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System and method for enabling a dual-wire protocol
A system and method for enabling a dual-wire protocol (DWP). A low-power alternative to the single wire protocol (SWP) is provided that uses an extra wire. DWP...
Social device service and support via automatic group association
A social networking system offers a variety of device service and support functions via automated social network (SNET) group associations. Such functions can...
Identifying flows causing undesirable network events
A system and method to monitor network congestion is provided. The system includes a plurality of ingress, egress ports, and a plurality of queues coupled to...
OFDM or OFDMA signaling for ranging and data
A communication device is operative to generate and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol that includes one or more data and ranging...
Power management in hybrid networks
Disclosed are various embodiments for power management in hybrid networks. In one embodiment, a network power manager is configured to manage power consumption...
Full bandwidth protection mechanism for co-existence of
single/multi-channel wide-bandwidth wireless systems
A technique to provide a protection mechanism, when operating over a plurality of channels in one's own BSS, to help avoid components in other BSSs from...
Peak to average power ratio (PAPR) reduction for repetition mode within
single user, multiple user, multiple...
Selective processing of one or more packets to be transmitted from a wireless communication device to another wireless communication device is effective to...
System and method for mitigating burst noise in a communications system
A system, method and computer program product is provided for mitigating the effects of burst noise on packets transmitted in a communications system. A...
Apparatus and method for generating RF without harmonic interference
A transmitter capable of operating according to a first standard that does not interfere with a nearby frequency generator operating according to a second...
Signal detection for optical transmitters in networks with optical
Signal detection for optical transmitters in networks with optical combining. Presented herein is a multi-faceted means for performing electrical to optical...
Wireless communication device with switched polarization and methods for
A wireless communication device includes a polarity setting module configured to set a plurality of polarity modes for the wireless communication with the...
Relay within single user, multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO
A relay receives a frame from a source, and based on state of a relayed frame bit within the frame, the relay selects an operational mode: implicit...
Multi-user null data packet (MU-NDP) sounding within multiple user,
multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless...
Multi-user null data packet (MU-NDP) sounding within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Within communication systems including...
Coordinating transmissions of power line communication (PLC) devices
A system for coordinating transmissions of power line communication (PLC) devices may include a processor and a memory. The processor may be configured to...
Error correction coding across multiple channels in content distribution
Error correction coding across multiple channels is provided in multi-channel transmission systems. Specifically, redundancy is provided by selecting a portion...
Frame adaptive digital to analog converter and methods for use therewith
A digital to analog converter (DAC) includes a thermometer coder that generates a plurality of micro-current source analog controls on a frame-by-frame or...
Split-switcher voltage regulator architecture
A power management system that can include an application processor and a power management unit (PMU). The PMU can generate a regulated output voltage based on...
Limiting wireless power receiver voltage
Disclosed are various embodiments for controlling voltage in a wireless power receiver. A wireless power receiver may comprise an electromagnetic coil...
Smart power management system and related method
According to one disclosed embodiment, a smart power management system includes a power conversion unit having a communication module and a power management...
Phased array feeder (PAF) for point to point links
A point-to-point (PtP) communication system includes a near end antenna device configured to transmit a narrow antenna beam over a wireless link, and includes a...
Content addressable memory (CAM) device having substrate array line
A content addressable memory (CAM) device can include a plurality of CAM cells each formed within a cell area of a substrate. Each cell area can have a cell...
Microbump and sacrificial pad pattern
Embodiments described herein generally relate to connections for integrated circuit (IC) dies. For example, in an embodiment an integrated circuit (IC) die is...
Utilizing a gateway for brokering and/or arbitrating service consumption
A broadband gateway may provision services requested in a home network managed and/or serviced by the broadband gateway by a user associated with the broadband...
Method for saving power on multi-channel devices
A method for turning a multi-channel link into a power saving mode may include detecting one or more events including a drop in a data throughput of the...
Securing transmit openings
A technique for securing transmit opening helps enhance the operation of a station that employs the technique. The technique may facilitate low latency response...
Apparatus and method for peer discovery
There is provided a method, including: causing, by a second node, reception of a discovery message on a radio layer directly from a first node, wherein the...
Method and system for evaluating deployment of femtocells as part of a
Aspects of a method and system for evaluating deployment of femtocells as part of a cellular network are provided. In this regard, a communication device may be...
Direct communication among devices
Method, operation of a method, and a result of execution of computer program instructions embodied on a non-transitory computer readable memory in a mobility...
Integration of untrusted applications and frameworks with a secure
operating system environment
A set top box or like device utilizing trusted applications in conjunction with an untrusted software framework. In one implementation, trusted or certified...
Mobile payTV DRM architecture
A secure element operating in conjunction with a secure partition of a system-on-a-chip (SoC) having set top box (STB) functionality allows for digital rights...
Error concealment for MPEG decoding with personal video recording
Error concealment for motion picture expert group (MPEG) decoding with personal video recording functionality. Error concealment of MPEG data may take place...
Multiple protocol wireless communications in a WLAN
A method for multiple protocol wireless communications begins by determining protocols of wireless communication devices within a proximal region. The method...
Packet processing architecture
A method to process a packet is described herein. The method comprises receiving a packet including a header and a payload. The header is parsed using a packet...
Up-converter for ethernet physical layer
An interface device includes a first connector to connect to a port of a switch, where the switch sends data packets at a first rate and a second connector to...
Secure data transfer using random ordering and random block sizing
Encrypted information is conventionally broken into blocks which are transmitted sequentially. Because the order and the size of such blocks can be easily...
Phase alignment architecture for ultra high-speed data path
A phase alignment architecture enhances the performance of communication systems. The architecture aligns a divided clock (e.g., in differential Inphase (I) and...
Multiple level signaling for passive optical networks
A technique in which an outgoing signal is encoded to have multiple signal levels to modulate a light source, in which respective signal levels are indicative...
Method of aiding uplink beamforming transmission
A method of aiding uplink transmission is disclosed. One method includes a base station downlink transmitting signals to at least a first terminal, the...
Codebook subsampling for multi-antenna transmit precoder codebook
Embodiments provide approaches for sub-sampling a two-component precoder codebook to reduce the overhead associated with signaling the codebook in periodic...
Powerline modem device
A broadband powerline communications device includes a plug for connection to mains electrical wiring, a broadband powerline medium interface circuit for...
Leakage calibration for a frequency converter
Techniques are described for calibration of a frequency converter for reducing a leakage-based direct current component at an output of the frequency converter....
Digital frequency-locked loop with reference clock error detection
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for generating an output oscillating signal using an input oscillating signal that is subject to...
Digital class-D amplifier with analog feedback
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting and suppressing analog error in an output stage of a digital class-D amplifier are described. In embodiments,...
Embedded flash memory
An embedded flash memory cell and a corresponding method for fabricating the embedded flash memory cell are disclosed. In some embodiments, the flash memory...
Entering a battery power down mode using over-the-air command for wireless
A wireless electronic device includes a rechargeable battery, a receiver, and a shut down module. The rechargeable battery is at least partially charged. The...
Dynamic power profiling
Aspects of dynamic power profiling are described herein. In various embodiments, a current sense operating mode is set for a current sense circuit, and the...
Mutual capacitance and magnetic field distribution control for
Magnetic field distribution and mutual capacitance control for transmission lines are provided. A first circuit board is fabricated by attaching a reference...
Method and apparatus for adjusting layer 3 filter coefficients
A UE configured to adjust a L3 filter coefficient, comprises initializing a first filter coefficient of a first filter and a second filter coefficient of a...
Multi-microphone source tracking and noise suppression
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for improved multi-microphone source tracking and noise suppression. In multi-microphone devices and systems,...
Integration of untrusted framework components with a secure operating
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Teaching Photoshop can be tricky! I designed this test when I was teaching college courses to reflect everything I had taught before mid-term or my quarter at the high school. The following is included:
Project Order and Ideas. No photos or files are included but I talk about the order I taught each project in making sure I could introduce each tool that was on the test. Please read over the test and make sure you get everything in your teaching if you do go with my plan of study, because things like "dodge tools" would be covered in our "outdoor scene" project but may not be mentioned when I describe the project briefly.
Next you will see the 3 page test which covers basic tools, layers palette, audience, color study, and goes in depth on the "magic wand," and designing for your audience. On back of test it even challenges them to design a sketch of a Cabela's Website example and describe what they had in mind. Example: Colors, theme, photos, etc. (students love this)
Answer Key is included for the test with more than enough detail for each question to help you teach/study with students before test.
Study Guide & Answer Key
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Its main products include aluminum stage, truss, scaffold,and auxiliary products such as flight case, dj table, rotating lighting truss, lighting frame, aluminum barricade, Cable board, lights, lift stand, ramp and seating system.…
There are many kinds of lamps on the market now. When we choose lamps, we often don't know where to start. Which lamp is more suitable for us? Which lamps should be used in different environments? Next, I will give you a brief introduction to some of the more common lamps on the market.1. Incandesce
The difference between cob light source and led1. COB is one of the LED lighting fixtures. COB is the abbreviation of chip-on-board, which means that the chip is directly bound and packaged on the entire substrate, and N chips are integrated together for packaging, which is mainly used to solve the
Scenery for the PlayIt is obvious that sets like those in Illus.1 and Illus.2 would be unsatisfactory for scenes laid in modern living rooms.But you may not realize that you cannot design a"living-room set"and expect it to suit any play which calls for a living room, Actually,each set must be design
A stage set should tell the audience about the play as soon as the curtain goes up.it can be religious, romantic, light and promises a comedy,and melodramatic.Such differences in mood are vital. Spectators see the sets of stage plays before they see the play. If a set announces a play about real peo
Location: Sao Paulo Anbane Conference Exhibition Center Organizer: Franca Ferras Exhibition Overview: Expousiic is the largest international exhibition in Latin America involved in musical instruments, lights and sounds. It regularly held in the North Exhibition Center C in St. Paulo every fall.
Location: Irish Dublin Exhibition Overview: AES is one of the most famous audio product exhibitions in the world. It was hosted by the Audio Engineering Society, attracted audio professionals from all over the world. This professional audio activity provides technical seminars and participants. You can
Location: China Import and Export Commodity Trade Exhibition Hall A District (Pazhou Exhibition Hall) Organizer: Guangdong International Technology Trade Exhibition Company, Guangzhou Guangya Frankfurt Exhibition Co., Ltd. Exhibition Overview: In the promotion of system integration technology, the new round of development wave
An important consideration is the relation of the set to the auditorium. When a stage set is too small for the auditorium, the sIGHTLINEs will reveal blind spots where large areas of the stage are invisible from some seats. Sightlines are equally important to show how wide to make the BACKINGs place
Aluminum is the most abundant metal element on the earth, accounting for 7.5 percent of the earth's crust. However, due to the difficulty of smelting aluminum, it was once extremely rare and worth more than gold. More than a hundred years ago, the Royal Society produced an aluminum cup that was more
Location: Guangzhou Pazhou Poly World Trade Exhibition Hall sponsor: Guangdong Province Performing Arts Equipment Industry Chamber of Commerce Organizer: Guangzhou High Efficiency Exhibition Co., Ltd. Exhibition Overview: GetShow Guangzhou (International) Performing Arts, Intelligent Sound & Excerpt Products
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Techwire, July 24, 2015
In Richmond, Calif., hundreds of low-income residents log on to the city’s free Wi-Fi network every day. The network was launched spring 2014 in the city’s Iron Triangle neighborhood through a $500,000 California Emerging Technology Fund grant. The city reports 300 to 400 devices have accessed the network consistently since launch, and if the city’s new grant applications are accepted, those numbers could rise.
Early in 2015, the city applied for additional funding totaling $1.5 million, including an application to the California Advanced Services Fund, according to the city. And on July 22, Richmond applied for an additional $500,000 Google broadband access grant.
A study conducted by project partner Building Blocks for Kids (BBK), a collaborative of about 30 government agencies, nonprofits and community leaders, found the city’s mostly black and latino Iron Triangle neighborhood had more than 2,000 homes without Internet access before the project launched. Those homes are the ones the city wants to reach, said Sue Hartman, IT director for the city of Richmond.
“We have really learned that in making it better, technology is always changing and improving,” Hartman said. “So, the infrastructure and equipment that we’re ordering has improved significantly, which is making it better, so once we do get a funding source, we’ll have a much more robust network.”
Today, Internet service in the Iron Triangle — so named for being bordered by railroad tracks — is delivered via three nearby towers, two operated by the city and another operated by project partner Internet Archive. Internet service is further relayed via a network of about 20 antennas mounted on neighborhood buildings and homes. Project partner and San Pablo-based computer repair and recycling company ReliaTech helps the city with equipment maintenance and installation.
Spending $500,000 to bring 400 residents at a time online means the cost for each resident is $1,250. Chris Mitchell, director of the Community Broadband Networks Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, said he doesn’t know how that figure compares to other municipal Wi-Fi projects, but that there is potential to reach more citizens in the Iron Triangle neighborhood.
“I wonder if there are a lot of people who don’t know it’s available, because low-income populations really tend to use smartphones and other mobile devices that they have data plans for,” Mitchell said. “So, if they had free Wi-Fi available, I would have expected that number to be higher.”
Public Wi-Fi is also problematic, Mitchell said, because the technology is finicky and connections tend to be intermittent. Though Mitchell claimed no inside knowledge of how this particular network performs, he also held reservations about its performance indoors, because Wi-Fi is not well-known for being able to penetrate walls or long distances. Projects like these should be viewed as temporary fixes, he said.
“I think ultimately these types of projects don’t solve the problem, but they’re necessary in the interim while we’re developing better solutions. Some level of higher reliability access is the goal,” Mitchell said. “My ultimate goal is to have a fiber to everyone.”
The digital divide manifests in many forms, he added, but often people discussing the issue overlook urban connectivity, thinking that rural areas are the only ones with the problem.
“People have an issue understanding there’s a public policy problem with Internet access in urban areas like Richmond, and so I think programs like this are terrific,” Mitchell said. “It shows that at least someone cares and is trying to do something about it.”
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Given their widespread use and role in securing data, digital certificates have become an increasingly important...
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topic of interest within the security community, and an area of opportunity for innovative attackers.
Insecure digital certificates undermine the security of an entire infrastructure that relies on PKI and can be used to attack an otherwise secure system.
The risks associated with using weak certificates for SSL/TLS have been widely discussed, and several tools have been released to exploit certificate vulnerabilities. The recent Flame malware exploited a weak certificate and implementation in its attack, which allowed the malware's authors to secretly install the malware while using Microsoft's built-in trust mechanism to make the attack look like standard Windows Update activity.
As with all advanced attacks, malware authors are learning from the certificate exploitation techniques Flame used to construct future attacks, and the recent Adobe certificate attack is proof. Enterprises must learn about the dangers associated with using insecure digital certificates. In this tip, we'll explain the risk that insecure certificates pose to enterprise security, plus how enterprises can avoid digital security certificate problems.
The danger of insecure certificates
Most digital certificate exploits do not result in the execution of malicious code; however, that means these real vulnerabilities are receiving less attention than other threats. That doesn't mean problems with digital certificate exploits should be ignored.
In a blog post, Microsoft explained the PKI vulnerabilities the Flame malware exploited, how Flame took advantage of certificates using the MD5 algorithm, and vulnerabilities in the Terminal Services Licensing Infrastructure certificates. MD5 certificates are vulnerable to collision attacks by determined attackers and are now viewed unfavorably when compared to SHA-1 or SHA-2 certificates. The Terminal Services Licensing certificate vulnerability allowed the Flame malware's author to issue what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft-issued certificate, but a couple of key details were set incorrectly.
This flaw enabled Flame to perform a man-in-the-middle attack on Windows Update. Certificates normally are the linchpin in validating the security of Windows Update and Microsoft's patches, so it is disconcerting that attackers were able to successfully target what has become a fundamental element of software security.
Protecting enterprises from insecure certificates
Microsoft recently released an update for the vulnerabilities Flame exploited and discussed some other improvements on its PKI blog. Certificate authorities (CAs) should not allow certificates that are less than 1,024 bits and that use the MD5 algorithm, and enterprises should not use them.
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However, to truly secure digital certificates, enterprises need to take a more active stance in managing the CAs in use, along with their systems configurations. Some enterprises may want to more securely configure their systems for certificate usage by only using trusted CAs, but others may want to take an additional step forward and implement their own PKI (a task that could also be outsourced). To accomplish this lofty goal, enterprises would need to remove all certificate authorities built into their systems and only add in their own CAs from their PKI. Though this would allow for the most control of certificates in use, a significant effort would be required to reconfigure enterprise systems to only trust the internal CA. With such a configuration, an enterprise could avoid using high-risk certificates that rely on the MD5 algorithm and encryption keys using the RSA algorithm that are less than 1,024 bit. Again, additional effort would be required to push software updates or use other signed software, because the Microsoft CA would no longer be trusted.
These steps are not reasonable for most enterprises. Only organizations that adhere to the strictest security requirements would need to take such extensive steps. Implementing these basic steps on a dedicated workstation or system along with other security tools could be useful for analyzing potentially malicious software. A scaled-down approach would be to just remove the CAs included in the root certificate store that don't have a remote chance of being used. This could help minimize the risk from a compromised PKI or CA, because many root certificate stores include a significant number of root certificates that will never be used. By default, the public key of the root CAs are included in the root certificate stores to bootstrap validation of certificates used on the Internet.
From the editors: More on digital certificates
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Learn more about the calls for an alternative certificate authority architecture.
Enterprises that forgo that path should ensure that their CAs and software vendors identify and replace the weak digital certificates described above. Software vendors that include built-in CAs as the default option in their software need to evaluate the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements for the Issuance and Management of Publicly-Trusted Certificates to ensure they only include secure CAs that meet those requirements. To check for weak certificates, enterprises can scan their networks with a vulnerability scanner, a configuration management tool or a dedicated tool that has checks for insecure certificates or insecure settings.
Depending on the number of insecure certificates and settings found, an enterprise can manually replace certificates or update its configuration settings. Changing a certificate, or potentially a setting, that is used to encrypt data requires the enterprise to understand all of the changes or have good backups of all the data. If a certificate is securely deleted, it may be difficult, if not impossible, to decrypt the data. Given the effort to make such changes, enterprises may want to evaluate if using 1,024-bit RSA certificates will meet their long-term needs, if more changes are going to be made in the future. Enterprises that provide services that depend on digital certificates for encryption or signing should evaluate their usage of certificates to determine whether an insecure certificate could compromise their service, software or customers.
Digital certificates have been used to secure many different types of data, from signed software and documents to encrypted data. Digital security certificate problems undermine the security of an entire infrastructure that relies on PKI and can be used to attack an otherwise secure system.
Attackers have not widely exploited weak certificates for malicious software signing, but enterprises need to ensure they understand how certificates are used so they can implement an effective program to reduce digital security certificate problems. Quickly addressing these vulnerabilities will help prevent enterprises and consumers from losing trust in updates and certificates.
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Nick Lewis, CISSP, is an information security architect at Saint Louis University. Nick received his master of science in information assurance from Norwich University in 2005 and in telecommunications from Michigan State University in 2002. Prior to joining Saint Louis University in 2011, Nick worked at the University of Michigan and previously at Children's Hospital Boston, the primary pediatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, as well as for Internet2 and Michigan State University. | <urn:uuid:3a8a8f21-e4ae-4cd2-9505-ffb1973ed302> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/Options-for-mitigating-digital-security-certificate-problems | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00061-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930551 | 1,399 | 2.734375 | 3 |
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The Hallig islands – peace and solitude in the coastal wetlands
Germany's Hallig islands are picturesquely dotted amongst the North Frisian islands off the North Sea coast. They offer walks on the mudflats in the heart of a World Heritage nature reserve and are havens of seclusion in harmony with the tides.
The island of Föhr is located in the north-western part of Schleswig-Holstein. The 45-minute mini-cruise from Dagebüll-Mole to Föhr, past the Hallig islands on the glistening Wadden Sea, is the ideal way to slip into holiday mode.
Heligoland's rust-coloured sandstone cliffs jut dramatically out of the North Sea some 70 kilometres from the mainland. Blessed with a unique natural setting, the island also enjoys a mild maritime climate.
The people of Juist call their island Töwerland, which means 'magic land' in the low German dialect. With 17 kilometres of beach straddling the Wadden Sea and the wild North Sea, Juist's nickname is understandable. It really is a special place!
A water tower, a sandy beach stretching for 14 kilometres, stunning terrain dominated by sand dunes up to 20 metres in height, and outstanding natural beauty. The East Frisian island of Langeoog's special charm makes it a popular choice for holidays.
The North Frisian island of Amrum is one of the best day trip destinations in Schleswig-Holstein. With its bracing North Sea air, coastal wetlands and a beach that seems to stretch on forever, Amrum is ideal for active holidays and relaxation.
Baltrum, which belongs in part to the Lower Saxony Wadden Sea National Park, is the smallest of the East Frisian islands. Deep in the Wadden Sea, holidaymakers enjoy a car-free oasis, peace and quiet and plenty of bracing North Sea air.
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As woods give way to solar farms, state to issue controversial rules that could harm solar industry
- When Brian Hagberg and his wife bought their home in a suburb west of Boston, the main appeal was the dense woods just off their backyard, which they were assured would never be developed
- Then two years later, a developer began clear-cutting the woods, clearing more than a dozen acres of maples, oaks, and other large, mature trees to make way for a solar farm
- How could a renewable energy project meant to reduce emissions come at the expense of removing so many trees – the planet’s primary means of removing carbon from the atmosphere?
No, Wind Farms Aren’t the Main Cause of the Texas Blackouts
- As the electricity crisis that left millions of people without heat in frigid temperatures, the governor of Texas took to television to start placing blame
- His main target was renewable energy – collapse was caused by the failure of wind and solar power
- It just shows that fossil fuel is necessary for the state of Texas
- However, wind power was not chiefly to blame for the Texas blackouts. The main problem was frigid temperatures that stalled natural gas production
- The bulk of the power loss in Texas came from natural gas suppliers
U.S. Natural Gas Shortage Hampers Blackout Recovery
- A giant shortage of natural gas is hindering a recovery from the devastating cold spell that left millions without power in the nation’s midsection.
- Natural gas production across the U.S. has fallen about 20% over the last week, a rapid decline driven by frozen oil and gas wells and pipeline infrastructure
- Texas is the nation’s largest gas producer, but it operates a just-in-time system
- Most Texas power plants lack significant on-site storage and quickly use the fuel they receive
Why the power grid failed in Texas and beyond
- The state has a generating capacity of about 67,000 megawatts in the winter compared with a peak capacity of about 86,000 megawatts in the summer
- By Wednesday, 46,000 megawatts of power were offline statewide — 28,000 from natural gas, coal and nuclear plants and 18,000 from wind and solar
- The staggering imbalance between Texas’ energy supply and demand also caused prices to skyrocket from roughly $20 per megawatt hour to $9,000 per megawatt hour
Texas was “seconds and minutes” away from catastrophic months-long blackouts, officials say
- Texas’ power grid was “seconds” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months
- As natural gas fired plants, utility scale wind power and coal plants tripped offline due to the extreme cold brought by the winter storm, the amount of power supplied to the grid fell rapidly.
- At the same time, demand was increasing
- Operators in Houston watched as frequency dipped to 59.308 Hz. Load shed relays are set to trip at 59.3 Hz – total system blackout
Texas Lt. Governor Calls for Reversal of $16 Billion Blackout Overcharges
- Texas Blackout Plunges Power Supplier Brazos Co-op Into Bankruptcy
- Texas’s largest electric-power cooperative filed for bankruptcy, saying it is overwhelmed by the more than $2.1 billion in sudden bills
- Upstart Texas power retailer Griddy Energy LLC, is planning to file for bankruptcy
- A Griddy customer said in a proposed class-action lawsuit last month that her bill, typically between $200 to $250 a month, rose in February to $10,995.
Texas Electric Bills Were $28 Billion Higher Under Deregulation
- Texas’s deregulated electricity market was supposed to provide reliable power at a lower price
- Since 2004, Texans who had to choose their electricity provider from competing retailers paid $28 billion more than they would have paid at the rates charged by the state’s traditional utilities.
- From 2004 through 2019, the annual rate for electricity from Texas’s traditional utilities was 8% lower, on average, than the nationwide average rate, while the rates of retail providers averaged 13% higher than the nationwide rate
- The push to deregulate the electricity-supply market in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S. began in the 1990s amid similar efforts in airlines, natural gas and phone services.
- Leading the charge was Enron
Power shortages show the folly of eliminating natural gas – and coal
- Herein is the paradox of the climate agenda: The less we use fossil fuels, the more we need them.
- Europe and Asia are also importing more fossil fuels for heat and power this winter
- Germany’s green energies strained by winter.” The report noted that power is “currently coming mainly from coal,
- Coal still accounts for 60% of China’s energy, and imports tripled in December. Chinese leaders understand that fossil fuels are needed to support intermittent renewables | <urn:uuid:fd867bb2-1486-48bf-917c-73ebc0c9aba8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://caper-usa.com/news/in-the-news-coverage-from-caper-2021-spring-meeting/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.939165 | 1,405 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Delhi Township voters will soon decide whether to move forward with a plan to build a cutting edge solar facility.
Supporters say the “sludge dryer”—which would cost the township $2.6 million --would enable Delhi to sell its dried sewage as fuel, possibly to Michigan State University and others. Currently, farmers legally spread the township’s wet sludge on their fields.
Critics complain taxpayers already pay enough for the township’s green initiatives and fear additional costs in the future. Complicating matters even more, both sides accuse each other of deceptive claims and unfair tactics.
MARK BASHORE: Elected Delhi officials—most of whom support the plan--say the sludge dryer would add $1.20 cents a month—maybe less--to township sewer customers’ bills.
I spoke with one of these backers. Sandra Diorka is the township’s Director of Public Services. She says selling dried sludge as fuel would make money for the township, but her main reason for supporting it is environmental.
SANDRA DIORKA: It will remove from the environment the pharmaceuticals that people contribute to the sewer. They will be destroyed and we will be paid to destroy them.
BASHORE: They’re not destroyed if they’re put on farmers’ fields? Is that correct?
DIORKA: That is correct. This is a relatively new issue in my business. It’s only been on the scene since about 2002. Since then, the EPA has accumulated over 8,000 studies. In fact, I’ve been contacted by MSU, which is trying to get grant money to replicate a study where they showed that land application of Class A bio-solids to pastureland harmed the reproductive ability of sheep.
BASHORE: Opponents of the project have managed to force a special election on May 8. One thing they say is that the township already gives away, free, wet sludge to area farmers for fertilizer, and that before another two and half million is spent on a dryer, Delhi should be exploiting a market that already exists. Here is trustee Derek Bajema.
DEREK BAJEMA: Farmers have called me and said ‘We’d be willing to pay for this.’ We haven’t asked them—as a township.
BASHORE: Is he right? Are you giving away product you could be selling now?
DIORKA: No, we cannot sell this product. There’s no market. Mr. Bajema has never produced a name or a contact for us to locate. That is simply untrue.
BASHORE: You’re talking with MSU about possibility of selling these bio-solids—dried sludge--to the university and possibly to the (Lansing) Board of Water and Light. It’s part of MSU’s long-range energy plan to burn more of this. How much money would the MSU arrangement be worth to the township?
DIORKA: Well we haven’t actually negotiated a final price.What we’ve talked about is indexing the price of our product to the BTU value (of coal.) So in other words, if it had half the BTU value of coal, MSU would pay us half the price of coal. And that would be somewhere in the range of $10,000 to $20,000 a year.
BASHORE: $10,000 to $20,000 a year against a $2.5 million tab for the township—that sounds like a long range project.
DIORKA: Well, you’re forgetting to think about the savings that we’ll have in our operations and maintenance. Transporting dry product (costs) less money than wet. Those savings are around $57,000 a year.
In addition, we’ve been approached by several municipalities willing to bring their bio-solids to our facility to dry because the increasing price of bio-solids land application is becoming untenable to them. So we will be able to realize income. And a very, very conservative estimate for income from that is $40,000 a year. So now we have a total possible savings and income of $117,000 a year. And the bond payments will only be $165,000 a year.
You may also not be realizing that we’re getting over $3 million in grants toward this project. So the $5.5 million project will only cost $2.6 million.
BASHORE: To the township…
DIORKA: To the sewer customers of the township. There’s another point I’d like to make. Zero on taxes.
BASHORE: What’s your take on where Delhi Township voters feel about this? Will they approve it?
DIORKA: Unfortunately I’m not very optimistic. There’s been so much misinformation, so much intimidation and scare tactics that people are going to vote no.
BASHORE: Opponents claim that after a presentation you made to a senior center group about the dryer plan that they were denied access to that group. Again, here’s Trustee Derek Bajema.
BAJEMA: When I try to give the other side at public forums, like the Holt Senior Center a couple weeks ago, I’m rebuffed and told ‘You can’t. You can only give facts.’ And I give the facts. I preview them to the person rebuffing me and they say ‘I’m sorry, I just can’t. I can’t let you.' It’s not fair. It’s freedom of speech.
BASHORE: What do you know about that?
DIORKA: I find this to be a very interesting comment. Because when the board approved putting this issue on the May ballot, Derek accused the rest of the board of conducting a ‘stealth’ election, where only those ‘cronies’ who are for the project would show up. So we’ve been making our best effort to educate our citizens about this issue. I made a presentation at the senior center. It was facts only, and that is what we are expected to do.
BASHORE: But you do support the project.
DIORKA: I absolutely do support the project. I would not have brought it to the board if I didn’t. In fact, it’s my job to look to the future, have vision and bring to the board the best recommendations possible. | <urn:uuid:bdc6365f-1388-403a-bea8-1398719493d4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wkar.org/post/tension-delhi-solar-installation-vote-approaches | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00472-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951144 | 1,401 | 2.25 | 2 |
Nitriding and Nitrocarburising
Nitriding and nitrocarburizing are respectively the processes in which nitrogen (N) and nitrogen+carbon (N+C) are added into the steel surface to increase the surface hardness and surface wear resistance, resulting in longer die life.
In nitriding, nitrogen is introduced while the steel is in the ferrite condition instead of in the austenite phase as in the case of nitrocarburising.
Nitriding may have a detrimental effect on the corrosion resistance of the stainless steel in some cases. Appropriate steel to be nitrided is usually medium-carbon steel with nitride-forming elements such as chromium, aluminium, molybdenum and vanadium. | <urn:uuid:1de2522d-3643-4cd8-9108-e28aa5e2c988> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.assab-dongguan.com/en/nitriding-and-nitrocarburising/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.923167 | 154 | 3 | 3 |
Information technology -- UPnP Device Architecture -- Part 6-17: Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Device Control Protocol - User Operating Mode Service
(Not available in French)
ISO/IEC 29341-6-17:2008(E) describes the service which enables the means to change and read the user operating modes of a HVAC system. The series of ISO/IEC 29341 publications defines an architecture for pervasive peer-to-peer network connectivity of intelligent appliances, wireless devices and PCs. It is designed to bring easy to use, flexible, standards-based connectivity to ad-hoc or unmanaged networks whether in the home, in a small business, public spaces or attached to the Internet.
Document published on: 2008-11 Edition: 1 (Monolingual) ICS: 35.200 Status: Published Stage: 90.60 (2014-09-17) TC/SC: ISO/IEC JTC 1 Number of Pages: 11
This standard has not been revised
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What you needStriped (preferably diagonal) red and white fabric about 2 ft x 1 ft
Two googly eyes
Small piece of red yarn
Step 1: Fold the fabric in half so you have two layers of fabric with the wrong side facing you.
Step 2: Sketch out your candy cane design around 10 inch in length and around 2 inches wide. Cut out your cane allowing a little extra for sewing.
Step 3: Sew your two pieces together leaving a gap at one end. Turn your cane the right way out.
Step 4: Using the toy filling stuff your cane as firm or as soft as you would like it.
Finish up by sewing the end of the cane closed and gluing on your candy cane face. | <urn:uuid:f4238b4f-3fba-462f-885e-d9e949ad9f08> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://craftbits.com/project/candy-cane-plushie/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00240-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929593 | 154 | 1.53125 | 2 |
How Fordham and Missouri Met in the 1942 Sugar Bowl
Picking the 1941 bowl teams was more of a guessing game than in the preceding few years. Mississippi State and Alabama were the logical SEC candidates; Texas A&M and Texas were the best bets from the Southwest Conference. A late-season loss to Vanderbilt eliminated Alabama. Mississippi State, the conference champion, had a game left with San Francisco after the pairings were to be announced. The Sugar Bowl was afraid to take a chance on the Bulldogs. Neither SEC team finished in the Associated Press Top 10. A similar situation occurred in the Southwest Conference. When the Longhorns upset the Aggies, the Sugar Bowl became interested, but was nervous about inviting Texas due to a late game.
Late Saturday, November 30, the Associated Press ran a story indicating that sixth-ranked Fordham would play in the Rose Bowl opposite Oregon State. But later the Sugar Bowl announced the Fordham Rams would play seventh-ranked Missouri. For the first time, New Orleans had a game without an SEC or SWC team. Public reaction was unfavorable at first, but on New Year's Day the Sugar Bowl was the only game with two Top 10 teams.
The champion of the Third Army and the Pensacola (Florida) Fliers, champions of the Eighth Naval District, were scheduled to meet in Tulane Stadium on January 3, 1942, in a service championship game approved by the War and Navy departments. The day after the announcement was made, however, the front page headline crowning the ominous global news read: "Japs Call Home 2 Attaches From U.S." Less than 24 hours later, the Japanese Empire attacked United States Navy and Army installations at Pearl Harbor. There would be no service championship game in 1942.
The war brought an immediate change in the suddenly inconsequential world of college football. Because California was believed to be a danger zone, the military demanded that the Rose Bowl and the East-West Shrine game be relocated. The Tournament of Roses shifted its game to Durham, North Carolina, home of Duke University. The Shrine game was also relocated to New Orleans. Tulane Stadium would be the site of the January 3 East-West Shrine game.
Some foresaw an offensive circus in the 1942 Sugar Bowl. Fordham, a 6-to-5 favorite, had a rock-like defense and a swirling passing game. Ram statistics indicated they had a knack for the big play. The Tigers, with a strong split-T offense and a dynamic backfield, were the nation's best ground-gaining team, averaging 307.7 yards per game. The Tigers' coach Don Faurot said an opening loss to Ohio State led to revamping the offense. "The Ohio State game sold me on the split-T," he said. "We ran 30 single-wing plays and averaged 10 yards per carry."
Ram Coach Jim Crowley planned to counteract the split-T with a Rockne defense, the Box-and-Seven, a seven-man line. This would allow the Rams ends and linebackers to "wait" for a play to unfold while the guards and tackles rushed. "If the seven-and-box made coaches stop using the T-formation a dozen years ago," Crowley assessed, "it should do it again."
Recap excerpted from the book "Sugar Bowl Classic: A History" by Marty Mulé, who covered the game and the organization for decades for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. | <urn:uuid:d5300329-5b3f-469c-8603-156b6f444ecb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.allstatesugarbowl.org/site417.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00191-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969953 | 709 | 2.71875 | 3 |
If you’re trying to conceive or already pregnant, chances are you already know about staying on top of your prenatal checkups and fitting in plenty of healthful foods, exercise and sleep. But have you talked to your doctor the vaccinations to get before and during pregnancy? You definitely should, and here's why: Pregnancy weakens the immune system to support your growing baby (who your body considers a foreigner), which means as a moms-to-be you're at greater risk of catching something and getting sicker. Plus some vaccine-preventable diseases, like whooping cough, can be very dangerous for newborn babies. And if you’re considered high-risk or are traveling outside the US, you may need even more vaccinations. Other vaccines, however, are considered unsuitable, sometimes dangerous, for pregnancy. How can you keep all this info straight? Start by talking to your doctor. Then check out this guide to the vaccines you and your family should get before and during your pregnancy — plus those you should wait to get until after you've delivered.
Vaccines to Get Before You Become Pregnant
Chicken Pox (Varicella)
Did you escape chicken pox as a child? Having avoided the calamine-soaked misery of this childhood illness may have seemed like a lucky break at the time, but now it means that you might be missing important immunity.
Having chickenpox as an adult can be quite serious. And if you’re pregnant, it’s not only uncomfortable, it could also spell serious trouble for your growing baby-to-be. Before you become pregnant, get checked by your doctor to see if you need the varicella vaccine (women who are already pregnant should not receive the vaccine). If blood work reveals that you’re not immune to chickenpox, the vaccine helps keep the pox at bay. If you have not had two doses of the chickenpox vaccine before, you’ll need two doses, four to eight weeks apart. Then, if you can, hold off on conceiving until a month after your second dose.
Measles, Mumps and Rubella (MMR)
In addition to all three of these being very uncomfortable illnesses, rubella, (aka, German measles) can cause birth defects, while a mumps infection increases miscarriage risk and measles ups the odds of preterm birth or a low-birthweight baby. What’s more, you can't get the MMR vaccine during pregnancy.
Keep in mind that if your vaccination records show that you got an MMR shot when you were younger, you are considered protected for life and don’t ever need a booster dose. However if you weren’t immunized according to the childhood schedule, you should get vaccinated and then wait one month before trying to conceive. Not sure whether you received the MMR vaccination and can’t find your vaccination records? Get the shots now, before you conceive — even if you were vaccinated, it’s perfectly safe to get an additional dose.
If you’re at high risk for this viral infection that attacks the liver (say, you’re a health-care worker and you come into contact with people’s blood and bodily fluids, which is how hepatitis B is transmitted, or if you’ve had more than one sex partner in the past six months), then you’d be wise to make sure you’re up-to-date on this vaccine. Hepatitis B can be passed on to an unborn baby, and it can lead to liver failure and liver cancer. The vaccine comes in a series of three shots, but you don’t need to finish all three doses before conceiving. It’s safe to continue with the series during pregnancy.
Vaccines to Get While You’re Pregnant
Influenza (a.k.a. the Flu) Vaccine
The flu vaccine helps prevent some strains of the flu, which can be very unpleasant for adults and much more serious (even deadly) to babies, small children, the elderly and anyone with a chronic medical condition or compromised immune system (including pregnant women). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that all expecting women get the flu vaccine if they’re pregnant during the cold and flu season, preferably toward the beginning of the season, which can last from October to May. Just avoid the nasal spray, which contains live flu viruses.
Got vaccinated last year? You should still get a new shot this (and every) year— because immunity wanes with time, and the flu shot is reformulated every year to incorporate whichever strains doctors think will be most prevalent.
Also be sure to get vaccinated if you're planning to get pregnant or are caring for a small child, and make sure your little one gets vaccinated, too.
Tetanus, Diptheria and Pertussis (Tdap) Vaccine
Tetanus is an infection caused by bacteria that can enter the body through a break in the skin. A toxin made by these bacteria cause nervous-system symptoms (such as muscle spasms and seizures). Diphtheria and pertussis (also known as whooping cough) bacteria are spread through coughing and sneezing and cause severe respiratory problems. The adult vaccine is called Tdap for protection from all three: tetanus, diphtheria and whooping cough.
All women should get this shot between 27 to 36 weeks of each pregnancy (though if you're at risk for whooping cough due to an outbreak in your community or if you get a deep cut in your skin and are due for your tetanus booster, the vaccine is also safe to get earlier in pregnancy). When you get the Tdap vaccine during pregnancy, you pass on some immunity to help protect your newborn from whooping cough before he’s old enough to get his own vaccine, the first of which he’ll get at when he’s 2 months old. And that’s important, since whooping cough is highly contagious and can be deadly for young babies, whose immune systems are still developing.
Other Vaccines You May Need During Pregnancy
You may also want to talk to your doctor about getting these vaccines during pregnancy if you meet particular risk factors, such as having a chronic illness or working or traveling in places where you may be exposed to the disease:
- Pneumococcal vaccines: These vaccines protect people who are at risk from the infections caused by this bacteria, including pneumonia, meningitis and ear infection.
- Hepatitis A vaccine: The hepatitis A virus causes an inflammation of the liver. If you have chronic liver disease, take medication with clotting factor agents or work in a lab where you’d be exposed to the hepatitis A virus, you may need this vaccination. Your doctor may also decide to give you the shot if you’re traveling to a place where there’s an increased risk of contracting the disease, including Mexico, Eastern Europe and Central or South America.
- Hepatitis B vaccine: The hepatitis B virus also causes liver disease and is transmitted through sexual contact, body fluids or shared hypodermic needles, and it can be present in the body for many years without showing any symptoms. If you’re at high risk of hepatitis B (a health-care worker, dialysis patient, have had sex with more than one partner in the last six months or are traveling to a country where hep B is prevalent, including many countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Western Europe), you should get vaccinated during pregnancy.
- Meningococcal vaccines: Meningococcus bacterial infection can result in severe meningitis (inflammation of the membranes covering the brain) and can progress extremely rapidly, sometimes causing death in 24 to 48 hours. The good news is the disease is not common in the US, but you may need to get a meningococcal vaccine if you are at increased risk of contracting the disease.
Vaccines to Avoid During Pregnancy
There are several vaccines you definitely shouldn’t get during pregnancy. While in some cases there has been no definitive evidence of problems linked to these vaccines, more research needs to be done to prove they’re safe for you and your baby — which is why doctors recommend avoiding the following vaccines while you’re pregnant.
If you’re not immunized against the chickenpox virus, you should get this vaccine before you conceive. Because the vaccine contains a live virus, it’s not safe for women who are already pregnant. Talk to your doctor before you become pregnant if you never had chickenpox as a child or were never vaccinated as a child.
If you’re exposed to the varicella virus while you’re pregnant (your nephew’s preschool class has an outbreak, say) and haven’t received the vaccine, talk to the doctor about getting the varicella-zoster immune globulin, which can offer you temporary immunity and prevent complications should you come down with a case of the pox.
Like Varicella, the MMR vaccine (which stands for Measles, Mumps and Rubella) contains live viruses, so it is not safe for women who are already pregnant. If possible, try to wait 4 weeks between receiving the vaccine and becoming pregnant.
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is responsible for most cervical cancers and genital warts, and the series of vaccines that protects against it has only been around for less than 10 years. Right now, the series of three vaccines are recommended for kids 9 or older and young adults up to age 26. But experts think more research is needed to make sure it’s safe during pregnancy. If you’re 26 or younger, you should, however, get the vaccine after your baby is born.
This shot protects people from shingles — which, like chicken pox, is caused by the varicella virus. It’s most common in those older than 50 and in people with certain medical issues. There isn’t much research on the effects of the vaccine on pregnant women, so doctors advise you get the shot (if it’s recommended for you before age 60) after you deliver.
Some Vaccines for Travel
The CDC additionally says you should not receive the following vaccines, since not enough studies have been done on pregnant women to determine whether they're safe for baby:
- BCG (for tuberculosis)
- Japanese encephalitis
Do keep in mind, however, that these vaccines are safe if you’re breastfeeding — and, if you get these shots postpartum, you’ll pass some temporary immunity on to your baby through your breast milk.
Vaccines Your Partner and Family Should Get
Anyone who takes care of or spends a lot of time with your baby — including grandparents, siblings, caregivers, babysitters, day-care providers — should be up-to-date on their shots, too. Make sure your partner and other relatives (and your sitter if you have one) schedule a flu vaccine, since the virus is so prevalent and the formulation changes every year. And also make sure they are up-to-date on their Tdap and Dtap vaccines, since pertussis is highly contagious, and statistics show that most babies get whooping cough from a family member. | <urn:uuid:1b6ed1db-fc67-4b6f-865a-677aa0e832f0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/vaccines | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00080-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952566 | 2,366 | 2.875 | 3 |
The VarPtr function has been in the BASIC language since long before it turned into QuickBasic and Visual Basic. VarPtr has been in the VB runtime since version 1.0. The function can be called through a Basic declare statement pointing back into the VB runtime Dll.Declare Function VarPtr Lib "vbrun100.Dll" (Var As Any) As Long
Over the years, vbrun100.Dll has turned into msvbvm50.dll, but the entry point is still there. In order to get the address of a variable, simply pass the variable name to VarPtr:Dim l As Long Debug.Print VarPtr(l)
Similarly, to get the pointer to a string instead of the variable holding the string, pass the string variable ByVal instead.Dim s As String Debug.Print VarPtr(s), VarPtr(ByVal s)
Getting the pointer to a string buffer with this method was in common use through VB3, but hit a brick wall with VB4.
With the arrival of the 32-bit world and VB4, we entered a Windows world which was suddenly half UNICODE and half ANSI instead of predominantly ANSI. All VB strings are stored in UNICODE, but all API calls are made with ANSI strings. This is accomplished by converting any string passed to an API call to ANSI before the call and back to UNICODE afterwards. While this conversion is transparent to the user most of the time, it makes it impossible to pass a UNICODE string from VB to a DLL via an argument typed As String in a Declare statement. Similarly, any structure which contains strings will go through the double conversion process during an API call.
How does this affect the VarPtr function? When a string is passed ByVal/ByRef to the VarPtr function shown in the Declare statement, the address returned is the address of the temporary ANSI string/variable holding the temporary ANSI string. In other words, it isn't the address of the variable you've declared anymore, so the VarPtr function accessed through a declare statement is totally useless for string variables or variables for structures containing strings.
To once again enable advanced programming with VarPtr, VB5 (and Office97) added 3 entry points to the VBA type library which provide built-in declarations for the VarPtr function. To maintain the traditionally eclectic feel of VarPtr, and to stop beginning programmers from hurting themselves (read: no one wanted to document them), these declarations remain hidden. Since functions in a type library can be declared such that VarPtr returns the address of any variable (except for variables containing arrays, see October Visual Basic Programmer's Journal for more). VarPtr returns the address of a variable. StrPtr returns the address of the real UNICODE string buffer. ObjPtr returns the address of any object variable reference. Common uses for each of these functions is described below.
StrPtr is used primarily to make efficient UNICODE API calls. In VB4, API calls to a UNICODE function were made with the help of byte arrays:Declare Sub MyUnicodeCall Lib "MyUnicodeDll.Dll" _ (pStr As Byte) Sub MakeCall(MyStr As String) Dim bTmp() As Byte bTmp = MyStr & vbNullChar MyUnicodeCall bTmp(0) MyStr = bTmp MyStr = Left$(MyStr, Len(MyStr - 1)) End Sub
Clearly, the amount of work to simply pass a NULL terminated UNICODE string and return its value into the original string is totally unacceptable. By the time correct handling of the terminating NULL character is included, No less than 4 copies of the string are required.
With StrPtr, this code reduces to:Declare Sub MyUnicodeCall Lib "MyUnicodeDll.Dll" _ (ByVal pStr As Long) Sub MakeCall(MyStr As String) MyUnicodeCall StrPtr(MyStr) End Sub
VarPtr/StrPtr/ObjPtr are all very, very fast, so the overhead to call a UNICODE function is now actually lower than calling the corresponding ANSI function because no conversion is required.
StrPtr can also be used to optimize ANSI declare calls. Instead of passing the same string variable multiple times to a declare function and incurring the conversion overhead for each call, use the StrConv function once and StrPtr in each call:Declare Sub MyAnsiCall Lib "MyAnsiDll.Dll" _ (ByVal pStr As String) MyAnsiCall MyStr
becomes:Declare Sub MyAnsiCall Lib "MyAnsiDll.Dll" _ (ByVal pStr As Long) MyStr = StrConv(MyStr, vbFromUnicode) MyAnsiCall StrPtr(MyStr) MyStr = StrConv(MyStr, vbUnicode) ' Not always required
StrPtr is also the only way to tell the different between an empty string ("") and a null string (vbNullString). StrPtr(vbNullString) returns 0, while StrPtr("") is non-zero.
VarPtr can be used with API calls which require structures with UNICODE strings in them. Passing MyUDTVariable to a ByRef UDTParam As MyUDT parameter will always do ANSI/UNICODE conversion. However, passing VarPtr(MyUDTVariable) to a ByVal UDTParam As Long parameter will leave all data as is and pass the structure directly.
To see other programming techniques available with the VarPtr function, refer to any C/C++ program. However, a word of caution is required here. Pointer arithmetic in VB is non-trivial. Besides calculating the element size, which isn't done for you in VB, you also have to deal with the lack of an unsigned long data type. The following function will perform unsigned arithmetic (positive increments only)Function UnsignedAdd(ByVal Start As Long, _ ByVal Incr As Long) As Long Const SignBit As Long = &H80000000 UnsignedAdd = (Start Xor SignBit) + Incr Xor SignBit End Function
ObjPtr returns the pointer to the interface referenced by an object variable. Since most objects actually support multiple interfaces, it is important to get the correct interface when looking at the address of an object. With a VB declare design to take a generic object, there is no way to guarantee that the interface received by the Dll will the same as the one passed. For example, for a VB5 created Class1:' Requires a stdole (OLE Automation) reference Declare Function VBObjPtr Lib "msvbvm50.dll" _ Alias "VarPtr" (ByVal pObj As IUnknown) As Long Dim Cls1 As New Class1 ' These value will be different: Debug.Print ObjPtr(Cls1), VBObjPtr(Cls1)
The most common use of ObjPtr I've found is for indexing objects placed in a collection. By creating a key based on the address of the object, it is possible to remove an object from a collection without walking the entire collection and using the Is operator to find a match, then calling the Remove method, which walks the collection again. In many cases, the address of an object is the only thing you can reliably use as a key. For example, the Name and Path properties of a Workbook object in Excel can change at any time, so these can't be used as a key.ObjColl.Add MyObj1, CStr(ObjPtr(MyObj1)) ... ObjColl.Remove CStr(ObjPtr(MyObj1))
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character of a gentleman, was now highly respected. CHAP Numberless treatises in favour of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, flowed from the fertile
1785. ingenuity of their writers, which, if they did not ftate of much inform or convince acute and distinguishing understandings, by striking ductile imaginations influenced a much more numerous class. The lively fancies, ardent feelings, and impetuous spirits of Frenchmen were now turned to mercantile adventure: they conceived themselves happily emancipated from the old prejudices which had kept many of their forefathers in proud poverty. On other subjects also, they fancied they had dispelled the clouds of ignorance, and were enlightened by the sunshine of reason. There was at this Multiplicity
of ingenious time a great multiplicity of ingenious writers writers. in France, without that patient investigation, research, cautious consideration, and experimental reasoning, which only can lead to just, found, and beneficial philosophy; to religious, moral, and political wisdom. A few eminent framers of hypotheses had given the tone to the rest; Helvetius, Rousseau, and Voltaire, taught infidelity to numerous classes of disciples, who admitted their doctrines upon the faith of their asseverations. Their Do&trines of multiplying votaries, professing to disregard all su- Rouleau perstitious bigotry, were still Roman catholics in implicitly reasoning: they admitted an infallible authority, if not in the pope, in Jean Jacques ; decrees from the mountains of Switzerland were received with no less veneration, than bulls had formerly been received from the Vatican; infidelity was Prevalence become the prominent feature of the French of infidelity.
CHAP character, and occupied the principal share of con
versation in fashionable societies. The royal family, 1785
indeed, were not tinctured with the prevalent impiety, but the indulgent liberality of the monarch did not watch and rigorously check such opinions with the vigilance which sound policy required, and neither he nor his ministers appeared to be aware of the dangers attending the diffusion of irreligion through a nation.
British commerce continued to increase and exincreafing prosperity of tend; the flourishing state of trade, together with
the announced project of Mr. Pitt for the difcharge of the national debt, raised the stocks in a short time from fifty-four to seventy, in the three
per cents. consolidated, the barometer of the other Confidence funds. The mercantile and monied interest, ned interet in its various departments and corporations, evi.
dently reposed in the chancellor of the exchequer a tegrity of confidence which they had bestowed upon no mi
nilter since the time of his father. They conceived the highest opinion of his integrity and talents, approved the principles on which he was proceeding, and the regulations he had actually proposed, and were thoroughly satisfied with the rapid advances of trade, as well as the increasing means of enlarging their capitals. While ministers impressed the public with a favourable idea of their qualifications to promote the prosperity of the country, the supporters of opposition were foremost in their efforts to amuse and entertain ; wit and tem. porary satire appeared with brilliancy and force in the Rolliad, a mock heroic poem, of which the professed hero was a respectable and worthy gentleman, Mr. Rolle of Devonshire, a zealous friend
in che fålents and in
of administration, and therefore held up by their CHAT. opponents to ridicule. The notes on the poem difplay considerable humour, and illustrate the feel- 17852 ings, sentiments, and opinions of opposition, concerning the general politics of the times. The death Satirical of Mr. Warton, the poet laureat, also afforded an occasion to ingenuity for exhibiting a sarcastic account of ministerial characters in the birth-day odes; performances satirically inscribed with the names of various gentlemen and noblemen as candidates for the vacant office, and, as in characteristic compofitions, presenting specimens of their poetical powers by odes on the king's birth day. The respective essays painted the alleged foibles of the chief supporters of the cabinet : viewed together, the Rolliad and the birth-day odes presented ministerial men and measures in the light in which the fatirists of oppofition at this period wished them to be beheld, and are not therefore unconnected with the serious literature and politics of the anti-ministerial party.
A caufe affecting literary property was this year Quefi·n of determined by the court of session, the chief civil literary protribunal of Scotland. The compilers of the Scottilh Encyclopedia had inserted in that work large extracts from Dr. Gilbert Stewart's history of Scotland, and his history of the reformation of Scotland: Mr. Stewart prosecuted them for piracy, and the transcripts being long and continuous, the court, having a power of determining equitably as well as legally, gave sentence in favour of the prosecutor, on the ground that the defenders had quoted more, and with less interruption, than was allowed by the rules of literary property. The
CHAP. principle of the judgment appeared to be, that large
and connected passages copied from a literary work, 1785.
tend to injure the sale of that work, and consequently lessen the value of the property to the rightful owner.
Peace having been now completely established inys, a great between the East India company and Tippoo Saib, subject of
tranquillity was diffused over British India. During the recess, Mr. Hastings, the governor general, returned ; and the periodical writings of the times teemed with attacks and vindications of his cha, racter,
CH A P. XXXV.
Meeting of parliament.—King's Speech.-Views of Mr. Fox
concerning continental alliances.-The duke of Richmonds scheme for fortifying the dock-yards—submitted to parliament-Arguments for and against.-Speech of Mr. Sheridan on the fortifications —The bill is rejected by the casting vote of the speaker.-Alteration in the mutiny bill.-Mr. Pitt's plan for appropriating an annual million to the payment of the national debt.—Mr. Sheridan takes the most active part in controverting the minister's financial propofitions.--Farther measures of the minister for preventing frauds against the revenue. ---Proposes to subject foreign wines to the excife.--A bill for the purpose is paffed into a law.—Bill appointing commissioners to examine the crown lands.-The conduct of Mr. Hastings becomes a subject of enquiry.-- Public opinion concerning Mr. Hastings.- Mr. Burke opens the subject.--His introductory speech.-Proposes to proceed by impeachment.—Prefents a suinmary of the alleged criminal acts.—A majority, including Mr. Pitt, finds ground of impeachment in the proceedings agains Cheyht Sing.—Mr. Dundas's bill for improving the govern
ment of British India.-Supplies.---Sesion terminates. ON In the 24th of January 1786, parliament was c H A P.
assembled. The speech from the throne mentioned the amicable conclusion of the disputes 1786. which had threatened the tranquillity of Europe, parliament
Meeting of and the friendly dispositions of foreign powers to
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‘We can heal the future’
Girl in Vietnam War photo uses her experiences to help children affected by war
March 1, 2010
The people of North Avenue Presbyterian Church here have a passion for mission.
That passion was nearly palpable when about 300 of them gathered Feb. 21 for the second week of the church’s 53rd annual mission conference. Worship began with a compelling visual affirmation of the conference theme as the faces and voices of North Avenue, in all their diversity, claimed:
Every day I will worship … grow … go.
This night was about growing. And the speaker was an expert.
The world first met Kim Phuc in June of 1972 when a picture taken by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut changed both her life and the way the world sees war.
The picture, of course, was the iconic shot of a little girl running, naked and screaming, from the napalm bombs rocking her village.
Ironically, it was Ut, after capturing the image on film, who scooped up the screaming 9 year old and rushed her to a South Vietnamese hospital. She was not expected to live. Two of her cousins died of their injuries. Her village, and the “happy, laughing” life she knew, were gone.
When her parents found her three days after the bombing, Kim was “in the death room — left to die — no more hope.”
“A kind doctor transferred me to a clinic in Saigon where I got treatment and survived to be with you today,” she said, beaming.
“I don’t want to talk a lot about suffering,” said the woman who endured 14 months in the hospital and a total of 17 surgeries and still experiences pain and health challenges. “Inside me there was a strong little girl determined to live!”
Instead she spoke of her journey and what she had learned.
Supervised constantly by the Vietnamese government, forced to appear in propaganda films, and made to leave school, Kim was a “national symbol of war.” In 1986 she had the opportunity to study in Cuba, where she met and married Bui Huy Toan. Kim had to abandon her studies once again, this time for ongoing health issues, and the couple defected to Canada while returning from their honeymoon in Moscow.
Her account of the journey sounds much like a thriller novel. With minutes to spare, during a one-hour stop to refuel in Newfoundland, Kim quickly told her new husband of the plan she had been making and then handed their passports to immigration officials who responded, “Welcome to Canada!”
Canadian citizens now, Kim and Toan, a local pastor, live in Toronto with their sons, Thomas and Stephen.
Quoting frequently from scripture, Kim told of the many things she has learned since the day the picture was taken. They have not been easy lessons.
She used to imagine her heart, which she describes as being filled with bitterness, sorrow and pain, as a picture of a black coffee cup. Knowing that she could not heal herself, Kim prayed, asking God to do something with that cup.
“Little by little,” she says, “bit of that cup was poured out every day until it was empty and God refilled it with love, light, joy, compassion, peace and forgiveness.”
And then she began to speak of the “last lesson” she learned.
“When we moved to Toronto,” she said, “I wanted to hide from that picture. It had controlled me for so long.”
One day a photographer from London recognized Kim on the street and, using a long lens, took her picture.
“Suddenly I was in the paper again. The picture did not want to let me go,” she said.
“I realized,” she continued, “that I couldn’t erase that picture, but I could work with it for peace. I could accept it as a powerful gift — as God’s plan for my life. Working with it for good is my choice. The picture was a symbol of war, but my life can be a symbol of peace and hope.”
Today Kim is living out that choice through the Kim Phuc Foundation, which she began to help child victims of war wherever they are found. The foundation is providing health care, schooling and clean water in Africa and other war-torn regions.
Kim speaks of her mission around the world, helping others to see that, “If we want to heal the world we have to start with the children. We can heal the future.”
As the picture flashed once again on the screen, Kim said, “I’m so grateful for that picture … the little girl is not running anymore. She’s flying.”
The mission conference, which began Feb. 14 with Columbia Theological Seminary President Steve Hayner speaking about worship, concludes on Feb. 28 as North Avenue pastor the Rev. Scott Weimer recalls how Jesus was sent into the world and the ways in which Christians are sent today. | <urn:uuid:2926152a-a919-41c6-a64d-2269e77bcac8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcusa.org/news/2010/3/1/we-can-heal-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00272-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980281 | 1,070 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Prateek Asked :
Q. Which of the following is not a measure of central tendency?
Explanation: Mean, median, and mode are the three measures of central tendency. They describe the centre values of the observed data. Mean is also known as arithmetic average.
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Is this the year for source verification – using bar codes or other technology? When you purchase, try to find the source, and when possible know and support your local food growers, preparers and everyone who supports open and clear source information on food products
Support your local farm markets, retailers and the farms that grow good food in your area. More FOOD HUBS, and direct sales in 2016 will occur, Stand by or send us your latest market news.
Have an excellent, and productive, but also a rewarding 2016
Make it a resolution to buy more locally crafted foods, arts, parts, and things in general in 2015. Are the big chains and the Walton family wealth something you identify with? I’ll bet not, so support your local merchants, and buy goods where people can actually talk to you about the products and services they sell, not just scan a bar-code and check you out at the register. America needs more quality merchants and more goods that are produced stateside, not cheaper imported, poorer quality things. So, please think about where your money goes when you go shopping. Thanks for reading and for acting locally in 2015
There’s a great group forming in Montgomery County, MD to create an indoor and outdoor marketplace in North Potomac at the historic Maple Springs Barn on Darnestown road. http://friendsofmaam.com/2014/11/02/moco-agricultural-arts-indoor-market/ is where you can sign up to help or just show your support as a consumer and member public who support local farmers and artisans. It’s important that consumers show support for markets where farmers can sell directly to there customers. Sign up today!
Technology to help the local meat farmers
Be sure to follow online events this weekend as a group in New York City “hacks” or discusses ways that technology can be applied to the local food business to help farmers sell more, and to help consumers know more about the food that they buy and feed to their families. Scan our QR codes and stay tuned for more info.
Small Farmers can get a Big Boost with smart labels
Produce, and Meats from small farms can now gain access to affordable GTIN bar-codes, packaged with QR codes and a mobile marketing app, so that customers can find and purchase quickly, and be sure that the food is part of a local economy. Stay tuned for new locations with “source verified” food grown by family farms
Local Meat BUYER survey
We’re gathering information on buyers of local foods, particularly in schools, hospitals and other institutions and would appreciate survey responses ( link attached) if you fall into any of those categories OR if you are a retail buyer concerned with finding truly local meats. This is for the QR and GTIN bar-code system that’s now being tested. THANKS for helping us gain some meaningful responses to help local farms label their goods in the most cost effective and most efficient ways ! Eat Well.
Farmer Survey regarding local food labeling
We’re thrilled to announced that a survey is now active through June 7th to gauge interest in a Local Food Labeling system that will allow small family farms to get standard bar-codes for their products to improve shipping, inventory and retailing at little or no cost to the farm. Consumers want to confirm that anything labeled as ” Local Food” really does come directly from a farm in their area, and the Locale system provides for a direct link to farm information, including the exact location, from a simple smart phone app that scans the Locale bar-code. Please link to the survey to participate and include contact information at the end if you think this can help your farm and community.
Our team has created a survey to first determine farmer’s interest and questions about the QR and GTIN bar-code labeling that is now available in our region through the good people at OurLocale.com. Please participate in the survey, and check back with http://www.localechesapeake.com for a link in the coming weeks. We want to create a system for all consumers, institutional buyers, restaurants, farmers market customers and all consumers to “Know their Farmer” and so that we can all choose foods that are carefully grown to the highest of standards. “Source Verified” is important to us all. | <urn:uuid:544c4df0-c92b-4210-afd8-5240e567ea11> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://localechesapeake.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00464-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940595 | 907 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Marvin Minsky, director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laborator, was an adviser on the 1968 Stanley Kubrick movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. We wonder about HAL and his paranoid rebellion if the optimist Minsky and the pessimist Kubrick are misunderstood one another.
I believe not, within the reflection on the depersonalized power, typical of Kubrick's work, the ambiguity of our being as subjects sets a key and a meeting point.
Giovanni Battista Braccelli, Bizarie di varie figure (1624)
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Math Teacher, Norwalk La-Mirada Union School District
Why did you choose CSUF for your micro-credential module/course?
It was recommended to me by a colleague.
What aspect of the module/course was most memorable for you?
Prior to completing this micro-credential module, I had been introduced to the strategy of using number talks and had begun using some Math Talks in my classroom. The most memorable part of this course was that I was able to collaborate with other teachers to both learn from their practice as well as share ideas about my own. I felt that even though we were not all experts, we were able to learn and grow together.
In what ways did the course (module) change or improve your work as an educator?
As a result of videotaping my own lesson, I was able to look at my own practice in greater detail. The rubric and other documents provided within the course allowed me to be more detailed as I reflected and designed new academic discourse activities. I was also able to share this information with other teachers at my site. As a result, our PLC team was able to support each other and be more focused on shifting our instructional practices.
Why might you recommend the ATMALA micro-credentials to other educators?
First, the content of this micro-credential was targeted at a specific strategy that I could implement immediately in my classroom. Secondly, the facilitators of the course were really supportive and helpful. They are classroom teachers too, so I felt like they could relate more to challenges that I faced.
You can learn more about the ATMALA – including information on dates, cost and registration – on our program page.ATMALA | <urn:uuid:05a33e46-6228-4422-bac4-787e7dd2ae2d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://extension.fullerton.edu/professionaldevelopment/atmala-interview-phillip | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.985186 | 359 | 1.78125 | 2 |
This Day in History: Joe Namath leads NY Jets to one of the biggest Super Bowl upsets ever
Broadway Joe made a true legacy when the NY Jets upset the Baltimore Colts 45 years ago, January 12, 1969.
Three days before the game, Namath responded to a heckler in Miami with the now-famous line: “We’re going to win Sunday. I guarantee it.”
His prediction was initially ignored, but it became legendary after the Jets’ upset of the Colts.
The Jets victory 16-7 was also a key precursor to the AFL-NFL merger. Namath acquired legendary status for American Football League fans as the symbol of their league’s legitimacy. When he was asked by reporters after the game whether the Colts’ defense was the “toughest he had ever faced”, Namath responded “That would be the Buffalo Bills’ defense.”
Namath was named Super Bowl MVP. He was the game’s first true media superstar, and also the first quarterback to throw for 4,000 yards during the 14-game 1967 season. Nobody achieved this feat again until Dan Fouts in 1979, a year after the NFL adopted a 16-game season format and enacted new rules that gave more protection to quarterbacks and wide receivers. | <urn:uuid:c83c1891-99de-40e6-a954-9785c380f2e6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theglobaldispatch.com/this-day-in-history-joe-namath-leads-ny-jets-to-one-of-the-biggest-super-bowl-upsets-ever-93382/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00281-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9738 | 273 | 1.773438 | 2 |
measures the amount of unbound water in an ingredient or food product, as an indication of shelf life.
convection and steam injection
slices pan bread
in NCI Feed Center
designed for laboratory applications such as moisture drying, curing, baking, aging and general testing.
USDA-approved grain divider that is standard equipment in all government grain inspection offices in which a truly representative sample is needed.
measures wheat gluten quality; measures protein strength by stretching dough
determines dough properties (absorption, stability, mix time)
measures wheat gluten quality
BranScan Fluoroscan F2000 – measures Aleurone and Bran percentages in flours and determines the ash values.
measures the textural and structural properties of bread, bean paste and other food products.
mills 2 to 100 lb. samples of hard red and hard white spring and winter wheat; runs about 20 lbs./hour.
Calibre C-Cell: Baked Product Imaging System – uses digital imaging analysis to analyze the crumb quality of bread and other baked goods by looking at individual air (gas) cells.
takes out chaff, weeds, and other particles leaving only grain.
The consistograph, combined with the Alveograph, provides analysis of elastic qualities of dough before baking.
whole grain and flour NIR analyzer
evaluates protein and starch properties of flour.
evaluates fermentative capability of dough--quantity of CO2 produced, permeability and tolerance of the dough, etc.
provides analysis of damaged starch in less than 10 minutes
IBG Monforts DD85G Oil Press
designed to use blast chilling and shock freezing to extend the shelf life of food.
in NCI Feed Center
mixes and blends ingredients
provides blast chilling and shock freezing
100 kg/hour. Scalable to commercial production. Second feeder for addition of functional ingredients.
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Abating, or exploding?
India's HIV epidemic is at a critical stage. If it is not brought under control soon, it may grow to African proportions
INDIA'S first cases of HIV infection occurred among prostitutes in Chennai back in 1986, when the city was still known as Madras. That was two years after HIV was first reported in Thailand, where a large proportion of men habitually used prostitutes and habitually did not use condoms. A few years later, over a quarter of young men and a tenth of pregnant women in some Thai provinces were infected. The outlook for Thailand was bleak. But by then it had launched an anti-AIDS campaign. It worked: by 2020 the country should be close to HIV-free.
The Thais adopted six policies in particular: evaluation and monitoring of the outbreak; a concentration of effort on high-risk groups; general education about HIV and AIDS, combined with a “100% condom-use programme” and a campaign to dispel the stigma associated with the disease; collaboration among as many people as possible on all fronts; international support; and political will.
India, of course, is not Thailand. For a start, Thailand is much richer (its GDP per person in 2001 was $6,400, whereas India's was $2,840). Thailand is also much smaller than India, making a national campaign much easier to conduct. Lastly, the Thais have long been relatively relaxed about sexual mores, and by 1990 had become accustomed to treating condoms as casually as soap or toothpaste. On the other hand, India has had at least ten years in which to see how AIDS can ravage an entire continent, decimate populations and set development back decades. It should know both what to do and what not to do. So how does it measure up?
Much better than a year ago, you will be told by those directing the battle from the capital, Delhi. One big departure was the convening of a parliamentary forum last July, attended by elected officials of all parties from all over India. It involved representatives high and low, from the prime minister down to the presidents of some panchayats, the lowest units of local government. Although at the time it seemed to produce little more than words, it gave much-needed encouragement to the efforts that had hitherto been conducted in a political vacuum or, some would say, in the face of outright official hostility.
In any event, the forum was followed in November by an announcement that the government would, from April 1st 2004, start to provide free anti-retroviral drugs to a limited number of AIDS sufferers, welcome both in itself as a life-extender for the beneficiaries and as a signal to others that such people were not outcasts. This was strengthened by a promise to bring in anti-discrimination laws. Then came the statement—yet to be translated into action—that the government would start to spend taxpayers' money on AIDS. So far, almost everything spent on combating the disease has come from international agencies, foreign governments or charities, some of them Indian, though a few state governments have been doing their best.
Officialdom yawns and wakes up
Perhaps just as encouraging was an earlier episode in which the minister of health, Sushma Swaraj, had publicly hugged two AIDS orphans who had been refused entry to their school in a town in the southern state of Kerala. Her public display may have helped to reduce the stigma that attends almost everything about AIDS in much of India, though worse tales—of HIV-positive men losing their jobs, of women infected by their husbands and cast out by their in-laws, of AIDS sufferers stoned to death—remain common.
Officialdom was stirring elsewhere in 2003. In Andhra Pradesh, one of the six states with a prevalence rate of over 1% of the population and thus considered to be a high priority, the chief minister, Chandrababu Naidu, was insisting that all ministers should make mention of AIDS in their speeches, no matter what the topic. His state (76m population), like smaller Kerala and Delhi, had already said it would provide AIDS sufferers with drug treatment. He was also pressing for all advertisements to include a line about the disease, and for condoms to be made available at official functions and handed out free wherever alcohol was sold.
Such ideas seem old hat in places like Africa and Thailand. Perhaps that is why outsiders with experience of other epidemics have been piling in to India with a rising sense of alarm. The World Bank and UNAIDS are the two most prominent, though Britain's and America's bilateral agencies, among others, are also heavily involved. The big boost last year, though, was the announcement that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation would double its spending in India to $200m over five years. That has since been trumped by the decision last month to make India eligible—as the 15th of the 15 countries to be included—for help under America's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, a $15 billion, five-year scheme announced by George Bush in January 2003.
Neither has business been altogether a bystander. Indian Oil, the country's biggest company, has undertaken to promote AIDS awareness at 4,000 of its petrol stations on highways used by long-distance lorry drivers, a group that is particularly prone to infection and particularly likely to spread it. The Transport Corporation of India is also involved in the programme.
A message from the soaps
Star television, whose various channels are watched by 64m Indians every week, is soon to help get the AIDS message across. Each year for the next three years it will provide about $4.65m-worth of airtime for public-service advertisements about AIDS. It will also carry information and messages in drama series and other programmes, using different channels according to the target, whether young people, Hindi-speakers or Tamils.
The BBC World Service Trust has already shown how effective television and radio can be. Drawing on a successful anti-leprosy campaign in India and Nepal, it launched a similar campaign against AIDS in India in 2002, with more than 1,000 broadcasts aimed at reaching over half the population. The programmes included a reality youth show, a radio phone-in on personal health matters and, most successfully, an interactive drama featuring an HIV-positive detective, Jasoos Vijay, regularly watched by over 150m people. These programmes were accompanied by 3,500 video screenings in villages with limited access to television and radio.
Other companies, such as the Tata Group and Indian Railways, are also active. It is striking, however, that many if not all of the most committed companies are either foreign-owned—and several have experience of Africa (Standard Chartered bank, with a splendid programme, is an example)—or have been galvanised by foreign foundations.
Thus Star, partly driven by its former boss, James Murdoch, works with two American groups, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and Richard Gere's trust for India. The national television service, Doordarshan, and All India Radio have been the disseminators of the BBC World Service Trust's programmes. And Indian Oil and the Transport Corporation of India work closely with the Gates foundation.
India's highly successful drug companies—notably Cipla, Hetero Drugs, Matrix Laboratories and SRL Ranbaxy Laboratories—have been signed up by Bill Clinton's foundation for a slightly different task, namely to make anti-retroviral drugs available in Africa and the Caribbean for as little as 37 cents a day. Cipla can do this because Yusuf Hamied, the man who runs the company, thumbs his nose at the patents taken out by the rich-country companies that developed these drugs. They hate him, both for what they see as his piracy and for the embarrassment his pricing policy (or theirs) causes them. “I'm not against patents,” he says, “I'm willing to pay royalties. But I am against monopoly.”
His own government also finds Mr Hamied a bit of an embarrassment. His rip-off drugmaking is not illegal in India, but his very public pronouncements often put the Indian authorities on the spot. He has offered, for instance, to provide them with free nevirapine, an anti-retroviral that greatly reduces the chances of transmitting HIV from mother to baby during birth. That was in 2000, yet they have taken “virtually nothing”.
As long ago as 1993, after an approach by the government, Mr Hamied offered AZT, another AIDS drug, at its cost of $2 a day, a sixth of the international price, but the government had no money. Now, like Vidur Kaushik, the boss of SRL Ranbaxy, he says he could make his products even more cheaply if only the government would lift some duties and taxes on imports of reagents and equipment.
Only with a condom, please
Not far from Cipla's headquarters in Mumbai is Kamathipura, the city's red-light district. For the prostitutes there who regularly queue up at the back of a white van serving as a mobile clinic, the price of drugs is, for the moment, less important than the price of condoms. Fortunately, the People's Health Organisation, a non-governmental group set up by Ishwarprasad Gilada, hands them out free.
The women, bejewelled with studs through noses and ears, and clad in bright sarees, seem cheerful. You might wonder why. They live in brothels four or five to a room, with 120 or 150 other women. Many will have been sold to the brothel owner by a husband or father, for a sum that has to be paid off but never is. If they flee back to the village from which they came, the brothel-owner will tell the village and the prostitute—or rather commercial sex worker, or CSW, as the jargon has it—will become a pariah. Anyway, with no work in the village, what would she do there?
Yet these women are indeed lucky, relative to most of their counterparts. Dr Gilada's group has won the confidence of some of their colleagues and recruited them to become sahelis (the word means best girlfriend). The sahelis spread the word about AIDS: hence the handouts of condoms and the women's insistence that their clients wear them, hence the instant HIV tests available behind a curtain in the van, hence the swift consultation for one woman who complains of coughing blood, to be treated with capsules of antibiotics, passed to her in a torn-off piece of newspaper. Have they taken the test? Yes, says one; negative both times. The others insist a test would be pointless: they always use a condom.
Yet at a similar encounter in Chennai, the prostitutes admit that it is sometimes difficult to make their clients wear a condom—when they are criminals, for instance, or when they are drunk. Moreover, if the prostitute insists, the client may think she is infected, and bang goes her only chance of making 500 rupees ($11) that day (these women are doing well: the typical charge is more like 50 rupees).
The prostitutes are members of one of the high-risk groups that the authorities are seeking to reach—though it should be said that most of the authorities' work is being done for them by non-governmental organisations, in this case Chennai's Community Health and Education Society. On the other side of town, where the highway to Bangalore bypasses the village of Poonamallee, members of another NGO, the AIDS Prevention and Control Project, have another such group in their sights, the country's long-distance truckers.
Of the dozen truckers sitting on the floor of a transport office where they relax and play carom, a sort of cross between draughts and billiards, all know a bit about HIV and several know someone who has died of AIDS. They see their wives once every 10, 20 or 30 days; one has not seen his for over two months. As they are shown the correct way to put on a condom, one remarks that his only experience of such a product has been to use it to bind a leaking pipe in his lorry. They would like to know more about where to have an HIV test. Only one has been tested.
India, you might conclude, is doing the right things. By testing mothers in clinics and hospitals at nearly 600 “sentinel” sites across the country it has tried to assess the size of the problem. In 1992, with World Bank money, the government set up a National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO), to bypass bureaucracy and oversee the anti-AIDS campaign, and state AIDS-control societies have been active since 1998 (health is a state responsibility in India).
NACO has identified high-risk groups—male homosexuals and intravenous drug-takers, as well as prostitutes and truckers—and high-prevalence states. Last November it set up a working-group which made some useful recommendations about drugs, taxes and excise duties, machines to monitor infected people's blood (150 are needed it said, at about $30,000 each).
The good work goes on. Education campaigns are under way, NGOs are mobilised and, goodness knows, international support is forthcoming with money and advice. And yet the effort seems almost pathetically inadequate to the task.
Take, just for a start, the magnitude of the problem. No one really knows what it is: the statistics, in the words of one onlooker, are “highly suspect”. Another, Dr Gilada, reckons 8m-12m Indians are HIV-positive, and he may be in a position to know: his clinic in Mumbai—one of the few where a patient can come for advice, testing, treatment, drugs, the lot—draws patients from all over India. Officialdom has an interest in keeping the prevalence rate below 1%: above that the outbreak is considered to have spread into the general population, not just the high-risk groups.
Even the official designation of only six out of 35 states as high-prevalence can be misleading: the population of the six (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Manipur, Nagaland and Tamil Nadu) is 292m people, nearly 30% of the total. Three others (Goa, Gujarat and Pondicherry, with 53m people all told) have “concentrated” epidemics, with prevalence rates of 5% or more among the high-risk groups.
Admittedly, some of the statistics may overstate the problem. In general, the epidemic seems worse in the south, though it is acknowledged to be bad in parts of the north-east, close to Myanmar, where many people inject drugs with shared needles. The south is certainly where most of the effort is concentrated.
Yet it is not clear whether comfort should be drawn from this coincidence of epidemic and effort. The south generally has better social indicators than the north, better health care, better education and probably better reporting. “Worryingly,” though, “not enough is known about HIV spread in the vast populous interior of Uttar Pradesh and other northern Indian states,” remarked UNAIDS last November. The situation there may be worse than is commonly appreciated.
And everywhere, north and south, the difficulties are formidable. Too much time has been lost. The country was in denial for five years while the disease was taking hold among certain groups. Survey after survey suggests that, despite much progress, much remains to be done. For example, some 61% of women in Orissa have never heard of AIDS, reported one survey in February. Though the proportion of truckers in Tamil Nadu who reported paying for sex declined from 38% in 1996 to 17% in 2001, it rose to 21% in 2002. Only 37% reported using a condom with a casual partner. And though 90% of female prostitutes in Tamil Nadu now say they use a condom, only 45% of male homosexuals report having used one in their most recent anal-sex encounter. And so on.
The vast task ahead
Travel round India, and see and hear how, despite the efforts of so many dedicated people, the problems abound. One reason the condom campaign is not working, for instance, is that it is aimed only at high-risk groups, yet in at least six states HIV has spread to the general population, with housewives and teenagers among those infected. Anyway, how do you reach India's prostitutes when they work in so many different ways—some in brothels, some in “lodges”, some at home, some in temples, some by cinemas, some at roadside dhabas (eating places)?
And how do you get a powerless, battered wife to make her husband use a condom? How do you get any married couple to use one in a country where sterilisation is the commonest form of birth control? India is not condom country, and the health minister, Ms Swaraj, seems to like it that way: she has had one condom advertisement taken off the air, saying abstinence and fidelity are more important.
Health is not a high priority for Indian governments: health ministers come and go with some frequency—it is a promotion to become minister of shipping—as do the heads of the national agency, NACO (it has had six in 12 years). No wonder the government sometimes seems more concerned with pride than with prevention: the disbursal of a $100m grant from the Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria has been delayed because of objections about the requirement that the money can be released quarterly only if performance is satisfactory.
Efforts to reach high-risk groups are hampered by the fact that prostitution and homosexuality are both illegal, despite talk of changing the law. The stigma attached to anything to do with AIDS remains huge, especially for women, whose poverty, low status and relative powerlessness put them at a huge disadvantage. And, for all the activities of some companies, Indian business, as one of its practitioners-turned-activists puts it, is doing “close to zero”.
Against such a background, forecasts of millions more infections seem horribly plausible. Yet similar forecasts were made for Thailand and Brazil—and were proved wrong, thanks to committed intervention. It is not yet too late for India, not quite.
This article appeared in the Special report section of the print edition under the headline "Abating, or exploding?"
From the April 17th 2004 edition
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|Contextualising Teaching and Learning in Rural Primary Schools: Using Agricultural Experience - Volume 2 - Education Research Paper No. 20 (DFID, 1997, 130 p.)|
In Volume II of this research report, the editors wish to thank the Education Division of the Department for International Development for funding this research, particularly Malcolm Seath, Terry Allsop and Graham Larkbey for all their assistance and advice. The proof-reading skills and patience of Christina H. Ntchougan-Sonou of St. Peter's College, Oxford, are gratefully acknowledged, as are her many helpful comments and suggestions.
Thanks are given to the many teachers, pupils, parents, policy makers, researchers, educationalists and community members in Tanzania who were willing to give time, information and their views in the course of this research. The Government of Tanzania gave permission for this research to proceed, and thanks go to officials of the Tanzanian Ministry of Education for their assistance in this regard. The contributions of the District Education Officer and District Academic Officer of Arumeru District are acknowledged, as is the cooperation of the headteachers of the four schools visited during the research.
Many thanks are given to Dr. G Nanayakkara, Director, Department of Primary Education, NIE, for allowing Padmini Ranaweera to collaborate with us in this work. Mr. S. B. Thoradeniya, Director Primary Education, Ministry of Education, Mr. LS. Kuruppu, Consultant on Primary Education, Mr S.M.S.M. Wijerathne, Project Officer, Department of Primary Education, NIE, and Dr. Nanayakkara, are acknowledged for their valuable comments and advice during the case study work. Thanks are also given to all the officers within the Primary Education Department at NIE who attended a meeting to discuss the case study findings. A number of discussions were held with Ms. Amara Amarasingh, ECD Project Officer, UNICEF Colombo and her comments and advice were greatly appreciated. Thanks are given to the teachers, pupils and parents of the two main case study schools. Without their co-operation, patience and time this study would not have been possible. We cannot thank everyone enough for the interest they showed in this study and their willingness to answer our endless questions. One-day visits were made to two other schools and the co-operation and time given by teachers and pupils was greatly appreciated.
Mr Sidda Gangaiah, Lecturer, DIET, Mysore, is greatly acknowledged for his continued help and support before, during and after this study. Thanks are also given to Mr Eshwar Bhat, Director, DIET, Mysore for his help and support throughout the study. Sincere thanks are given to the teachers, pupils and parents of the two main case study schools. Without their co-operation, patience and time this study would not have been possible. In particular we would like to thank one of these schools who, on our last visit, held a short ceremony in our honour which was a very touching event. The Assistant Block Education Officer and School Inspectors from the district of the two case study schools provided us with some useful background information. One-day visits were made to two other schools and thanks are given to the teachers, pupils and parents from these schools for their time and patience. In particular we would like to thank the parents and teachers of one school who provided us with a delicious lunch. The following people attended a meeting to discuss the project and the present situation of education in India. Their comments and ideas were greatly appreciated as was there time to attend what proved to be a lively and critical discussion: Dr. M.S. Murarirao, Professor of Technology (retired), Regional Institute of Education, Mysore; Professor C.G. Venkataramana Setty, Retired Principal, Government Teachers College, Mysore; N. Venkataiah, Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Mysore; A.S.N. Raosindhe, Reader in Education, Regional Institute of Education, Mysore; Ms. Lalithamma, Head, Department of Studies in Education, University of Mysore; Dr. N.M. Rao, Reader in Mathematics, RIE, Mysore; Ram Kulkarmi, Joint Director of Public Instruction (retired); Mr. V.D. Bhat, Reader in Education, RIE, Mysore.
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WALKER, Francis Amasa (1840-97). A distinguished American economist, born in Boston. He was the son of Amasa Walker (q.v.). He graduated at Amherst in 1860 and entered upon the study of law. Soon after the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted, and he served until near the close of the war. During the greater part of the war he held the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and at the end of the war was brevetted a brigadier-general. From 1865 to 1868 he taught Latin and Greek at Williston Seminary; in 1868 he was on the staff of the Springfield Republican. In 1869 he was placed in charge of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department; in 1870 he became superintendent of the Ninth Census, and in 1872 Commissioner of Indian Affairs. In 1873-81 he occupied the chair of political economy and history at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale, and in 1877-79 he was lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. In 1878 he represented the United States at the Monetary Conference in Paris. He was appointed superintendent of the Tenth United States Census in 1880, and in 1881 became president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 1882 to 1897 he was president of the American Statistical Association, and in 1885-92 was president of the American Economic Association. He was a member of many other learned societies, both of America and Europe. He was a prolific writer, especially on economic topics, and was one of the foremost advocates of international bimetallism. In economic theory he is regarded as an original and powerful thinker, and his treatment of wages and profits has had a profound influence upon economic theory. The development of interest in economics in America is in a large measure the result of Walker's work. His principal writings are The Indian Question (1874); The Wages Question (1876); Money (1878); Money in Its Relation to Trade and Industry (1879); Political Economy (1883); Land and Its Rent (1883); History of the Second Army Corps (1886); Life of General Hancock (1894); The Making of the Nation (1895); and International Bimetallism (1896). For biographical notices and an extended bibliography of Walker's works, consult Publications of the American Statistical Association, vol. v. (Boston, 1896-97). | <urn:uuid:61125bd8-f388-44f5-98af-bb795856f58c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_New_International_Encyclop%C3%A6dia/Walker,_Francis_Amasa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00094-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962174 | 504 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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I visited the last remains of Eagle Tire Co. recently, and they looked awfully good to me. The Eagle Tire Co. is not a tire dealer operating in the Florida Keys. That would be a bit difficult, since the "operation" is located six miles off Islamorada, Fla., in the Atlantic Ocean, lying 115 feet on the bottom. Yes, it's a shipwreck or, better put, a ship intentionally sunk as an artificial reef.
I've dived this old freighter many times over the years. It was an early example of ships sunk as an artificial reef for scuba divers to explore and sport fishermen to do their thing. No one calls it Eagle Tire Co. anymore—it's the Eagle, period.
I was lecturing—boring?—the other divers on the way out to the wreck about the history of the Eagle, and no one, not even the captain, knew much about it.
Which made me wonder: What did the owner of Eagle Tire Co. get for the $20,000 he paid—equal to $44,000 today—to put his firm's brand on the oft-renamed derelict freighter Aaron K? Pictures of the Dec. 19, 1985, sinking show the Eagle Tire Co. name proudly emblazoned on its port side.
Today, it's just the Eagle, and no one seems to remember Eagle Tire Co. For that matter, I can't even find Eagle Tire Co., or what happened to it in the ensuing 28 years since the ship was sunk. So maybe the fact the wreck has been rebranded isn't so bad.
The second life of the Eagle has been more fascinating than its first. The ship was built in Holland as the Raila Dan and launched in 1962. It was renamed five times, typically when it was resold, before becoming the Aaron K.
The freighter spent its relatively short life hauling cardboard and newspaper between Miami and Venezuela. She caught fire 125 miles off Miami on Oct. 6, 1985, lost her entire superstructure to the blaze and was towed into the Miami River.
The Florida Artificial Reef Association quickly bought the wreck for $30,000, and Joe Tietelbaum—owner of a marine terminal in Miami and Eagle Tire Co.—donated the 20 Gs to get it prepared and hauled to its final resting place.
The ship drifted off the planned sinking site, and it was decided to put it down quickly. The $874 worth of explosives made for a great show when they went off. Unfortunately, the ship rolled to its side on the way down, devaluing it for diver penetration.
Hurricane Georges split the Eagle in two in 1998, which makes it look more like a "real" shipwreck. There's a lot of sea life on it, eels, fish, coral and a couple of Goliath groupers, big boys more than 6 feet long weighing in the neighborhood of 500 pounds.
No tires though. Not even the Eagle Tire name.
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Here is a video demonstrating how to teach a dog to play fetch. This systematic method works well for dogs who do not like to pick things up or hold things in their mouth.
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Heavy-duty cardboard tubes are used to protect rolled goods in transit and provide forms for concrete construction projects. SBS Tube shows off the production process behind these large tubes, which involves gluing together numerous individual strips of brown paper around a metal roller.
If you’ve ever received a giant box from Amazon only to find a tiny item rattling around inside, you’ll appreciate this video. What you’re about to see is a Sparck Technologies automated packaging machine that first takes a precision scan of an object, then cuts and folds a custom box that fits perfectly, reducing waste.
NERF weapons are normally made from plastic with a few springs and maybe a motor. DanCreator made a working replica of a NERF Elite 2.0 blaster mostly out of cardboard. It has a slide-action mechanism that reloads darts into the chamber from a spring-loaded magazine.
The S has a thing for building matchstick-powered rocket engines. This time, their goal was to create two flame-shooting vehicles out of cardboard, then crash them head-on into each other to view the fiery wreckage. It took a few attempts to get them to launch at the same time, but the money shot was worth it.
We always figured if you were going to upgrade the plastic case on a handheld game system, you’d want to go for aluminum or maybe carbon fiber. But Peter Knetter is a bit of a contrarian, so he downgraded his GameBoy Advance SP by building it a case, buttons, and D-pad out of cardboard.
There are lots of tutorials how to recycle paper to create handmade paper. XYZAidan shows how the pulp extracted from cardboard can also be molded into sturdy 3D objects. The resulting pieces are reminiscent of egg crates or Starbucks drink trays. You can download his 3D printable mold designs on Thingiverse.
DanCreator has made some pretty amazing cardboard objects over the years. Now he’s gone and built not one, but three full-size vending machines out of the corrugated brown paper. Not only do they look like the real thing, but the soda fountain, can dispenser, and instant ramen machine are fully functional.
Normally, if you want a Mercedes-AMG G63, you’re looking at a six-figure price tag. Not so if you’re King of Crafts, who fabricated a drivable replica of the rugged G-Wagon out of cardboard. It rides on a homemade steel tube frame and can hit speeds up to 25 mph. It’s even amphibious… sorta.
In 2020, more than 120 billion pieces of cardboard were used to pack and ship items in the U.S. alone. It’s also one of the world’s most successfully recycled materials. New Mind digs into the history, science, and success of the ubiquitous corrugated paper material.
DanCreator built this substantial cardboard dump truck with a working drivetrain. He started with the chassis from an R/C sports car, then cut it down to size and retrofitted it with a new body that he cut out from cardboard sheets. He also added a motor and mechanism to open and close its dump box.
DanCreator builds all kinds of fun things out of cardboard. His latest creation is an oversize Polaroid 600 camera. After assembling the camera, he offers an imaginative look at how its instant photos are actually produced, with the help of a fellow artist.
There’s something so satisfying about watching marbles roll around in mazes. B-dama Friend’s YouTube channel is filled with dozens of fun marble machines made mostly out of cardboard. Each one is loaded with ramps, spirals, funnels, and more. Our current faves are number 37, number 24, and number 32.
We have fond childhood memories of playing one of those tabletop hockey games and trying to smash the puck into our friend’s goal. Maker Sean Yan Muk of SeansCrafts decided to build himself a version of the classic game using cardboard, curtain rods, popsicle sticks, springs, and toy soldiers.
Weapons are usually built from durable materials like metal or plastic, but The S built this one primarily from cardboard. The oversize toy blaster fires plastic balls and uses a corkscrew to feed them into its motorized chamber for launching. Bonus points for incorporating those rubber sandals into the firing mechanism.
The Rival Khaos is one of the coolest toys that NERF has ever made. The $200 shooter has a 40-round magazine and a quick-firing motorized mechanism. YouTuber Amr MCI shows off a fully-functional replica of the toy gun that he made mostly from cardboard, fiberboard, and glue, along with motors and springs to make it fire.
After playing Mario Kart on his cardboard arcade machine, artist DanCreator wanted to ride in a real Mario Kart. So he got out his tools and got to building. To replicate the game’s anti-gravity zones, he attached two leaf blowers and some pool floats, so it glides like a hovercraft. We love how Dan recycles bits from other projects.
Nintendo Labo kits encourage players to build game accessories using cardboard. DanCreator took that idea to the next level by building a complete sit-down Mario Kart arcade machine to go with his Labo cardboard steering wheel. The total cost for the build was $150, not including the Nintendo Switch.
We always enjoy watching the spheres go round and round on marble runs. They’re usually made wood, metal, or plastic, but DanCreator made his marble run out of his favorite material, cardboard. We’re impressed with its complexity and the precision of its ramps and curves. It took him roughly two months to build, and the effort shows.
DanCreator / Cardboard Crafts built this full-size vending machine mostly out of cardboard. When a user inserts a coin, it dispenses a Cup Noodle instant ramen cup of their choice and then pours the right amount of hot water into the cup with the push of a button.
Smashing Helmets is a unique tabletop game that asks players to build their own cardboard helmets, then battle by tearing apart their opponents’ armor. The game includes templates for crafting helmets, along with either plastic or aluminum hardware, and a set of game cards. For 2 to 6 players. BYO cardboard boxes.
Dinosaur fans know that velociraptors actually looked like pre-historic turkeys. But the version most of us know comes from Jurassic Park. Epic Cardboard Props adds to his curious collection with an awesome sculpture of the fictitious dinosaur. Want your own cardboard raptor? Grab the template files here.
Loki has so many variants; it’s possible that any of us could be a Loki too. Let your friends and family know you’re part of the multiverse with some cardboard Loki horns. Raphael of Epic Cardboard Props is here to show us how to make Loki’s horned crown from a spare shipping box. Grab the template here.
Korean artist Lee Ji-hee created this incredibly intricate papercraft replica of the original Heidelberg Letterpress. She made the sculpture from paper and corrugated cardboard, to celebrate the history of the printing industry in Seoul, South Korea. Find more of the artist’s awesome work in her Behance portfolio.
Artist Greg Olijnyk makes incredible sculptures and dioramas out of cardboard, glue, and toothpicks (with a little help from coffee and whiskey.) Among his creations is David vs. G 2.0, a retelling of the David vs. Goliath story with a tiny cardboard samurai taking down a gigantic robot. His robot assembly line is fantastic too. | <urn:uuid:5bf6affd-d3c2-46c4-a267-34bc724ee065> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theawesomer.com/tag/cardboard/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.944042 | 1,632 | 1.679688 | 2 |
About Medical Illustration
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Medical illustrators create scientifically accurate images that teach. Clients need dynamic and aesthetic visuals that clarify complex molecular and cellular processes, surgical procedures, patient education concepts, medical products and the latest scientific discoveries.
Fairman Studios has been a leading board-certified medical illustration studio, with over 20 years of experience in visual communications for the scientific research and healthcare communities who need their stories to be understood so that scientific research and healthcare consumers can make better, confident, educated decisions.
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To deliver scientifically accurate and compelling visual communications that engage, tell clear stories, elucidate scientific understanding and lead to better choices.
Our primary goal is to create accurate and compelling illustrations and animations that engage and clearly communicate scientific content, leading to understanding so that scientific research and healthcare consumers can make informed choices.
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Wendell Berry’s newest poetry volume, ENTRIES, contains forty-three new lyric and reflective poems of grace and wisdom. These poems of the past decade celebrate the continuities of ordinary life: marriage, children, prayer, love, the loss of friends and parents. Formal in structure but casual in tone, Berry’s poems speak to readers like quiet meditations of a voice totally at home in the world. His lyrics show the strength and suppleness, the clarity and conciseness of the finest American poets.
Part 1 contains many poems about Berry’s family. Among the most notable poems in ENTRIES is “A Marriage Song,” dedicated to his daughter Mary, expressing in finely crafted sestets a parent’s thoughts on a snowy January wedding day. “The Wild Rose” pays tribute to the poet’s wife; “Voices Late at Night” contrasts the poet’s prayers with life’s ironic response; “To My Mother” expresses the gratitude of a rebellious son; “The Blue Robe” recollects childhood memories of his grandmother’s love; “Thirty More Years” articulates the poet’s sense of his mortality; and “A Parting” mourns the loss of his friend Arthur Rowanberry.
Perhaps the most remarkable poems in ENTRIES are the series of titles in part 4, “In Extremis,” dedicated to the memory of Berry’s father. In this cycle of twelve poems, Berry recalls disagreements with his father about the Vietnam War, his father’s high standards and deep influence on him, his fierce independence and integrity, his love of the land, his helplessness in old age, and his imagined reunion in death with his parents.
“In a Motel Parking Lot, Thinking of Dr. Williams” expresses Berry’s tribute to William Carlos Williams as one of the essential American poetic voices, without whose wisdom a culture languishes. ENTRIES demonstrates that Berry, too, is one of these necessary voices.
Sources for Further Study
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Library Journal. CXIX, April 15, 1994, p. 81.
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Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill architects have certainly made their mark in the U.S. with their breathtaking World Trade Center Tower, and their next project will take their innovative designs all the way across the world to China. The firm has just been selected by Beijing-based MCC Real Estate to redevelop the Nanjing Waterfront into a bustling riverside metropolis. The project will transform a mile and a half long stretch of land along the Yangtze River, updating a historical city into one of the most multi-functional and sustainable urban centers in the country.
The massive redevelopment plan will create modern residential neighborhoods, shopping districts, and corporate skyscrapers to inject new commerce and tourism to the area. Old power plants and railway buildings will be renovated into fashion houses and restaurants, while the South Slip area warehouses will become mixed-use lofts and boutique hotels.
The intense overhaul is split into a number of phases. Phase one will focus on the Dama Road area, carving out bike trails, walkways, streets, and public plazas next to the water. This area is planned to become a bustling urban center complete with nightlife, galleries, and shopping. The enormous skyscrapers will not only bring new business to the waterfront, but will also contribute to local tourism with unique ‘cloud walk’ sky bridge that connect the towers together far above the streets.
SOM’s unique design combines the historic culture of Nanjing with the modern advances of China’s booming economy. The firm has also paid special attention to the crucial centerpiece of this redevelopment — water. The newly designed neighborhoods will revolve around water and will feature filtration systems, renewable energy sources, rich new habitats, and of course, public fountains and ponds for visitors to enjoy. We will certainly keep an eye on this project as it develops into a new and exciting venture. | <urn:uuid:b2e75aa1-f0ff-4522-b733-f674224949f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://inhabitat.com/som-wins-chance-to-redevelop-nanjing-waterfront-into-sustainable-mini-metropolis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00228-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940611 | 385 | 1.625 | 2 |
May 19, 2013
The Need for Employee Training
Businesses are constantly changing to keep up with the demand of the consumer. Investing in employee training is one way that management can invest in their future, and also ensure future success within the company. Training will promote employee productivity and engagement. As businesses grow and evolve to meet customer demands employees sometimes suffer due to the inability of the employer to properly train them. Although the costs may be more in the beginning it can actually increase a company’s revenue in the end. Successful training will focus on changing an employee’s attitude by developing their skills. The training team will be successful if they tie the training into the goals of the organization. “Many organizations have already shifted their thinking about the training function. They have seen for themselves that training is where skills are developed, attitudes are changed, ideas evolve and the organization is reinvented” (Daniels, S. 2003). The Need for Employee Training
The negative effects of not training employees is far greater than taking the time to train an employee. Employees who do not receive proper training have a higher risk of injury due to the lack of knowledge they have on their job functions. These employees also perform on a lower level due to being unsure of their role and how to do their job. “The company will experience declining sales if dissatisfied customers choose competitors who can provide quality products and appropriate service” (Amo 2013). These employees end up costing the company much more money, due to their lack of knowledge, than if they were given training that provided them with the skills they needed to be successful in their position. “Untrained employees cannot produce high-quality products” (Amo 2013). Employees who have the ability to perform well have a much higher sense of pride in their work and perform on a high level, this actually brings revenue into the company. An example of a successful training program can be found at Savvis Communication. In 2010 they created a new training program that revamped their on boarding process for their newly hired employees. By 2012 they had their new hires as full productivity within 90 days of their hire date. This was a 58% increase in productivity compared to their employees that had been hired before the new training program started ("Case study: Accelerating," 2012). Investing upfront in employee training is a factor in employee productivity and satisfaction, which will lead to an increase in employee retention and a higher return on investments. “The right employee training, development and education, at the right time, provides big payoffs for the employer in increased productivity, knowledge, loyalty, and contribution” (Healthfield). Employees who receive new employee orientation and training have a higher success rate than employees that are thrown into a new job without training. Employee Training Challenges
All businesses face different challenges when it comes to employee training. One of the challenges that companies face is deciding when to invest in training. They can invest upfront in employee training or use on the job training as needed. Companies may not want to spend a lot of money on employees that might not stay in their position for very long, as it may be a waste of monetary resources. It takes a lot of planning, time and resources for training, which can be difficult for some smaller companies that are limited in their staff and budget. Smaller businesses may not have the same training budget or staff that a larger company may have to build an effective employee training program. In order to be successful with employee training you have to get their buy in. You need to find out where the employee thinks there may be a problem and have them give an... | <urn:uuid:b38d9b32-606d-4dbe-9b42-d215e55ac5c3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.studymode.com/essays/The-Need-For-Employee-Training-1720205.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00004-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976319 | 734 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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Quotea|1>+b|2>+∑|states missing the detectors> → |1>That notation expresses my idea well. The only thing is that it doesn't explain what is happening when it is 'resolved' by one detector.. The fact that it collapses into a|1 → |1 needs, somehow, to be communicated to all the detectors which were included in the first expression, instantly (?). The collapse must be instantaneous. I am happy with that if you are.
a|1>+b|2>+∑|states missing the detectors> → |1>
Quotequantum fluctuation of the voidYou have introduced another idea here. If you are suggesting that an emitted photon's energy is, somehow, absorbed into a general 'bank' of energy, which can turn up somewhere else in a position and time which are related by c, then that's fair enough. It's quite possible that you couldn't tell the difference. This depends on how complete the new idea / model is and how near it fits measurements to-date.I think you are bringing in an irrelevant argument about effectively 'knowing which photon you detected'. QM doesn't let us assert anything like that but there are plenty of experiments which could link a significant number of received photons with a particular source; take a lamp and a light cell down a coal mine and you can be pretty well sure where the photons all came from! By that I mean that a photon model which we have been discussing would reasonably indicate that the energy from the source was the energy detected. That's as much as you could say, though. Your alternative model could possibly give an explanation.
quantum fluctuation of the void
in 1907 in a letter to Einstein, he said I am not seeking the meaning of the quantum of action (light quantum) in the vacuum but rather in places where emission and absorption occur, and I assume that what happens in the vacuum is rigorously described by Maxwell's equations.
I've just discovered that Max Planck thought the same:
would this statement be correct about quantum entanglement. If you could change the spin of an entangled particle to whatever you wanted, you could break the theory of relativities prediction of nothing can travel faster than light?
QuoteI've just discovered that Max Planck thought the same:Well, you are in good company then! That means he was probably right?
But the reason you cant send information faster than light even though certain particles appear to interact with each other faster than the speed of light is because you cant control the information either particle is sending to the other. It would be analogous to two radio towers placed far away from each other, that always played the same thing as one another. Like in entanglement each radio tower always played a random broadcast. Even though these towers communicate with each other faster than c, you couldnt use them to communicate faster than c because the tower always plays a random broadcast. No matter what, each tower would just view a random broadcast, thats useless.However, if some clever engineer could figure out a way to affect the broadcasts of the towers, you could send information faster than c.
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Publication Date: 1988-Aug-31
Sacrificing Liberty for Equality: The Erosion of Local Control in American Education.
Johnson, Bob L., Jr.
The local school board has traditionally been the predominant control mechanism for public education in this country. Since the 1970s however, increased legislation and reform in statehouses across the nation have functioned to reduce the discretion enjoyed by local boards. This paper represents an attempt to sketch this increase in state intervention and the resulting erosion of local control over the past few decades. The sketch begins with a theoretical framework that provides an analytical perspective on the nexus between state and local educational policy-making. This is followed by a brief historical overview of local control and an identification of the issues and arguments surrounding local control. Discussions on the future of school board control and possible avenues of research follow. (Contains 88 footnotes and 44 references.) (Author)
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Are you in search of the best Arduino project? If yes, you are at the right place.
Arduino projects have brought about a revolution in the present era. Especially for the students who are designing their projects for the very first time, these projects can be quite appealing. Arduino projects are the best option for you if you have a special inclination towards technology and want to do interactive projects.
Whether you are an expert maker or just a beginner, you can try your hands at the Arduino projects. These projects are not only interesting but will also provide you with the opportunity to learn something new. In this article, you will get to learn about the 25 best Arduino projects that are worth knowing. Let’s take a look!
List of 25 Best Arduino Projects
1. Robotic Arm
Are robots something that fascinates you the most? If your answer is yes, then this Arduino project will likely appeal to you. It is a beginner-level project that allows you to build a simple programmable robot arm from the readily available instrument and materials; in order to work on this Arduino project, all that you will require include hot glue, cardboard, and micro servos.
The circuit and code for this project are open. However, if you want to make any modifications to the circuit and code, you can easily do it as per your requirement. One of the interesting features of this robotic arm project is that it can play as well as record five positions with the use of buttons and potentiometers. However, you can add even more according to your preference.
2. Nano Piano
If you are fond of musical instruments, this Arduino project is a perfect option. The nano piano project is a fun project that you will enjoy. The name suggests a simple and small piano that runs off the Arduino Nano Every. It is basically a four-key piano that is very easy to build. The best thing is that it does not require many components. It is a beginner-friendly project that allows you to dive deeper into electronics or Arduino.
This project can be completed in just four steps. In the first step, you will have to select the right construction base. Then you need to focus on the proper housing of the electronics. The third step involves the programming of the nano piano. Finally, you will have to assemble all the components in the fourth step and get the piano to work.
When it is about the best Arduino projects, a sensor station is a must on the list. It is a very simple yet engaging project. It is a little box that houses a sensor array to measure several things. This sensor station can be used to measure temperature and humidity. It can also test the quality of air in your home.
Moreover, it is also useful in measuring the levels of alcohol, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, ammonium, acetone, and toluene. All the readings or measurements gets displayed on a small screen. You can easily assemble everything and get the sensor station ready in just an hour.
Are you fond of dice games? If yes, this is one of the excellent Arduino projects that you can undertake on the weekend. It is a killer gadget that you will enjoy making. Building the jar dice roller is not complicated at all. However, in order to do the project in the right way, you need to have an idea of the components used.
To make this jar dice roller, you will require an Arduino Nano, an arcade button, and a continuous rotating servo. You may also require a 3D printer. Other components that you will need are a mason jar, dice, sticks, and a hot glue gun. In order to roll the dice, there are mainly two options. The first approach is to make use of an arcade button. On the other hand, the second option is to leverage a dedicated web app.
5. Chess Clock
If you are a passionate chess player, you must know how important time is while playing the game. Whether you are a professional chess player or you just play it for fun with friends, having a clock beside you can make the game more interesting. Moreover, after the huge success of Queen’s Gambit, a Netflix mini-series, the popularity of the chess clocks has increased a lot. So, if you want to build a chess clock yourself, this Arduino project can be a great option for you.
The chess clock can be used while playing the game of chess with family and friends. It is a simple project that has some basic features. This chess clock can be used to set a time interval for the game. You can easily adjust the initial time and pause or reset the time. You can even store the last configuration. Moreover, this chess clock helps notify the players when the set time is over.
Humidifiers are the devices used to increase the humidity in a closed area to ensure sufficient moisture in the area. Especially in the winters, the humidifiers are more useful. In this Arduino project, you will learn how to build an automatic humidifier. A portable humidifier is a little gadget that helps measure and increases your room’s humidity. With the help of a sensor mechanism, this cool gadget maintains the relative humidity in the room.
The gadget uses an Arduino-controlled sensor to crunch the humidity sensor and turn on the humidifier. It is a really fun project and is not very complicated to build. This portable humidifier can produce cool or warm mist through the use of a metal diaphragm that vibrates at a high frequency. The sound vibrations help in propelling the moisture into the air.
Drawing robot is another interesting Arduino project that is a great option for individuals who are passionate about robot technology. It is a beginner-level project. That means even if you have not tried any such projects previously, you can easily build this drawing robot. It is one of the simplest drawing robots that any individual can ever build. However, it is very precise.
In order to build the drawing robot, you would require an Arduino UNO, rubber band, wire, screws, plywood, and bearings. You will also require a 3D printer. In addition to being simple to build, this project is also cheap. Whether you are an expert or just getting started, you can easily work on this engaging project without much hassle.
If you are looking for a unique Arduino project, this oscilloscope project can be an ideal option. An oscilloscope will allow you to see the electrical current in the form of a visual graph. Isn’t that quite interesting? Well, it definitely is! It is an easy project, and you are sure to have a lot of fun while building the oscilloscope.
In order to build this oscilloscope, you will require crocodile clamps, an Arduino Micro, a monitor, and a breadboard. One of the best features of this oscillator is that it allows you to visualize electrical current with 50,000 samples per second. It can even go up to 1,10,000 samples. However, the signal can become relatively noisy. The frequency counter, auto-trigger, and accurate voltage readings are other significant features.
Are you interested in knowing how fast your car moves or your tennis ball is rolling? If yes, you can build this speedometer. This is an interesting Arduino project that allows you to measure the speed of a moving object. In order to build the speedometer, you will require solder wire, an Arduino Nano, and an ultrasonic sensor. You will also need an LED and an LCD. On the LCD, the first row will show the distance of an object. In the second row, you can see the object’s speed in case it is moving.
In this speedometer, there is an LED that can provide you with information about the object’s distance. The speed of blinking of the LED will depend on the object’s distance. In case the object moves in the opposite direction, the speed of the object will be shown with a negative sign.
When your TV remote control stops functioning, it can be quite frustrating. However, if you are an engineer, you can try designing one instead of buying cheap ones. It can be an ideal replacement and allows you to engage in a fun project. Moreover, you will also get an opportunity to increase your knowledge and understanding of how everyday technology works.
A minimal soldering experience is all you need in order to get started with this Arduino project. The different components you will require include an Arduino UNO, a little wiring, and a 3D printed case.
As the name suggests, the touchless trash can is a project that opens up the lid without touching any part of it. In most of the trash cans, you can observe the opening of the lid requires pressing the gear below the trash can. However, you can open the lid in this project without touching it. This is like a robotic trash can that senses humans with users.
In this project, the sensors get integrated into the exterior wall of your trash can and lift up the cover using the components attached to it. This project is for future use, as it brings you a seamless way of accessing trash cans. With the help of an Arduino micro, you can seamlessly make your trash can dumb to smart.
Wireless Keyboard is for all PC and computer enthusiasts. In the massive field of the Arduino project, this is something pleasurable to discover. This is an easy build and doesn’t require any monotonous components. Using this Wireless keyboard, you will get shortcut access to several keys that you can use for any operations on your computer.
This wireless keyboard has a small chip and diodes attached to offer you shortcut access to your keyboard keys. This is for all computer users who want to connect with wireless keyboard space in their homes or workstations. You just need an Arduino nano for developing this remarkable Wireless keyboard.
Do you want to have a radar station of your own? If yes! You can surely make it with the aid of a tiny ultrasonic sensor. This Radar station is developed using a small motor and a tiny piece of cardboard. The motor helps rotate the whole array and sense any object nearby. Using an Arduino nano, you can easily make a radar station of your own.
You will get the visibility of all nearby objects. The fluorescent screen will offer you a complete 80s style; the green wireframe graphics also offers you a great vibe. Like the smart trash can, this radar station also has a sensor to sense all moving objects nearby.
The Sun Tracking solar panel is a little framework of wood and solar panel that offers you solar energy by tracking the sun’s energy. Solar panels should track the sun for the best efficiency. You can make a contraption with an Arduino, servo motors, and sensors that will maintain your panel parallel to the light all day. However, as the framework of the box is tiny, everything gets cozy.
Everything on the box can get integrated within just one hour. This solar panel tracker is very useful for homes and smaller spaces to sense the surrounding. This is an Arduino project that must definitely be on your list. The sensor station looks clean, with all wires arranged.
This is an Arduino project that dances to music and tunes. This is for the future and is easy to integrate also. A mic inside the reactive LED light catches information from the surrounding. It is always the music that catches the passing information. After hearing the sound, it then regulates the color scheme and brightness of the LED light glowing.
The strip is long enough to cover a party backdrop. You can easily use it for any sort of party. This Arduino project is easy to make and requires an hour to integrate all the components. If you want to dance to the music, you can easily use this reactive LED light to enjoy.
Security systems are frequently both costly to install and maintain. Why not make your own for far less than $30 using an Arduino and a few additional modules. You will build a laser detonator alarm system in which the alarm will sound once the light rays are severed and will not cease until a button is hit. You may even set up a password to make it even more secured by requiring a passcode to silence the alarm.
Are you sick of your plants withering and want someone to look after them? Going somewhere and won’t be able to care for your plants? If you answered yes, then this Arduino project is for you! This automatic watering system will give a customizable volume of water to up to four plants each day or once every “x” day, depending on your preferences; up to seven days.
It even has artificial sunshine to help your plants thrive. The design of this Arduino project looks quite clean, with all arrangements hidden inside the design. Users can easily keep their plants nourished with this automated watering system and keep them alive when not at home.
18. Large LED Lamp
If you are an enthusiast of an ambient-light-based TV set, this is an Arduino project that you will fall in love with. This is, in general, a wall clock that has no dial. Instead, it is made of large LED strips to show you for time digits. The LEDs in this lamp glow to show you time and glow in a rainbow style, showing you all the color. These Large LED lamps are easy to make and take less than thirty minutes.
The color scheme and changing of color commence using the Arduino sensor. You can do a project for your home interiors; Mark Daniel Belarmino is the person behind this project who made it.
19. Security Access
Security access is an imperative device in the workspace and homes. This is a project that won’t let you compromise your safety. The project illustrates how the RFID reader work and how it can be the preliminary step for a successful security system. to develop this device; you will need an RFID, UNO, and a breakout chip. You also need some RFID and NFC cards.
The most imperative thing is this project comes well documented and is also easy to create. These projects are easy to create in less than an hour. Beginners can also create this Security card reader with the help of an Arduino Uno. The security card reader looks clean and doesn’t offer you any sort of dull look.
The little Arduino machine is precise for counting all sorts of coins. There is an Arduino-based Uno sensor that empowers this machine. The complete project comes developed with cardboard, making it easy to build for all the developers. It has the power to mechanically arrange the coins in terms of their value.
There is an infrared sensor that counts the coins you put inside. A tiny LCD display also shows you the final amount of coins available in the machine. However, you need to adapt the code to count the currency. These Arduino projects get developed by DebasisParida. It is simple but offers you precise results.
It is the only electronic machine that was developed for music in the early 90s. There are two antennas developed in the machine that helps you control the volume and pitch. This is, however, an instrument that is not much easy to play. You need some real practice to play this device. You can play old-school music with the help of this device.
However, as usual, the Arduino Uno is the center of this machine. If you want this musical device, you can find a plethora of Arduino Theremins in the marketplace. The recent Arduino-based Musical instrument has an ultrasonic sensor and a small speaker in place of antennas.
This home security alarm is simple but is effective for your home safety. The most compelling thing about this alarm is it calls to the owner’s mobile phone when there is an intruder. This is like a personal alarm system for your home. All you need to make this alarm is a breadboard, sensors, and a GSM module for calling your smartphone.
It is a much simple project for beginners and doesn’t include any monotonous tasks to create. However, this alarm doesn’t look complete, as there are no covers. It is naked with all components visible. The electronic hub is the developer behind this project.
The social distancing sensor is the need of today’s world. The recent pandemic has taught everyone that social distancing is the only solution to break the chain of this disease. As a result, this Arduino project comes based on the same social protocols. It is a portable machine that alarms every user when they are too nearer to another person.
All you need to build this project includes an ultrasonic sensor, wires, breadboard, and a LED light. When you go too close to any other person, the LED light automatically blinks and alarms you to go away. Again this is a device that is not closed. It comes open, and all the wires come visible.
24. Magnetic Board
This project grabs everyone’s attention with its functions and use. It looks cool and works as a DIY device house LED. There is a red switch underneath every light that works as a simple magnetic sensor. Users can attain an interesting playing field by using a magnetic ball.
You can also create software for this device to attain better control. The overall design of this magnetic board looks clean. You can make this in a few hours with basic components and Arduino sensors.
25. Pomodoro Timer
The Pomodoro Technique can help you get more done and stay devoted to your job by splitting your workday into manageable chunks. A simple timer is used to set aside 25 minutes of concentrated work, interrupted by a 5-minute pause.
While software timers are available, a hardware counter is superior. To make this useful device, you’ll need an Arduino Nano, an LED screen, a 3-d – printed enclosure, and some conventional electrical components.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
1. What are the best Arduino projects?
All the projects that you see above are the best Arduino projects. They help you achieve better security, safety, and operations. Some of the most indispensable names are home security alarms, Magnetic boards, and home security alarms.
2. Can I sell an Arduino project?
If you are making an Arduino project using all the components available in the market, then you must test before selling it. If you find precise working, then you can sell it. At times, you also need to get certification for selling any of your Arduino projects.
3. What can I do with an Arduino project?
You can do several things using an Arduino project. It can be robotics, Audio machines, IoT, tools, and any data logging device. All you need is an Arduino Uno to make any of these projects.
4. How many Arduino projects are present in the market?
There is a total of 419 Arduino projects present in the marketplace. However, in this list, you can find some indispensable projects.
5. Why should everyone choose Arduino?
Everyone should use Arduino because it is much easy to operate. The best part is beginners can easily make it. The Arduino project is also usable with Mac, Windows, and Linux.
6. Can I make money using Arduino?
Yes! You can use Arduino to make money. These devices are great for accumulating data and are great for the education industry as well.
7. Can I use python on Arduino?
Arduino uses a programming language of its own. This is quite the same as C++. However, still, it is possible to create Arduino with python and any other high-level language.
Keeping it short, these are the 25 best Arduino projects that you must know about. Now that you are aware of the 25 best projects, you can make one of them using the documentation. You can also possess any of these Arduino for your home. If you have any more suggestions, you can mention them in the comment section. | <urn:uuid:681b8f1e-9304-4b2c-b965-fedff8c420e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://codeforgeek.com/top-best-arduino-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.936202 | 4,120 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Sweden is breaking its 200-year-old tradition of being Switzerland’s ally in not fighting any wars, letting Britain and other brave countries do the work. However, this week a direct attack on Sweden’s free press by Facebook’s Legal Department has prompted the King of Sweden himself to declare diplomatic war on Facebook.
A particularly menacing email was received by The Turunn Tribune on Monday morning. In this missive, one of Facebook’s top attorney’s makes unfounded accusations that our stories are not based on the truth and may have influenced the outcome of the recent American elections. We categorically deny this allegation and will fight Facebook in order to continue to publish real news. As proof, below is a certificate from the King of Sweden attesting to the veracity of stories published in this, his “Global Voice”. The email was forwarded to the Royal Court where it sparked immediate reaction.
To Facebook we say: fight The Royal Court of Sweden, Zuckerberg! We will in no way engage in the pathetic plea bargaining that your Legal Team propose, disclosing names of fake news sites that we consider to be competitors in order to avoid Facebook’s sanctions. We will never direct you towards the identities of other defenders of the free press, certainly not this one, and definitely never this one. Be prepared for the wrath of Sweden! | <urn:uuid:0e82dd6c-91e8-4a44-9c32-acb59c7745be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theturunntribune.com/index.php/2016/11/24/sweden-declare-war-on-facebook-over-fake-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.95674 | 279 | 1.53125 | 2 |
The Providence, R.I., chapter of the
United Way has decided to cut off funding to local Boy Scouts, saying the popular 90-year-old organization discriminates against homosexuals, even as a group of congressional Democrats plans to introduce legislation to strip BSA of its honorary charter.
Yesterday, the Providence chapter of the United Way of Southeastern New England gave the state’s Boy Scout chapters five months to reverse bans on homosexual scoutmasters or risk losing funding from the charitable organization.
Though the new policy, adopted by the New England chapter on Friday, does not specifically address the Boy Scouts, it states that funding would be cut off from any group that “discriminate for any reason, including sexual orientation,” according to the Providence Journal-Bulletin newspaper.
On Monday the charity sent letters outlining the policy to 65 groups that receive about $7.3 million in funding during this fiscal year. New England United Way officials also sent letters to an additional 86 associate groups that do not receive funding, but which are qualified to claim a United Way “seal of approval” for missions.
The policy is scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2001. The letters ask recipients to sign an enclosed form that says they promise to adhere to the new policy, and then return the form to the United Way.
Neither the policy nor the letters mention the Boy Scouts by name, but one official with the New England UW chapter said it was written for them, the Journal-Bulletin said.
“We concluded that it was time for the United Way … to act and to be a leader on this,” said William Allen, executive vice president of community services for the United Way.
The policy decision follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling late last month that overturned a New Jersey Supreme Court decision ordering the Boy Scouts to lift their ban on homosexual scoutmasters. The New Jersey decision stemmed from a lawsuit filed by James Dale, a former Eagle Scout and assistant scoutmaster in Matawan, N.J.
Dale was forced to surrender his post in 1990 after a local newspaper article revealed he was the head of a college homosexual group and after Dale himself admitted his homosexuality. The New Jersey high court ruling upheld the state’s lower court rulings in favor of Dale, proclaiming that by letting him go, the Boy Scouts acted unconstitutionally.
Dale was ejected by the Narragansett (New Jersey) Council, saying it acted in accordance with the oath included in the Scouts’ 1910 handbook, under which each Scout pledges “to keep myself morally straight.”
“The Narragansett Council has since joined a Minnesota council by passing a resolution urging the national parent organization to reconsider the ban,” the newspaper said. “Officials from the Narragansett Council say the parent group is still reviewing its policy, even though the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that the Scouts, as a private organization, may ban gay leaders.”
The New England chapter policy states:
“United Way of Southeastern New England shall not discriminate on the basis of age, sex, color, race, veteran status, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, or disability with respect to employment, volunteer participation or the provision of services. Agencies choosing to receive funding from the United Way Fund or the Critical Issue Funds and those choosing to be associate agencies will comply with this policy.”
The policy would not bar people from earmarking donations to a particular group — even one that rejects the nondiscrimination policy — through the United Way. The Narragansett Council got $71,790 in such “donor designations” this year, according to the United Way, said the Journal-Bulletin.
A spokeswoman for the United Way of America told WorldNetDaily that local chapters adopt their own policies and raise funds to support groups of their choosing.
“We don’t donate money to any organization, directly or indirectly,” she said. “We’re the training and membership organization; all fundraising … is done by the various United Ways around the country, which operate independently. This decision was made in Providence, by that board. We had nothing whatsoever to do with that,” she added.
Gregg Shields, spokesman for the Boy Scouts of America, told WND he wasn’t “familiar [with] the intricacies of the Providence decision.”
However, he said, United Way should consider “the breadth of the many the organizations they currently fund.”
“Many of these organizations might seem to be at contrary goals or missions,” but “the betterment of the community is what should be kept in mind, as well as the youth we’re trying to serve,” Shields said.
Nevertheless, other United Way chapters have also begun to examine the issue of funding Boy Scout chapters.
A day after the Supreme Court rejected Dale’s case, the United Way of Central Massachusetts announced it would study the issue of contributions made to Mohegan Council of the Boy Scouts of America, a scout chapter near Worcester.
According to the Worcester Telegram and Gazette, Eric S. Buch, president of the United Way of Central Massachusetts, told the paper, “It’s really something that we’re going to have to take a look at now that the Supreme Court has handed down its decision.” The central Massachusetts charity chapter this year is providing $138,600 to the Mohegan Council, which has 5,500 members and 2,000 volunteers throughout most of Worcester County.
Anthony DeChristofaro, vice president of marketing and communications for the United Way, told
CNSNews.com July 3 that there will be no current change in donations to the BSA by his organization. However, he also said the decision does not rest with the national headquarters for the United Way, but with the 1,400 local autonomous United Ways across America.
The United Way channels over 83 million dollars each year in contributions to the BSA, the news service reported.
Meanwhile, several Democratic lawmakers said yesterday they plan to introduce a bill in Congress revoking the Boy Scouts’ honorary charter.
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Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-Calif., who is leading the effort, said that while the Boy Scouts claim to be open to all boys, a recent Supreme Court decision has allowed them to reject gay members and scout leaders.
“We’re not saying they’re bad,” she said Tuesday, “we’re saying intolerance is bad, and I don’t see any reason why the federal government should be supporting it.”
The Boy Scouts received its charter in 1916, six years after it was founded. Congressionally approved honorary charters, which have been granted to about 90 groups, do not require annual reauthorization but do contain clauses allowing Congress to revoke a group’s charter if lawmakers feel it is warranted.
The charter confers no benefits, but, Woolsey said, it “gives the impression that an organization has a congressional seal of approval.”
July 13 letter to President Clinton, Woolsey and 10 other Democrats asked that the president resign as the honorary head of the Boy Scouts, as a protest against the youth group’s gay policy.
“In order to disavow this policy of intolerance, as well as to clarify any misconception of presidential approval, we urge you, the leader of our nation, to resign as the honorary head of the BSA,” said the letter.
“Scouting should help boys grow and learn how to be leaders and good citizens,” Woolsey said, “but intolerance is not a value we want our children to learn and it’s not a value that the president of the United States should support.”
Woolsey became active in the effort to expand the Boy Scouts to include homosexuals when Steve Cozza, a teenager in Woolsey’s hometown of Petaluma, Calif., started Scouting For All, a national grass-roots campaign aimed at convincing the Boy Scouts to change its policy against homosexuals.
Shields said that “fully half” of current congressional members were involved as youths in some level of scouting. “We have appreciated their support throughout the years,” he said.
But, he added, the charter permits “patriotic organizations,” as it describes such groups as the Boy Scouts, the “right to conduct our business” as the organization sees fit.
Other similar groups, including “The Jewish War Veterans, Catholic War Veterans, and Veterans of Foreign Wars” are all permitted to be selective with the types of members they enlist.
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A New South Wales egg supplier is recalling their recent batch, following a cluster of salmonella cases within the Sydney region.
It’s believed around 23 people have been struck down by the illness, which can include a fever, vomiting and diarrhoea.
“Eggz on the Run Pty Ltd has recalled Glendenning Farms 12 BROWNSHELL EGGS from small independent supermarkets and retailers in metro Sydney… due to potential microbial (Salmonella) contamination,” the NSW Food Authority explained on their website on Saturday.
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9 Ways to Make Exercise More Fun
We don’t need to tell you that exercise has a ton of health benefits: it decreases risk of chronic diseases, improves mobility, supports weight loss, and helps you keep off the weight you lose long term. We all know this. And yet, getting motivated to move can be tough.
But you don’t have to join a gym or go for a run if that isn’t your thing. Instead, let’s think about what is your thing. Maybe it’s trying a new class or revisiting an activity you loved as a kid. The idea here is when you love the movement you’re doing, you’ll do it more.
Even more rewarding? With WW’s PersonalPoints™ Program, you’ll add Points® for activity. (The number of Points depends on the activity as well as your age, height, sex, and weight.)
Some ideas to get you going, coming right up:
Pick up pickleball. Tennis, badminton, and table tennis have come together to create the latest sports craze. (To get the idea, picture people playing tennis on a badminton court using an oblong paddle and a wiffle ball.) Courts are available indoors and outdoors, so it’s a good way to stay active any time of year.
Have a field day. Your backyard or a local park could be just the place for some quality family fun with a side of cardio. Grab some agility cones, balls, hula hoops, and whatever else you can snag. Make them into relay races or an obstacle course, and shuffle on through! No kids? No problem. Do the same obstacle course with your friends!
Try a round of disc golf. Have you noticed raised metal buckets surrounded by chains in your local parks? They’re for disc golf, which is a mashup of frisbee and golf. Instead of tossing the disc for someone else to catch, you’ve got to get it in the target in the least amount of throws. It’s an entertaining—and competitive—way to get moving.
Jump around on a trampoline. Relive a childhood favourite by visiting a trampoline park during adults-only sessions (yes, they exist), taking a trampoline fitness class online or in-person, or hopping on your kids’ trampoline at home. A few jumps will get your heart rate up real quick and remind you how fun it is to bounce around.
Join a sports league. Playing on a team is a good way to stay active and meet new friends—even if you’ve never been an athlete. Check your town’s recreation department or a local sports center for offerings like flag football, volleyball, bowling, or kickball.
Go rock climbing, no mountain required. No one says you have to rappel off an actual mountain to enjoy the physical benefits of rock climbing. The rise of climbing studios makes it possible to try the activity without having to invest in any gear—plus, you can do it indoors any time of year. Expect a thrilling workout, and prepare to use muscles in a totally different way. (Hello, date night idea!)
Take a hike. A 2011 review of research found that people felt more energized, less tense, and happier with what they were doing when they exercised outdoors as opposed to indoors. Instead of hopping a treadmill, pick a new spot (a quick search for hiking trails near you should show a few options) and start walking.
Skate it off. Pop on a pair of roller skates or ice skates and head to a rink near you. You’ll be so interested in gliding (and moving to the music) that you probably won’t think of it as exercise—but you can still track it!
Have a dance party. Consider this our petition to make living room dance parties a regular thing. Need more guidance? Try a video cardio dance class and learn routines like no one’s watching. WW members can browse fun dance classes from obé Fitness right in your WW app! | <urn:uuid:69c4d114-88c1-43b4-8b8f-6371acfb416d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.weightwatchers.com/ca/en/article/9-ways-make-exercise-more-fun | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.932525 | 861 | 1.6875 | 2 |
More Democratic Republic of Congo Maps
The land of the Democratic Republic of Congo was already populated some 10,000 years ago. However, the first known permanent settlers were that of the Bantu people from Nigeria in the 7th and 8th centuries AD.
Due to uprisings and riots, Belgium was pressured to give the people its independence and on June 30, 1960, Belgian Congo became an independent country, and renamed to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The country had its first parliamentary elections, where Patrice Lumumba became Congo's first Prime Minister, and Joseph Kasavubu became its first President.
The year after independence was met with a series of misfortunes for the government, destabilizing the leadership and leading to conflicts that led to the point where the UN had to send peacekeeping forces to regain order.
In 1965, Lieutenant Colonel Mobutu, who was commander in chief of the armed forces, became President of a single-party state, and renamed the country to the Republic of Zaire.
Due to protests and international criticism of his rule, Mobutu was pressured to convert the country's politics into a multi-party system, and the country's constitution was also created.
In 1996, Rwandan Tutsi rebels entered the capital and took control. In 1997, President Mobutu was replaced by Laurent Desire Kabila.
The next several years were filled with hostilities and violence, with Rwandans and Ugandans entering the country to wage war, as well as tribal violence in the provinces.
When President Kabila was kiled by his bodyguard in 2001, his son, Jospeh Kabila succeeded him as President 8 days after. Through Joseph Kabila's efforts, peace agreements were made with Rwanda and Uganda but the fighting and violence still continued.
In 2003, a new constitution was signed and at this point, over 2.5 million people in the Democratric Republic of Congo had died due to the civil war from 1996 to 2003.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is located in Central Africa, in the central sub-Saharan region. It has a unique location on the equator, where 1/3 of the country's total land area is found north of the equator, and 2/3 is found in the south.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is bordered by several countries, which are the Republic of the Congo in the west, Angola in the southwest, Zambia in the southeast, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Burundi to the east, South Sudan to the northeast, and the Central African Republic to the northwest.
The Democratic Republic of Congo is a republic in transition from a civil war and works in the framework of a semi-presidential republic.
The President is head of state, and elected into office to serve a 5-year term through popular vote. The Prime Minister is chosen from the party that controls the National Assembly, which is a 500-member legislative body whose members also serve 5-year terms.
The Senate also consists of the Legislative branch of government, with 108 indirectly elected members.
Tourism in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not highly developed and travel is very limited to the national parks. Violence and armed groups are still prevalent especially in the provinces, and even scout rangers in the parks have been known to be ambushed by poachers.
However, the country's offerings for wildlife is one of the strongest in the world and visiting the parks will expose tourists to animals that are unique to the region.
The top national parks are Virunga National Park, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, and Okapi Wildlife Reserve. These are UNESCO World Heritage Sites and boasts of thousands of mammals and birds that can only be seen in the country.
The Lava Lake of the Nyiragongo Volcano is a sight to behold and it's located within the area of the Virunga National Park's massive 7,800 sq.km land area. The park is also known worldwide for its rich biodiversity, where more birds, mammals, and reptiles are found than anywhere else in Africa.
Other popular natural wonders found in the country are the Congo River, Lake Kivu, and the waterfalls of Boyoma and Livingstone.
Education in the country is free and compulsory for the first 6 years of formal education. About 77% of all primary school-age boys attend school, whereas it's 73% for girls. However, only 35% of the male population proceed to secondary school and only 28% for girls.
The country is still recovering from the civil war, as well as decades of poor governance but efforts to improve the country's education system are undergoing.
13.8% of government spending in 2013 was used on education.
- ATMs had only appeared in the country in 2010.
- The official language is French but several dialects are spoken such as Lingala, Swahili, Kikongo, and Tshiluba.
- Tourists must be careful not to take pictures of people as they believe that photographs steal their souls.
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March 6, 2009
In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published books.
Jim Tomlinson's first story collection, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, drew comparisons to the works of Flannery O'Connor and Alice Munro. Tomlinson's second collection, Nothing Like An Ocean, captures the essence of a small Kentucky Appalachian town in its stories, weaving a tapestry of conflicted lives that everyone will find familiar.
The stories in Nothing Like An Ocean are set, for the most part, in the fictional community of Spivey, Kentucky. So think bluegrass, think roots music from the get-go. They are stories of school teachers and copper thieves, of immigrant laborers and maimed Iraq War vets, of pedigreed show rabbits and rescue greyhounds, of church dances and single mothers working long factory shifts. They aim to be, at their core, about what William Faulkner famously called “the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.”
How does music play into the fiction? Sometimes it becomes a distinct story element. Sometimes it’s part of the background mood. It might be counterpoint to what is happening on the page, or it might be ironic comment. Sometimes the music is simply an invisible influence. Meryl Streep says that for every role, she finds a secret something about her character, something no one else knows, and that by playing against that small thing, she imbues the character with a dimension beyond the words in the script. Writing with music in mind is that way. A writer knows what songs play on a character’s radio and in her head, what tune she hums at the kitchen sink, what songs can move her feet to dance or shatter her heart. But these are things the writer often does not tell. They are part of the character’s texture, those unwritten bits that make characters seem real and round.
The collection’s title story, “Nothing Like An Ocean,” is concerned with the aftermath of tragedy, the dynamics of blame and guilt, and the slow beginnings of healing. The music playing at an over-forty singles mixer dance attended by Alton Wood and his sister Faye includes period-appropriate songs: Olivia Newton-John’s “Have You Never Been Mellow?”, followed by Shawn Colvin’s “Sunny Came Home.” The music at first soothes Faye’s mental state and then re-ignites her fears.
“Angel, His Rabbit and Kyle McKell” has no music on the page. But music flows below the surface. Dempsie, the young camera store clerk, is learning photography. She likes those nice bright colors of Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome”. Everything, she believes, can be made beautiful in pictures. Then her friend, Kyle McKell, returns from Iraq with wounds and a high tech prosthetic leg. He struggles with the scars and with buried rage, which, once exposed, might sound like the angry snarl of Steve Earle’s “Rich Man’s War.” At least I imagine it that way and hope the reader does, too.
“A Male Influence in the House” opens with adolescent Robert at the bathroom mirror enjoying a Travis Bickle moment. You can almost hear Rancid’s “Travis Bickle” blam-blam-blaming in Robert’s head. Meanwhile Lynette, his single, motorcycle-riding mother, contemplates a future with her boss from the local electronics factory. People there are talking, and she sees herself as Bonnie Raitt, eager to give them all “Something to Talk About.” And her brother, Jerry, the household’s recently introduced male influence, is busy stripping copper gutters from an upscale log cabin in the woods and loading them into his pickup truck. Surely a Hank Williams, Jr. tape plays in the tape deck, “A Country Boy Can Survive.”
Fifteen-year-old Katy Davies has been sent from her mountain home to live with relatives in “Singing Second Part.” To audition for the choir in the new church, Mr. Widicus asks her to sing the third verse of the hymn “In The Garden,” to sing it in second part harmony. As a girl who grew up singing in the shape note tradition, Katy does it easily. Maybe she even owns the Elvis Presley record. Later at a weekend Southern Gospel Singing in Evansville, there will be other styles of music, and Mr. Widicus will show a darker side. But that will come later.
In the story “Overburden,” Ben, who is fifty-four and about to become a father again, drives with his pregnant wife Sarah from Arizona to Kentucky for a craft fair.” They plan a nostalgic visit to the mountainside where they first met. On the trip, they listen to satellite radio, all the old songs on a single station—Neil Young, Linda Ronstadt, The Eagles. But when they get there, the place where they met is gone, the mountain leveled, and the rubble—the overburden—dumped into adjacent valleys. On the porch of Harlan and Minnie McKesson’s home, you can almost hear Steve Earle and The Del McCoury Band playing “The Mountain” to mourn what is lost.
Quilla Coe, a mousy bank clerk, shares her growing infatuation with artist Georgi Vijov, a stranger in town, with the owner of Rita’s Huddle In Cafe in “So Exotic.” As Quilla’s fascination with him grows, Rita is reminded of a youthful romance of her own, the tobacco plants in bloom and hummingbirds everywhere, a sweetness patterned after that evoked by the “A Taste of Honey” recorded by the young Barbra Streisand.
“Rose” is story of love and loss told in exactly one hundred words. A married couple’s deliciously rich relationship is sketched in a line or two. A longer version would certainly include John Prine and Iris Dement and their playfully scrumptious version of “In Spite of Ourselves.”
Denton Weeks, who is heartsick over losing Alyssa Larkin in “Birds of Providence,” uses music as his life preserver. “When he’d overdosed on remembered love, when he felt completely pathetic, he’d slip his favorite Steve Earle disk into the car’s CD player. He’d kick up the volume, hold on, and let the music rescue him.” The music that truly informs this story, even though it isn’t mentioned on the pages, is the classic “Love Hurts,” as recorded by Gram Parsons and a young Emmylou Harris. Dent experiences every love-ache in their voices in his scarred heart.
“The Persistence of Ice” was inspired by a Pink Floyd’s “Another Brick in the Wall.” This somewhat madcap account of events is the teacher’s version, rather than the students’, as they are related in a letter to his father.
Another story inspired directly by music is “Shadow Flag,” which takes its title and theme from a lyric in “Garden” by Pearl Jam. “I will walk...with my hands bound/I will walk...with my face blood/I will walk...with my shadow flag/Into your garden, your garden of stone.”
Finally, there is “Berliner,” the story of Aurie Childress. During his Army days in 1948 Berlin, Childress sang with the Army band. He was known as “The Blond Sinatra.” Years later, a letter arrives from Eva, his former lover. It reminds Aurie, now an Ohio car dealer, of his glory days. He realizes that those months were the highlight of his life, that the day in 1948 that he sang The Star Spangled Banner to a huge Berlin crowd was the peak. Everything since then has been downhill. He decides to make a radical change, to leave his wife, to bring Eva to this country. He’s convinced, in his misguided and delusional way, that it’s what Frank Sinatra would do. Sinatra won’t record “My Way” for another four or five years, but already that song’s rhythm, attitude, and raw determination pulse through Childress’s veins.
Now that I’ve written where the music appears in individual stories and what music had direct influence, I’m wondering where the John Gorka songs show. Surely they must, because I listened to him incessantly while I was writing. The same is true of the earthy Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Lucinda Williams, John Hiatt, and John Mellencamp. Surely some distilled essence of their music permeates the book, informs these stories and textures them in subtle ways. How could they not?
Jim Tomlinson and Nothing Like an Ocean links:
also at Largehearted Boy:
Previous Book Notes submissions (authors create playlists for their book)
Online "Best Books of 2008" Lists
Largehearted Boy Favorite Novels of 2008
Largehearted Boy Favorite Graphic Novels of 2008
Note Books (musicians discuss literature)
Why Obama (musicians and authors explain their support of the Democratic presidential candidate's campaign)
guest book reviews
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2009 Edition)
52 Books, 52 Weeks (2008 Edition)
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Former U.S. representative Charlie Wilson, a flamboyant 12-term East Texas Democrat who used his control of CIA purse strings to finance and arm an Afghan insurgency that drove out the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, died Feb. 10 at a hospital in Lufkin, Tex. He was 76 and had a history of heart ailments.
Wilson's epic overseas engagements outlive him. The power vacuum left in Afghanistan when the Soviets exited in 1989 contributed to the rise of the Taliban, and the weapons that Wilson helped bring to that country were probably in use when the United States went to war there in 2001.
Rep. John Murtha, a Pennsylvania powerhouse in Congress for 36 years and an early ally for Speaker Nancy Pelosi in her rise to the top of the House, died Monday afternoon as a result of complications from recent surgery. ...
A Marine veteran of the Vietnam War, the 77-year-old Democrat won national fame for standing up against U.S. military involvement in Iraq. But in Congress itself, he also symbolized an old-school generation going back to Tip O’Neill and the Democratic heyday of the ’70s, when the House was less divided by partisan ideology than by often regional interests.
Wilson came and spoke in my high school gymnasium on a campaign trip in 1972, the first year he ran for Congress. He was of course tall and charismatic but especially so to this 15-year-old freshman. He was running to represent the Texas 2nd, replacing John V. Dowdy -- whom my older brother had served as a Congressional page a few years before, and who was forced into retirement from Congress earlier that year. Dowdy was under federal indictment for bribery, conspiracy, and perjury (he was later convicted and sent to prison on the perjury charge, but the other counts were overturned on appeal).
It's safe to say that Charlie Wilson was my first exposure to politics.
Much has already been written about Wilson's colorful legacy, personal as well as professional. Here's the best excerpt I found of stories I hadn't already heard:
Pretty much everyone else who ever met him developed a fondness for Charlie Wilson. They just couldn't help it. The columnist Molly Ivins once pondered how it was that a liberal feminist such as herself could love such an unreconstructed chauvinist so very, very much. "I've been worrying about my fitness to write for Ms. Magazine on account of I like Charlie Wilson," she wrote in that magazine in 1988. "Good Lord, that is embarrassing. Congressman Wilson is the Hunter Thompson of the House of Representatives; a gonzo politician. He's a sexist and has made war a spectator sport. By way of redeeming social value, he's funny, a good congressman for his district, and hasn't an ounce of hypocrisy. ... I called Wilson to ask him why we like him, thinking he might know. He said: `Feminists like me because I am an unapologetic sexist, chauvinist redneck ... who ... votes with 'em every time. I have proven that I can vote with 'em without kissing their ass. I try not to let 'em know I vote with 'em; it's more fun to have 'em mad at me.' "
Wilson and Murtha (and Dowdy, before and with them) served in Congress when business was conducted in a certain way, as you likely already know. Murtha replaced Clarence "Doc" Long (portrayed by Ned Beatty in "Charlie Wilson's War"), the chair of the subcommittee on Foreign Operations of the House Appropriations Committee when Long was defeated in his re-election bid in 1984. Murtha and Wilson thus were more tightly conjoined in the covert war-by-proxy on the USSR, of which Wilson famously said: "we f--ked up the endgame".
Earlier in their careers, Wilson had narrowly turned back an ethics charge against Murtha. Carl Hulse at the NYT relays:
As recounted in the book, “Charlie Wilson’s War”, then Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill asked the colorful Mr. Wilson to take a spot on the House ethics committee to help shut down an inquiry into Murtha, who had gotten caught up in the Abscam bribery investigation. Murtha wasn’t prosecuted for his role, but the internal watchdog committee was looking into whether he broke House rules by not reporting a bribery attempt.
In the book written with Wilson’s cooperation by investigative journalist George Crile, Wilson agreed to take the seat on the ethics panel in return for appointment to the board of the Kennedy Center, which would provide him with plenty of access to exclusive entertainment events. The inquiry was quickly derailed, leading the chief investigator to resign.
“It was the best deal I ever made,” Wilson told Crile. “I only had to be on Ethics for a year, and I get to stay on the Kennedy Center for life.”
Wilson and Murtha will be laid to rest in the heart of their mostly rural Congressional districts. Additional recommended reading:
The Hill's Pundits blog: John Murtha
Politico: Charlie Wilson's Way
Texas on the Potomac: Where are they now? -- Joanne Herring
Update: JR Behrman had this take, and sent it to me with these comments ...
Making “progressive” and “populist” coexist within anything as complex as a federal union with two written, overlapping constitutions which actually failed the challenges of (a) slavery and (b) segregation is hard, maybe impossible.
Nonetheless, Charlie Wilson and John Murtha are pretty much what I expect of representative democracy.
To be specific, I think they and a few other Democrats of their generation actually defeated the Soviet Union, where the GOP would have eventually taken us to something nuclear that they read about in the Book of Revelations.
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A news release on a new tree ring study here (h/t Anthony Watts) reported a reconstruction maxing out in the mid-20th century, with the characteristic late 20th century divergence problem. Their results contrast with CRU’s notorious Yamal chronology:
Following the summer temperature reconstruction on the Kola Peninsula, the researchers compared their results with similar tree-ring studies from Swedish Lapland and from the Yamal and Taimyr Peninsulas in Russian Siberia, which had been published in Holocene in 2002. The reconstructed summer temperatures of the last four centuries from Lapland and the Kola and Taimyr Peninsulas are similar in that all three data series display a temperature peak in the middle of the twentieth century, followed by a cooling of one or two degrees. Only the data series from the Yamal Peninsula differed, reaching its peak later, around 1990. What stands out in the data from the Kola Peninsula is that the highest temperatures were found in the period around 1935 and 1955, and that by 1990 the curve had fallen to the 1870 level, which corresponds to the start of the Industrial Age. Since 1990, however, temperatures have increased again evidently.
Although the reconstruction declined since mid-20th century, the sub-headline reads: “New data indicate rapid temperature rise in the coldest region of mainland Europe”. | <urn:uuid:d854eb1c-0a40-47e0-a193-d2418c922c28> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://climateaudit.org/2010/07/29/11588/?like=1&_wpnonce=d19428bcb3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00399-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944922 | 281 | 2.875 | 3 |
Austin in Williamson County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)
Pond Springs Community and School
Erected 1979 by the Texas Historical Commission. (Marker Number 9325.)
Location. 30° 26.772′ N, 97° 45.911′ W. Marker is in Austin, Texas, in Williamson County. Click for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 7825 Elkhorn Mountain Trl, Austin TX 78729, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 5 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Jollyville Community and School (approx. ¾ mile away but has been reported missing); Jolly Cemetery (approx. 1.1 miles away); Pond Springs Cemetery (approx. 2 miles away); St. Stephen’s Missionary Baptist Church (approx. 3.4 miles away); Waters Park (approx. 3.9 miles away); Granite for the State Capitol (approx. 4.2 miles away); Merrilltown Cemetery (approx. 4.2 miles away); Balcones Fault Aids Colonization of Texas (approx. 4.3 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Austin.
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Leverage a suite of new robotic parts with the KAL-1000! Breaking Ground is the second DLC available on PS4 for the award-winning multi-genre space exploration game, Kerbal Space Program Enhanced Edition.
One core aspect of Kerbal Space Program is how it blends engineering and creativity, allowing players to see their ideas realized before their eyes in-game. In the new DLC, we are equipping our players with a new suite of robotic parts and a programmable controller, the KAL-1000, that will allow you to sequence the actions of these parts by binding them to action groups. This article serves as a guide to the KAL-1000 and how to program robotic parts in Kerbal Space Program Enhanced Edition: Breaking Ground.
The KAL-1000 is an intelligent programmable controller. While it isn’t sentient, it can sequence the actions of all the robotics parts as well as many others. It gives access to a powerful track editor tool to set up how parts will behave over time.
So, how do we use it? First, you’ll need to build a contraption. In this example, we created a robot-ant, but anything can be built. The sky’s the limit!
Next, we will add a KAL-1000 to the craft. Open up the Action Group editor.
With the KAL selected in the Action Group Editor, we select the parts we want to control and choose an action — in this example, a hinge and its target angle.
Open up the Track Editor of the KAL-1000.
Then we edit how the part behaves over time by adjusting the curve that represents each variable in the track editor. For example, we’re adjusting the target angle of this hinge, which will allow it to move back and forth smoothly.
Do the same steps with other parts you want to control and play the track to see how it operates. Test it out in the world, with real physics operating, to make sure it’ll work. Once your Robot-Ant is operational, it’s time to raid a picnic! That’s it!
By using the KAL-1000 Controller, we can set up complex robotic mechanisms in tandem with action groups. The possibilities are endless. Happy Launchings!
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The occupation of Happy Valley, on the West Coast, turns six months today. The Save Happy Valley Coalition, which has been blocking Solid Energy's attempts to turn the Valley into an open-cast coal mine, has commemorated the anniversary by declaring the entire Waimangaroa Valley an 'Autonomous zone.'
"Today, the delicate ecosystems of Happy Valley cease to exist merely as a source of revenue for Solid Energy, and now exist only for themselves. The Save Happy Valley Coalition reaffirms its commitment to employ non-violent direct action to defend Happy Valley from both the digger and dynamite of state owned enterprise Solid Energy. By declaring the Valley as an autonomous zone , the Coalition has taken practical steps to ensure its protection," said Coalition spokesperson Frances Mountier.
I'm not sure how successful the protesters will be in controlling their new state. New Zealand's armed forces may have been run down somewhat over the past couple of decades, but I still think they'd be more of a match for the boys and girls bedding down in teepees. More's the pity. To be fair, the protesters seem to be aiming to create publicity, rather than take on the state.
This isn't the first time a small group of people has tried to secede from the rest of New Zealand. In 1879 the good folk of Hawera, a small town in the south Taranaki, declared independence in protest at the supposed reluctance of the government in Wellington to press ahead with the crushing of the de facto Maori state of Parihaka, which had been defying attempts by settlers to survey its farmland. Believing that the central government was unwilling to send troops to smash Parihaka and arrest its spiritual leader Te Whiti, the settlers raised their own militia. The Republic of Hawera fizzled out after a couple of weeks, when troops arrived to launch an assault on Parihaka. The 1966 Encyclopedia of New Zealand has an interesting article on the Republic here. | <urn:uuid:89701546-92a5-49f2-975a-d24b1e6260b5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://readingthemaps.blogspot.com/2006/08/seceding.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00454-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959958 | 404 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Distance from Pachora to Khanna
Distance from Pāchora to Khanna is 1,115 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 693 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Pāchora and Khanna is 1,115 km= 693 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Pachora to Khanna, It takes 1.24 hours to arrive.
Pachora is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||20° 40´ 1.7040'' N |
75° 21´ 6.5880'' E
Pāchora Distances to Cities
|Distance from Pachora to Chandrapur||420 km|
|Distance from Pachora to Mumbai||313 km|
|Distance from Pachora to Hyderabad||489 km|
|Distance from Pachora to Alandi||268 km|
|Distance from Pachora to Indore||232 km|
Khanna is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||30° 42´ 10.8000'' N |
76° 13´ 15.8160'' E
Khanna Distances to Cities
|Distance from Khanna to Hisar||178 km|
|Distance from Khanna to Fazilka||213 km|
|Distance from Khanna to Bhawanigarh||52 km|
|Distance from Khanna to Chhapar||364 km|
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Date 1st Entered
This date is determined by Westminster Kennel Club records and is somewhat arbitrary. It does not necessarily correspond with official recognition by the AKC nor with its standing as a separate breed or variety at Westminster. Rather it is usually when that breed is first named as such in the catalog and show records.
If the breed was shown somewhat consistently in the Miscellaneous Class before 1924, that goes to establish the “Date 1st Entered.” If shown in Miscellaneous Class in 1924 or after, it is noted but did not count until regular status is granted and the breed winner is eligible for Group and BIS competition. See Miscellaneous Breeds section.
BIS & Group Placements
Best In Show has been awarded since 1907 (except for 1923) and Group competition has been held since 1924.
The column headings in each chart represent the number of Best In Show Awards and Group placements in each position. The year in parentheses in the “BIS” and “1” column represents the last year that this breed won BIS and the last year that it won the Group; the number in parentheses in one of the other columns represents the last year that the breed placed in the Group; if there is a year only in the “1” Group column, that means that the last time that the breed placed in the Group, it won the group. For example, a Pointer has won 3 BIS (the most recent in 1986), 14 Group 1 (most recent in 1989, 4 Group 2, 7 Group 3, and 5 Group 4 awards. The last time it placed in the Group was in 1998 with a Group 4.
The 1888 Catalog is the first in which AKC Rules are included (adopted Dec 6, 1887). From Rule 2: “Every dog entered at any show held under these rules … must be registered in the American Kennel Club Stud Book. In case a dog has not been registered previous to date of entry, owner must fill out a registration blank and forward same, with fee of 50 cents, together with show entry to the Secretary of the Show, who shall mark the dog as registered and forward blank with registration fee to the Secretary of the American Kennel Club (The above to take effect January 1st, 1888).”
Best In Show wins – 46
Most recent: Wire Fox Terrier (2014)
Most Group wins – 22
Wire Fox Terrier
Most consecutive Group wins – 4
Wire Fox Terrier (1928-1931)
Most Group placements – 55
Wire Fox Terrier
Most consecutive Group placements – 13
Wire Fox Terrier (1983-1995)
Current streak of Group placements – 3
Skye Terrier (2014-2016)
Year in parentheses indicates most recent year of award.
|BIS||Grp 1st||Grp 2nd||Grp 3rd||Grp 4th|
|Airedale Terrier||1881||4 (1933)||4 (1963)||10||4||9 (2010)|
|American Staffordshire Terrier||1937||0||0||1||0||1 (2012)|
|Australian Terrier||1961||0||0||1 (1996)||0||1|
|Bedlington Terrier||1884||1 (1948)||2 (2000)||3||6 (2001)||4|
|Border Terrier||1930||0||0||1 (2016)||4||0|
|Bull Terrier (Colored)||1877||1 (2006)||2 (2006)||2 (2005)||0||1|
|Bull Terrier (White)||1877||1 (1918)||0||0||1 (1994)||1|
|Cairn Terrier||1914||0||1 (1988)||2||4 (1995)||0|
|Dandie Dinmont Terrier||1877||0||2 (2007)||2||2||5 (2015)|
|Fox Terrier (Smooth)||1877||4 (1910)||5 (2013)||5||3||2|
|Fox Terrier (Wire)||1883||14 (2014)||22 (2014)||16||10 (2016)||8|
|Glen of Imaal Terrier||2005||0||0||0||0||0|
|Irish Terrier||1881||0||0||3||8||3 (2001)|
|Kerry Blue Terrier||1922||1 (2003)||7 (2012)||4||5||6|
|Lakeland Terrier||1935||2 (1976)||4 (1980)||2||4||6 (2016)|
|Manchester Terrier (Standard)||1877||0||0||0||0||0|
|Miniature Bull Terrier||1993||0||0||0||0||0|
|Miniature Schnauzer||1927||0||1 (1947)||2||2||3 (2009)|
|Norfolk Terrier||1979||0||2 (2005)||5||4 (2015)||2|
|Norwich Terrier||1937||2 (1998)||2 (1998)||0||3 (2010)||3|
|Parson Russell Terrier||2001||0||0||0||0||0|
|Russell Terrier||2013||0||0||0||0||2 (2014)|
|Scottish Terrier||1877||8 (2010)||12 (2010)||8||5||9|
|Sealyham Terrier||1912||4 (1977)||10 (2008)||7 (2009)||9||5|
|Skye Terrier||1877||1 (1969)||6 (2016)||3 (2014)||5||4|
|Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier||1974||0||1 (1989)||0||0||0|
|Staffordshire Bull Terrier||1976||0||0||0||0||2 (2007)|
|Welsh Terrier||1888||1 (1944)||6 (1999)||10 (2015)||6||12|
|West Highland White Terrier||1906||2 (1962)||3 (1975)||5||6||2 (2011)|
1. The American Staffordshire Terrier began competing in the Terrier Group in 1937 as the Staffordshire Terrier. It became the American Staffordshire Terrier in 1972.
2. The Fox Terrier (Smooth) and the Fox Terrier (Wire) were first differentiated from one another in 1883. Both Variety winners went forward to the Terrier Group from 1924-1928. From 1929-1932, only one Fox Terrier advanced to the Group, but in 1933 both Variety winners again went forward. As of 1986, they were declared to be different breeds.
3. The Group win of the Kerry Blue Terrier in 1941 was later cancelled by the American Kennel Club due to violation of Chapter 4 of the Dog Show Rules (apparently regarding an improper registered name). This win is not included in the above statistics.
4. The Manchester Terrier was known as the Black and Tan Terrier from 1877-1913, the Black and Tan (Manchester) Terrier from 1914-1923, the Manchester Black and Tan Terrier in 1924, and the Manchester Terrier beginning in 1925.
5. White Bull Terriers and Colored Bull Terriers were shown together from 1877-1942, with one Best of Breed winner going forward to the Terrier Group. In 1937, the distinction within the classes is made between the two. Colored Bull Terriers became a separate Variety in 1943, and subsequently each BOV winner advanced to the Group.
6. The Parson Russell Terrier was known as the Jack Russell Terrier from 2001-2003.
7. The Standard Schnauzer was known as the Wire-haired Pinscher in 1925-1926 and competed in the Working Group (there was a Toy Wirehaired Pinscher entered in the Miscellaneous Class in 1926). In 1927, the Wire-haired Pinscher was moved to the Terrier Group and competed as simply the Schnauzer. At that time, there were separate classes for the Miniature Schnauzer and the Standard Schnauzer, but only one dog was selected as Best Schnauzer and advanced into the Terrier Group from 1927-1932. In 1933, they became separate breeds and both winners advanced to the Group. In 1946, the Standardwas moved to the Working Group.
8. The West Highland White Terrier was known as the Roseneath Terrier from 1906-1909.
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Waitangi National Trust Visitor Centre, 1982.
Waitangi is thought of in New Zealand as the birthplace of the nation so it is appropriate that a Maori architect designed the visitor centre for the Waitangi National Trust and the entrance to the trust's 500 hectare estate which includes the Hobson Memorial, Treaty House and Te Whare Runanga.
The Visitor Centre is the last of Scott's big public projects. Scott designing the centre in 1981/82 and it was opened in April 1983. The visitor centre is now surrounded by bush and the external design is largely hidden by the trees. The front entrance connects to the car park via a long covered walkway that makes imaginative use of overlapping sheets of Hardy Board following the curved path. Like the Waikaremoana Visitor Centre, the rear of the building connects out into the bush with elevated walkways and steps.
The centre continues themes Scott was exploring at the time, using cut away and extended rooves similar to the Apatu house at Ngamatea, along with other familiar Scott elements and materials; concrete block, brick floor tiles, native timber matched lining, poles and pillars. There are references to the marae and the wharenui, but also to the church and the wool shed.
Scott has used large round poles to support the roof and the ridge angles and veranda at the front are reminiscent of the meetinghouse. Inside there is generous use of native timber on walls and ceilings and the large internal reception space is high and generous with large windows looking out into the bush. The spaces are well proportioned with interest created by contrasting colours and materials. This is architecture worth visiting.
This building makes good use aluminium window joinery. Scott was a master of the wooden window and he has integrated the aluminium sensitively, giving the windows a lightweight feel while maintaining attractive internal and external details.
The toilets are worth a paragraph. To the left of the entrance they remind me of marae toilets - all function with little privacy or comfort. The men's toilets have a clear glass window from floor to ceiling looking in on the urinal (it has been screened off from external view with a brush trellis). John liked toilets with a view; the Martin house has a toilet with a glass external door. Like the concrete bunker toilets at the Waikaremoana Visitor Centre these toilets are a highlight.
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How 'Skyfall,' 'The Hobbit' and 'Life of Pi' Used Digital to Dazzle
Movies in contention show off, from far-flung locations to the Shire.
This story first appeared in the Dec. 21 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine.
Director Sam Mendes’ First Outing with 007 has a visually dazzling palette with a range of looks created by cinematographer Roger Deakins, a nine-time Oscar nominee.
“I wanted to create very separate identities, the MI6 bunker and the gray London exteriors and the slightly green look of some of the fluorescents in the tunnel, and contrast that with the exotic look of Shanghai and the casino’s warm,traditional Chinese look,” says Deakins, who lensed Skyfall with Arri’s Alexa digital camera.
Of shooting the fight in the Shanghai office tower, the cinematographer says, “We wanted to keep with very strong colors, predominantly blue. So I wanted the big LED screens on the set to be really blue. In contrast, the hotel room across the way I wanted to be a square of warm light.” The climax at Skyfall manor with its warm palette was among the most challenging set pieces. “There were so many different elements in it, such a mixture of location work and stage work and all the variations in it,” he says. “The house was a built set with a controlled burn so that we could do it more than once. The exteriors were done on location and the interiors were done on stage. We actually shot a lot of that sequence on stage first before we shot the exteriors, which was kind of tricky because I wasn’t quite sure what I was matching to — so I matched to what I wanted it to look like.”
Andrew Lesnie — who photographed The Lord of the Rings trilogy and won an Oscar for The Fellowship of the Ring — returned to Middle-earth to shoot The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, this time using Red Epic cameras on 3Ality Technica 3D rigs and shooting at a high frame rate of 48 frames per second — a first for a Hollywood feature.
“We have a certain mandate to remain faithful to the look of Middle-earth while acknowledging that LOTR was shot on film and now we are in a fully digital environment,” he says. “We’ve been successful with softening the curve and giving the material a gentle, textural finish. Sometimes digital capture feels a bit thin or sharp, so we take great pains to give the material some softness and ‘body.’”
On the use of 3D, he says, “No matter how much preproduction work has been done, all the drama scenes were approached in the normal way, blocking and choreographing the scene with the cast and then deciding or confirming the coverage. We generally had an idea about what we wanted to do, which was reflected in previous discussions or how we decided the set was to be constructed. The lighting and the ability to achieve shots was already in place. Once the cast had blocked the scene to their satisfaction, we set up and fine-tuned the camera moves and lighting.” The bottom line, he says, was “to enhance the subtext without drawing attention to itself.”
Life of Pi
For his first 3D movie, director Ang Lee “really wanted to play with the spatial qualities of 3D, like if someone is forward to the screen, is it more antagonistic?” explains cinematographer Claudio Miranda, who did bring some 3D experience, having lensed 2010’s Tron: Legacy. He shot Life of Pi with Alexa cameras on Cameron Pace 3D rigs. An example is a close-up of Pi, who, from his hospital bed, recounts his experience to insurance agents. “We wanted a strong presence, so we did push him a little bit forward [during the course of the monologue],”Miranda says. “This is a whole realization moment. We pushed it to when you still want to watch the scene without it being distracting. I liked the idea of blowing out the windows in the background. I think it helped to give a single kind of focus to the story of Pi.”
As for all those days Pi spends on a boat on the open sea, Miranda says that Lee “wanted it to be a journey; he wanted it to feel like every day was a little bit different.
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An excellent analysis of extensive survey data show that history majors end up working in a diverse range of fields, and making a decent living.
SPRING 2021 History Course Descriptions
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A study of United States history tracing the development of American ideals and actions from the Pre-Revolutionary Period through the Civil War Era. Major political, social, economic, and cultural factors will be presented focusing on the roles played by the diverse peoples and cultures who shared in the development of United States history. An emphasis may be placed on one or more of these factors.
A survey of cultural, diplomatic, economic, ethnic, political and social trends in recent United States history from 1877 to the present, focusing on the roles played by the diverse peoples and cultures who shared in the development of the United States. An emphasis may be placed on one or more of these factors.
This course is a survey of the political, legal, economic, and social position and role of African-Americans in the history of the United States. Special emphasis will be given to the contributions of African-Americans in all aspects of American culture.
This course is an historical examination of the cultural, political, and economic forces that have shaped contemporary California. It focuses on the roles played by the diverse people who shared in its development from early Native American societies through the Spanish and Mexican periods and U.S. conquest to the present.
This lecture/discussion course examines and analyzes the development of the United States from 1945 to the present. Attention is given to the political, social, intellectual, cultural, and economic changes in American society. Included as areas of inquiry will be the impact of the Cold War on foreign and domestic policies and society; the effect of social protest movements on society; the interconnected influence of economic, demographic, and cultural changes on policy and society; the expansion and contraction of the social welfare state; the ways that the Vietnam conflict, emergence of multiculturalism, and the new environmentalism have shaped contemporary policy and attitudes, and the pervasive and lasting influence of mass culture, technology and media.
This course is an examination of the origins and evolution of the cultural, social, economic and political institutions, trends, events, issues, and leading personalities of Mexican History from the Pre-Columbian period to contemporary society.
This course is a study of the history of Latin America from the development of pre-Columbian cultures to the present. The experiences of individual countries are studied as an integrated whole focusing on the roles played by the diverse peoples and cultures who shaped their development. Major political, economic, social and cultural factors and issues are presented.
History 242 is a survey course in the history of modern Europe and the Western world from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. It emphasizes broad economic, social and changing political trends, with special attention given to the role of science, the arts and technology in creating the modern world.
This is a survey course of the roots and development of civilizations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe from the Neolithic Revolution until the age of European exploration of the Americas (1500). The civilizations of Ancient, Classical, Postclassical, and Early European periods will be studies, emphasizing interaction between civilizations and major cultures.
This is a survey course of the origin of the modern world, tracing both regional histories and global interactions. The root and development of civilizations in Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe from the 1500’s to the present day will be chronicled. Topics will include: the origins and the role of universal religions; the examination of political, social, and gender structures in relation to economic and demographic development; and the diffusion of culture and technology via migration, commerce and the expanse of empire.
History 250 is a survey of the history and institutions of Britain, the British Empire and The Commonwealth from the Norman Conquest to the present. It will focus upon medieval and early modern England, the creation of the first and second British Empires, and upon the development of Britain's economic, political and social institutions since the Glorious Revolution. The evolution of The Commonwealth and developing relations with the United States will also be studied.
In this course students study the patterns and processes of global change and international institutions in the post-World War II period. Students are introduced to an array of concepts and theoretical perspectives to understand the global conditions that act as catalysts to world problems and challenges. This course examines how the world community organizes its responses to serious international problems.
Most academic programs at Cerritos College, whether for the AA degree or to transfer to a four-year university, require students to take one course in United States history. You have your choice of two courses to fulfill this requirement: History 102 or History 103.
Both courses introduce the history of the United States, and are intended for first- or second-year college students. For non-history majors, either one of the three will be the only American history course you need for your requirements. You don't have to (and most students won't) take History 102 before History 103. The prerequisites are the same for both classes: readiness for college-level reading and writing, as demonstrated by classes (Reading 54 and English 52) or placement tests. None of the three classes require, or expect, prior knowledge of United States history.
So what's the difference?
- History 102 covers the first half of American History, from colonization to after the Civil War.
- History 103 covers the second half of American History, from 1877 to the present.
So choose one based on what's most interesting to you. If you're interested in American Indian life before colonization, or in George Washington and Abigail Adams and the other founders, or in African American slavery, or in the Revolutionary War or the Civil War, then History 102 is the course for you.
If you'd rather learn about Teddy Roosevelt and Jane Addams, World Wars I and II, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement and the Women's Movement, Ronald Reagan and Hillary Clinton, then History 103 is the course for you.
If you are planning to major in History or Political Science at a four year university, you will likely be required to take both parts of a two-part United States history survey, either before you transfer or after. (Check the requirements for your major at the institution you plan to attend.) If you are in the Teacher TRAC program or planning to become a K-5 teacher, you will need History 102.
Note: Cerritos used to have a course called History 101, which covered all of American history. If you have been a student for more than a few years, or are coming back to Cerritos after time away, you may have taken History 101. It is not offered at Cerritos College anymore, but if you took it already, it should meet the same general education requirements as History 102 or History 103.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact any of the History faculty.
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Oxidative stress is a Phenomenon caused by an imbalance between the production and accumulation of reactive products (RPs) in cells and tissues; and the ability of the biological system to detoxify or eliminate those (RPs.)
RPs are free radicals. Highly reactive species due to having unpaired electrons. They include reactive oxygen species (ROS) reactive nitrogen species (RNS,) reactive sulfur species (RSS.) etc.
Environmental stressors (UV, ionizing radiation, pollutants, heavy metals, xenobiotics) contribute greatly to generation of RPs in the biological systems. Because of this, the supplement industry has highly popularized antioxidants (AOs,) taking a firm stand that RPs are bad and AOs good. Well, is that entirely accurate?
Not that simple.
You see, PRs play important roles in physiologic processes for example in
– cell signaling,
– protein phosphorylation
– activation of several transcription factors
– cell/tissue differentiation,
All these and many more depend on adequate RPs production, and in the right tissues,
and proper times.
Generally, it is when RP production exceeds physiologic use, and elimination capacity that harm ensues. Often leading to the destruction of cellular structures like proteins, lipids, nucleic acids. We do have rigorous evidence that oxidative stress is responsible, with varying degrees of importance, for the onset and/or progression of several chronic and degenerative diseases, like cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, metabolic disorders, and so forth.
Unfortunately, the many compounds marketed as antioxidants have not really yielded much relief. With an inadequately informed public, many end up taking excessive amounts of these antioxidants, from simple things like vitamin C, D, to Beta carotene, N-acetylcysteine, Glutathione etc. However, according to a renowned biochemist, professor Barry Halliwell, “All aspects of aerobic life involve free radicals and antioxidants you cannot escape them nor should you wish to”.
While most people may be familiar with oxidative stress, most are not familiar with the concept or phenomenon of #antioxidativestress. An overabundance of bioavailable antioxidant compounds that interfere with the immune system’s ability to neutralize pathogenic threats. This is particularly important when we are all trying our best to stay healthy during this pandemic and beyond. Some people are over-supplementing. We need a balance.
How do we achieve it?
Start with a great clinician Test.
I can test your level of oxidative stress, noninvasively.
Where there is a possibility to know for sure, test, don’t assume. Whether the underlying process is physiologic or pathologic, test.
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Command IA Coordinator (CIAC) Information
A CIAC (pronounced "kayak") is the Command Individual Augmentee (IA) Coordinator, and is the essential link between the Parent Command and the IA Sailor and their family. The information below covers the 'why,' 'who,' and 'how' of being a CIAC.
Why a CIAC?
All Navy commands with Sailors departing on IA assignments, currently on an IA assignment, or having returned from an IA assignment within the past nine months shall have a CIAC designated in writing by the CO or OIC, and designated in NFAAS. This applies to all Active Component (AC) and Reserve Component (RC) Commands with a Unit Identification Code (UIC). The CIAC must be E-7 or above unless the CO grants an exemption due to non-availability of an E-7 or above in the command. For larger commands, CIAC duties can be delegated among E-6 and E-5 but the accountability for the program falls on the designated E-7 or above.
Who is a CIAC?
Navy Operational Support Centers (NOSC) shall have a designated CIAC to support FTS/AC staff assigned to the NOSC as well as mobilized RC Sailors and their families. As stated above, the CIAC must be E-7 or above unless the CO grants an exemption due to non-availability of an E-7 or above in the command. For larger NOSCs, CIAC duties can be distributed among E-6 and E-5 but the responsibility for the program falls on the designated E-7 or above.
What is a CIAC?
- The CIAC does not replace the Command Ombudsman, but instead acts in liaison with the Ombudsman in supporting the command's IA Sailors and their families.
- The CIAC should be the first point of contact for the IA Sailor and their family if there are problems/questions/issues at anytime during their IA deployment.
- The CIAC should also be the command's subject matter expert on all matters as they relate to IAs, and will ensure that their IA Sailors are prepared for deployment (completed all requirements as noted on the Sailor's orders and in the checklist), supported throughout the deployment cycle, and welcomed back home, as directed in IA Gram #5 (NAVADMIN 099/09).
- A proactive and involved CIAC can make the difference between a negative and a positive IA tour.
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|USS Skywatcher (AGR-3)|
|Ordered:||as a type (Z-EC2-S-C5) hull, MCE hull 2337|
|Builder:||J. A. Jones Construction Co. Inc., Panama City, Florida|
|Laid down:||as the Raphael R. Rivera, 30 November 1944|
|Launched:||16 January 1945|
|Sponsored by:||Mrs. Evelyn Anderson|
|Acquired:||by the U.S. Navy, 20 September 1954|
|Commissioned:||29 March 1955 as USS Skywatcher (YAGR-3) at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Virginia|
|Decommissioned:||29 March 1965|
|Reclassified:||AGR-3, 28 September 1958|
|Refit:||converted to a Radar picket ship at Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, South Carolina|
|Struck:||1 April 1965|
Newport, Rhode Island |
Davisville, Rhode Island
|Fate:||sold for scrapping, 23 December 1970|
|Type:||Guardian-class radar picket ship|
|Tons burthen:||7,360 tons|
|Installed power:||two Electric Generators|
|Propulsion:||two 220 PSI boilers; one 3 cylinder triple-expansion reciprocating engine; one 4 blade, 18' 6" propeller; Shaft Horsepower 2,500|
|Capacity:||Fuel Oil, 443,646 gals; Diesel, 68,267 gals; Fresh Water, 15,082 gals; Ballast, 1,326,657 gals fresh water|
|Complement:||13 officers, 138 enlisted|
|Armament:||two 3"/50 guns|
USS Skywatcher (YAGR-3/AGR-3) was a Guardian-class radar picket ship acquired by the U.S. Navy in 1954. She was converted into a radar picket ship and assigned to radar picket duty in the North Atlantic Ocean as part of the Distant Early Warning Line.
Built in Panama City, Florida
Skywatcher (YAGR-3) was laid down on 30 November 1944 by the J. A. Jones Co., Panama City, Florida, as the Rafael R. Rivera (MC hull 2337), U.S. Maritime Administration type ZEC2C5; launched on 16 January 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Evelyn Anderson; acquired by the Navy on 20 September 1954; and commissioned on 29 March 1955, Lt. Cdr. John Anto in command.
Radar patrol duty
Skywatcher was operated by the States Marine Corporation as Rafael R. Rivera. She was acquired by the Navy and converted at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Norfolk, Virginia, into an ocean station radar ship. In July 1955, she assumed her first duties in the Contiguous Radar Coverage System of the United States while operating out of Newport, Rhode Island.
In September 1958, the ship's designation was changed from YAGR-3 to radar picket ship AGR-3. Her home port was changed to Davisville, Rhode Island, and she operated from there until early 1965 with Radar Picket Squadron 2, spending over 50 percent of her time on her assigned picket station.
In March 1965, Skywatcher was placed in reserve, out of commission, and struck from the Navy List on 1 April. She was sold on 23 December 1970 to Daewood Corp., Ltd., of Karachi, Pakistan, and scrapped.
- This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
- NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - YAGR / AGR-3 Skywatcher
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A comment on the current state of our stock market:
When we invest in stocks for clients, we are essentially paying for a future stream of earnings of companies discounted to today’s dollars. We want to have as much confidence in the stability and growth of the future earnings of those companies as possible. Any global trends which have the potential to negatively impact earnings flow on a broad scale will disrupt the market price of common stocks. The approximately 70% decline in the price of oil over the past year is one of those global trends that is currently affecting common stock prices.
The drop in the value of oil is a double-edged sword. On the positive side, many of our oil-based consumer items as well as gasoline will be much cheaper for the consumer. However, on the negative side, oil is now at a price where many smaller producers cannot make money and are forced to make layoffs or shut down completely.
Sixty years of investing on behalf of clients has taught us that while markets are cyclical and global trends affect market behavior, it is ultimately earnings growth that drives long term stock prices. After a strong six-year bull market from 2009 through 2014, the equity markets have experienced downward pressure since May of 2015. Whether this decline in equity prices is a much needed market correction or the beginning of a bear market is not yet apparent.
What is apparent is that the drop in oil prices has been one of the main catalysts for the market decline. We also know that this will pass in time and that stocks will once again get back to reflecting their future earnings, until we face the next major global trend.
Alison J. Gamble, President
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We may have to wait another week and a half to see what Apple has in store with the iPhone 6 and a possible iWatch, but one drone pilot managed to capture at least one Cupertino secret early: the new Apple spaceship campus.
Looking like the unearthed remains of a grounded Death Star or the ancient ruins of an alien civilization, the early stages of Apple's new campus construction reveal that the ambitious architectural project is on track.
The footage was shot by a YouTuber using a GoPro Hero 3+ Black edition and a DJI Phantom 2 drone, which flew from the construction site's perimeter and then over the site itself to deliver the footage.
In the description accompanying the video, the video uploader wrote:
The quad copter remained under 400 feet as per FAA regulation for remote controlled airplanes and helicopters and not within any airport no-fly zones.
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Lifestyle sites love a good detox story. I love reading them and trying to understand what in the world people are doing to their bodies. Okay, I don’t actually *love* reading these articles, but I do wonder why so many people need to do crazy things to their bodies, particularly since we already have a highly efficient detox process called our digestive system!
First, let’s look at what is meant by detoxing. Obviously, the first idea is to remove toxins from your system. Generally, this means cleansing your body of the various food and drink you’ve consumed during a period of overindulgence. It could be a day, a weekend, or a whole month of eating, drinking, and being merry. I think we’ve all had to those days where we wake up and swear we will never eat (or drink) again.
Of course, we must eat. Eating is good. You need nutrients. Yes, as I mentioned in the piece on the Auto-Immune Protocol diet, a few days of following a (very strict) diet probably won’t do lasting harm, but will it do lasting good? Or even temporary good? Do you really need to subsist on just juice, black charcoal, special teas, or soups for a week? For a couple of days?
Because, well, your liver, gallbladder, and kidneys are already doing all the work those fads detox diets claim to do. They do it for free. Since I don’t have a gallbladder, I rely on my other two organs to do the heavy lifting of cleaning my system, and they haven’t complained much.
But wait! You’re detoxing to lose weight. It’s going to be a miracle!
Or you’re going to lose some water weight immediately, water weight which will come back pretty quickly. The pounds you “lose” don’t signify real weight loss. If you’re detoxing to get skinny, there are easier ways (eat fewer calories, increase exercise, get lots of water and sleep). A juice diet seems like a great idea in theory, but isn’t an effective plan.
Okay, then, you say, what do I do to feel better after a period of overindulgence? I have a simple solution: clean eating. Fruits, vegetables, lean proteins, nuts, seeds. Less alcohol is always good, especially if you’re over-doing it around the holidays. Focus more on getting a good night’s sleep, and, please, please, please, take time for exercise, including a couple of extra long walks. In fact, use the extra time you have after eating your healthy lunch to take a walk.
These solutions will help you detox in a natural, healthy, and, frankly, cost-effective manner.
Tip of the Week
If you do love juicing, one thing you can do is watch out for calorie creep. While all the greens in your juice make it seem virtuous, added fruits, yogurt, or other juices can rapidly make your healthy, low calorie option less so. Pay attention to the ingredients in your mix!
Gluten-Free Meal of the Week
As you might have guessed, this post was inspired by my own overindulgences. Our calendar has been unusually heavy with social activities for the past month, and, frankly, my husband and I are a bit TOO excited about the prospect of a quiet week filled with boring meals.
And by boring, I mean really tasty. They won’t win a prize on Chopped, but they will make us feel ourselves again. Yes, Virginia, this means we’re starting the week with lentil soup. Lots of vegetables, lots of flavor, lots of clean protein. Plus, lots of leftovers for lunch!
Because the weather has taken a turn for the cold (which made my mother, watching the snow fall in Chicago, laugh), I’m thinking I need to add meaty, slightly spicy sausage to my normal recipe. My go-to vegetarian-style soup needs more body during this time of chilly temps (yeah, I know, I live in Southern California; this crisis will pass!) | <urn:uuid:635f6836-78e3-4a75-86ac-d57c1eac14d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://glutenfreeliac.com/do-you-need-to-detox/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.955499 | 894 | 1.625 | 2 |
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In this BBC article, Eddie Redmayne tries very hard to sit on the fence regarding the issue of actors playing roles whose sexual identity doesn't match their own. He says it was a mistake to a play trans role in the movie "The Danish Girl", released in 2015.
Well yes, there is a lot of that kind of thing in the acting world. Cisgender actors playing trans roles and straight actors playing gay roles. What really annoys me is the Star Wars movies and spin-off TV series: how many of the alien characters were actually played by aliens?
Just in case any readers have not worked it out, I am being sarcastic. We have a word in the English language for people who play roles that are in some way different from who those people really are: actors! Even Eddie Redmayne referred to this, when he said that any actor "should be able to play any sort of part ..."
If we take this lie of reasoning to it logical conclusion we would have to have:
Are we going to outlaw pantomimes (an English tradition) because of the pantomime dames?
Where do we draw the line? If it is wrong for straight actors to play gay roles, how is it OK for gay actors to play straight roles (which is how most gay actors learn their trade)?
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Ghost Advisors (Charlie Eberhardt) Some Yanks went out advising, Down there in South Vietnam, But the people they advised Didn't give a good Goddamn! The president and his family, Were sweating out a coup, And they blamed the whole "schammozzle" On the likes of me and you! cho: Yippee aye yea! Yippee aye aye Ghost advisors by and by! Some Buddhists did a "slow burn," Up in Hue and in Saigon, And you couldn't "watch the birdies," Without dodging plastic bombs. The students, they got angry-- The government closed the schools, And the Times of Vietnam, Called the U.S. a bunch of fools! These advisors were notorious, For countering insurgency. They collected "Lessons Learned," For the Chief of "Co Van My." They gathered tons of data, From the field in Vietnam. (But down in Venezuela, It won't be worth a damn!) They worked for COMUSMACV, And for the Chief of MAG, Who told Bob McNamara, That the war was "in the bag," That the Viet Cong were beaten In this brave "Diem-ocracy." (They didn't tell the insurgents: The omnipotent VCs!) Yes, in the steaming jungles, And the plains of mud and rice, Infested with mosquitoes, Viet Cong and body lice, There went the good advisors, And some "Greenie Beanies" too, To save the little country, For the likes of Madame Nhu! They advised the Civil Guard, And the valiant SDC, They advised the Vietnamese, In the land and air and sea, And when the fights were over, When the body count was in, Our side lost a hundred, And the VC only ten! They built strategic hamlets And they dispensed USOM aid, They convinced the Montagnards That they really had it made! They defoliated jungles, And herbicided rice, As long as Mr. Ambassador, Could afford the going price! They headed for the airfield, Out at good old Tan Son Nhut; With boarding passes in their hands And CIBS to boot! "Little soldiers of misfortune," And, "Tools of CIA,"' They waited for jet planes, To touch that broad runway! Now buddy, listen to them, And hear what they will say, They're gonna board that aircraft, So don't get in their way. They'll zap you with their cross-bows And their home-made rifles too, Cause no seats exist on that craft, For the likes of me and you. tune: Ghost Riders From The Longest Year, Bowen and Fish RG
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Valuing People outlined ambitious plans for improving services for people with learning disabilities in England. Strategies to realise these goals were to be taken forward through the new structure of learning disability partnership boards, based in the first instance on local joint investment plans (JIPs). This article reports findings from an analysis of the first round of learning disability JIPs, compiled as the implementation of the White Paper began, and reviews the implications for the development of robust local strategies and action plans.
Ward, L., Fyson, R. and Watson, D. (2004), "Planning for Change? Learning Disability Joint Investment Plans and Implementing the
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A Manhattan judge on Thursday ruled that anyone arrested in the Bronx, Brooklyn, or Manhattan could be held for more than 24 hours without charge.
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Friday that the ruling was "unconstitutional" and a "suspension of habeus corpus," the 900-year-old foundational legal doctrine that prohibits extended detention without charge.
Legal advocates said it was retaliation for protests against police brutality, while lawyers representing police said that characterization was "disenginous."
A Manhattan judge on Thursday ruled that anyone arrested in the Bronx, Brooklyn, or Manhattan could be held for more than 24 hours without being formally charged with a crime after the Legal Aid Society, an advocacy group, sued the NYPD in connection with holding George Floyd protesters.
As of Friday, 92 New Yorkers had been held for more than 24 hours without charge, according to the Legal Aid Society.
New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez condemned the ruling Friday, denouncing it on Twitter as "unconstitutional" and a "suspension of habeus corpus."
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Civil liberties protect ourselves from governments using "crises" and "emergencies" as justification to dismantle our rights.<br><br>This is suspension of habeus corpus, it is unconstitutional, and it is deeply disturbing that both NYPD is seeking it and a judge rubber stamped it. <a href="https://t.co/t3K4EoNB6j">https://t.co/t3K4EoNB6j</a></p>— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1268702650276732928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 5, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Habeas corpus is a 900-year-old legal doctrine that prohibits unlawful detention without a criminal charge and is one of the earliest bedrock principles of the English and American court systems. While the principle is protected at the Federal level by the Constitution, the 24-hour standard in New York was established by the Roundtree v. Brown case in 1991.
Habeas corpus was first lifted in America by President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War to detain people with Confederate or antiwar sympathies and more recently was used to justify the indefinite detention of hundreds of people at Guantanamo Bay.
Protests have erupted across the US after a Minneapolis police officer, later charged with second-degree murder, knelt on George Floyd's neck until he died. After large protests embroiled New York for days, Mayor Bill de Blasio enacted a curfew, the first in the city since 1943.
New York City Criminal Court Judge James Burke said he made the decision because there was "a civil unrest crisis within the overarching COVID-19 crisis."
Legal Aid lawyer Marlen Bodden told the New York Post that jail conditions were challenging for social distancing, especially for people without masks or hand sanitizer. Coronavirus has the potential to spread rapidly in detention as social distancing may be impossible in cramped cells.
"This flagrant violation of law by the New York City Police Department appears to be designed to retaliate against New Yorkers protesting police brutality," said Tina Luongo, the Legal Aid lawyer in charge of the organization's criminal-defense practice, in a news release announcing the original lawsuit.
"The accusation that officers are retaliating against New Yorkers who are protesting is disingenuous, exceptionally unfair, and perhaps deliberately ignoring the fact that the Police Department is dealing with a crisis within a crisis," Patricia Miller, chief of the Special Federal Litigation Division, which defends the city police in civil suits, said in a statement to Insider.
Lucian Chalfen, a spokesperson for the Office of Court Administration, put blame on the police and prosecutors for the slow pace at which they were filing the necessary paperwork in a statement to The New York Times.
"We are working as fast and safely as we can," an NYPD spokesperson told Insider on Friday evening.
On Friday the Legal Aid Society filed an appeal to the decision.
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California forests hold one answer to climate change
Silvery light flickers through the redwood canopy of the Van Eck forest down to a fragrant carpet of needles and thimbleberry brush. A brook splashes along polished stones, through thickets of ferns.
How lush. How lovely. How lucrative.
This 2,200-acre spread in Humboldt County does well by doing good. For the last four years, Van Eck’s foresters restricted logging, allowing trees to do what trees do: absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The conservation foundation that oversees the forest then calculated that carbon bonus and sold it for $2 million to individuals and companies trying to offset some 185,000 metric tons of their greenhouse gas emissions.
“Forests can be managed like a long-term carbon bank,” said Laurie Wayburn, president of the Pacific Forest Trust, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that oversees Van Eck. Selling offsets, she said, is like “writing checks on the account.”
In the struggle over how to address climate change nationally and globally, forests play a major role. “Cap-and-trade” programs set limits on greenhouse gases and allow industries to trade emissions permits among themselves. And they can include provisions for offsetting heat-trapping pollution by investing in woodlands.
Offsets are poised for explosive growth. In the next two years, California is expected to roll out a statewide carbon market that may be expanded to other Western states. Nationally, climate legislation approved by a key congressional committee last week would allow U.S. industries to use offsets worth up to 2 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, part of which could come from forest projects here and abroad.
A new climate treaty scheduled to be signed in Copenhagen in December may allow industrial countries to offset emissions with forest-saving projects in Brazil, Indonesia and other developing nations.
Ripe for fraud?
But the carbon commodity business is controversial. Critics fear that poorly regulated offsets could hand a get-out-of-jail-free card to heavy polluters. Should a coal-fired power plant in Nevada avoid slashing carbon dioxide emissions by paying to preserve trees in Oregon? Is this a complex trading scheme ripe for fraud?
To create trustworthy offsets, California’s Air Resources Board two years ago set up the nation’s first government-sponsored system to quantify and verify carbon. Those rules are being rewritten for possible use by other states.
“Companies having a hard time meeting their carbon emission limits may want to invest in forestry as a way to cut costs,” said Mary D. Nichols, the board’s chairwoman. “We have hundreds of thousands of acres of forests that can play a role in helping us to prevent global warming.”
Forests are central to Earth’s climate because, like oceans, they are a carbon “sink.” Through photosynthesis, trees absorb carbon dioxide, the principal greenhouse gas that is heating the planet’s atmosphere. Allowing trees to grow larger before logging increases the carbon stored in a forest. So do widening the forested buffers along streams and clearing out underbrush to allow more space for trees. Reforesting areas abandoned to brush or destroyed by wildfire would also greatly boost carbon stock.
“California leads the world with regard to the role of forests in combating climate change,” said Chris Kelly, California director for the Conservation Fund, a Virginia-based nonprofit that has sold offsets from Mendocino County preserves. “I just had an inquiry from a Canadian buyer who’s expecting Canada to move in the direction set by California.”
But so far, big timber operators, including Sierra Pacific Industries and Green Diamond Resource Co., have yet to enroll in California’s offsets program. Current standards require owners to agree to a permanent conservation easement, a legal agreement that would guarantee carbon-storage measures in perpetuity. Companies have found that too onerous, and as a result only a handful of woodlands have registered, mainly those managed by conservation groups.
For the last 18 months, members of a task force of environmentalists, timber operators and state officials have been locked in contentious negotiations to revise the rules. The new draft, to go before the Air Resources Board next month, substitutes a 100-year contract for the easement, thus allowing development after a century. It also clarifies rules for companies to quantify and verify carbon.
At least one environmental group is uncomfortable with the changes. “By removing the easement, you leave the system open to gaming,” said Brian Nowicki, a forest specialist with the Center for Biological Diversity.
“The timber industry wants ‘business as usual’ practices, like clear-cutting, to qualify for carbon credit.”
But groups represented on the task force, including the Environmental Defense Fund, the Nature Conservancy and Pacific Forest Trust, say that century-long contracts and strict accounting rules will guarantee that offsets will be granted only if additional carbon is stored above and beyond conventional forest practices.
David Bischel, president of the California Forestry Assn., the industry trade group, said he expects more landowners to sign up but cautions, “It is an opportunity in its infancy: When you add up the numbers, it is not a huge source of revenue.”
‘This is a win-win’
Nonetheless, he estimates that the state’s 14 million acres of private timberland could be managed to sequester twice as much carbon as they do now. And he praises conservationists for acknowledging the need for working forests: “We’ve moved on from the old timber wars. This is a win-win.”
Among the first companies to jump into the forest carbon market was Pacific Gas & Electric, Northern California’s biggest utility. Its “Climate Smart” program offers customers the chance to pay a tax-deductible surcharge on their bills, averaging $5, to offset electricity use. In two years, 30,400 customers have bought 214,000 metric tons of greenhouse gas reductions -- the emissions equivalent of taking 43,000 cars off the road for a year. Much of that tonnage was purchased from the Conservation Fund, which manages Mendocino County’s 23,780-acre Garcia River Forest.
At Van Eck, politicians were among the first purchasers: Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), both seeking to offset air travel.
Federal forests, which account for more than half of the state’s woodlands, are not being considered for trading schemes, although officials are studying how to increase their carbon sequestration. A U.S. Forest Service program invites individuals to offset their carbon footprint by donating to a Carbon Capital Fund to pay for tree-planting in the San Bernardino National Forest, among others.
Over the next few decades, however, the state’s new standards could allow timber companies to market at least 13 million metric tons of carbon dioxide offsets from private lands, according to the Air Resources Board.
Forest owners can earn far more by full-scale logging or selling to developers. But if offset values rise under mandatory climate regulations, they could offer a counterweight to development pressure. The U.S. annually loses an estimated 1.5 million acres of private forest to urban sprawl.
Wedged between a gated community and a tract that shows the ragged remains of clear-cuts, Van Eck is a micromanaged woodland laboratory. The biggest cost of meeting carbon rules is labor,” said Wayburn, the Pacific Forest Trust’s president. “You have to crawl over the logs, estimate the carbon by measuring the butt end, and do detailed inventories.”
Between giant stumps of redwoods felled in the 19th century, Van Eck’s foresters paint turquoise rings around trees slated for cutting. Wayburn tramps across a bed of moss, pointing out trees scarred by bears and glancing skyward to catch a glimpse of Arnie, the resident spotted owl. She points out the forest’s role in protecting clean water and wildlife -- not just in cooling the climate.
“We’re re-creating a mature forest,” she said. “We will leave some trees to get 600 years old. But we’re also thinning over time because wider spacing leads to an older forest. If you don’t harvest at all, you can’t restore very well. Fire comes in. Pests and invasive species come in.”
Whether California’s forests can be recruited to wage a climate war is linked to the eventual price of offsets. And the price that companies will pay depends on the credibility of the offset.
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WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The United States and China are planning to announce military agreements aimed at reducing the possibility of confrontation between the two powers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, quoting unnamed US officials.
The Journal said one of the agreements to be unveiled on Wednesday by US President Barack Obama and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, would provide a mechanism for notifying the two countries of each other's activities, including military exercises.
Washington and Beijing will also set rules of behaviour in cases of encounters in the sea and air, the newspaper said, quoting people familiar with the negotiations.
The White House had no immediate comment.
Obama, who is attending an Asia-Pacific summit in Beijing, is also expected to reach a deal with Xi on climate change, the paper added.
The two leaders will hold bilateral talks as part of an official state visit on Wednesday.
The summit comes at a time of growing China-US friction, with Washington trying to expand American interests in Asia, while Xi demonstrates more willingness than his predecessors to demonstrate Beijing's clout on regional issues, including the pursuit of maritime claims in Asia.
A senior US official said on Tuesday the United States would be "very clear" with China if it veers beyond the bounds of international norms on cybersecurity and other issues.
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Authors: Hongpeng Liu a, Jiawei Li a, and Qing Wang a
a Engineering Research Centre of Oil Shale Comprehensive Utilization, Ministry of Education, Northeast Electric Power University, Jilin, Jilin 132012, People’s Republic of China
Source: Applied Thermal Engineering, 2018, 130, 296–308.
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This sample essay on Come My Celia Summary reveals arguments and important aspects of this topic. Read this essay’s introduction, body paragraphs and the conclusion below.
Ben Jonson was born around June 11, 1572, the posthumous son of a clergyman. He was educated at Westminster School by the great classical scholar William Camden and worked in his stepfather’s trade, bricklaying. The trade did not please him in the least, and he joined the army, serving in Flanders. He returned to England about 1592 and married Anne Lewis on November 14, 1594.
Andrew Marvell was born in Yorkshire, on March 31st 1621. He travelled abroad writing poems until 1950 when Marvell became the tutor of twelve-year-old Mary Fairfax (later Duchess of Buckingham.) Around this time Marvell wrote ‘To His Coy Mistress’ and many other famous poems. During his last twenty years of life, Marvell was engaged in political activities, taking part in embassies to Holland and Russia. Marvell’s poems were printed in 1681. Marvell died on 16th August 1678 of tertian ague.
He was buried in the church of St. Giles-in-the-Fields.
In ‘Come, My Celia’ we gain an insight into an unequal partnership where love seems unimportant where as in ‘To His Coy Mistress’ the couple are obviously in love.
‘Come My Celia’ was written to try and woo a member of the opposite sex. This is quite obvious in the first couplet. “Come, my Celia, let us prove, whilst we may, the sports of love”(Lines 1 & 2). These rhymes that are used in the opening couplet are underlying the philosophy ‘Carpe Diem’ or ‘Seize the Day’ as some of us are more aware of.
The poem is in the form of couplets with each set of lines rhyming. Jonson uses a variety of persuasive techniques throughout the poem. A number of times Jonson hints that any antics in the bedroom will be strictly lust not love “Why should we defer our joys?”(Line 9). He calls fame and rumour toys, trying to persuade ‘Celia’ that they could just ignore the aftermath of any sexual encounter they had, as though making love means nothing to him. When Jonson writes, “Cannot we delude the eyes of a few household spies?” he is trying to say to ‘Celia’ that they will not get caught. They will be able to avoid the eyes of a few household spies, the neighbours. Throughout this poem you can tell from the language that it is a very persuasive poem, the poet asks a lot of questions in it. The language throughout is old fashioned and as I have mentioned persuasive techniques are obvious.
Andrew Marvell’s ‘To His Coy Mistress’ is a passionate, loving and free poem. It is the description of a man who has constantly been working hard at seducing a woman (his mistress). The character puts over a logical argument in order to persuade her to make love to him. It is written in a sarcastic and witty way that makes the reader wonder weather he is serious in his seduction towards her, “if you please, refuse Till the converse of the Jews.”(Lines 9 ; 10). He asks her if she will stay a virgin until the Jews converse, in other words, forever. This makes his mistress realise that she will lose her virginity in the end, so why not now, as it is not as extreme as changing religion. Only from the use of the word ‘coy’ we gain a clear image to the type of woman his mistress is. From the title we know she is a shy, demure woman but with a coquettish side to her. She encourages his seduction to a certain point, but then when he gets too close, she backs off and seems apprehensive over her actions. The first stanza descriptively explains that his mistress’s coyness would not be a crime if there had “world enough, and time…”(Line 1). Marvell, or the subject whom the poem is written from, clearly thinks that it would be alright if they didn’t make love if they had all the time in the world, but they don’t!
He compares his love to a vegetable “my vegetable love should grow,”(Line 11), the only difference being that vegetables can’t have sex. It grows “vaster than empires,” (Line 12) meaning that their love is growing bigger than empires but at the same time they should make it complete by having sex. Many hyperboles are used to emphasise the mans love for his mistress, “love You ten years before the flood,” (Lines 7 ; 8) this clearly shows that he will love her forever no matter what happens in the mean time but it is exagerated. He claims he would happily spend a hundred years praising her eyes, and gazing at her forehead. As the main theme of this poem is sex, many physical references are made, such as “two hundred to adore each breast.” (Line15) The main purpose of the stanza is to compliment the mistress. He does this by using romantic exaggeration. He explains to his mistress how he truly cares for her enough to spend hundreds of years simply gazing at her. However, this leads to a problem, as there is simply not enough time available. To show how great it would be if they had enough time to waste, the quote “walk and pass our long days/ by the Indian Ganges side” (Lines 4 ; 5) exaggerates this as if they did have all the time in the world then they could waste it strolling around the countryside. In this stanza there are very few references to the personality and character of his mistress and this indicates that the poet is only interested in sex.
The second stanza is very persuasive by using death images to represent time. It implies that there isn’t enough time to do all the romantic things considered in the first stanza so they should go ahead and have sex. To illustrate the point of time running out, the lines “I always hear/ times winged chariot hurrying near,” (Line 22) this lets her know that time does have a way of marching on. Vivid imagery is used such as “then worms shall try/ that long preserved virginity.” (Lines 27 & 28) These lines seem a bit horrific but they are actually meant to further convince his mistress to have sex with him. He is telling her that if she continues to resist him, then it will be worms that remove her virginity from her, as opposed to someone who really cares about her, meaning him. He also reminds her that the honour that she is clinging so tightly to will mean nothing when the worms eat her.
Further, his feelings for her may have gone. The vulgar and insulting images he uses such as “then worms shall try/ that long preserved virginity,” (Lines 27 & 28) are to shock his mistress into wanting to have sex with him because if she doesn’t then she will have nothing to look forward too as she will no longer be desirable. The second stanza ends with the lines “the grave’s a fine and private place, / But none I think do there embrace” (Lines 31 ; 32) this ironic statement provides the final argument as it describes how the love they have is so strong that they must not let time slip through their fingers. Instead they should use the time they have left to clutch at the love in front of them and have sex. The message in this poem is that lovers, and us as the readers, should use the time we have been given to the best of our ability.
The third and final stanza is about seizing the moment and pursuing physical love. This is the most powerful stanza as the mistress is asked to bed, “while your youthful hue/ sits on thy skin like morning dew,” (Lines 33 ; 34) he is complementing her by telling her that she is young and beautiful and therefore ready for sex. A simile is used to compare the man and his mistress to “am’rous birds of prey.” This means that they are like birds, part of nature, and it is natural to have sex. Further statements are used to show the amazing imagery of their love such as, “let us roll all our strength and all/ Our sweetness up into one ball, / And tear our pleasure with rough strife/ Through the iron gates of life.” (Lines 41-44) This gives us a beautiful image of the passion between the lovers. The poem ends with “Thus though we cannot make our sun/ Stand still, yet we will make him run.” (Lines 45 ; 46) This means that they cannot make time stop ‘stand still’ so they should use it before it runs out to make children. While the poem starts out with the aim of seduction, it ends with beauty imagery of their true love for each other.
Both poems were written in an attempt to woo a member of the opposite sex. They both have the same idea but both poets use different approaches. They Both Jonson and Marvell have many similarities but there are individual characteristics that the authors display. For example, Marvell, being cynic includes much more description. Both poems it is clear that the man is the more dominant figure, this was common knowledge in both Marvell and Jonson’s time. Men ‘ruled the roost’. Both poems use stanzas, with Marvell in particular using three very different stanzas to persuade the woman in three different ways, all three are very persuasive but using different imagery. Rhyming couplets are seen at the ends of every line in Marvell’s poem, which helps the poem read smoothly. Overall I like both poems and think that the imagery used in both of them is excellent. | <urn:uuid:e75edefc-1a8d-4b77-aea3-bf0cd9c47a5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://paperap.com/paper-on-a-critical-analysis-and-comparison-between-come-my-celia-and-to-his-coy-mistress/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.976328 | 2,138 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The EU has to insist on countries fulfilling the requirements it sets. It has been weak for some (which were arguably bad conditions), but if it relents just to be ‘nice’ to a country or to not leave anybody behind, why would any politician pass any necessary law anymore? Lowering conditions and requirements would hurt citizens across the region, not least in BiH–not in regard to visa free travel, but in regard to other reforms. Not including all countries at the same time does not mean leaving them behind. If Slovakia had not been lagging behind in the 1990s, there would have been no pressure to get rid of Vladimir Meciar and to begin serious reforms. Had been Slovakia given an easy ride early on, it probably would have been left behind at the end.
One argument put forth in the debate has been that it is mostly Bosniaks who would be left out from visa free travel and Croats already have Croatian passports and Serbs can or have Serbian passports. This is, however, as demagogic argument. First, Croatian passport holders are uneffected, so there is no change there. Second, there is little evidence that Bosnian Serbs have easy access to Serbian passports. According to a report in Danas, only 2,557 Bosnian citizens also have a Serbian passport. While this might be underestimating the real number of double citizens, there is little evidence to suggest that Bosnian Serbs have easy access to Serbian passports. Finally, if Serbia were to provide easy access to Bosnian Serbs, the EC could easily impose similar limitations to Serbian passport holders from Bosnia as there will be for Serbian passport holders from Kosovo.
In a heated facebook debate started by one of my Bosnian friends in response to Bieber’s article (this friend agreed with Bieber), another Bosnian wrote:
This article states: “Lowering conditions and requirements would hurt citizens across the region, not least in BiH–not in regard to visa free travel, but in regard to other reforms” Are we talking about the same principle of conditions and requirements Turkey cannot fulfill for decades, but do not apply for Bulgaria and Romania. Second argument I find at least disturbing here is “First, Croatian passport holders are unaffected, so there is no change there.” Excuse me? That’s like saying there is no discrimination because we gave special privileges to a certain group long time ago.
What disturbs me the most is the claim that “there is little evidence that Bosnian Serbs have easy access to Serbian passports.” Does this person know that the Consulate of the Republic of Serbia was recently opened in Banja Luka with much publicity and the first person to receive the passport was the Prime Minister of the Republika Srpska. You do not have to be a PR expert to see that this was an open call for the citizens of Republika Srpska to stop by and get their passports. The only requirement was to declare Serbia as your homeland.
Would dropping the entry requirements for Bosnia be the least worst course of action — a way to ameliorate the feeling of injustice felt by the half of BiH’s population unable to obtain other passports, and pave the way for better relations between states in the region? Or would it put another dent in the EU’s already damaged ability to enforce conditions evenly on states seeking accession? The latter could actually end up hurting the chances of Balkan states joining the union in the future, even if it led to short term gains, like inclusion in the visa free regime.
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- Did you know that the Coterie of Social Workers initiated Mother’s Day celebrations in Trinidad?
The Coterie of Social Workers Inc, under the leadership of Ms. Audrey Jeffers began celebrating Mother’s Day in Trinidad and Tobago in 1927. Ms. Audrey Jeffers commemorated the importance of motherhood years before it was officially celebrated, in order to educate society on the aspects and key roles motherhood contributes. On the days of celebration, the Coterie would present lectures on the role, function and importance of motherhood. There would also be performances put on by children for the mothers in the audience. Carnations made from cotton fabric were also sold by the Coterie on Mother’s Day, red fabric was used to honour the mothers who were alive and white fabric honoured those passed. These cotton flowers were a proud symbol for women to wear during these days and the sale of these flowers also raised funds for the activities of the Coterie.
- Did you know that the third branch of the Coterie of Social Worker is located in Tobago?
The collaboration between Ms. Audrey Jeffers and Dr. G. H. Clarke brought about the formation of the Coterie of Social Workers in Tobago. Dr. G.H. Clarke was a distinguished academic who intended to help the needy kids of Tobago. He focused on the nutrition of children and sought out resolutions to improve their general health. He erected a shed at Mason Hall, Tobago and distributed free lunches to school children daily. When Dr. Clarke and Ms. Jeffers connected on their similar paths they saw to the opening of the Scarborough Breakfast Shed. The shed moved from location to location but finally settled in Old Market on a parcel of land given to Dr. Clarke by the then Governor, Sir Hubert Young. The Coterie of Social Workers Inc, is located at the Meal Centre and Day Nursery, Old Market Scarborough as privately run organization.
- Did you know that Audrey Jeffers was the first female City Councillor in Trinidad?
As the Coterie of Social Workers Inc grew in size and reach, the Founder, Miss Audrey Jeffers stepped into the political arena. Supported by the leader of the Trinidad Labour Party and Mayor of the town of Port of Spain, Captain A.A. Cipriani, Audrey Jeffers campaigned for the rights and equality of women. In one of her appeals she stated, “I have done for the people and children of Port of Spain what men in the council have tried to do and failed” and with this she received an upset victory for women. She became the first woman City Councillor on November 3rd 1936 and maintained this position for many years. This was a great achievement for Ms. Jeffers and women as a whole at the time and will be remembered as one of the Proudest moments for the Coterie of Social Workers Inc.
- Did you know there is a time capsule in the headquarters of the Coterie of Social Workers Inc?
In 1981, members of the Coterie of Social Workers laid a time capsule in a concrete pillar located in the administration office of the headquarters on #3 Longden Street. This was done in anticipation of the long-term life of the organization. Members of the Coterie knew, their organization would last the test of time and placed a time capsule in the pillar to represent the lasting relevance of the organization in the times to come.
- Did you know that a Junior Coterie was formed?
The Coterie grew as time passed along, young women and mature women were brought in or volunteered to become social workers in the organization. Young women were welcomed into this junior coterie where needy children were accommodated. The Junior Coterie, unfortunately, could not sustain itself and was disbanded, however, some members of the Junior Coterie were able to graduate to the adult organization.
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NEW DELHI — Their offices raided, bank accounts frozen and travel restricted, international aid and rights groups with deep roots in India say they are struggling to operate under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has elevated the role of sympathetic homegrown social organizations while cracking down on foreign charities.
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Greenpeace India, which has repeatedly pushed the government to address hazardous air quality in cities across India, said this month that it was forced to close two regional offices and sharply reduce its staff after its Benagaluru offices were raided and its bank accounts frozen.
Tax officials allege it was illegally receiving funds through a shell company set up to evade authorities after India’s home minister canceled the group’s license.
Amnesty International India, which has accused the Modi government of eroding freedom to dissent by jailing prominent critics, had to slash 68 jobs — 30 percent of its in-country workforce — and cancel programs after Finance Ministry officials carried out a 12-hour raid on its headquarters in November.
While the raid was underway, the government released a statement accusing the group of illegally receiving 260 million rupees ($3.5 million) from an overseas account through a shell company.
Both Greenpeace and Amnesty International have denied the allegations.
International aid organizations have operated in India for decades, collaborating with the government on issues ranging from clean water to children’s education to disposal of e-waste.
The government no longer sees these groups as partners, activists and observers say, but rather as threats.
Critics say the government is attempting to cover up human rights failures by cracking down on groups that expose them.
“Government authorities are increasingly treating human rights organizations like criminal enterprises,” said Amnesty International India executive director Aakar Patel.
Vijay Khurana, secretary-general of the Confederation of Non-Governmental Organizations of India, supports the government crackdown on international organizations doing aid work with foreign funding.
“It has become a business for them. They misuse funds, land and other facilities provided by donors,” Khurana said, adding that the government should further encourage Indian organizations funded by local donors.
The Modi government has used the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, which regulates foreign funding for civil society groups, to cut off funds and stymie activities of organizations that question its policies, rights activists say.
Since coming to power in 2014, the Modi government has canceled the licenses of nearly 15,000 charities, preventing them from receiving foreign funds, for failing to produce timely tax returns and other required documents, Junior Home Minister Kiren Rijiju told Parliament last year.
“There is complete intolerance to any kind of government criticism,” said Jayati Ghosh, an Indian economist who studies India’s human rights landscape.
At the same time, Hindu nationalist organizations, especially the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, or National Volunteer Corps, a hard-line Hindu group that Modi belongs to, have flourished, she said.
“Nothing happens to them if they get foreign funds. There is absolutely no kind of control on their activities,” Ghosh said.
John Dayal, a civil liberties activist and former president of the 16 million-member All India Catholic Union, said Christian charities with a longtime presence in India running programs in education, health and development in remote villages haven’t been spared in the crackdown.
Christian aid groups “cannot receive even small donations. Many have had to close down. Many hostels and medical centers have closed down. The people are the ones who suffer,” Dayal said.
Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director of Human Rights Watch, places the blame at the feet of the previous Congress party government for amending the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act in 2008 to require organizations to reapply for registration every five years — over the concerns of civil groups who said their operations would become subject to the whims of the government.
Ganguly said she has seen the Modi government’s aversion to scrutiny by foreign aid groups and agencies since it came to power in 2014. “The message is clear that the government wants to cover up human rights failures by cracking down on critics,” she said.
Last year, India refused to allow investigators from the Geneva-based office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human rights to visit the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir and investigate reports of rights violations in the disputed region.
India’s crackdown on international rights groups mirrors developments elsewhere in South Asia. In neighboring Pakistan, the government of Prime Minister Imran Khan has ordered more than a dozen international aid organizations to wind up their activities after determining they were “working against the interest of the state,” according to Pakistan’s Interior Ministry.
The groups include U.S.-based Catholic Relief Services, ActionAid U.K. and the Danish Refugee Council.
In India, Greenpeace and Amnesty International have responded to the setback with defiance.
“There are many things right in the country. I don’t think it is possible for one government or one man to shut down an organization like ours,” Patel said.
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Every year at Passover we re-tell the same celebrated story of Exodus so that as Jews, our children and our children’s children will know from where we came and the origins of our freedom. There is another story that we celebrate by re-telling every year, but for a different reason. On the night before March 8th (the 14th of ADAR) we will gather together, perhaps dress up as Queens and Superheroes, and listen to the story of Esther.
Although we do have the four glasses of wine and an abundance of Kosher for Passover food for the Passover seders, Purim is a much more joyous occasion – more a celebration of perseverance than a thankful remembrance of freedom. The story of how Queen Esther saved the Jews from annihilation serves as a reminder, not only to remember her bravery and the strength of the Jewish people, but also to keep our faith that with G-d’s help, every generation will have an Esther to stand up to the Haman’s of the world.
To get into the festive spirit of Purim this year, here are a few ideas for a creative holiday:
• Make hamantaschen – create your own recipe or try one of these: JewishRecipes.com
• Put together some small shaloch manot to hand out to family and friends
• Make your own grogger - a plastic cup, some beans, and tape is all you need!
If this is the first Purim you are celebrating, here are a few key terms:
• Megillah – the scroll containing the Book of Esther, read the evening the holiday begins
• shaloch manot (short for mishloach manot) – a small bag of treats to hand out
• hamantaschen – a traditional three-point shaped cookie with fruit filling
• grogger – a noise-maker used to drown out Haman’s name during the Megillah reading
Find out more at: Judaism.com
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The first seder is on Monday night. In preparation for Passover, I've been busy turning my house inside out, shlepping boxes, cleaning my car, and taking out all my Passover dishes. Meanwhile, Haggadot.com has been buzzing with activity. The variety of content on our site continues to grow and surprise me. Here's just a sampling of the content submitted this week:
B'chol Lashon contributed recipes, customs, and more revolving around the Global seder. Fair Trade Judaica shared readings relating to Fair Trade and how it can be incorporated into the seder. The Congress of Secular Jewish Organization posted their haggadah. Rabbi Scott Gurdin shared his Rhyming Haggadah, great for kids of all ages and those young at heart. Sue Kayton posted her Monty Python Haggadah. And artist Beth Flusser shared her beautiful Passover-related pieces.
We've also received some great press recently. Check out some of the articles:
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- The Jewish Week: http://bit.ly/hBWfuz
- The Forward: http://bit.ly/hP4wxS
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There's so much to do during the week before Passover. Cleaning, cleaning, more cleaning…and preparing for the seder. Here are some new submissions this week at Haggadot.com:
-Sippling Seder shared some recipes for seder-related cocktail drinks. Check these out for a good laugh and a way to literally spice up your seder!
- American Jewish World Services posted countless resources dealing with social justice and the seder. Browse through this material for readings relating to the genocide in Darfur and other social justice issues.
Also, check out these fun, Passover related movies that have been making their rounds online:
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Can you believe that it's almost Passover? Some of us have already begun cleaning our houses. Some of us have begun our Passover shopping in anticipation of the holiday. And some us have begun thinking about what will make this year's seder different and more meaningful than last year's.
We can’t help you with your cleaning or shopping, but the seder happens to be our expertise! Check out the new material posted this week on haggadot.com.
-Rabbi Rosenberg from Edison, NJ has posted pieces from his siddur for Holocaust Remembrance day.
-Yoel Benharrouche, of Jerusalem, has shared some of his stunning artwork with us.
-Rabbi Kligfeld of Temple Beth Am in Los Angeles shared his favorite seder tune along with the story of how it became his favorite seder song.
-Jewish Boston has begun posting their newly released Haggadah, which they hope will enable more Jews to participate at the seder.
-The Shalom Center in Philadelphia shared selections from the "Freedom Seder," which puts a modern twist on the issues of freedom and slavery from the Passover story.
-The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington DC uploaded pieces that reflect a contemporary outlook on various sections of the haggadah.
We can't wait to see what great content next week will bring!
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Those of us who grew up in the great age of Disney animated feature films (1990s) know movies such as The Little Mermaid and The Lion King to be classics. And they are. Their story lines are well known, their songs always on the tip of our tongues, and their characters unforgettable. But what is it really about these movies that made them so successful (other than the cutting-edge animation)? I’d argue that we could all see ourselves in the characters. Okay, maybe none of us are as evil as Ursella and her eels. But there is a part of each and every one of us that thinks the grass is greener on the other side, that wants to be a part of something we view as fascinating and intriguing, and feels trapped by the world we’re in.
Disney, though they are creative geniuses, did not invent the idea of a narrative with relatable characters and universal themes. Just take a look at the Bible. Open up to any page. It might not be as obvious to you as the colorful, animated films, but if you think about it, you’ll see yourself reflected in every page.
In light of the upcoming holiday of Purim, I recently started thinking about the connections between the story of Esther and Aladdin. Even without having seen Aladdin in probably over ten years, some of the parallels with the characters jumped out at me. Haman, the evil villain of the Purim narrative, is manipulative, wants to kill Mordechai, and is a power-hungry advisor to the king. Sound familiar? King Achashverosh, according to many interpretations of the story, is not aware of Haman’s plan, allows himself to be manipulated, and only seems to care about his beautiful wife, Esther, and how others perceive him. He may even have been in a constant state of paranoia and drunkenness. Aladdin’s Sultan is literally hypnotized by Jafar and gives Jafar his “ring”, presumably one of the most notable symbols of his power. Continuing on with the character parallels you can view Esther in Jasmine, Mordechai in Aladdin, Zeresh in Iago, and even God in the Genie. We’ll leave those deeper analyses for another time.
Once I thought past the character parallels (and saw the movie again), I realized that characters’ struggles are reflective of larger themes. Aladdin is not only about staying out of trouble, beating the bad guy, and falling in love. It’s about taking responsibility for your own destiny. It’s about identity. And it’s about freedom. Each one of these is a major theme in Megillat Esther.
Toward the beginning of the movie, Aladdin falls in love with Jasmine. He believes that he doesn’t have a chance with her because he is not a prince. The law says a princess must marry a prince. At first, Aladdin loses all hope. Then, after becoming the Genie’s master, he realizes that by becoming a prince, he can win Jasmine’s heart. (Later he’ll realize he just needed to be himself!) When Mordechai hears Haman’s decree to kill the Jews, he mourns. Esther doesn’t seem to think she can take action. When Mordechai reminds her that she is in the perfect position to take action, she does. And guess what, she saves the Jews. She doesn’t allow the authority of the king or a law that prohibits her from showing up unannounced to stop her. At the end of Aladdin, the Sultan tears up the law about only marrying princes just like Haman’s decree was edited to allow the Jews to fight back.
Aladdin, the street-rat, dreams of being in the palace. Jasmine, trapped inside the palace walls, dreams of venturing outside. They both struggle with their identity. They both try to hide their identity. They both eventually are forced to tell the truth. And they both live happily ever after. Following Mordechai’s instruction, Esther does not reveal her Jewish identity in the palace. It is almost as if she is living in a parallel universe, hidden behind the palace walls with her new identity. Interestingly, it is Mordechai again who convinces her to reveal herself to save the Jewish people. And guess what? When the king finally learns her real identity, he doesn’t kick her out! He grants her all her wishes, and Mordechai becomes an even more important figure in the government.
When Aladdin learns that he can make 3 wishes, he promises Genie that on his third wish, he will set him free. Ever wonder what those bracelet-type things on Genie’s wrist are? They’re shackles, symbolizing his bondage. That’s kind of how the Jews were for most of the Esther story. They were destined to be thrown around, bullied, and even killed. And at the end, they were saved, able to defend themselves, and took over Haman’s post. Still, it’s not just the Genie who is released from bondage. Both the Sultan and Jasmine are released from the strict rule of law about her impending marriage. The Sultan is released from Jafar’s spell. Aladdin is saved from a life of poverty and thievery. In this same way, the heroes of Purim are freed from themselves and from hiding behind the facade they had create for themselves.
So you see, Aladdin can teach us a lot, but Esther taught us about these things way before Aladdin came out in theaters almost twenty years ago. Purim isn’t just about the Jews being saved. It’s about us, today.
Don’t just continue on the course life is taking you because that’s where you’ve always been. It is up to us to take action for what we truly believe. We need to be ourselves and not try to be or wish we were someone else. Who we are is so much better than the person we sometimes pretend to be. And, finally, let us value the freedom that we are fortunate to have in this world. Let us not allow ourselves to become slaves to our cell phones, our favorite TV shows, our emails, and our stomachs. Let us learn to listen to our hearts and our brains so that we can be ourselves instead of hiding from ourselves.
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Somehow, in the last 20 or so years, the Tu Bishvat seder has become an increasingly popular Tu Bishvat ritual. Tu Bishvat seders, modeled after the Passover seder and created by 16th century Kabbalists, have become an important way of marking this date in the Jewish calendar, especially in the green age of environmentalism. I have very early memories of attending Tu Bishvat seders. Actually, I dreaded these seders because they were all about eating the fruit of the land of Israel, and I don’t eat fruit! The only parts of the seder I ever partook in were eating crackers and drinking grape juice. One of the great things about a Tu Bishvat seder, even for the most observant Jew, is that the texts and readings are flexible. In creating your own seder, you may choose to read excerpts from The Giving Tree or Hebrew poetry about the land of Israel or commentaries on Biblical imagery that relates to nature. Many of the already compiled seder texts relate to Kabbalah, spirituality, and meditation. One thing is certain if you are preparing a Tu Bishvat seder—you will need LOTS of fruit! The following blessing for eating fruit might come in handy: Baruch Atah Adonai Eloheinu Melech ha-olam Borei peri ha-etz Blessed are You, Lord our God, Ruler of the universe Who creates fruit of trees. Here are some helpful resources for preparing your very own Tu Bishvat seder. Good luck! Hillel’s Tu Bishvat Seder and Helpful Information http://www.hillel.org/jewish/holidays/tubshevat/default.htm Ritual Well’s Tu Bishvat Seder http://www.ritualwell.org/holidays/tubshvat/PrimaryObject.2005-04-23.4355 Jewcology Tu Bishvat resources: http://www.jewcology.com/resources MyJewishLearning.com’s Tu Bishvat resources: http://www.myjewishlearning.com/holidays/Jewish_Holidays/Tu_Bishvat.shtml
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Tu Bishvat, otherwise known as the Jewish New Year for the trees, is right around corner. During the Temple period, Tu Bishvat was the first day of the yearly cycle for calculating the age of trees. Today, we plant trees, have Tu Bishvat seders, and think about what it means to celebrate nature. Since the beginnings of 19th century Zionism, Tu Bishvat has become a celebration of the land of Israel. Many Jews outside of Israel donate trees while people in Israel plant them. Even outside of Israel, Tu Bishvat has traditionally been a time for Jews to become more aware of their environment. As a child, I remember visiting the TreePeople, an environmental non-profit in Los Angeles, getting my hands dirty, and learning about and planting trees. In my teenage years, I participated in other tree planting campaigns in the LA area. Many Jewish organizations have JNF (Jewish National Fund) drives during the time immediately preceding Tu Bishvat. This year, as Northern Israel finds itself in the aftermath of the Carmel Fires, these efforts are even more vital than usual. Today, Tu Bishvat is the perfect holiday for our environmentally conscious, “green” mentality. It is a day where we can evaluate our own personal relationship with the physical world and make positive commitments towards being more “friendly to nature.” Do we bring reusable bags to the grocery store? Are we being careful with the amount of paper we use? Are we wasting precious water by not fixing a leak in the sink or letting the water run for too long? Many of us do not need to be reminded to use the blue recycling bin because it has become so normal to us. If we all made an extra effort, in the hopes that other environmentally friendly actions would become the norm as well, the meaning of Tu Bishvat could have far reaching positive consequences.
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Coming a little more than a week after we finish celebrating Hanukkah, the 10th day of the Hebrew month of Tevet (Friday, December 17th) is observed by some as a minor fast day. Biblically, the fast commemorates the siege of Jerusalem in the year 587 BCE, which eventually led to the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem and the Babylonian exile. But beginning in the mid-twentieth century, this day has come to take on an additional significance that appeals even further to the Jewish soul and is universally relatable--the theme of remembrance. The American Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as well as similar tombs in countries around the world, reflects the concept that though we may not be able to identify soldiers’ remains, they should still be remembered. This was not the reality that Walt Whitman observed: “"the Bravest Soldier crumbles in mother earth, unburied and unknown." Similar to the efforts of the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, comes the modern spin on the 10th of Tevet. It has become Yom Hakkadish Haklali, a day dedicated to mourning and remembering the lives of people whose exact date of death is unknown to us. Jews around the world commemorate this day by remembering those who perished in the Holocaust. I do not have any close family to remember on this day. Still, the entire Jewish people is my family, and I stand with my Jewish brothers and sisters on the 10th of Tevet to remember. Even though many people today do not fast, it is still important to take time out to think about the significance of the day and to remember. For more information on 10th of Tevet and how others observe: Modern day fasts? http://www.myjewishlearning.com/blog/history-community/faster-faster-asara-btevet/ Exploring the juxtaposition between Jerusalem’s historical role as a city and contemporary reality. http://renaissance.jewishagency.org/2010/12/09/wanted-in-jerusalem-social-justice-10-tevet-events/ Western Wall and the fast day http://www.westernwallblog.com/7/asarah-betevet-the-10th-of-tevet-fast/ Should we observe 10th of Tevet today? http://www.halakhah.org/2010/12/asarah-btevet-10th-of-tevet.html?spref=tw Fasting on a Friday? http://mahrabu.blogspot.com/2010/12/in-tradition-of-mah-rabus-calendar.html
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One of the mitzvot of Chanukah is pirsum hanes, which can be understood as “the advertisement of the miracle” of Chanukah. The advertisement becomes tangible as we place our chanukiyot into our windows, spreading the tiny lights of our candles outward into the dark night, and sharing the miracle of Chanukah with all who can see the flames. Pirsum hanes has always resonated deeply for me. Perhaps it dates to the year my cat jumped onto the table next to the window where we had the chanukiyah lit ,and knocked the candles into the filmy curtains, causing flames to shoot up to the ceiling. This was followed in rapid succession by shrieks, meows, a fire extinguisher in action and a visit from the fire department. Thank goodness no one, including my beloved cat, was injured. And thank goodness for electric chanukiyot, one of which was installed the very next Chanukah on that windowsill. That resonance is still strong, yet differently so. Then, I lived in a suburban neighborhood, on a street with other houses which had Christmas trees in the windows; my chanukiyah then was the lone one on the street. Now I live on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, which is by definition very Jewy. I live in an apartment that faces other buildings, and I can see from the window where I will light my chanukiyah the windows of hundreds of other homes. Now, when I light my chanukiyah, my lights shine outward into a darkness lit by many other lights, joining together to form a light that is stronger because it joins the lights of others. I look out and know that my lights are not alone in recalling Chanukah's many miracles, and I am reminded that we are stronger than the sum of our candlelight, with stories and memories that grow and strengthen as they are shared. Not long ago, I took the bus down Fifth Avenue, one evening toward the end of Chanukah. As I looked out the window, I was shocked to see in so many windows chanukiyot ablaze. Block by block I saw them, going up the floors of residential buildings, hundreds of tiny lights, proclaiming the victory of the the weak over the strong. So many Jews, so much remembering. So many miracles. Advertising the story of the Maccabees is essential, but which story to advertise is a tough choice. I never like to start with the story of the miracle of the oil: it seems that a late addition to the story by the rabbis of the Talmud has obscured the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrians and their brave fight to own their identities as Jews, take back their Temple and rededicate that space to the service of God. Instead of bogging myself down in choosing which message, I prefer to focus on the medium, the advertisement of the miracle, pirsum hanes. Whether it's the miracle of light banishing darkness, the miracle of the victory of the few over the many, or some completely different miracle, the point is to share it. Advertise the miracle: • Get an electric menorah, available at chain drug or big box housewares stores, and put it in a window of your home that can be seen by your neighbors. • Light a stable chanukiyah in a safe place in your window where children and pets can't knock it over. Candles can be purchased at Judaica stores, many grocery stores, and the aforementioned chain drugstores and big box housewares stores. For good measure, put some tinfoil down below it. Luckily, most Chanukah candles burn within 30 minutes, so you don't have to stick around all night worrying the cat might take it down accidentally. • Fun with kids: make a candle counter. A felt (click here http://bit.ly/gnrnay) or a magnetic one (click here http://bit.ly/gOJRXQ) can be hung on the door of your home and will be visible as well to your neighbors and all who visit. • If you live in a house: Line your front walk with luminaria. Put a “shamash” up on a stair and add one each night. • Use Chanukah's emphasis on light to look at how energy is used in your home. Change your conventional lightbulbs to energy-efficient bulbs, or consider switching from standard electric/gas to wind and solar powered options provided by many electric companies. Try an energy audit and make some adjustments as you approach winter. • Share the light of your chanukiyah and the miracles of Chanukah with others by inviting friends and neighbors to join you for candlelighting, especially those who have not experienced Chanukah before. As we advertise the miracle of Chanukah this year, may our individual lights be strengthened and increased in the world as they join the lights of so many others, in celebration and in community.
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Temporary Installation: Nero and Seneca by Eduardo Barrón
2/15/2011 - 9/18/2011
Nero and Seneca is on temporary on display in the Museum’s famous circular gallery known as the “Ariadne Rotunda”. Over the years the sculpture had been displayed and stored in unsuitable conditions. Together with the particularly fragile nature of the plaster of which it is made, this meant that various fragments were missing and that it had generally deteriorated. As a result, its recent restoration at the Museum was a particularly complex operation.
Displayed for the first time next to this newly restored sculpture is a little-known, smaller version of it, made by Barrón and given by him to the politician Antonio Maura in thanks for his help in ensuring the publication of the catalogue of sculptures in the Prado. This smaller version, on temporary deposit from the Fundación Antonio Maura (inv. no. 242), has survived completely unrestored in almost perfect condition. It reveals the original polychromy and the complexity, remarkable use of detail and technical mastery that characterise the making of this work. | <urn:uuid:4efe817b-154e-4fa4-a3c5-fb56c9acf8ef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.museodelprado.es/en/whats-on/exhibition/temporary-installation-nero-and-seneca-by-eduardo/2f42f23e-5107-4f8a-a6ad-10d188d9e45e | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00311-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963081 | 234 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Charles Rudolph Walgreen
(October 9, 1873 – December 11, 1939) was an American businessman
who founded Walgreens
He was born in Galesburg Knox County, Illinois
, the son of Swedish
emigrants. When his father, Carl Magnus Olofsson, came to America from Sweden, the family name was changed to Walgreen. When he was still quite young he and his family relocated to Dixon, Illinois
in 1887. He attended Dixon High School, Dixon, IL (1889) and Dixon Business College.
As a young adult, he lost part of a finger in an accident at a shoe factory. The doctor who treated him persuaded him to become an apprentice for a local druggist. His interest in pharmacy dated from the time he was employed by D.S. Horton, a druggist in Dixon where he was apprenticed as a pharmacist. In 1893, Walgreen went to Chicago
and became a registered pharmacist.Charles R. Walgreen, Labor Hall of Fame Honoree
(U.S. Department of Labor) At the start of the Spanish-American War
, Walgreen enlisted with the 1st Illinois Volunteer Cavalry
. While serving in Cuba, he contracted malaria
and yellow fever
, which continued to plague him for the rest of his life.
After his discharge, Walgreen returned to Chicago and worked as a pharmacist for Isaac Blood
. In 1901, when Blood retired, Walgreen bought the store from him. He opened a second store in 1909, and by 1916 owned nine drug stores, which he incorporated as Walgreen... Read More | <urn:uuid:a22baf54-5668-4721-bd53-a67c06a92b23> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pages.rediff.com/charles-rudolph-walgreen/362029 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00001-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982088 | 335 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Even though the terms on your mortgage say 30 years, that doesn't always mean you have to make payments for 360 straight months. You can take steps to pay off your 30-year mortgage earlier than normal. Taking this route saves you interest costs, and in the future you can put the money you would spend on your mortgage toward other investments. You'll also have peace of mind knowing that you own the home you're living in free and clear.
Pay your mortgage biweekly to pay if off early. Instead of paying your mortgage once per month, you pay half your mortgage every two weeks. When you do this for a full year you end up paying an additional monthly payment, which reduces your principal --13 payments instead of 12. In some cases you have to sign up for a biweekly payment plan with your mortgage company to use this method of paying your 30-year mortgage off early. With a hypothetical loan of $100,000 for 30 years at a 6 percent interest rate, you will pay off the loan within 24 years instead of 30 using this method.
Send your mortgage company any additional money you have available with each payment as another option to pay off your mortgage early. Make sure you include a note with your payment stating that the additional money must go toward principal. Say you have just $50 to put with your standard mortgage payment each month on this hypothetical loan. This allows you to pay off the loan within 25 years instead of 30.
Submit at least one extra payment per year to pay off your mortgage early. Again, make sure you clarify to your mortgage company that you want this additional payment to go toward reducing your mortgage principal. If you paid $1,000 extra toward your principal every year in the hypothetical $100,000 loan, the obligation is paid off in about 22 years instead of 30.
- Keep one key disadvantage of paying off your mortgage early in mind before you embark on this plan. Once the mortgage is paid off, you can no longer deduct mortgage interest on your taxes. In addition, there is no guarantee that paying off the account will increase your credit score -- in fact, in some cases it could cause the score to decrease slightly.
- Verify that you don't have to pay a mortgage prepayment penalty if you pay off your 30-year loan early. The prepayment penalty is commonly six months of interest, but varies by lender.
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Did you know that only 1/3 of your memory is determined by your biology and genetics? The rest is completely under your control. That’s why it’s so crucial to work on your memory – and you can start by learning the 8 Principles of Recall listed below.
You’re more likely to remember the information that you learned at the beginning of an event or series.
If you had to memorize a random list of 10, wouldn’t it be easier if 4 of them were fruits? Organizing information helps you remember it.
You remember items that are unique, so you’re less likely to remember Michael’s name than Merida’s.
You’re more likely to remember what you hear at the end of a series. If you’re cramming for an exam, help yourself remember by taking breaks to create more beginnings and ends.
Attaching a strong emotion to a particular piece of information helps you encode it and remember it long-term.
If your new acquaintance has the same name as your sister, you’ll remember it. Familiarity breeds memory.
Picturing new information in a unique way helps you remember it – one great technique is the story method.
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THE TOWN OF GLEN, MINNESOTA
GLEN TOWN SCHOOL
THE SCHOOL TEACHER'S CREED
GLEN TOWN SCHOOLBOOK
Soon as the playing period came
Our books and toil we laid aside,
And gave our zeal to every game
As to the play-ground forth we hied.
In due proportion thus the hours
Were yielded up to work and play ~
The body trained, the mental powers
Unfolded in true wisdom's way.
We feel both glad and sad, to-day,
And scarce can hide the rising fear,
We're glad for changes on life's way
Yet sad to part from schoolmates dear.
Ah me, that same will not appear
When opes again the schoolhouse door,
How oft their hearts within will burn
As they recall the scenes of yore.
Where'er they go to do the will
Of Him who guides each boy and girl,
May peace and gladness o'er them still
Their banner brave and true unfurl.
So one and all my pupils dear,
Whatever comes of joy or stress
Your teacher bids you have good cheer
And win the crown of true success.
I believe in boys and girls, the men and women of a great tomorrow; that whatsoever the boy soweth the man shall reap. I believe in the curse of ignorance, in the efficacy of schools, in the dignity of teaching, and in the joy of serving others. I believe in wisdom revealed in human lives as well as in the pages of a printed book, in lessons taught, not so much by example, in ability to work with the hands as well as to think with the head, in everything that makes life large and lovely. I believe in beauty in the schoolroom, in the home, in daily life, and out-of-doors. I believe in laughter, in love, in faith, in all ideals and distant hopes that lure us on. I believe that every hour of every day we receive a just reward for all we are and all we do. I believe in the present and its opportunities, in the future and its promises and in the divine joy of living.
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Within a brief period of time, no-tillers and other farmers within four counties in designated watersheds on Maryland’s Western Shore applied for more than $350,000 of cost-sharing for seeding cover crops this fall.
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Digitised copy of Letter from Malcolm McLaurine, chamberlain of Tiree, to the Duke of Argyll, 15 Dec 1801. In this letter McLaurine expresses gratitude to the Duke of Argyll for giving him the farm at Balephuil and agreeing to build a house on it; the factor; the division of the farm at Crossapoll into crofts; instructing the people of Tiree in farming; enclosing and subdividing the farm at Balephuil; plans to develop a large garden and nursery; using the Volunteer Company to maintain the social order of the island and to supress smuggling and distilling; the Argyllshire Companies.
Abstract of PhD thesis ‘Vegetation history, human impact and climate change during prehistory: an island perspective of the Isles of Tiree, Coll and North-West Mull’ by Karen Wicks, University of Reading, 2012. Based on pollen analyses of peat core samples. A digital copy of the full thesis is held on An Iodhlann’s computer.
Softback book ‘Flowers in the Snow’ by Gwyneth Hoyle, 2001. A biography of the plant collector Isobel Wylie Hutchinson who travelled the northern latitudes of the world in the first half of the 1900s in search of plants. Her travels through Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, Alaska were by various and interesting means. Includes Tiree.
Local news: launch of book `Wild Flowers of Coll & Tiree”; interview with Jessie Gray, Balemartine; United Auctions Trainee Auctioneer Niall MacKinnon, Hillcrest; plans for Argyll Airfields; promotion of healthy eating at schools; College of Piping tutor book translated into Gaelic; CalMac to continue to supply fuel to islands.
Sea bean, horse-eye bean – Macuna sloanei, with a letter of identification from the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh dated 12.6.06 (letter in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 4). The seed of a tropical plant carried north on the Gulf Stream and washed up on Tiree’s shore. | <urn:uuid:30355424-9203-43b5-8c7e-0d88f5236f26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aniodhlann.org.uk/tag/plants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.912573 | 450 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Delaware residents are the victims of deceptive business practices associated with a green energy scheme resulting from elected officials’ sweetheart deal with a fuel cell company, policy analysts and academics argue.
Bloom Energy had pledged to create 900 full-time jobs in Delaware by Sept. 30, 2016, and to continue employing these workers for at least seven years.
But a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from Bloom Energy’s initial public offering in June shows that as of March, it had only 277 full-time employees.
“Bloom has been able to milk Delaware taxpayers and ratepayers for massive subsidies, gain preferential treatment on multiple fronts, and avoid rules that are rigorously applied to other industries,” energy researcher Paul Driessen said during an event Friday at The Heritage Foundation’s headquarters on Capitol Hill.
The Delaware General Assembly extended financial inducements to Bloom Energy through legislation in 2012, a major topic during the panel discussion at Heritage, as was what Driessen and other speakers called preferential treatment from state regulators and other government officials.
The Sunnyvale, California-based company manufactures solid oxide fuel cells that use an electrochemical reaction to transform natural gas into electricity.
Bloom Energy traces its roots to 2002, when a Silicon Valley venture firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, invested in the green energy company. (That firm is now known as Kleiner Perkins.)
In April 2012, Bloom Energy opened a manufacturing facility in Newark, Delaware, on a site owned by the University of Delaware that previously was occupied by a Chrysler assembly plant.
David Legates, a professor of climatology at the University of Delaware, told the Heritage audience that Bloom Energy isn’t a genuine green energy company because its fuel cells use fossil fuels and release more carbon dioxide than traditional natural gas plants.
Bloom Energy’s fuel cells also run on methane gas, which produces hazardous waste, he said.
Even so, the company qualifies for renewable energy credits under Delaware’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards Act, which calls on utilities to draw 25 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2025. The company also is exempt from the state’s hazardous waste rules.
“Bloom Energy asserts that nothing on either side of the chemical equation is hazardous material, which technically is true,” Legates said. “However, no clean commercial source of methane exists. Thus, it contains many hazardous products that must be removed from the methane before it can be added to the fuel cell to avoid contamination … These compounds must be removed in sulfur canisters.”
A Sweetheart Deal
Legates’ slide presentation quoted Bloom Energy’s permit application as saying its manufacturing process “neither uses nor produces hazardous waste.”
The statement is misleading because it “ignores the presence of hazardous waste in the methane source,” he said.
But because Delaware officials accepted the company’s description of its manufacturing process, state rules governing hazardous waste aren’t applicable, he said.
In 2012 legislation amending Delaware’s Renewable Energy Portfolio Standards Act to allow fuel cells to be used as a renewable energy source, several provisions worked to the disadvantage of state residents, Legates said.
The law calls for a mandated surcharge, described as a tariff, on the bills of every Delmarva Power ratepayer that state lawmakers guaranteed to Bloom Energy for 21 years. The law also includes a clause that says Bloom Energy is entitled to all of the 21-year tariff if the law ever is repealed.
Legates described the arrangement between the state government and Bloom Energy as a sweetheart deal.
Delaware government officials charge Bloom Energy annual rent of $1 for its Newark manufacturing plant, and pledged to spend more than $16 million to upgrade the facility, he said.
“To date, Delmarva Power ratepayers have paid Bloom Energy approximately $200 million, and the total take by Bloom Energy from the state has been $300 million,” Legates said. “Moreover, the energy produced by Bloom Energy was more than three times as expensive [as traditional natural gas sources] in 2012, and now estimates place [it] as much as six times more expensive than traditional natural gas sources.”
Newark-based Delmarva Power, a subsidiary of Exelon Corp., provides electricity and natural gas to customers on portions of the Delmarva Peninsula in Delaware and Maryland.
The Daily Signal sought comment from Bloom Energy, but had not received a response by publication time.
Citizen Activist Denied Standing
John Nichols, a retired financial planner from Middletown, Delaware, who filed two lawsuits challenging Bloom Energy’s business practices and government policies that facilitate those practices, also spoke during the Heritage event.
In June 2012, Nichols sued then-Gov. Jack Markell, a Democrat, and members of the state Public Service Commission. Nichols argued that the state’s deal with Bloom Energy is unconstitutional.
In January 2013, Nichols appealed a decision by the state Coastal Zone Industrial Control Board that he didn’t have standing to challenge the permit issued to Bloom Energy by the state Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control.
Nichols argued that the permit violated Delaware’s Coastal Zone Act, which regulates industrial activity in specific areas.
The courts ruled that he did not have standing in either his state or federal lawsuit.
“To violate both the spirit and intent of the Delaware Coastal Act took failure on a massive scale,” Nichols said during the Heritage event. “Ironically, these failures may serve a valuable public purpose.”
That’s because government agencies are responsible for consequences to ratepayers and taxpayers that are beginning to gain attention, he said.
“The notion that all these failures are a coincidence strains credulity to the breaking point,” Nichols said. “These failures demand accountability for Delawareans, Delmarva ratepayers, taxpayers, Bloom investors, and everyone who values the beauty of the Delaware coastline.”
Although the state’s favoritism to Bloom Energy deserves further exposure and investigation, the company also benefits from “deep state” relationships at the national level with government and corporate figures, chemical engineer Lindsay Leveen told the Heritage audience by telephone.
Leveen, who is a consultant to corporations on energy deregulation and writes for the website Green Explored, reviewed the history of Bloom Energy and what he called its “collusion” with the internet company Google.
John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins in 1999, invested in Google and sits on the tech giant’s board. Doerr helped to organize financial support for Bloom Energy on behalf of Kleiner Perkins in 2002, Leveen said.
In July 2008, Google became Bloom Energy’s first commercial customer. Three months earlier, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers had released a report funded by the Department of Energy concluding that Bloom Energy “had by far the worst fuel cell on market,” Leveen said in his own slide presentation.
Bloom Energy installed four “Bloom Boxes”—devices used to convert natural gas to electricity—at Google headquarters, but only one of them had to operate at limited capacity for 30 days to be deemed a commercial success, Leveen said.
“The performance test at Google simply duped investors,” he said. “We also know from the S-1 [the Securities and Exchange Commission filing] that many of the Bloom Boxes failed and were decommissioned, and that Bloom took a major financial loss on the decommissioning of those boxes.”
Leveen called for executive branch agencies to investigate Bloom Energy, including the Federal Trade Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Say the Magic Words, Answer No Questions
Despite financial setbacks, Bloom Energy remains afloat because it received government subsidies, tax breaks, and other favors from high-ranking government officials, Driessen, a senior fellow with the Washington-based Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, said during his presentation. CFACT advocates free market solutions in energy policy.
“Bloom has been able to milk Delaware taxpayers and ratepayers for massive subsidies, gain preferential treatment on multiple fronts, and avoid rules that are rigorously applied to other industries,” Driessen said, adding:
The Delaware state legislature has allowed Bloom to operate under a unique definition of renewable energy that lets it qualify for special treatment and subsidies by claiming that its equipment could run on biofuels like methane from cows or landfills even if they never have done so, and even if they’ve always run solely on natural gas and even if they generate hazardous waste in the process.
Bloom Energy’s federal investment tax credit was eliminated in 2016, but Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., worked to restore the tax credit and make it retroactive to the date it ended, Driessen said. Sens. Tom Carper, D-Del., and Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., helped Schumer revive the tax credit, he said.
Driessen cited figures showing state and federal officials have given fuel cell makers $3 billion in subsidies over the past decade, with $1.5 billion going to Bloom Energy. Even with this assistance, fuel cell companies lost $6 billion and Bloom lost $2.4 billion, he said.
“Bloom clearly appears to have made questionable statements and outright misrepresentations of material fact to legislatures, regulators, investors, and journalists,” he said, adding:
You might ask how do they get away with this? Actually, the formula for success is pretty simple. Invoke the magical, infinitely malleable terms climate change, renewable energy, sustainability, and environmental protection, and you can pretty much deceive, exaggerate, fabricate, and manipulate all you want. Few difficult questions will be raised, little transparency will be required, and no accountability demanded. | <urn:uuid:8e49c68d-3aa7-48c7-82b7-f4fbb29c797f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/09/26/ratepayers-get-cold-shoulder-as-green-energy-gets-preferential-treatment-in-delaware/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.950052 | 2,073 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Ancient woven techniques, new scents and flavors coming from the richest local traditions and unique hand-craft products will awaken all your senses.
One of the highlights of this journey is the famous Otavalo Market. The marketplace dates back to pre-Inca times and will invite you to appreciate different textiles, woolen goods, tapestries and many more fine examples of craftsmanship strongly attached to their ways of life and ancestral roots.
On the way to Otavalo, you’ll stop for the famous Ecuadorian “bizcochos” in the Cayambe area, named after the nearby volcano of the same name. The bizcochos are a flaky and buttery biscuit accompanied by locally made mozzarella cheese and a cozy cup of hot chocolate or coffee that will fill your soul with delight. Following this stop, an explosion of color will surprise you at one of the famous Rose Plantations visited. Here you can learn about how roses are one of the leading exports of Ecuador and how these beautiful flowers are bred and grown. You’ll realize why they are so captivating, as each color and type of rose has a story, while discovering how the conditions of high altitude and Ecuador’s position on the equator allows the country to grow the most exquisite roses, exported to many parts of the world as a luxury item.
Lunch will have you tasting traditional dishes and local ingredients in a cozy atmosphere where the Quichua women will help you understand their weaving techniques and explain how they use natural materials and native plants. It is a wonderful opportunity to grasp many of their customs including the typical dress of Otavaleños, their cooking methods, music and dance, which are part of the great mosaic of indigenous culture in the Andes. Finally, you’ll arrive at the well-known Plaza de los Ponchos where you can feel the vibrant energy of an authentic indigenous market and the talented craftspeople who make it possible. The delicate embroidered blouses and shirts, beautifully carved figures, paintings, colorful tapestries, and the warmest and brightest alpaca sweaters, ponchos, and much more will amaze you! Otavaleños are very friendly, always with a smile on their face and will be happy to answer any questions you have about their handiwork. | <urn:uuid:24ceecb8-ee57-44d7-80e6-e0b51b722bb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.columbusecuador.com/our-destination/otavalo-indigenous-market/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.927453 | 485 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Singular Spectrum Analysis with R by Nina Golyandina
English | PDF,EPUB | 2018 | 284 Pages | ISBN : 3662573784 | 48.53 MB
This comprehensive and richly illustrated volume provides up-to-date material on Singular Spectrum Analysis (SSA). SSA is a well-known methodology for the analysis and forecasting of time series. Since quite recently, SSA is also being used to analyze digital images and other objects that are not necessarily of planar or rectangular form and may contain gaps. SSA is multi-purpose and naturally combines both model-free and parametric techniques, which makes it a very special and attractive methodology for solving a wide range of problems arising in diverse areas, most notably those associated with time series and digital images. An effective, comfortable and accessible implementation of SSA is provided by the R-package Rssa, which is available from CRAN and reviewed in this book. | <urn:uuid:9c6ab636-6c0d-4a6e-a729-9acc5c3fdfbb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tavaz.xyz/Vibration-Spectrum-Analysis/article_939458.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.917578 | 193 | 1.867188 | 2 |
The development of biochar systems around the world can be at vastly different scales and uses depending on the feedstock, expected use for the biochar, production technology, local economics, setting. Much of the developing economy country-specific biochar work that IBI is tracking are at the micro scale (biochar cookstoves) to village level systems (smaller scale). There are some larger scale units which can utilize agricultural waste and produce a good soil amendment.
Biochar can be a tool for improving soils and sequestering carbon in soil. However, this technology as any other must be implemented in a way that respects the land rights of indigenous people and supports the health of natural ecosystems. The goal of biochar technology as IBI envisions it is to improve soil fertility and sequester carbon, taking into consideration the full life cycle analysis of the technology. Properly implemented, biochar production and use should serve the interests of local people and protect biodiversity.
Although IBI does not implement or manage any on the ground biochar project, we support biochar research and projects through information exchange, assistance with proposal development and donor matching as applicable, data collection, project publicity, and basic techincal advice. If your project is not highlighted below, please contact Thayer Tomlinson to work on a project profile for publication in our newsletter and our website.
Photo: Conservation Agriculture Maize plots after 2 months (only 4 tons/ha biochar) measured against the control in Kaoma, West Zambia: photo courtesy of: Gijs Breedveld
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Biochar Plus improves the capacities of developing countries to absorb and use biochar technology, knowledge of which is readily available and promotes socio-economic development of families and communities. It also stimulates the development of specific biochar-related policies and incentive schemes, and builds the technical, entrepreneurial and scientific capacities of all stakeholders involved. The development of four energy clusters is expected to reduce anthropogenic pressure on forested areas and increase the soil fertility of cropland :
IBI and Cornell University worked with the World Bank to identify promising biochar systems in developing countries in order to help direct potential funding for biochar projects. In December 2010, IBI sent out a survey to our network requesting information about developing country projects. We received more than 150 responses from 43 countries which form the basis for the report which was released in July 2014.
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Capitol of the “Mid-South,” Memphis had over 652,000 residents in 2011, almost half of the region’s population. The Mid-South is the metropolitan hub of a five-state area which includes Tennesse, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisianna. With a worldwide reputation for culture and art (especially the blues), Memphis was also an important city during the Civil Rights movement, and the place where Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
Beale Street was the center of a large African American population immediately following the Civil War and at the turn of the century it became known as the “Main Street of Black America.” Beale Street became a musical incubator for the blues and influenced many important recording artists. Memphis’ STAX Records was also a major influence in creating Memphis soul music and boasted recording artists from Otis Redding to the Staples Singers. The site of the old STAX recording studio is now home to Soulsville and the STAX Academy.
Demographically, Memphis is 62 percent, African American, 31 percent White, five percent Latino, and 1.7 percent Asian. Population loss in Memphis is concentrated in small groups of dispersed pockets and not in massive continuous areas like most large metro areas. With the deterioration of inner-city public schools and the increase of crime, many community development corporations were formed in Memphis to combat blight. In 2002 HUD designated 48 census tracts as Renewal Communities and in 2005 they added 20 more tracts to the designated area, making it one of the largest renewal communities in the country.
Today, Memphis is home to a range of community wealth building institutions and initiatives. They participate in the Payment in Lieu of Tax (PILOT) program, which allows non-profits and businesses to qualify for a property tax freeze. Through the Memphis Community Development Partnership and the University of Memphis’ Center for Community Building and Neighborhood Action, the city is also part of the National Vacant Properties Campaign. The campaign establishes land bank authorities and organizes forums locally and statewide for constituents interested in vacant property reclamation.
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The DEA Home and Community Care Programs provides eligible seniors with innovative options to help them remain in the community and avoid premature institutionalization. These options are designed to assist the functionally impaired senior meet a wide variety of medical, environmental, and social needs.
Based on eligibility, Home and Community Care Programs may provide home health aide services, adult day services, a personal emergency response system, Meals on Wheels, Senior Companion, minor home modifications, or minor assistive devices.
If appropriate, placement in an assisted living facility may be made.
For most Home and Community Care Programs, a person must be 65 or older, a resident of Rhode Island, and be basically homebound (unable to leave home without considerable assistance).
For some persons on Medical Assistance (Medicaid), services may be provided at no charge. Other Medicaid clients may have to make a contribution towards services.
For information, call 462-0570
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People talk as if there are only high energy and low energy people, events, encounters. In fact there are many different kinds as only a few moment's reflection will reveal. Many so called hi-energy encounters are in fact simply 'wrong energy', with people displaying an excess of nervousness or even hostility. This is the basic dichotomy known to sports performance coaches: high and low 'positive energy' and high and low 'negative energy'. High positive is the ideal state- it is playful energy. High negative is aggressive energy, that can turn hostile with ease, and is far more common and though effective in some measure in some circumstances, does not 'transmit' as high-positive energy does. Low positive is mellow calmness while low negative is the least attractive- depressed and pessimistic.
Positive energy 'transmits', people around the high positive person get an energy boost and generally feel better about life. Really positive energy kind of blasts open a person's defences - whatever state they are in, but lower states require a 'key encounter'. By this I mean both people meeting need to find, for want of a better word, a 'wavelength' to communicate on. When they do positive energy can manifest in the encounter. Even though each person wasn't feeling that positive before hand.
Knowing this, though, one can slip into becoming an energy vampire or energy pirate. Energy vampires know that you can catch energy from people but due to a chronic lack of attention they mistake attention getting behaviour with getting on to a similar wavelength. Pirates are more cavalier- basically they cruise around seeking to increase their energy by downing on yours, or stealing yours by various forms of squelching your enthusiasm. Pirates love to get into competitive bouts because the attention they get (and give to themselves) from winning is translated into an energy boost.
Perhaps positive energy can be characterised as energy states where the attention needs of the individual are under control- having been met as a part of their everyday life. When we seek attention we often screw it up, far better to identify situations that are guaranteed to deliver attention and schedule a few of those each day into your life. Attention is a key source of holistic (ie. covering mind and body) energy, just as food is a key source of physical energy. When people are not seeking attention their energy can bubble away and transmit to others. When they are seeking attention randomly, just like a person searching a half-empty fridge for inspiration, their energy cannot be transmitted as its directed at getting nutrition, albeit in a pretty inefficient way.
Wrong energy, then, is usually either hostile or negative attention getting and giving- still attention of a sort though- and in a world where people are desperate for attention this will do. I recall once feeling really low and depressed while cycling round a roundabout in London. Then a car swerved in front of me and I banged on its side and gave the driver a stream of angry invective. I got attention! And felt a lot better for it. When I spent time in the US, where people give less attention to others than the UK unless that attention is 'demanded' in some way I quickly learnt to be more 'in your face' and direct than I am in Britain. I had to adjust my attention getting mechanisms. I think one reason why some people dislike travel is their habitual ways of getting attention don't work abroad, and then there are the travel junkies- who find they get more attention abroad than at home.
The world runs on positive energy. It's what we pay for when we see a singer we like or a movie star. It's why we read a vital, badly written, book every time over a lifeless well written one. It's why successful entrepeneurs are often playfully energetic types. Luckily it's everywhere- we are just good at getting in its way. Positive energy - more than you need - is flowing through any living creature - all you have to do is identify what is distorting its flow. For it is 'living on top of the flow' that characterises the feeling of 'having positive energy'. You don't have to feel it to live it though. Finding ways to get rid of those obstructions to positive energy flow can start with getting good physical energy reserves- food and exercise- and good holistic energy reserves- a reliable attention supply. | <urn:uuid:ba2b3c0a-0e91-46e2-a264-b6373dd23c53> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.roberttwigger.com/journal/2010/11/30/high-energy-v-wrong-energy.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00118-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965803 | 893 | 1.65625 | 2 |
You don't need to be a sociologist to notice that women tend to adjust their careers once kids come along, often looking to shift their schedules, locations or workloads when baby arrives.
But Stanford researcher Brooke Conroy Bass noticed something else: Women are shifting their career focus in advance of having kids, making professional calculations that impact opportunities down the line.
Here are the 5 things you need to know from Bass' study on how children impact men and women's careers—
1. Women make changes to their career trajectory based on the possibility that they may have kids in the future
They do this "just by imagining the additional responsibilities and care work that comes with parenthood," Bass explains. This can come in the form of choosing college majors and entry-level jobs in fields that they think can better accommodate future children. Or it can cause them to lean away from taking on more responsibility if they don't think it would lead them to a role that would allow them to balance life with kids.
"Women tended to downshift educational or professional opportunities as a result," even before having kids, Bass found.
2. Men don't plan for parenthood the same way
Bass' research indicates that while men actually take on more responsibility once baby arrives, they do not worry about how to balance work and life before having kids. This may result in women assuming that they are primarily responsibility for adjusting their careers, and that men are not.
3. "While most couples maintain a sense of egalitarianism before having children, many shift to more traditional roles upon the birth of the first child."
This is not necessarily a problem, if couples consciously choose these roles and are happy with them. Bass' research suggests both that men should be encouraged to be more aware of how parenthood might impact their careers, and that women should be thinking about how their choices before kids might impact employment opportunities later.
4. Women are qualified
A more highly educated female population means that gender dynamics are in flux in many families. As many women begin to out-earn their men [new research shows that Millennial women in their 20s are now earning more than men of their generation], the question of whose responsibility it is to keep the home fires burning is a very real, and evolving, one.
5. Bass research suggests that women might consider maximizing career potential before having kids
Just as men might consider how becoming a father could transform their careers.
Raising children is a team sport.
Bass suggests that: "If career and family were made more compatible, through policies like flexible work arrangements and paid parental leave for both men and women, then perhaps women would not worry as much about juggling career and children."
And perhaps men might also realize that they, too, can consider careers that allow them to play a bigger role in family life. With more men than ever lobbying for paternity leave and other flexible options that allow them to play a larger role on the home front, change still may be on its way. | <urn:uuid:ac099df3-abfb-4890-be74-addc824afc04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mother.ly/life/stanford-research-many-women-scale-back-career-ambition-before-getting-pregnant/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.980306 | 612 | 2.921875 | 3 |
There are many methods on how to jump start . Jump starting with a dead or severely discharged battery can be done by supplying it with power from an external source. Traditionally, people have used jumper cables as a temporary connection between both vehicles and their batteries, however, jump starting technology has come a long way in terms of efficiency, safety, and ease of use.
The first innovation in portable jump starting came in the form of large, heavy, lead-acid jump starters. Lead-acid jump starters fixed several problems associated with jump starting, like the need for an additional vehicle. Even with the advantage of portability, lead-acid jump starters still pose the same safety risks as jumper cables, which require knowledge of the correct battery terminal polarity, and are often too heavy to be effectively portable.
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The battery capacity inside of your iPhone, for example, is measured in milliamp-hours," or mAh. Devices that are frequently being used like phones and cameras often require more power capacity to run than the device battery can store. Boost's battery pack can be used to extend the life and running time of your device. Plus, powering your device from an external battery pack will reduce the internal battery charge cycles, extending the usable life. The chart below will help explain how many times Boost can recharge your USB device.
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Talc is a soft mineral that absorbs moisture, soothes skin, reduces smells, and prevents caking. As a result, its use in commercial products ranges from baby powder and deodorant to makeup and moisturizing lotion. Unfortunately, critics say, it may also cause cancer.
Concerns about talcum powder’s safety have existed since at least the 1970s. But in recent decades, the scrutiny has become an avalanche. In the past 15 years, nearly 40,000 talcum powder lawsuits were filed against the product’s largest manufacturer: Johnson & Johnson.
The Link Between Talcum Powder and Cancer
Talc is generally considered harmless when applied to the skin. Concerns arise, however, when it enters the body. For that reason, most questions about whether talcum powder causes cancer involve people inhaling it or applying it to their genital region.
Because talcum powder particles can travel through the reproductive tract, many studies have focused on uterine and ovarian cancers. Research is ongoing, but results so far have been mixed. Some studies show no increased cancer risk, while others suggest talcum powder may be dangerous for specific groups, such as post-menopausal women.
Talcum powder is also a known respiratory irritant. Despite the product’s marketing as “baby powder,” the American Pediatric Association recommends against using talcum powder on infants because it can damage their delicate lungs. Complicating matters is talc’s potential contamination with asbestos, which has long been known to cause lung cancer.
The Link Between Talcum Powder and Asbestos
Asbestos and talc belong to similar groups of minerals that are often found in the same area. When talc is mined and processed, it can mix with asbestos. While the dangers of talc alone are less clear, the hazards of asbestos are well known. Because it causes a particular kind of cancer called mesothelioma, asbestos has been classified as a known human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Talcum Powder Cancer Lawsuits
Critics argue that the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) and talcum powder manufacturers downplayed asbestos concerns for decades. As recently as 2019, tests were still finding contamination, with nearly 20% of talcum powder products containing asbestos. As a result, some batches of Johson & Johnson baby powder were recalled. In 2020, the brand stopped selling talc-based baby powder altogether.
Talcum powder lawsuits complain that Johnson & Johnson knew their products contained cancer-causing asbestos, but failed to warn consumers. And juries have agreed. The company has paid out astronomical settlement and verdict amounts, including a single award of nearly $5 billion in an ovarian cancer lawsuit. In many such cases, women routinely used Johnson & Johnson talc products for feminine hygiene before being diagnosed with cancer.
Talcum Powder Lawyers
If you or a loved one developed ovarian cancer or another illness after using baby powder, you could be eligible for compensation. Successful talcum powder cancer lawsuits can result in payment for medical costs, lost wages, emotional distress, and even wrongful death.
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The Guatemalan criminal justice system faces many challenges, not the least of which is an impunity rate reaching 98 percent, according to the International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala. Impunity persists as both organized and random crimes continue to rise, and with extortion, kidnapping and violence against women now commonplace in Guatemala.
To explore how best to combat this impunity, the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs is supporting an ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI)Prosecutorial Reform Index (PRI) for Guatemala. The PRI wille valuate the performance and functionality of the Public Ministry of Guatemala, which is charged with prosecuting crimes throughout the country.
The assessment began in earnest in February, when an ABA ROLI assessment team took the first step in a seven-month process. After review of relevant legislation, regulations and secondary source material, Guatemalan attorney Claudia González and ABA ROLI Senior Legal Analyst Jessie Tannenbaum visited cities throughout Guatemala to interview approximately 60 key actors in the criminal justice system, including prosecutors, judges, legislators, defense attorneys, journalists and civil society. The team noted significant cooperation from the Public Ministry and other criminal justice actors, many of whom indicated their desire to read the PRI findings and to begin working to improve the ministry.
According to the assessment team, a complex bureaucracy makes it difficult for actors within the public ministry to understand exactly how the criminal justice system works, and the root causes of impunity are unclear to many within the justice system. The PRI examines key functions of the public ministry and will include essential, yet never-before-compiled, information on its operating status and on the criminal justice bodies with which it works. This information will provide in-depth analysis of the ministry’s work and give Guatemala a road map for criminal justice reform.
The PRI for Guatemala will be publicly released in late summer 2011. Click here to learn more about other ABA ROLI PRI assessments.
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A couple of years ago I got involved with brake development and
experimentation. This was purely for my own edification. I’m just a
hobbiest and needed something to do!
I bought a brand new Savage 112 in 308 with laminated stock and SS
fluted barrel to be used as a test bed. I threaded the barrel to 1/2-28.
This is the thread that most brakes are available in since it is the
standard AR-15 thread. I would be testing aftermarket available brakes
along with my own designs. I made a rifle rest that would allow the
rifle to recoil and the amount of recoil to be measured. I tried to set
up a scale to measure this recoil force, but it was inconclusive. I
made over a dozen brakes for this rifle. All different size port holes
from many, many small holes to just two huge holes on either side (sort
of like a military tank compensator). I would start out with the exit
hole a very few thousands over bullet diameter and ream it out in .005″
steps, testing between each enlargement. I tried different lengths. How
long is too long? Different materials. Different hole spacing and
location. Here is what I found….
Exit Hole– If the exit hole is too small, ie <.005″ over bullet
diameter, accuracy suffers. Accuracy really suffers if the exit hole is
more than .25″ deep. The depth of the exit hole creates a “tube” the
bullet must pass through on its way to the target. If the depth of the
exit hole is too shallow the metal around the hole will erode very
quickly. There is not much heat and pressure (5000psi) at the muzzle,
but over time a thin piece of any metal will fail.If the hole is too
small, I believe it is the air trying to get by the bullet that upsets
flight. Best accuracy and effectiveness of the brake was obtained with
.020″ over bullet diameter. There was no measurable reduction in recoil
between .005 and .020. Measurable change in recoil happened at .040″
over bullet diameter. Any exit hole over .040 and the brake began to
lose effectiveness rapidly.
Holes– Most effective braking was with a
brake 1″ in diameter with a 3/4″ exit hole on each side, just infront of
the muzzle. The bullet passes through a cone of 35 degrees before it
exits the brake. (Like the tank example), Incredible reduction of
recoil. But loud and ugly. Very easy to make since you don’t need a spin
fixture or a dividing head. As far as individual holes, it make no
difference the diameter or amount as long as they are large enough and
plenty enough to bleed off all the gas trapped in the brake. I’ve built
brakes with 48 – 1/8″ holes and 30 – 3/16″ holes and they both work
identical. I’ve drilled the holes completely random around the brake
(looks like hell!) and in straight patterns and helix patterns….no
difference on accuracy or reduction. I now use a left to right helix of
3/16″ holes .010″ apart at a 2 degree off set. A total of 5 holes in a
row, six rows for a total of 30 holes. The brake ends up at 2 3/4″ with
a 1/2″ thread depth for an overall extension of the barrel of 2 1/4″.
The helix keeps the brake tight and it doesn’t need to be indexed. If
the brake is indexed so the holes line up with the barrel, after
removing it a few times the holes will shift a few degrees and look less
Material– I’ve made them of Stainless, CM, and
Aluminum…No difference at all. The Aluminum brakes harden somehow
after repeated firring and I have one on an AR-15 with over 12,500
rounds (Moly test gun) and the brake is perfect.
Holes on top only– In
my tests, not having holes all around the brake effects accuracy a bit.
I believe it does something to the bullet by the air pushed ahead of the
bullet creating unequal turbulence in the bullet path. I’ve tried a few
brakes where I drilled only holes on the top, test fired, and then
completed holes on the bottom and in every case, accuracy improved. Put
an old blanket down if you don;t want to kick up dust in the prone
Expansion Chamber– A brake bored out to thread diameter
right up to the exit hole is much more effective than a brake where the
bore is exit hole for the full length, Having the bullet traverse this
large expansion area somehow improves accuracy and there is a marked
reduction of recoil.
Effectiveness– The higher the pressure of the
particular round, the more effective the brake. I have over 20 rifles
with brakes. The 220 Swift is the king of reduction. Followed very
closely by the 25-06, 6mmRemington, any Weatherby small bore. With a
proper brake and a hot handload under a 40 gr bullet, the Swift will
move 1/2″ to the rear and 0 muzzle rise! Big boomers with low pressure
like 45-70s and shot guns benefit the least. I have two identical
Remington 700s both with identical brakes. One in 308 and the other in
300 Win Mag. Both shooting 155 Sierra Palma bullets, the Win Mag about
300FPS faster, and the Win Mag has measurably less recoil! Must be the
pressure / amount of gas available.
Length– After 3″ there isn’t enough
gas left to do anything. The longer the brake, the harder it is to hold
concentricity of bore exit hole. If the exit hole isn’t +-.0005″ ,
accuracy will suffer.
Factory Brakes Available– I haven’t tried them
all but of the ones I’ve tried I will only recommend two. The Vias brake
is excellent! Very difficult to make in the home shop. Besides a series
of holes around the brake George Vias bores a series of holes to
intercept the radial holes, thereby bleeding some gas and noise out of
the front of the brake. You lose some braking effectiveness with this
method, not much, but you gain a measurable reduction in muzzle blast
and noise, Darrel Holland’s Ultra brake is IMO the most effective brake
on the market. It does everything right! Expansion chamber, exit hole,
number of holes, length. It is a quality product and it is inexpensive
($60 in CM. $75 in SS – Midway) And Darrel does about the best
installations I’ve seen. (and I’ve seen some horrible, nearly unsafe,
installations) The JP Enterprises recoil Eliminator (you may have seen
it, it looks like a tank brake) is the most effective reducer of recoil.
Period! But man, on anything but a 50BMG it is one ugly device. And
LOUD! Just too much muzzle blast for any hunting rifle. Hope this helps
those of you interested in building your own brakes.
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to you, you might want to throw a few bucks at me via paypal
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A wire-haired dachshund’s top spot at the UK’s biggest dog show yesterday (8 March) has prompted vets to raise concerns that many prospective owners may be inspired to get a dachshund without realising that this breed can suffer from serious health problems. The British Veterinary Association (BVA) is urging anyone thinking about bringing home this increasingly popular breed to be aware of the spinal issues that dogs bred to have a long and low body type can suffer from, and to speak to their vet for tailored advice.
This year’s Crufts winner, Maisie, featured alongside a Best in Show line-up that also included a Miniature Smooth Haired dachshund and a Basset Hound, which is another breed bred to have a long, low body and short, stubby legs.
Their extreme body shape makes all six varieties of dachshunds– Standard Long-, Smooth-, and Wire-haired, and their miniature versions– at risk of serious spinal and neurological issues which usually require surgery to fix. These problems may not be immediately obvious, but often cause them life-long discomfort and may need costly treatment.
Intervertebral disc disease (IVDD) tops the list of common health issues, which is a condition which causes the dog to be unable to walk and can seriously compromise the dog’s quality of life. Research shows that the risk of IVDD in dachshunds is 10-12 times higher than other dog breeds, with at least one-fifth of all dachshunds showing clinical signs in their life. The median age of onset of disease is between 5-7 years, with the Standard and Miniature Smooth Haired and the Miniature Wire Haired having the highest prevalence of this disease.
These health issues are a specific concern as recent figures show dachshunds may be on their way to pip their flat-faced cousins to the top spot as the UK’s most fashionable breed, helped along by their Instagram, advertising, and celebrity appeal among the likes of Adele and Declan Donnelly. Their Miniature cousins lead this demand, with registrations for the Miniature Smooth Haired dachshund showing an almost 200% jump in the past decade. This rise comes at a time when breed registrations for flat-faced dogs such as Pugs and French Bulldogs have fallen for the first time in ten years following sustained campaigns by veterinary and animal welfare organisations to raise awareness about their health issues.
While these are official figures, a 2018 BVA survey of vets also showed that the high demand for these tiny dogs has also made them among the list of top breeds that vets suspect of being illegally imported into the country.
BVA President Daniella Dos Santos said:
“We’re concerned that seeing a dachshund crowned top dog at Crufts could lead to a further rise in their popularity and related increase in the health issues that can unfortunately affect these and other long and low breeds. Vets of course love and care for all dogs, but success in the show ring may lead to a further boom in demand outside of it from owners who may not be aware of these health issues and the extra care and treatment they may require as a result.
“The message from vets is loud and clear- always pick health over looks or Insta-appeal. Before adding a dog to their family, we encourage anyone thinking of getting one to seek information and advice from their local vet on the right breed for them. If you are buying a dog, using the free online Puppy Contract will ensure you get a happy, healthy and well-socialised puppy from a responsible breeder.”
BVA’s policy on extreme conformation can be viewed at: https://www.bva.co.uk/take-action/our-policies/extreme-conformation/
The UK Kennel Club considers all 6 dachshund breeds to be Category 2 under their Breed Watch scheme – ie they all have “points of concern”. You can read more about what the Kennel Club does to support breed health here.
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Almost three million Brits have fallen behind on their energy bills because of the coronavirus pandemic.
That’s according to a new survey by Citizens Advice, which suggests mobile phone, broadband, water and energy bills are the most common sources of household debt.
The survey, which was conducted by Opinium and asked 6,015 adults about their current financial challenges, also found one-in-four people who are parents or carers are behind on their household bills with around a fifth of individuals having to go without essentials, including food.
Findings of the survey also show one-in-three black people are struggling to pay one or more bills, compared to one-in-eight white people.
Citizens Advice warns many of those now in debt may never be able to escape it and estimates people who sought help with debt since March this year will need on average, two and half years to pay back their current bills.
The organisation is calling on the government to back those in debt in the form of one-off or time-limited financial support.
Dame Gillian Guy, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, said: “It is not right that people who’ve followed government guidance by shielding, stayed at home to care for others, been forced to work less, or lost their jobs altogether should be the ones left facing a financial black hole.
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By Theresa Maddix
|The School of Social Work, the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations, and U-M-Dearborns College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (CASL) worked with the UAW to create the Work, Technology and Society Program,one of 14 U-M projects that recently received a Computerworld Smithsonian Award. Photo courtesy Lawrence Root|
The project grew out of a decade-long School of Social Work program that provided educational counseling to UAW members in Ford plants. When the 1996 United Auto Workers (UAW)-Ford collective bargaining agreement called for a new program dedicated to a university-style approach to workplace education and training, the School of Social Work, the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations (ILIR), and U-M-Dearborns College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters (CASL) responded with the Work, Technology and Society Program.
The collaboration worked with the UAW-Ford National Programs Center and local UAW and Ford leaders to develop a plant-based educational infrastructure to support distance learning. CASL designed customized bachelors degrees addressing the theme work, technology and society, specifically oriented to the auto industry.
Not all of the programs students are pursuing a bachelors degree. Many plan to transfer the credits to other degree programs or see the courses as enrichment opportunities.
Bruce Pietrykowski, assistant dean of Dearborns College of Arts, Sciences, and Letters and associate professor of economics, directs the degree program from the Dearborn campus. He sees it as a new way of learning, guided by a strong commitment to academic excellence in the classroom that has been the hallmark of U-M-Dearborn faculty. Specialized classes, all taught by Dearborn faculty members, such as Labor and Literature, Economics of Fordism and Post-Fordism and Organizational/Industrial Psychology support Pietrykowskis assessment.
Education resource specialists, under the direction of Justine Bykowski, are key to the programs success. They work at the University and in the plants, advising students, helping to obtain resources and explaining the academic and technical challenges of distance learning. They also provide a communication link between plant-based learning centers and education training coordinators.
Kae Halonen, one of the education resource specialists, notes, the program is a challenging one. A person obtaining a University of Michigan degree can be assured that standards have been maintained. The U-M has a very high standard in terms of expectations around what students can do, what they should do and what they can be, she states.
While not compromising the course content or quality, the program recognizes that the students have needs that differ from those of many of the students sitting in classrooms at U-M-Dearborn or in Ann Arbor. Many workers have more specialized computer experience and are not as likely to be comfortable with personal computers. Most of the students have been out of a classroom setting for years. The responsibilities of family and holding a full-time job can interfere with study.
The education resource specialists of the School of Social Work and the technical support team at ILIR are integral to the success of the program.
Program director Larry Root has been with the project since its inception. Root, professor of social work and director of ILIR, says, Building on-site educational resources and creating an infrastructure to support distance learning has been a major challenge. We are extremely fortunate to have terrific student support and a top-notch technical team.
A technical support team helps students learn how to access the Web from home, set up and use e-mail accounts, use basic word processing programs and move between programs. They also keep the video-conferencing and course Web pages working and up-to-date.
Student feedback on the pilot program has been very encouraging: Had it not been for the flexibility the University distance learning program affords me, I would probably never have returned to college, said Robert Borders of the Louisville Ford Plant and UAW Local 862.
Adib Ahwal of the UAW Local 182 at the Livonia Ford Plant said, The workplace is increasingly requiring some knowledge of the computer, and this program is an excellent opportunity to gain basic computer skills.
Now in 10 plants, Root hopes that UAW-Ford University classes eventually will be offered throughout the UAW-Ford system.
UAW-Ford University is one of 14 U-M projects that recently received a Computerworld Smithsonian Award. The projects now are part of the Smithsonian Institutions Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology and are part of a permanent exhibition that opened in spring 1990 at the Smithsonians National Museum of American History on the history of information technology. | <urn:uuid:afd3f294-9930-4679-b227-a10e8c7892cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ur.umich.edu/9900/Oct11_99/7.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00575-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94388 | 957 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Source: (2000) California Criminal Law Review. 2(3). Downloaded 1 November 2005.
Victim Impact Statements (hereinafter referred to as “VISsâ€?) are statements read
by, or on behalf of, crime victims at the sentencing phase of criminal trials. VISs
have been occasionally constitutionally challenged in American courts. The
challenges have typically been that VISs conflict with the Eighth Amendment’s
“Proportionality Doctrineâ€?, which holds that punishment must be proportional to
the crime. The United States Supreme Court has considered three times in recent
years whether the reading of a VIS at the sentencing phase of criminal
proceedings is constitutional. The present constitutional status of VISs is that the
proportionality doctrine “does not erect a per se barâ€? to the admissibility of VISs
at sentencing proceedings, but the Fourteenth Amendment may provide a door to
relief. This note examines the Eighth Amendment treatment of VISs by the
Court, and the possibility of future Fourteenth Amendment due process
challenges to the consideration of VISs during the penalty phase of criminal
proceedings. Author’s abstract.
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In 1977 MTSU professor June Anderson founded the Women’s Information Service for Education (WISE). After her death in 1984 WISE was renamed the June Anderson Women’s Center.
In 2010 the June Anderson Women’s Center and the Center for Off-Campus Students were combined to form the June Anderson Center for Women and Nontraditional Students to serve the needs of these distinctive student populations.
June S. Anderson
Born in 1926 in Tipton County, Tennessee, June S. Anderson was an only child. Although she suffered from asthma throughout her life, she earned her college expenses through scholarships and work and received a B. S. degree in 1947 in chemistry and biology and an M. A. degree in 1948 in chemistry and English.
From 1947-1958 Anderson taught high school science. She completed a second undergraduate degree (in physics) in 1954 after receiving a general Electric Fellowship and in 1957 she received the Tennessee's Distinguished Science Teachers Award. She joined the faculty of MTSU in chemistry in the fall of 1958. In 1964 she completed post-doctoral study at the University of Arkansas under a national Science Foundation grant.
In addition to teaching at MTSU for 25 years, Anderson founded Concerned Faculty and Administrative Women (1975) as an academic support service for women and established the Women's Information Service for Education (WISE) in 1977. She also founded Women in Higher Education in Tennessee (WHET), participated in the Rape Alert program, conducted Women's Studies Classes, and championed pay equity, child care centers, and proper campus lighting.
The June S. Anderson Foundation was established in 1982 to support women entering non-traditional educational fields. Following her death in 1984, the WISE center was renamed the June Anderson Women's Center to honor the life of this distinguished educator.
"She was fearless and tenacious. When she wanted something, she wouldn't quit until she achieved it." Esther Seeman, Director, Japan Center
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Working therapeutically with obesity: Binge eating disorder
Aims and objectives:
- To gain an understanding of how therapy can help discover root causes resulting in obesity.
- To understand and identify destructive eating behaviours.
- To recognise addiction and its association to destructive eating behaviours.
- Understand relapse prevention strategies.
- To gain an understanding of the core principles of the 12-step model.
- What research has demonstrated.
- Comparison between compulsive overeating/bingeing and DSM-V substance dependence criteria.
- Cycle of addiction.
- What is binge eating disorder?
- Addictive behaviours often connected to compulsive overeating.
- Difference between Group Therapy and 12-Step groups.
- Family/personal history.
- The solution.
- Interactive Group Workshop.
- Abstinence – what is it?
- Introduction and overview of the 12-step model and its use during and after therapeutic treatment.
- Five-hour CPD certificates will be issued.
- Occupational Therapists
- Youth Workers
- Family Therapists
- Personal Trainers
- General Practitioners
- Social Workers
Cost: £55 per workshop. £100 if booking both workshops together - see March 19th 'Understanding anorexia and bulimia'.
I specialise in working with disordered and destructive eating behaviours including anorexia/binge eating disorder and food addiction. I have my own personal recovery from an eating disorder plus 18 years of working in this field using an addiction based model integrating CBT, Compassion Focused Therapy and Motivational Interviewing techniques. | <urn:uuid:32122cc3-6b6f-4743-a7c6-2f5630d1b876> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.counselling-directory.org.uk/events/working-therapeutically-with-obesity-binge-eating-disorder | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.868107 | 389 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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