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Spring has sprung here in Connecticut! After a frosty March, April has finally brought some warmer temperatures to the area. This means more time outdoors!
Have you started a bunny garden yet? If not, now’s the perfect time to get some veggies growing! So far, we’ve planted a couple different types of romaine and greenleaf lettuces, bok choy, and Paris market carrots. I also have a plan to plant some oregano and some mint in a raised bed and let them battle it out. If you’re new to gardening, read our tips to starting your own bunny garden. It’s not too difficult to grow a few basics for your rabbits – especially if you include dandelions as one of your crops!
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A controversy over brainstorming has been brewing for decades.
Brainstorming was popularized by an advertising executive, Alex Osborn, back in the 1940s. Believed to be responsible for the creative output of his firm, brainstorming spread quickly.
However, brainstorming has come under frequent criticism. The most notable was this Jonah Lehrer article in The New Yorker that claimed brainstorming doesn't work. To make his case, Lehrer describes study after study that found individuals generate more ideas on their own than in groups.
Lehrer isn't wrong. The research is on his side.
Leigh Thompson, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, summarized much of the research on brainstorming. She concluded that individuals are better at divergent thinking--thinking broadly to generate a diverse set of ideas--whereas groups are better at convergent thinking--selecting which ideas are worth pursuing.
Most studies find that a number of individuals working on their own will generate more diverse ideas than the same number participating in a brainstorming session.
The challenges with brainstorming arise from our behavior in groups. We tend to conform to the will of the group, reducing our creative output. We suffer from social loafing, where we assume that others in the group will contribute, so we don't work as hard as we would if we were on our own. Group behavior tends to devolve to that of the lowest performing member.
And finally, ideas collide. We've all had the experience where you were just about to say something when someone else jumps in, and you quickly lose your idea. This doesn't happen when we work alone.
So why do creative firms continue to tout the benefits of brainstorming?
There are two primary arguments. The first is that brainstorming is a skill that needs to be developed. Proponents of this position argue that companies should bring in facilitators to support brainstorming sessions.
This argument has merit. The research does show that facilitated brainstorming groups do match the performance of individuals working on their own. But most companies don't have access to trained facilitators, and it's hard to justify the cost of bringing one in since companies can get the same outcome by having people generate ideas individually.
The second argument is that the collaborative benefits of brainstorming outweigh the loss in creative output. This might be true. Brainstorming does bring people together. It helps people feel like they are a part of the process.
This is particularly important in creative firms, where there are tremendous benefits to including the client in the creative process. If the client feels like part of an innovative process, it may be happier with the results.
But do we have to trade off collaboration for creative output?
Fortunately, the answer is no.
Thompson makes several recommendations on how to improve brainstorming. The simplest is to do brainwriting. Here's how it works:
- Have each participant write his or her ideas down silently.
- After ideas have been captured, share ideas in a round-robin fashion.
- Do multiple sessions of writing, followed by sharing, so that people have a chance to build on one another's ideas.
Making this simple change addresses many of the challenges with creative output that arise during group brainstorming sessions while still keeping the collaborative benefits.
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The Maniwa Supercar - Stylish, Powerful, and Made of Wood
In brief: This Japanese car is street legal and is made almost entirely of wood.
Vehicle in the news
The entire car, from the frame to the seats, is made of wood. Right down to the wooden hubcaps.
The steering column is made up from a Honda scooter (no word on which model) and the 175cc engine powers the vehicle up to 80km/h (about 35mph, or neighborhood electric street-legal in Japan). The Maniwa seats three: a driver and two passengers.
It's a three wheeled car and the video below shows the design iterations the designer/builder, Sada-kimbi (a furniture maker), went through before perfecting it - based roughly on his favorite Lamborghini.
A smaller, pedal-powered version is available for children while the full-sized machine sells for $44,000USD.
Here's video of the Maniwa in action (Japanese language):
And so ...
How can you go wrong with killer styling like this? The faux solar panels under the front windscreen don't hurt either.
Photo credits: Sada-kembi
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The Club of Rome at 40 – 27th June 2008
November 4, 2008
One of the organizations that helped trigger the post-war environment movement – The Club of Rome – has turned 40. I was in Rome last week for the commemorative activities. I have been a member since the early 1990s and I always return from the annual meetings full of new ideas about how the world is changing.
The Club grew out of initiatives from two people who found themselves speaking on the same issue on different platforms – what the high rate of economic growth was doing to the environment.
Aurelio Peccei was a leading Italian industrialist and wartime hero who opposed the fascist dictatorship. When the US began rebuilding Italy after the war, his military record and management skills made him highly suitable to run Fiat and then Olivetti. He was born exactly 100 years ago next week (on July 4).
The other co-founder was Alexander King, a British civil servant who specialized in mobilizing science for government and civilian activities. He too had had a colourful wartime career: in the corridors of power. After serving the British Government on science policy, he went Paris to work at the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the club of rich western countries.
One of Peccei’s speeches caught the attention of Dean Rusk, then the Secretary of State in the Johnson Administration in the USA. He had the speech circulated because this was a new issue for him (and for many others). Eventually King got to see the speech and they met up.
Their message was an unpopular one. Countries were grateful to have recovered from the war and (assuming they could avoid a World War III with the Soviet Union), life would just continue to become materially better and better. And then in mid-1960s these two people started warning about the damage to the environment. We now know they were right – but this is not what people wanted to hear four decades ago.
Peccei and King commissioned a computer study to see what the trends were suggesting. The computer modelling was very primitive by our standards today. But the resulting book – “Limits to Growth” – became the biggest selling environment book in world history (about 30 million copies in 30 languages).
The book suggested that the planet would be in trouble by about 2040.
This was a very controversial warning – and The Club remains suspect in some areas to this day. Right-wingers argue that the “market” will solve environmental resource problems, while the communists argued that Karl Marx had said that all problems can be solved by new technology – and so (depending on where you were on the political spectrum) there was no need to worry. Ignore the alarmists like The Club of Rome because all will be well. Ironically their attacks helped publicise the book and foster sales!
The third (and current) edition still talks about 2040. Some people did listen to the warnings in the first (January 1972) edition and so some improvements have been made (eg the tabling of environmental legislation and the creation of departments of the environment). But the first edition did not foresee the dramatic rise of China and India in the past three decades.
When I was in Rome last week the media’s main concerns were the looming global food shortage and the increased price of petrol. It seemed that Peccei and King were right in their warnings.
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The Life of Jesus Christ - Chapter 7 - Jesus visits Jerusalem - Part 7
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An online Bible Study course by Barrie Wetherill about the life of Jesus. This book is in EasyEnglish Level B. Use the links below for other online Bible Study books and commentaries that will help you. Or go to the Word List, which explains words with a *star.
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There are many lessons that we can learn from this *miracle.
This man was desperate. He did not know what to do. He could not help himself. Nobody had ever cured a man that was blind from birth. The man knew that he could not help himself.
This is a picture of what people are like today. They are desperate. Their lives are out of control. Strong desires guide them, not wise thoughts. They want things, but they do not know how to get these things. They are selfish. Nobody knows how to cure this, except Jesus. He alone can cure a person's *spirit. There is one way to God, and there is no other way. ‘I am the way’, Jesus said.
In the world today, people live as if they are in darkness. Strong desires direct their lives. We cannot deny this today. People are desperate. THIS man knew that he was desperate! That is the first thing that we all must do. We must understand what our real problem is. Our real problem is *sin. So, we need God to forgive us.
The man blind from birth could not see where he was going.
When the Jews were going through the desert, they would have wandered about in any direction. But God guided them by a column of fire.
People today are like this. There is no meaning and no purpose to their lives. But we must trust Jesus. Only Jesus can give us purpose. Just as God guided Moses and the Jews through the desert, so Jesus can guide us continuously. He will do this until we die. And then he will take us to *heaven.
The man met Jesus, and Jesus could cure him. But Jesus did not just say something. He did not just touch the man’s eyes and cure him. The man had to do something. Jesus told him to go and wash in the Pool of Siloam. This seemed rather a silly thing to do. Probably he had washed thousands of times, perhaps even in the Pool of Siloam. He could have asked these questions:
· How would that help him?
· Why should he do it?
· Would he seem to be foolish?
· Would people laugh at him?
People, who hear about Jesus today, are like this man. Jesus tells them to do something. He does not do something for them by magic. There is something for them to do for themselves:
· We must confess our *sin to God.
· We must trust Jesus and obey him.
· We must say that Jesus is our *Lord and *Saviour.
And perhaps other people will laugh at us. It could be the same thing for us, as it was for the man born blind.
The man washed and came back. He could see. Jesus had cured him! Just like that, Jesus can help us to know about our own *sin. He can help us to trust him. He can rescue us from our *sin. He can cure us from the disease of *sin.
Paul tells us that Jesus can rescue us. In Romans 1:16 Paul says this: ‘I am not ashamed of the good news of Jesus. It is God’s power to rescue us’.
There is power because Jesus died for us! Many people prefer *sin. This is terrible! A blind person does not prefer to be blind. But Jesus can certainly rescue everybody from their *sin. Jesus said, 'I am here, as the light of the world.'
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Earl Breuer takes life one day at a time, as he has every day for the past 35,724 days.
The Brookings man turns 98 today, and plans to go out to dinner to celebrate. He might drive to the restaurant, as he still holds his license. And while the nonagenarian uses a cane to get around, he doesn't wear glasses, or sport hearing aids.
"I have no goals to be alive tomorrow, or live to be 100 years old or anything else," he said with a broad grin and a hearty laugh. "Just live life one day at a time."
His first day of life was Sept. 29, 1914, when he was born in Myrtle Point. Although interested in high school education and political science, he eventually found himself working as a dairyman, making cheese, ice cream and other "solid-milk" products.
He spotted Margaret Templeton when he was taking a break outside a dairy factory in Eugene.
"It was one of those beautiful days you only get on the coastal mountains of Oregon," he said. "I saw Margaret and asked her younger sister, 'Who in the world is that beautiful girl? I've got to meet her.'"
Knowing Margaret loved to dance andndash; and even though he couldn't have cared less about the activity andndash; he attended one in hopes of meeting her. Later, she met Breuer's parents, he proposed and "she foolishly accepted," he said, again laughing. They wed the following year.
Breuer moved the family to Brookings in 1951, and acquired Seaview Dairy on the current site of the humane society on Railroad Street. It represented a new challenge for the young man.
"I didn't know anything about fluid milk," he said, "except that it came from cows." He ran the facility for 32 years.
At the time, Brookings andndash; which incorporated in 1951 andndash; was home to about 1,000 people. Chetco Avenue was the only paved road in town. Timber and lily bulbs provided the economic backbone. A railroad, appropriately, ran down Railroad Street. Banking was conducted in Gold Beach, over Carpenterville Road.
Breuer remembers the grocery store, dry cleaners, Shell gas station, theater, two taverns, restaurants, the hardware store and the huge diesel engines that furnished electricity for the town. He remembers names, too: Elmer Bankus, Hagen, Baker, Manley, Bob Dimmicks, Akers, Fred Fox and Roy Brim.
It was Dimmicks who challenged him to run for city council, a post Breuer held from 1955 to 1959. He only quit because of his work at the dairy.
"I started to realize I needed to spend more time with the business," he said, "or my partner was going to shoot me."
While on council, he spurred the effort to get the city's wastewater treatment under control.
Wastewater was run down redwood logs and dumped onto the beach below Tanbark Road, he said, adding that the water was "sometimes andhellip; well, it was pretty discolored."
And construction was about to begin on houses across the street from the current Dairy Queen site.
"They weren't allowed septic tanks (because of the lot size), he said. "We were behind the eight-ball. We had to have a sewer system in before people started living there. They put a tank in there; to this day, I don't know where they hauled it."
He negotiated the purchase of the sewer system, as it was, from Bankus andndash; and then only because an attorney in Grants Pass had a summer home in the Brookings area and "signed, sealed and delivered" the transaction while Bankus was out of town.
"So you see why at the end of my term I was desperate to get off council," he said with another laugh. "But we had a water treatment facility."
Breuer served on the city's budget committee for three years in the early 1960s, and later the planning commission, on which he served for 29 years.
His favorite stories come from that time period.
Rumor had it that the parking meter supervisor loved to fish. And if the game warden wasn't around to tag the man's two-fish-limit catch in the morning, he'd return to sea again that afternoon. And he was "very efficient" about his parking meter duty, Breuer said.
"That didn't set well with Wilma (Kemp) and her taverns and her beer drinkers," he said, adding that word on the street was she threatened to turn him into the game warden if he didn't lighten up. He apparently didn't, and she ran for mayor on the platform that she'd eliminate the parking meters. She kept her promise.
Another issue involved the teenage girls who boarded at a house between the Parkview Care Center and the Nazarene Church. Their horses were stabled in the area, as well, and residents didn't like the smell of manure.
"We had people from both sides andndash; people from as far away as Salem," he said of the turnout for that debate. "We tabled it until the next meeting, and the next meeting it was more of the same, so we tabled it to the next meeting. andhellip; Cowards that we were.
"We dumped it onto the city council without any recommendation," he continued. "And the city council, being the cowards that they were, they decided that there would be no horses on the ocean side of the highway after dark. It was humorous, and it was serious."
He solved an argument about which street a corner greenhouse faced by relocating the front door on the side of the building that faced another street.
"I got the nicest letter from that gentleman," Breuer said. "It made my 29 years all worthwhile."
Breuer was 68 when he left the dairy business.
"I love Brookings," he said. "I love to be close to the ocean. I've been here 61 years. I like the people here; I'm a people-lover.
And while he admires the strides the city has taken, he feels citizens need to carefully monitor the resources that make the area what it is.
He's concerned about the fish and believes city water users should start using its gray water. He also thinks better marketing could increase activity at local state beaches, the golf course and fishing streams. He has his opinions on taxes and is impeccably knowledgeable about local issues.
"I'm perfectly sold on Brookings," he said. "Brookings is the gateway to the beautiful Oregon coast andndash; the gem of the Oregon Coast. Gold Beach, Bandon, Port Orford, Coos Bay andndash; none of them compare to Brookings. We need to promote it. It might make some others up the coast a little irked at us, but so what. I think Brookings has a future.
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Breast Cancer Surgery
Surgery is usually the first form of treatment for breast cancer. One of the most important decisions a woman newly diagnosed with breast cancer faces is deciding what type of surgical treatment to have. Surgical treatment options of the breast include lumpectomy(also called local excision or wide local excision) and mastectomy. Oncoplastic surgery or breast reconstruction may be utilized. The two intertwined goals of definitive breast cancer surgery are:
to remove the cancer completely in order to minimize the chance of cancer recurring in the local area (breast, chest wall or regional lymph nodes) and to improve survival.
to perform the surgery in the best possible cosmetic way to preserve a woman’s body image, self esteem and psycho-social well-being.
Fortunately, breast- conserving treatment (lumpectomy usually followed by breast radiation) is the procedure of choice for most women with breast cancer. However, some women are either not candidates for breast conserving treatment or may choose mastectomy for personal reasons.
Lumpectomy (Local Excision, Breast-conserving Surgery)
Lumpectomy technically means to remove a lump, but it is typically used to indicate the removal of a breast cancer with negative margins (rim of normal surrounding tissue). This term can be misleading because many breast cancers do not form lumps but are detected in asymptomatic women on routine mammograms. Alternative terms include local excision, wide local excision, or breast-conserving surgery, all of which signal the intention to remove a breast cancer with negative margins, without removing the entire breast. Partial mastectomy is less specific and includes lumpectomies as well as quadrantectomies, indicating that a portion but not the entire breast has been removed.
If a breast cancer cannot be felt, a wire localization procedure is performed to identify the site of the cancer in preparation for lumpectomy. If the cancer or biopsy marking clip are visible on ultrasound, the breast surgeon can use ultrasound guidance to localize the cancer intraoperatively while the patient is under anesthesia in the operating room. The cancer is visualized on ultrasound, and a fine wire is inserted through or next to the cancer. The breast tissue surrounding the localizing wire is removed with the lumpectomy. An ultrasound is performed of the specimen to be sure the cancer has been removed and to assess the margin of tissue surrounding it. If the cancer cannot be seen on ultrasound, a radiologist can use mammography to localize the cancer preoperatively. Local anesthesia and an oral sedative can be used to make this procedure more comfortable. The cancer is visualized on a mammogram, a fine wire is inserted through or next to the cancer and a mammogram is done to demonstrate the location of the wire to the cancer or biopsy marking clip. The patient is taken back to the operating room and the lumpectomy is performed. A specimen x-ray is performed to be sure the cancer has been removed.
A breast cancer can extend microscopically in the surrounding tissue beyond its apparent borders on breast exam or imaging studies, so the margin status is not known until the pathologist looks at the lumpectomy specimen under the microscope. Sometimes additional surgery, a re-excision, is necessary to remove a clear margin of normal tissue around the cancer. Intraoperative breast ultrasound can be used by the breast surgeon to increase the chances of removing the cancer with a negative margin with the initial lumpectomy.
It is important to consider breast exam findings and the potential effects of a biopsy on subsequent definitive breast cancer surgery. Handling, imaging and orientation of both breast biopsy and lumpectomy specimens is critical. It is important for the surgeon to consider aesthetic issues such as placement, orientation and length of incisions, oncoplastic techniques, and cosmetic closure of incisions to achieve the best possible cosmetic result.
The advantage of lumpectomy is to effectively treat breast cancer while preserving a breast that looks and feels normal. The amount of anesthesia, extent of surgery, and post-operative recuperation are less with lumpectomy than mastectomy. Most women with early stage breast cancer are excellent candidates for lumpectomy followed by breast radiation. Numerous scientifically rigorous, prospective randomized studies with long- term follow- up of 10-20 years have demonstrated that the combination of lumpectomy and radiation is equivalent to mastectomy in terms of survival and mortality. Local recurrence rates (the chance of the breast cancer coming back in the breast or on the chest wall) are similar with these approaches, assuming certain criteria are met, but local recurrence rates are lower with mastectomy, 10% versus 15% at 15 years after treatment. The majority of local recurrences after lumpectomy and radiation can be treated with mastectomy, and the outcome appears to depend more on the underlying tumor biology rather than whether the initial treatment was lumpectomy/ radiation or mastectomy.
For women over 65-70 years of age, with breast cancers which are smaller than 2 cm, hormone receptor positive, without cancer in axillary lymph nodes, breast radiation after lumpectomy could potentially be omitted, with the same likelihood of survival. The chance of having the cancer recur in the breast or axilla is low in either case, but increases from 2% to 10% if radiation is not done.
There are certain situations in which mastectomy would be a better treatment than breast-conserving treatment. If the cancer is too large in relation to the size of the breast such that it can't be removed with negative margins the patient may be at a higher risk for a local recurrence with breast- conserving treatment. If the cancer can't be removed with a cosmetically acceptable result, there is no advantage to breast- conserving treatment. Fortunately chemotherapy or even hormonal therapy can be used to shrink large breast cancers so that a lumpectomy can often be successfully performed in such cases. In other cases, if a wide area of tissue is resected or a quadrantectomy is necessary, oncoplastic techniques can be utilized to obtain excellent cosmetic results.
Multicentric breast cancers, in which breast cancer is present in more than one quadrant of the breast, have a higher risk for local recurrence with lumpectomy and radiation if there is significant associated ductal carcinoma in-situ. However, multiple small invasive cancers or a solitary invasive cancer with an extensive intraductal component can be treated successfully with lumpectomy and radiation as long as negative margins are obtained. Inflammatory breast cancers are not amenable to breast-conserving surgery because of the high risk for local recurrence.
Some patients can't be safely treated with radiation or have a high risk of complications related to radiation, such as women with collagen vascular disorders especially active scleroderma or lupus (SLE), women in the first trimester of pregnancy, women who have been previously treated with mantle irradiation for Hodgkin's Disease or prior radiation therapy to the same breast. A woman with a breast implant in place for augmentation has a 35-65% risk for complications if radiation is performed with the implant in place beneath the breast.
Breast cancers directly behind the nipple may require resection of the nipple areolar complex. Breast conserving treatment, often with nipple areolar reconstruction, can be performed in such cases, but if a nipple areolar resection is required in a woman with small breasts, mastectomy and reconstruction may be preferable cosmetically, depending on the extent of the resection.
Women with BRCA mutations who are diagnosed with cancer in one breast may chose to have bilateral mastectomies because of concerns about an increased risk of developing a second primary cancer in the same breast over time and a high risk for developing cancer in the opposite breast.
Women with cancer in axillary nodes or in both breasts, young women and women with triple negative breast cancers can expect equivalent treatment outcomes with either breast- conserving therapy or mastectomy.
For some women, their breasts are not an important part of their body image, so preserving their breasts isn't a priority. Some women do not want to undergo breast radiation. A mastectomy is a very effective treatment for breast cancer and would be a reasonable choice under such circumstances.
However, it is critical for a woman to be fully informed of the indications, risks and benefits of breast- conserving treatment versus mastectomy so she can make an informed decision for the right reasons, based on the best available information. A joint study of the American College of Radiology and the American College of Surgeons found that high mastectomy rates in the United States are the result of inappropriate use of medical selection factors and geographical location, with mastectomies performed more frequently in women who are candidates for breast conserving therapy in certain parts of the country. A common misconception is that since mastectomy is a more aggressive surgical treatment, it is a better treatment. For the majority of women with early stage breast cancer, lumpectomy/ radiation and mastectomy are equivalent options.
"The Office of Medical Applications of Research of the NIH and the National Cancer Institute convened a consensus development conference on the treatment of early-stage breast cancer in June 1990. The panel concluded that "breast conservation treatment is an appropriate method of primary therapy for the majority of women with stage I and II breast cancer and is preferable to mastectomy because it provides survival rates equivalent to those of total mastectomy and axillary dissection while preserving the breast." The validity of this statement has been upheld by long-term data from prospective randomized trials. The rate of BCT for eligible breast cancer patients has risen steadily since the consensus conference statement."
Mastectomy is a surgical procedure in which the entire breast is removed. There are different types of mastectomies.
A simple (or total) mastectomy removes all the glandular breast tissue along with the nipple-areolar complex. This can be done with or without immediate breast reconstruction.
A skin-sparing mastectomy is a simple mastectomy in which a limited amount of breast skin is removed, often preserving all the breast skin except for the nipple areolar complex. This is combined with immediate breast reconstruction and gives a better cosmetic result than traditional simple mastectomy, without adversely affecting local recurrence rates.
A nipple-sparing mastectomy removes all the glandular breast tissue but preserves a very thin flap of the nipple-areolar complex. No skin is removed with this surgery. This results in a superior cosmetic result. It also means that there is tiny amount of ductal tissue preserved in the intact nipple. A sample of tissue is excised from directly beneath the nipple and evaluated by the pathologist; this specimen must be benign in order to have a nipple-sparing mastectomy. Nipple-sparing mastectomy can be considered in cases with tumors < 3 cm, > 2 cm away from the nipple, without an extensive intraductal component, with negative margins, with clinically negative axillary lymph nodes, no skin involvement, and no inflammatory breast cancer or Paget’s disease of the nipple. It is not ideal for women with very large, pendulous breasts. A preoperative breast MRI should be performed. It is combined with immediate breast reconstruction. Local recurrence rates are low in appropriately selected patients, and recurrences in the retained nipple are rare; they usually occur elsewhere on the chest wall.
A modified radical mastectomy is a combination of simple mastectomy plus axillary node dissection (surgery to remove all the lymph nodes within certain anatomic boundaries in the underarm). A variable amount of skin is removed along with the nipple-areolar complex. No muscles are removed.This can be done with or without immediate breast reconstruction.
A radical mastectomy removed all the glandular breast tissue, a large swath of overlying skin along with the nipple-areolar complex, both pectoralis major and minor muscles and the axillary lymph nodes. It is rarely used currently because of studies, particularly those of the NSABP, which showed that modified radical mastectomy was as effective as radical mastectomy.
A prophylactic mastectomy is a mastectomy which is used to prevent breast cancer in women who have very high risk for developing breast cancer. Nipple-sparing and skin- sparing mastectomies with immediate reconstruction are often used as prophylactic mastectomies.
Breast reconstruction can be performed to recreate the appearance of the breast after mastectomy. It is safe and does not affect local recurrence risk or survival. For some women who don’t have reconstruction, the asymmetry from the absence of the breast can cause back pain or make it difficult to find appropriately- fitting clothes. Breast reconstruction can be performed at the same time as the mastectomy, immediate reconstruction. Delayed reconstruction can be performed at any time, even years after mastectomy, if a woman chooses to do so. There are some situations in which it might be preferable to delay reconstruction. In general, immediate reconstruction results in a better cosmetic result because more breast skin can be preserved as it can be combined with skin-sparing or nipple- sparing mastectomies. It reduces psychological distress by combining the mastectomy with the breast reconstruction in one surgery. Breast reconstruction is performed by a plastic surgeon. At the time of the plastic surgery consultation, the plastic surgeon will discuss reconstructive goals and expectations, and make recommendations about various types of breast reconstruction based on one’s particular case. The plastic surgeon and breast surgeon work together to be sure combined procedures are done in the best possible way from both the cancer-treatment and aesthetic perspectives. Breast reconstruction usually requires a series of operations to complete the process, including reconstruction of the nipple and tattooing to achieve the appearance and coloration of the nipple- areolar complex. There are two main types of breast reconstruction: implant reconstructions and flap reconstructions. In general, implant reconstructions are simpler and less time-consuming, but flap reconstructions create a reconstructed breast with a more natural appearance and texture.
The most common technique used for breast reconstruction is the placement of a tissue expander followed by subsequent placement of a permanent implant. A tissue expander is a temporary implant which is inserted either in front of (prepectoral) or behind (subpectoral) the chest wall muscles. It is gradually filled with saline solution through a tiny valve under the skin until the overlying skin stretches enough so that the tissue expander can be exchanged for an appropriately sized permanent implant. The permanent implant has a more natural shape and texture. The permanent implant may be filled with saline (salt water) or silicone gel. Silicone implants are safe and have a more natural feel than saline- filled implants. The placement of a tissue expander can be a good interim option for women who need to defer definitive breast reconstruction, for example, because of the need for post-mastectomy radiation.
Less commonly, a permanent implant can be placed without using a tissue expander first, as a single- stage breast reconstruction.
A TRAM (Transverse Rectus Abdominus Muscle) Flap takes skin, fatty tissue and muscle from the abdominal wall and shifts it up to the chest wall to create the shape of the breast. This results in a more natural looking and feeling reconstructed breast than an implant. The patient also gets a “tummy tuck” as a result of removing the excess abdominal tissue. A pedicle flap leaves the abdominal tissue flap attached to its original blood supply and tunnels it under the skin to the chest wall. With a free flap, the surgeon cuts the blood vessels to the flap and then attaches them to blood vessels in the chest using microsurgical techniques.
A DIEP (Deep Inferior Epigastric Artery Perforator) flap is a free flap which uses skin and fatty tissue from the abdominal wall, like a TRAM flap, but preserves the abdominal muscle that the TRAM flap utilizes. This preserves abdominal wall strength, and therefore activities requiring abdominal wall muscles are easier to perform.
Latissimus dorsi flap
In this procedure, a flap of skin, fatty tissue, and muscle is taken from the back and transferred under the skin to the chest wall. In many cases, an implant is placed under the latissimus flap in order to create a reconstructed breast which is the same size as the opposite breast. For patients who have been previously treated with breast radiation, the latissimus flap is a way to cover the implant with healthy, flexible, non-radiated skin.
A TUG (transverse upper gracilis) flap is a free flap which uses muscle and fatty tissue from the inner thigh to create the reconstructed breast. The scar at the donor site is well- hidden. This is a good option for women with small breasts, especially if they don’t want to use an implant.
A GAP (gluteal artery perforator) flap is a free flap which uses tissue from the buttocks, including the gluteal muscle, to create the reconstructed breast. It is an option for women who are not candidates for a TRAM or DIEP flap.
Breast conserving therapy with lumpectomy and radiation usually results in a good to excellent cosmetic result. However, for some patients more advanced surgical techniques are needed to improve cosmetic results. Oncoplastic surgery utilizes techniques to achieve optimal cosmetic results in conjunction with breast- conserving cancer surgery. For smaller defects, the breast surgeon or plastic surgeon can advance adjacent breast tissue flaps into the defect created by the lumpectomy. Another option is placement of a BioZorb form within the lumpectomy cavity. This is a spherical coil made from the same material as some sutures. The coil itself dissolves in 1-2 years, but it also has titanium clips attached to it; these guide the delivery of radiation boosts to the lumpectomy site. In larger-breasted patients who need wider areas of breast tissue or even a quadrantectomy in order to excise a cancer with negative margins, the treated breast can be reconfigured and a reduction can be performed on the opposite breast to achieve smaller but symmetric, nicely shaped breasts. For patients with ptotic (drooping) breasts, a lift or mastopexy can be combined with the lumpectomy. For patients requiring a nipple-areolar resection, the nipple-areolar complex can be reconstructed, and a reduction can be performed on the opposite breast to achieve symmetry. Oncoplastic surgery may be performed at the same time as breast-conserving cancer surgery or as a separate procedure.
Some women decide not to have breast reconstruction. A breast prosthesis can be worn within a specially designed bra to recreate the look of the breast in clothing or bathing suits. For large-breasted women, the prosthesis can be heavy and uncomfortable. There are a variety of styles of breast prostheses, some of which adhere directly to the chest wall, others are light-weight and some are designed specifically to be worn in a bathing suit for swimming. | <urn:uuid:c2a77573-eafa-4102-8668-f122a2156007> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chevychasebreastcenter.com/breast-surgery | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.937526 | 3,966 | 2.8125 | 3 |
These days, the chaos in China has threatened the entire world because of widespread reports about coronavirus, which is spreading in the city of Wuhan.
Many students from Uzbekistan study in institutions at Wuhan. Kun.uz editorial team contacted them and were interested in the situation in the city.
“The city is in quarantine and the entrance has been closed. Students are recommended not to roam around. We are sitting in our rooms. It is planned to build a large hospital within six days for in-depth study of patients infected with coronavirus.
There are more than 30 students from Uzbekistan. None of them are infected with coronavirus,” Mashkhurbek Ikramov, who is pursuing a master’s degree at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan, said.
A postdoctoral fellow at Huazhong Agricultural University in Wuhan Farrukhbek Rasulov also commented on the situation.
“Currently, more than 30 students in Wuhan and representatives of the Consulate of Uzbekistan in Shanghai regularly create newsgroups on the popular WeChat internet system in China. Also, consultations are being conducted. There is no food shortage in Wuhan. Markets are working. No panic attacks have been recorded. The strongest immunologists and virus scientists in the country are now working in Wuhan. According to them, Wuhan has become a safer place because of tight control over it.
On January 23, at 10:00, all flights were canceled. We are taking all possible precautions. A special mask is put on when we go out the street,” he said.
Special control groups are using body temperature measuring equipment to check drivers and passengers for signs of the virus at educational institutions, schools, streets and small areas in the city of Wuhan.
Mother and baby exiting a metro station.
Street Note: Wear a special mask for your own safety and for others’!
Central streets of Wuhan.
Special masks can be purchased at all stores, not just in pharmacies.
Ambulances are ready to serve in the city hospitals.
X-ray rooms to primarily examine the lungs of patients.
Announcement: Note from the Health Administration of Wuhan: Anyone, who has a fever above 37.3 degrees, should visit the following hospitals. | <urn:uuid:8a68433d-4042-4f64-813a-9fcf0d7546a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kun.uz/en/news/2020/01/25/uzbek-students-studying-in-the-chinese-city-of-wuhan-speak-about-the-situation-in-the-city | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.953723 | 496 | 1.6875 | 2 |
By Tara Swords for Every Day Connected
Back in the day, my biggest distractions in class were note-passing and idle doodling. But today, 66 percent of kids ages 8 to 18 use cell phones, and 76 percent have iPods or other MP3 players, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. On top of that, most schools offer some amount of Internet access. That’s why almost all schools today require kids and parents to sign a document that didn’t even exist for our generation: Internet Acceptable Use Policy.
The Internet Acceptable Use Policy explains the school’s philosophy on Internet use and the rules regarding online behavior. It also gives an overview of the consequences of violation and a list of students’ and staff members’ rights. An Acceptable Use Policy should both recognize students’ right to benefit from technology and protect them from harm.
Parents are an important part, says Doris Stephen, education programs assistant in the Education Technology Office of the California Department of Education:
“They need to know what their children are being taught in school and how they are going to use the Internet. They need to know that the children are doing it in a safe manner.”
Here’s what to do if your child’s school district doesn’t require your signature, or if you’re a little hazy about what you signed at the beginning of the year.
1. Get a copy of the policy. Check the school’s website. Many schools post their Acceptable Use Policies online so parents and kids can easily reference them. If it’s not there, call the school and request a copy or ask your child to bring one home.
2. Discuss it.
Talk about the policy. Discuss scenarios that might seem innocuous but are actually prohibited. For example, does your child’s school prohibit using Internet resources to lobby for a political candidate? Can kids visit file-sharing sites and download music? Are there any penalties for using profanity in email sent via the school’s computers? Help your child read between the lines too: If the policy prohibits harassment, ask, “What constitutes harassment?” Talk about your child’s typical Internet use at home and ask whether these things are prohibited at school.
Most important, discuss the consequences of violating the policy. Most policies include penalties that range from warnings and account suspension to expulsion and legal action.
3. Be respectful. Because Acceptable Use Policies include a lot of language about what not to do, they can seem to imply that kids aren’t to be trusted. But a good policy is centered on the educational value of the Internet and keeps free speech in mind. So don’t just discuss the things your child shouldn’t do; talk about all the useful ways they can use the school’s technology to get more out of class.
4. Post it somewhere accessible. Whether it’s on the fridge or saved as a shared document in your Google Docs accounts, keep the policy on hand. If it’s top of mind, your child may be more likely to follow it and avoid getting into trouble that could affect his -- or someone else’s -- future.
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Protein similarity comparisons may be made on a local or global basis and may consider sequence information or differing levels of structural information. We present a local three-dimensional method that compares protein binding site surfaces in full atomic detail. The approach is based on the morphological similarity method which has been widely applied for global comparison of small molecules. We apply the method to all-by-all comparisons two sets of human protein kinases, a very diverse set of ATP-bound proteins from multiple species, and three heterogeneous benchmark protein binding site data sets. Cases of disagreement between sequence-based similarity and binding site similarity yield informative examples. Where sequence similarity is very low, high pocket similarity can reliably identify important binding motifs. Where sequence similarity is very high, significant differences in pocket similarity are related to ligand binding specificity and similarity. Local protein binding pocket similarity provides qualitatively complementary information to other approaches, and it can yield quantitative information in support of functional annotation. | <urn:uuid:c90e8e3f-99c7-4dee-9c99-471f2e8e7a40> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.certara.com/citations/surface-based-protein-binding-pocket-similarity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00323-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908845 | 191 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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CodecInstaller is a Windows program that detects which Audio and Video codecs are installed on your system and suggest you to install the ones necessary to correctly view the movie. In fact it's designed to be burned on a CD together with a compressed video, to be always able to play them.
Changelog: - New codec detection engine: now all registered codecs are displayed and the ones that are installed but seem not usable by directshow are shown with a particular color
- AVI analisys says if the file can be played with the installed codecs. If it isn't a detailed error message is displayed, helping the user troubleshotting the problem
- fixed a few minor problems
- automatic search for updates
Program Information Category:
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Dantrolene, also known as Dantrium, also combats cerebral palsy by blocking muscle contraction. If this is the case the breasts will decrease in a couple of years. These two hair loss drugs pillen aldactone barata legalmente generico nombre de venta have been also approved by national health supervisory authorities in many other countries around the world. Stray hairs can easily be tweezed as they appear quite effectively. However, this is not yet definite since ongoing pillen aldactone barata legalmente generico nombre de venta studies are still conducted. | <urn:uuid:92fd640f-c392-422e-9bfd-0989c8e48e71> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rogeriopinto.com.br/index.php/component/k2/itemlist/user/149735 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00092-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924746 | 780 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Mesa Verde employees participate in food drive
Between June 1 and Aug. 31, the national Feds Feed Families campaign took place. At the Department of the Interior (DOI), which includes the National Park Service (NPS) and Mesa Verde National Park, employees were asked to donate a minimum of five pounds of food. Last year, DOI employees collected over 14,200 pounds of food nationwide.
On Aug. 7, Mesa Verde National Park employees, Coella Drenske and Ev Whitehead, took the first donation of food to the Good Samaritan Distribution Center in Cortez. That donation was 215 pounds. Cindy Irvin, director of the Good Samaritan Center, said, “Come in! Come in! I prayed you would come today. I did, I prayed you would come today and here you are. God works in mysterious ways. We are out of food.” When Coella and Ev returned to work, they shared their experience with all Mesa Verde employees.
By the end of the Feds Feeds Families Food Drive, Mesa Verde National Park employees had donated a total of 827 pounds of canned fruits, vegetables, grains, juices, baked goods and hygiene items to the Good Samaritan Distribution Center. “The employees of Mesa Verde National Park were happy to lend a helping hand to those in need in our neighboring communities,” stated Park Superintendent Cliff Spencer. | <urn:uuid:1c974689-bfa8-4213-8d3c-5c608de8d458> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20120918/NEWS01/709189933/-1/News01/Mesa-Verde-employees-participate-in-food-drive | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00328-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954985 | 292 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Moldovan government resigns as new parliament starts work
First, however, MPs will choose the new speaker and form factions. Prior to the parliament’s working meeting, the government resigned, in accordance with the constitutional requirement. Ministers, though, will perform their duties until a new cabinet is formed.
The parliament will also attempt to elect a new president in order to end a lingering political crisis in the country. According to the law, the head of state then nominates a candidate for the position of prime minister. The president’s nominee must gain the support of 61 out of 101 deputies to be confirmed as PM.
Vladimir Voronin, head of the Communist Party, chaired the first parliamentary session. He believes the new speaker could be elected before the New Year. “Such is the will of voters,” he told reporters.
The Communists garnered most number of votes during the parliamentary elections held in November. However, the three other parties combined have more seats in the parliament. Thus, the results of the latest elections did not make the task of electing the new president easier. Four parties are still negotiating the ruling coalition.
Deputies need 51 votes to form a new government and the parliament’s ruling bodies. But it will take 61 votes to elect the new head of state. If the Democratic Party, Liberal Democrats and the Liberal party manage to form a coalition, they will have 59 deputies. The possible coalition of the Democrats and the Communists will bring them 57 votes in the parliament.
As the deputies of the two previous parliaments failed to elect the president, three parliamentary elections have been held over the past 18 months.
The Communists see the way out of deadlock in forming a broad coalition of all parties that made it to the parliament. The move would help to elect the new head of state and avoid new early parliamentary elections, Voronin said. But “party interests” hinder the establishment of the broad coalition, he noted. | <urn:uuid:fd370cd3-2026-47ba-952f-208a83b83ccb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.rt.com/politics/moldova-parliament-government-resignation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00300-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960017 | 405 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Simplify Secure WebSocket-Based Communication for Mobile Apps
CA’s Mobile API Gateway simplifies the process of adapting internal data, application and security infrastructure for mobile use. The Mobile API Gateway provides a centralized way to control security and management policies for information assets exposed, via APIs, to mobile developers and apps.
This demo video provides a demonstration of the Mobile API Gateway’s functionality for the WebSocket protocol. WebSocket allows Web- and mobile-based applications to easily move from traditional request-reply HTTP communication into new forms of full-duplex, bi-directional communication.
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Although it is referred to as a salt, Epsom salt is actually composed from crystals of hydrated magnesium sulfate. The product gets its name from a spring in Surrey, England, where the product was first produced.
One common way to enjoy the benefits of Epsom salt is in a bath. Here are the pros and cons of taking an Epsom salt bath to consider.
List of the Pros of an Epsom Salt Bath
1. It reduces stress levels.
Taking an Epsom salt bath helps to restore magnesium levels in the body to healthy levels. This works to prevent stress because the brain is able to produce melatonin, while also reducing adrenaline levels.
2. It can eliminate toxins.
The sulfates found in Epsom salt are able to help flush out toxins that are in the cells of the body. This process is so effective that it can be used to flush out heavy metals.
3. It acts as a laxative.
If you consume Epsom salt, the magnesium in the product works as a natural laxative. It works very quickly to relieve occasional issues with constipation.
4. It balances blood sugar levels.
If you consume a healthy level of Epsom salt on a regular basis, it can work to balance out blood sugar levels. It may improve a person’s energy levels each day and could lower the risk of diabetes.
List of the Cons of an Epsom Salt Bath
1. It may cause skin irritation.
Some people have skin that is sensitive to interactions with magnesium sulfate. Taking a bath would create itchiness and pain and should be avoided if this is a personal issue.
2. It causes a rise in blood pressure.
Individuals who are being treated for high blood pressure should avoid an Epsom salt bath unless their doctor recommends the treatment. The change in blood pressure means anyone with an open sore, or women who are pregnant, should avoid taking a bath.
3. It may cause uncomfortable physical symptoms.
Taking an Epsom salt bath may cause muscle stiffness and cramping. If the Epsom salt is taken as a laxative, it may also cause bloating, nausea, and painful cramping.
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Guide to the Tom Triman Films, 1970s-2000s
The Tom Triman Films are comprised of 132 super 8mm reels and one VHS videocassette, containing the productions of horror movie fan/historian/critic Tom Triman (1952-2010).
- Collection Number
- Tom Triman films
- circa 1970-2010
- Triman, Tom
- 2.5 Linear Feet
- David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
The Tom Triman Films are comprised of 132 super 8mm reels and one VHS videocassette, containing the productions of horror movie fan/animator/writer Tom Triman (1952-2010). The bulk of the reels are elements for larger works, which here include Butterfly Man, Gunfire and Holy Water, and Pentagram. The collection also contains several commercial films released on super 8mm film, including 2001 A Space Odyssey, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Frankenstein.
The reels are undated and arranged generally by function. Series 1 contains the bulk of the reels and are largely untitled elements. Series 2 contains what appear to be finished works, as well as commercially released studio films purchased by Triman. Series 3 contains one VHS videocassette, a computer animation demo tape by Triman. Series four contains a set of three Scary Monsters Magazine Sam Scare cards.
Access to the Collection
Collection is open for research.
Original audiovisual materials are closed to use. Use of these materials may require production of listening or viewing copies. Please contact Research Services before coming to use this collection.
The collection may contain materials to which the Acknowledgment of Legal Responsibilities and Privacy Rights form applies. Patrons must sign this form before using the collection.
All or portions of this collection may be housed off-site in Duke University's Library Service Center. The library may require up to 48-hours to retrieve these materials for research use.
Please contact Research Services staff before visiting the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library to use this collection.
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How to Cite
[Identification of item], Tom Triman Films, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.
Tom Triman (1952-2010) was an afficianado of horror films, a contributor to Scary Monsters Magazine, and an animator and filmmaker who often worked in super 8mm film. His published film work includes A Spark of Being (1986, 6 min) and You Dirty Rat (1982, 52 min).
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The Tom Triman Films were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library as a gift in 2011.
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Part of a year-long Torah series on graceful masculinity and Jewish values.
וַיָּבֹא יַעֲקֹב שָׁלֵם עִיר שְׁכֶם, אֲשֶׁר בְּאֶרֶץ כְּנַעַן, בְּבֹאוֹ, מִפַּדַּן אֲרָם; וַיִּחַן, אֶת-פְּנֵי הָעִיר.
And Jacob came in peace to the city of Shechem, which is in the land of Canaan, when he came from Paddan-aram; and encamped before the city. (Genesis 33:18)
“Don’t just do something, stand there.” The White Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland understands that human beings have a very hard time just being. Often it is easier to pursue the future and be distracted from the moment than to be fully in the present. But it’s important for us to “just be” sometimes. When we are only thinking about what is next, our ability to actually improve ourselves is diminished.
Every week, Shabbos invites us to pivot from a weekday posture of creative production to one of graceful existence. (From “doing something” to “just being.”) The medresh teaches that Jacob came to the city of Shechem on erev Shabbos, and prepared for the day of rest. The Sefas Emes (Rabbi Yehuda Leib Alter of Ger) understands the word “ויחן”, in the context of this verse, not just as he encamped, but also that Jacob restored grace, חן, to the land.
Sefer Yetzirah teaches that G-d connects the letter ת with both חן (grace) and Shabbos. As a result, Shabbos is inherently connected with grace. Shabbos supports our acquisition of gracefulness by giving us the opportunity to reflect on what we have and to be satisfied with what we have. Just as G-d rested on the Shabbos from creating, and appreciated what had been made, so too does Shabbos provide a weekly reminder to cease pursuing the physical and instead to elevate it to the level of spirituality.
The brothers Jacob and Esav offer two different ways of relating to “what we have” and “enoughness.” When Jacob is on his way to meet Esav, he attempts to make amends with his brother by sending him many gifts. Esav rejects the offering, saying, ““I have plenty,” which Rashi understands as an arrogant boast of accomplishment. By contrast, Jacob says of himself, “I have all (כל),” which Rashi interprets to mean that he has enough.
Jacob tells Esav כִּי-חַנַּנִי אֱלֹקים וְכִי יֶשׁ-לִי-כֹל / “G-d has been gracious to me and therefore I have all that I need.” (Genesis 33:11) He means “I have found the G-dly type of grace, not a superficial one.” Jacob not only wants to give Esav physical gifts: he wants to give Esav the spiritual gift of his worldview, the spiritual gift of knowing that what one has is enough.
Esav comes with 400 men, a representation of the force of “רע עין,” a negative outlook of the world. Jacob lives for 147 years, which is the numerical value of “עין טוב”, a positive outlook on the world. The numerical value of “יש לי כל”, I have enough, is 400, the same as the letter “ת” which as we explained, is connected to Shabbos and to חן / grace. Jacob was modeling for his brother a practice of being satisfied with what one has, and not being distracted by the superficial pleasure of being seen as successful through excess. This reflects a real internal חן / grace. 1
וַיָּבֹא יַעֲקֹב שָׁלֵם Jacob came shalem, in peace. שָׁלֵם (Shalem) can also mean complete or full. Jacob came on Erev Shabbos, a time of completion. We conclude the physical work before Shabbos so that we can be free to invest in the spiritual “work” of Shabbos.2 Shabbos’s name is shalom. Part of achieving graceful living is appreciating what we have, existing in Jacob’s state of יש לי כל. For the moment we know that we have all we need.
Why does society look at physical wealth as such an indicator of success?
Spiritual ambitions can also be toxic. How can we evaluate if our ambitions are holy?
How can we be more conscious of our presence?
Does being with other people make that easier?
1. חיצון = חן יופי↩
2. עיין אמרי אמת תר”צ “בשבת אדם משלים עצמו”↩
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Samuel Senton PATTERSON Sr. (c. 1725 – 1791) was Alex’s 6th Great Grandfather, one of 128 in this generation of the Miner line.
Samuel Patterson Sr. was born about 1725 in Dysart, Newry, County Down, Ireland. His father may have been James PATTERSON. He married Mary CARSON about 1755 in Newry, County Down, Ireland. Samuel, Mary and their first six children were part of a large group of Presbyterians who followed an emigration led by the Reverend William Martin in 1772. The Pattersons sailed on The Freemason departing from Newry on 27 Oct 1772 and arrived in Charleston on 22 Dec 1772. Samuel received a land grant of 350 acres in Abbeville District, South Carolina, 100 acres for himself and 50 acres for each child under 16. His eldest daughter Mary received 100 acres. Samuel died about 1791 in Abbeville District, South Carolina.
One source says the Carson name probably comes from two Patterson brothers, Samuel and James that arrived from Ireland in 1773. Samuel was married to Mary Carson and James also may have been married to a Carson. Mary died in 1820 in Abbeville District, SC, at 90 years of age.
Children of Samuel and Mary:
|1.||Mary Patterson||4 Jul 1757 Newry, County Down, Ireland||William McGaw
5 Oct 1775 Abbeville, District 96, South Carolina
|4 Apr 1842 Israel Township, Preble Co, OH|
|2.||Sarah Patterson||c. 1759
Abbeville District SC
|Nov 1820 Abbeville District, SC|
|3.||John Patterson||Jan 1763
County Down, Ireland
|Mary Carson (his 1st cousin)
1792 Abbeville, SC
|11 Nov 1837
Preble Co, OH Interred Hopewell Cemetery
|4.||Samuel PATTERSON Jr.||17 Oct 1765 County Down, Ireland.||Agnes [__?__]
Abbeville District, South Carolina
28 Dec 1814 Preble County, Ohio
|20 Dec 1833 in Preble Co, OH|
County Down, Ireland
|Nancy Smith (Smyth)||aft 1830 in Dixon Twsp, Preble Co, OH|
|6.||Jane Patterson||9 Oct 1769 Newry, County Down, Ireland||David Pressly
McCormick Co, SC
|25 Feb 1856 Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA|
|7.||Josiah Patterson||Nov 1774
Abbeville District, SC
6 Feb 1794 Abbeville District, SC
Mrs. Sarah Terry
16 Sep 1824 Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina
27 Nov 1832 Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina
|31 Oct 1846 in Abbeville District, SC|
|8.||Margaret (Peggy) Patterson||1775||John Pressley
15 Nov 1798 Abbeville, Abbeville, SC
Samuel is named as a Ruling Elder in the church in his daughter Jane’s obituary. Perhaps, the Cedar Springs ARP (Associate Reformed Presbyterian) Church in Abbeville Dist of South Carolina where Rev. Alexander Porter was the pastor.
Several Presbyterian pastors led their congregations in emigrations from Ulster to America in the decade following Rev. Dr. Thomas Clark’s emigration from Ballybay, Northern Ireland to New York Colony in 1764. The most notable of these was the Martin emigration of Covenanter Presbyterian in 1772 from the area of Kellswater in central County Antrim, now part of Northern Ireland.
In 1750 Presbyterians from Octoraro, Virginia, and North Carolina, came to South Carolina and settled at Rocky Creek. By 1755 Irish immigrants, many of them Covenanters, began arriving. Various groups (Associate, Covenanter, Burgher, Anti-Burgher, Seceders) formed the “Catholic” (meaning a union of various groups of Presbyterians) church on Rocky Mount Road, 15 miles southeast of Chester. In 1770 Covenanters began holding society meetings and wrote to Ireland for a minister. Reverend William Martin answered the call in 1772.
The Rev. William Martin was the only Covenanter minister in counties Down and Antrim at that time. In 1760 he resided at Kellswater, in the townland of Carnaghts in the Parish of Connor. He had oversight responsibility for societies at Cullybackey, Laymore, Cloughmills, and Dervock. He preached also in Londonderry and Donegal. The Presbytery was founded in 1743 and Kellswater became the center in 1760.
There were five ships in the emigration led by Reverend Martin, all of which sailed in 1772. The first two sailed from Larne, the next two from Belfast, and the last one from Newry. The emigrants settled throughout western South Carolina, many in the Abbeville area. Reverend Martin himself settled in the general area of Abbeville, South Carolina (Rocky Creek in Chester County). After the British burned his church in 1780, he took refuge in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina.
The James and Mary sailed first on August 25 from Larne. There was smallpox on board (five children died) when they arrived in Charleston harbor on October 16. They were required to remain on board in quarantine, lying off Sullivan’s Island for over seven weeks, until the first part of December. “Ulster Emigration to Colonial America: 1718-1775”, page 253 by Dickson. “English America: American Plantations & Colonies”, by Thomas Langford, contains ship lists of voyages to English America from 1500 to 1825. See also “The Vessels, Voyages, Settlements, and People of English America 1500 – 1825”.
The next ship to sail was the Lord Dunluce that left Larne on October 4 and arrived in Charleston on December 20. This is the only ship that listed “Rev. Wm. Martin (Kellswater)” as an agent. The original sailing date was to have been Aug 15. The sailing was delayed until Aug 20, and then rescheduled for Sep 22. On Aug 28, the ship announced that passengers must give earnest money by Sep 5 since a greater number had offered to go than could betaken. On Sep 15, the ship advertised that, since some families had drawn back, two hundred more passengers could be accommodated. Reverend Martin was on this ship when it finally sailed on Oct 4. One man and several children died of small pox on the trip.
The Pennsylvania Farmer, whose destination had originally been advertised as Philadelphia, sailed from Belfast on Oct 16 and arrived in Charleston on December 19. (Dickson, page 248). Aboard the Pennsylvania Farmer was Andrew Paterson (250 acres).
The Hopewell sailed from Belfast on October 19 and arrived in Charleston on December 23. (Dickson, page 248). There were five Patersons aboard the Hopewell: Agnes (350 acres), Janet (100 acres), John (250 acres), John (100 acres), William (350 acres).
The Freemason sailed from Newry on October 27 and arrived in Charleston on December 22 (Dickson, page 252). Aboard the FreeMason were: Samuel Patterson (350 acres) and Mary Patterson (100 – unable to pay). According to Council Journal 37, Province of South Carolina, under date of 6 Jan 1773, the brigantine Free Mason, out of Ireland (port not specified), discharged at Charles Town, South Carolina, the following among its Irish Protestant immigrant passengers who were authorized the amount of land, in South Carolina, indicated opposite their names:
In the Province of South Carolina in 1773, land was granted under the Crown, as follows: Single man or woman (16 yrs. of age or older) – 100 acres Married man or widow – 100 acres for self and 50 acres for each child under 16 years Married woman – none Samuel Paterson named above would have had five children under 16 years of age on his arrival. Mary Patterson, referred to above, was 16 years of age or older and was single (or a widow with no eligible children). Prior to this time, the “Bounty Act” had expired and no bounty could be paid to the individuals. There was, therefore, no list of the passengers for the purpose of determining “family rights”. Family members and other individual passengers who were not eligible (e.g., under 15) to petition for free land (still available under the eighth clause of the General Duty Act of June 14, 1751) are not listed. See “The Five Ships and the People who came with the Rev. Martin”. The names of the emigrants have been reconstructed from letters written home to Ulster and published in the paper and from extractions of the South Carolina Quarter Session Minutes, by Janie Revill and Jean Stephenson.
Samuel Patterson’s 350 acres were surveyed on 12 Feb 1773, and was in Hillsborough Township, 96th District, bordered by land of Nick’es Bonchillon, Jean Bellats, Jacob Delchaux, Mary Patterson, James Clark, and Pat Calhoun.
Mary Patterson was granted 100 acres in Hillsborough township, 96th District, bordered Jacob De Le Chaux, Samuel Patterson, Jean Bellat; surveyed 12 Feb 1773.
Ninety-Six District was the former western most judicial district in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It existed as a district from 29 July 1769 to 31 December 1799. The court house and jail for Ninety-Six District were in Ninety Six, South Carolina.
In the colonial period, the land around the coast was divided into parishes corresponding to the parishes of the Church of England. There were also several counties that had judicial and electoral functions. As people settled the backcountry, judicial districts and additional counties were formed. On 1 January 1800, Ninety-Six District was abolished and replaced by the Abbeville, Edgefield, Greenville, Laurens, and Newberry Districts.
The Pattersons’ land grants were in present day Abbeville County.
|Abbeville County, South Carolina|
Samuel Patterson’s will was dated March 3, 1791 in Abbeville Dist, Rec September 13, 1794. Exrs: Wm. & John McGaw [both his sons-in-law]. Wit: Thos. Clark, Wm Carson [his wife’s brother], Alexr. Patterson [b. 1751 County Down, Ireland – d. 8 Jun 1839 in Abbeville County, South Carolina; m. Catherine McCaleb (1755 – 1839) I don’t know how Alexander is related ]. Wife: Mary Patterson. Chn: Saml., Josiah, Jas., Margaret, John, Mary, Sarah, Jean Patterson. Will was probated 13 Sep 1794.
1. Mary Patterson
Mary’s husband William McGaw was born 8 Feb 1749/50 in Dunfermline, County Antrim, Ireland. His father was John McGaw. He emigrated to Abbeville District, S.C. from Ireland at the age of 17 about 1767 with his brother John. They married sisters Mary and Sarah Patterson, daughters of Samuel Patterson. He was elder in Cedar Springs Association Reformed Presbyterian Church in Abbeville and elected ruling elder in the Hopewell Congregation in Preble Co, OH. William died 31 May 1836 in Preble County, Ohio and is buried next to Mary.
William served in the Revolutionary War in the 58th South Carolina Troops Militia / Ninety-Six District Regiment from fall or early winter of 1775. He began as a private and was promoted to Captain within a year to 18 months of the unit known as John Anderson’s Company. He retained this command until the close of the war. A Private and a Captain under Maj. Andrew Williamson, [later Brigadier General], Col. Andrew Pickens (wiki) [later Brigadier General , Major General and Congressman] . Later, a Captain under Col. Robert Anderson (wiki) (Upper Ninety-Six District Regiment).
William, his wife Mary, and family emigrated to Preble County, Ohio from South Carolina with Mary’s parents in 1811 where he became a Ruling Elder in the congregation of Hopewell Church. William resided 1811-1836 in Israel Twsp (Section 5), Preble Co, OH.
Children of William and Mary
i. Agnes McGaw b. 27 Jun 1776 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina; d. Nov 1845; m. 1794 in Abbeville, SC to Alexander Clark (b. 1772 in Abbeville, SC – d. 7 Jan 1841 in Perry, Illinois)
ii. Mary McGaw b. 15 Feb 1778 in Abbeville, Abbeville, SC; d. 10 Aug 1820 Israel, Preble, Ohio; m. 1796 in Abbeville, SC to James Boyse (b. 1768 in Long Cain Settlement, Abeville, SC – d. 22 Sep 1842 in Israel Township, Preble, Ohio) His parents were David Boyse and Jane Archer.
iii. Jane McGaw b. 3 Apr 1780; d. 10 Aug 1820 or 1825 – Israel, Preble County, Ohio; m. 18 Jan 1803 – Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina to Robert Boyse (b. 22 Aug 1776 in a Fort, in So Carolina – d. 13 Jan 1847 in Israel Township, Preble County, Ohio.) His parents were also David Boyse and Jane Archer.
Moved to Preble County Ohio after 1807. Their son Rev. William McGaw Boyse ( b. 24 Dec 1806 in Long Cane Settle, Abbeville, South Carolina – d. 861 in Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa.) was a Minister in Richmond Indiana, 1833-1853.
iv. Elizabeth McGaw b. 26 Sep 1782 in Abbeville, Abbeville, SC
v. Sarah McGaw b. 12 Mar 1788 in Abbeville, Abbeville, SC; d. 1 Nov 1847 Preble, Ohio
Never married. Mentioned in father’s will, but not in mother’s, so was probably dead at time. Signed her will 19 May 1817; probated 4 Dec 1820
vi. Margaret McGaw b. 4 Jul 1790 in Abbeville, Abbeville, SC; d. 21 Feb 1838, Hopewell Cemetery, Morning Sun, Preble County, Ohio; m. 2 Nov 1815 in Preble, Ohio to Thomas Pinkerton (b. 9 Nov 1793 in Abbeville, SC – d. 22 Mar 1873 in Preble, Ohio) His parents were John Pinkerton (1768 – 1852) and Mary Anderson (1768 – 1837).; After Margaret died, Thomas married Margaret Sloan (b. 1796 South Carolina – d. 13 Jun 1872 Preble, Ohio)
Thomas emigrated with other colonists and his father’s family of 8 sons and 2 daughters to Preble in the spring of 1815. Married Margaret McGaw November 2, 1815 and built a cabin in Dixon township. After Margaret died, in 1839 he married Margaret Sloan. His father Hon. John Pinkerton, often a commissioner of Preble county, member of the State Legislature, who with many of the early settlers of Israel and Dixon townships, in Preble left South Carolina because of the slavery issue.
History of Preble County, Ohio 1881 — Thomas Pinkerton came to Dixon in 1815, with his father, John Pinkerton, who entered land in section thirty-two. John Pinkerton subsequently represented Preble county in the State legislature two terms. Thomas was born in South Carolina in 1793, and married, in 1816, Margaret McGaw, by whom he had seven children two of whom survive: Elizabeth, wife of John B. Foster, living in Illinois, and W. A. Pinkerton, in this township. W. A. was born in 1821, married, in 1842, Maria Sterrett, who was born in 1821. They have had four children, two living. Mr. Pinkerton has held the office of justice of the peace six years, and has been trustee of the township some fifteen years.
In the 1850 census, Thomas and Margaret were farming in Dixon, Preble, Ohio.
The Fair Haven Church — As soon as that portion of the Hopewell congregation living in the vicinity of Fair Haven had been stricken off , the petition to moderate a call had been granted by presbytery. A call was made out and moderated by Rev. Alexander Porter, and accepted by Rev. Jeremiah Morrow, son of ex-Governor Morrow. He was installed in the following spring. The congregation consisted of about fifty families, and the new church immediately commenced its career of prosperity. The following were the first elders of the church. John and Thomas Pinkerton, John Foster, William McGaw and William McCaw [son of James McCAW and uncle of William A McCAW who probably followed his relative to Preble, Ohio.
vii. Rev. Samuel Patterson McGaw b. 3 Jun 1793 in Winnsboro, Fairfield, SC; d. 18 Mar 1840 Monroe, Butler, Ohio; m. 18 Aug 1818 in Warren, Ohio to Anna Gordon (b. 1 Jan 1796 in Fayette, Kentucky – d. 1 Aug 1875 in Oxford, Butler, Ohio)
Presbyterian Minister- Pastor of Clear Creek and Mt. Pleasant Congregations in Ohio. Known to have had eight children, one known is Anna Maria b. 3 Apr 1820, d. 1 Jul 1865,
In the 1860 and 1870 census, Anna was living in Oxford, Butler, Ohio with her daughters Lizzie (b. 1835 Ohio) and Harriet (b. 1840 Ohio)
viii. Martha McGaw b. 9 Oct 1795 in Abbeville, Abbeville, SC; d. 1881; m. 1813 in Preble, Ohio to Samuel Smith (b. 1795 Kentucky – d. 1881) His parents were our ancestors James SMITH and Anna SMITH
In the 1850 census, Samuel and Martha were farming in Israel, Preble, Ohio.
ix. Abigail McGaw b. 9 Mar 1798 in Abbeville, Abbeville, SC; d. Burial: Hopewell Cemetery, Morning Sun, Preble County, Ohio, Plot: Row 19; m. 11 Jun 1817 in Preble, Ohio to William Pinkerton (b. Oct 1795 in Abbeville, South Carolina – d. 19 Nov 1848 in Preble, Ohio); .
William Pinkerton and Thomas Pinkerton were brothers.
In the 1860 census, Abigail was living with her son Joseph in Israel, Preble, Ohio.
x. William Magaw Jr. b. 16 Nov 1801 in Abbeville, Abbeville, SC; d. 24 Mar 1897 Preble, Ohio; m1. 11 Mar 1824 Preble, Ohio to Rachel Paxton (b. 29 Sep 1805 in Preble, Ohio – d. 18 Feb 1852 in Preble, Ohio); m2. 27 Mar 1856 in Kenton, Hardin, Ohio to Elizabeth Lang (b. 30 Oct 1820 in Ohio – d. 12 Mar 1913 in Richmond, Indiana);
In the 1860 census, William and Elizabeth Magaw were farming in Israel, Preble, Ohio.
He has numerous descendents, 10 children by first wife, and 2 by second wife, — all of whom spell the name “Magaw”.
2. Sarah Patteson
Sarah’s husband John McGaw was born about 1757 in Dunfermline, County Antrim, Ireland. He and his brother William, sons of John, came from Ireland about 1767. They married sisters Mary and Sarah Patterson, daughters of Samuel Patterson. John died in 1805 in Abbeville District, SC. John signed his will 15 Feb 1805, recorded 06 Aug 1805, and probated 04 Dec 1805.
John McGaw was a captain in the Revolutionary War.
Regiment – Upper Ninety-Six District Regiment
Service – 1779 to 1783
Unit – A Lieutenant and a Captain under Col. Andrew Pickens and Col. Robert Anderson before and after the Fall of Charleston.
Engagements – Siege of Ninety-Six 1781, Indian Villages
Sarah made a will 19 May 1817. The will was proven 04 Dec 1820. Her will was dated 19 May 1817 in Abbeville Dist, and proven 04 Dec 1820. Exrs; Son, Samuel McGaw, Bro., Josiah Patterson. Wit: Samuel, John T. Pressly. Chn: John, Samuel, Wm., Jad., Moses, Agness, Benjamin, Josiah, Mary McGaw Sale, Dec. 22, 1820. Byrs: Mary Giles, Allen Glover, Benjamin McGaw, Josiah McGaw, Jane Pressly, James Patton, Samuel McGaw, Josiah Patterson, John Pressly, Mathew Shanks, Robert Shanks, Archibald Little.
Children of Sarah and John:
i. John McGaw b. 1778 in Abbeville, SC; d. 1846 Illinois; m. 11 Dec 1799 in Abbeville, SC to Agnes Cochran (b. 1780 in Abbeville, SC – d. 1838 in Abbeville)
ii. Samuel McGaw b. 20 Sep 1780 in Abbeville, SC; d. 2 Oct 1825 Abbeville, SC; m. 15 Feb 1801 in Abbeville, SC to Mary (Mollie) Anderson (b. 1782 in Abbeville, Abbeville, SC – d. 26 May 1836 in Abbeville)
Samuel and Mary had eleven children, most of whom lived their whole lives in Abbeville.
iii. William McGaw b. 1782 in Abbeville, SC; d. Aft 1860 cenus; m. 1813 in Abbeville, SC to Hannah English (b. 1785 in Abbeville, SC -d. Aft. 1860 census) Her parents were Andrew English and Elizabeth Jane Bryson. Lived in Marengo Co., Alabama. In the 1860 census, William and Hannah lived in Township 12 Range 3 East, Marengo, Alabama with Etheldred W and Salina (perhaps Dorothy “Dolly” Patterson) Quinney.
iv. James McGaw b. 1784 in Abbeville, SC; m. Eleanor [__?__]; d. 1820 Marengo, Alabama. Probably went to Marengo Co., Alabama. Family history says he died in 1820, and also that he might have removed to above in the 1820’s.
v. Mary Agnes McGaw b. 15 Aug 1786 in Abbeville, SC; d. 1845 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina.; m1. Abt. 1803, Abbeville, 96 District, SC. Robert Giles (b. 1786 in Elbert, Georgia – d. 27 Mar 1817 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina); His mother may have been Susannah Patterson (b. 1744 in Belfast, Antrim, , Ireland – d. 8 Mar 1824 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina.) I haven’f found what the relation may have been.
m2. 1822 Abbeville, SC to Mathew Brown (b. 1771 Ireland – d. Apr 1845 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina) Matthew first married Martha “Mattie” Creswell (1779 – 1820)
vi. Sarah (Sally) McGaw b. 1788 in Abbeville, SC; d. 1817 Abbeville, SC or 1 Jan 1847 – Preble County, Ohio; m. [__?__] Patterson
vii. Moses McGaw b. 1790 in Abbeville, SC; d. 10 May 1868 South Henderson Cemetery , Gladstone, Henderson County, Illinois; m. 14 Dec 1815 in Preble, Ohio to Isabelle Wiley (b. 1797 in Kentucky – d. 23 Jan 1880, Henderson, Illinois)
In the 1850 census, Moses and Isabelle were farming in Dixon, Preble, Ohio.
viii. Benjamin McGaw b. 2 Oct 1794 in Abbeville, SC; d. 22 Oct 1849 Columbia, Maury, Tennessee; m. 1816 in Abbeville, SC to Jane Cochran (b. 9 Oct 1798 in SC – d. 22 Nov 1846 in Maury, Tennessee)
Moved From Abbevile SC area to Maury Co., TN, about 1824-29.
Captain, Long Cane Republican Troop of Cavalry, SC Militia (commision dated 7 May, 1824)
ix. Josiah McGaw b. 10 Nov 1796 in Abbeville, SC; d. 4 Aug 1851 Holly Springs, Marshall, Mississippi; m1. 30 Mar 1820 in Abbeville, SC to Martha Russell (b. 1800 – d. 1836 in Abbeville, SC); m2. 19 Jan 1837 in Abbeville, SC to Martha Devlin (b. 1800 in Greenwood, SC – d. 1877 in Abbeville, Laurens, SC) Widow of [__?__] Pressly
In the 1850 census, Josiah owned 16 slaves in Lexington, Holmes, Mississippi.
Age Gender 35 Male 28 Male 13 Male 7 Male 3 Male 46 Female 25 Female 25 Female 6 Female 4 Female 3 Female 2 Female 2 Female 3 Female 1 Female 2 M Female.
3. John Patterson
John’s wife Mary Carson was born 1764 in Tyrone, Ulster, Ireland. She was his first cousin. Her parents were William A. Carson and Margaret Mills. Her grandparents were Thomas Gibson CARSON and Margaret McDOWELL. Mary died 29 May 1824 at 59 years of age. Her body was interred 1824 in Hopewell Cem, Preble Co, OH.
John and wife removed from Abbeville District, S.C. to Preble County, OH in 1807. Apparently had no children as none mentioned in estate papers – estate sold 13 Apr 1838 in Preble County, OH. Administrator of his estate was Thomas Pinkerton, bond signed by Pinkerton, Alexander Porter and William McGaw.
John was a soldier in the Revolutionary War, serving as a substitute for his father in August 1778 when he was just 15 1/2 years old; he saw service in the Carolinas in 1778, 1780 and 1781 and was discharged March 1781. He was in both the infantry and cavalry.
John applied for a Revolutionary War Pension on Sep 18, 1832. We know a lot about his service from his application letter.
In August 1778 John was assigned to Captain John Cowan’s (Cowen’s) Company of militia, Colonel George Reed’s Upper Ninety-Six District Regiment and General Andrew Williamson’s Brigade. The force rendezvoused at Beaverdam Creek in Georgia. John served for three months during which time he was engaged in defending the country against the Cherokee by burning the Indian’s corn and destroying seven Indian towns. His discharge was signed by Lt. Davis.
In April 1780, John was drafted to go to Charleston under Captain Cowan who then belonged to Colonel Pickens’ regiment. When this draft had proceeded about eighty miles on the way to Charleston, they were met by an express informing them the city had surrendered. Col. Pickens then marched his men to Camden. John was out on tour about one month.
In September 1780, John went to Soap Creek, Georgia and volunteered to serve in Capt. Dunn’s Company in Col. Clarke’s Regiment. He was with Col. Clark when he took possession of Augusta, but was soon driven away by the British. He continued in service on this tour — after the Battle of King’s Mountain which was on the 7th of October. After this battle, the company under Capt. Dunn dispersed being all volunteers for no definite time.
John, with three others, went to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and remained with his friends until January 1781.
When Lord Cornwallis commenced his march to Virginia, John volunteered to service in a light horse company for six weeks under Capt. Givens? and Col. Harris?. John was engaged in guarding the fords on the Catuwba River about one week. He was then marched to Guilford Court House. Near Guilford, his company joined forces with General Greene. During this tour, John was engaged in several skirmishes with the British, but was in no general engagement. At the end of the six week volunteer, John received a discharge from Capt. Givens?
The Battle of Guilford Court House, fought on March 15, 1781 in Greensboro, the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina. A force of 1,900 British troops under the command of Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis defeated an American force of 4,000 troops, commanded by Major General Nathanael Greene.
Despite the relatively small numbers of troops involved, the battle is considered pivotal to the American victory in the Revolution. Before the battle, the British appeared to have had great success in conquering much of Georgia and South Carolina with the aid of strong Loyalist factions, and thought that North Carolina might be within their grasp. In the wake of the battle, Greene moved into South Carolina, while Cornwallis chose to march into Virginia and attempt to link up with roughly 3500 men under British Major General Phillips and American turncoat Benedict Arnold. These decisions allowed Greene to unravel British control of the South, while leading Cornwallis to Yorktown and eventual surrender to Major General George Washingtonand Lieutenant General Comte de Rochambeau.
In the summer of 1781, John enlisted in the troop of Capt. Francis Moore’s company of light horse, Colonel, Col. Charles Myddleton’s SC 2nd Regiment of State Dragoons. In March 1782, John’s ten month enlistment expired and he was discharged by Capt. Moore at Orangeburg Engagements included:
|May 1, 1781||Friday’s Ferry|
|Jun 18, 1781||Myddleton’s Ambuscade|
|Jul 17, 1781||Quinby’s Bridge|
|Jul 17, 1781||Shubrick’s Plantation|
|Sep 8, 1781||Eutaw Springs,|
“History of Preble County, Ohio” published in 1881:
THE HOPEWELL CHURCH. In the years 1806 and 1807 several families, members of the Associate Reformed church, emigrated from the States of Kentucky and South Carolina, and settled in Israel Township in the midst of the Beech Woods. Rev. Risk, a minister of the Associate Reformed church, preached to them soon after their settlement.
In the fall of 1808, at the house of William McCreary, in section thirty-six, they formed themselves into a society, and in conjunction with the people of Concord petitioned the presbytery of Kentucky for supplies. Among those who occasionally supplied them were, Revs. McCord, McGill, Samuel Crothers and Brahman Craig.
September, 1808, the people assembled in the double log barn of David Madill’s, and Mr. Craig, after preaching organized the congregation into a church of nearly fifty members. Prominent among these first named on the church roll were the McDills, McQuistons, Boyces, Ramseys and Elliotts. At the time of the organization the following elders were chosen by the congregation: David and Andrew McQuiston, James Boyse, Ebenezer Elliott and John Patterson, all of whom had been ordained previous to their settlement in the township.
The church continued to receive supplies from the Kentucky presbytery, and the number of members was increased by immigration, but the prospect of having a settled minister among them did not open until 1814, when Rev. Alexander Porter, the pastor of the Associate Reformed church at Cedar Springs, Abbeville district, South Carolina, being previously released from his charge, came on a visit to the western churches, and to the Israel township congregation preached on two Sabbaths and one week day. By this time the congregation had increased to more than fifty families, and the people were more than ever desirous of securing a pastor and of erecting a house of worship. Accordingly they drew up a call for Mr. Porter, and presented it to the presbytery of Kentucky. A copy of the call is now in possession of the Hopewell session. It is drawn up in the usual form, and prays that Mr. Porter become the shepherd of their souls, and promises to pay him all due respect and support. It was signed by the following persons who constituted the first membership of the church, with the understanding that as soon as these churches could be provided with a settled pastor, Hopewell would receive the whole of Mr. Porters labors.
Prior to this call the first church building had been erected just west of the present house. It was a log structure thirty feet square, and afterwards, to accommodate the growing congregation, received in addition of thirty feet. The pulpit was in the middle of the west side, with two small windows just back of it. The seats were made of slabs hewed from logs. They were provided with stiff, upright backs. The present church building is a commodious frame, and is kept in good repair.
In October, 1814, Mr. Porter, having accepted the call, came to his new pastoral charge at Hopewell, and settled with his family on the farm in section sixteen, now occupied by Alexander Orr. In the following July he was solemnly installed by Rev. John Steele. Shortly afterwards the congregation was much enlarged by immigrations from Mr. Porter’s old parish, in South Carolina, and six members were added to the session who had been elders of the church in South Carolina.
No children mentioned in estate papers; estate sold 13 April 1838. Administrator of his estate was Thomas Pinkerton, bond signed by Pinkerton, Alexander Porter and William McGaw
TO the memory of
Nov. 11th, 1837
in the 75th year
of his age
4. Samuel PATTERSON Jr. (See his page)
5. James Patteson
James’ wife Nancy Smith (Smyth) was born in 1770 in South Carolina. Her parents were Robert Smyth and Martha Boggs. Nancy died in 1850 – Dawson, Georgia
James removed from Abbeville District, S.C. to Preble County, OH. He may have moved there with his brother Samuel. It is believed that the James Patterson listed as a resident of Dixon Twp, Preble County, OH in the U.S. Census of 1830 as 60 to 70 years of age and living alone, is one and the same as James Patterson, son of Samuel Patterson. James is NOT listed in the U.S. Censuses of 1820 and 1840 for Dixon Twp, Preble County, OH.
Children of James and Nancy
i. Samuel Patterson b. 1794 in Abbeville, South Carolina; d. 01 Jan 1872 in Preble, Ohio; DID NOT marry Mary Ann McJimsey (b. 4 Jul 1812 in Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania – d. 16 Jul 1849 in Donegal Twsp., Lancaster, Pennsylvania) She married
Samuel Smith Patterson (b. 29 Apr 1804 in Lancaster Co., PA – d. 11 Jan 1883 in Sterling, Whiteside, Illinois)
ii. William Patterson b. 1798 in Abbeville, South Carolina; d. 16 Apr 1895 in Forsyth, Georgia; Burial: Chestatee Baptist Church Cemetery, Gainesville, Hall County, Georgia; m. 3 Aug 1820 Preble, Ohio to Martha A. Welch ( abt 1800 in Pendleton, South Carolina – d. 11 Dec 1891 in Forsyth, Georgia) William and Martha were farming in Forsyth, Georgia in the 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880 census.
iii. Mary Patterson b. ABT 1808 in Abbeville, South Carolina; m. 21 Sep 1826 Preble, Ohio to James Crason
6. Jane Patterson
When Jane was two, her family emigrated to America along with Rev. William Martin, arriving in Charleston, South Carolina in December 1772. Jane’s parents were granted 450 acres in Hillsborough Township, in the Ninty-six District of the back country of South Carolina. Here Jane and her parents became active members of both Long Cane and Cedar Springs A.R.P. churches.
Jane’s husband David Pressly was born 1756 Charleston, South Carolina. His brother John married Jane’s sister Peggy. His parents were John Pressly (b. in Scotland – d. 1778 South Carolina) and Isabelle Fleming (b. 1716 – d. 1761) . His parents were both Scotch-Irish Presbyterians who emigrated to America, part of Rev. William Martin and his five ships that arrived in Charlestown in the fall of 1772 and settling in the area around Long Cane in Abbeville District, South Carolina. He married Jane Patterson in 1789 in Long Canes, Greenwood, South Carolina. David died in 1818 in Long Canes, Greenwood, South Carolina.
David’s sister Jane Pressly (b. 1762 in Abbeville, South Carolina – d. 28 Jan 1823 in Abbeville, South Carolina) married George Hearst (b. 1764 in Ireland – d. 1822 in Franklin, Missouri) George came to the Abbeville district of South Carolina with his parents in 1766. According to probate records, George Hearst married an unknown Pressly prior to 1807 (the first name of Jane is unproven at this point). The George of this marriage may have been the son of Major John Hearst and Martha Carson (Martha was the granddaughter of our ancestor Thomas Gibson CARSON. Alternatively, George was Major John Hearst’s brother and the son of John Hearst and Elizabeth Knox.
Alternatively yet again, David’s sister Jane married George’s brother Joseph Hearst (b. 16 Feb. 16, 1760 – d. 21 May 1814 Cedar Springs, Abbeville County, South Carolina) At the age of 21, on June 8th 1784. The Hearst came to South Carolina from Ireland in late 1765 or early 1766 with Dr. Thomas Clark and settled in the Long cane area, as well. Jane and Joseph had known each other as children, both members of Long cane and Cedar Springs A. R. P. churches. This blessed union had six known children. Joseph Hearst, Sr. was ordained as an elder in both Long Cane & Cedar Springs A. R. P. churches, which his parents helped organize. Joseph is buried near his parents and in-laws in the churchyard cemetery at Cedar Springs. His wife would join him fourteen years later. Jane Pressly Hearst departed this life on the 6th of September 1828, at the aged of 66 years old. Jane is buried near her husband and brother, David Pressly in the churchyard cemetery at Cedar Springs.
In circa 1808, George and his family left South Carolina for Illinois. George’s son Joseph stated in the 1850 census that he was born in Illinois. After a few years, the George once again moved, this time to Missouri were he settled in the Meramec valley near his brother Thomas who had preceded him there. It appears that he married again around 1820. By the time of his death, George had become one of the wealthiest man in Meramec township. He kept 19 of the 41 slaves to be found in the township.
George’s son William G Hearst ( b. 1776 Woodvine, Abbeville, South Carolina – d. Nov 1844 Franklin, Missouri) m. 1817 in Biglow, Franklin, Missouri to Elizabeth Collins (b. 1780)
George’s grandson George F Hearst (3 Sep 1820 Anaconda, Franklin, Missouri – d. 28 Feb 1891 California; m. 15 Jun 1862 in Steelville, Crawford, Missouri to Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson (b. 3 Dec 1842 in Whitmire Settlem, Franklin, Missouri – d. 1919 in Colma, California) I attended Phoebe Heart Elementary School in San Diego, named because Phoebe helped found the California PTA.
The Hearst fortune is due to more to luck than skill. George left for California on or about 15 May 1850 taking five months to make the journey. While in California, a few creditors took advantage of George’s absence and brought attachments against land he owned that was in Dr. Patton’s care. When Dr. Patton failed to satisfy the demands, the Hearst lands in his control were sold on the court house steps.
George didn’t make his fortune in the California mines. He was keeping a store when, in 1859, the Comstock Lode was discovered in Nevada. George joined the rush there and invested in the Ophir mine. When Alva Gould sold his claim to George Hearst for $450, he ran down the street yelling “I tricked a Californian”. After digging for only two months, George and his partners hauled 38 tons of high grade ore to California and made a profit of $90,000 from its sale. In less than a year he sold his share in the mine for a fortune. At one time the Ophir mine, which was almost a quarter mile in length was worth $4,000 per foot.
George F Hearst’s only son William Randolph Hearst (b. 29 Apr 1863 San Francisco, California – d. 14 Aug 1951 Beverly Hills, California) m. Millicent Veronica Willson (1882–1974) Marion Davies, mistress built a newspaper empire and Hearst Castle of course.
David’s family were also charter members of Long Cane and Cedar Springs, thus they had much in common. During their marriage of 28 years, they had nine children; two of her sons were physicians and two were renowned ministers of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church.
Jane left Preble Co, OH with her husband and returned to Long Canes, Greenwood Co, SC where David Pressley died. After her husband died in 1818, Jane Pressly lived with her second son, Rev. John T. Pressly, then minister at Cedar Springs. In 1832 when he was appointed minister of the First A.R.P. Church of Allegheny in Pittsburgh, Jane moved with him.
Jane Patterson Pressly died in Pittsburgh on the 25th of February 1856 in the 87th year of her age. She was laid to rest in the Pressly Family plot near her son, daughter-in-law and grandchildren.
Jane’s husband David Pressly was born 1756. His parents were John Pressly and Isabella Fleming b: 1716. His father was a member of the colony that left Belfast, Ireland, now Northern Ireland, 28 Sep 1734 on the Good Intent and arrived at Charles Town, South Carolina about 1 Dec 1734. David died 24 Sep 1818 Troy (Long Canes), Greenwood County
South Carolina at 62 years of age.
who departed this life
21st September 1818
aged 62 years
friend of the poor.
Blessed is he that considers
the poor; the Lord will deliver
him in time of trouble. Ps. 11.1
David Pressly, son of the pioneer, John, built a home about five miles east of Long Cane A.R.P. Church and became a prosperous merchant. He is buried in Cedar Springs churchyard, and his tombstone bears the inscription: “To the memory of David Pressly who departed this life 24 Sep 1818, aged about 62 years. Eminently distinguished as the friend of the poor.
Associate Reformed Presbyterian Death & Marriage Notices Volume II: 1866-1888 Compiled by Lowry Ware Scmar , Columbia, South Carolina 1998
“Died on Monday, February 25th, at the residence of John T. Pressly, Allegheny, Pa., Jane Patterson Pressly, in the 87th year of her age…. Native of County Down, Ireland, and emigrated to this country when two years old with her father Samuel Patterson who settled in Abbeville, SC. Her father was a ruling elder…. [died] leaving behind him four sons and four daughters.? The deceased was the last survivor of her father’s family. She was the mother of nine children; two of who died in their youth. Her oldest son, Dr. Samuel Pressly, died some fifteen years hence. Of her sons, two are physicians and ruling elders, two are ministers, and one is a merchant and a ruling elder. Her oldest daughter is the widow of Dr. George R. Brown, and the youngest daughter is the widow of Rev. Joseph Lowry.
Children of Jane and David:
i. Dr. Samuel Patterson Pressly b. 12 Sep 1792 in Long Cane, SC; d. 12 Oct 1837 Wilcox, Alabama; m. 1811 in Cedar Springs, Abbeville, SC to Elizabeth Knox Hearst (b. 1791 in Greenwood, SC – d. 1875 in Wilcox, Alabama) Her parents were also Joseph Hearst (1760 – 1814) and Jane Pressly(1762 – 1828).
He removed from Abbeville District S.C. to Preble County Ohio and practiced medicine there from 1811 to 1815. In 1815 he returned to Abbeville District S.C. where he practiced from 1815 to 1834. In later years he moved to Wilcox County Alabama, where he practiced until his death in 1837.
ii. Rev. John Taylor Pressly b. 28 Mar 1795 in Abbeville, Abbeville, SC; d. 13 Aug 1870 Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania; m. Jane Hearst (b. 1793 in Abbeville, Abbeville, SC – d. 5 Apr 1873 Pittsburgh, Penns.) Her parents were Joseph Hearst (1760 – 1814) and Jane Pressly (1762 – 1828) The Hearst of Cedar Springs are the great-great- grandparents of William Randolph Hearst of the publishing fame.
John received D.D. degree from Transylvania University, Lexington, Ky. . The Princeton Review ranked Transylvania 1st among colleges with Greek life. Graduated from the Associated Reformed Presbyterian Seminary, New York City. July 10, 1817, D.D. New York City. He was pastor of Cedar Springs Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Abbeville District S.C. for 11 years.
Operated Union Academy.
Jane Hearst was the daughter of of Joseph Albert Hearst and Jane Pressly, of Cedar Springs, Abbeville County, South Carolina. She was born of the 17th day of June 1793.
On July 4, 1816, Jane Hearst married John Taylor Pressly, son of David and Jane (née Patterson) Pressly; with whom she had nine children.
In October 1832, now Rev. John Pressly and Jane moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania where he became minister of First A. R. P. Church. Jane Pressly was a devoted wife and helpmate in his service as a pastor to a growing congregation. Jane became well loved and appreciated for her devotion.
After Rev. Pressly died in 1870, Jane Pressly continued to be dedicated to his work until her death on April 4th 1873. Jane Hearst Pressly is buried beside her husband of 54 years in Union Dale Cemetery..
iii. Elizabeth Pressly b. 10 Jul 1797 in 96th District, South Carolina; d. 20 Apr 1857 in Preble, Ohio; m. 1810 South Carolina to Dr. George Brown (b. 1774 in Newberry, South Carolina – d. 21 Jun 1845 in Preble, Ohio) His parents were Nathan Brown (1731 – 1779) and Grissel Ritchey ( – 1810).
iv. Mary Pressly b. 10 Jul 1797 in Cedar Springs, Abbeville, SC; d. 17 Nov 1875 Jefferson, Georgia; m. 21 Feb 1813 in Cedar Springs, Abbeville, SC to Rev. Joseph Lowry (b. 1 Jan 1777 in Cedar Springs, Abbeville, SC – d. 23 Jul 1840 in Jefferson, Georgia) In the 1850 census, Mary was living with her son David and three other of her children in District 48, Jefferson, Georgia.
Joseph was pastor of Bethel Church in Jefferson County Georgia from 1814-1840
v. Dr. George W Pressly b. 9 Feb 1803 in Cedar Springs, Abbeville, SC; d. 29 Dec 1870 Troy, Greenwood, South Carolina; m. 1820 in Abbeville, South Carolina to Isabella Hearst (b. 28 Mar 1806 in Abbeville, – d. 30 Nov 1858) another daughter of Joseph Hearst (1760 – 1814) and Jane Pressly (1762 – 1828). Her grandparents were John Hearst (1715- 1782) and Elizabeth Knox.
George spent most of his life in Abbeville District S.C. as a physician and legislator.
Degree: April 08, 1824, University of Pennsylvania
vi. James Patterson Pressly b. 25 Nov 1808, 3 miles north of Cedar Springs Associate Refomed Presbyterian Church in Abbeville Distict SC; d. 30 Mar 1877 Due West ARP Church Cemetery , Due West, Abbeville County, South Carolina; m1. Jane Hearst (b. 1811 in Abbeville – d. 30 Jun 1832 in Oak Hill, Wilcox, Alabama) Her parents were John Hearst (1787 – 1843) and Sarah Wardlaw (1791 – 1823) She was a cousin of the Hearst girls who married James’ brothers; m2. Elizabeth Bonner Young (b. 1 Dec 1813 in Abbeville – d. 7 Jul 1841 in Due West, Abbeville, SC) Her parents were Samuel Young (1782 – 1856) and Elizabeth Bonner (1789 – 1852); m3. Mary Eleanor Young (b. 19 Jul 1823 in Generostee, SC – d. 26 Jul 1892 Due West, Abbeville, SC) daughter of Francis Young and Nancy Little
In 1831, Jane Hearst married her childhood friend, James Patterson Pressly, son of David Pressly and the former Miss Jane Patterson. James Patterson Pressly was a young minister with the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church and emigrated with his wife to the Wilcox County area of Alabama; where several families from the Long Cane & Cedar Springs A.R.P. churches had settled.
Sadly, Jane Hearst Pressly died on the 30th of June 1832 not long after moving to Oakhill in Wilcox County at the age of 20 years, 8 months and 25 days..
James attended Union Academy operated by his brother Dr. John Taylor Pressly ( 1795-1870)
Graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio in 1826, He studied theology with his brother John Taylor Pressly. Licensed to preach 21 Feb 1829, Ordained 27 May 1830 as an Associate Reformed Presbyterian Minister. Held pastorates at Due West S.C., Generostee S.C. and Bethel in Laurens County S.C. Later visited pastorates in Ga., Alabama, and Florida. Then held pastorates for ten The next 35 years were spent at Erskine College, Due West, S.C. the longest serving member of the faculty during Erskine’s first century.
Their son Rev. Frank Young Pressly was President of Erskine College (1899-1907)
vii. William Patterson Pressly b. 17 Mar 1811 in Greenwood, SC; m1. 1833 to Mary Gilmore (b. 1813 – 12 Oct 1836 in Preble County, Ohio) Her parents were Robert Gilmore and Sina Irwin; m2. Martha Miller (24 Oct 1806 – 20 Jul 1885) daughter of william Miller and Elizabeth Lackey; d. 3 Apr 1905 Monmouth, Illinois
Corresonded with her cousin Martha Miller of Va. After Mary Gilmore’s death William Patterson Pressly kept up the corresondence with Martha Miller, made a trip to Va., married her and brought her back to Fairhaven Ohio wher he kept a store. There the 3 Children of William and Martha were born. When the three children were grown they moved to Monmouth Illinois. Both William and Martha are buried in the old part of Monmouth Cemetery ( lot 100, block 9)
1903 Historical Encyclopedia of Illinois” Warren County :PRESSLY WILLIAM P.. was born near Abbeville. S. C, March 17, 1811. He was for a time, while a boy, a student at Miami University. Ohio. Then he engaged in farming and afterwards in business at Hamilton, Ohio. He came to Monmouth in 1859 and after farming for one year, became for the remainder of his active life a merchant. For many years his store was the favorite shopping place of Monmouth, especially for people from the country. He was a very successful business man of the highest standing. His credit and his character were never blemished. Mr. Pressly was married to Mary Gilmore, of Ohio, in 1833. She died in 1836. His second wife, Mary Miller, of Virginia, died in 1885. His son, Henry, a young man of fine ability and character, gave his life for his country in the Civil War.
Henry Pressley (1837-1861) attended a commercial college in Chicago; while there he was converted and by his Christian conversation and deportment had a great influence on his cousins, the children of Samuel Miller, who he visited in Memphis, Missouri, resulting in four of the brothers and sisters confessing Christ and uniting with the church. He went to Kansas, at that time almost a state of revolution, on the slavery question. Returning home, he enlisted in Company F 17th Illinois Infantry Regiment and in the next spring, 1861 was in the battle of Pittsburgh Landing (aka Battle of Shiloh);part of the siege of Vicksburg, he was killed; by the caving in of the earth, where they were excavating for a powder magazine. His remains were taken to his home in Monmouth for burial.
William also had three daughters, Virginia, Sarah and Mary, each died in early womanhood. Thus left childless, Mr. Pressly determined too become his own executor. In 1863 he gave to Monmouth College 700 acres of choice farming lands in Iowa. During 1870 and subsequent years he gave to the Warren County Library over $20,000, thus founding a library for popular use, erecting and donating the first building ever given for such a purpose in the State of Illinois. The liberal and sensible plans of the founder have brought too this institution constantly increasing prosperity and enlarging usefulness. It has been managed exactly in accordance with his wishes. A twin object of Mr. Pressly’s practical and liberal care has been the building and endowing of Mission Schools for native Christians in Egypt. For this purpose he has, also, given over $20,000. These schools have had excellent management. They have had remarkable success. The engraving accompanying this sketch is taken from a portrait painted thirty years ago. Mr. Pressly lives to enjoy the good which he has done. He has seen his gifts applied as he intended. He has won the respect and gratitude of thousands. His practical benevolence and his Christian character give him an abiding remembrance in this our land of the future as well as in the ancient land of the pyramids. His name will endure as the name of a helper of his fellowmen.
Monmouth College was founded on April 18, 1853 by the Second Presbytery of Illinois, a frontier arm of the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. The college celebrates this date annually as “Founders Day,” cancelling classes for a day of celebration and an honors convocation. Founded as “Monmouth Academy,” the school became Monmouth College after receiving a charter from the state legislature on September 3, 1856. The college remains affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and is a member of the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, a consortium of small, private liberal arts colleges. The college’s motto “Sit Lux” (“Let there be Light”) appears on its seal, but the college likes to describe itself as “What College Was Meant to Be.”
Monmouth was one of the first institutions in the country to admit women from its inception. This increased the college’s early popularity and logically made it the home of the women’s sorority movement. Pi Beta Phi was founded on April 28, 1867 as I. C. Sorosis. Pi Beta Phi was the first national secret college society of women to be modeled after the Greek-letter fraternities of men. Kappa Kappa Gamma, founded in 1870, is another national sorority founded at Monmouth College
viii. Joseph Pressly b. 1813 in Long Canes, SC
7. Josiah Patterson
Josiah’s first wife Abigail Blair was born 1774. Her parents were Samuel Blair (d.1813-1815) and Agnes [__?__]. Abigail died 18 Apr 1823 at 48 years of age. Her body was interred in Rocky River Presbyterian Cem, Abbeville Co, SC.
Josiah’s second wife Sarah [__?__] was born in 1778 in Chester, South Carolina. Sarah’s first husband Capt. Jeremiah S. Terry was an elder in the Lower Cane Church before 1810 when he joined Rocky River Presbyterian Church in upper Abbeville District in the area called “Monterey”. He later became a Magistrate. Sarah died 14 Apr 1827 – Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina.
Josiah’s third wife Eleanor Phelps was born in 1775.
Josiah had 9 children, including Sarah Cowan Patterson.
In the Census of 1790 for Abbeville, SC Josiah Patterson is listed as owning 2 slaves. In the 1820 Census there is a Josiah Patterson Sr. listed as owning 21 slaves.
About 1810, Josiah Patterson removed into the congregation of Rocky River Presbyterian Church in upper Abbeville District, South Carolina where he was made a member of the session. He removed there from the Long Cane section in the lower part of the District. His is believed to have previously been an elder in the Lower Long Cane Church. [from the letters of Andrew Giles and John Spencer, October and November 1852]
The section of Abbeville District which was served by Rocky River Church was and is known as Monterey, today remembered by Monterey Road.
After his removal into the Township of Monterey, Josiah Patterson became a magistrate. [letter, 1 April 1957, Harold L. Carlisle, Calhoun Falls, South Carolina to Carroll Ruffin Patterson]
The estate of Major John Hearst, 2nd son of John Hearst the 1st ( d. 1782), was settled by Josiah Patterson, whose mother, Mary Carson, was a sister of Martha, the wife of Major John Hearst.
John’s son William G Hearst ( b. 1776 Woodvine, Abbeville, South Carolina – d. Nov 1844 Franklin, Missouri) m. 1817 in Biglow, Franklin, Missouri to Elizabeth Collins (b. 1780)
John’s grandson George F Hearst (3 Sep 1820 Anaconda, Franklin, Missouri – d. 28 Feb 1891 California; m. 15 Jun 1862 in Steelville, Crawford, Missouri to Phoebe Elizabeth Apperson (b. 3 Dec 1842 in Whitmire Settlem, Franklin, Missouri – d. 1919 in Colma, California) I attended Phoebe Heart Elementary School in San Diego, named because Phoebe helped found the California PTA.
George F Hearst’s only son William Randolph Hearst (b. 29 Apr 1863 San Francisco, California – d. 14 Aug 1951 Beverly Hills, California) m. Millicent Veronica Willson (1882–1974) Marion Davies, mistress built a newspaper empire and Hearst Castle of course.
Josiah Patterson became a wealthy planter in the Monterey section of Abbeville District, his plantation lay along the Savannah River, or near it, at Smith’s Crossroads.
According to the records of Rocky River Presbyterian Church, Abbeville District [courtesy T. H. Spence, Jr. Executive Director of the Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian & Reformed Churches, Montreat, North Carloina, to Carroll Ruffin Patterson, 12 March 1959], Josiah Patterson was a prominent layman of that church:
He was elected a Trustee in 1821.
Was a member of the Session at the time of his death, 31 Oct. 1846.
Memeber and leader in Rocky River Religious Tract Soicety from 1818 until 1840 [minutes close with latter year]. He was president of the Society in 1818 and 1822 and on Board of Managers for a number of years.
The “Minute Book of the Rocky River Presbyterian Church,” Abbeville District [Now at the Historical Foundation, Montreat, North Carolina] says, in part:
2 June 1819 – Josiah Patterson was unanimously nominated by the Congregation to employ workmen to have pews made instead of the common seats then used in Rocky River Meeting House. In words of the Minute Book, “the church should be regularly pewed”.
1822 – He was again elected Trustee
In 1839 Josiah Patterson was Acting Justice of the Quorom for Abbeville District.
The cemetery of Rocky River Presbyterian Church, Abbeville County, South Carolina in which he and mony of his family are buried was originally known as Bull Town Cemetery and the church was first designated as Bull Town. It is located about eleven miles west of the town of Abbeville and four miles northest of the Town of Calhoun Falls. It is one of the oldest churches in the area, being established 1760 – 1765. Rocky River Church has been on three (3) separate locations – the seoncd is the site of the cemetery and is about one to one and one-half miles from the first and present location of the Church. The cemetery is on the 1820 Road, known as the Andersonville to Davis Bridge Road.
Josiah Patterson’s death is noted in the Old Minute Book of Rocky River Presbyterian Church, 1842 – 1876, as follows:
“Josiah Patterson, member of the Session, departed this life on 31st of October 1846.”
Children of Josiah and Abigail:
As Josiah Patterson and Abigail Blair used the names Cown and Adams for the middle names of four (4) of their children it is obvious that there is a close connection between those two families and the Pattersons or the Blairs. As of this writing, no such connection has been established. It is probable that Josiah Patterson’s mother was likely a Cown and Abigail Blair’s an Adams or vice versa. As one of the daughter’s was given the name Lovely as a middle name it is possible that there was kinship with that South Carolina family.
Dr. Nora Davis of Troy, South Carolina informed Carroll Ruffin Patterson that Adams is a very common name and a very good name in Edgefield County, which adjoined Abbeville County before McCormick County was formed (1914). It is believed that the middle name Pleasant of the sixth child was adapted from the maiden of Moses Waddel (28 July 1770 – 21 Jul 1840) wife Elizabeth Woodson Pleasants. Moses Waddel, an ordained Presbyterian minister, operated the Willington Academy and may well have known Josiah Patterson. Elizabeth Pleasants was his second wife, the first was Catherine Calhoun, sister of John Caldwell Calhoun (1782 – 1850), South Carolina’s great statesman. Waddel was President of Franklin College [now the University of Georgia], Athens, Georgia from 1819 to 1829 and is buried there.
i. Sarah Cowan Patterson, b. 24 Jan 1795, Ninety Six District, South Carolina; d. 11 May 1864, Abbeville District SC; m. 5 Mar 1812 in Abbeville, SC to Andrew Giles (b. 24 Nov 1784 in Wilkes, Georgia – d. 31 Jan 1867 Old Rocky River Presbyterian Cemetery
Abbeville County, South Carolina) His parents were Capt. James H Giles and Susannah Patterson (b. 1744 in Belfast, Antrim, , Ireland – d. 8 Mar 1824 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina) I don’t know if there was a relation.
In the 1850 census, Andrew and Sarah were living in Savannah River Regiment, Abbeville District SC with six children at home.
ii. Mary Adams Patterson, b. 17 Jan 1797, Abbeville District SC; d. May 14, 1871, Canton, Madison, Mississippi; m. 23 Dec 1823 in Marlboro, South Carolina to Rev. Robert Bond Campbell (b. 6 Dec 1796 in Abbeville, SC – d, 1 May 1870 in Canton, Mississippi)
Removed from Abbeville Distict S.C. to Lancaster S.C. 1826-1828; to Beaver Creek S.C. 1829; to Waxhaw S.C. 1831- 1837; to Camden S.C. in 1837 then to Madison County, Mississippi in 1845.
In the 1850 census, Robert was a clergyman in Madison, Mississippi.
The fates of their children are interesting and this is the only family of confederate officer ancestors on our tree so I’ll break my pattern and include our ancestor’s great grandchildren
1. Sarah Campbell b. 17 Oct 1824
2. Col. James Alexander Campbell b. 8 Mar 1826; m. Amanda Sharkey; d. 4 Feb 1864, Johnson’s Island, Lake County, Ohio
James was a Colonel commanding the 27th Mississippi Infantry, Conferate Army. Died as a prisoner of war of hepatitis at Johnson’s Island [the only Union POW Camp for officers] and is buried there. More than 15,000 men passed through Johnson’s Island until it was closed in September 1865. Wardens lost only about 200 prisoners as a result of the harsh Ohio winters, food and fuel shortages, and disease. Johnson’s Island had one of the lowest mortality rates of any Civil War prison. Confederates made many escape attempts, including efforts by some to walk across the frozen Lake Erie to freedom in Canada. A handful of escapes were successful.
Lawyer in Leake County, Mississppi.
CAPT. CO E 27th MS, Apr 25,1861.
LT. COL. Dec 31, 1862.
COL. Mar 26, 1863.
PRISONER OF WAR ( POW ) Lookout Mountain, Nov 24, 1863, while in charge of the picket line. To Johnson’s Island.
3. Robert Bond Campbell b. 8 Jan 1828; d. 28 Jun 1863, Battle of Vicksburg Missippi.
4. Judge Josiah Abigail Campbell (wiki) b. 2 Mar 1830 in Camden, Lancaster, SC ; m. Eugenia Elizabeth Nash 13 May 1850 in Kosciusko, Mississippi; d. 10 Jan 1917 Jackson, Hinds, Mississippi, A prominent Confederate States of America politician. Josiah later moved to Mississippi and served in the state legislature in 1851 and 1859. He was elected to the Provisional Confederate Congress (1861–1862) and served as its President pro tempore. He served as a colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War. He later served as Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court from 1891 to 1894.
Political Graveyard – Also known as J. A. P. Campbell — of Kosciusko, Attala County, Miss.; Jackson, Hinds County, Miss. Born in Camden, Kershaw County, S.C., March 2, 1830. Lawyer; member of Mississippi state house of representatives, 1851-59; Speaker of the Mississippi State House of Representatives, 1859; delegate to Mississippi secession convention, 1861; Delegate from Mississippi to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; circuit judge in Mississippi; justice of Mississippi state supreme court, 1876-94; chief justice of Mississippi state supreme court, 1891-94. Died in Jackson, Hinds County, Miss., January 10, 1917 (age 86 years, 314 days). Interment at Greenwood Cemetery, Jackson, Miss..
5. Mary Louise Campbell m1. Dr. [__?__] Scarborough; m2. Nimrod Nash, brother of Mary’s sister-in-laws Eugenia and Susan Nash; d. 1863, Battle of Gettysburg.
6. Judge Charles Henry Campbell b. 21 Dec 1836; m. Susan Emmaline Nash 6 Feb 1891 in Kosciusko, Mississippi; d. 7 Mar 1905.
7. Jane E Campbell m. James Grafton a planter in Madison Co. Mississippi.
iii. Samuel Patterson, b. 27 Jan 1799.
iv. John Adams Patterson, b. 10 Mar 1801, Abbeville District SC; m. Alabama to Lenora Breazel (b. 1806 Tennessee – Aft 1860 census) . In the 1860 census, John and Lenora were farming in Athens, Limestone, Alabama. In the 1870 census, John was still living in Limestone, Alabama, but had remarried to Elmira [__?__] (b. 1816 Tennessee)
v. James Cowan Patterson, b. 6 Oct 1803, Abbeville District SC; d. 18 Jul 1866 Oak Hill Cemetery, Griffin, Spaulding County, Georgia; m. Laura Evans Winn (b. Abt. 1811 in Winnsboro, Fairfield S.C. – 1879 Oak Hill Cemetery, Griffin, Spaulding, Georgia)
James was a Presbyterian minister and Educator, having graduated from Franklin College [the founding college of the University of Georgia] in Athens, Georgia. He studied theology privately.
1822-1826– Tutor at Franklin College
Nov 1828 – Ordained as a Presbyterian Minister
1828- 1830 – Minister of Fairview Church, Lawrenceville Ga.
1841- 1843 – Minister of Alcovia Church of the Flint River Presbytery, Georgia.
1844-1850- Returned as Minister of Fairvoiew Church, Lawrenceville Ga.
1851- Returned to Alcovia Church and in that same year was at Goshen Church.
1856– He became President of the Synodical Female College in Griffin Georgia, where he served until his death in 1866. According to the City of Griffin, the college didn’t survived the war.
vi. Elizabeth Pleasant Patterson, b. 1 Sep 1807; d. 11 Nov 1823 Old Rocky River Church, Calhoun, South Carolina
vii. Louisa Abigail Patterson, b. 15 Oct 1810, Abbeville District SC.; d. Dec 1850 Pontotoc County, Mississippi; m. Thomas Twining Hamilton (b. 24 Jun 1797 South Carolina) His parents were John Hamilton and Mary Ann McGill; In the 1850 census, Thomas was a widow farming in Pontotoc, Mississippi with seven children at home.
viii. Jane Loveley Patterson, b. 11 Jan 1813, Abbeville District SC; m. 23 Aug 1832 in Abbeville, South Carolina to Richard Bohun Cater (b. 5 Jan 1811 – d. 23 May 1854 in Abbeville District SS) d. 1 Jan 1897, Abbeville District SC.
The Caters are of French extraction and are related to the DuPont family of New Jersey. They removed form Charleston, S.C. to the old Abbeville District, S.C. Children #2 through #9,[cp page 34], are buried in Rocky River Presbyterian Church Cemetery west of the town of Abbeville and northeast of the town of Calhoun Falls, S.C. as are their parents Jane Lovely Patterson and Richard Bohun Cater.
In the 1880 census, Jane was a 67 year old widow with seven children still at home in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina.
ix. Josiah Blair Patterson, b. J9 Jul 1815, Abbeville District, SC; d. 12 May 1864, Battle of Spotsylvania, Va.; buried Black Creek Church Cemetery, Waynesboro, GA; m. 11 Jan 1841, Decatur, GA to Mary Jane McNeil (b. 9 Feb 1822 – d. 27 Aug 1909), daughter of James McNeil
In the 1850 census, Josiah and Mary were living in Town, Gwinnett, Georgia with five children between 2 and 9 years old at home.
Carroll R. Patterson, the author of the Samuel Patterson reference, also compiled and privately published “THE INCOMPLETE CORRESPONDENCE OF LIEUT. JOSIAH BLAIR PATTERSON, 14TH REGIMENT GEORGIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, A.P. HILL’S LIGHT DIVISION” ( completed and privately published 20 May, 1961), a collection of several dozen “letters home” from Lt. Patterson as he served and fought with the Confederate Army ( Army of Northern Virginia) from 1861 until he was killed in action in the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse on May 12, 1864.
In 1833 James McNeill drew land in Cherokee county (before subdivision) in the Cherokee Gold Lottery– wonder whether he gave his land in what later became Forsyth County to Mary Jane McNeil who married Josiah Blair Patterson and lived in Forsyth County?
Josiah Blair Patterson enlisted Jul 4, 1861 in the Confederate Army as a 2nd Lieutenant of Company E, 14th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry (“Lester Volunteers” of Forsyth County, Thomas’ Brigade, Wilcox’s Division, 3rd Corps, Army of Northern Virginia, C.S.A.), where he served throughout his Civil War career. He was listed May 5, 1862 as Company E Recruiting Officer at Cumming, Forsyth County, GA. He was listed as acting Quartermaster in Oct 1862. On Nov 8, 1862 he was promoted to 1st Lieutenant and held that rank until his death. On May 12, 1864 during the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse Lt. Patterson was wounded and while being carried to the rear on a litter was hit a second time and killed.
8. Margaret (Peggy) Patterson
Margaret’s husband John Ebenezer Pressley was born about 1775. His parents were John Pressly and Isabella Fleming. His brother David married Margaret’s sister Jane. His sister Jane may have been an ancestor of George and William Randolph Hearst (See above). John died abt 1816 in Abbeville, Abbeville, South Carolina.
Margaret and John were married at Cedar Springs Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Abbeville District, South Carolina
Child of Margaret and John:
i. Samuel P. Pressly, b. 25 Sep 1799 in Cedar Springs, Abbeville, South Carolina; d. 29 Sep 1839 in Athens, Georgia; m. Jane West Todd (c. 1797 in Ireland or 1805 Georgia – d. 01 Aug 1875 in Laurensville, South Carolina); Her parents were Andrew Todd and Jane West.
Samuel was educated at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; studied theology under his cousin Dr. John Taylor Pressly ( 1795- 1870) (see above) at Cedar Springs Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church in Abbeville District S. C., then Pastor of the A.R.Presbyterian Church, Newberry S.C. In 1832 he removed to Athens Ga. to become Professor of Belles Lettres at Franklin College (now UGA).
His wife, Jane West Todd remained at Athens Ga for many years after his death. Then she, her daughter Corrine Myrtise Pressly, her daughter Antoinette Pressly and husband Francis James Brown removed from Athens to Knoxvile Tennessee. They returned to Athens after the death of Francis James Brown.
In the 1850 census, Jane, her daughters Corrina Pressly and Antoinette Brown, son-in-law Francis Brown were all living in Knoxville, Tennessee in the household of Joseph Brooks.
In the summer of 1852 she, her two daughters, and grandchild Mary removed from Athens Ga to Laurens District S.C. to the home of Jane West Todd’s parents.
[cp p. 28-A].
Ancestry.com US Census Records
“FROM COUNTY DOWN TO SOUTH CAROLINA – SAMUEL PATTERSON (died 1791-1792), AND HIS DESCENDENTS IN UPPER SOUTH CAROLINA AND BEYOND” By Carroll Ruffin Patterson (1919-1991) of Decatur, Dekalb County, Georgia It was compiled between 1948 and 1963. It consists of over 287 pages with almost twice that many pages of appendices, annotations, updates, inserts and a comprehensive index of names.
“Scotch-Irish Migration to South Carolina, 1772: Reverend William Martin And His Five Shiploads of Settlers” by Jean Stephenson (Shenandoah Publishing House 1970).
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At first, it sounds like another startup fairytale. A 19-year-old Princeton freshman starts a company with the hopes of making a tangible difference in the world, and it grows into a global, multi-million dollar venture.
It takes more than just a genius idea to succeed. Businesses that are looking to make a transformational global impact require hard work, incredible business savvy and the courage to press on when everyone calls you crazy.
TerraCycle began as a sustainable fertilizer company, making the product out of worm refuse and putting it in used bottles. It even got a license to use Coca-Cola bottles (which have a patented contour shape).
Now, TerraCycle's business model has totally changed, and it's making a bigger impact than ever. It's based around 'upcycling,' or the repurposing of waste materials as something else. For example, Capri Sun pouches can be remade into a tote bag.
And it's working. The company has made it into the top 1000
in Inc Magazine's
annual Inc 5000 list of fastest growing privately-owned
companies for three consecutive years, and even had its
mini-series on National Geographic Channel in 2009
called Garbage Moguls.
So how did Szaky do it? We caught up with the 'eco-capitalist' to find out:
What was the inspiration behind TerraCycle? How did you get started?
TerraCycle was inspired by one of my friends in Canada who discovered that using worm poop helped a particular plant grow fast and healthy. In order to enter business plan competitions at my university I created the model for TerraCycle. I realized that using organic waste -- which potentially has zero or even negative costs -- as a raw material to create products could be a profitable and responsible business model. I saved, borrowed and begged to raise $20,000 to create a Worm Gin to house my worms and convince my school’s cafeteria service to give me their waste. Four months later I had dropped out to dedicate myself full time to TerraCycle.
What were your biggest struggles in the early going?
The earliest struggle was getting investors on board with this unheard of kind of wacky business plan. People aren’t generally willing to put their money into something for which there isn’t any proven history at all. Here’s a 19-year old kid trying to get you to invest in a product that is liquefied worm poop in a used soda bottle. I mean, I had people laugh at me when I went to pitch them.
Later on, the challenge was getting major retailers to take a chance on an unknown, outlandish product -- the worm poop fertilizer. I had no retail history, no client base, no one had ever heard of TerraCycle. I knew that trying to build slowly, garden center at a time would never work. I mean I had to eat. So I went right to the top, to The Home Depot and Walmart, the world’s largest retailers. Of course everyone told me I was crazy and they would never buy it.
What prompted the drastic change in your business model?
The drastic change was prompted in large part by opportunity. The environmental and fiscal implications for expanding our trash collections and products were massive. We realized that fertilizer was only a tiny fraction of where we could have the impact, and we had to go for something bigger.
We started running [collection] programs for brands like Honest Tea, CLIF BAR and Stonyfield Farm. Within a year we were working with Kraft Foods brands like Capri Sun and Nabisco, with Frito-Lay and with Mars. It was clear our new model was ripe with opportunity.
[From its website: The TerraCycle Drink Pouch Brigade program allows almost any school, non-profit organization or individual to save drink pouches from taking up space in landfills.]
TerraCycle has developed a vast network of people through your Brigade collection programs. How did you gain all of those loyal followers, and how do you plan to keep them?
TerraCycle has never paid for an advertisement. We do not advertise or sponsor and spend almost nothing on marketing. We rely entirely on PR, social media, grassroots and guerrilla marketing and of course word-of-mouth to grow our network of collectors. Also we’ve gained many of those followers by default -- they want to recycle as much as they can, and we give them that opportunity. We also make it as easy as possible -- they can ship everything for free, in whatever box they want -- and we donate money to charity for them.
We plan on keeping them by expanding recycling opportunities, keeping the program simple and of course free, and eventually allowing them to send in all types of trash together, so co-mingled versus single stream.
How would you describe TerraCycle’s corporate culture, and how does your unique office reflect it?
TerraCycle’s corporate culture is fairly relaxed, we try to keep it fun in order to make it easier to work long hours and deal with many challenges. Of course we expect employees to be professional, show up on time, and so on and so forth, but we also recognize that people do their best work when they are comfortable and relaxed, so we foster a social atmosphere where everyone can enjoy themselves.
You’ll see Nerf guns lying around our office, a mini-golf course, a “fun calendar,” and graffiti on the walls. Taking a twenty minute break for a round of mini-golf helps employees connect, and working around graffiti, upcycled tables, artwork, and all kinds of neat decorations helps foster the creative thinking. We also don’t have a required dress code beyond, “appropriate."
How have you managed your company's culture over the years of growth? Has the creativity level remained throughout?
Keeping culture the same when growing from a two man operation in a dorm room to a global company is a massive challenge. TerraCycle accomplishes this in several ways: a colorful, bright, creative office space made from garbage, by hiring young, passionate, energetic employees, by encouraging social interaction between employees with monthly parties and weekly rock climbing (as well as other activities), and arming employees with Nerf guns. Creativity is demanded by the industry and the challenges we’re taking on, and in order to deal with unknown obstacles and questions, we need the creativity this office culture encourages.
All that said, the culture has definitely changed since the early days. I think that is unavoidable as a company grows to a certain scale.
What sort of people do you try to surround yourself with?
I try to surround myself with people who have the same energy and passion as I do, mostly because it’s encouraging as I do my own work. People who engage in positive thinking and push themselves will be the most successful, and it’s helpful to surround yourself with such driven people.
Have people (inside or outside the company) ever doubted you because of your youth? How do you deal with them?
When I was younger, part of the challenge of having this crazy, unheard of idea taken seriously was that I was also young. When people wanted to tweak my idea, I either insisted on keeping my plan for an eco-friendly company, or I went and followed my own path. It worked, and now that I have more experience under my belt and credibility, it’s not so much a problem.
Bottom line: sometimes the youth has been a disadvantage and other times a massive advantage. Certainly you catch and capture people’s attention, but it can also cause people to doubt your ability to execute.
Do you think your business model could work for other companies? What can they learn from you?
The TerraCycle business model is very unique in that collecting and repurposing material like ours had never been addressed before. However, we’ve always remained flexible with our business model, goals, mission, and how we create products. We’ve moved from a manufacturing model to a licensing model, which has helped make TerraCycle profitable. I think that that flexibility is key for any young business to succeed. They can’t be afraid to change and adjust.
What's TerraCycle's biggest threat?
Internally, TerraCycle’s biggest threat is our own success. We’re moving and growing so quickly both horizontally and vertically that there’s always the threat of stretching our resources too thin. We insure that doesn’t happen by creating more structure and bringing in talented dedicated employees.
Externally, we need to consider the possibility that the green movement and people’s concerns over the planet could slow or disappear altogether. Green is a trend right now, and people care about sustainability; whether this is a passing phase or will become a standard has yet to be seen.
What's the next big step for TerraCycle?
We’ve been expanding internationally through Europe and the Americas, and we’re hoping to make the jump to the Pacific Rim in the next year or so. In addition to expanding our outreach, we’re always working on expanding the scope of what we can collect, challenging ourselves with new waste streams that no one else would ever consider working with, such as cigarette butts and dirty diapers.
Later this year, we’re looking forward to introducing our 360-degree waste reduction systems for households for which the three options are TerraCycle: Unsponsored Brigades, TerraCycle: Home, and TerraCycle: On the Go. These models are programs that consumers have to pay for, but are a way that people can bring household waste to zero. | <urn:uuid:4cda538c-770c-412d-a046-e9c8f1a19568> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.businessinsider.com/exclusive-tom-szaky-terracycle-interview-2011-8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00477-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967867 | 2,028 | 2.078125 | 2 |
History Suggests Strong Returns For Real Estate Investment
There is a significant cycle change in home ownership that is occurring, and I believe it supports stronger returns in real estate investment.
There is plenty of evidence to support a decline in home ownership rates, but there has not been much noise in the blogosphere or mainstream media on the consequent implication for real estate investment.
A quick review of historical home ownership rates makes for some logical conclusions about the future values and future cash flows that should be expected from a smart real estate investment.
Real Estate Investment And Home Ownership
When we look at the historic rates of home ownership in the US and in Florida, a surge occurred in the early 1940s and continued until the end of the housing bubble in 2007.
Currently, home ownership rates are on the decline, and I suspect that we are entering a long-time cycle where the government will not push so hard to force-feed the American dream. While we may not return to levels below 50% in home ownership rates, a decline is inevitable nevertheless.
And what would a continual decline in this mean for somebody considering a residential real estate investment?
Residential Real Estate Investment
Home values will continue to rise over the long-term providing inflation continues and the population expands. The need for housing will grow for the foreseeable future, and the cost to fill this need will rise with wages and the cost of materials.
Along with the rise in prices, rental rates will rise. But here's the exciting part for investors ...
As home ownership decentralizes, more properties will be held by fewer people. This means less competition when setting rental rates, and thus a marginally higher rate in the rise of rental rates.
This level of centralized control was lost in the market when ownership levels rose well above 60%, but we can expect a certain degree of "price control" to return as only the wealthier are able to own homes.
Thus, residential real estate investment is poised for a rise in rental rates over the next several decades. This is not merely a short-term, knee-jerk response to the current real estate market, rather it is a logical conclusion to the long term trends that have occurred in both real estate appreciation and historical home ownership rates.
Anybody with significant investment capital should be at least considering a long-term move to the housing market.
If you are considering moving some of your capital to a real estate investment, I recommend you start by preparing a detailed plan.
If you'd like more information, simply drop me a note to schedule a time to review your specific goals and situation.
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By Our Reporter
On February 17, military police beat at least ten journalists covering Uganda’s opposition leader Robert Kyagulanyi — also known as Bobi Wine’ — as he delivered a petition to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Kampala. His petition was to protest human rights abuses and the abductions of his supporters in the run-up to and after January’s contested presidential election.
The next day, the army issued an apology for the beatings and announced that a military court had given seven members of the military police a “severe reprimand” for assaulting the journalists, and sentenced them to two months detention in a military facility. While an important step, the army did not share details about its investigations or the military trial process. Two of the assaulted journalists told Human Rights Watch they had not even been informed about the proceedings far less called to testify.
Supporters by The United Nations in Uganda has since condemned the brutality meted out against journalists and people who had accompanied Robert Kyagulanyi.
The UN, in a statement, said this behaviour contravenes the agreement with the Government of Uganda regarding the safety and security of UN premises, personnel and guests as well as national and international commitments.“The Republic of Uganda is a member of the United Nations and has conveyed in the past its commitment to peace, justice, human rights and development. The UN calls on the Government to immediately investigate this incident and ensure that those responsible are brought to justice,” the UN said.
The UN has promised to investigate the human rights violations during the electoral process.“In accordance with established procedures, OHCHR will immediately study these allegations and take the appropriate actions. The United Nations Resident Coordinator will share copies of this petition with the host government and United Nations Headquarters. The United Nations in Uganda wishes to recognize that the Uganda Police Force Very Important Persons Protection Unit (VVIPU) abided by established procedures which enabled the NUP leadership to have a peaceful meeting at the OHCHR office in Kampala,” the UN said.
Violence against journalists in Uganda is not new. During the recent election campaign, security forces beat and shot at journalists who were covering opposition rallies.
In November 2020, police shot Moses Bwayo in the face with a rubber bullet as he filmed Kyagulanyi arriving at his party’s office, and in December the journalist Ashraf Kasirye was badly injured after police shot him while covering a Kyagulanyi rally. Security forces have also beaten journalists covering student protests and used enforcement of Covid-19 regulations, as a pretext for other beatings.
The authorities have even threatened direct violence against journalists. On January 8, police chief Martin Okoth Ochola said at a news conference ahead of the elections that, “we shall beat you [journalists] for your own sake.”
Ugandan law incorporates many of the government’s human rights obligations, including protection for freedoms of speech and assembly, a prohibition on torture and inhumane and degrading treatment, and explicitly provides for the prosecution of officials committing such abuses.
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Category: Social and Community Context
This study aims to examine the level of social engagement as a predictor of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL).
Senior residents, seventy five from five assisted living facilities in Denton (Texas), participated in this study. Mental and Physical component of HRQOL, external social contacts, level of cognitive function, and depression were measured. Linear and logistic regression was used in order to analyze the relationship between predictors and quality of life.
The average of MCS and PCs were 53.62 and 35.33 respectively, close to the national average. The majority of senior residents had less than two social contacts outside facilities. One out of five resident had depressive symptoms with significant lower MCS and PCS scores. The results of regression models showed that depression can be considered as a mediating factor between social engagement and both MCS and PCS.
Losing social contacts outside of assisted living can increase the risk of depression and consequently decrease mental and physical components of health-related quality of life. It can be suggested that assisted living facilities include and design some activities in order to sustain social ties and connections outside the facility.
University of Michigan-Flint
I hold a PhD in sociology of aging, a Medical Doctorate (General Medicine), and a Master of Public Health. Within the last five years, I have been studying health status and the quality of life of senior adults as well as healthcare consumption in the United States. My educational background along with my research experience in public health enables me to cut across tightly-related disciplines and provide novel ideas about health determinants, including social determinants of health, and people’s quality of life at the local, national, and international levels.
Prior to starting my PhD, fifteen years of experience in clinical practice and studying health problems and health needs among Iran-Iraq war survivors provided me with a deep insight about public health. During my clinical practice and research, I identified missing factors required to apply the outcome of research projects to public health policies. Considering the changes in the outcome measures, i.e. health-related quality of life, researchers can broadly conceive and develop their projects. Healthcare policymakers can also revise the plans and services regarding these changes. Hence, I focused my studies on examining health-related quality of life. One of my fundamental questions was how we can sustain or even enhance quality of life, particularly in later life when quality of life is significantly affected by physiological dysfunction and accordingly lower levels of social engagement.
University of North Texas
James Swan, PhD is a Professor in Applied Gerontology at the University of North Texas, his research funded by multiple agencies has been focused on public health and aging. He has published numerous articles, books, book chapters and presentations on these topics during his decades of research dealing with his fields of expertise, long-term care, public health, and physical functioning.
University of North Texas
Professor Stanley Rusk Ingman is a Professor in Applied Gerontology at the University of North Texas, his research funded by many agencies has been focused on sustainability, resilience, and aging in place. He has published numerous papers, books, book chapters and peer-reviewed presentation at the national and international conferences. | <urn:uuid:b25f7ebf-39a4-4069-a458-675e50572518> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.eventscribe.com/2018/ACPM-HAC/ajaxcalls/PosterInfo.asp?efp=Q1pNVkFMUE42Mjg3&PosterID=154827&rnd=0.2844803 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.959587 | 676 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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Following are the steps to be done:-
• In ASPX page you have to add Item template tag in data grid.
<asp:CheckBox id="CheckBox1" runat="server" AutoPostBack="True" OnCheckedChanged="Check_Clicked"></asp:CheckBox>
If you look at the Item template, we have “OnCheckChanged” event. This “OnCheckChanged” event has “Check Clicked” subroutine is actually in behind code. Note this method, which is in behind code, should either be “protected” or “public”
Following below is the subroutine, which defines the method
Protected Sub Check Clicked (By Val sender As Object, By Val e As EventArgs)
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Today's Meteor Activity
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UPCOMING METEOR SHOWERS: JANUARY 2017
As usual, Quadrantids open the list of meteor showers of the year.
Quadrantids maximum is typically rather sharp, with ZHR varying in the range 60-200 hr-1.
Its maximum in 2017 is expected to occur on January 3rd, 14h UT, with ZHR = 120 hr-1. This peak time is is based on data collected from IMO in 1992 (the best observed return of the shower ever analyzed), and was confirmed by radio results in most years since 1996.
Mass sorting of particles across the meteoroid stream related to the comet 96P/Machholz and the minor planet 2003 EH1 may make fainter meteors reach maximum up to 14 hours before the brighter ones.
It has also to be noted that in few returns since year 2000, a radio maximum has followed the main visual maximum by some 9-12 hours.
For 2017 there are no predictions for high rates or any extra peak; Jeremie Vaubaillon's modelling even indicates a density below the average.
For Radio Observers, the (Theoretical) UT peaks for upcoming showers in January 2017 are as follows:
Active: December 28 - January 12
Maximum: January 3, 14 UT (λsol= 283.15 degs)
ZHR: HIGH (120 hr-1)
Active: January 15 - January 25
Maximum: January 20 (λsol= 299 degs)
2017 Quadrantids Overview
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Cities around the world (ESL practice): Edmonton, AB, Canada
Practice English grammar and vocabulary by learning about cities from around the world. Here's a description of Edmonton, AB, Canada. Read it and choose the right word for each blank space :) Good luck!
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In a new post from the QaFoo blog they talk about a developer's life as a trade-off, the amount of work to put into one technology or approach before deciding it's not worth the trouble and moving on.
At Qafoo, we train a lot of people on topics like object oriented software design, automated testing and more. [...] There is no silver bullet and one of the most important skills every developer needs to hone is to assess possibilities and to find the best trade-off for the current challenge.
He uses personal experience to illustrate the point, a struggle they had with choosing a storage system for their application's data. While one technology seemed to be an ideal fit (Cassandra) the trouble it caused made them fall back to something more reliable. He also talks about another instance where he had to make a decision around using a state machine...or not, because of the overhead and time consumed around it.
One of the most important tasks of a developer is to make trade-offs. They occur wherever you look in your every day life. It is a highly important step to realize and accept this. And it is important to hone that skill. You need to open your mind for new technology and techniques, learn and try them wherever you can. But then you need to step back, analyze the current situation and then find the best trade-off between all possible approaches. | <urn:uuid:eb06fc1a-1449-48cc-a06c-51540ddfdc19> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://phpdeveloper.org/tag/life | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717963.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00374-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960954 | 284 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Bettering a vehicle isn’t a simple course of, nevertheless using expert assist could also be pretty expensive, notably when cleaning a automotive. So undoubtedly, it’s loads easier and better to economize, time, and vitality by using some cool cleaning hacks.
Should you’re obsessive about great clear, shiny, and impeccable cars, then this itemizing is actually for you. We’ve gathered better than thirty car-cleaning hacks that are worth your consideration. These easy choices are good for making house home windows clear as water, seats totally dust-free, and vehicle exterior shiny.
You don’t must spend most of your worth vary on tidying your automotive. However, with all of these cleaning hacks we advise you try, your life will flip into reasonably extra helpful.
These hacks concern each little factor from cleaning upholstery and hard-to-reach areas to the elimination of scratches and space-saving choices. Cleansing has on no account been very easy and gratifying! A lot of these cleaning concepts use points that could be current in every storeroom and kitchen. So that you don’t even must seek for all of the required devices in your native grocery retailer.
Should you’re ready to get right down to enterprise as rapidly as doable, then maintain finding out.
Petroleum Jelly for Unbelievable Gloss
Making your vehicle clear and shiny may start getting in your nerves. To ensure your automotive stays freshly cleaned, apply a small amount of Vaseline. This simple approach could enable you get a long-lasting shine for a lot much less money.
Charcoal Bag In opposition to Nasty Smells
Charcoal is a pure odor absorber and a really perfect supplies for clearing horrible smells. You may get a small bag with charcoal chunks inside or make your private.
House Automobile-Wash Detergent
Gadgets that you already have in your kitchen may assist you to create your private detergent! For example, dissolve a tablespoon of baking soda and a tablespoon of dish cleansing cleaning soap in an enormous bucket of water.
Cleansing Air Often
To filter out your air vents from smells, filth, and dirt, getting an outdated toothbrush, or an outdated spray that will eradicate all impurities.
Vinegar & Linseed Oil Combination
An easy method to shortly get latest and cleaned upholstery is to make use of linseed oil. Combine one part of vinegar with two components of linseed oil, shake it up, and apply to your vehicle’s inside with a towel.
Scrub the Flooring Mats
In terms of cleaning your flooring mats to remove mud and sand that you just probably can convey to your individual house, mix dish cleansing cleaning soap and water and apply this substance with a stiff-bristled brush, and each little factor ought to return correct off.
Getting Rid of Pet Hair
Everybody who has pets is conscious of that their hair is form of inconceivable to eradicate. You need to spray the world with water and rub it down with a rubber squeegee. Voila!
Cornstarch Vs. Numerous Stains
Spilling drinks or gadgets of meals in your automotive is the worst-case state of affairs on account of they’re highly effective to remove. Nevertheless, sprinkling some cornstarch on any spots or stains and letting it sit for ten minutes can do your complete be simply best for you!
Mayo for Robust Stains
These disgusting, crusted spots on the pores and skin of your vehicle seem on no account to vanish, it doesn’t matter what detergents you make the most of to remove them. To make them vanish, put barely dab of mayo, go away it for 5 minutes, and wipe it off with a moist towel.
Carbonated Water for Spots
Even outdated stains of espresso spills on a seat could also be eradicated within the occasion you set some soda drink on the spot, let it sit for a couple of minutes, and dry it with a towel!
White Vinegar for Home windows
Each driver targets of non-cloudy, ultra-transparent house home windows. To acquire this, dissolve a few tablespoons of white vinegar in water and wipe with a paper towel for a stains-free glass.
Be cautious whereas using this hack. If you wish to get off outdated stickers with out abandoning any marks, a razor blade typically is a helpful and environment friendly system. Simply avoid scratching up the paint on the car’s physique.
Screwdriver In opposition to Arduous-to-Attain Cracks
Getting the filth from these tiny gaps and cracks could also be pretty troublesome. The important thing to this draw back is a flathead screwdriver. Simply cowl it with a transparent, tender materials, and the entire filth will immediately disappear.
Nail Polish Vs. Cracks
Should you seen a thin crack on the physique of your vehicle, use nail polish to cowl it! The nail polish must be clear for house home windows and the identical color for the physique of your automotive. It isn’t a lifelong hack, nevertheless it’ll stop a small crack from spreading into an enormous one sooner than you probably can restore it.
Thermal Paper for Crayons
Do you might need youngsters? If certain, then each little factor about pencil marks. Sadly, crayons are reasonably extra troublesome to remove on account of they are going to soften and soak in your upholstery. Fortunately there’s an unimaginable reply. Take a little bit of thermal paper and iron it over the spot to remove the crayons! You gained’t be upset.
Magic Eraser for Sticky Surfaces
If a spilled drink is near to disaster, leaving a sticky stain and ugly odor, moisten a magic eraser in any antibacterial liquid, and all these nasty spots will vanish!
Sticky Mats for Fixing Gadgets
The best method to get rid of horrible chaos is to make use of sticky mats. This wise accent will preserve onto your earphones, charger, lighters, or something you need helpful while you’re driving.
Coca-Cola for Rusty Surfaces
Rusty stains could also be an absolute nightmare. Nevertheless, one in every of our favorite fizzy drinks, Coca-Cola, could assist us cope with a difficulty. Simply pour the soda on the rusty flooring and rub in a spherical motion to remove the stains.
Chewing Gum for Leaks
Should you instantly detected a leak in your engine bay, a little bit of chewing gum could also be of good help. Simply chew up 2-3 gadgets of gum and stick it to the damaged house. This could present you ample time to get to the car service.
It’s no marvel that diapers are good at absorbing quite a few liquids — it’s their most important goal. Apart from, you’ll be able to even use them to get rid of a latest spill sooner than it harms your upholstery!
Hand Sanitizer for Frozen Doorways
Everybody hates spending their time in entrance of frozen doorways early throughout the morning. To efficiently unfreeze locks and doorways, use some hand sanitizer to melt the ice shortly.
Newspaper for Stickers
Eradicating registration stickers out of your windshield may go away unpleasant traces that will get in your nerves. An superb method to remove them with out leaving a residue is to go away a little bit of damp newspaper on it for 10 minutes, and it’ll peel correct off.
Vinegar as Enhancer
Vinegar could assist enhance the power of varied detergents. So to get additional spotless upholstery, merely mix some tablespoons of vinegar and your favorite detergent.
Clay Bar for Grease Stains
A small piece of clay bar could also be of good help when you need to clear your vehicle. First, rub the clay bar on dirty spots to remove them shortly.
Retaining Air Recent
Sadly, every so often, air filters accumulate harmful substances that noticeably decrease the usual of the air you breathe. Cleansing your air filters continuously could enable you defend your self from the nasty scent and completely completely different allergens.
Previous Shoe for a Cup Holder
It’s extraordinarily inconvenient in case your cup holders are small in any other case you don’t have cup holders the least bit. On this case, an outdated tennis shoe may flip into a superb reply!
One other Technique to Take away Stickers
All people is conscious of the right way to use WD-40 in the direction of creaky doorways. To remove stickers and labels, go away WD-40 on the sticky house for ten minutes sooner than wiping with a cloth.
Child Shampoo As a substitute of Automobile Detergents
It’s nearly inconceivable to carry your vehicle clear for a really very long time. Nevertheless, the filth and stains could also be merely eradicated by using baby shampoo in its place of a vehicle detergent. Simply pour a bit straight on a young materials and start rubbing.
Hair Conditioner for Shine
A unimaginable hack to get a shiny finish to your vehicle physique is to use a small amount of lanolin-based hair conditioner. Simply use it in your freshly washed vehicle, let it sit for some minutes, after which wipe it off.
DIY Windshield Resolution
Should you might need a bar in your individual house, then you’ll find this hack helpful. Combine three cups of water with 4 cups of vodka, and add two tablespoons of dish cleansing cleaning soap. A really perfect do-it-yourself windshield reply is ready.
A Tremendous Hack for Upholstery
Should you want your upholstery to reside a protracted life, you then positively need to mix olive oil and lemon juice, and also you’re going to get a unimaginable do-it-yourself reply to defend your automotive.
Making Tires Shiny
Are you a fan of recent, glossy-black tires? Then dissolve a tablespoon of dish cleansing cleaning soap and a cup of bleach in a bucket of warmth water to get an exquisite wash in your tires.
Eradicating Mud with Slime
Slime shouldn’t be solely gratifying however moreover helpful! If it’s important to shortly take away mud and filth from vehicle surfaces, use do-it-yourself slime. Simply mix widespread white glue, liquid starch, and half a cup of water for a quick-and-easy slime reply. | <urn:uuid:c5c99024-92d2-42bc-b8eb-4e1750541081> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://trendmicro-wwwtrendmicro.com/34-low-cost-straightforward-methods-to-clear-your-automobile/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.915106 | 2,214 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Imagine your body filling with poison, seeping into your veins, and running through your bloodstream. Wouldn’t you want to rid your body of the toxins that are tearing you down? Resentment is a poison that keeps you captive and letting go sets you free.
The following is taken from the book, The Snowball Effect: How to Build Positive Momentum in Your Life.
Take a look at the following old beliefs that keep us stuck in a pile of resentment, and the new beliefs that set us free. It is in this paradigm change that letting go takes place.
Old belief: Letting go is about letting the offender off the hook.
New belief: Letting go is not about them; it is for me. I am letting myself off the hook.
Old belief: If I let it go, then I am saying that the offense was acceptable.
New belief: I can let go and still know that it was an unacceptable offense.
Old belief: If I let it go, I am saying that the offense should be tolerated.
New belief: Letting go is for my health; it does not mean that I have tolerated anything.
Old belief: Letting go will make me weak.
New belief: It takes strength to let go and not allow another to take over my mind and take my power away.
Old belief: I have to be friends with my offender.
New belief: The offender does not have to be part of my life if that is what I choose.
Old belief I can only let it go if my offender apologizes.
New belief: I can spend the rest of my life waiting for an apology, and it may never happen. Letting go is for me, so that I can move on with my life, with or without an apology.
Old belief: If I let go, my offender wins and I lose.
New belief: If I do not let it go and move on with my life, I lose. The true winner is the one who lets go and finds peace in life.
Old belief They have ruined my life.
New belief: I will not allow another to destroy my life. It is my decision.
Once you shift your perception, letting go will be easier to embrace. And once you begin to let go, you will begin to gain positive momentum in your life, even during the most challenging times. Letting go leads to true freedom. | <urn:uuid:8040293e-b489-4563-8368-9c1263f9d1af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thesnowballeffect.com/2014/03/09/letting-go-resentment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.942288 | 502 | 1.75 | 2 |
NEW YORK (JTA) – The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to three scientists who identified the hepatitis C virus.
The prize was awarded Monday to Harvey Alter of the National Institutes of Health, Michael Houghton of the University of Alberta, and Charles Rice of Rockefeller University.
“The Nobel Laureates’ discovery of Hepatitis C virus is a landmark achievement in the ongoing battle against viral diseases. Thanks to their discovery, highly sensitive blood tests for the virus are now available and these have essentially eliminated post-transfusion hepatitis in many parts of the world, greatly improving global health,” the Nobel committee said in announcing the prize.
Alter, 85, who is Jewish, was born in New York and attended medical school at the University of Rochester. Early in his career he worked with Nobel Prize winning scientist Baruch Blumberg, who identified the hepatitis B virus.
In 2000, he received the Albert Lasker Award for Clinical Medical Research for his work leading to the discovery of the virus that causes hepatitis C.
Houghton isolated the genetic sequence of the new hepatitis C virus while working at Chiron Corporation in the 1980s. Rice showed that hepatitis C virus alone could cause hepatitis. | <urn:uuid:03410bf5-b7a3-4680-95e2-819bc066bd84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dojlife.com/jewish-researcher-shares-nobel-prize-in-medicine-for-identifying-hepatitis-c-virus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.958099 | 250 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Most Fundraisers Face Few Ethical Situations
September 20, 2010
Four out of five charitable fundraisers encounter ethical challenges, situations or dilemmas once a month or less, according to a website survey by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Participants in the poll were asked how often they faced an ethical challenge, situation or dilemma during their professional work. Fifty-eight percent reported less than once a month, while 24 percent said once a month. Just eight percent responded that they encountered ethical challenges two or three times per month, while the remaining ten percent reported facing such challenges at least once a week.
"Ethics is critical to the success of fundraising and philanthropy, so it's important to understand just how often fundraisers face ethical situations so we can have resources ready, such as AFP's Code of Ethical Principles and Standards," said Paulette V. Maehara, CFRE, CAE, president and CEO of AFP. "The results as a reminder that while ethical challenges and dilemmas are not the norm for most charities, they happen enough that ethical guidance and direction are always needed."
Maehara said that the results also showed that ethical practices are commonplace through the sector and are accepted not just by fundraisers, but by boards, volunteers, donors and others. "I think fundraisers aren't facing more ethical challenges because, by and large, people understand more and more what is and is not acceptable. That's a good sign for the profession, and something we'll continue to work on."
Maehara also noted that fundraisers who are facing ethical challenges can contact the AFP International Headquarters to receive guidance or speak with a member of AFP's Ethics Committee.
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Cyprus is truly blessed with unparalleled beauty! Whether you’re up on the mountains or by the sea, Cyprus’s ambiance has something like magic to it. It is, after all, the birthplace of the Goddess of Love & Beauty herself: Aphrodite! What more magical than a lake changing colors!
There is a location up on Troodos mountains, Northwest of Xyliatos village in Nicosia district, that has been known only to a few until now. It has been recently revealed to the general public, after a drone shot video went viral! A beautiful lake, formed where an ore and copper mine used to be; Memi mine. The remnant of the mine formed a huge circular crater, which after the local council’s initiation was let to be filled with rain water.
The ore and copper alloy of the lake’s bottom is giving it a unique characteristic. One that can only be found in very few and rare spots on this planet. The water is changing color according to the season.
Dark forest green in the Winter, deep ocean blue during Spring. Spring’s deep blue slightly fades in the Summer giving a wonderful turquoise color allover the lake. In Fall, the color of the water changes completely again, taking a light green shade preparing it to welcome again the forest green color of the Winter. Truly remarkable. Truly unique.
To the north side of the lake, the area looks more like a moonscape than to earth. Huge mountains have been formed by the millions of tons of waste material from the mine. Sometimes, when it rains, at the same northern side, a second smaller lake is formed, increasing the lake’s beauty even more.
One can enjoy kayaking or other flat water sports there. You can find more info about the lake here. We’ve made sure that we have the most updated information for our readers.
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The impact of acculturation on the use of traditional Chinese medicine in newly diagnosed Chinese cancer patients
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- Ferro, M.A., Leis, A., Doll, R. et al. Support Care Cancer (2007) 15: 985. doi:10.1007/s00520-007-0285-0
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Goals of work
This study assessed the impact of acculturation on the prevalence of traditional Chinese medicine and other complementary and alternative medicine (TCM/CAM) use in newly diagnosed Chinese cancer patients. The individual determinants of TCM/CAM use among patients were also investigated.
Materials and methods
A consecutive sample of Chinese cancer patients treated at the British Columbia Cancer Agency was surveyed at admission using a 15-item questionnaire. Items included TCM/CAM use, sociodemographics, as well as medical and cultural factors. Data were analyzed using bivariate methods including Pearson’s X2 test and Student’s t test. As well, multiple logistic regression was used to obtain the final causal model.
Of the 230 respondents, 57% completed the survey in Chinese and 94% were immigrants. The average age was 59. Participants had a mean disease duration of approximately 2 months and 79% had already received at least one conventional treatment. Overall, TCM/CAM was used by 47% of respondents. Herbal remedies, vitamins/minerals, and prayer were the most commonly used therapies. Multivariable analysis showed that prior TCM/CAM use (p < 0.001), having received conventional treatment(s) (p = 0.029), and being less acculturated (p = 0.028) were associated with TCM/CAM use.
Prevalence and type of use were found to vary as a function of the degree of acculturation. Health care practitioners would be well advised to discuss TCM/CAM use with their patients, especially those who are less acculturated to Western society, since they are the most likely users of TCM/CAM. | <urn:uuid:699c53a8-5bf8-46f2-a2de-b5a3260b03b1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00520-007-0285-0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00219-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962252 | 441 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Film and Television
On-screen entertainment begins with understanding the big picture.
We believe on-screen entertainment has an extraordinary impact on our culture and influences how we see the world. That’s why we offer film and television courses at Swinburne.
As a leading film school in Australia we offer a range of courses that combine foundational knowledge with practical skills.
You may choose to master your production abilities, develop your screenwriting talents or produce special effects, to name a few. It’s just a matter of choosing the course that suits the future you can picture.
By the time you graduate, you’ll have the wisdom and skills to put your knowledge into practice.
We think it’s an experience that makes the adventure worth taking.
Come, see for yourself.
Film festival success
Film and Television graduate Dannika found her niche while studying at Swinburne, producing short narrative film ‘The Summer of ABC Burns’ in her third year. The project was selected at the Byron Bay International Film Festival and won the St Kilda Film Festivals’ Audience Choice Award.
Student work: Screen and Media (Film and Television stream)
Check out this showreel to see projects by our screen and media students specialising in film and television. The course offers students a range of creative and technical skills in film and television production.
Film and Television news
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Police and high-tech monitoring
Like many Americans, police forces are quick to adopt new electronic devices, capable of processing a wide range of information despite the small size of many such instruments — some as small as a pack of gum. The Supreme Court is more cautious in the face of advances in technology, preferring to move slowly in settling the new constitutional issues stirred up. Next to test its approach, it appears, will be police use of GPS tracking. One appeal on the issue is already at the Court; another, from the federal government, may not be far behind.
GPS — or Global Positioning System — is a way of using orbiting satellites to locate, with accuracy to 100 feet or less, an object or a place. In a car, a GPS device can tell directions, and guide a motorist to the next interchange, or the next fast-food restaurant. It works by recording precise geographic locations, one after the other. The device’s memory can show an entire trip. Obviously, then, it is a good device for monitoring someone’s movements. And that is how police departments are now using it — an alternative to hidden cameras or visual surveillance.
What the Court is now being asked to decide is, first, whether a GPS track is a “search,” under the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, and when might the continuous monitoring of a track become an invalid search if police do it without having a search warrant. The Supreme Court left that second question open when, in U.S. v. Knotts in 1983, it ruled that police use of an electronic beeper to track a suspect’s trip to a drug lab was not a search. What seems to be newly at issue is the role that the duration of tracking plays in the constitutional equation; the argument is that, the longer the tracking, the more movements are monitored, the greater the potential for invading privacy.
The issue may lead the Court into a discussion of just when a car or truck moving about in public places becomes not an object of public viewing but a conveyor of private information. The Court has often allowed more police activity toward moving vehicles than stationary, private places; the “automobile exception” to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement goes back to Carroll v. U.S., a 1925 decision.
Earlier this month, lawyers for an Oregon man, Juan Pineda-Moreno, filed the first GPS tracking case at the Court (Pineda-Moreno v. U.S., docket 10-7515). The petition is here. The Ninth Circuit Court ruled that such a track was not a search; its decision is here. A Circuit Court order denying en banc review, together with a vigorous dissent, is here. There is a better-than-even chance that the Court will hear the case — or perhaps the next case to come along — because there is widespread disagreement among the lower federal and state courts on the issue.
The next case that seems likely to follow Pineda-Moreno to the Court could be one by the federal government. It lost a case involving a District of Columbia drug dealer in the D.C. Circuit Court, conflicting directly with the Ninth Circuit. The D.C. ruling (in a case then titled Maynard v. U.S.) can be found here. Just last Friday, the D.C. Circuit Court denied the Justice Department’s plea for en banc review by a 5-4 vote on the GPS issue (the denial order and separate opinions accompanying it are here).
The government may tip its hand on its next step when it responds to the Pineda-Moreno petition; that response, unless the time is extended, is now due on Dec. 17. Among the government’s other options would be to agree that the Court should hear the Oregon case, or urge the Justices to hold it while the government pursues its own appeal in the Maynard case (Lawrence Maynard’s companion case did not raise the GPS issue; that was an issue for Antoine Jones in a consolidated case. The government sought rehearing only as to Jones and the GPS question.)
The Oregon case began in the early summer of 2007, when federal narcotics agents went into the driveway of Juan Pineda-Moreno’s mobile home, and put a GPS tracking device under the bumper of his Jeep Grand Cherokee. Between June and September, they made seven trips to the Cherokee, sometimes in the driveway, sometimes at the curb, once at his workplace, installing GPS devices, some as small as a pack of chewing gum, or replacing the batteries. Pineda-Moreno was completely unaware.
Ultimately, the four months of GPS tracking turned up an array of information about Pineda-Moreno’s movements — where he went, how long he stayed, the stops he made. Most critically, they tracked the vehicle to remote forest areas in southern Oregon and northern California, leading to the discovery of large plots of cultivated marijuana.
Pineda-Moreno pleaded guilty to one count of growing marijuana — more than 1,000 plants — and one count of a conspiracy to do so. His guilty plea was on condition that he could appeal to challenge the evidence gathered with the GPS tracking. He was sentenced to four years and three months in prison. The Ninth Circuit, agreeing with the trial court, found the GPS monitoring was not a search under the Fourth Amendment.
In seeking Supreme Court review, his lawyers raised two questions: first, whether the prolonged monitoring via the GPS devices was a search (the issue on which the Ninth Circuit and D.C. Circuit explicitly disagree), and, second, whether the secret planting of the device on the Jeep while on private property (the “curtilage” of his mobile home) was an invalid search.
The petition, like the panel on the D.C. Circuit in the case there, relied significantly upon a passing comment that the Supreme Court made as it decided the Knotts case 27 years ago. If surveillance round-the-clock of “any citizen of this country” should occur “without judicial knowledge or supervision,” the Court said, “there will be time enough then to determine” whether that was unconstitutional. That, according to Pineda-Moreno’s counsel, is his case.
The case, the petition asserted, “addresses precisely the type of ‘dragnet’ monitoring of personal information that this Court expressly noted…would warrant further review.” There is growing conflict and inconsistency among both federal and state courts on the Fourth Amendment and GPS tracking, the filing argued.
Among other points discussing the Knotts precedent, the petition suggested that the GPS device gave police considerably more opportunity to track private movements than the beeper involved in that case. A beeper operates on a radio frequency, so police have to be within range of it to pick up the signal, the petition noted, while GPS devices “record all information as to the subject’s whereabouts and do not require police tracking.”
The D.C. Circuit relied upon that difference, as well as on the prolonged nature of GPS monitoring, in declaring that the Antoine Jones case was not controlled by what the Supreme Court had held in the Knotts decision. Other courts have felt directly bound in GPS cases by Knotts, and the Justice Department made that point when it asked the D.C. Circuit to rehear en banc the Jones case.
Federal prosecutors’ rehearing petition in the Jones case could be read as telegraphing what a government appeal to the Supreme Court in that case would argue. The D.C. Circuit panel’s decision on GPS tracking, that document argued, “calls into question the use many common and accepted forms of surveillance of public places, such as visual surveillance and fixed cameras….If the panel’s opinion remains in force, well-accepted investigative techniques such as physical and photographic surveillance of persons, places, and objects exposed to public view could be called into question if the use of those techniques were sufficiently ‘sustained’ or ‘prolonged.’ ”
The attorneys for Antoine Jones opposed further review in the D.C. Circuit, suggesting that the government was raising a “sky is falling” claim, and arguing that the panel had simply required agents “to get a warrant before engaging in prolonged use of GPS in a criminal investigation.”
The debate over the scope and impact of that ruling was taken up anew by dueling opinions among the judges when en banc review was denied (see the link, above).
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France to airlift Bangladeshis fleeing Libya: source
France will airlift 12,000 Bangladeshis who have fled deadly fighting in Libya in a Saudi-funded rescue mission, a French diplomatic source said Wednesday.
"We are going to run an airlift for about 12,000 Bangladeshis with the financial support of Saudi Arabia," said the source, who asked not to be named.
The Bangladeshis were working in Libya and have fled penniless across the border into Tunisia to escape heavy fighting between rebels and forces loyal to Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi. Some are still on Libyan soil.
Tunisian authorities last week starting housing the Bangladeshis in tents in a refugee camp run by the Tunisian military and the United Nations.
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Senators will avoid a week of bad headlines blasting them for a slew of air delays brought about by federal spending cuts.
Before leaving town for a week-long recess, the chamber passed a bill that allows funding transfers from airport projects to offset the cost of keeping air traffic controllers working and airplanes flying. Not getting something through the Senate before jetting off themselves would have left senators in both parties exposed to criticism from angry travelers and a slew of disgruntled industry groups.
With the agreement coming together after most senators had already made plans to leave town, leaders passed the bill with no debate and no objections.
The Senate move kicks the issue to the House, potentially pinning blame on that chamber’s GOP majority if the measure doesn’t pass on Friday. The House has a procedure in place for calling up the Senate deal, and House Transportation and Infrastructure Chairman Bill Shuster, R-Pa., has expressed openness to such a move provided it does not increase actual spending.
“We don’t have to spend one more penny,” Shuster said, preferring a measure that would “direct the FAA to use the flexibility we believe it already has.”
Technically, the House may opt to take up an identical bill that originates in the House to avoid a pesky constitutional question about Senate-based revenue legislation. In any case, the last minute Senate deal followed negotiations that included Democratic Sens. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Mark Udall of Colorado, along with Republicans Susan Collins of Maine and John Thune of South Dakota.
In a statement Rockefeller said, “Tonight we worked together in the Senate to avoid total gridlock in our aviation system and avert the real harm that rampant delays would cause to our economy and jobs. By plugging a hole in the budget and providing the FAA with crucial funds to operate the air traffic control system, we will eliminate flight delays due to inadequate staffing and keep America moving. This does not fix all of the problems the FAA faces because of budget cuts, especially for contract towers in rural communities. And it does nothing for other essential government operations and employees that also desperately need relief. But it’s a start, and I’m committed to keep working on more solutions.”
Collins and Udall had unveiled their own bill earlier Thursday, the latest in a series of shots designed to give the Transportation Department the tools and resources to move money around in order to avoid further furloughs of key FAA personnel, including air traffic controllers.
“FAA recently announced its plans to achieve savings by implementing furloughs, the closure of contract towers, and the elimination of midnight services, among other cuts. These irresponsible cuts have already caused widespread delays to the air transportation system and are expected to get worse,” Collins said in a statement introducing the earlier bill.
Republicans and Democrats have been exchanging barbs over which side is to blame for the staffing reductions at the FAA that led to the agency having to reduce the amount of air traffic to maintain safe operations. The FAA said Thursday that at least 863 of Wednesday’s air delays could be attributed to the sequester-related personnel reductions.
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., criticized all the attention being placed on the plight of air travelers at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast Thursday, saying Congress and the media should pay more attention to the sequester-related cutbacks at the Defense Department.
“It’s criminal and scandalous that we are ignoring the effect of sequestration on our national security,” McCain said.
Still, in a sign that a deal was likely to get done, McCain and Democratic Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York said at the breakfast that in all likelihood they could at least go along with some kind of a narrow FAA sequester patch.
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Kristu Jayanti College, founded in 1999, is run by "BODHI NIKETAN TRUST", formed by the members of St. Joseph's Province of the Carmelites of Mary Immaculate (CMI), the first indigenous religious congregation in India. This congregation is the embodiment of the dream and vision of Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara who was a nineteenth century educationist and social reformer in India. Kuriakose Chavara was born in 1805, in Kainakary, Kerala. In 1829 he was ordained as priest after his early schooling in the native village and priestly studies at Pallipuram seminary in Alapuzha.
Kuriakose Elias Chavara though he hailed from an upper caste Syrian Christian family, he played a major role in educating the people of the lower ranks of society. In 1846, Kuriakose Elias established St. Joseph's Press at Mannanam- a remote hamlet near the town of Kottayam in Central Kerala. This was the third printing press in Kerala and the first press founded by a Keralite without the help of foreigners. From this printing press came the first Malayalam newspaper Nasrani Deepika which later became a daily in 1887 and is circulated even today as Deepika. He also started a school at Mannanam in 1846. He was responsible for introducing noon day meals in schools, a practice later adopted by the rulers of Travancore and then by the Indian government. In 1864, while he was serving as the Vicar General of Syrian Catholics, he ordered to start a school along with every church which was successful in making free education available for everyone. Thus schools in Kerala came to be known as 'pallikudam'.
In co-operation with Palackal Thoma Malpan and Thoma Porukara, Kuriakose Elias founded an Indian religious congregation for men, now known as the 'Carmelites of Mary Immaculate' (CMI). He believed that intellectual development and the education of women was the first step towards overall social welfare. Towards this end he founded, the 'Congregation of the Mother of Carmel' (CMC), the first religious congregation for women.
Kuriakose Elias attained eternal peace on 3 January 1871, aged 66, at Koonammavu- a northern suburb of Cochin City. Kuriakose Elias was beatified at Kottayam on 8 February 1986, and later on November 23, 2014 he was canonized at St. Peter's Square by Pope Francis.
The service of Saint Kuriakose Elias Chavara has been acknowledged and lauded with gratitude by the Government of India and to honour him, the Government released a postal stamp with his portrait in 1986. The CMI congregation with a membership of 2300, serves humanity in educational, social, healthcare and other activities, aiming the prosperity and well-being of the society. Though Kristu Jayanti College is a minority institution, it strives to impart quality education without distinction of religion, caste or creed. | <urn:uuid:e69c0b80-5682-460a-9038-4722d7eb3f63> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kristujayanti.edu.in/aboutus/founder.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00224-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969992 | 643 | 2.046875 | 2 |
WolframAlpha for iPhone review
WolframAlpha is something of an oddity (in a good way). Ostensibly the service is a search engine, like Google or Bing, however it works in a completely different manner.
Billed as a 'computational search engine' WolframAlpha isn't so much about searching for information results as it is about 'number crunching' the information.
For example. Search for 'UK' in Google and you get the Wikipedia result for United Kingdom, followed by Amazon UK. Search for the 'UK' in Wolfram Alpha and it returns a number of stats about the UK (flag, map location, geographic properties, population, and so on). Where it gets interesting is combining results – tap in 'UK France Population' and you get to compare stats between the population levels of the two countries including population history, life expectancy, median age, and so on.
So far so good if you're looking to compare populations. But what else can it do? The main other use is mathematical number crunching, and you can perform all kinds of equations directly in the search box.
Beyond that it starts to get a bit confusing. The online search engine enables you to look up and compare a stunningly large array of topics from the areas of maths, statistics, chemistry, engineering, astronomy, finance, geography, books, films, historical figures. The list of areas is pretty exhaustive but it's hard to know where to start (the WolframAlpha examples page has examples to get you going, but it still can be difficult to think of a use for WolframAlpha.)
The WolframAlpha input screen handily features two keyboards. One for letters and another for numbers
You'll also have to get used to the app stating "WolframAlpha isn't sure how to compute an answer from your input".
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Locally sourced stone earns LEED credits
New Mexico travertine was not only chosen for the new Center for the Arts at New Mexico State University for its quality, but also for the quarry’s close proximity to the project site, which achieved LEED credit for regional materials
With a unique curved stone exterior, the Center for the Arts at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces, NM, was designed to achieve LEED credit and to create cohesion among the school’s art facilities. The architects at Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture in New York, NY, selected New Mexico travertine — quarried regionally by New Mexico Travertine of Belen, NM — as the primary building material for the exterior facade.
“The Center for the Arts is the first phase of a multi-phase master plan intended to unify the school’s arts facilities, encourage collaboration between disciplines and highlight the arts programs at NMSU,” explained Partner-in-Charge Malcolm Holzman, FAIA of Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture. “The goal of the Center for the Arts was to begin achieving the goals of the master plan, and more specifically, to create a facility of excellence for the school’s performing arts program. Aesthetically, we strove to create a building that is rooted in its community, and the selection of local stone for the facade allowed us to do that.
“The building’s shape was influenced by the site and by future considerations for the campus,” the architect went on to say. “We sited the building as close to the edges of the site as possible, right at the intersection of two important roads that serve as a gateway to the campus. The curved shape allowed us to push the building out to the corner, but the shape is an inviting one that welcomes people into it. Moving around the front of the building, the northeast side of the building opens onto what is called the ‘mini horseshoe.’ The curved shape also draws people into the mini horseshoe, and from there connections are made to the rest of the university.”
The New Mexico travertine pieces used for the exterior of the Center for the Arts are nominally 8 inches tall in random lengths up to 24 inches. “We specified that the New Mexico stone be split-faced, but did not specify a color range,” explained Project Manager Kevin Morin, AIA, LEED AP BD+C. “We wanted to highlight the natural variation in the stone.”
One of the primary reasons for selecting New Mexico travertine for the building’s design was the quarry’s proximity to the project site. “Using it allowed us to use a familiar material from the region and to achieve LEED credit for regional materials,” said Morin. “The quality of the stone was the ultimate reason it was selected. The color variation, texture and veining are interesting and beautiful.”
The design team did visit the quarries at the outset of the project — during project programming. “A group of eight architects from Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture and ASA Architects had the opportunity to see the different stone products that were available,” said Holzman. “It provided a chance to consider the possible uses of the material, its limitations, cost and potential design application. It had a large impact on how we shaped and designed the building. After the visit, a number of large pieces were brought by the supplier to campus for viewing by the building committee. From this informal review of stacked blocks, it was decided that New Mexico stone should be a prominent portion of the exterior of the project.”
While the majority of the local travertine was employed on the Center for the Arts’ exterior facade, it was carried into the building in select locations where walls terminated. “The client was so pleased with their stone facade that they engraved the same New Mexico stone with the names of donors for their dedication plaques throughout the building,” said Morin.
Complementing the New Mexico travertine, two varieties of limestone — Cedar Hill Cream and Hadrian — from TexaStone Quarries of Garden City, TX, were chosen for the building quoins. “They were readily available in the sizes necessary, matched the color of the New Mexico stone and were reasonably priced,” explained Morin.
Additionally, Vista Grande onyx — also from New Mexico Travertine — was used as a highlight within the rough split-faced travertine field. The stone came from a different quarry in the same vicinity as the travertine. It was specified to be sawn to show the veining in the stone, according to the architect.
“The stonework was one of the least challenging parts of the construction process,” said Morin. “We worked with an excellent subcontractor, Sun Valley Masonry, who understood exactly what we were looking for and achieved excellent results. We required a large mock-up to be constructed prior to actual construction to ensure that our intentions were understood.
“Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture made periodic visits to the construction site,” the architect went on to say. “At the project outset, a mock-up of exterior materials was erected for review and approval prior to the stone and other material installations. The mock-up was used with the mason and construction manager to review all of the installation conditions, tolerances, placement of irregular pieces, clearances, relation to other materials, mortar and caulking color. With these approvals, our associate architect, ASA Architects, inspected work as it progressed on a weekly basis for conformance to the mock-up standards. Our firm visited the site three or four times during the erection process.”
In total, the project was completed in five years — from the beginning of schematic design to the opening, which was in February of 2013. Construction itself took 20 months, and the stone installation was finished in approximately four months.
“The reaction to the project has been very positive,” said Holzman. “It looks like nothing else on the campus or in the area, so people initially reacted with some skepticism, but now that it’s been open for 18 months, it has become a valuable part of the community.” | <urn:uuid:09fae10a-3bca-460a-b6e5-c3d0b70129d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.stoneworld.com/articles/88047-locally-sourced-stone-earns-leed-credits | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00111-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967593 | 1,323 | 2.0625 | 2 |
The US Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program prepares individuals for careers as professional military officers in the United States Army, US Army Reserves, or the Army National Guard. Students who complete the Army ROTC Program may be awarded a minor in Military Science, or may satisfy a specialization core field in the Bachelor of General Studies.
Freshman and sophomore foundational courses are available to all students who may earn six hours academic credit in Military Science and Leadership. Course work covered includes leadership, ethics, management, physical fitness, and adventure/outdoor skills. In addition to academic studies, all students attend a weekly leadership laboratory. No military obligation is incurred by non-scholarship students who enroll in or complete 1000/2000 courses.
In addition to foundational courses, Northeastern offers two years of advanced instruction in Military Science in cooperation with the U.S. Army. The advance instruction prepares students for the responsibilities and privileges of a commissioned officer. This instruction includes four hours of academic credit per semester (16 hours total) for Army cadets. In addition, all students enrolled in the final two years of ROTC receive a monthly tax-free allowance (see ROTC Office).
Army ROTC cadets attend a paid five-week Leadership Camp between their junior and senior year. Cadets may attend professional development training such as Airborne, Air Assault, British Exchange Program, Northern Warfare, and Mountain Warfare. During summer field training, cadets receive room and board. For students having a minimum of two academic years in school remaining (undergraduate, graduate, or a combination of the two), an alternate two-year program is offered. Students entering the two-year program attend a five-week Leaders Training Course (LTC) during the summer. Rising juniors, seniors, and graduate students, who meet the US Army Cadet Command’s Scholar-Athlete-Leader criteria, and are unable to attend the LTC, may be eligible to participate in an Accelerated Cadet Commission Training (ACCT) program. Students with high-school-level military schooling (ROTC, NDCC, or Military Academy) may qualify for the advanced ROTC program without completing the freshman and sophomore courses. All veterans who have completed basic training and 180 days of service with any component of the U.S. Armed Forces can receive full credit for the freshman and sophomore courses and may enter ROTC at the advanced level, once junior standing has been achieved. To enroll as an advanced-level student, 3000 or 4000 level, you must meet the criteria of the U.S. Army and of the U.S. Army Cadet Command. For questions about these criteria, please visit the ROTC Department in Haskell Hall, or call ext. 3063.
Financial assistance is available to qualified students. Freshman or sophomore students who are not enrolled in Army ROTC may qualify for on-campus two- or three-year scholarships. Juniors, seniors, and graduate students who have at least two full years of college remaining may qualify for on-campus two- or three-year scholarships. Scholarship students receive a monthly tax free allowance, payment of all tuition expenses, textbook payment, and payment of certain other fees. Army ROTC scholarship and advanced course students must agree to successfully complete at least one semester of computer literacy, American military history, and communications prior to commissioning. Army ROTC also offers a financial assistance program available to all non-scholarship Army ROTC Advanced Course students through Simultaneous Membership Program (SMP). This program allows a student to be enrolled in Army ROTC while simultaneously serving with a Reserve or National Guard unit. Financial benefits of this program currently provide approximately $600 to $1,200 per month to enrolled students.
A student who successfully completes the Advanced Course in the Army ROTC program and receives a degree may be accepted for a regular or reserve commission in one of the sixteen branches of the Army. All uniforms, equipment, and most textbooks are furnished at no cost to the student.
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Mathematical Models for Carnivore Territories
Mathematical models can help us understand the formation of complex spatial patterns, including the territories of wolves and coyotes. Here scent marks provide important cues regarding the use of space. In this talk I will show how biologically-based mechanistic rules can be put into a mathematical model which predicts the process of territorial formation as individuals create and respond to scent marks. The model predicts complex spatial patterns which are seen in nature, such stable `buffer zones' between territories which act as refuges for prey such as deer. The mathematical work is supported by detailed radio-tracking studies of animals. I will also employ the approach of game theory, where each pack attempts to maximize its fitness by increasing intake of prey (deer) and while decreasing interactions with hostile neighboring packs. Here the predictions are compared with radio-tracking data for wolves and coyotes.
About the Speaker
Mark Lewis is Professor and Canada Research Chair in both Mathematical Sciences and Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta, and Director for the Centre for Mathematical Biology at Alberta. Professor Lewis' has broad research interests in mathematical ecology. He works on biological problems including the modeling of territorial pattern formation in wolves, predicting population spread in biological invasions, calculating optimal strategies for biocontrol, and assessing the effect of habitat fragmentation on species survival. Par of his research involves the formulation and verification of quantitative models, in collaboration with field ecologists.
Mark obtained his doctorate at Oxford University in Mathematical Biology in 1990. His recent awards and grants include the CRM-Fields-PIMS Prize Distinction (2010-2011, from the Centre de Recherches Math/Fields/Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences); a Lee Segel Prize for Best Original Research Paper published in the Bulletin of Math Biology (2008, from the Society for Mathematical Biology); an American Society of Naturalists Presidential Award Distinction for Best Paper published in The American Naturalist (2006, from the American Society of Naturalists), and two Senior Canada Research Chair (Tier I) Research awards (2001-2008 and 2008-2015, from the University of Alberta). He has published over 150 papers.
Mark enjoys outdoor activities, including canoeing and cross country skiing and sailing. He lives with his family in Edmonton Alberta. | <urn:uuid:deef4b35-d16b-48b4-95f2-65fc9874c676> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://math.unl.edu/events/rowlee/2012 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.912099 | 471 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Whether you're using a high-speed stamping press to make simple parts at breakneck speeds or doing something really tricky, like deep drawing a material that puts up a lot of resistance, the information in this technology area is sure to help. The articles, case studies, and press releases cover stamping presses, lubricants, and materials.
February 28, 2013 | By Dan Davis
Two new tooling steels can help stampers improve production efficiency. The metal formers just need to open their minds to the new possibilities.
January 10, 2013 | By Jim Wahl
Without something to manage and absorb pressure, a die set would cease to function properly. This is why die spring selection--which considers spring size, travel, number, and placement within the tool--is so critical.
January 10, 2013 | By Jim Ward
Although many of the traditional coil-handling rules apply, processing coated coil material requires additional considerations. Stampers need to check for equipment clearances and alignment at every point where the finished material surface may contact another surface.
January 8, 2013 | By Kaveh Vafaei
Fineblankng now can produce not only flat parts, but also those with 3-D features, often to size and position tolerances of less than +/- 0.025 mm. It also offers extremely high part-to-part repeatability; the first part and the millionth part are identical. A confluence of technologies has made such parts a reality.
January 7, 2013 | By Tim Heston
Taiwanese metal manufacturers have grown from small, family involved entrepreneurial shops to world-class suppliers of parts and technology.
November 9, 2012 | By Dan Davis
In-die capabilities are an important weapon in a metal stamper's arsenal. These capabilities provide the means to create assemblies as a strip of coil quickly moves through a progressive-die setup. Weiss-Aug, East Hanover, N.J., is taking that competitive edge to the next level by offering in-die laser welding to its customer base.
November 9, 2012 | By Dan Davis
A supply chain is only as strong as every link. That's why more metal formers are leaning on their material suppliers to improve their coil and sheet management. A couple of metal service centers offer up some advice for those metal stampers looking to do more.
November 2, 2012 | By Jared Parker
From the perspective of a field service professional, the choice to repair, rebuild, or look for a new press isn't that hard of a decision. It's just a matter of clearly looking at the current shape of the press and what it will take to get it up to performance specs.
September 7, 2012 | By Bruce Edmonds
Ball-bearing die-set guide components are a critical part of the stamping operation. Properly selected, lubricated, and positioned, they improve tool operation and promote longer component life. If they aren’t properly maintained, excessive press downtime may result.
September 3, 2012 | By Troy Turnbull
When developing a lubrication strategy for QDC, companies should never consider a component in isolation. Instead, shops should ensure that various elements--including lubricant dilution, nozzle placement, quick-change devices, and intelligent process control--work in concert to prevent errors and shorten press setups.
August 31, 2012 | By Tim Heston
Since Qualtek Manufacturing invested in its servo presses several years ago, it has been gradually building up a working knowledge base--specific stroke recipes, tooling tweaks, and other information--that has turned out to be valuable intellectual property.
June 13, 2012 | By Dan Davis
Hot stamping has been around since the early 1970s, and it still holds as much promise today as it did then. Imparting strong steel characteristics on lighter-weight metals remains as relevant today as it did then. Today, however, the desire to exploit hot stamping remains strongest in the automotive industry as it seeks to develop lighter-weight vehicles that can still attain five-star crash ratings. The auto industry's work, however, may eventually influence other sectors that crave that combination of light weight and strength.
June 13, 2012 | By David Fischer
As more metal formers find themselves taking on more jobs with lower quantities, they have developed higher interest in quick die change. Many want to automate the entire clamping process: Hit a button and the clamps quickly engage or disengage. Hydraulic, magnetic, or combination clamping systems are options for stampers, but they shouldn't think one is necessarily better than the other without a thorough investigation.
June 13, 2012 | By Thomas F. Hazen
The nomenclature associated with some coil processing equipment suggests they might perform the same jobs, but reality suggests that flatteners, levelers, and straighteners serve completely different purposes for the metal former working with coiled materials.
April 27, 2012
Powernail, a Zurich, Ill.-based manufacturer of hardwood flooring nails stamps 1 billion of these L-cleats and E-cleats from flat 0.062 steel annually. The company was looking to improve the lifespan of the high-speed stamping dies his company uses to stamp the hardware. The company purchased die sets made of tungsten carbide, which improves the strength and wear resistance. Since then, Powernailís dies last four times longer than they had, tooling changes are less frequent, and it produceshigher-quality nails. | <urn:uuid:fa5ab601-97b6-48bf-9618-917775adcd20> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.thefabricator.com/?page=9&filter=article&category=stamping | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00478-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938349 | 1,126 | 1.8125 | 2 |
A community has been plunged into darkness after street lights were damaged by vandals.
Lamps in Laycock Gardens Park, Middlesbrough, and some surrounding roads have been put out as a result of vandalism.
And people living in the area now feel unsafe to walk around at night.
Robert Butler, 72, of Orwell Street, said the first lights went out over Christmas.
He said: "Three times a day I take my two dogs out around the park but it is pitch black in there at 4.30pm.
"The lights being off makes the park very dangerous."
A spokesman for Middlesbrough Council, said: "We will be repairing quite substantial damage in the park in the next week or so.
"While we are doing that work, we will be attending to lights nearby, which have been put out by vandals or just need renewing.
"It is very upsetting for people who use the gardens as they may feel in danger."
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Can You Get There From Here?
One man's trash is another man's treasure. That's especially true for Ava DeMarco and Robert Brandegee. The two young entrepreneurs salvage discarded rubber inner tubes, bottle caps, license plates, hubcaps and other throwaways to manufacture trendy fashion accessories, which they sell through Little Earth Productions Inc., the Pittsburgh-based business they founded in 1993.
The market for their unique offerings--beer-cap-studded belts made from recycled rubber, backpacks decorated with car emblems, gym bags accented with chrome hubcaps--is indeed hot among 18- to 35-year-old buyers who want a funky, upbeat look. In 1995, Little Earth Productions grossed $1.9 million. The partners expect their company to finish this year with $4 million in sales.
How did DeMarco and Brandegee know there was a niche in the retail fashion industry for their offbeat eco-fashions? They researched the market. "We had a gut feeling about recycled fashion accessories, and the research we did confirmed our instincts," explains DeMarco. "Before we invested a lot of time and money, we wrote a business plan for our company, and took a look at the market to make certain we were targeting the right buyers and offering products they wanted and could afford."
Every year, thousands of entrepreneurs face similar challenges. Will my product sell? At what price? Who are my customers? Who is my competition? Here are six essential steps to researching your market in order to answer these key questions.
1. Know your customer. Probably the most important part of the market research puzzle is figuring out who your customers are. What is their age, gender and marital status? Do you know their income level and occupation? Are they conservative, or trend-setters? Do they have political, religious or environmental beliefs that will influence their buying? Do they spend money freely and demand top quality, or do they shop for bargains?
During the early days of their company, DeMarco and Brandegee gathered concrete information for their buyer profile by personally selling their products at Pittsburgh arts festivals. There, they met and talked with customers, whom they learned were primarily in their teens to mid-30s.
"It was a good way to watch people use our products," notes DeMarco. "We also got a lot of feedback on price, and comments about how our products worked or didn't work for them."
The partners also devised a simple survey tool to gather additional customer information by attaching a small tag to every product shipped to retail stores for sale. Purchasers were asked to jot down answers to a brief list of questions and mail the completed tags to the company. "We asked for their name and address, general salary range, whether they're a student or professional person, and why they bought our product," explains DeMarco. "We also wanted to know what other products they buy, and what products they would like to see from us."
Customer response has been helpful. "However, we're not sure if the people who returned the tags were those who really liked our product or those who had the time to return the tags. But the tags gave us anecdotal information that helped. It confirmed our feelings that our market consists of buyers in their teens to mid-30s. We had a surprise, too: A number of buyers were older, in their 40s and 50s."
2. Scope out your competition. Before opening their doors for business, DeMarco and Brandegee examined competitive products on the market. They found their competitors "were strongly skewed toward recycling, and didn't focus on the style and function of the product," explains DeMarco. She reasoned that if Little Earth Productions could come up with similar products that used better materials and design, the company could have a greater impact on the market. "We chose a different emphasis than our competitors," she says. "We decided to focus primarily on the fashion--rather than on the recycling--aspects of our products. This way, we could not only get into the eco-stores, but also high-end commercial stores like Nordstrom."
Gathering data about their competition was a fairly simple task. The partners called various companies, requesting copies of their catalogs and pricing sheets. They also checked newspapers and magazines for information about their competitors' activities.
3. Set the right price. To stay in business, you have to sell your product at a price your customer is willing to pay. Your price also has to cover your costs of doing business and allow for a profit. As DeMarco learned, finding that happy medium isn't always easy. During the company's early days, customers balked at the high price tags of several products, including a backpack that sold for $130.
"We realized that high prices were going to limit us to selling to a few select stores, but we didn't want that exclusivity. We knew that as our volume increased, we could lower our prices, which we've done over the past four years. We're now at a price level where we give value to our customer and give ourselves a profit margin," explains DeMarco, noting that their backpack presently sells for $59.
4. Test the market. A great way to find out how your product might be received is to test-market it. The feedback you get will help you set your price, adjust your marketing approach, and point out any necessary product modifications. Jumping into the market without pre-testing your product, DeMarco learned, can create problems. "When we first started out, we used to design new products two weeks before a trade show and hope people would buy them," she admits. "We didn't know if people would like them or what they would pay." The company has since changed its approach, and now develops prototypes of new products, which are sent to a half dozen retail stores for display and sale. "The feedback lets us know if we're on the right track with a new product before we invest more time and money," she adds.
5. Gather additional data. There are several other ways to test-market your product, says Joy Wake, former president of the Sacramento, California, Chapter of the American Marketing Association. Some entrepreneurs develop a series of standardized questions about their product, which they use to interview prospective customers at shopping malls or other busy retail areas. Others prefer to conduct a telephone survey. A third option is a focus group, in which, typically, a small group of people gather for a few hours to discuss your product, its price and benefits, and your company's services. A team leader asks questions and encourages group discussion, which can be taped for further analysis. If you need help developing your questionnaire or conducting a focus group, you might retain the services of a professional market research group, or get free advice from your local office of the Small Business Administration's (SBA) Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE).
6. Check these resources. Aside from conducting your own research, suggests Wake, visit your local public or university library, where you'll find a wealth of information about consumer habits and spending patterns, product pricing, industry trends, and general marketing information. Federal government agencies, including the SBA, are another excellent source of information, as are trade and business associations, which often publish their own journals and industry reports.
Market research requires a considerable amount of time, money and energy, but is well worth the investment. "Good market research helps minimize your costs of doing business," notes DeMarco. "If you design a product, introduce it, and it fails, you've lost time and money on that product--time and money you could have spent on something else, so there's a double loss. The sooner you can do your market research, the sooner you'll guarantee yourself you've got your ladder leaned up against the right wall. You'll have the right focus and be able to set your company's long-term strategies." | <urn:uuid:737b2371-6767-4c7c-bd94-57bcbd60795b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/13604 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977194 | 1,638 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Report says policy delays have eroded buying power and political considerations and industrial policy have trumped military requirements
OTTAWA—An options analysis for how the Canadian navy can cover the gap in military supply ships is now sitting on Defence Minister Rob Nicholson’s desk, but there are some contentious suggestions he likely won’t see.
There’s a growing divide in the military community about precisely what kind of ships should replace the aging HMCS Preserver and HMCS Protecteur, which are being decommissioned ahead of schedule.
The Harper government plans to build two joint support ships in Vancouver under its politically popular national shipbuilding strategy, but those vessels are at least eight years away and National Defence is searching for ways to fill the void.
Options have been provided to the minister, the commander of the navy told a Commons committee last month.
But an independent report—which is not part of the navy’s recommendations—questions whether waiting for the new ships to be built is the most cost-effective approach.
That analysis has been gathering dust in the office of the parliamentary budget officer.
It was written last year under contract by two experts at the Conference of Defence Associations Institute and meant to form part of the budget officer’s overall report on the joint support ship plan.
However, it was left out because senior retired naval commanders disagreed with the recommendations.
The dispute provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the vested interests involved and how industrial policy often trumps military requirements and capability needs.
The independent evaluation, penned by retired colonel George Petrolekas and defence analyst Dave Perry, recommended buying a French Mistral-class landing ship and converting at least two civilian-grade tankers into refuelling vessels.
Not only would that provide the navy with greater capability and flexibility, it would be cheaper than the current $2.9 billion plan, the analysts argued.
The “mixed-fleet package is the only means of providing both the joint capabilities and the replenishment capabilities at a speed of 20 knots, within the budget envelope,” said the draft report, a copy of which was obtained by The Canadian Press.
“We believe that this is the only option worthy of detailed scrutiny by the PBO that could provide the capabilities envisioned in the 2006 (statement of requirements).”
The parliamentary budget office wouldn’t discuss why the report’s findings didn’t make it into its final report, other than to say it commissions a lot of research as part of its due diligence.
Perry said the point of the analysis was to help the PBO, and ultimately the government, to broaden their thinking on the issue.
“Other countries ask themselves: What is the best capability you need and how do you get it?” he said.
“We do it the other way around. We ask: How much capability can you get within this budget, building it according to these conditions and doing it within our existing procurement practices.”
And often, political considerations and industrial policy rule the roost.
The Harper government and the navy are tied into the national shipbuilding strategy, which is intended to rebuild the fleet of surface ships and coast guard cutters with made-in-Canada vessels.
The negotiation of umbrella agreements with two shipyards—Vancouver’s Seaspan and Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax—and the subsequent defence procurement strategy are considered among the government’s signature accomplishments when it comes to the military.
The analysis, however, questions the kind of benefit Canadian industry will get and whether the delay and potential extra cost associated with the strategy are worth it from an economic and military perspective.
“The NSPS dictates that the vessels will be ‘built’ in Canada, but provides no explanation for what this actually means, beyond employing a Canadian shipyard,” said the report.
“It is clear, however, that many important components will very likely have to be sourced internationally, and potentially the design as well. Nonetheless, procuring ships through the NSPS process will ensure that they will be considered ‘Canadian.”’
The joint support ships were originally ordered by Paul Martin’s Liberal government, but the initial program was cancelled and restarted by the Conservatives because the first round of bids exceeded the budget envelope. The program was further delayed and is not slated to produce its first ship until 2018-19 because it was rolled into the shipbuilding strategy.
The analysis says the delay has eroded the budget.
“The net result is that rather than actually having $2.6 billion to spend on new ships, the erosion caused by various ”charges“ and ”risk factors“ mean that at best, only $1.8 billion is available for new ships—close to a 30 per cent erosion of buying power,” the report concludes. | <urn:uuid:795477a0-3709-4528-80f3-50cc8e430db0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.canadianmanufacturing.com/financing/undisclosed-report-skewers-navy-ship-procurement-process-143930/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00189-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958414 | 1,009 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Today’s feature article comes to you from Cathy who blogs at the lovely UK blog NurtureStore! Enjoy!
With crafty kids in the house there’s always demand for new materials to create with. One thing we always keep well stocked is our Making Box, packed full of boxes, papers and wrapping that would otherwise be heading for the the recycling bin. It gives us a never-ending supply of craft materials, all for free and good for the environment too. Here’s one of our recent recycled crafts, transforming an old cardboard box into a beautiful play house.
We started by opening up a cereal box and re-folding it inside out. You can use glue to stick it back together for a neater finish but my girls have no time to wait for glue to dry when they’re in the mood for creating and playing, so we used sticky tape.
Then my daughters drew their houses. You could paint or use collage pictures cut from a magazine but we had a brand new box of marker pens that we couldn’t resist.
The children can draw whatever house they like – one just like their own real home or the house of their dreams. You might like to add in a pet cat, flowers climbing up the wall and a chimney on top.
My younger daughter decided she wanted to add a garden so we taped two pieces of paper to the underside of the box. This gives lots of extra space to draw on and creates a great play space.
And here’s her finished house, with front and back gardens, a trampoline and big green pond – all ready to add some little characters to she can start playing in the new world she’s created.
If you children enjoy crafting with recycled materials you might like to get a copy of our free Glorious Junk! e-book which has lots of ideas for turning junk into toys.
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Skin Cancer Detection Using CNN
Cancer, which is a common disease nowadays is mainly caused due to rapid growth of cancer cells inside our body. There are various types of cancers which are present such as Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Pancreatic Cancer etc.
Skin Cancer(Melanoma),which is mostly curable, can become deadly if not detected at an early early stage. Hence, it is important to detect which one is malignant and which one is benign.
The model proposed here , is capable to classify images based on Convolutional Neural Networks and can eventually yield good results.
Table of Contents:
The dataset is available on Kaggle which was given by Claudio Fanconi. Basically ,the data is splitted into 2 types, test and train data. There were approximately 2637 images in training set and 660 in testing set. The images provided in the set were mostly quite clear and well formatted.
The training and test set were already present in the dataset. However, the validation set was missing. So, we took 25% of the training data ,and converted it into validation data.
Dummy Data: This data will be useful for model’s prediction, which consist of 5 images
By definition, Image Processing is a method to perform some operations on an image ,in order to get an enhanced image or to extract some useful information from it. It is a type of signal processing in which input is an image and output may be image or characteristics/features associated with that image.
Since ,the image size has a maximum pixel of 255 ,i.e it has a range of [0,255],but it becomes tough for the model to process such high pixel so we need to rescale it before feeding to model.
Model Training :
In this CNN Model, we have used 6 layers of “ReLU” and the last layer is of “Softmax”.
The model performed well on the test and training both. It has able to yield an accuracy of approximately 82 % on train and 77% on test.
Graph Plot :
Model Prediction :
Click the below link to access the Notebook .
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LONDON Britain's economy is likely to have come within a whisker of finally recovering its pre-recession size when data is released on Tuesday, buoying Prime Minister David Cameron little more than a year before a national election.
Gross domestic product figures, due at 0930 BST, are also likely to show Britain notched up its fastest economic growth in nearly four years in the first three months of 2014.
Britain's economy has bounced back strongly over the past 12 months and is it expected to grow more quickly than any other Group of Seven nation this year.
But it has taken longer than many other countries to shake off the effects of the financial crisis, partly because of the size of its banking sector but also, critics of the government say, because it opted for sharp curbs on public spending.
At the end of last year, the economy was 1.4 percent smaller than at its peak in the first quarter of 2008.
Gross domestic product probably expanded by 0.9 percent in the first three months of this year from the fourth quarter of 2013, when the economy grew by 0.7 percent, according to a Reuters poll of economists.
In year-on-year terms, growth is also expected to have picked up speed to hit 3.2 percent, compared with 2.7 percent in the fourth quarter.
Cameron and his finance minister George Osborne are trying to convince voters that their Conservative Party should be returned to power in the May 2015 elections to carry on restoring Britain to financial health.
The opposition Labour party has switched its line of attack away from the government's failure to revive growth to what it calls the cost of living crisis.
Britain's population has risen strongly since the financial crisis, meaning that output per head is still well below pre-crisis levels. A nearly six-year run of declining wages compared with inflation is only just starting to level out.
Nonetheless, British households are feeling increasingly upbeat about their finances.
Consumer confidence in April hit its highest level since August 2007, helped in particular by rising house prices as well as by higher earnings, according to a survey published on Tuesday by polling firm YouGov and the Centre for Economics and Business Research, a consultancy.
"Consumer confidence grew at a sluggish rate during the first quarter of 2014, but April's figures suggest that confidence is set to make great strides over the summer," Charles Davis, CEBR director, said.
Despite turnaround in Britain's economy, the Bank of England has signalled that it is in no rush to raise interest rates. Its stance has been helped by the lowest consumer inflation rate in four years.
The Bank has welcomed a long-awaited pickup in business investment as a sign that the economic recovery might be able to reduce its reliance on unsustainable consumer spending.
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Assessing Ethical Impairment with the Ten Commandments
But that only refers to workplace impairment, and only a Marxist would reduce the psyche to one's ability to work. What if, say, we also had to rate an individual's "moral disability?" Perhaps we might use the Ten Commandments to assess a person's ethical impairment.
Let's take, say, Obama. Just how ethically impaired is he? It's a little difficult to say when one is immersed in an ideology that has its own ethical norms. For example, in Obama's world, infanticide is permissible, even a sacred right. Furthermore, it would seem that he has an ironclad defense, since his ideology also values multiculturalism, which means that there are no objective values that can be judged from outside the culture in question. Therefore, from "within" Obama's ethical system, murdering a baby who is "accidentally" born alive is not problematic.
Likewise, if we surrender in Iraq and genocide ensues, it is "not our problem," since Obama is for peace. People who are against peace are bad, whether it is people who want to commit genocide or people who want to stop them from doing so.
With multiculturalism, it goes without saying that one cannot say "you shall have no other gods before me." Rather, this is inverted to say "you shall have all other gods coequal or even above me, since I'm such a demanding and judgmental tyrant. In fact, the more the merrier." Nor can you have an injunction against bearing false witness, since multiculturalism and deconstruction insist that there is no such thing as objective truth, and that truth is a function of power. Of course, this only proves that the left is power mad, but you're not supposed to notice that.
I could go on and on, but here are commandments five and six in our series. Please be culturally sensitive, and remember that they do not apply to liberals.
Never fail to respect the sages. See the divine in your mother, father, and teacher... --Taittiriya Upanishad
The fifth of the first five “vertical” commandments is “honor your father and your mother.” This is an important point, because the verticality of this commandment means that it is clearly not just referring to our earthly parents. At the very least, the commandment implies a link between the earthly and celestial dimensions, filtered through the family. The trinitarian family of father-mother-child is an intrinsic reflection of God's design, another instance of the microcosm reflecting the macrocosm (“as above, so below”). Also, being the last of the vertical commandments, it is somehow an important link to the next five "horizontal" commandments that allow the wider human community to properly function.
Naturally, a large part of the leftist project is to undermine this commandment and to de-sacralize the family, so that it essentially becomes "just anything." Thus, the vertical family that is ultimately oriented in a hierarchical manner toward the divine is reduced to a wholly horizontal entity in which the members are only oriented toward each other. A family is “any two or more people or animals who love each other.” Not “honor your mother and father,” but “honor your father and father,” or worse yet, honor just earthly love. But earthly love alone cannot sustain a family, which is one of the reasons for the increased incidence of divorce. If you enter a marriage thinking that another person is going to make you happy and fulfill all of your needs, you are bound to be sorely disillusioned.
Some may think that the onus of this commandment is upon children to honor their parents. But I believe this is a misunderstanding of the total context of the commandments. For an equal burden is actually on the parents -- especially the father -- to be an earthly reflection of the celestial Parent. Indeed, this is a father’s only claim to legitimate (i.e., post-biological) authority -- the extent to which he is a dignified and noble man through whom divine authority radiates “downward.”
Parents do not own children -- this was one of the radical innovations of Judaism, in contrast to other ancient (and contemporary) peoples who practiced infanticide and other forms of systematic abuse.
In raising a child, you are deputized by the divine to help usher your child from his earthly caretaker -- i.e., you -- to his celestial benefactor. Even if you are not particularly religious, this is still the aim of your parenting, but it will merely go by another name -- for example, instilling good values. Few people outside the Muslim world actually consciously want to raise their children as antisocial, homicidal beasts. And even these Moloch-worshipping parents are under the delusion that they are on a divine mission to raise their children in this perverse manner.
Arab parents are now naming their children “Hizb’allah” and “Nasrallah,” a genocidal group and a genocidal fanatic, respectively. These children will surely grow up to honor their father -- the father of lies. These parents are spiritually unfit to bring children into the world, because they inflict the worst possible psychic injury to the child: failing to provide them with a parent worthy of honor. Like most any abused child, the child will still do his part -- he will honor his parents -- which will have the practical effect of making him lower than the beasts, unless the child somehow sees through his warped parents and locates his father “who art in heaven.”
Obama, whose father was an alcoholic bigamist, abandoned him when he was a child. As a result, he spent much of his adulthood searching for a father worthy of honor. That he chose someone like Reverend Wright speaks volumes. One can see how bad fathers are always available to children who have had no experience of a good father, just as there is no shortage of bad men for confused women who were never properly loved by a noble father. If all girls had good fathers, the pool of bad men would soon dry up, since they would be deprived of sexual partners.
In short, to the extent that our parents are worthy of of honor, it is because the archetypes of our otherworldly Mother and Father are revealed to us through them. Not only do many parents fail at this fundamental task, but they even usurp God’s rightful power, becoming bad gods and “lording it over” their children (as undoubtedly happened to them).
More generally, the pure love we receive “vertically” from our parents is like a seed that is planted deep within our psyche. Children can have no idea how much they were loved until they have children of their own. This is as it should be, because the task for the child is to spread this divine-parental love horizontally, out into the world. If children loved parents as much as parents love their children, it would be very difficult to break out of that closed circle and evolve psycho-culturally. When children "worship" their parents, it puts an end to personal and cultural evolution (and this pseudo-worship is usually a result of some kind of abuse, rooted in fear and unconscious hatred).
And just because we have left our earthly parents, it hardly means that we have no further need of parenting. Again, there is something primordially true in the trinitarian arrangement of father-mother-child. In order to continue to grow spiritually as adults, we must in some way "become as children" and establish an ongoing rapport with the divine masculine and feminine. As such, the commandment also implies that we should honor worldly representatives of the divine, for example, the avatars, saints, and spiritual masters who, just like our own parents, have made incredible sacrifices for our benefit, and who extend truly priceless wisdom, guidance, and even salvation. Thanks to these exemplars, the vertical hole in creation is always accessible.
There is nothing which is more necessary and more precious in the experience of human childhood than parental love.... nothing more precious, because the parental love experienced in childhood is moral capital for the whole of life.... It is so precious, this experience, that it renders us capable of elevating ourselves to more sublime things--even divine things. It is thanks to the experience of parental love that our soul is capable of raising itself to the love of God. -- Meditations on the Tarot
Worlds there are without suns, covered up with darkness. To these after death go the ignorant, slayers of the Self. --Isha Upanishad
The sixth commandment is often erroneously translated as “thou shalt not kill” instead of “thou shalt not murder.” Killing has no inherent moral consequence one way or the other (i.e., it depends on the context), whereas murder specifically refers to the deliberate taking of innocent human life.
In the West, I know of no one outside the left who argues otherwise. For example, one routinely hears leftists insist that there is no difference between deaths that occur as a deliberate policy of Islamic terrorists vs. those that occur as a result of Israel defending herself from Islamic terrorists. One also routinely hears George Bush described by the left as a terrorist -- indeed, “the world’s biggest terrorist” -- which again simply highlights the broken moral compass at the foundation of leftist thought. It's like a house built on a cracked foundation.
The same broken moral compass is present in animal rights activists who equate the killing of animals with the murder of humans. One also hears leftists perversely invoke “thou shalt not kill” in order to try to prevent murderers from being put to death. But again, the commandment specifically forbids the deliberate taking of innocent human life, and no one is less innocent than a murderer. The “golden rule” maintains that we should treat others as we would have them treat us, and it is just so with capital punishment.
As Schuon writes, it is absurd to want to abolish the death penalty "on the grounds that one would not like to be in the condemned man’s place; to be in the place of the condemned man is at the same time to be the murderer; if the condemned man can earn our sympathy it is precisely by being able to recognize his crime and by desiring to pay for it with his life, thereby removing all antagonism between him and us.”
But there are many ways to murder a man without killing the body, and these also fall under the authority of this commandment. One can even draw out the implications of the commandment, in that, if we are to refrain from the taking of innocent life, we are necessarily enjoined to promote, preserve and protect innocent life in all of its manifestations.
At bottom, what the commandment is emphasizing is that life is sacred -- it is of infinite value; therefore, do everything you can to honor and protect it. Clearly, not all cultures do so. Some, as in so much of the Muslim world, explicitly worship death, not life. And this inversion is reflected throughout these sick cultures, in that they are “fruitless.” That is, they produce nothing but misery, both to themselves and to others. They produce nothing for the body, i.e., no medicines, no new ways to produce food; they produce nothing for the mind, i.e., no science, no translations of books, no freedom of inquiry; and they produce nothing for the spirit, i.e., only the spiritual shackles of their medieval death cult.
Most soul murders are undoubtedly committed by those who are already so spiritually damaged as to be functionally dead. These undead souls such as a Nasrallah, an Arafat, or an Amahdinejad, speak to us from “the other side,” from the shadow world that is created when the soul has been so damaged that it essentially withdraws from the body, leaving only a human animal in its place. But other demonic energies rush in to fill the void, so that the individual becomes a sort of “antihuman.” At their core, they are filled with unbearable envy toward the living, and the only way they can assuage this envy is to kill and kill plentifully. Life is a painful reminder of their own living death, hence, “death to Israel,” that primordial symbol of life: l’chaim.
The undead also cannot help converting their children to their way of non-being. In ways both subtle and profound, they will interact with their children in a pathological manner, causing the children to internalize the same virus that afflicts their parents. Regardless, the virus always goes by the name of “love,” which simply further confuses the child. In the end, they will not be able to distinguish the difference between love and hate or truth and lies, any more than they can distinguish between spiritual life and death.
That depraved Muslim couple that was going to use their baby as a bomb surely love their child, except that the love flows out of death, not life. Likewise, the proud Palestinian parents who raise their children to be mass murderers undoubtedly love their children, as do the Muslim parents who murder their daughters for holding hands with a Christian boy. Death loves, just as the person who doesn't believe in truth seeks to accumulate “knowledge.” Our universities are filled with lie-roasted academia nuts who know much. They too worship death -- the death of the intellect and its innate spiritual wisdom.
Oddly, just as life spreads and propagates, so too does death. In other words, death has a sort of life all its own -- just as disease isn’t the opposite of health, but a pathological form of living. The undead soul attempts to overcome and “transcend” his soul death by killing, by substitute sacrifices. Human sacrifice is a way to “steal” the life essence of the victim in order to give the undead a spurious sense of life. This is why the Islamist butchers ecstatically scream "allahu ackbar" (the god of death is great!) as they chop off another head.
In this regard, the Izlambies are no different than Jeffrey Dahmer, who would attempt to have an orgasm at the exact moment his victim was dying, the idea being that the victim's life force would somehow pass into him. Islamists believe that by exterminating Israel, the life essence of Israel will pass into and revive their undead souls and cultures, but this is simply the most perverse of unconscious fantasies. If tiny Israel had never existed, the same massive death cult would have simply metastasized into the geographical area now called Israel. Life departed from Gaza a couple of years ago, but Death merely rushed in to occupy the void created.
Again, the implicit message of the sixth commandment is that we must promote Life in everything we do, not just limiting ourselves to innocent human life, but to the Good, the True and the Beautiful, for these are the principal manifestations of the uncorrupted, living soul. As I wrote in the Coonifesto, “There is a culture of Life and a culture of death, and the cultural necropolis can only maintain itself by an increasingly brazen assault on Truth (as well as beauty and decency). It is therefore also a cult of hypnotic enslavement, for only the Truth can liberate us from this zone of illusion. In your day-to-day life, you must refrain from activities that advance the infrahuman tide of ugliness, barbarism, and falsehood in our endarkened world.” | <urn:uuid:cbc76abc-822d-4c07-a94c-5d512a90495a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2008_08_17_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00465-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967005 | 3,285 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Ahhh yeah ya’ll, I hope everybody brought along an extra change of clothes today -things are about to get sweaty and sexy- because we’re gonna’ be discussing lasers, folks, specifically how one might turn a laser into a tractor beam. Don’t say I didn’t warn you, but the temperature is about to go up. I’m taking off my socks now, just so everyone is aware.
Alright, so for a while now it’s been a scientific fact that photons have a momentum that they can pass onto anything they collide with. In using that momentum, when the photons run into something and that transfer of force occurs, the photons demonstrate a pushing effect. New to this concept is the idea that photons could then also perform a pulling result if needed. At least this is the argument that Jun Chen and his pals from Fudan University in China are trying to prove right now.
Oh right, about the lasers and tractor beams and robots and stuff…
Chen and his team claim that by using a forward propagating laser beam they’ve somehow worked out the details of how to create a backwards pulling force from it -so they claim.
Chen and buddies say this is possible when the system meets two conditions. First, it works only for beams in which the momentum in the direction of propagation is small, as is the case for beams that merely glance off an object. Second, the photons must simultaneously excite several multipoles within the particle, which scatter the beam.
If the scattering angle is just right, the total momentum in the direction of propagation can be negative, meaning the particle is pulled back towards the source and the light becomes a tractor beam. [TechnologyReview]
At this point, the concept is only a theory paper from Chen and colleagues, so until they can prove the demonstration, they’ll have to reserve from making it rain at the strip club. The article is published by MIT, who start to nerd out and explore the potential uses for tractor beams in the near future; getting all romantic talking about how NASA could potentially use the beams to clean up space junk. Me, I was thinking a little more locally, like how to get that TV remote into my palm without getting up from the couch, for example. | <urn:uuid:773f7768-e190-4bfa-942b-d364e858ae76> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://uproxx.com/gammasquad/party-trick-85-turning-a-laser-into-a-tractor-beam/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00147-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954137 | 473 | 3.265625 | 3 |
ISTANBUL—The Syrian government has not granted the United Nations “a single permit” to bring aid to the besieged city of Aleppo as part of a ceasefire that took effect this week, a senior UN official said Thursday.
Stalled convoys, seeking to ferry food for tens of thousands of people, have quickly become a symbol of the wider challenges linked to the ceasefire effort even as fighting has sharply eased over the past days.
Opening channels for humanitarian access is a key provision of the ceasefire plan brokered by the United States and Russia, which are on opposing sides of the war. But the wrangling over the aid — now stuck on the Syrian-Turkey border — has led to questions over achieving the broad goals of the accords, beginning with widespread humanitarian relief.
“We could go today. We’re not ... The permits have not been given,” Jan Egeland, chairman of the Syrian humanitarian task force, told reporters in Geneva.
“We hope to go tomorrow, to eastern Aleppo,” he said, referring to a rebel-held area that has been under siege by government forces for more than a month. Aleppo, however, is just one of many areas cut off from aid and other assistance.
“Not a single permit is in the hands of our people,” Egeland added.
The 40 trucks — carrying rice, wheat, and other items — “can go at a moment’s notice,” he said.
The ceasefire began Monday and has largely held in key areas of the country. The reduction in violence has given civilians some respite.
But as the killing subsides, the focus has turned toward the blocked aid.
If the level of conflict is down, there is “no reason, no excuse, for not being able to deliver,” the UN special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, said Thursday.
“Are we disappointed?” he said. “Of course we are.”
Both UN officials laid blame on the Syrian government, which requires layers of permission at the senior and local levels. Aid convoys are often required to display permits at each armed checkpoint into besieged areas.
Since 2011, troops at roadblocks have removed nearly 45 tonnes of medical supplies from aid convoys, according to the World Health Organization. These include antibiotics, mental health medication and kits to treat burns or help deliver babies.
The United Nations insisted Thursday that the government would not be allowed to pick through any of the aid items headed to Aleppo, about 65 kilometres south of the Turkish border.
Once the trucks begin to move, “they will not be harassed,” de Mistura said. “No saying: ‘We will take out that medicine, and we will take that food.’”
Nearly half a million people have been killed in the years-long civil war, and millions more have been displaced or marooned in embattled areas.
Also of concern was safety along the Castello Road, the only way in and out of eastern Aleppo. Under the agreement, Castello Road would become a demilitarized zone and humanitarian corridor.
Government troops control the highway, but opposition groups are also stationed nearby.
The journey from the Turkish border to Aleppo “is not an easy one,” David Swanson, a spokesman for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said Thursday. “Security is a major concern, and road conditions are poor.”
Despite the accord, it was unclear Thursday if either the government or opposition groups planned to withdraw.
The Russian military, which backs Syria’s government, said Thursday evening that Syrian troops had pulled back from the road but that opposition fighters had failed to do the same, the Associated Press reported.
Just a few hours earlier, nearby rebels said they had not withdrawn but that neither had Syrian troops.
The troops “should have withdrawn from Castello Road (on Thursday morning) and the rebels, too,” said Zakaria Malahiji, political officer of the Aleppo-based Fastaqim rebel group.
But “the regime troops have not left their positions, and neither have our guys,” he said. “Because they do not trust that the regime won’t advance if they retreat from their positions.”
The quarrelling over the road prompted de Mistura to urge the United States and Russia to influence the respective warring parties. The United States has backed some rebel groups and worked with the opposition, while Russia is allied with Syrian President Bashar Assad.
Possible friction between Moscow and Washington also cast doubts on the broader attempts to keep the fighting in check.
In Moscow, a spokesman for Russia’s Defense Ministry accused the United States of not fulfilling its obligations under the ceasefire agreement.
The spokesman, Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov, told the Interfax news service that rebel troops continued to fire artillery at government forces and had not separated themselves from units loyal to a former affiliate of Al Qaeda that both the United States and Russia have deemed a terrorist organization.
Konashenkov also complained about statements by U.S. officials doubting whether Russia would fulfil the terms of the ceasefire.
“There’s an impression that the goal of Washington’s ‘curtain of words’ is an intention to hide the fact that it is not fulfilling its obligations, above all the separation of units of the ‘moderate opposition’ from the terrorists,” Konashenkov said.
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Kai Ryssdal: Today’s Nobel Prize in economics came in two parts. Elinor Ostrom at Indiana University and Oliver Williamson from the University of California-Berkeley were recognized for their separate but related work in something called economic governance: How groups are organized and how decisions can be made outside the market.
Professor Ostrom is a political scientist by training, but she calls herself a political economist. Earlier today she explained her work in how groups manage common resources to our Marketplace Morning Report colleagues.
ELINOR OSTROM: We’ve studied how farmers organize irrigation system, how fishermen organize some fisheries — not all. And now we have a major study of forestry around the world, where we’re studying government forests and local-managed forests and forests that are being depleted.
Oliver Williamson at Berkeley shares the economic prize for his study of companies and how, and why, economic decisions are sometimes better made in the boardroom than in the open market.
Professor Williamson good to have you with us.
OLIVER WILLIAMSON: Thank you. Good to be here.
Ryssdal: I imagine this is not a bad phone call to get at 3:30 in the morning, if you have to get a phone call then.
WILLIAMSON: Nah, it was received with great pleasure. I and my family was overjoyed.
Ryssdal: Your work, professor, looks at why some decisions happen in the market, and some happen inside corporations. Is there a practical example you might give of when it might make sense to do one thing in the market, and another thing perhaps inside a firm, inside a corporation.
WILLIAMSON: A really crucial feature is what are the nature of the assets that are being used. Are they easily redeployable to other uses, or are they highly specialized to this particular use? If they are easily redeployable, markets are going to work well. If, however, the assets are highly specialized to this particular need, now you run the risk that I engage in this transaction in good faith, unanticipated consequences present themselves. I want to bail out, I leave you high and dry, that’s a risk that the supplier here would be reluctant to undertake, without a risk premium that reflects the added risk that is associated with it. As a buyer, do I want to pay that premium, or am I better off taking it out of the market, sacrificing competition, but nevertheless having a common bottom line to look at, rather than two separate firms looking at it from their own point of view.
Ryssdal: Is there a lesson to be drawn from your work, and how it applies to some of the big banks and the actions that they took, you know some of the actions that they took out of the market place, behind closed doors, without people really knowing what was going on and that decision making.
WILLIAMSON: I think that more attention to organization, so yes, you tell the SEC, you tell the Fed, that new forms of risk taking as they come along are something that you should get a deeper understanding at and if there are lurking hazards, uncover them, and work out what the public policy ramifications are.
Ryssdal: I understand, professor, that parking there on the Berkeley campus is quite at a premium, but one of the benefits of this award is that you get a special parking permit, is that right? You win a Nobel, you get a parking space?
WILLIAMSON: That’s correct. That’s the whole incentive program wrapped up…
Ryssdal: Now, have you filled out the paperwork yet?
WILLIAMSON: I haven’t. And the chancellor is traveling today, so I’m not going to get this earmarked for a day or two, maybe a week or two. Bureaucracy turns over at its own pace, and I can manage in between.
Ryssdal: Oliver Williamson is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of California-Berkeley. And also as of this morning, a Nobel Laureate in that field. Professor, thanks so much for your time.
WILLIAMSON: Thank you.
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Crafting is a fun activity which keeps both you and your kids busy and encourages creativity to a higher level, especially when it comes to kids. There are many craft related activities which kids can perform on their own while others require an adult’s help and supervision.
Check out various crafts for kids activities that will keep your kids busy and create memories for years to come. There are several creative ideas that will help develop a stronger bonding with your child while also helping him do a constructive activity where he or she can unleash their true potential.
What To Know About Crafts For Kids
You can select various craft related activities online by simply entering your child’s age. You can also choose different craft types like building educational crafts, clothing and costumes, jewelry, music instruments, etc. You can select material crafts like, clay crafts, pipe cleaner crafts, paper crafts, cardboard crafts, holiday or seasonal crafts, home craft, nature inspiring craft and a lot more.
Benefits of Crafts for Kids
There are many benefits to doing craft activities that include:
- Keeps your child busy
- Helps them turn ideas into reality
- Unleashes their true potential
- Adds fun time
- Strengthens the bond between parent and child
If you are feeling unsure about how to do crafts with your kids, there is nothing to worry about. With the help of the internet you can find several suggestions for kids crafts and enjoy a great time.
Discover The World Of Kids Crafts
Start with small activities such as making a collage using twigs, flowers leaves, photographs or pictures. Depending on your child’s age, you can do quick and easy crafts or crafts that are more complicated.
Types of Kids Crafts
There are different types of craft activities that can help you and your child have a great time. You can enjoy sculpting or marble painting, finger painting or decoupage to name just a few of the many craft possibilities available both in a craft store or online. Some of the types of crafts available include:
- Animal, Food, Balloon Craft, Etc.
- Toddler Crafts And Material Craft
- Sewing And Model Building
- Sculpting And Marble Painting
In addition to different types of craft ideas and projects you also have many different materials you can use to create unique and interesting craft items. Some of the different materials include:
- Oil pastels
- Non-toxic items
Display your child’s masterpieces in your home then put them in storage to bring out after they grow up and move out; relive the memories of the fun times you had helping them create. When choosing a craft for your child, make sure it is age appropriate and requires only the amount of concentration that they are capable of giving. After all, crafts for kids are supposed to be fun, not work.
When you buy craft items, consider your child’s likes, dislikes and abilities. Discuss a craft activity by going online and letting them help you choose a particular craft project to do. Make sure you are able to purchase all the items needed to create that particular craft. Feel free to visit your local craft shop or your favorite online craft supplier and begin building memories with your child.
Children love to spend time with parents, especially while participating in activities they enjoy. As a parent it is important for you to come up with innovative craft ideas that will allow you to spend quality time with your child, be part of his world and contribute significantly to his creative development.
If you do not have much experience with crafts, you may feel overwhelmed. But there is no need to worry as you will find help across the internet when you run a relevant search. Here, we have listed three enjoyable ideas for crafts with kids that you can start off with, before you take on more challenging activities with your child.
You and your child could have a fun time preparing collages both inside and outside the house. If you take on this challenge outdoors, the things that your kid has to collect include flowers, twigs, leaves and grass. However if you plan to make the collage indoors, things like comic strips, magazines, advertisements and newspapers will have to be provided. Once the resources for this Craft with Kids idea has been acquired, give your child a base to work on, a pair of scissors and some glue. Once the collage has been completed, dry it and feel free to flaunt it to your guests.
With the help of this Craft with Kids idea, you can facilitate your kid’s manual dexterity. Getting your child involved in kitchen work can be both fun and engaging. Salt dough for instance gives your child a great opportunity to showcase some of his creative instinct. The only three things you will really need include water, flour and salt – all of which is readily available in your kitchen. Encourage your child to use cookie cutters or sculpt characters and things from the dough. Once they are ready, bake them and give them to your kid so he can appreciate what he has made and eat it too!
3. Marble Painting
The materials you need for this particular Craft with Kids idea are water-based paints, marbles, a box and paper. Ask your child the colours he wants to use and distribute them accordingly in jars that have wide lids. Thereafter they can use the paint, marbles and the box to create patterns on the paper, in any way they like. Very soon there will be a beautiful piece of artwork before your eyes and your kid would bask in glory, knowing he made it.
Indulging in crafts with your child in only one of the many activities you can do together and bond over. Never underestimate how much time your kid would love to spend with you. A lot of parents like to believe otherwise because their busy schedule doesn’t allow them to have free time for their child. However, knowing otherwise will prove to be beneficial for your kid and you so it is important that you invest some time and energy into thinking of things that you could do together.
Become an important part of your child’s fun times and help develop his or her creativity. Coming up with ideas for fun activities for your child can be difficult when they keep clamoring for more. Some fun activities for kids can also be found in your local craft store.
There actually are thousands of available resources on the internet, in your favorite craft store, in craft newsletters and in local craft groups that can help you decide on which of the many creative activities to involve your child with.
3 Fun and Enjoyable Activities for Kids
Kids enjoy the chance to exercise their creativity and create gifts and crafts for those they love. The praise they get from those they love means a lot to them and encourages them to keep creating. There are many fun activities for kids that you can provide for your children.
Activities for Kids
Rainy days are perfect for crafting with your kids. Here are three ideas you can get your kids involved in:
This activity can be done as a scavenger hunt either outdoors or indoors. If this is to be an outdoors scavenger hunt, provide your kids with a list of items to find, such as:
- Small stones
If this is an indoor scavenger hunt, give your children a list of pictures they are to find. Provide them with different magazines, comics, newspapers and glossy advertisements to either cut out or tear into different shapes.
Once your kids have gathered their items, let them to glue their materials to a piece of paper in any design they choose. When the collages are finished, dry them in the sun.
Encourage the development of your child’s manual dexterity by letting them help you in the kitchen. Find a recipe that is easy for kids to make such as salt dough. All you need are salt, water and flour. Some ideas for things to make with the dough include:
- Designs to decorate with icing or paints using cookie cutters.
- A leaf using a real leaf to create an impression in the dough then cutting around the outside with a butter knife.
- Chair, person, or other object.
Once your child has created their masterpieces, bake the salt dough in the oven to harden the dough.
#3: Marble Painting
Purchase water based paints or use condiments from your fridge and turn this project into edible art. You can use store bought marbles or marbles made from salt dough then baked. Supplies you will need include:
- A small box
- Paper placed in bottom of the box.
- Water based paints or condiments from your fridge placed into jar lids or small bowls.
Imagination, creativity, thinking and social skills are some of the things a kid gains from an interesting and challenging activity. There are different types of activities with varying benefits to the kids; take for instance a game like ‘Create an animal mask‘ which, as the name suggests, involves making animal masks using different colored papers. This activity, apart from being interesting and an activity that makes your child happy, also helps to spark your child’s creativity and encourage their artistic imagination with activities for kids.
Craft Activities for Kids
There are other kids’ activities that are based on different themes. Some are classified under scientific experiment, brain teaser and one that is based on pure fun. Here are some activities for kids that are interesting and fun.
Creative & Pocket Friendly Activities For Kids
You do not need to spend a lot of money to make you kid happy. All you have to do is to think outside the box.
Learning is a continuous process and, incorporating some learning activities into kid activities is fundamental to improving cognitive skills. There are several activities that are fun and educational, e.g. making colorful butterflies, pasta pictures, egg carton spider, papier-mâché glue, etc. These activities involve the use of shapes, colors and numbers.
Egg Carton Spider
Creating egg carton spiders is an activity that involves creating a cool creepy egg carton spider. You kids will definitely love to learn how to make these hairy creatures. To make them you will need a paint brush, black paint, egg carton, skewer, black pipe cleaners, googly eyes, scissors and white craft glue. Once you have all these materials gathered up you can then begin making the spider.
- Cut the egg carton into individual eggs cups.
- With a pencil make 8 holes (4 on each side) at bottom edge of the egg cup. These holes are for the (pipe cleaners) legs.
- Paint the egg cups black and let them dry before inserting the pipe cleaner through one hole to emerge through the hole on the opposite side.
- Bend the legs to form the knees, attach the googly eyes and you have your spider ready to pounce. Demonstrate this and let the kids try to create their own.
All little girls love fairies and the idea of creating a fairy wand will make them beam with excitement. You can help you kid create a magical fairy wand using some sheets of card stock, pencils, scissors, glue, glitter, wood spoon, ribbon and stapler:
- Draw 2 stars bigger than the head of the spoon on a piece of card stock.
- Cut them, apply a thin layer of glue and sprinkle glitter on one side of each star. Let them dry.
- Glue the 2 stars on a wooden spoon, one on each side.
- Cut different lengths of colored ribbons.
- Staple the ribbons together between the two stars then staple the two stars together, including the ribbons, so they cover the spoon and you are ready to cast spells.
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It all began here, 20 years ago today: the euro adventure. A dozen European political grandees – marshalled by Mrs Thatcher's nemesis, Jacques Delors – signed the single currency into life.
On 9 December 1991 the then 13 European leaders – including Germany's Helmut Kohl, Francois "Sphinx" lMitterrand of France and Italy's Giulio "Il Divo" Andreotti – convened for lunch. They ate at the 400-year-old Chateau Neercanne, about 5km from the centre of Maastricht, to celebrate their decision to pursue European Monetary Union.
Before their meal in the main restaurant, the leaders gathered in the wine cellar for aperitifs and signed their names in charcoal on the sandstone wall – on what is now a glass-enclosed tablet saying Déjeuner Europese Raad (European Council lunch) 09.12.1991. Their names, heavy with history, are on the right, with Mitterrand at the top and John Major, with Delors, at the bottom. Their hostess, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, is named on the left.
Last night, two decades later, the now 27 leaders of the EU again sat down to dine. But this time in Brussels, on a mission to save the euro, to save the European union from splitting in two and, potentially, to save the world from slumping into a global recession.
It is a colossal challenge, but it was back in 1991 too, when the euro was viewed as a way of binding together a newly reunited Germany, a historic source of political instability and war, into a Europe of permanent peace and mutual solidarity that was no longer divided between capitalism and communism. As Kohl would say repeatedly: "A European Germany, not a German Europe."
Leo Smeijers, who served Europe's leaders that day and now runs the chateau's L'Auberge brasserie in a former chapel, says Beatrix brought her own staff to look after the 14 at lunch but Hans Snijders, head chef then and now, cooked their food. They ate langoustines and pheasant, washed down with an Australian white (eyebrows raised at that disclosure) and an unrecalled red.
Snijders, sitting quietly with the rest of the staff at his own lunch, laughs at the memory. The mood, says Smeijers, was convivial but serious. He hopes the new gathering in Brussels will save the euro "because we need and we have one currency everywhere in Europe – well, almost everywhere". He smiled at his British guest. "I understand there's problems about making a big, strong pact but it has to happen."
Joelle, a younger restaurant manager, is half-prepared to accept a return to the guilder, however.
At the Christmas market on the Vrijthof in central Maastricht, where Dutch, German and French shoppers mingle by stalls selling nougat and chocolate, Agnes, a pensioner from Breda, looks at the lunch list of 20 years ago and says: "They were real politicians in those days; they took real decisions, strong decisions."
Her husband, Gerard, strongly supports the euro but thinks Greece – "they're all corrupt there" – should leave for five, six or even 10 years. He says they should have time to recover, get their economy stable and then rejoin. "My own feeling is that Balkan countries, say, planning to join the EU should stay away from the euro until their economies are stable."
He looks at me intensely. "As long as you Brits are not part of the euro you should close your mouths. You should stop telling us what to do and come as soon as possible to the euro. Britain is a European country after all."
Max, a German student doing his masters in economics, is also keen for the Brits to join – eventually. But, equally, he's scathing about the role played by "Anglo-Saxon" banks in fomenting the original credit crisis.
Like many Germans, including Kohl, he is a fervent admirer of Churchill. "I was listening to his Zurich speech of 1946 recently and he called for a European Union that would be a United States of Europe and that's an idea, an ideal, worth saving, especially given our history of wars."
Like many young Germans, he's "not a big fan of Germany taking leadership or having it thrust upon this Merkel government" because "they don't behave very nicely to the others". But then he adds: "It may be unavoidable. France is struggling and England is not involved so who else is there to lead? I think what they'll do is get back to the core union."
Bart, a policy adviser to the Province of Limburg, works in the building where the Maastricht treaty was signed. He, too, favours the euro but admits to having second thoughts – along with, he suspects, 40% of the Dutch who might happily revert to their own currency.
"When I'm angry I think we should have a neuro in northern Europe and a seuro in the south," he says. "This meeting has got to be the last warning for those who don't keep within the rules. Sometimes, when I get mad, I think these Greeks and Italians don't have the basics or even the mentality for a strong economy. They simply don't work hard enough." | <urn:uuid:922d09ed-ff2a-4e49-a154-6f44a504cf09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/dec/09/euro-20-years-old-maastricht | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.970933 | 1,144 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Bachelor of Science in Public Health (BSPH) in Community Health Outreach and Development
The Bachelor of Science with a Community Health Outreach and Development concentration prepares students to engage effectively in professional practice to eliminate health disparities through community- and system-level strategies that promote health and healthy behaviors using a variety of population based initiatives.
- Identifying and exploring ways to influence the multi-level determinants of population health and health behaviors
- Eliminating health disparities and using a perspective that prioritizes health equity and social justice
- Community- and system-level strategies to promote health and healthy behaviors among populations through media, policy, and education initiatives.
Graduates from this concentration will be prepared to assist with developing, implementing, and coordinating public health interventions that promote community health and organize diverse communities around issues related to health and health behavior. Graduates might work in the public sector, social services, non-profit agencies, or with other community-based health promotion and advocacy efforts. This concentration is offered 100 percent online or in person. | <urn:uuid:5e8f9cd1-c151-41b9-94d2-6e0694d76271> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kent.edu/node/bachelor-science-public-health-bsph-community-based-public-health | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.920588 | 211 | 2.25 | 2 |
I had the same problem. Hopefully this will help.
It sounds as though it may have been the router that assigned the IP address. This address is necessary for your comuter to connect to the internet and if it seems in anyway invalid then the computer will not be allowed to connect. So here is a way to fix that issue. If the old router assigned the IP then the new router does not recognize it as being valid.
network and internet
network and sharing - this is a title and there are smaller links under it - click on the title
view status = link after Local area connection
double click on Internet protocol version IPv6 (you will need to repeat these steps with IPv4 also)
make sure that optain IPv6 (IPv4) address automatically is chosen.
make sure that optain DNS server address is automatically is chosen
click ok and restart you computer with your cable connected
If your problem was you IP address this will resolve it.
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There are many things I love about Japan, and one of them their cleanliness and centuries-old devotion to good hygiene. The Japanese are known for their sensible protocols for staying clean, like no wearing shoes in the house and showering before baths. They also have the best toilets in the world.
When Commodore Matthew Perry sailed his “black ships” into Yokohama harbor in 1852, the level of tech he brought with him must have terrifying to the Japanese, who were still running around in robes, carrying katana and spears. At the time, the Japanese were centuries behind in war tech, but they were centuries ahead of the Westerners when it came to clean.
The comedian Ron White jokes that the most luxurious items in his Beverly Hills home are the Japanese toilets. He got so accustomed to the toilet lid opening as he approached that he defiantly pissed all over traditional toilets when they didn’t obey.
In Japan these “luxury items” are standard in every house, and the motion sensors are the least of their awesome perks. The most beneficial feature is the bidet. Toilet paper only requires a light padding to dry off, and you’re done. No repetitive wiping with course, dry paper. An Indian comedian, Hasan Minhaj, accurately observes that wiping a dirty ass with dry paper is the most ineffective way of cleaning. If you stepped in dog shit would you clean your shoe with a dry cloth? No, you’d run water over it to clean it off. Many cultures have adopted a moist towel approach to wiping, but the Japanese built-in bidet is far superior.
Some of the toilet side-arm control panels can be bewildering. I still don’t know everything our toilets can do.
There are many other wonderful features of the standard Japanese toilet, like UV light to sterilize the toilet bowl after you finish, and warm toilet seats that keep your butt warm on winter mornings. The toilets are more resource-friendly, offering the option for small or large flush. Each toilet has a control panel, either on the arm rest (yes, arm rest) or mounted on the wall. Some of the display panels can be bewildering. There are options to adjust seat warmth, water pressure, nozzle position, energy saving mode, deodorizer, and so on. I still don’t know everything our toilets can do. Japanese toilets are not only the cleanest and most comfortable, they’re healthier for the butt, too. These toilets are a game-changer. After experiencing this beneficial tech, there’s no going back. | <urn:uuid:6ba8a64c-2a75-4398-b893-a0b7bab86a2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cdwight.com/2020/01/11/best-toilets-on-earth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.95615 | 539 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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Revising the Map of American Religion
Martin E. Marty
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Vol. 558, Americans and Religions in the Twenty-First Century (Jul., 1998), pp. 13-27
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The concept of mapping religion and then acting on the basis of that concept necessarily involves discussion of another concept, that of boundaries. The notion of discerning neat boundaries serves well for assessing the inherited institutions of religion in America; assessments of trends within them reveal impressive continuities in organization and structures of meaning. Many of the most important religious developments in the last third of the century, however, appear to be less bounded-or even unbounded-and on the blurry landscape of boundarylessness there are more evident discontinuities, innovations, and evidence of fluidity. An analysis of several trends on the unbounded landscape suggests that, in the new century, there will be a great deal of interchange and conflict between these two ways of conceiving American religious dynamics.
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Dennis Broeders, Els De Busser, Fabio Cristiano and Tatiana Tropina published an article (available open access) in Journal of Cyber Policy. Their premise: would older cyber operations, in light of new thinking on international law and norms of responsible state behaviour, be viewed differently if they happened today?
The article is available under open access here.
This article traces the evolution of interpretations of international law and international cyber norms on responsible state behaviour in cyberspace by reassessing five major – and allegedly state-led – cyber operations: Stuxnet 2010; Belgacom 2013-2014, the Ukrainian power grid 2015, the US presidential election 2016, and NotPetya 2017. Taking recent normative developments and emerging state practices as primary points of refence, it investigates how the current normative landscape can shed light on the nature, (il)legitimacy, and (un)lawfulness of these past operations. For each case, the analysis engages with: i) the elements triggering the violation of norms, principles and international law; ii) the legal and normative significance of recent sources of norms and interpretations of international law; and iii) the legal and political obstacles still lying beyond their application. Taken together, the reassessment of these cyber operations reveals how, in hindsight, the international community has come a long way in calibrating its normative language and practices in calling out irresponsible behaviour in cyberspace. With states taking small, but unprecedented, steps through public attributions and statements on international law in cyberspace, most of the past cyber operations analysed here would arguably feature an attribution in the current climate. At the same time, substantial differences in national interpretations of international law continue to stand in the way of clarity on the terms of its application. In light of this, this article ultimately suggests that cyber norms and the interpretations of international law require further granularity to become ‘lines in the sand’. | <urn:uuid:13ab0147-aa99-4eb9-ae80-9c6f75659b3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thehagueprogram.nl/research-and-publication-posts/revisiting-past-cyber-operations-in-light-of-new-cyber-norms-and-interpretations-of-international-law-inching-towards-lines-in-the-sand | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.897211 | 394 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has provided guidance for collaboration among U.S. hog farmers to effectively address unprecedented challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The favorable decision is in response to a “business review” letter submitted to the DOJ by the National Pork Producers Council seeking permission to allow hog farmers greater flexibility in working to maximize the number of hogs entering the food supply, minimize the tragic need to euthanize hogs, and facilitate the safe and orderly euthanization of those hogs which are not able to enter the food supply.
COVID-related pork packing plant closures and slowdowns have caused a severe back-up of pigs on farms. Overcrowding impacts pigs’ ability to rest comfortably and may result in aggression and injuries. Maintaining air quality and temperatures that keep animals comfortable is also challenged. To prevent animal suffering, farmers are being forced to euthanize animals.
“Our goal is to efficiently process as many hogs as possible into the food supply,” said Howard “A.V.” Roth, NPPC president and a hog farmer from Wauzeka, Wisconsin. “Appropriate collaboration across the industry and with state and federal government officials will minimize the number of pigs that must be euthanized and ensure that it is handled humanely, and that disposal is environmentally sound.”
The letter explains that the processing plant closures addressed in President Donald J. Trump’s April 28, 2020, Executive Order have had impacts up and down the supply chain. The letter determines that the NPPC and its members may work at the direction of the USDA and state agriculture agencies to achieve humane and efficient euthanization of hogs that have grown too large to be processed and are thus unmarketable. The NPPC may also share general information with its members about best practices for depopulating unmarketable hogs.
Following is an example of the type of productive industry collaboration NPPC cited in its letter to the DOJ:
“To aid farmers in their unprecedented need to depopulate large numbers of hogs, NPPC is assisting its state organizations, state governments, and farmers in identifying sources of euthanasia equipment and is participating in discussions regarding the organization of centralized euthanasia and disposal stations. This process includes disseminating projections as to the number of hogs those facilities may handle each day. NPPC and its members may seek to collaborate to discuss the most orderly and efficient euthanization process.”
“Today’s letter addresses some of the challenges created for farmers when packing capacity shuts down,” stated Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim. “Meanwhile, we remain committed to vigorous enforcement of the antitrust laws to ensure that farmers and consumers see the benefits of competition.”
For more information about the state of the U.S. pork industry, including much-needed federal assistance, please visit the NPPC website. | <urn:uuid:781b2227-d0a9-433d-b708-f29ff9dddbfd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agdaily.com/livestock/dept-justice-hog-farmers-meat-shortage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.947242 | 614 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Surveying the People: The interpretation and use of document sources for the study of population in the later seventeenth centuryedited by Kevin Schurer and Tom Arkell. Leopard's Head Press Ltd., 7 Murray Court, Banbury Road, Oxford OX2 6LQ. Order from Mrs. R. Brigden, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, 27 Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1QA, England. Copyright 1992. Figures, index maps, tables. 308 pp. £10.
This is the best book I have come across that deals with the English seventeenth century records produced by the Hearth tax, Compton's Census, Poll taxes and the Marriage Duty Act. The book analyses in great depth how and why the records were created, why the content varies from one location to another, what records survive and where.
This book was not written for the genealogist but rather for the person wanting to understand population growth and movement. The book has chapters that show how the documents can be used. For example: Household structure in Kings Lynn; a reconstruction based on the Poll Taxes of 1689-1702; The Marriage Duty Act and parochial registration in London, 1695-1706; Non-conformity and the Compton Census in late seventeenth-century Devon.
For anyone doing research in these seventeenth-century documents, this is a book well worth reading.
Reviewed by Paul Milner
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The accused is charged with indecent assault on a complaining witness and rape on another complaining witness.
Member: Sir I’m the unit victim advocate. Individual voir dire continues blah, blah, blah.
Def: The defense objects on implied bias and liberal grant mandate.
MJ: Explain why please.
Def: Blah, blah, blah.
TC: The government objects to the defense challenge. There is no evidence of bias or potential bias, the member won’t be an expert in the deliberation room, and the public won’t have a warped perception of the system with an advocate for sexual assault victims being a member in a case of multiple sexual assaults.
MJ: Challenge denied.
And yes, under the current prosecution extremely favorable pro-government (made by and for the government, even though they have unlimited preemptory challenges in the initial selection process) rule the member was pre-empted and the challenge can’t be preserved.
From my trial notebook.
Sine qua non for a fair court-martial is members free of bias. A member shall be excused in cases of actual bias or implied bias. United States v. Napoleon, 46 M.J. 279, 282-83 (C.A.A.F. 1997); United States v. Minyard, 46 M.J. 229, 231 (1997); United States v. Daulton, 45 M.J. 212, 217 (1996); United States v. Harris, 13 M.J. 288, 292 (C.M.A. 1982).
Implied bias. Implied bias when "most people in the same position would be prejudiced.” United States v. Armstrong, 54 M.J. 51, 53-54 (2000), quoting United States v. Warden, 51 M.J. 78, 81 (1999); United States v. Smart, 21 M.J. 15, 20 (C.M.A. 1985). Implied bias is viewed through the eyes of the public, focusing on the appearance of fairness. United States v. Townsend, 65 M.J. 460 (C.A.A.F. 2008), is newest case on implied bias, which again seems to cut back on the concept; as well as the liberal grant mandate. This is a good 2008 article on implied bias, Colonel Louis J. Puleo, Implied Bias: A Suggested Disciplined Methodology, Army Law., Mar. 2008, at 34.
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Normal weight is associated with significant reductions in cardiovascular risk for adults, even in those who were overweight or obese as children
- College of Nursing, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
- Correspondence to Marilyn Frenn
College of Nursing, Marquette University, PO Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1881, USA;
Implications for practice and research
■ There is hope for adults who were obese as children that they still can avoid serious health consequences by losing weight. Nurses can use these findings to help overweight and obese adults to see real benefits for losing weight.
■ The fact that 64% of those overweight or obese (and 82% of those who were obese) as children were obese as adults, whereas less than 15% who were normal weight as children became obese as adults, provides compelling impetus for childhood obesity prevention and treatment. Since the damage to health was found to occur in overweight and obese adults, regardless of their childhood weight status, obesity prevention and … | <urn:uuid:b971228d-03fa-4c8a-bfbc-3a7300e10db4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://ebn.bmj.com/content/15/3/69.extract?cited-by=yes&legid=ebnurs;15/3/69 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720000.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00025-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982181 | 203 | 2.65625 | 3 |
We’re dealing with a time capsule here, so some time travel is required. Return to the early part of the 20th century when the usual national concerns were overshadowed by pending problems that would result in the crash of our financial world. The Western desert was far removed from that chaos where Native American life still moved at a slower pace and churches were a focal part of that world.
One of those churches was again in the spotlight, Southern Arizona’s little Santa Rosa de Lima Mission in Tucson, a tiny, rather non-descript, chapel in the Pascua Yaqui tribe’s Old Pascua Village has been home to worshipers for over 85 years. On Sunday, February 23, a time capsule embedded in the adobe walls at the time of construction was opened.
Despite the importance of the event, it was Sunday and the day began with a traditional mass and communion for regular churchgoers who crowded the plain-but-functional house of worship.
For Manuela Romero and her granddaughter, Sophia Leyva, their day started at 4 a.m. when they arrived to light the mesquite fire and begin the hours-long process of cooking huge caldrons of casuela soup. Pascua Yaqui traditional musicians showed up later with their homemade instruments as did members of a Mariachi band.
Attendees gathered outside the flaking whitewashed building in small conversational groups with an aura of familiar comfort. Many families had stories to tell. One parishioner said she was born and raised just down the street and remembered when water had to be carried into the community from a nearby river.
The growing excitement to see the time capsule revealed was palpable among the smiles and handshakes of community members who have known each other for a long time. Among them was Pascua Yaqui tribal Chairman Peter Yucupicio, who grew up across the street from the church.
“I haven’t a clue what might be inside the time capsule and I’m going to be just as surprised as everybody else,” he said. “The contents could be documents telling of the history of the village that has been here a long time before the church. There could be information about who belonged to it. Perhaps there could be a crucifix or other religious icons of the past reminding us not to lose our faith.”
Noting that it was family members who built the mission when they were young, church committee member Patricia Romero said, “There’s documents there with the names of our elders who built this special place and I’ll be looking for my great-great-great grandfather’s name.”
With nervous anticipation among the crowd, a small partially-rusted tin box about the size of an adobe brick was removed from the church’s exterior stucco wall. Gloved hands gently pried the box open as more than 100 Old Pascua Village residents gently jostled for a better view as the lid was opened to oohs and aahs—oohs from the elders hoping for a glimpse of the past and aahs from the younger crowd disappointed at the meager contents.
The long-buried capsule contained just a single item, a rolled scroll dating from 1927 indicating plans to construct the church and the people who would be involved in its design and construction.
No gold or jewels. No artifacts of years gone by. No remnants of what came before—just a dusty scroll hidden in the wall to commemorate the arrival of the community church.
Attendees were invited to contribute current items, like children’s drawings, to the box as it was resealed—to be re-opened in another 85 years. | <urn:uuid:250dfeff-1bbb-4710-b146-304fb09ff895> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/history/events/arizona-mission-church-members-open-85-year-old-time-capsule/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00221-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973712 | 772 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Wow: Argentina just passed an unprecedented "Gender Identity" law that will allow adults seeking sex-change surgery or hormone therapy to get expenses covered under private or public health plans without a stamp of approval from a doctor or judge.
In other countries — such as, ahem, ours — people often have to jump through bureaucratic and medical hoops to actually change their physical bodies before legally changing their gender. Argentines, on the other hand, will be able to change their gender, image and birth name on the basis of their opinion, not anyone else's.
That's unheard of," Katrina Karkazis, a Stanford University medical anthropologist and author of "Fixing Sex," told the AP. "There's a whole set of medical criteria that people have to meet to change their gender in the U.S., and meanwhile this gives the individual an extraordinary amount of authority for how they want to live. It's really incredible."
Children get the chance to change their genders, too, with approval of their legal guardians. There's really no part of the law that doesn't sound completely and utterly rational. President Cristina Fernandez, who became the first Latin American president to legalize gay marriage two years ago, supported the law and is expected to sign it.
"Because the law says people can legally change their identities without having to undergo genital surgery or hormone therapy, these changes can be more benign and even reversible, if some day the person's self-image changes," the AP reports. And why shouldn't they be all that? Your gender identity is no one's business but your own, and it's awesome that Argentina agrees. | <urn:uuid:8677ff91-cbb0-423c-8b20-f21477d6b18f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jezebel.com/argentina-makes-sex-change-surgery-history-with-new-gen-5909249 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.962212 | 331 | 1.90625 | 2 |
late 14c., "unbiased, impartial, not preferring one to the other" (of persons), "alike, equal" (of things), from Old French indifferent "impartial" or directly from Latin indifferentem (nominative indifferens) "not differing, not particular, of no consequence, neither good nor evil," from in- "not, opposite of" (see in- (1)) + differens, present participle of differre "set apart" (see differ). Extended sense of "apathetic, no more inclined to one thing than to another" first recorded early 15c.; that of "neither good nor bad" is from 1530s, on notion of "neither more nor less advantageous," but since 17c. it has tended toward "rather bad."
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State leaders on their work to respond to issues impacting Latino communities
According to Pew Research, Latino Americans emphasize some issues more strongly than non-Latino adults. Those issues can include health care, discrimination, violent crime, and more. This week, state leaders from different parts of New York are meeting in Rochester to create a kind of agenda to deal with these issues going forward. And for parts of Rochester, in predominantly Latino neighborhoods, there is new investment and opportunity.
Our guests discuss it:
- Assemblywoman Jessica González-Rojas, District 34
- Assemblywoman Sarah Clark, District 136
- Miguel Meléndez, president of Rochester City Council
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(CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR) NASA‘s long-lived Voyager 1 spacecraft, which is heading out of the solar system, has reached a “magnetic highway” leading to interstellar space, scientists said on Monday.
The probe, launched 35 years ago to study the outer planets, is now about 11 billion miles from Earth. At that distance, it takes radio signals traveling at the speed of light 17 hours to reach Earth. Light moves at 186,000 miles per second.
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Josh Asker, Socialist Party national committee
A successful vaccination programme, if effectively delivered, gives millions of people hope of an easing of Covid-19 restrictions over the course of 2021.
It is in the interests of everyone, especially those with health vulnerabilities, for the vast majority of the population to be vaccinated.
But with trust in politicians, the media and all elements of the capitalist establishment at an all-time low, there is hesitancy among some layers of the population to take the vaccine. There’s also suspicion that big pharmaceutical corporations are exploiting the pandemic for profit.
‘Pimlico Plumbers’ boss Charlie Mullins has announced plans to introduce a ‘No jab, no job’ policy on his workforce. He plans to potentially rewrite employment contracts to stipulate vaccination as a requirement for employment. The man, who three years ago lost a Supreme Court battle over denying a worker sick pay, claims that that he is acting out of concern for his employees’ health.
The way to give people confidence in the safety of the vaccine is not by threatening them with their jobs, or using other repressive measures. Different nations approving different vaccines at different times, as well as the delay of the second vaccine doses, contrary to the method used in trials, have the potential to knock people’s confidence in the vaccine.
Decades of austerity and privatisation in the NHS have increased workloads; so much so that many GPs have retired or left the profession early. Many people do not even know who their doctor is, let alone have developed a relationship in which advice and guidance can easily be sought.
Throughout the pandemic, NHS Covid-19 related advice is largely only available online or through automated phone systems. A fully funded NHS would give people reassurance that unlikely complications or long-term effects of Covid-19 infection or treatments would be seen quickly and dealt with effectively. Benefits equivalent to a real living wage are also essential, instead of the miserly Statutory Sick Pay or Employment Support Allowance.
The Socialist Party has demanded from the beginning that vaccine trial designs and results should be open to public scrutiny. Vaccines and other medicines, and the way in which they are delivered, must be subject to the independent evaluation of the workers’ movement.
The experience and expertise of trade unionists in unions such as the UCU, Prospect, Unite and the BMA could be used to reassure people of safety. If this were done, delaying the second dose might be accepted as the most practical way to quickly reduce the number of seriously ill people – not just seen as the government lurching from one panic measure to another.
The shambolic government handling of the Covid-19 crisis, and the profiteering of pharmaceuticals and other health companies, means that increasing layers of the population are drawing the correct conclusion that capitalism cannot look after our health.
Trade unions must oppose any repressive compulsion of workers to get vaccinated, but must also fight for democratic oversight of the whole pandemic response, to give confidence to workers that decisions are being made in the interests of workers’ safety and not bosses’ profits.
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Global Surges in Ransomware Attacks
What is Ransomware
Ransomware is a kind of malicious software that is designed to prevent a user from accessing their data. The system is encrypted until a ransom is paid. In most cases this type of malware is spread through phishing e-mails. Other attack vectors include USB-Sticks, malicious websites, or malware.
One of the most famous examples of ransomware was WannaCry.
The WannaCry attack took place in May 2017, where the malware infected primarily Microsoft Windows systems. In total over 230,000 systems were hit by this attack . It is estimated that the financial damage of this ransomware sums up to around $4 billion.
Some other severe examples are :
- Ryuk Ransomware, 2019/20, (est. damage $7.5 billion )
- CryptoLocker, 2013/14, (est. damage $3 million)
- SamSam, 2015/18, (est. damage $30 million)
The damage caused by ransomware attacks can vary, depending on which kind of organisation issued the attack. The most prevalent consequence is the possible loss of data if the ransom isn’t paid. Attackers might also steal private, sensitive information and pictures to blackmail the users. However, even if the ransom is paid, the user isn't protected against future attacks. It can also damage their reputation or the reputation of the companies they work for, e.g., if the corporate account or business details get leaked through the attack.
Prevention of future attacks (protection)
Ransomware not only targets businesses. Also, you as a private user can be infected with ransomware. This is how you can protect yourself:
- Don't click on suspicious links
- Keep your entire system up to date
- Don't plug unknown USB drives into your computer
- Back-up your system regularly
- Be aware of existing threats
- Use an antivirus software
- Use a VPN in public networks
The death of a patient in a hospital is only one possible – but surely an extreme – consequence of as ransomware attack. Nevertheless, this example shows the destructive consequences that a weak cyber security can result in.
About the authors
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While migrant worker organizing has a long and established position in American labour history, the stories and struggles of migrant workers in Canada remain less well known. In recent years the Canadian state has created a series of labour policies that both ease the entry of temporary workers to the country and impose on them a distinct set of laws governing working conditions, applications for status, the right to unionize, and job security. Together this dual system of labour regulation has been described as a form of status-based “labour apartheid.” While differences exist in how migrant workers are disciplined and regulated by the Canadian state, the ways in which workers have tried to organize follow similar patterns and face similar challenges. This roundtable includes organizers who have worked with either migrant domestic workers or farm workers. By their accounts, the challenges involved in developing migrant worker movements led by the workers themselves have been significant. The reality is that the conditions imposed on migrant workers by the Canadian government and employers make it extremely difficult for them to organize themselves without the initiative and continuing support of allies. The participants in this roundtable discuss these conditions and the challenges to be met.
Evelyn Calugay and Tess Tesalona have worked with PINAY, the first Filipina women’s organization in Québec. Founded in 1991 by a social worker, PINAY focuses on the issues faced by domestic workers, both nationally and internationally, and is a member of Migrante International. Evelyn is the chairperson of PINAY. Tess is an organizer with PINAY, and a former coordinator of the Immigrant Worker’s Centre in Montréal.
Adriana Paz, Aylwin Lo, and Chris Ramsaroop work with Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW), a grassroots collective based in Toronto and Vancouver. J4MW was established in 2002, following a series of investigative missions by activists to farming communities in Ontario. It supports the rights of seasonal Caribbean and Mexican migrant workers who work under the federal government’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). Adriana is based in Vancouver. Aylwin and Chris are based in Toronto.
Given that migrant work is regulated by both federal and provincial governments, can you explain the various programs that have been created over the years? What are some of the most recent changes, particularly in light of the increasingly neoliberal context in which we find ourselves? How do provincial regulations create different conditions and contexts for migrant work across Canada?
Chris: There are several temporary worker programs in Canada: CREWS (for the construction industry), the Live-In Caregiver Program, Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program, and the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. The main commonality is that workers under these programs are regulated differently than workers that have status in Canada. Their status as non-residents justifies their exclusion from entitlements, benefits, and protections otherwise accorded by the Canadian state.
Because labour law varies from province to province, there is a patchwork of legislative regimes across Canada. For example, in Manitoba, unlike most provinces, migrant workers are provided with extended coverage under the provincial employment standards regime, including for overtime pay and holidays. Alberta does not provide migrant workers with workers’ compensation while most other provinces do. British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Québec permit migrant agricultural workers to organize as a unionized workforce, while Ontario does not. In British Colombia, workers are not covered under the provincial Medical Services Plan program. In Ontario, migrant workers are denied basic coverage until they are given health cards, usually three months after their arrival in Canada. They can also be denied basic health care if they are seriously injured or become very sick after their work terms are over. Across Canada migrant workers are denied equal access to health care.
Despite the limited legal rights that migrant workers formally enjoy, many face the threat of deportation and permanent banning from future work in Canada should they try to exercise them. Numerous workers that we have encountered in our work are now banned from working in Canada as a result of exercising their rights to receive workers’ compensation, to demand adequate housing, and to demand justice at work. Canadian immigration laws also deny the majority of workers they deem to be “low skilled” the opportunity to apply for permanent residency in Canada. Despite the existence of provincial nominee programs or the ability of participants in the Live-In Caregiver Program to apply for permanent residency, these are really carrot and stick approaches that still indenture workers to employers. Instead of explicitly denying racialized migrant workers legal status, the Canadian state is able to justify exclusion on the basis of their skills, which is an equally insidious way of denying them the right to residency.
Adriana: Canada openly embraces the temporary workers program while adopting restrictive immigration policies that are subordinated to economic criteria. This is one of the worst expressions of neoliberalism in the area of immigration. So, on the one hand, Canada maintains an immigration system that is racist and discriminatory for people who don’t have money, and on the other hand it opens the door for temporary migration. There is a growing tendency to try to keep people permanently “temporary.” The state is not considering solutions that would incorporate these workers as permanent immigrants. Rather, the management of the migration flow, including questions of status, is being narrowly dictated by the labour demands of employers without addressing the root causes and contexts of migration.
Evelyn: In Québec, I find there’s a double challenge, for example in the structure of the Live-In Care Giver program. The federal government made the program very restrictive to begin with, but the Québec government has added its own regulations that bring in even more restrictions. For example, due to the requirement of getting a certificate of acceptance to work in Québec, it takes about 4–6 months to transfer a work permit from one employer to another, compared to only one month in the other provinces. If workers transfer their employment two or three times, they are likely to lose the chance to complete the requirement of working 24 months within a 36-month period. In this case there is a greater possibility of being denied permanent resident status and being sent back home, or of being forced to repeat the program for another three years. Compared to other provinces, the bureaucracy in Québec adds another layer to the difficulties that live-in caregivers experience. In a way, these workers have become pawns in federal and provincial power struggles.
An additional challenge for us is the absence of assistance from the Philippine government in times of crisis. For example, when a Filipino migrant worker asks for assistance from the Philippine government with their employment conditions, the response they hear is, “You stay there. Stay with your employer and just deal with the difficulties. We know you can do it.” This is because the Philippine government is benefiting economically from our remittances and they know they cannot provide work at home.
Tess: For domestic workers, the requirement to live with your employer twenty-four hours a day for five or more days a week means that you are always working. When people say, “Well, there is time off when the children are asleep,” they don’t understand that when the employer goes to a movie and the baby cries it’s your responsibility to get up and do what you have to do. There is no real time off when you are required to live with your employer.
There have been some reforms in Québec around the workweek and wages. Before the last reform of the labour standards law, domestic workers were not included in the rules that applied to other workers. The maximum workweek for domestic workers was 62 hours and the hourly minimum wage did not apply. We worked hard to get the same regulations applied to domestic workers – 40 hour weeks and the minimum wage. With reforms in 2002, we were able to win the same rights as other workers but the problem of implementation remains because of the live-in aspect of the program. Because of this the wage for domestic workers still falls short of the required minimum wage in Québec.
Our organizing focus right now is on health and safety. In health and safety regulations, domestic work is not considered work. We are trying to change that. We’re also engaged in trying to win public health care benefits for domestic workers, because when domestic workers lose their work permits, they also lose their Medicare privileges.
How did you get involved in migrant worker organizing and what kind of organizing do you do with migrant workers?
Tess: I have been organizing with domestic workers since 1998. I arrived in Canada in 1993 as a domestic worker under the Foreign Domestic Worker program, now known as the Live-in Caregiver Program. I got into political organizing because of my experiences as a domestic worker. It was important to me on a personal level at the time. Of course it’s been a long time since then and I’ve learned so much since I started.
Aylwin: I got interested in the struggles of migrant workers through organizing the No One is Illegal march in Ottawa during “Take the Capital” in 2002. In 2003, I took part in the Frontier College Labourer-Teacher Program. We lived on farms, worked alongside migrant farm workers from Mexico, and taught English as a Second Language. The idea was that literacy skills would allow migrant workers to better understand and access their rights. I learned a lot about the day-to-day challenges that migrant workers face through that experience. A few months later I answered a Chinese newspaper classified ad and worked alongside some Chinese workers to see what their experiences were. In 2006, I did the “Into the Fields” Student Action with Farmworkers program in North Carolina to get an idea of how people organize with undocumented farm workers there. I helped in the initial stages of setting up a flea market so that migrant workers could sell goods to each other, rather than rely on businesses like Wal-Mart or other retail stores in the community. Currently, my work with Justicia for Migrant Workers has been internal to the organization in terms of organizational support and outreach trips. My family also played a role in my interest in the issue. While my parents weren’t indentured servants by any means, they have done a lot of migrating in search of work and I feel very familiar with the difficulties of family separation that farmworkers and their families face.
Once you get involved with this issue, it’s hard to let it go. Part of the reason for this is that the experiences of migrant workers are still not well known or widely acknowledged. The poor treatment of migrant laborers is something that has existed throughout history, for example in the forms of indentured servitude and slavery. This is a regular historical occurrence – employers and governments exploiting labour without treating or paying workers fairly.
Chris: My own family came from India to Trinidad as indentured labourers. I remember listening to the stories of my grandmother, who was a sugar cane worker in Trinidad. Since members of my own family are involved in the farm worker program, I have a personal connection to this organizing and the cycle of exploitation really hits home. I started working with migrant workers around 1999/2000. After a brief hiatus from student activism, I applied for a youth internship program with the Canadian Labour Congress called Solidarity Works. As part of the program I went to work for the Canadian office of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), a union formed by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta – the union that made migrant worker organizing famous in the US.
The UFW saw their Canadian operations as important mostly in building support for their numerous campaigns in the US, to raise awareness about the conditions of agricultural workers there, as well as to put pressure on Canadian targets of the unions’ corporate campaigns. In the case of the grape boycott, this meant pressuring Canadian purchasers not to buy California grapes until conditions in the industry were improved. The UFW was not particularly aware of the conditions that existed for agricultural workers north of the border. That changed when UFW Canada became involved in a coroner’s inquest into workplace fatalities involving two Mexican Mennonite migrant workers and a Canadian supervisor in 2000-2001. The preparations for the inquest and the research that I undertook made it clear that the laws discriminated against workers from vulnerable communities. Another important incident was a wildcat strike by Mexican seasonal agricultural workers. Dozens of these workers were subsequently deported for their participation in the strike. The workers were demanding better living and working conditions and stood up to their employer. I was given the task of investigating their working and living conditions for the UFW. We started to see the scale of workplace abuses that existed, not only in Leamington, Ontario where the strike took place, but also across the numerous other cities and townships that we visited.
To build support, the UFW developed the Global Justice Care Van project to organize with workers to address the numerous injustices they faced. The project involved creating materials such as health and safety manuals for distribution to migrant workers and organizing “know your rights” sessions and workshops (focused on workers’ compensation, health and safety, pensions, and unemployment insurance) at safe spaces in the local communities where the workers lived. We realized that there were few venues available for providing on-the-ground support for workers and that there was a need to open workers’ centres in the communities. The first one was established in Leamington. The original idea was that these centres would be bases for both service provision and organizing. We also knew that workers would not simply go to the centres and that we would have to conduct house visits, and go to where the workers were (bars, shopping centres, soccer fields, etc.) to interact with them in those spaces.
In the following year, the UFW began a restructuring process that eliminated their Canadian operations. The Candian Labour Congress took over the project for the remainder of my involvement. Around 2002, the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) also returned to the fold of agricultural labour organizing after the regressive nature of the provincial Conservatives’ labour regime rekindled some interest in the issue on their part.
With the coming and going of unions, and the concerns that many people had about the way that the mainstream labour movement approached migrant workers’ issues, several of us concluded that the formal structures of the labour movement would not provide us with the space or the energy needed to move the project forward. Given the complexity and precarity of the conditions that existed for the workers, several of the volunteers involved in the Global Justice Care Van Project created Justicia for Migrant Workers, a collective we believed would be better able to develop a grassroots organizing strategy that was not beholden to a union bureaucracy. J4MW provided a space where we could work with workers to not only put pressure on the Canadian state but also on the unions to ensure that the voices of migrant workers would be heard. J4MW has provided a space for workers and organizers to challenge ourselves on the possibilities and limitations of organizing.
Adriana: The struggles of migrant workers are really connected with our personal lives because most of the members of the J4MW-British Columbia collective are Latinos/as. I am from Bolivia and the rest of the collective is from Mexico. We either worked on farms back home or worked on farms here as undocumented workers. Coming from Latin America, we realize that the oppressions we lived there are connected to oppression in Canada. In that sense, it’s important to be struggling on the front lines. We have a connection and shared historical experience with workers so it’s easy to connect their struggles with our own organizing.
We try to connect with workers on a personal level, to become friends and allies and to build trust. It’s very important to make human connections with individual workers because, in the current economic system, everything is so dehumanized – sometimes even our own organizing. So we try to engage first and foremost on the personal level – caring for workers and asking them where they’re coming from, because it’s really important to understand why they are here. Even though we are clear on our intentions as organizers, we do not always start the relationship by talking politics. We relate to them as peer-immigrants and sometimes as co-nationals sharing experiences of being away from our countries/families/cultures/peoples.
When trust has been built up – whether that takes a few visits, whole agricultural seasons, or several years – workers and organizers can begin to talk about working together as allies. Because we do not do charity work, we as organizers also need to feel that trust. Workers often test us to see if we are serious about being solid allies. Most of them need to know that we’ll be there, season after season. The first season they are here, while they are still assessing the situation, they are thinking: “are you working with me only because it’s a fancy thing for you in your life, or is it a real commitment?”
In the process of building long-standing relationships of trust, we also engage and interact with their families in Mexico as well. Most J4MW organizers go to Mexico and visit workers’ families in their homes. I think this is the most rewarding part of our work because you connect with workers as human beings. The workers have also supported me on different levels. As a new immigrant myself, this has been very therapeutic, and has helped me to feel that Canada is my “home.”
A big part of our work is information and orientation. Workers come with almost no knowledge of their rights. We share information and try to stimulate some action amongst them, helping workers to solve employment and housing problems, and empowering them to stand up for their rights. This means building community systems of support outside of the farms – with unions, lawyers, and the local community – so that workers can feel they have support for political action.
If we agree that movements that challenge and disrupt oppression should be lead by those who are oppressed, can you explain how this politics is or is not applied when it comes to migrant workers? What are some of the complexities in the fight for migrant worker justice?
Tess: Resistance is about a process of change, and change of course doesn’t come naturally – especially when you are fighting for your rights as a person or your rights as a group. Of course it is the oppressed that start resistance, and it is they who will be affected by any change that takes place. However, it’s hard to organize as migrants. It is difficult because migrant workers have no status at all. For domestic workers, your status is attached to your employer. So if your employer does not like you anymore, then you can be deported. For domestic workers who live with their employers, it is tough to organize. On the other hand, in our experience in PINAY we have seen that it is domestic workers themselves who seize the opportunity to fight against the requirements of the domestic worker program. In the beginning, when I started with PINAY, the government wanted only contract work, with no opportunity to stay after the contract was over. Every year you had to renew your contract, leave, and then come back. And of course it was the domestic workers who knew what the impact of that was and fought back.
Aylwin: I think it’s about trying to figure out how to assist workers in overcoming the barriers they face to advocating for themselves. You might come to workers with an idea, and then see if it catches on, or if the idea needs refinement. It can come down to trial and error. I think the most important thing is to help workers out at whatever level of risk they’re willing to take. When I was working with the Chinese undocumented workers, there was a strike over non-payment of wages. They decided that they weren’t going to work. The labour subcontractors panicked, and it only took a day or two to win their demand to be paid at the end of each day rather than at the end of the week. I found that action interesting because I don’t think that was a risk that workers who come under the Live-In Caregiver Program would take.
Adriana: The ultimate goal of our collective is that this movement is going to be led by the workers. But at the beginning, there is no infrastructure. Workers are isolated. They don’t have the information about basic things like pay deductions, labour and social benefits, their right to worker’s compensation in case of an accident, parental benefits if they have a child less than one-year-old, how to claim reimbursement for medicine, etc. Workers are afraid to speak out, so it’s very unlikely that they are going to take action on their own.
In the United States, the farm workers movement started in the sixties. There are also more recent examples like the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Florida, which is the best example of a self-organizing model or a farm worker-driven movement. Compared to the United States, where the movement is really a movement of migrant workers, we are at the beginning. In Canada, we do not yet have a worker-driven movement, but I hope some day we will. Right now you have either the unions or independent organizers but not a worker-only group or coalition. That development is exactly what J4MW would like to facilitate by recognizing our role as allies. For that reason, we do not say “we speak on their behalf,” because we don’t. If we do anything, it is to point out injustice and to help amplify the voices of workers and contribute to their process of self-organizing until they are able to create a much more articulated movement or campaign of migrant workers. In British Columbia this is only the fourth year of the SAWP. In Ontario it’s probably a bit different because the program is older and there is a larger migrant worker presence.
Chris: What we find is that there are always ways that workers resist. For me, it is important to share these examples with workers in other areas. After migrant workers engaged in a wildcat strike in BC, we shared press releases, news stories, and testimonies of the workers involved with workers in Ontario. When workers fought back against unilateral deportations and unsafe workplaces, we were able to get them to share their stories with others, thus using the workers’ own forms of resistance to educate and organize migrant workers in other regions of Canada. For me this is critical in challenging the invisibility and isolation of migrant workers and building their capacity to resist exploitation.
Dominant discourses of neoliberalism and multi-culturalism produce a perception of migrant work as an “opportunity” for “Third World” people to come to Canada to make money for themselves and their families back home. When workers resist these notions and protest their conditions, there is a tendency to perceive them as “ungrateful” and sometimes “criminal.” How do you disrupt these notions?
Chris: Are people supposed to be grateful for having dangerous jobs? It’s really interesting that for many of the white people in the communities in which migrants work, it’s a rite of passage for teenagers to do agricultural work, but they move on to other things afterward. Yet there is a tendency to think that it’s okay for migrant workers to be put in these appalling conditions year after year. Both the Canadian government and the home countries of the workers promote the idea that they should feel blessed to have these jobs and that when workers talk about their rights, they’re engaging in bad behaviour. One of the important things to point out about global capitalism is that workers are arriving in Canada because of the unemployment in their home countries that has been exacerbated by the neocolonial practices of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. For instance, many of the workers in the farm worker program are former farmers from Jamaica whose livelihoods have been destroyed by the policies of the IMF and the World Bank. I think it is important to talk about these things in terms of context.
Adriana: The first thing I notice when I interact with the employers, government bureaucrats, or people with status, is that they don’t have any idea of why migrants are here in the first place. The idea that Canada is a much better country, so workers should be grateful to work here is a dominant one. Employers usually feel like this is a win-win program because they need the workforce and migrants need the money. There is zero analysis of the problems created in Mexico by, for example, the North American Free Trade Agreement. People don’t consider what the workers were doing before coming here. Most of them have been displaced from their own land. They were agricultural workers on their own farms and now they don’t have the land, or they were workers in factories that have shut down in Mexico because of free trade agreements. That aspect of the situation is completely ignored.
There is so much prejudice and ignorance, especially when you talk with employers. When they provide workers with horrible housing conditions (for example, placed beside garbage dumps), many employers say, “but this must be much better than in their countries.” How do some of the workers respond? “Yes, we are poor, but we live with dignity.” We counter these discourses with our own discourse of dignity. Workers come here for particular reasons – such as forced migration – and they are human beings with rights and dignity. When we give presentations or do lobbying, we try to discuss the reasons why workers are here in the first place. These are people that had good conditions back home, but lost their land or their jobs.
Have you connected with activists working on similar issues in other countries? How do struggles in Canada compare internationally?
Adriana: We have connected with some people from the Chicano and Latino movements in Los Angeles and Arizona. The difference is that most of the workers we are working with are temporary. This is a big barrier for our organizing because next year they may not return: they might be in Ontario, in Manitoba, or in Québec. So, the continuity is disrupted. So we try to maintain a connection with other organizers in Canada. The US also has a bigger migrant worker population than Canada. That makes a huge difference because they have larger communities. There is little community support for migrant workers in Canada because they have little or no family here.
Because I am from Bolivia, and many people from Bolivia migrate to Argentina and Spain to work, I am in contact with some of them. Bolivians living in Argentina face more or less the same issues as Mexicans here in Canada, the US, or in Spain. The situations are similar in the sense that people’s precarity of status is the main barrier to them speaking out. The lack of community for Bolivian workers in Spain is similar to the experience of Mexicans here in Canada.
Tess: We’ve worked a lot with other allies – academics, students, workers in the factories, other migrant groups, and the churches. The changes that we are working towards are part of broader changes we need to make to society. It’s important to work with other migrant workers outside of Canada because, for example, Japan has copied Canada’s live-in caregiver program and the United States is also copying the program. It’s important that other people know about the problems with the program and build resistance wherever they may be.
Evelyn: We have allies in other countries, and that is why our work is local, national and international in scope. International work is important because we are anti-imperialist and focus on the root causes of migration. PINAY is a member of Migrante International, an umbrella organization of Filipino groups outside the Philippines. They lobby government for the protection of overseas Filipino workers. There are also groups organized in other countries, like Hong Kong and Taiwan, where Filipino overseas workers are concentrated.
Nandita Sharma argues in her book Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of ‘Migrant Workers’ in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2006) that the dominant notion of “home” needs to be disrupted – that we need to challenge ideas that result in the belonging of some and non-belonging of others. Do you think that Sharma’s argument is useful for your work?
Adriana: It’s useful in the sense that when we talk about workers that come here regularly over a long period of time, Canada pretty much becomes their home. They have built connections with the community, even though it’s sometimes difficult because they may rotate between different provinces. Some of them have two families: a family in Mexico that they left behind and a family here. So in that sense I think the notion of home that Sharma is challenging is particularly important. Migration is an old phenomenon. Even if we lived in a perfect world with no capitalism and no free trade agreements, there would be migration. So we have to face it. The notion of “this is our home” and “this is not our home” is an official category used to justify the exclusions perpetuated against migrant populations. Everybody has the right to make home wherever they want. What is preventing people from doing that is a management of migration that justifies exploitation and favours the interests of the business sector.
Tess: The concepts of family and home are so entangled. We live our struggles both here and in our own county. And so the concept of home transcends a narrow definition. What we hope for is fundamental change so that it will no longer be necessary to leave home, and if you do, it will not be because you’ve been forced to. If the conditions of our country were better, we wouldn’t be here. If the present system does not change fundamentally, it won’t be sustainable. Without sustainability in your own country then this migration will continue.
Again, taking Sharma’s analysis into account, how do you think that migrant worker issues fit within an anti-colonial framework? How does your work connect with struggles of indigenous communities, either here in Canada or elsewhere?
Adriana: The history of colonization in this country started with the oppression of the native population, but this legacy of colonialism also underlies immigration policies and temporary worker programs. So, in that sense, the struggle of indigenous people here, along with the struggle of the migrant workers, is to achieve self-determination, the right of free mobility and basic rights. There are many parallels between indigenous struggles and migrant worker struggles.
The indigenous here are suffering displacement from their land, which is taken by transnational corporations. In BC, for example, indigenous communities are being displaced by development for the Olympics and the forestry companies. It is a similar story for migrant workers. They are also displaced from their land and pushed into the north. So, in that sense, we can connect these struggles. There are many indigenous people amongst the migrant worker population, for example those who come from Chiapas. So, when we tell them about the indigenous struggle here, the workers open their eyes and say, “Oh, we didn’t know that this was happening here, that we share the same history.” Connecting those struggles and those histories, as well as connecting with the struggle of other immigrant communities, is our role. For example, it has traditionally been Punjabis who have been working on the farms in BC. Even though they have permanent status, their work is very racialized. So they share many commonalities of struggle with migrant workers.
Where does the struggle need to go from here?
Chris: First, we have to consider the transnational nature of organizing. It can’t just happen in Canada. It has to happen in the workers’ home countries as well. Second, we have to get past paternalism. Migrant workers must be the ones at the forefront of the struggle. This is something that has been lacking in the organizing that has taken place. Third, grassroots groups need to dialogue with one another about their strategies, and about the successes and the defeats they have experienced. Building a base among migrant workers – whether sex trade workers, agricultural workers, LCP workers, non-status workers – is key to challenging and exerting power against both employers and the Canadian state. Organizations like J4MW are attempting to connect with migrant rights groups internationally to learn from their experiences. While there is a lot of space to develop international work, we also need to keep building our base and collective power. That, for me, is fundamental. This type of organizing is painstakingly slow.
Aylwin: Learning and evolving is crucial. I wouldn’t have had the confidence to work with migrant workers without the thorough orientation I had with the Frontier College program. Laws and programs are constantly changing, and as an organization we need to keep up with that and factor it into our work. In the US, a lot of support for migrant farm workers has come from people in the Mexican-American community, many of whom have experienced the hardships of farm work themselves. Most of Student Action with Farmworkers’ interns are from farm worker families. When farm workers and their loved ones can be there to drive the movement forward, a lot can happen. That’s not possible with the agricultural work program in Canada because there’s no path to settlement. The Live-in Caregiver Program, for all its faults, at least has a provision for that. That is something that we can push for.
Given the many shortcomings of the labour movement in this country, why do you think it’s strategically important to put your energy into migrant worker organizing right now?
Evelyn: Community initiative in this area is very strategic. Presently, migrant workers are one of the most oppressed and exploited group in Canada. Through our organizing work with other migrant workers, we not only promote the rights and welfare of Filipino workers but we also contribute to the advancement of the Canadian working class as a whole.
Aylwin: We know that union membership has been on the decline in Canada. We also know that, throughout history, Canadian business and the Canadian government have sought to create an underclass of workers whose labour they can exploit more intensely and use to undercut the demands of all workers. Sometimes it’s more prevalent than others, and right now it’s an expanding phenomenon. In order to stay strong, unions need to work hard at organizing workplaces where there are a lot of immigrant and migrant workers. And to do that they need to win their trust by listening to them and responding to their needs. J4MW began as a group because we started seeing so many migrant agricultural workers. Now the agricultural model is being replicated and expanded in dozens of industries, from meatpacking to domestic work to stand-up comedians (I’m not kidding!). That affects everyone’s rights at work.
Chris: The labour movement is at a critical juncture in its history. With the rising number of temporary foreign workers and the lack of a concerted strategy to address the concerns of the tens of thousands of non-status workers, the time is ripe for us to challenge policies and priorities. There has to be an ongoing struggle to challenge the dominant assumptions about who workers are (i.e. white, male, Canadian-born, heterosexual, etc.). Each of us has been doing this work for many years. We were once voices in the wilderness speaking about the plight of migrant agricultural workers and few people were interested in putting this issue at the top of the labour agenda. But with the rise of temporary foreign worker programs, more labour unions have come to realize the importance of this issue.
Community organizations and grassroots collectives have a pivotal role to play in challenging the organizing methods and the public positions that unions adopt with respect to migrant workers. Mainstream non-governmental organizations, academics, labour unions, and community groups may attempt to silence the voices of organizations like J4MW, but it is important that we continue to push the envelop on immigration, organizing, and access to entitlements such as Employment Insurance and the Canada Pension Plan. We need to be engaged in these debates, whether or not the mainstream welcomes our involvement. One of our key roles is to put pressure on the labour movement to ensure that the demands of migrant workers are met. We need to be there to support migrant workers and non-status workers in exerting their collective strength. The question for me will always be: Will the labour unions learn from their mistakes or will they repeat them? | <urn:uuid:bb4a5cc4-ac61-46db-ad7d-53ac7c4985a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uppingtheanti.org/journal/article/07-home-and-a-hard-place/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.973415 | 7,572 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Set in New Orleans, Louisiana, on the eve of World War II, Mischief and Malice is a brand new work from an iconic figure in young adult literature. Following the death of her Aunt Eveline, fourteen-year old Addie—who we first met in Berthe Amoss's classic Secret Lives—is now living with her Aunt Tooise, Uncle Henry, and her longtime rival cousin, Sandra Lee. A new family has just moved into Addie's former house, including a young girl who is just Addie's age. Meanwhile, Louis, the father of Tom, Addie's lifelong neighbor and best friend, suddenly returns after having disappeared when Tom was a baby. Between school dances, organizing a Christmas play, fretting about her hair, and a blossoming romance with Tom, Addie stumbles upon a mystery buried in the Great Catch All, an ancient giant armoire filled with heirlooms of her family's past, which holds a devastating secret that could destroy Louis and Tom's lives. Once again, Berthe Amoss has created an indelible portrait of a young girl coming of age in prewar New Orleans.
Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Berthe Amoss is the author and illustrator of twenty-eight children's and young adult books. Her picture book The Cajun Gingerbread Boy won a Children's Choice Award, and her YA novelThe Chalk Cross was a finalist for the Edgar Allen Poe Award. She lives on the Gulf Coast in Pass Christian, Mississippi. | <urn:uuid:63a53b69-fec5-4a8b-bb5e-64345b309480> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mysteriousbookshop.com/products/amoss-berthe-mischief-and-malice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00131-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95141 | 315 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Roof weight has an impact on more than just the performance of the material on top of your home. When buying a new roof or replacing an old one, consider these three factors:
Your Home’s Value, Energy Efficiency, and Security
Home Value. The cost to dispose of old roofing materials is getting quite exorbitant in many areas of the country. Therefore, saddling your home with a heavy roof that will someday have to be removed and exposed at great expense can be a detriment to your home’s value. Increasingly, when they buy a new home, homeowners are looking not only at the purchase price but also at the anticipated maintenance costs represented by that home. Choosing a long-term and low weight roof, therefore, can increase a home’s value and desirability.
Energy Efficiency. While many people worry that the “mass” of their roofing system might cause their home to be hotter in the summer, it really doesn’t work that way in most residential construction. During the summer, the heat source is the sun outside of your home. The more mass and inherent R-Value held by the roof system, the harder it is for that heat to enter the attic. A metal roof with a reflective coating can offer an additional barrier against heat entry. Any heat that does get into the attic is ideally directed back outside with proper ventilation. Insulation on top of a home’s ceilings, then, serves to hold heat inside the living space during the winter and also to prevent heat from migrating from the attic into the living space in the hot months.
Security. Heavier weight roof systems often depend upon gravity or failure-prone sealants to hold them together and also to keep them attached to the roof deck in high winds. Additionally, many of those products become brittle and less wind-resistant with age. Ultra-low-weight roof systems, such as metal roofs, depend upon mechanical interlocking for wind resistance; something much more reliable.
The weight of your roof is an important consideration. Low weight roofing can protect a structure in many ways and is well worth considering both for new construction and re-roofing. | <urn:uuid:5aa3486e-5dab-4bad-a111-a7bd11fee4f6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.americanmetalroofswi.com/roof-weight/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.965429 | 447 | 1.789063 | 2 |
- Date of Birth:
- March 26, 1953
Lincoln Chafee (born Lincoln Davenport Chafee on March 26, 1953 in Providence, Rhode Island) is an American politician from Rhode Island. Lincoln graduated from Brown University and become a farrier at Montana State University, before working at harness racetracks in the United States and Canada. In 1985, he returned to his home state and entered politics as a Republican, working as a delegate to the Rhode Island Constitutional Convention. A year later, he was elected to the Warwick City Council. After his father’s death in 1999, he was appointed to his father’s seat in the U.S. Senate, before winning the 2000 election to a full term. Lincoln left office in 2007 and also left the Republican Party to become an Independent, while supporting Barack Obama‘s 2008 presidential campaign. Lincoln became Governor of Rhode Island in 2011 and won, however, he had low approval ratings. On June 3, 2015, Lincoln announced his presidential campaign as a Democrat in the 2016 election.
Best Known For:
Lincoln Chafee is best known for serving as the Mayor of Warwick from 1992-1999, as a U.S. Senator from 1999-2007 and as the Governor of Rhode Island for 2011-2015.
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Let’s talk about representation and diversity today, shall we?
To hear many Christians talk, there’s nothing necessarily wrong with being homosexual. For a smaller amount, one can maybe even be both homosexual and Christian. You’d also think listening to how they talk that some black people are Christians. Or some dirt poor “working class” folks. A single mother, struggling with her English, someone crazily suggests, can be reached by grace. Even some indigenous people, say the missional crew. Now, here me out. Hell, there’s even some gay dirt poor indigenous Mexicans who are Christians. I mean, probably, right? God is just that intense he’ll save people that are very different from normalized White American Middle Class Straight Christians.
This is what passes for diversity in elements of the White US Christian Church. See how diverse we are? See our magnanimousness? We *allow* these elements to represent us like the handful of students from the Asian/Asian-American/Pacific Islander and the La Raza clubs represent Midsize University on their brochures.
And so Church in the White contextual experience still largely centers the world upon itself and still considers itself the best hope for humanity. But its nominal head don’t want no part. Jesus:
I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.
– Matthew 25:42-43
If Jesus identifies directly with the oppressed, why do we consider the Christian experience to be primarily the bodies and minds of white, male, cis-, straight, Anglo, wealthy, educated, able-bodied, housed, normalized people?
But Jesus is a homeless Cuban man we call Carlos. He’s got schizophrenia and a drinking problem, cast out in the cold by a shunning community and a family that can’t deal no more. And he may die of hypothermia tonight. Jesus is a black transwoman who is violently ostracized, threatened, and feared by a people that fail to grasp the mere fact of her humanity and beauty. Jesus has been diagnosed with learning disorders and behavioral problems since he first jumped out of his seat out of boredom, a Hot Cheetos diet, and way too much stress for a five year old. At three in the morning, Jesus rolls out of bed and unwraps five dozen corn husks for tamales she sells this morning and every morning on California Avenue. She hopes to sell them all today just in case her oldest son doesn’t find work today. Jesus is hoping no one will bother him from his spot under the Kennedy by-pass at Logan tonight. Jesus got beat up in high school to the point where he attempted suicide.
Jesus’ default setting isn’t White. He’s extremely unlikely to be found in a middle class setting. He probably doesn’t know how to set a proper table and he likely doesn’t speak Proper English.
This isn’t metaphorical. This isn’t some white liberal fairy-tale to make us feel all fuzzy wuzzy for Christmas and then go back home and repeat the same patterns of meaningless, benign exploitation. Let us once and forever replace the false White Middle Class Jesus with Black Prisoner Jesus and reorder our lives accordingly. This colonial, exploitative world is hell and needs heaven.
I don’t think White Christians should be asking in the reaches of the imagination if it is possible that people of color can truly come to grace.
I think White Christians need to ask if it’s possible for grace to break in to a Christianity so limited, so fragile, so cruel.
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Laughter is universal, right?
Not so much.
While humour and sharing a laugh is something that can be experienced across cultures, distance, and language, the way we express laughter around the world is actually pretty different.
That’s right, not everyone has to face the ‘lol’ versus ‘hahaha’ debate (hahaha will always win, just saying).
Instead, those in Spain comment jajaja on their friend’s ridiculous profile picture, while in Thailand a good joke will be rewarded with a 55555. Here’s how people type laughter around the world, with information from Latinos Post.
UK and America: Hahaha or LOL
Or occasionally hehehe, or ROFL (if it’s hilarious), or the now underused LMAO. Or even the ROFLMAO, or the very cringey ROFL-copter. Fun times, fun times.
Italy: Ah ah ah ah
While this reminds us of The Count from Sesame Street, Italians just think of his as the phonetic way of writing out the sound of laughter.
In Mandarin, laughter is expressed with 哈哈, pronounced haha. 嘻嘻, pronounced xixi, means giggling.
And occasionally kekekeke. It’s similar to ‘hahaha’, just the phonetic version of laughter for Koreans.
This one’s a bit like our ‘lmao’ or ‘OMG, dying’. It stands for ‘laugh wan kill me die’, which basically means ‘I’m dying of laughter’.
Same as ‘hahaha’ and ‘kkkk’, just phonetic laughter. Isn’t language fun?
‘Riso’ means laughter, so ‘rsrsrsrs’ is a bit like ‘laughlaughlaugh’.
Stands for mort de rire, which means ‘dying of laughter.
Another phonetic one.
This one’s cool. In Thailand, 5 is pronounced ‘ha’. So reading ‘55555’ aloud sounds like ‘hahahahaha’.
The Japanese word for laughter is pronounced ‘warai’, which led to ‘w’ becoming shorthand for laughter. This turns into www for a good joke (rather than just a curt ‘ha’), and wwwwwww if someone’s really cracking you up.
Denmark: hæ hæ
Phonetic. Sometimes Danish people type ‘ho ho’, too, which makes them sound very jolly.
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A Matter of Honor - Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice
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More informationOn the seventy-fifth anniversary, the authors of Pulitzer Prize finalist The Eleventh Day unravel the mysteries of Pearl Harbor to expose the scapegoating of the admiral who was in command the day 2,000 Americans died, report on the continuing struggle to restore his lost honor-and clear President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the charge that he knew the attack was coming.
The Japanese onslaught on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 devastated Americans and precipitated entry into World War II. In the aftermath, Admiral Husband Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Fleet, was relieved of command, accused of negligence and dereliction of duty-publicly disgraced.
But the Admiral defended his actions through eight investigations and for the rest of his long life. The evidence against him was less than solid. High military and political officials had failed to provide Kimmel and his Army counterpart with vital intelligence. Later, to hide the biggest U.S. intelligence secret of the day, they covered it up.
Following the Admiral's death, his sons-both Navy veterans-fought on to clear his name. Now that they in turn are dead, Kimmel's grandsons continue the struggle. For them, 2016 is a pivotal year.
With unprecedented access to documents, diaries and letters, and the family's cooperation, Summers' and Swan's search for the truth has taken them far beyond the Kimmel story-to explore claims of duplicity and betrayal in high places in Washington.
A Matter of Honor is a provocative story of politics and war, of a man willing to sacrifice himself for his country only to be sacrificed himself. Revelatory and definitive, it is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this pivotal event. | <urn:uuid:9f823ce0-82ea-44d4-9e70-3c046ec4cac1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tunein.com/audio-books/A-Matter-of-Honor-p923562/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00529-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957676 | 377 | 2.546875 | 3 |
To help protect our big, fragile brains from trauma during sports, why not turn to another animal that voluntarily smashes its skull into solid objects? The woodpecker hammers its beak into tree trunks twelve thousand times a day at at fifteen miles an hour. In so doing, it drills out nests, finds tasty bugs, and does not (as far as one can tell) give itself brain damage. What's its secret?
Lizhen Wang at Beihang University in Beijing led a study to find out what makes the woodpecker so resilient. The team used Dendrocopus major, the great spotted woodpecker, which is common in China. For comparison, they also studied the Eurasian hoopoe,* a relative that pecks soft soil instead of wood.
With the birds caged, the researchers used high-speed cameras to record their pecking motions and sensors to measure the force with which the birds struck the metal cage or a piece of foam. They also took detailed scans of the birds' skulls, examining them at a microscopic level. After mechanically testing pieces of woodpecker skull and beak, the researchers used those results to create a computer model of a woodpecker head. Then they virtually smashed the model head into a tree trunk, tweaking different parameters and observing the effects.
"Simple reasoning would indicate that if woodpeckers got headaches, they would stop pecking," Wang writes. The researchers' interest was not just in preventing headaches, of course, but the disability and death that can accompany hard head whacks in humans. Sports organizations have started to recognize the danger of repeated concussions, especially concussions that follow close on the heels of earlier ones. In 2009, the NFL changed their rules about how soon concussed players can return to a game. But even without serious concussions, repeated blows to the head might lead to chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), a degenerative disease of the brain that can cause dementia and personality changes. Athletes themselves are becoming wary of CTE, too. Former NFL player Dave Duerson illustrated that brutally earlier this year, when he committed suicide by shooting himself in the chest so that doctors could examine his brain for CTE. (They found it.)
Some of what Wang found in woodpeckers is of no immediate use to athletes. For example, some of the woodpecker's sturdiness comes from the hyoid bone, a nifty sling-shaped structure that extends from the top of the head through the skull to the nasal cavity. This bone (letter b below) only exists in woodpeckers. Additionally, the woodpecker's beak, with its uneven upper and lower parts, is calibrated to absorb much of the blow.
Humans can't very well insert stabilizing bones behind our faces or grow beaks that absorb an impact like the front of a car. But findings about the woodpecker's skull bones might be more useful. Compared to the hoopoe, the brain of the woodpecker is packed tightly in dense bone. The hoopoe's skull contains more spongy bone, an airy-looking material made of branches surrounding pockets of space. The woodpecker's spongy bone has less space inside it and looks compressed, like sheets of bone stacked on one another. The woodpecker skull is preferentially padded with this spongy bone at the forehead and the back of the skull.
If we can incorporate some of the woodpecker's evolved technology into future helmets, we may be able to better protect ourselves from the recreational activities that threaten our brains, from field sports to bicycle riding. We may be the more cerebral species, but the better-protected birdbrain could help keep us alive.
*Linguistic point of interest: "hoopoe" is from the Latin upapa, an imitation of the bird's call.
Images: Wang et al.
Wang, L., Cheung, J., Pu, F., Li, D., Zhang, M., & Fan, Y. (2011). Why Do Woodpeckers Resist Head Impact Injury: A Biomechanical Investigation PLoS ONE, 6 (10) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0026490
Einstein's wonderful letter to David Hilbert: A message for our times
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Japanese scarves range from the simple design and function of Tenugui head scarves to the elaborately detailed, highly stylised Maru Obi. Made from a variety of fabrics, including silk, cotton and brocade, Japanese scarves can feature a single colour or employ ancient dyeing techniques and intricate embroidery work and textures to produce a one-of-a-kind scarf.
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From the Japanese word for "puzzle pieces," a Hanji is a reversible scarf that combines hand-dyed silks with a variety of vintage silks to produce a scarf that appears to be several scarves in one. A Ruffled Hanji is made much the same way, but ruffles are sewn into the piece to create a cascade effect.
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The term Shibori encompasses a variety of methods of embellishing textiles. The literal translation is "to wring, squeeze, press." In the Shibori method, fabric is treated as three-dimensional. It is twisted, folded, crumpled, stitched, plucked and plaited. Multiple dyes are used, and the fabric is secured using binding and knotting. There are several styles of Shibori practised throughout the world. Miura Shibori scarves, used primarily for common clothes, consists of looped bindings as opposed to the knots used in traditional Shibori. This allows more dye to enter the fabric, producing a softer effect. Arashi (storm) Shibori consists of folding a length of cloth and wrapping it around a 4-meter pole. The lines and dashes produced resemble a storm, hence the name. Traditional Kumo Shibori is a hand embellished scarf that features a spider web design. Suji Shibori consists of hand folding the scarf over a rope core, then binding and dying it. The material is then dried and carefully untied, steamed and stretched.
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A Japanese Obi scarf is a 12-foot long, 30-inch wide sash worn around the waist, over a Kimono. Worn by both men and women, Obis have various designs and purposes, with some being more casual, while others are reserved strictly for formal occasions. The Maru Obi is considered the most formal, and is made of brocade or tapestry that is elaborately embroidered using gold thread. It is most commonly worn for traditional Japanese weddings. The Fukuro Obi is considered little less formal than the Maru. It is made of tapestry or brocade, but the back is often lined with plain silk. Only about 60 per cent of the Fukuro Obi is embellished. Considered the most convenient Obi, the Nagoya Obi is much lighter and simply made. A portion of the Obi is pre-folded then stitched in half. The Nagoya Obi is tied using only a single fold, as opposed to the double fold needed for Fukuro and Maru Obis.
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Tenugui Head Scarves
Tenugui, literally translated to "hand wipes" are Japanese cotton hand towels. They have a rich history of uses. A clay figurine dating back to the Kofun Era (250-538 A.D.) was found depicting a man with a Tenugui bandaged wrapped around his head. Until 749 A.D., Tenugui were made of hemp and silk and used in sacred rituals. Tenugui were used widely among Samurai during the Kamakura Period as a way to absorb perspiration under their helmets, but it wasn't until the 1600s that the general public began using Tenugui. With the spread of public baths, people began pay close attention to the design, colour and detail of Tenugui. | <urn:uuid:c544b401-8b7b-4370-97ed-5204f71bf84b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ehow.co.uk/info_8684205_types-japanese-scarves.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00173-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954436 | 766 | 2.90625 | 3 |
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Sociology is a field of study that attempts to explain how society and the groups a person belongs to affect the ways in which people behave. This is as opposed to psychology, for example, which looks at people simply as individuals.
A functionalist looks at various parts of society as parts of a body. It argues that all the parts of a society get to be that way because they serve an important function.
A conflict perspective says societal institutions get to be that way by conflict -- they are basically imposed by the elites through conflict.
Interactionists are more like psychologists, saying that society is made up of the interactions of individuals.
Sociology looks at the relationships that develops between people and their environments and their interaction with others. Sociology, like anthropology, looks at cultural customs and how relationships are affected and modified based on the understanding or misunderstanding between cultures.
Sociology also addresses social mores, how they develop, and the behaviors that emerge as a person or society responds in compliance with the mores or does not comply with the mores.
The other editor did a good job explaining the three concepts.
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Given that the White House is still celebrating today, I'm guessing America isn't Eastered out yet. Which means I can revisit Polish lambs, the little ones.
A friend who I want to say was raised Polish brought this sugar one to dinner Good Friday night because she knew my consort would appreciate it, having grown up with the same edible Easter symbols. Like him, she was more familiar with lambs made of butter, but no one here seems to sell them.
They both spent some time poking around in cobwebby memories of what their families took to church on Easter Saturday in a basket to be blessed (sausage, eggs, bread etc.), and what the meaning of it all was. And by coincidence the very next morning the Wall Street Journal answered the latter question with a good story on Polish immigrants' Easter in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn. The lambs, called baranek, symbolize Jesus.
After Wally left, and before I read the story, it occurred to me that butter lambs are actually made for Brooklyn. They require Old World artistry, and they can be marked up crazily; if they go for $12.99 in Buffalo, imagine what they'd command in a borough producing artisanal mayonnaise at $7 to $9 a quarter-pint. Hipsters, start your churns. | <urn:uuid:3534cc97-6b66-4b11-871e-9f518a12942c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.epicurious.com/archive/blogs/editor/2013/04/polish-easter-lambs-in-sugar-.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969246 | 277 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Modern medicine is undergoing rapid development where the field of restorative and regenerative treatments leads the trend. Stem cell therapy represents the movement, and here at ThriveMD, we are proud to be directed by a reputed expert in the field, Dr Scott Brandt, MD. In this article, we’ll present some recent findings and studies on how stem cell therapy helps recovery after meniscus knee surgery. Meniscus injuries are representative examples of stem cell application in orthopedics.
Let us first state that as the global body of physicians and researchers, we have yet to gain better knowledge of human body and the way it performs over time. That is why we try to provide our patients with as much relevant information as possible and help them make educated, grounded decisions. Below, we start off by describing the relationship between stem cell therapy and knee surgery, then move on to how stem cell therapy helps recovery after meniscus knee surgery.
The first application of stem cell therapy relevant to meniscus pain is when a patient opts for the regenerative method and completely omits arthroscopy. Medical research papers from 2002, 2008 and 2013 published in The New England Journal of Medicine bring insights on how for older patients, whose meniscus is frayed through simple wear and tear as opposed to a specific injury, arthroscopy may be ineffective. In a recent study conducted in Finland, even patients that suffered impacts and sports injuries resulting in meniscus tear, only experienced questionable benefits of meniscus arthroscopy. As the results demonstrated, half of the patients underwent a sham surgical procedure, the other half a real one, but both groups reported roughly same results.
Does that mean that knee arthroscopy should be completely abandoned? No. Knee arthroscopy is the most common orthopedic procedure in the United States and it would be wrong to try and scare every single patient away from it. It is better to view stem cell therapy as an alternative, where the mechanical and invasive is substituted by regenerative. To make the best choice for yourself, it is important to ask for multiple opinions, research a variety of information sources on possible causes and treatments, find out if arthroscopy is necessary or if there is still something else you can do, and ultimately, consult with people who have had similar problems. Testimonials of ThriveMD’s stem cell therapy patients show that the method is highly effective in pain relief and regrowth of cartilage, commonly making surgery obsolete.
Another application of stem cell therapy relevant to meniscus pain is when a patient opts for the method to help recovery after undergoing meniscus knee surgery. In a recent, unique study titled ”Adult Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSC) Delivered via Intra-Articular Injection to the Knee, Following Partial Medial Meniscectomy,” and published in the January issue of the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, stem cell therapy was highly effective in pain relief. The results of this study suggest that mesenchymal stem cells have the potential to improve the overall condition of the knee joint. Most patients who received a single injection of adult stem cells following the surgical removal of all or part of a torn meniscus, reported a significant reduction in pain. Surgeons also conclude that a series of injections instead of just one would yield even more significant results.
Pain relief due to stem cell therapy was achieved in two ways – regrowing cartilage, or meniscus mass, and speeding up of the natural knee recovery process.
We will be happy to see you; stop by at ThriveMD or contact us so we can discuss how our restorative and regenerative clinic can help your specific case. Our patients come from all corners of the nation and we will be excited to include you in the list of new smiles we helped.
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Miles Dewey Davis III was an American jazz musician, a great trumpeter who as a bandleader and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. Inspirational Miles Davis quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.
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Famous Miles Davis Quotes
So when you hear an accident today it sounds different, not all the metal colliding like it was in the forties and fifties. Musicians pick up sounds and incorporate that into their playing, so the music that they make will be different.
If you don’t know what to play, play nothing.
A painting is music you can see and music is a painting you can hear.
For me, music and life are all about style.
The only thing I’m interested in is the music and the musicians. I don’t acknowledge applause ’cause I’m giving them something. They’re not giving me anything with their applause.
My ego only needs a good rhythm section.
You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line…We’re just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.
If you’re not making a mistake, it’s a mistake.
The music has gotten thick. Guys give me tunes and they’re full of chords. I can’t play them…I think a movement in jazz is beginning away from the conventional string of chords, and a return to the emphasis on melodic rather than a harmonic variation. There will be fewer chords but infinite possibilities as to what to do with them.
First you imitate, then you innovate.
You know why I quit playing ballads? Cause I love playing ballads.
Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of who plays it is 80 percent.
Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn’t about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change.
A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I’m still doing it.
I learned so much from my cousin, Alexander. I think he did things the right way. That’s how he made it to the NFL… But the biggest thing I got from him was working hard and doing whatever you can to help the team.
A lot of people ask me where music is going today. I think it’s going in short phrases. If you listen, anybody with an ear can hear that. Music is always changing. It changes because of the times and the technology that’s available, the material that things are made of, like plastic cars instead of steel.
I love Pops, I love the way he sings, the way he plays – everything he does, except when he says something against modern-jazz music.
All my inspiration comes from Ahmad Jamal.
See, if you put a musician in a place where he has to do something different from what he does all the time, then he can do that – but he’s got to think differently in order to do it.
Inspirational Miles Davis Quotes
We don’t play to be seen. I’m addicted to music, not audiences.
Prince is from the school of James Brown, and I love James Brown because of all the great rhythms he plays.
Jazz music has got to have that thing. You have to be born with it. You can’t even buy it. If you could buy it, they’d have it at the next Newport festival.
Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.
Do not fear mistakes. There are none.
When you work with great musicians, they are always a part of you… their spirits are walking around in me, so they’re still here and passing it on to others.
Jazz is the big brother of Revolution. Revolution follows it around.
Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery.
I never thought jazz was meant to be a museum piece like other dead things once considered artistic.
If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can’t be trusted.
I always listen to what I can leave out.
When you do anything too long, you either wear it out or lose interest.
If you love ’em in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love ’em at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you’re in love.
In music, silence is more important than sound.
If it sounds clean and slick, I’ve been doing it too long.
I was minding my own business when something says to me, ‘You ought to blow trumpet’. I have just been trying ever since.
You’d be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n’ roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you’re playing drums, they all hear.
When you get in front of an audience, you should try to give ’em something. After all, they’re there looking at you like this. You can’t go out and give ’em nothing.
I know what I’ve done for music, but don’t call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.
You should never be comfortable, man. Being comfortable fouled up a lot of musicians.
Always look ahead, but never look back.
Play what you know, and then play above that.
In improvisation, there are no mistakes.
If you understood everything I say, you’d be me!
I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.
You have to know 400 notes that you can play, then pick the right four.
When I’m playing, I’m never through. It’s unfinished. I like to find a place to leave for someone else to finish it.
Someday I’m gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.
It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?
Time isn’t the main thing. It’s the only thing.
Don’t worry about playing a lot of notes. Just find one pretty one.
My father’s rich, my momma’s good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I’ve never suffered and don’t intend to suffer.
It’s not the note you play that’s the wrong note – it’s the note you play afterwards that makes it right or wrong.
Look, man, all I am is a trumpet player.
You can’t play anything on a horn that Louis hasn’t played.
I can tell whether a person can play just by the way he stands.
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WATCH: First Woman To Free Climb El Capitan
Her name is Emily Harrington and she has become the first woman to do what was once seen as impossible - free climb El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.
Free climb, that means NO ROPES or safety gear of any kind. That means if she makes one mistake there is nothing to catch her.
She is the fourth person to do it. The first was documented by a Wyoming documentary crew, and their film, SOLO, won an Academy Award.
But back to Emily.
She is 34 years old and made the climb in 21 hours, 13 minutes and 51 seconds. Imagine working for that long and not making a single mistake.
To climb something like El Capitan, the climber does not just jump into it. They will spend over a year, at least, choosing their route and climbing it with safety gear until they get it right. Only when they are sure they have it down, flawlessly, do they proceed.
In the video above you can watch her progression as she practices for the big climb and makes mistakes until she gets it right.
But getting it right once is not good enough. She needed to make sure she had climbed successfully several times before she was ready to go for it.
Her attempt was almost called off while practicing when she reached one of the route's most difficult sections and she fell sideways, slamming her head into the wall. Even a climbing helmet can offer only so much protection.
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The death of Roger Savory in America two months ago, at the age of 90, has just come to our attention.
In the early years of this century, when the original Badsey website was in its infancy, Roger Savory was an early contributor; he wrote several fascinating articles about the history of Badsey’s church bells. Roger had been notified of the website’s existence by his cousin, the late Pat Goldstraw. Despite living in the States since 1978, Roger remained a Badsey boy at heart and bellringing, which he had learnt in St James’ Church as a teenager under the careful tutelage of Charles Binyon, remained an important part of his life wherever he was in the world. It’s thanks to Roger that we know so much about the history of Badsey bells.
Rudolph Roger Savory (known as Roger) was born at Badsey on 8th February 1930, the only child of Maurice George Savory, a fruit grower, and his wife, Maggie Adeline (née March). Roger was baptised two months later on Easter Sunday in St James’ Church, Badsey.
Roger spent his early years at a house on Brewers Lane which his parents rented. They then moved to The Little Cottage in the High Street (present-day No 34) in 1937, which they rented from Mrs Pat Morris. Roger grew up next-door to the Jones family and played a lot with Llewellyn Jones’ sons, Barry and Bruce. Roger remembered vividly waking up one June morning in 1940 and looking out of his bedroom window to see the churchyard full of soldiers: they were survivors of the Dunkirk evacuation. In 1944, Roger and his parents moved to Sidr Bishr, the house on Bretforton Road (present-day No 17) where his grandfather lived.
Roger was a pupil at Badsey Council School from 1935-1941 and was Head Boy during his final year. He then won a scholarship to Prince Henry’s Grammar School.
Roger was a regular attender at St James’ Church and a member of the Sunday School. It was in 1943 as a 13-year-old that Roger took up bellringing, responding to an appeal for local teenagers to take the place of the men who had gone off to war. He was taught to chime by Charles Binyon who was one of the Sunday School teachers. Mr Binyon had been a friend of Roger’s father since Maurice first moved to Badsey in the 1920s and was a frequent visitor to their home. The following year Roger started to learn how to ring a bell “full circle”. Roger has written eloquently about his early ventures into bellringing in the article, Badsey Bells and Memories of Charles Binyon.
On leaving Prince Henry’s Grammar School in 1949, Roger undertook service in the Royal Navy for two years (bellringing in his spare time in Kent, Essex and Suffolk). He then went on to Birmingham University to study Chemical Engineering. Initially he lived at home, which enabled him to continue bellringing at Badsey and, in 1952 he was made Tower Captain of the Badsey band of ringers. In his final years at Birmingham, Roger lived in digs and was able to pursue his love of bellringing in the city. He was a founder member of the Birmingham University Society of Change Ringers and was their first Master.
After graduating from Birmingham in 1955, Roger moved to Southampton. However, he was back in Badsey in May of the following year when, on 19th May 1956, Roger conducted a band of ringers who set a record for the longest peal ever rung on the bells at Badsey. Roger had composed the peal which was a “Plain Bob Major”; it had 6000 changes and took 3 hours 30 minutes to complete. This was Roger’s swan-song at Badsey because his new work and home in Hampshire meant that he now concentrated on bellringing in that county, ultimately becoming Master of the Winchester & Portsmouth Diocesan Guild of Bell Ringers.
Roger moved to the USA for work in 1978, settling in Chatham, New Jersey, USA. He worked for Exxon Research and Engineering for many years before retiring in 1995. He became involved with the North American Guild of Change Ringers and was a member of St Paul’s Episcopal Church in Chatham, where he sang in the choir and was a lay reader. He moved to Bridgewater, New Jersey, in 2012.
In 2006, St James’ Church, Badsey, celebrated 300 years of the bells. A leaflet entitled A Celebration of 300 years of bells 1706-2006 at St James was produced for the Patronal Festival Service. This was a reprint of a history of bells which had been written by Roger.
In the February 2020 issue of Community News, Robert Hall, who was one of the 1956 band of Badsey ringers, wrote about being taught to ring by Roger who he said was an excellent teacher. He spoke with awe about the epic 3½-hour peal, concluding: “Roger Savory arranged and conducted it all. It was the longest peal on the bells of St James and still stands today. Roger left the village but continued to achieve high regard in ringing circles becoming one of the most proficient ringers in the country. He will be 90 this year, lives in the USA. Roger and I are the only ones left of that peal band.” A full peal was rung at St James’ Church on 8th February 2020, Roger’s 90th birthday.
Roger died at Bridgewater, New Jersey, on 13th March 2020, a month after his 90th birthday. His obituary appeared on the website of the Bruce C Van Arsdale Funeral Home, Somerville, New Jersey. Roger was described as “an avid and distinguished bell ringer, encouraged by Mr Charles Binyon, his Sunday School teacher at Badsey Church.” An obituary also appeared in the journal of the North American Guild of Change Ringers. Roger is survived by four children and six grandchildren.
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If replacement investment = 10%, the country"s productive capacity remains constant.
If replacement investment > 10%, the fertile capacity grows.
In the lack of international capital, money to invest comes from domestic savings.
If conserving is less than 10% of GDP, the soimg.orgomic climate is in trouble. For instance, saving falls below the replacement level in countries involved in battle.
5. Four Sectors in a typical soimg.orgomy
|Household sector|| |
buys consumption items from the organization sector, and supplies labor and also funding inputs (via savings).
The family members sector additionally buys imported products.
|Firm sector|| |
produces products utilizing funding and also labor inputs and also sells them to consumers.
Financial Sector is component of the business sector: It receives savings from the family members sector and also lends money to company firms.
|Government sector|| |
The government collects taxes and also spends the revenue.
Redistributes revenue, supposedly from the bad to to affluent to stabilize the culture.
When revenue distribution is unequal, tbelow is a higher opportunity of a change or overthrow of the government.
|Foregime sector|| |
The international sector buys domestic products and provides international assets to domestic consumers.
6. Twin Deficits
In recent years, the US and also many European countries are suffering from twin deficits. These federal governments are running large budgain deficits,i.e., government spfinishing much exceeds taxes revenue.
|Spending Plan deficit|| |
T - G
T - G > 0 ⇒ budgain surplus ( = T-G)
X - M > 0 ⇒ profession surplus (= X - M) = net exports
X - M
At the exact same time, these countries are importing far more than they export, thus incurring profession deficits. These situations define countries that are not in equilibrium.
7. Greece"s problem
amphitheater in Athens.
Olympic stadiums in many kind of countries are modified versions of Greek amphitheaters. Greeks (specifically, Cretans) created plumbing.
|Greece"s GDP||$340 billion|
|per capita GDP||$32,000 (approximate)|
|Imports||$61 billion (Trade Deficit = $43 billion) in 2008|
|work hours||1800 hours/year. (Japan = 1830 hrs, USA =1777, South Korea = 2400 hrs. China: no trustworthy statistics, maybe 10 hours per day, 6 days a week.)|
|Government spending||around 40%. socialist soimg.orgomy|
significant federal government, virtually no production, no high technology sectors, people depfinish on pensions for which they have not worked.
The government requirements to reduced pensions, however people are revolting.
8. Equilibrium in a closed soimg.orgomy
Aggregate expenditure is identified as:
E ≡ C + I + G + (X - M).
On the other hand also, complete individual earnings may be spent on intake, savings and tax.
Y ≡ C + S + T.
Because income = expenditure in equilibrium,
C + I + G + (X - M) = C + S + T, or
I +G + (X - M) = S + T.
|If the nation is a closed soimg.orgomic climate (X = M = 0),|| |
I + G = S + T.
|Long Run Equilibrium|| |
If the federal government has a budacquire surplus or deficit, the case is not sustainable, and also it is not a long run (LR) equilibrium.
LR equilibrium needs that the government budobtain be balanced
(G = T),
then LR equilibrium requires
I = S.
That is, LR residential equilibrium needs investment-savings etop quality.
This is the beginning of the IS curve, to be stupassed away later on.
9. Disposable Personal Income
Disposable Income is the portion of GDP that consumers can spend.
Why depreciation must not be included in net GDP?
depreciation is intake of the resources products. Each year some fractivity of the capital input is offered up via wear and also tear, and must be repleniburned in order to maintain the fertile capacity.
Depreciation expenses are not counted as corpoprice revenues, and therefore should not be part of net earnings.
When depreciation is had in earnings, we contact it "Gross" domestic product.
Net Domestic Product
|= GDP - depreciation.|
|Indirect Company Taxes|| |
= firms pay sales taxes and home taxes (which are mainly supplied by local governments to develop colleges, highmethods, etc.)
Hong Kong has no sales taxes, however other cities have high sales taxation.
New York city has a high sales tax, especially on items tourists buy (hotels, restaurants).
Intent: let tourists pay.
|= NDP - Indirect Company Taxes.|
|Undispersed Corpoprice profits|| |
Corporations carry out not primarily distribute all the profits to stockholders.
These are dubbed preserved revenue, and also offered for future investment.
10. Problems in Comparing GDP over Time
|1. prices are not hosted constant|| |
When calculating and also comparing GDP over time, we have to remember that prices are not hosted constant. In the 1970s, the people soimg.orgomic situation was significantly perturbed by 2 oil price shocks. Oil price even more than quadrupled during this decade. Oil is likewise supplied as input in many industries, and also the prices of these products additionally increased substantially.
Accordingly, in between 1970 and 1978, GDP in the USA even more than doubled. However, dollar — the yardstick — also adjusted in value throughout this duration, because the prices of most excellent boosted.
2. Can We Use Quantities?
Instead of GDP, deserve to we use physical quantities which carry out not change worth over time as a meaure of output?
No. amounts are imhelpful.
The major problem is that the US produces numerous various commodities every year. We cannot include apples and also ovarieties, steel and also wheat, because they are measured in various devices of measurement. That is the factor to usage GDP in the initially location.
3. Price Indices are supplied.
We have to use some kind of price index to readjust for the changing worth or purchasing power of the dollar. A price index can be offered to deflate the nominal GDP (GDP in existing dollars).
First, a typical bundle of goods consumers buy is preferred and its expense in the base year is given an index of 100.
2nd, compute the cost of the same bundle in other years. Next off, compute exactly how a lot more in any offered year relatve to the base year. If the index is 120 this year, it suggests it prices 20% more than the base year to purchase the favored bundle of goods.
Price indices are useful for comparing outputs over a brief period of time, say less than 5 - 10 years.
Not beneficial once comparing incomes over lengthy periods of time, say over 10 years.
Change base years eexceptionally 5 years due to technological transforms and obsolesence.
Why? the intake bundles adjust considerably.
Very few people buy VHS videotapes. Even DVDs will shortly come to be obsolete.
4. Seasonal adjustment (e.g., revenue from tourism)
Outputs are often measured quarterly.
Tbelow are seasonal fluctuations. (about 8% in the US)
In cold regions, seasonal variations are better, because of lengthy winter.
Good climate is conducive to soimg.orgomic activities.
(i) crops are harvested in the fall
(ii) less outdoor tasks are held in the winter.
Instead of reporting raw information, financial experts frequently report seasonally adjusted outputs by eliminating supposed seasonal alters or averaging the outputs.
11. Real vs Nominal GDP
Romale soldiers were paid 900 sestertii (225 denarii) during the time of Augustus. They were additionally provided salt, thus the word "saldare" (give salt), which is the origin of the word, salary.
200 sestertii (or 50 denarii) was a subsistence wage per year for adults.
One denarius a day was a great wage in the time of the time of Jesus.
If the wage of prevalent labors increased 25 fold in 300 years, the general price level rose threefold in 100 years. Using the 110 preeminence, the inflation price was 110/100 = 1.1%. In other words, tbelow was virtually no inflation in the time of the initially 3 centuries, 1 - 301 AD.
daily wage of a farm worker = 25 oysters.
|If tbelow is no inflation|| |
Real GDP = Nominal GDP
During the initially 300 years of the Romale Realm, prices were stable. Gold and silver were provided as money as under the Gold Standard. Ron Paul inisists that US have to return to the gold typical.
|If deflation occurs|| |
A given nominal earnings has actually even more purchasing power.
Deflation occurred in Japan in the 1990s.
Deflation occurred in Hong Kong after the Oriental financial crisis in 1997 and also finished just in 2004.
During this duration, asset prices fell.
|If inflation occurs||A given nominal income is worth less, and also its purchasing power declines. Sometimes, inflation is dubbed the silent tax.|
12. Nominal GDP
Nominal GDP = Σipiyi =p1y1 + p2y2 + ...
wright here pi and yi are the price and also output of excellent i during the current year.
Nominal GDP is simply the amount of expenditures on each and eincredibly excellent consumed at present prices.
|2009 price||2009 quantity||2009 expenditure|
|Nomilal GDP = 200 + 100 + 9000 =9300.|
The next year, both prices and also outputs adjust.
|2010 price||2010 quantity||2010 expenditure|
|Nominal GDP = 300 + 200 + 10000 =10500.|
The two tables present nominal GDP enhanced from $9300 to 10500.
Does it expect consumers are much better off? Due to the fact that nominal GDP overstates genuine GDP during periods of inflation, the extent of overstatment deserve to be estimated by the GDP deflator.
If GDP deflator is 120, it suggests Nominal GDP overstates real GDP by 20%. That is, the price level climbed by 20%.
13. Real GDP
How much would certainly the 2010 bundle have cost had the prices remained the same?
Prices in 2010 are various from those in 2009. To obtain genuine GDP in 2010, instead of utilizing 2010 prices, we usage the base year (2009) prices to evaluate complete outputs.
|2009 price||2010 quantity||theoretical 2010 expenditure if prices were organized constant|
|Real GDP = 300 + 200 + 6000 = 6500. (Real revenue declined)|
When the base year (2009) prices are used, the value of outputs actually shrank in 2010. While nominal GDP in 2010 is 10500, actual GDP actually declined to 6500. Hence,
GDP deflator in 2010 is = $10500/6500.
|Why real GDP?|| |
Because prices change over time.
When comparing GDP figures over time, nominal GDP periodically overestimates genuine outputs. This is bereason prices mainly tend to increase.
|When earnings rises faster than price level||Consumers are better off. (Welfare is measured by utility functions, yet they are unrecognized.)|
|When revenue rises|| |
price level likewise rises.
If prices increase 4%, a 10% boost in nominal revenue represents just a 6% increase in real earnings.
If nominal revenue rises by 5.5% and the inflation rate was 3.5%, real revenue prospered only by 2%.
|When earnings is stagnant||Normally, the price level still rises. It depends on the soimg.orgomy.|
|When revenue falls in a recession||Prices tend to be stable. If the recession is sustained, the price level also drops.|
When one"s revenue rises by 10% in a provided year, prices are not primarily held continuous.
Nominal amounts are expressed utilizing present dollar prices, i.e., they are actual quantities passist or obtained. Therefore, soimg.orgomic experts sometimes are interested in figuring out the changes in actual income, excluding the payments for increase in prices.
Once price indices are calculated, actual GDP deserve to be calculated using the above formula. Typically, an index number of 100 is assigned to some base year.
For circumstances, if one is interested in GDP growth in the time of the write-up WWII era, one can asauthorize an index of 100 to 1945 or 1946, and also then compute the price indices for various other years.
Which base year need to one use? It all depends on the function of comparison.
Chain-Weighted Meacertain of Real GDP
Relative prices change over time.
For circumstances, price of individual computers keeps falling each year.
Food price has been climbing quicker than others.
|Bugenuine of soimg.orgomic Analysis chooses base year eincredibly five years.||GDPs are computed during the next few years, assuming prices are held constant once they are not.|
|Due to the fact that 1995, chain-weighted steps of genuine GDP are computed.||The average prices in 2009 and 2010 are supplied to meacertain the GDP growth from 2009 to 2010.|
14. GDP per Capita
|Definition||per capita GDP = GDP/population|
|A higher GDP is much better, but does not constantly make civilization better off. Sometimes a greater GDP is lugged about by an increase in population. Therefore, a higher GDP does not necesarily mean soimg.orgomic expansion. When comparing welfare over time and also between nations, we oftn usage GDP per capita. We divide GDP by the full populace. To achieve genuine GDP per capita, one also divides actual GDP by the population.|
|per capita World GDP||World GDP (misnomer, Gross World Product) in 2010 is approximated to be around $73 trillion. Per capita GWP is around $12,000 in 2010.|
|expansion price of per capita GDP|| |
^(GDP/pop) = ^GDP - ^pop
If GDP rises by 3%, and also likewise the populace grows at the very same rate, there is no readjust in welfare of the representative perchild in that nation.
15. Other Problems via GDP
|(1) Nonmarket Transactions|| |
These are the transactions exterior the market, and hence there is no dependable price information about them. The most essential transactivity excluded from the GDP is the services of houswives. These are not offered in the sector, and also hence are not consisted of the GDP. This exemption underclaims genuine welfare.
In LDCs, a far-ranging amount of food and also garments is produced in the residence, but not contained in the GDP. Hence, welfare is frequently underdeclared in LDCs. On the various other hand, in some European nations, various households pay one an additional for babysitting expenditures and also obtain taxes credit, and these expenditures are consisted of in GDP. Therefore, GDP tfinish to overstate welfare in these nations.
|(2) The Underground soimg.orgomy|| |
Tright here is not much data about the magnitude of the underground soimg.orgomy, which consists of both legal and illegal soimg.orgomic climates. Income from illegal tasks are not included in the GDP, and also thus GDP understates actual soimg.orgomic activities. They are not excluded because they are imethical, however the quantities are not reported. Also, cash payments "under the table" to corrupt officials and also businessmales are not reported.
Also, a far-reaching amount is underreported by self-employed civilization who are doing service legally.
According to a research of OECD (Organization for soimg.orgomic Coprocedure and Development) countries, around 17% of soimg.orgomic tasks are unreported. Also, babsence sectors are big in occurring countries. In countries such as Spain, Portugal, Italy, Belgium and Greece, this underground soimg.orgomy exceeds 20%.
|(3) Value of Leisure|| |
Many world deserve to gain a part time job, in addition to their constant jobs, by working in the evenings and on weekends. However before, they choose not to. Why? Since they value leisure more than the additional income they could earn!
You cannot go to parties, watch TV, or go to the movies. If somehow these world are compelled to work extra hrs, GDP will go up, however not their welfare. GDP does NOT include the value of leisure, although it is an important aspect of welfare.
Annual functioning hours:
India: 2800 - 3400 hours
13th century farmer: 1600 hrs (UK)
UK in 1840: 3600
(As wage price rises, working hours decline)
|(4) Pollution and other Externalities|| |
Many sectors develop pollution in the manufacturing process. For circumstances, a steel mill produces air pollution while creating steel products. Likewise, the oil market pollutes the sea. Only the worth of outputs created is contained in GDP, however not the contamination.
If we are interested in measuring welfare, the cost of air pollution need to be subtracted from the value of outputs.
If the market or goverment cleans up the mess, sources are used up, and their value is included in GDP. Hence, GDP overclaims the actual worth of outputs, whether the polluted atmosphere is cleaned up or not.
|(5) Quality of Goods|| |
GDP misses a crucial aspect of welfare. The quality of TVs, washing machines, computer systems and clothes are not had in GDP. For instance, eextremely various other year the high quality of individual computers seem to double however their prices halved.
While technological developments often enhance the quality of the assets and therefore welfare, they reduced prices and hence decrease GDP.
Source: Thomas Walter (http://www.geography.hunter.cuny.edu/~tbw/wc.notes/13.air.pollution/notes_chap13.htm)
16. Why GDP?
Tright here are various other steps of social wellbeing. Life expectancies, infant mortality rates, crime rates, health and wellness care, etc. However, despite all its difficulties, GDP is a single index that actions the worth of outputs of a country. It tends to be positively related to wellbeing, but not an exact meacertain of social welfare.
17. Unemployment Reduces GDP
Each month the federal government announces the joblessness rate, that so many type of lost tasks, etc. To verify whether one is unemployed, the government demands to call everybody. In the USA this is done once a decade (decennial Census of Population) It is costly to interview all employees. Accordingly, the government conducts census only as soon as in 10 years. Also, each month the Census Bureau interviews about 60,000 families (or around 110,000 individuals). For stability only 1/4 of these samples are reinserted each month.
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Obviously, world experience from natural disasters. Will herbal calamities alleviate GDP?
In the brief run, natural calamities (e.g., Fukushima disaster) destroy outputs and also funding input. One deserve to additionally systematically hire civilization to break glasses of buildings and also factories. They must be repaired or reinserted, which produce work and increases GDP. All the clean up initiatives in Japan actually will certainly raise GDP.
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A message from President Ford and a speech by former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg marked yesterday’s outdoor rededication ceremony of Washington’s first synagogue, the original Adas Israel temple. President Ford’s written message stated that this was “a proud and happy occasion” for Washington and “an important occasion in our bicentennial.” The President saluted the Jewish Historical Society of Greater Washington for preserving the two-story colonial style building which is now the Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum.
Goldberg urged that the century-old structure be used for services rather than as a museum. He said, “It ought to be a living place.” The building is listed on the United States Register of Historic Places and is an officially designated landmark of the District of Columbia, The original Adas Israel was begun in 1869 by 35 families who separated from the Washington Hebrew Congregation to form their own Orthodox synagogue. On Sunday, the Grand Master of Masons of the District of Columbia, Dr. William E. Eggleston, laid the cornerstone in a Masonic ceremony. President U.S. Grant participated in the dedication 100 years ago. The present Adas Israel group is the largest. Conservative congregation in the Washington area, Arthur Burns, Federal Reserve Board chairman and member of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, was also present at yesterday’s ceremony. | <urn:uuid:87b8f4a9-5fd3-4124-8bc0-f64dba0adf47> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jta.org/1975/06/25/archive/rededication-of-washingtons-first-synagogue | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00146-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94476 | 291 | 2.0625 | 2 |
U.S. oil and gas rig count up 22 this week
Published 7:00 pm, Thursday, April 3, 2008
The number of rigs actively exploring for oil and natural gas in the United States rose by 22 this week to 1,830.
Of the rigs running nationwide, 1,458 were exploring for natural gas and 362 for oil, Houston-based Baker Hughes Inc. reported Friday. Ten were listed as miscellaneous.
A year ago, the rig count stood at 1,726.
Of the major oil- and gas-producing states, Texas gained 23 rigs, New Mexico gained four, Wyoming added three and Alaska gained two. Oklahoma lost seven rigs and California lost one. Colorado and Louisiana remained unchanged from the previous week.
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From an article in The Tehran Times: Several hundred U.S. citizens had contact with Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the chairman of the powerful U.S. House Intelligence Committee Mike Rogers said on Sunday.
Republican lawmaker Rogers, a former FBI agent, told “Fox News Sunday” that he was concerned about efforts to keep track of Americans who had links to the ISIL group. “It’s in the hundreds that have at least one time traveled, participated and trained with them, some have drifted back, some have gone to Europe.” Rogers said.
The U.S. State Department has previously estimated that more than 100 U.S. citizens had traveled to Syria to join radical groups such as ISIL. “I’m very concerned because we don’t know every single person who has an American passport that has gone and trained and learned how to fight,” Rogers said.
He also raised concerns about the estimated 500 British citizens and “several hundred” Canadians believed to have traveled to Syria, noting that passport holders from those countries could both enter the United States without a visa. U.S. officials last week confirmed that an American national fighting for ISIL was killed earlier this month in Syria.
Separately on Sunday, another U.S. lawmaker said a strategy to fight militants in Syria could become clearer next week. “We don’t have the information which hopefully we’ll have in the next week or so what the plans are going to be,” Dutch Ruppersberger — the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee — told CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“A lot of it is classified. You don’t tell an enemy you’re coming in to attack them. That’s the number one issue. You don’t respond to the media. You respond to the endgame,” added Ruppersberger.”
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Industrial designers’ software toolboxes don’t look like the typical MCAD user’s. Company CAD standards often don’t apply to them, yet they need to work closely with CAD mavens. Robert McNeel & Associates' Rhino 3D is popular among industrial designers for its ability to bridge the gap between mechanical CAD and styling. Many Rhino users put another specialized tool in their toolbox, Chaos Group’s V-Ray for high-end photorealistic rendering.
That brings us to our Editor’s Pick of the Week: Chaos Group’s next-generation rendering engine, V-Ray Next for Rhino. This major update to V-Ray has “smart” written all over it. No longer is rendering a Rhino model in V-Ray a disconnected event from the product workflow, it is now the centerpiece of a design visualization workflow. We’ll get to that in a minute. Let’s start with the raw performance increases for photorealistic rendering.
Chaos Group says a rewrite of V-Ray’s materials engine boosts rendering speed by up to 50%. V-Ray Next takes advantage of graphics processing units (GPUs), which means the ceiling on product performance has been set much higher. Depending on the specific GPU and the rest of your workstation hardware, V-Ray Next rendering can be up to 200% faster than with previous versions. GPU speed increases continue to outpace Moore’s Law, so the benefits will continue to accrue in the future.
As if those raw speed increases for photorealistic rendering aren’t enough, the faster processing extends to V-Ray Scene Intelligence, Chaos Group’s new project control technology. Scene Intelligence analyzes a 3D scene at the start of a rendering and looks for ways to optimize the most common scene design decisions. Scene Intelligence includes a new lighting tool, Adaptive Dome Light (ADL). Chaos Group says it is a more accurate image-based lighting tool than they’ve offered in the past. Many product images require an interior setting, and the lighting is tricky. Chaos Group says ADL removes the need to add separate light portals for windows and other room openings. Scene Intelligence also benefits from a rewrite of the V-Ray camera. It is now possible to set exposure and white balance automatically, instead of the previous set-test-tweak-repeat process.
If you are running a newer NVIDIA GPU, V-Ray Next adds support for the NVIDIA AI de-noiser. “Noise” is rendering jargon for the fuzzy bits and inadvertent image processing errors that crop up when doing ray tracing to create a photorealistic image. The more complicated the rendering, the more noise gets created. In the past, de-noise work meant tweaking the complicated settings of light, refraction, materials and more. Apply automated de-noising to a designer’s frequent tweaking to get the look “just right,” and you have a significant time savings.
Speed increases are just one part of the V-Ray Next for Rhino story. There is also the new approach to workflow. Assets in visualization include lighting settings, materials, textures, geometry elements, render elements and preview settings. Designers also need to manage custom Python scripts and settings related to the popular Grasshopper (parametric design) add-on to Rhino. V-Ray Next users can work inside the Grasshopper environment to explore the creation of abstract curves and repeating patterns, as well as animate light, camera and Grasshopper/Rhino geometry definitions. This aspect of V-Ray Next for Rhino could lead to a lot of new topology exploration, with ramifications for the entire product design process.
Chaos Group considers V-Ray Next for Rhino a “next-generation” approach to visualization. There are other tweaks, changes and rewrites throughout the program. The user interface has been updated with a contemporary look and feel. Batch rendering and creation of snapshots (quick sample images for comparison) have been updated. And users can take advantage of both RhinoScript and Python programming utilities for additional scene management automation or digging underneath the interface for advanced features.
There’s more on V-Ray Next for Rhino than we can fit here. Check out today’s write-up and be sure to watch the video showing off all these new features.
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Presentation on theme: "What’s next for my child?. 8 TH GRADE COURSES O Language Arts (BLOCK SCHEDULE) O Mathematics (POTENTIAL BLOCK SCHEDULE) O Science O Social Studies O Electives."— Presentation transcript:
What’s next for my child?
8 TH GRADE COURSES O Language Arts (BLOCK SCHEDULE) O Mathematics (POTENTIAL BLOCK SCHEDULE) O Science O Social Studies O Electives O Art O Music O Physical Education / Health O Spanish
WHAT TO EXPECT IN SEPTEMBER Students and parents will be provided with information related to: O Hackensack High School O Bergen County Academies, Hackensack O Bergen County Technical Schools, Paramus (Full Day / Shared Time) O Bergen County Technical High School, Teterboro O Parochial Schools O Bergen Catholic (boys only), Oradell, NJ O Paramus Catholic O Hawthorne Christian Academy O Academies at Englewood O Holy Angels (girls only), Demarest, NJ O Immaculate Conception High School, Lodi, NJ O Immaculate Heart Academy (girls only), Washington Township, NJ
Open Houses Open Houses normally take place in October and November. Applications are usually due by December. Entrance exams generally occur in January. More information will be provided to you once it is made available. Periodically check the school websites for up to date information.
Hackensack High School Freshman Academy Freshman Academy Brochure Freshman Academy Fact Sheet The Freshman Academy is designed to help students make a successful transition from middle school to high school. Physically located on the East Wing, grade 9 students are placed in a structured, nurturing environment with a common team of core teachers for their academic classes. Students have several opportunities to take electives outside of the Freshman Academy.
Hackensack High School makes Newsweek’s Top High Schools in America!
What if Hackensack High School is not for my child?
Bergen County Academies Free public magnet high school for Bergen County residents located in Hackensack. School offers seven specialized college-preparatory programs in the areas of: O Mathematics and Science O Engineering and Design O Medical Science O Business and Finance O Culinary Arts & Hospitality Administration O Visual and Performing Arts O Technology and Computer Science The number of successful candidates for admission is widely thought to hover around 15% of those that apply. A math and English test, as well as an interview by a panel of teachers, is required for admission.
Bergen County Technical High School/Paramus Bergen County Technical High School/Paramus is committed to serving the needs of students with both Full-Time and Shared-Time Programs. FULL DAY PROGRAM Students with Special Needs / IEP Or SHARED-TIME PROGRAM Students without an IEP Attend Hackensack High School half day and BCTHS – Paramus half day Paramus campus provides students with a strong academic and technical foundation to pursue either postsecondary educational opportunities or entrance into the workforce upon graduation. Students learn in classrooms and career-specific technical labs that mirror future academic and professional environments. Programs:
Bergen County Technical High School - Teterboro Free public high school that offers nine specialized programs in: O Aerospace Engineering O Automotive Engineering and Design O Commercial Art and Graphic Design O Computer Science O Culinology O Digital Media Arts O Fashion Art O Design and Merchandising O Law and Justice O Strategic Asset Management Yields a 100% graduation rate, along with 100% of graduates attending colleges or universities.
Parochial Schools What about the COOP Exam? The Cooperative Admissions Examination is an assessment strategy designed to enable the student's high school admissions program of choice to measure the growth and achievement of the student, to date, and develop an accurate understanding of the student's growth over time. The fee of the examination is a non-refundable $ The purpose of the examination is to provide objective information about eighth grade students applying to the Catholic High School admissions program of their choice. The examination measures academic achievement in reading, language, and mathematics and contains additional material to assess academic aptitude and memory. Catholic High Schools also utilize effort and performance ratings from grades 6, 7, and 8, as well as previous standardized test results. A Student Handbook providing a full description of the examination and instructions for filling out the application form and a Sample Test booklet will be available to each applicant. The Ninth Grade Applicant Record form can be downloaded from
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As drought ravages California and other parts of the West, the political giving habits of the state’s private water merchants and brokers are coming under increasing scrutiny. One is La Jolla–based Pico Holdings on Ivanhoe Street, a publically traded firm that owns the Vidler Water Company. “We develop new sources of water primarily in the southwestern United States for municipal and industrial use,” says the company’s website, “either from existing supplies of water, such as water used for agricultural purposes, or from acquiring unappropriated (that is, previously unused) water.” It adds, “Typically, we identify and develop the source of water from a new water supply, or a change in the use of an existing water supply from agricultural to municipal and industrial.”
The company’s most famous employee was the late Marc Reisner, who wrote 1986’s Cadillac Desert, blasting conventional water use and management in the West. The author died in 2000, and Vidler has since branched into other endeavors, including water and solar power proposals in Nevada. It’s currently working on a plan to build a natural gas–fired power plant in Mesquite. Vidler has been making big campaign contributions to the state’s politicos, giving a total of $20,500 last year, including $4000 to the GOP Assembly caucus and $2000 to the Assembly Democratic caucus.
In New Mexico, an environmental outfit called Deep Well Protest has loudly opposed plans by a Vidler subsidiary called Aquifer Science to sink a controversial series of water wells on a Sandia basin ranch. Pico’s most famous boardmember is Kristina Leslie, who used to be chief financial officer at Dreamworks Animation, the company responsible for Shrek. Another is Julie Sullivan, executive vice president and provost at the University of San Diego. | <urn:uuid:6b5f3eb9-9f5c-49f3-a9f8-1a85af742fbc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2014/mar/12/radar-water-mothers-milk-politics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00508-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948043 | 386 | 1.976563 | 2 |
CPB will conduct a survey of production and distribution equipment housed at public broadcasting stations starting this summer.
The project comes at a time when stations’ technological needs could grow, but funding is tight. In 2011, Congress ended funding for the $20 million Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, which funded capital purchases. That left stations with “few funding options” for replacing equipment, CPB said in its request for proposals Monday.
Also, the repacking of spectrum after the FCC auction, the upcoming introduction of the ATSC 3.0 broadcast standard, and a new station interconnection system could all require stations to get different equipment, and more of it.
CPB will ask stations about the state of their current equipment and their plans to pay for replacements and upgrades. The survey aims to identify funding gaps and possible solutions.
“The results of this work will inform CPB’s decision-making as we work to assist stations, and the system as a whole, keep up with technological changes and develop future operating models,” the RFP said.
Work is expected to begin in June and conclude by Dec. 31, with an optional six-month extension.
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Fire lily is fleeting but lovely
Published 09/10/2016 | 02:30
The fire lily or Scarborough lily is a real gem. It has the most beautiful bright scarlet flowers, lily-like, at the top of a slender but sturdy flower stem. It is a house plant for a sunny window sill, and does well in a greenhouse or conservatory. The flowering period is a fleeting three weeks with each tall stem carrying three to nine flowers open in sequence.
Known as 'fire lily' in its native range in South Africa, it grows in dry grassy areas that are subject to brush fires, after which the bulbs flower. Its correct botanical name is Cyrtanthus elatus, and it was formerly called vallota. The plant is named after Scarborough, a town of that name in South Africa, not the original Scarborough in England.
In its native land, it produces pink or yellow flowers occasionally, but the form grown here has bright orange-scarlet flowers. The plant is deciduous or semi-evergreen with narrow strap-like, dark green leaves. The bulbs have a reddish purple tinge and they push their noses slightly out of the soil.
The bulbs produce lots of small daughter bulbs and fill the pot eventually. The little pea-sized bulbs can be removed and potted up to reach flowering size. The plant is generally passed around as a few bulbs and is hardly ever seen for sale commercially.
In a crowded pot, the same bulbs do not flower every year. The bulbs reach flowering size in about three years but do not flower again for a year or more. Sometimes the large old bulbs just dry up and wither, or get pushed out. If there are several large bulbs in the pot together, there is a better chance of having a show of flowers each year. Keep the pots in a greenhouse and bring them indoors to a more prominent position when they are in flower.
More regular flowering is achieved if the plants are looked after well, watering them regularly during the summer and feeding with a dilute feed every two weeks, and keeping them slightly dry in winter. The daughter bulbs will also reach flowering size more quickly if this practice is followed.
If you have bulbs but they have not flowered, feed, water and make sure to give full sunshine.
Q I have a climbing rose, grown from a slip I took from a cottage wall in the 1980s. I know it to have been growing there for a long time before that. It has a lot of sentimental value. It blooms every year and the short-lived pink roses exude a beautiful perfume. The sparse foliage is always marked with black spots and even the climbing branches look as if they are struggling to survive. Is there anything I can do to save it? M Hearne, Co Wexford
A Old roses are weakened by blackspot disease. Give it some rose fertiliser in spring, following the directions on the packet, and take a few insurance cuttings in summer.
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Peonies are one of those herbaceous plants that can?usually be relied on to produce their big, blowsy blooms year after year as regular as clockwork. However sometimes the flowers will fail to appear for no apparent reason. In fact there are a number of factors that may be responsible as Margaret Roach explains in her article which I found on her A Way To Garden website.
W HEN I GET OVERWHELMED AS GARDENERS DO ABOUT NOW, I think of the peonies that grew in the narrow space between the flagstone walk and a stucco wall of the home of my youth. No matter that there was hardly room for anything in that spot, or that they?d probably been there 30 years already. Each year, during the week of my birthday, they bloomed like mad. ?Onward,? they seemed to say. ?Keep at it.? Sometimes, though, peonies don?t bloom well, or the buds just turn black and dry up, I?ve learned since. Want to know the reasons why?
Blooming in herbaceous peonies (and this is true for most plants) is controlled by factors like light, nutrients, the premature removal of foliage, recent transplanting, and also various plant diseases (often triggered by weather conditions). Planting depth can also affect peonies adversely. The details:
Are your peonies getting enough sun, or has a nearby tree or shrub grown and reduced the amount over the years (hence a recent decline in bloom, perhaps)? Nearby trees can pose another challenge: When peonies try to compete with extensive root systems of large woody plants, they can lose?meaning reduced bloom. Peonies ideally want a minimum of six hours of full sun a day (you may be able to skimp a little in the more southern part of their hardiness range, Zone 8).
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