these commercial products can vary significantly by manufacturer. Many products actually contain egg byproducts, such as egg whites, and are generally used for reducing fat and calories in a recipe rather than as an egg replacement; therefore, they are not intended for vegans or people with egg allergies. For eggless baking, vegan egg replacers, or products made from binding powders, such as tapioca flour, xanthan gum, or potato starch, can be safely used in place of eggs and are completely dairy-free.
Even when making substitutions for eggs and using other ingredients to mimic the leavening and binding functions, baked goods made without eggs may have some differences compared to the results of the original recipe. Eggless baked goods made with other replacement ingredients may not become as golden brown in appearance because it is often egg yolks combined with sugar that are primarily responsible for adding the distinctive golden brown hue to baked goods. Baked goods without eggs may also have a slightly milder taste, and depending on the type of substitution ingredients, have a slightly different flavor, such as if pureed fruit was used.
@Grivusangel -- I'll have to see if I can find a recipe for that wacky cake. My 11-year-old daughter would love to make something like that. She's been pestering me to learn to bake, and that would be an awesome first recipe. Maybe even a good science project, since it really is kind of a chemistry experiment.
My only issue with eggless baking is that when I substitute something like applesauce is the finished product is heavy. If you're willing to deal with that, eggless baking is OK. But I've run into some eggless brownies that were pretty gnarly. The cook did something -- I don't know what -- but they were like big, wet rocks.
Eggless baking really isn't that difficult; you just have to follow the recipe carefully. If you do, your product will probably turn out fine.
The first cake I ever made was eggless and it turned out fine. It's called a wacky cake and uses flour, salt, cocoa, sugar and baking soda sifted together into the pan. Then you make three wells in the dry ingredients and put vinegar in one, oil in the second and vanilla in the third. You mix it all up, then pour a cup of warm water over the whole thing, stir a little and then bake it. It sounds strange, but it works pretty well.
I don't do a lot of eggless baking, but what I've done has turned out pretty well.
One of our editors will review your suggestion and make changes if warranted. Note that depending on the number of suggestions we receive, this can take anywhere from a few hours to a few days. Thank you for helping to improve wiseGEEK! | <urn:uuid:2c2ee6aa-506a-484a-8fac-fded9dbd7186> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wisegeek.com/what-are-the-best-tips-for-eggless-baking.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00036-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968063 | 960 | 3.15625 | 3 |
By: Jonca Bull, M.D.
February is American Heart Month. Heart disease remains a significant problem in the United States – it’s the leading cause of death, disproportionately affecting minorities. In particular, minorities have higher rates of hypertension, diabetes, and smoking, which are risk factors that can cause heart disease. This month, we’ll be working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health to help raise awareness.
Our social media platforms will be key to engaging the multicultural population. And they have a proven reach: 65% of Hispanics and 56% of African Americans use social media. In 2014, on average 40% of all cell phone owners used a social media site, with blacks and Hispanics leading the trend at 48% and 49%, respectively.
So, how will FDA’s Office of Minority Health use social media to reach key populations? Here are just a few things we have in store for February:
- Sharing culturally relevant messages for Twitter and Facebook. We want to stimulate dialogue on two key areas: (1) knowing your risk factors and (2) using our resources to help manage them. This month, our outreach will provide information and resources on the following:
- Heart Disease: Who does it affect and what are the risk factors?
- Smoking: Smoking is a risk factor for developing heart disease. FDA has resources to help you quit.
- Healthy Eating and Living: FDA has materials to help consumers make heart healthy decisions (e.g. how to read the food label), manage their risk factors through FDA-approved medications, and tips for preparing healthy meals.
- Working with stakeholders to use social media as an engagement tool. We have developed a social media toolkit to guide stakeholders in communicating with their members. The toolkit will contain drafted social media messages, infographics, and links for consumers on heart disease and risk factor management. Email email@example.com to receive the toolkit.
- Hosting a bilingual Twitter chat with our partner, @SaludToday on Tuesday, Feb. 16th from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m., EST. We’ll chat about risk factors for heart disease and provide tips to lead a heart healthy lifestyle. We hope you can join us and provide your insights on this important topic.
- Spearheading an #ILoveMyHeart social media campaign with our partners @SaludToday and @ABCardio1 asking you to show us how much you love your heart! Participants will upload pictures with the #ILoveMyHeart hashtag describing their heart healthy activities. Be sure to post your picture and tag @FDAOMH!
We know that social media is becoming a valuable health education tool to reach minorities. And, we will continue to use it to engage with our audience. Please follow us and share heart-healthy messages all month.
For more information about FDA’s OMH visit us at: www.fda.gov/minorityhealth
Follow us on Twitter @FDAOMH
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It is the duty of the government and relevant agencies to accommodate and see to the wellbeing of the homeless and the poor, says Barathi Selvam.
If a single person does not have food,
Then, we will destroy this world.
– Mahakavi Bharathiyar (translated)
Walk into the heart of Penang soon after the sun sets, and you’ll be greeted by numerous pubs, cafes, fast food outlets and high-rise buildings, along with hundreds of poor homeless souls, who are reduced to scavenging for food.
Despite the vibrant nightlife all around, the dark shades at the periphery are often ignored; whether by the authorities, the ruling class or most of the public.
It is quite comfortable for many to believe that fate plays a huge role in determining the ‘career’ path of the homeless, who are cruelly labelled by some as lazy social parasites, drug addicts, troublemakers, and possible criminals.
Is fate to be blamed for this dreadful phenomenon which has penetrated deep down in our daily lives?
A year ago, Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor announced a ban on soup kitchens in a section of KL as they were supposedly tarnishing the city’s image. It triggered an uproar from Malaysians, especially netizens, who criticised and condemned the now infamous statement.
Various groups of volunteers commendably spend their time and their own resources to provide foods and toiletries to the homeless. They have been doing this for years.
But many fail to notice that providing meals occasionally will not solve the root cause of homelessness. Thinking beyond their daily needs is more important than anything else.
We have witnessed Ops Qaseh, initiated by Women, Family and Community Development Minister Rohani Abdul Karim, who wanted to turn KL into a city with‘zero’ vagrants and beggars.
The Destitute Persons Act 1977 was used to arrest any homeless people found on the streets and place them in welfare homes under the social welfare department. Those under the care of the department can only move out if they obtain a job that allows them to survive on their own.
But the implementation remains unclear because the numbers of homeless are rising. People sleep all over the city with cardboard as mattresses and garbage bags as pillows.
There are times where these homeless folk are chased away for a specific period, for instance, when there is an official event or visitor, thus obscuring the reality.
A survey by Food Not Bombs, an NGO who are well known for providing food to the homeless, found that poverty and social exclusion play a vital role in perpetuating homelessness.
Some 435,000 Malaysians are presently unemployed, competing with tens of thousands of immigrant workers who are brought in as part of a low-wage policy. There are now plans to import another 10,000 foreign workers into Malaysia – which could make the situation worse.
According to FNB, some of the homeless are actually working but their wages are not enough to rent a room or a house; so they have no choice but to live on the streets.
As the cost of living rises drastically, compounded by the goods and services tax, the state of the nation’s minimum wage is quite sickening and questionable. The minimum wage is RM900 for Peninsular Malaysia and RM800 for Sabah and Sarawak – below what is needed to live with dignity.
The income disparity between the rich and the poor is widening both in the private and the public sector, claim academics from Universiti Malaya who collaborated with Khazanah Research Institute in a paper on income disparity among Malaysians in 2014.
While the Canadians provide camps for the homeless as shelter during scorching or rainy days, Malaysian officials are much more sympathetic by letting them sleep anywhere as long as they are not disrupting anyone.
It is the duty of the government and relevant agencies to accommodate and see to the wellbeing of the homeless and the poor. What if, one day, a group of homeless people decide to occupy any office responsible for the wellbeing of the marginalised communities?
Some might think that the homeless can’t be that brilliant or courageous, but don’t be surprised to find many homeless who are keenly aware of politics; there are even some who talk about Gramsci.
It is not money or food they need most; what they need is change and fair and equal treatment.
Barathi Selvam, an undergraduate student majoring in journalism at a local university, is just a normal teenager enraged with the social injustices he sees around him. He hopes to use writing as a medium to advocate for anyone who is discriminated and oppressed and to empower the marginalised. | <urn:uuid:02a891e8-22e6-410b-b9c4-671b5ff63786> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aliran.com/tag/homelessness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00317-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965672 | 969 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Contrary to predictions, the African Union Development Agency-New Partnership for Africa’s Development, on Thursday, allayed fears that more Nigerians might fall among the number of food insecure people in the world.
The organization said that Nigeria under the present regime of President Muhammadu Buhari was doing well in the area of improved agricultural output.
The National Coordinator and Chief Executive Officer, AUDA-NEPAD (Nigeria), Gloria Akobundu, said these in Abuja during the closing ceremony of a national workshop on the application of Juncao technology and its contribution to the achievement of sustainable agriculture and Sustainable Development Goals in Nigeria.
The event was organized by the AUDA-NEPAD in collaboration with the Division for SDGs of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, as well as the National Engineering Research Centre for Juncao Technology of the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University of China and Nigeria’s Ministry of Agriculture.
News reported that the Federal Government had this week warned that the current increase in the price of food items might plunge more Nigerians into poverty if appropriate measures were not taken.
Also, a report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation in March also predicted that about 19.4 million people would face food insecurity across Nigeria between June and August 2022.
But during an interview with journalists at the event, Akobundu said the prediction did not mean Nigeria was sitting on a time bomb in terms of food sufficiency.
Akobundu said employing the Juncao technology in agriculture would promote Agro Business, enhance nutrition, curb youth restiveness and ensure that more direct and indirect jobs were created.
She said the workshop was part of concerted efforts to support the capacity needs of smallholder farmers in order for them to reap the full benefits of the technology of growing mushrooms. | <urn:uuid:5c334bde-9d4e-4e89-9025-e53ec513417f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bcos.tv/au-allays-fear-of-food-insecurity-in-nigeria/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.964267 | 377 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Masonic Patriots Celebrate Presidents Day
Until 1971, both February 12 and February 22 were observed as federal holidays to honor the birthdays of Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12) and George Washington (Feb. 22). In 1971, President Richard Nixon proclaimed one single federal holiday, President’s Day, honoring all past presidents of the United States of America.
While many Freemasons know about the Masonic affiliation of George Washington, 13 other presidents have also been Masons. These 14 Masonic presidents span the history of the United States and include George Washington, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James Polk, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, James Garfield, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Taft, Warren Harding, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Gerald Ford. February and Presidents Day offers the opportunity for Masons to recognize the contributions of these brothers to their country. On Sunday, February 20, 2011, many area Freemasons recognized that Franklin County was privileged to have the only location in Pennsylvania where a U.S. president was born. These Masons, who are interested in government, gathered at Buchanan’s Birthplace State Park in Cove Gap to honor President James Buchanan, who was also a Brother Master Mason.
The John Tom’s Trading Post located at Larraby’s ( now Cove Gap) marked the end of the wagon road and the beginning of a horse trail to Fort Pitt. James Buchanan, father of the president, purchased the post in 1788 and renamed it Stoney Batter after the Buchanan home in North Ireland. After a wagon road was built across Cove Mountain early in the 19th century, the old trading post was no longer needed. Buchanan then moved the store to Mercersburg. President James Buchanan was born at Stoney Batter on April 23, 1791, and grew up in Mercersburg. He later learned law and graduated from Dickinson College and later became a lawyer in Lancaster. He was a gifted debater and was very formal. On December 11, 1816 James Buchanan was initiated into Freemasonry and was made a Mason in Lodge #43, in Lancaster Pa. He became the master of his lodge in 1822 and was appointed district deputy grand master for the counties of Lancaster, Lebanon and York.
His political career began when he was elected to serve two terms as a PA assemblyman and rose to serve 10 years as a U.S. Congressman and 10 years as a senator and four years as secretary of the State. He then ran for sresident and was inaugurated as the 15th U.S. president in 1857. His tenure as president was fraught with controversy surrounding the issues of states’ rights and slavery. Buchanan retired from the presidency after one term in office and returned to his home in Lancaster, named Wheatland, where he later died on June 1, 1868.
After Buchanan’s death, Harriet Lane Johnston, Buchanan’s niece, made attempts to purchase her uncle’s Stoney Batter homestead and build a monument for her uncle, who she highly respected. But it was not until after her death that the provisions of her will led to the purchase of this 18.5 acre parcel of land. It was purchased from the Shannon heirs in 1906, and the monument was completed in 1907.
Initially, a large boulder was to be placed at Stoney Batter for the monument. Why that did not happen is not really known, but perhaps the difficulty in moving such a large stone made it impractical. Even after an architectural firm in Baltimore designed the monument, it took the building of a small tramway to move the stone from the mountainside to the monument site and crew of 35 men plus mules to build the pyramid we now see. It is 38 feet square and 31 feet high. The inscription tablet, sill, seat and cap are constructed of 50 tons of hammered gray granite. The pyramid structure contains 250 tons of native stone and mortar. All the faces of the stone show the original weathered surface.
The will also read that the grounds were for the enjoyment of the people of Pennsylvania. In the legislative session of 1911, authorization was given for the commonwealth to accept the 18.5 acres of land and monument, placed in the custody of what is known today as the PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and managed as part of the Cowans Gap State Park complex.
The Masons that attended the recent wreath dedication to monument were welcomed by DCNR ranger James Sleighter. Sleighter, who is currently the master of Orrstown Lodge # 262. The ceremony was attended by patriotic Masons from Franklin, Fulton and Cumberland counties who are within the 3rd and 34th PA Masonic districts under the leadership of district deputy grand masters S. Eugene Herritt and Robert C. Snyder II. State and local governmental officials were also in attendance, including 33rd District State Sen. Richard Alloway II, Franklin County Commissioner Robert Thomas, Franklin County President of Township Supervisors Sam Cressler, and Washington Township Supervisor Jeffrey Geesaman. | <urn:uuid:2fb9e84a-4f27-4740-952b-5c17c44de229> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.fultoncountynews.com/news/2011-02-24/Local_(and)_State/Masonic_Patriots_Celebrate_Presidents_Day.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00570-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9768 | 1,027 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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It's been decades since Reagan declared the war on drugs, and a new bill hopes to eliminate all that his presidential era has caused by finally decriminalizing marijuana at a federal level.
There’s some positive momentum in the House this week, with all signs pointing to a future where federally decriminalized marijuana isn’t just some far-fetched fantasy.
Congress is impressively shifting, once again, decades after Reagan declared the war on drugs which only brought more pain and strife to communities throughout the country.
According to The Hill, the House looks just about ready to pass legislation that would remove marijuana from its status as a controlled substance, federally decriminalizing the plant through and through.
Thankfully, the core motivation to introduce and discuss the bill stems from the decades of wrongful sentencing, disproportionately impacted communities, and the constantly-failing outcomes of the war on drugs and the turmoil it’s spread across the nation.
The Hill reports Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), a co-chair of the Congressional Cannabis Caucus, explaining the need for reform, “This Congress represents a sea of change.”
Furthermore, Blumenauer added, “What we have seen is that the majority of people now realize that the war on drugs failed…Drugs are more accessible and cheaper and more potent and dangerous. Nobody won this war, except people who were involved with the drug dealers themselves.”
Most Democratic lawmakers are happily on board with the new bill, alongside Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.). Additional information has yet to be shared from lawmakers regarding the bill’s future and whether it’s expected to be approved.
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Although the MORE Act stipulates that it would only decriminalize marijuana, this is a huge step forward if we ever want to reach federal legalization.
The MORE Act would decriminalize cannabis by removing it from the list of scheduled substances under the Controlled Substances Act. This means that using, possessing, growing, and distributing marijuana would no longer be a crime.
Some other details about the More ACT include the following;
Congress’ stance on marijuana doesn’t stop at federal decriminalization but the other bits and pieces that would make the cannabis industry a safer, more equitable place.
More recently, reports say the Senate passed a bill last week to allow further in-depth scientific research on medical marijuana, its many cannabinoids, especially the anxiety and pain-relieving compound cannabidiol (CBD).
A couple of House votes throughout 2021 shed light on the dangers of operating such a profitable industry on a cash basis. According to The Hill, these measures were designed to allow cannabis businesses to utilize traditional banking services and credit cards, reducing the risk of break-ins.
Finally, cannabis arrests aren’t the only criminal convictions on Congress’ minds. Last fall, the House passed a bill to remove federal disparity in prison sentences for individuals charged with crack or cocaine offenses.
The Hill reports that the bill was likely to pass, considering it saw support from major law enforcement organizations like the Major Cities Chiefs Association and conservative groups like Americans for Prosperity and FreedomWorks. | <urn:uuid:89d45433-00c7-4bb7-863e-04d530332764> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://herb.co/news/legalization/bill-to-federally-legalize-marijuana-is-expected-to-pass/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.942606 | 671 | 1.703125 | 2 |
What follows is a press release issued late Tuesday evening by Protect the Adirondacks!, who along with the Sierra Club and three local private landowners, have sued to stop the Adirondack Club and Resort in Tupper Lake. You can read all of the Almanack’s stories about the project here.
ALBANY–The grassroots environmental group Protect the Adirondacks!, the Sierra Club, and three nearby landowners today sued the Adirondack Park Agency, the Department of Environmental Conservation, and the developer proposing the 700+ unit “Adirondack Club and Resort” mountainside project in the Town of Tupper Lake, Franklin County, which was approved by the Agency on January 20. The suit, filed in the Supreme Court in Albany County, and expected to be transferred by that court to the Appellate Division, Third Department, is returnable on May 11.
“When Governor Rockefeller signed the law creating the APA, he is said to have proclaimed ‘The Adirondacks are saved forever’,” said Bob Glennon of PROTECT!, a former Counsel and Executive Director of the Agency who is assisting in the lawsuit. “He was tragically wrong. It is now up to Governor Cuomo, who has often visited the Adirondacks with his family, and who has proven he can get things done in Albany, to give the agency charged with preserving the largest natural area east of the Mississippi for 19 million New Yorkers and future generations, a badly-needed backbone implant.”
“In the last few years APA has become a rogue agency that ignores the law for political ends” said John Caffry of PROTECT!, the lead attorney in the case. “Its rubber-stamp approval of this project, the largest ever to come before it, is only the latest example of this unfortunate trend.”
“For years, the Adirondack Park Agency has failed to adequately protect land classified as ‘Resource Management’ under the APA Act,” stated Roger Downs, Conservation Director of the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter. “The Act created this land classification category for the purpose of preserving open land by protecting agricultural and timber management lands in the Adirondack Park, not for multi-million dollar McMansions. It is past the time for the APA to stop cutting corners with its existing laws and regulations and to act to protect New York’s great wilderness legacy.”
“Born and raised in New York State, I have always loved the Adirondacks,” said Dr. Phyllis Thompson, an adjoining landowner and a co-petitioner in the case. “It saddens me, it angers me, to see that the APA statutes have not been enforced.”
On January 20, following 19 days of hearings and four years of fruitless and sporadic “mediation sessions” and other delays by the developer, Preserve Associates, LLC, the Agency voted 10-1 to approve the 6,235-acre ACR project, comprised of 206 single family dwellings, 453 units in 125 multifamily dwellings, a 60-room inn with a restaurant, a ski lodge and a ski services building, a gym and recreation center, a spa/health club, an amphitheater, a clubhouse, an equestrian center, a marina, a 280,000-gallon water storage tank, 15 miles of electric transmission lines, a sewage pump station, a community wastewater treatment plant and collection system, 10 miles of roads to be dedicated, and 5+ miles of private roads.
While much of the intensive development is proposed for lands classified “Moderate Intensity Use,” where the law intends for it take place, of major concern to PROTECT! and the Sierra Club, is the proposed fragmentation of 4,805 acres of undeveloped forest lands classified “Resource Management” by the Adirondack Park Agency Act, into 35 “Great Camp” lots and 45 other smaller lots. Resource management lands are described in the APA Act as those “where the need to protect, manage and enhance forest, agricultural, recreational and open space resources is of paramount importance because of overriding natural resource and public considerations,” mentioning, among other development constraints, shallow soils, severe slopes, wetlands, critical wildlife habitats and habitats of rare and endangered plant and animal species. Their “basic purposes and objectives” are “to protect the delicate physical and biological resources, encourage proper and economic management of forest, agricultural and recreational resources and preserve the open spaces that are essential and basic to the unique character of the park.”
PROTECT!, the Sierra Club and the co-petitioners charge that the APA violated the above components of its legal mandate. For example, despite having formally asked the developer to prepare a four-season, comprehensive wildlife study no less than four times, the Agency approved the fragmentation of the undeveloped forest lands without ever having received it. Even more puzzling is the Agency’s approval of the project on the condition that more studies of impacts to wildlife would be done after that approval, rather than beforehand.
None of the “Great Camp” lots or the 45 other lots in the Resource Management lands are sited, as the statute calls for, “in small clusters on carefully-selected and well designed sites.”
The developer plans, and the Agency approved, without having DEC’s views as to its legality, a valet boat launching service, trailering lot owners’ boats to a DEC-operated boat launching site on Tupper Lake, monopolizing a public facility with their sheer numbers and engaging in a commercial use thereon, in violation of several State regulations and the “forever wild” clause of the State Constitution.
The initial road, sewer, water and electric infrastructure for the project is proposed to be financed by $36 million in bonds to be issued by the Franklin County Industrial Development Agency, which PROTECT! and the Sierra Club claim is illegal. The IDA’s own bond counsel has also questioned the novel scheme.
The suit also alleges the APA violated its own regulations in numerous respects, including allowing illegal “ex parte” contacts (contacts not on notice to the other parties to the proceeding) between the developer’s representatives and APA’s executive staff.
In upholding the Adirondack Park Agency Act against a “home rule” attack in 1977, the Chief Judge, writing for a unanimous Court of Appeals, said:
“Preserving the priceless Adirondack Park through a comprehensive land use and development plan is most decidedly a substantial State concern, as it is most decidedly not merely 119 separate local concerns…All but conclusive of this aspect of the issue is the constitutional and legislative history stretching over 80 years to preserve the Adirondack Area from despoliation, exploitation, and destruction by a contemporary generation in disregard of the generations to come.
“In the face of increasing threats to and concern with the environment, it is no longer true, if it ever was, that the preservation and development of the vast Adirondack spaces, with their unique abundance of natural resources–land, timber, wildlife, and water–should not be of the greatest moment to all people of the State. These too relate to life, health and the quality of life.”
Caffry, Downs and Glennon will hold a press briefing at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 22 in the Legislative Correspondents’ Association room in the Legislative Office Building in Albany.
PROTECT! is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization. Donations in support of the lawsuit will be most appreciated. Checks may be made out to “Protect the Adirondacks” with “Adirondack Legal Defense Fund” in the memo line and mailed to PROTECT, Box 4124, Schenectady, NY 12304. PROTECT!’s website is www.protectadks.org. | <urn:uuid:fc8bf63f-f87c-48e0-b0a1-fcf34cd9ba2a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2012/03/breaking-tupper-lake-resort-approval-headed-to-courtprotect-sierra-club-local-landowners-sue-apa-over-resort.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00056-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943107 | 1,687 | 1.726563 | 2 |
When Kids Fight
Parents often feel frustrated, angry and helpless when kids fight. Most parents want siblings to get along with each other and do not want them using violence of any kind against each other. While they don't want their children to hurt each other, they also don't want to solve their conflicts all the time. Here are some guidelines for when kids fight.
- Do not allow children to hurt each other with words, deeds or hands. Be firm about the "no hurting" rule.
- Don't compare kids. Comparisons make kids feel as if they are competing for your approval and attention, and competition can lead to more fights.
- Ignore arguments and verbal conflicts. If you interfere in children's conflicts too quickly and too often, kids never learn to solve their own problems.
- Don't try to find out how a fight started or who started it. This usually forces them to blame each other or lie, and really doesn't help to solve the problem.
- Don't take sides -- you are likely to increase jealousy and hostility. Stay neutral and help them talk to each other.
- Let combatants cool down before trying to solve the problem. If necessary, separate them for a few minutes.
- Let kids express their feelings ("I hate my brother," "I feel like bashing him, " "I wish he was never born.") These feelings are normal and won't go away simply because you say you don't want to hear them. Let kids know their feelings are OK ("I can tell you are really angry with him") but hitting someone is not OK.
- Give kids permission to do something to get their angry feelings out in ways that will not harm anyone, like hitting a pillow, swinging a stick at an old tire in the yard, etc. Many parents may not want their children to express angry feelings in any violent way. Their children can draw a picture or write a letter to express their anger.
- When kids are hitting each other, you can say, "We do not hit. I will give you one minute to solve the problem without hitting," or "You have a choice. You can stop fighting and keep playing the game or you can put the game away until you are ready to play without fighting." If this does not work, or if the fighting starts again, say "I can see you're still not ready." Take the game away saying, "Perhaps you will be ready later." When they ask for the game back you may say, "I am glad you are ready to play together now."
- Set a good example. Don't hit your children or anyone else when you are angry.
- Praise kids and hug them when they cooperate with each other. Show appreciation when they solve their own problems.
Source: National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse. Parent Pages was developed by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County. HD 69
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When most of us think about strikes, we imagine hordes of autoworkers or coal miners on the picket line, protesting exploitation by venial mega-corporations. Think: the Smurfs versus Gargamel. But last week saw a new, trees-and-flowers kind of labor struggle: The Sierra Club threatened to go on strike.
If this sounds less than proletarian—biomass struggle, anyone?—so be it. But the truth is, organized labor and environmental groups have forged close ties in recent years, sharing a common desire to protect workers, the public, and the planet. Dubbed the “blue-green alliance,” the partnership also aims to help jump-start a new green economy filled with eco-friendly jobs that fight global warming instead of fostering it.
Against this backdrop, the Sierra Club in 1991 formed the John Muir Local 100, representing about 150 non-management community organizers and other staffers nationwide. Things have gone swimmingly until this year, when the union leadership, despite its warm relationship with management, wasn’t getting what it wanted in contract negotiations—including a 4 percent annual raise for workers and the retention of their current health benefits. The national office authorized a one-day strike for March 13.
“We utilized the strike because we seemed to be deadlocked with management,” says Local 100 President Cammy Watkins.
The striking enviros, just like the trees standing by the water in the song of yore, were prepared to go on picket lines in front of Sierra Club offices nationwide, including the one at 210 N. Higgins Ave. With nary a headline or tense stand-off with scabs and police, however, the crisis was averted. “We’re very pleased,” says Bob Clark, president of the Sierra Club’s Missoula Chapter and a John Muir Local 100 member. “My highest hope was to avoid the strike and get back to our work.”
Hardened union veterans might wonder how the small, soft-spoken union scared management so quickly, without sending even one picketer to the sidewalks. The answer, clubbers say, is that Sierra Club management cares a lot about organized labor. “The Sierra Club is doing a lot of work and outreach with unions on a national level,” says Watkins. “So many times the very polluters we’re fighting—coal, timber, and steel companies, for example—are the same companies who aren’t treating their workers well. It was really important for management to show their support for good jobs and green jobs within their own organization.” | <urn:uuid:54e69dcf-ac78-4a9c-b834-5a2a49ea8d77> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://missoulanews.bigskypress.com/missoula/etc/Content?oid=1139320 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00528-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954237 | 551 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Summers in the Indian subcontinent are nothing but a pain. As the temperatures begin to rise the feeling of fatigue, dehydration and being messed up is commonplace and makes it even more difficult to survive the summers. However, staying hydrated is the only way to keep going in the crazy heat and not feel drained. We think a refreshing and healthy drink will do the job perfectly, what say? If you want to know about summer healthy drinks that you can have on a hot summer afternoon without worrying about calories then we have some great options for you.
Summer Drinks You Can Indulge In Without Any Guilt
When talking about healthy drinks in summer then /kiwi Mojito is the best one to start with. Rich in antioxidants, vitamins and fiber, this drink is low in calories that should be your go-to during summers.
- 7-8 kiwis cut into quarters
- 1-2 limes
- ¼ cup sugar or sugar syrup
- Mint leaves
- Sparkling water
- 3 sliced kiwis
- Put the peeled kiwi in a blender and add the sugar syrup or sugar and lime juice. Blend it till it becomes like a smooth paste.
- Now add the mint leaves, ice cubes and the sliced kiwi into the mix.
- Add sparkling water and stir.
- Taste and if done, it’s ready to serve.
One of the most summer season healthy drinks is a strawberry cooler. Strawberry tastes like a fresh breeze and when mixed with lemons and mint it truly tastes like heaven.
- 3 cups sliced strawberries
- 2 cups water
- ⅕ cup of lemon juice
- ¼ cup of sugar or sugar syrup
- Crushed ice
- Add the strawberries, water, lemon juice and sugar or sugar syrup to the blender and blend it until it becomes smooth.
- And you are done!
- Serve chilled and if you want you can garnish with strawberries.
No, not the ones you get at ice cream parlors but ones that you can prepare at home. Homemade mango shake is a summer healthy drink that is definitely going to refresh you. Mangoes are loaded with nutrients like Vitamin A, D, C and iron so this drink will definitely add nutritive value to your diet.
- 1 cup chopped mango
- 1 cup cold milk
- 2 tsp sugar
- 10-15 cashews and almonds
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tsp sliced nuts for garnishing
- Add the mango, milk, sugar, cashews and almonds, and vanilla extract to a blender and blend until you get a smooth puree.
- Now pour it in a glass and garnish with sliced nuts.
- Serve cold.
When talking about healthy drinks in summer how can we miss out on the best summer fruit there is? Yes, we are talking about watermelon. A fruit that has upto 92% water content is a great choice to keep yourself hydrated and a watermelon slushie is a brilliant way to do so.
- 5 cups of frozen watermelon cubes
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
- 1 large lemon’s juice
- Fresh mint leaves
- 1 cup filtered water
- Add the watermelon cubes, maple syrup, lemon juice, mint leaves and water in a blender and blend.
- Now add a few ice cubes and blend again until you get the consistency you would like in your slushie.
- Garnish with fresh mint leaves and serve chilled.
So, these are some of the summer healthy drinks that you should have on a hot day to refresh yourself. If you would like to know how to include them in your diet plan to stay hydrated and avail all the health benefits you can get out of these then you can get in touch with our certified nutritionists with FITFEAST and learn about the same. You can have a conversation with a nutritionist, clear your diet-related queries and get a personalized diet plan to include more fruits in your diet. Activate FITFEAST by FITPASS to stay hydrated and energized this summer and include these summer drinks in your diet. | <urn:uuid:fb7aca63-4a33-4633-9b3c-7c65c03b497f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthylife.health/beat-the-heat-with-these-refreshing-summer-healthy-drinks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.914181 | 903 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Appropriations July 29 Update
On Thursday, July 29, 2010, the Senate Appropriations Committee approved a $732 billion fiscal 2011 spending bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. The draft bill would provide $169.6 billion in discretionary funding - a $5.9 billion, or 4 percent, increase from the level for the current fiscal year, but $986 million less than President Obama requested. The bill also includes $562.3 billion in mandatory spending.
BIAA's appropriations advocacy efforts in the midst of Brain Injury Awareness Month campaigns and the final health care reform vote paid off with proposed increases in both Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Act programs and the Department of Education's National Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR), which houses the TBI Model Systems of Care program.
The Senate Committee included $9,939,000 million, comparable to $9,918,000 million in FY2010, to continue programs authorized by the TBI Act including public awareness and education efforts, state grants, studies on incidence and prevalence, and protection and advocacy.
With regards to NIDRR, the committee recommended $111,919,000 million, comparable to $109,241,000 million in FY2010, for research, demonstration projects and related activities. The committee specified that resources should focus on "statutory research priorities to ensure the advancement of economic and social self-sufficiency and full community inclusion and participation. Future Rehabilitation Research Training Centers' priorities should advance knowledge of effective strategies to reduce the impact of poverty, promote affordable housing and independent living with improved access to long-term supports, and facilitate greater individual choice and control of individualized plans under the Rehabilitation and Social Security Laws."
The Committee also detailed the need to "facilitate the development and implementation of a comprehensive Government-wide long-term strategic plan for disability and rehabilitation research by the spring of 2011. The strategic plan should reflect the active involvement of disability senior policy advisors, program directors and other staff from NIDRR and the Department of Health and Human Services, in partnership with stakeholders conducting disability and rehabilitation research." BIAA has advocated as a part of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Coalition (DRRC) for these specifications and is encouraged by their inclusion.
It is important to note that with the increased federal deficit largely due to stimulus spending, this appropriations cycle has been extremely tight and sometimes uncertain. Lawmakers have been forced to cut programs and lower funding levels, making BIAA's advocacy, including grassroots activity, vital to achieving these proposed increases found in the Senate committee report. The House has yet to unveil their Appropriations Committee report, but BIAA will continue to monitor the situation and will call on grassroots advocates if action becomes necessary. | <urn:uuid:af828d98-d691-4856-8165-f8e440f047f8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scarlettlawgroup.com/blog/2010/july/appropriations-july-29-update/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00314-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94357 | 567 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Keywords: consumer behaviour, ecological economics, evolutionary psychology, industrial ecology, profit
The Unfinished Symphony: an evolutionary perspective on the conception of sustainable development
The "biophysical" critique of conventional development highlights the failure of economics to ground itself sufficiently in physical and biological realities. This paper discusses two specific aspects of modern economic systems (the profit motive and consumer behaviour), which are at best ambivalent and at worst appear actively to hinder sustainable development. Crucially, however, and in contrast to the biophysical critique, these features of the prevailing economic system find (or at least seek) a part of their justification in biological metaphors. In fact, the paper argues that there are significant metaphysical overlaps between several of the intellectual disciplines relevant to our understanding of sustainable development physics, economics, biology and psychology. Ironically, if the common scientific worldview defined by these overlaps is accepted, the prospects for achieving sustainability appear vanishingly small. On the other hand, the cultural relativity of our intellectual constructs offers some hope for revisioning the future. | <urn:uuid:1641e820-e91b-48e5-9c9c-f27b91483d43> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.environmental-expert.com/articles/the-unfinished-symphony-an-evolutionary-perspective-on-the-conception-of-sustainable-development-85311 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00190-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917957 | 207 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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Minerva Chirurgica 2005 August;60(4):205-16
Palliative care in advanced cancer
Amadori D., Tassinari D., Maltoni M.
Palliative care represents a new field among clinical approaches to patients with advanced or terminal cancer. The modern concept of palliative care can be considered in several ways: 1) the relationship between palliative care and primary treatments of cancer (surgery, radiotherapy or chemotherapy); 2) the treatment of symptoms and the relationship between symptom control and quality of life; 3) end-of-life care. With regard to the relationship between palliative care and primary cancer treatments, it is common opinion that a continuity of care is needed from diagnosis to the terminal phase of the disease, and oncology departments could represent the ideal dimension in which to fulfil this requirement. In a continuity-of-care setting, symptom control becomes vitally important to improve quality of life of the patient throughout all the stages of the disease. Moreover, support for the patient and his/her family during the terminal phase of the disease is one of the most important dimensions of palliative care. In addition, assistance provided during the last hours of life and support for the family after the patient's death represent the so-called global assistance, which is distinctive of palliative care. | <urn:uuid:4600b979-d0f1-4903-84e9-ad4fe2f67f19> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.minervamedica.it/en/journals/minerva-chirurgica/article.php?cod=R06Y2005N04A0205 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00309-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.914583 | 330 | 1.734375 | 2 |
So what’s the big deal with 1969 Chevrolet Camaro built by Mark Stielow known as Tri-Tip? It’s widely recognized as the first Pro-Touring car, that’s what. Of course, that just raises more questions, like what makes a Pro-Touring car and why Stielow’s car was different than anything that came before it. For some explanation, we’ve got a trio of videos from the people who where there on the scene.
First, our Terry McGean chats with Cole Quinnell. Cole was a staff editor at Hot Rod back when Stielow started racing the Tri-Tip, and was one of the first people to cover the car. He even liked the car so much that he called Stielow for advice on his own build.
As Quinnell explains in the video below, “Up to that point we had a lot of Pro Street cars…but most of the time a muscle car was for drag racing. You had some people who made them into road racers or things like that, but not a really good combination of a street car that could truly be driven all the time, looked really good, still embodied what a muscle car should be, and turned corners really well, and stopped really well.”
Next up, Jeff Smith of Car Craft. Stielow won the Real Street Eliminator Challenge in 1993, and Smith was there to see it happen. “This was the prototype piece, that got it all started.” Of course, a car like this wasn’t called Pro-Touring. Watch the video to find out where that name came from.
And finally Terry has a chat with Kyle Tucker of Detroit Speed. Today, Detroit Speed is famous for suspension parts that make it easy to turn a muscle car into a corner carver. Back in 1993, however, Tucker was a college student renting a room in Stielow’s basement and working at General Motors on a co-op. Not only did he help Stielow put the car together, he was also the co-driver on the 1993 One Lap of America campaign and was behind the wheel when a high pressure fuel line burst and set the back of the Camaro on fire.
If you’ve been following our coverage of the Tri-Tip, you know that it’s for sale on Hemmings Auctions with no reserve and ending on November 13. Check out the auction listing for more information and to sign up to bid, before someone else takes it home. | <urn:uuid:17de0624-6d08-40c2-ad61-0015aae3616b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chromjuwelen.com/de/network/228-blog-hemmings/213727-video-the-first-pro-touring-car-from-the-people-who-were-there-when-it-happened | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.981142 | 531 | 1.617188 | 2 |
§ From William Rogers
30 April 1811, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “Being in London in 1797 I entere’d into the Brittish Military Service in a Battalion of Infantry, and obtained some promotion therein during Ten Years Service. In 1807 I was induced to retire and come to my Friends at Philadelphia, and I now keep a Store in Harrisburgh, Pennsylvania.” On the basis of his familiarity with military discipline “and the Regulations in Camps, Garrisons, and Quarters, also on board Ships,” requests employment “in the Military Academy, Disciplining the Militia, or in the Military Establishment in any part.” Wrote twice during the last session of Congress, giving Mr. Leib and Mr. Seybert as referees, but the letters were not answered, presumably because they were mistakenly addressed to Henry Dearborn.
RC (DNA: RG 94, Letters Received, filed under “Rogers”). 2 pp. Docketed as received 6 May 1811. | <urn:uuid:f5564292-9704-429b-bd57-e06e4ef80f1f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/03-03-02-0345 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00230-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976544 | 215 | 1.710938 | 2 |
By Dr. Mercola
You sprinkle it on your cereal. Add it to your morning cup of coffee. Lovingly bake it into your children's birthday cakes...
And then, of course, it's a key part of some of our most favorite "treats" and comfort foods -- cookies, candy, soda pop, ice cream, all those "yummy" foods meant to be reserved for a special indulgence -- but which many consume on a daily basis.
Then it's hidden in most processed foods—from bologna to pretzels to Worcestershire sauce to cheese spread.
Even most infant formulas contain it.
I'm talking about sugar, of course, and to put it all into perspective, based on USDA estimates the average American consumes 12 teaspoons of sugar a day, which equates to about TWO TONS of sugar during a lifetime.
Why we eat this much sugar is not difficult to understand -- it tastes good, and it gives us pleasure by triggering an innate process in your brain via dopamine and opioid signals.
What it is doing to us on both a physical and emotional level is another story entirely, and when you delve beneath the surface even slightly you'll begin to see that eating sugar may not only be making you unhealthy but also unhappy.
If You Eat Sugar, There's a Good Chance You're Addicted to It
When you eat sugar it triggers production of your brain's natural opioids -- a key ingredient in the addiction process. Your brain essentially becomes addicted to stimulating the release of its own opioids as it would to morphine or heroin.
As written by Dr. Robert Lustig, professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, in The Atlantic:
"... the war on drugs has taken a back seat, but not because it has been won. Rather, because a different war has cluttered the headlines -- the war on obesity. And a substance even more insidious, I would argue, has supplanted cocaine and heroin. The object of our current affliction is sugar. Who could have imagined that something so innocent, so delicious, so irresistible -- just one glucose molecule (not so sweet) plus one fructose molecule (very sweet) -- could propel America toward economic deterioration and medical collapse?"
Researchers have speculated that the sweet receptors (two protein receptors located on your tongue), which evolved in ancestral times when the diet was very low in sugar, have not adapted to the seemingly unlimited access to a cheap and omnipresent sugar supply in the modern diet. Therefore, the abnormally high stimulation of these receptors by our sugar-rich diets generates excessive reward signals in your brain, which have the potential to override normal self-control mechanisms, thus leading to addiction.
Dr. Lustig continues:
"The brain's pleasure center, called the nucleus accumbens, is essential for our survival as a species... Turn off pleasure, and you turn off the will to live... But long-term stimulation of the pleasure center drives the process of addiction... When you consume any substance of abuse, including sugar, the nucleus accumbens receives a dopamine signal, from which you experience pleasure. And so you consume more. The problem is that with prolonged exposure, the signal attenuates, gets weaker. So you have to consume more to get the same effect -- tolerance.
And if you pull back on the substance, you go into withdrawal. Tolerance and withdrawal constitute addiction. And make no mistake, sugar is addictive."
Like many types of addictions, sugar addiction can in fact be deadly. Evidence is mounting that sugar is a primary contributing factor causing not only obesity and diabetes, but other chronic and lethal diseases. There's really no doubt anymore that sugar is indeed toxic to your body, and it's only a matter of time before it will be commonly accepted as a causative factor in most cancer, in the same way that now we accept without question that smoking and alcohol abuse are direct causes of lung cancer and cirrhosis of the liver, respectively.
Sugar's Pleasurable Effect is Only Fleeting…
Sugar may taste good in the moment it is consumed, but its cumulative impact on your health may leave a bad taste in your mouth…
Of all the molecules capable of inflicting damage in your body, sugar molecules are probably the most damaging. Fructose, in particular, is an extremely potent pro-inflammatory agent that creates harmful advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and speeds up the aging process. It also promotes the kind of dangerous growth of fat cells around your vital organs (visceral fat) that are the hallmark of diabetes and heart disease. Sugar/fructose also increases your insulin and leptin levels and decrease the receptor sensitivity for both of these vital hormones, and these hormonal abnormalities are a major factor in premature aging and age-related chronic degenerative diseases such as heart disease.
Keep in mind that while it's perfectly normal for your blood sugar levels to rise slightly after every meal, it is not natural or healthy when your blood sugar levels become excessively elevated and stay that way -- which is exactly what will happen if you're eating like the typical American, who consumes a staggering 2.5 pounds of sugar a week on average!
And when you add in other low-quality carbohydrate-rich foods such as white bread, sugar, pasta, pastries, cookies, and candy, which also break down to sugar (starch is broken down into glucose) in your body and often contain added sugar as well, it's not so difficult to see why so many Americans are in such poor health.
This high-sugar (high-carb) diet is what's driving the obesity epidemic—not diets high in fat, as is commonly assumed. An infographic created by Column Five for Massive Health, based on Why We Get Fat by science writer Gary Taubes, explains why. In short, carbs, like fructose and other sugars, destroy your insulin and leptin sensitivity, which in turn cause your cells to accumulate more fat, and makes it more difficult to get rid of the extra weight as well.
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Eating Sugar Really is an "Unhappy Pleasure"
Dr. Lustig was spot on when he called sugar "the most unhappy of pleasures." Because if eating sugar leads to poor health, and poor health ultimately leads to unhappiness, where will those few short-lived moments of artificial pleasure get you? They won't get you happiness, that's for sure. But they will perpetuate the addiction cycle, making you crave more and more sugar, and ultimately (and ironically) speed your journey to potential misery.
So what can you do about all of this? Stop eating sugar, for one. Dr. Lustig writes:
"As we have spent the last 30 years pursuing sugar for pleasure, we have become most decidedly unhappy. Our society has lost sight of the difference. Coca-Cola's most recent marketing tagline is "Open Happiness." Couldn't be further from the truth. As our obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, cancer, and dementia rates continue to skyrocket due to our sugar over-consumption, the idea that a bottle of Coke holds the key to happiness is nothing short of pulp propaganda."
How to Kick Your Sugar Cravings
I realize that, due to its addictive nature, cutting down can be a real challenge for some, especially if you're consuming very high amounts. If you're struggling with sugar addiction, I highly recommend trying an energy psychology technique called Turbo Tapping, which has helped many "soda addicts" kick their sweet habit, and it should work for any type of sweet craving you may have. A couple of other tricks to try to kick your sugar cravings:
- Exercise: Anyone who exercises intensely on a regular basis will know that significant amounts of cardiovascular exercise is one of the best "cures" for food cravings. It always amazes me how my appetite, especially for sweets, dramatically decreases after a good workout. I believe the mechanism is related to the dramatic reduction in insulin levels that occurs after exercise.
- Organic, black coffee: Coffee is a potent opioid receptor antagonist, and contains compounds such as cafestrol -- found plentifully in both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee -- which can bind to your opioid receptors, occupy them and essentially block your addiction to other opioid-releasing foods.1,2 This may profoundly reduce the addictive power of other substances, such as sugar.
Remember that in order to minimize your sugar intake, you need to avoid most processed foods, as most contain added sugar. Even savory foods like salad dressing, soup, and bread often contain sugar. For optimal health, eat natural whole foods primarily, and limit your fructose consumption to below 25 grams per day.
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