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1. Periods of time where the process of idea execution has come to a standstill.
You can easily recognize when one of your friends is being too hard on themselves. But it's a bit harder to self-diagnose...
By Christian Jarrett
Fact: Work Brings Criticism. Here's how to detach the emotion from the comments.
By Tara Sophia Mohr
The unexpected creative benefits of a "beginner’s mind."
By Oliver Burkeman
How to fight, the right way.
By The 99U Team
To vet his hit film ideas, Adam McKay distills his concepts into children's tales to ensure they have the proper storytelling anchors.
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Classical music versus jazz, fixed versus free, planned versus improvised... which one is better for our creative process?
By Allison Eck
“Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly."
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Leaders should always have the phrase “What do you recommend?” at the ready.
By David Marquet
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Building a Smarter City: Baton Rouge Shows that Bigger Isn’t (Necessarily) Better
When megacities (with populations of more than 8 million) top these types of rankings, it’s easy to lose sight of the areas of real opportunity. In fact, much of the innovation and explosive growth in the Smart City arena is happening in small and midsize cities.
This makes sense. Although megacities have the staff and budgets to really embrace some of the cutting-edge technology, midsize and smaller cities can be agile with their implementations, starting projects on small scales, iterating to find what works, and then scaling up.
In fact, it’s GIS departments of smaller cities that are seeking to reinvent their workflows. Instead of creating static maps that require high overhead and heavy maintenance, they’re turning to do-it-yourself geospatial apps that allow non-geospatial experts to tap into the power of location intelligence, mitigating the technology budget challenges in smaller cities.
For example, smaller and midsize cities need cost-effective ways to analyze their services as citizens call in reporting in real time. This type of proactive analysis helps cities improve the quality of life for citizens.
With a population of 227,000 and serving a metropolitan area of more than 830,000, Baton Rouge, La., is a prime example of a city that’s leveraging geospatial innovations for visualizing and understanding its most-pressing challenges. Driven by the creation of its Smart City Committee in 2016, the City of Baton Rouge is proactively identifying opportunities to enhance public policy and decision-making, data management and collaboration, and civic engagement and education.
To solve these wide-ranging problems, Baton Rouge needed a solution that would let it combine existing enterprise GIS data with other departmental data sources such as financial information, 311 citizen requests for service and traffic data. This solution also had to be easy to use by various department leaders without overtaxing the city’s GIS staff.
Baton Rouge chose M.App Enterprise from Hexagon’s Geospatial division to combine the power of GIS with its specific business data. The solution enables the city to deploy compelling location-based business intelligence apps, called Hexagon Smart M.Apps, to be run by city employees in web browsers.
The result isn’t just a static map, but a live dashboard that encourages the exploration of data across multiple charts, simultaneously. This dynamic interaction provides several perspectives in one tool and avoids the need for additional applications. By allowing users to dynamically adjust the charts, it’s simple to explore location-based data based on combinations of conditions as well as temporal and spatial parameters to identify patterns and trends.
The finance department can gain insights to address how much a council district is losing in terms of revenue due to industrial tax exemptions. It’s possible to focus on specific industrial businesses across the metropolitan council districts by combining financial data with GIS data. Gauges are used to visually display the breakdown of data by loss of actual tax revenue by city function.
When addressing blighted properties, the city can explore the relationship with crime to help prioritize resources. The analytic offers the average time to resolve the blighted property reporting issues by each council district to provide performance metrics on city services.
Traffic analyses help determine which intersections have the largest number of vehicle and pedestrian accidents and combine them with traffic volumes, allowing traffic engineers to prioritize where safety improvements need to be made. The solution also allows for analyzing crashes based on time, date, location, manner of collision and road condition.
Overall, these types of location intelligence solutions can address an even wider range of city operations, including water systems, streetlight management and crowd-sourced citizen data.
For example, with growing populations in cities of all sizes, it’s inevitable that water consumption also will grow. New online platforms for geospatial infrastructure management of water and sewerage offer accessible content that’s continually updated in real time with compelling location-intelligence analytics to drive decisions, communicate status and collaborate on actions. Streetlight management solutions help develop light inspection workflows, offer an interactive dashboard for at-a-glance views of light power usage over an entire city, and can provide mobile alerts to city workers when there’s an outage.
With many of the efforts being connected, these types of Smart City systems need to be effectively visualized, monitored and analyzed for optimal collaboration and communications. For example, data about broken streetlights can point to more crime incidents, and underground infrastructure status can impact road-paving schedules.
Power to the People
Citizen engagement also helps cities become smarter. Location-based apps quickly capture citizen issues, visualize them and ultimately drive rapid decision-making. This allows city leaders to show performance improvements, which is what Baton Rouge plans to do with its 311 Smart M.App.
The Baton Rouge implementation is a prime example of how bigger isn’t always better when it comes to embracing Smart City solutions. Smaller and midsize cities have the agility and ability to iterate solutions for delivering relevant geospatial data, workflows and analytics, on any device, into the hands of local government and residents interested in making the city a better place to live. | <urn:uuid:9befe69b-bd69-46c3-9351-e97c65b14468> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://informedinfrastructure.com/48711/building-a-smarter-city-baton-rouge-shows-that-bigger-isnt-necessarily-better/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.918635 | 1,098 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez, Guatemala
Pedro Cortés y Larraz
Pedro Cortes y Larraz
Natural de Belchite, Aragon.
Tercer Arzobispo de Guatemala:
- 1769 – 1779 –
Se opuso con entereza
A la traslacion de la capital.
Fue modelo de caridad cristiana.
Homenaje del Comite del
2o Centenario del Arzobispado.
- 1743 – 1943 –
The esteemed Pedro Cortes y Larraz
Born in Belchite, Aragon, Spain.
Third Archbishop of Guatemala
1769 - 1779
He roundly opposed moving the capital.
Was a model of Christian charity.
Tribute from the Committee of the 200th Anniversary of the Diocese.
1743 - 1943
Location. 14° 33.389′ N, 90° 43.966′ W. Marker is in Antigua Guatemala, Sacatepéquez. Click for map. The marker can be seen on the south side entrance to the ruins of the Antigua Cathedral.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. The University of San Carlos (within shouting distance of this marker); First Rector and Graduate of the University of San Carlos (within shouting distance of this marker); Cathedral of Antigua Guatemala (within shouting distance Francisco Marroquín (within shouting distance of this marker); Birthplace of Luis Cardoza y Aragón (within shouting distance of this marker); California Avocado Society Thanks Guatemala (about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line); Palace of the Captaincy General (about 90 meters away); Antigua Guatemala UNESCO World Heritage Site (about 120 meters away). Click for a list of all markers in Antigua Guatemala.
Regarding Pedro Cortés y Larraz. Pedro Cortés y Larraz was the Catholic Archbishop during the earthquake on January 29, 1773 which almost completely destroyed the city of Antigua, Guatemala (then known as Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala). At the time the city was an important economic and cultural center and rivaled other cities in the Americas. After the earthquake, the military and civic leaders of the day decided to move the Guatemalan capital to its current location, Guatemala City. Pedro Cortés y Larraz famously opposed the move of the capital, although eventually he was overridden. He is also very famous for a book he wrote of his visits to all of the parishes in his diocese (the Descripción Geográfico-Moral de la Diócesis de Goathemala). This trip took him almost two years to complete from 1768 to 1770, traveling mostly by foot and horseback. It provides detailed geographical and ethnographic information from the colonial period.
Categories. • Charity & Public Work • Churches, Etc. •
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Abraham Lincoln : A Life, by Keneally, Thomas (Author)
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- ISBN: 9780143114758 | 0143114751
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- Copyright: 12/30/2008
The ideal concise biography of an American icon— now available in paperback for the bicentennial of his birth The self -mad e man from a log cabin, the great orator, the Emancipator, the Savior of the Union, the martyr—Lincoln’s story is at the very heart of American history. But who was he, really? In this outstanding biography, award-winning author Thomas Keneally follows Lincoln from his impoverished birth through his education and presidency. From the development of his political philosophy to his troubled family life and his actions during the Civil War, Abraham Lincolnis an incisive study of a turning point in our history and a revealing portrait of a pivotal figure. | <urn:uuid:d331f75a-7b61-4e1d-8037-0ba41f9c53e3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biggerbooks.com/abraham-lincoln-life-reprint-keneally/bk/9780143114758 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00003-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948106 | 205 | 2.03125 | 2 |
The Future of 100LL Avgas
In 1976 under the US Clean Air Act, lead was identified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a major pollutant and subsequent action was taken to "get the lead out".
Remarkable progress has been made and according to the EPA average concentrations of lead in the air have dropped 91 percent between 1980 and 2008. Much of the credit for the dramatic drop of lead concentrations is given to the permanent phase-out of lead in motor vehicle gasoline. From 1976-1996 lead was gradually reduced to completely non-existent in highway use vehicles.
In the 1996 ban on leaded gasoline for highway use vehicles, the EPA also identified a few remaining acceptable or necessary uses for lead in fuels: aircraft, racing cars, marine engines, etc.
The natural progression of further eliminating lead concentrations leads to the next largest source, leaded aviation fuels (avgas). The EPA, as required by the Clean Air Act, has formally begun the regulatory process that will ultimately result in the removal of lead from avgas. While a concern it is expected that an alternative fuel will be in place before the current 100LL becomes unavailable.
CIRRUS participation in finding a solution:
Cirrus is actively working with all industry partners to try and find the best possible transition to a future unleaded avgas. Cirrus currently:
The Search for Unleaded Avgas
- Chairs the General Aviation Manufactures Association (GAMA) fuels committee which leads the various industry groups working with the EPA and the FAA to find a viable transition plan to an unleaded avgas future.
- Is a member of the FAA Unleaded Avgas Transition Aviation Rulemaking Committee. The membership consists of the FAA, EPA, General aviation associations, manufacturers, petroleum companies and possible future fuel providers. This is the first time a committee was formed with all stakeholders.
- Is a member of the ASTM, the appropriate standard organization, aviation fuels committee which is establishing the specifications and methods to validating new aviation fuels.
- Participates in the Coordination Research Counsel (CRC) – the aviation fuels committee which works with fuel suppliers, engine manufactures and the FAA on researching and testing high octane fuels.
- Is working directly with fuel suppliers to test promising new fuels.
Everyone agrees that every effort should be made to find a transparent to near transparent 100 octane fuel replacement - one that can be mixed with 100LL, distributed the same way and made at about the same price.
The 100 octane rating can be maintained with additives such as MTBE, Ethanol, Manganese, Xylene among others. The challenge is a solution that also addresses issues such as:
- Operation at temperature extremes.
- Fuel stability over time.
- Long-term health and safety aspects of the fuel (the current problem with 100LL!).
- Compatibility with distribution equipment and aircraft fuel systems.
- Production in existing refineries.
- Cost of production and distribution.
Three possible avgas replacement scenarios (in order of highest octane):
- Identify a transparent replacement fuel. No fuel yet has been identified but there are candidates emerging.
- Find the closest to 100 octane fuel replacement that address all issues listed above.
- Adopt 94 octane unleaded fuel (94UL): This is "100LL without the lead". This, of course, addresses all the issues listed above - and is the "backstop" option.
To date many would say no fuel has established itself as a clear front runner for a 100 octane or near 100 octane solution, but there are many hopefuls such as Swift fuel and GAMI's G100UL.
The "backstop" is the 94UL fuel solution. To produce it, the lead in the 100LL refinement process is removed. This solves all the issues listed above, but the drop in octane will mean significant changes (or power reductions) to many higher performance engines.
What will those changes be to higher performance engines?
Until we know the the future fuel this is speculative but the answer will vary: in some cases it will be merely operating limitations at the "corner" of the performance envelope; in others it may involve engine modifications.
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Bill Clinton's Impeachment
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Hour 2 The 2 that were not passed were: "The president provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony in the Jones case in his answers to written questions and in his deposition." and "The president misused and abused his office by making perjurious, false and misleading statements to Congress" ( Articles of Impeachment - Washington Post). Bill Clinton, although he was a very bright, intelligent, and popular president, was impeached from the presidency in 1998. Ken Starr, who was an Independent Counselor investigating the Whitewater real estates of Bill Clinton, reported that President Clinton had lied to him during the investigation, which resulted in his impeachment. Clinton was impeached because he committed perjury and obstruction of justice. "The president provided perjurious, false and misleading testimony in the Jones case in his answers to written questions and in his deposition" (Articles of Impeachment - Washington Post). "The president misused and abused his office by making perjurious, false and misleading statements to Congress" (Articles of Impeachment - Washington Post). President Clinton lied to the grand jury in testimonies between December 7th, 1997 and January 26th, 1998 and he also asked witnesses to the grand jury for him, and in return, he offered them Federal jobs, which is illegal. Contrary to his oath as President to uphold the constitution of United States, he engaged in conducts that resulted in the misuse and abuse of his power. House: Passed
Committee: Passed House: Failed
Committee: Passed House: Passed
Committee: Passed House: Failed
Committee: Passed President Clinton lied to a federal grand jury during a sexual harassment legal suit brought against him by Paula Jones, which happened before Clinton began the presidency. Paula Jones accused Clinton of sexual harassment in 1994. Clinton denied this and accused her of "being an opportunist who went public with her story to make money and harm him politically" (Case Closed - Washington Post). Clinton tried to delay the trial about this case until after he leaves office, but the Supreme Court dismissed this attempt. Before the trial could even occur, U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright eventually sided with Clinton, throwing out the case. In 1998, President Clinton was accused of having an affair with an intern by the name of Monica Lewinsky. In 1995, Lewinsky joined as an unpaid White House Intern for Chief of Staff Leon Panetta. She engaged in her first sexual encounter with Bill Clinton in November of the same year. In 1996 she began working in the Pentagon for Ken Bacon and met Linda Tripp. Lewinsky began telling Linda Tripp about her affair with Clinton, then Tripp began to secretly tape Lewinsky. Lewinsky was later asked to appear before the court by the lawyers representing Paula Jones. She submitted an affidavit denying any affairs with President Clinton. Linda Tripp then informed Ken Starr about her secret recordings of Lewinsky. Ken Starr offered Lewinsky immunity in lieu of confessing, which she agreed to. Clinton gives a deposition denying any affairs with Lewinsky. In a televised interview, Clinton stated "I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time. Never. These allegations are false." Later, in another press conference, he admitted to his affair with Lewinsky. Kenneth "Ken" Starr was an independent counselor appointed for investigating the Whitewater Scandal, involving President Bill Clinton. During his long investigation, Starr did not find any evidence that Clinton did anything illegal. He then began investigating the Lewinsky scandal. He didn't find much evidence about that issue either, until Linda Tripp approached him and informed him about the secret recordings that she had of Lewinsky admitting to the affair with Clinton. Starr informed Congress that Clinton had lied to his grand jury about the affair with Lewinsky, which ultimately led to his impeachment. President Clinton is the second and final (to date) president to be impeached from office. He was the most investigated president in U.S. history. Four articles of impeachment were introduced against President Bill Clinton, accusing him of perjury and obstruction of justice. Two of which were passed by the House and the other two were not passed. He was not removed from office because there were not enough votes in the Senate. If he had admitted to his affairs with Lewinsky earlier, he would not have been impeached, but because of his lying to the grand jury, he ultimately was impeached. | <urn:uuid:28bf3009-7359-46b3-a36f-8aaf064ce873> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://prezi.com/hr7cljf9ad6u/bill-clintons-impeachment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00273-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979478 | 1,072 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Creating a new document for your logo, part of Creating and Adapting a Logo.
- Throughout this chapter I'll be showing you…how to create this graphic,…and I'll be doing so in a way that…requires no sample file.…All you need is Adobe Illustrator to get…exactly the same results that you see onscreen.…Now as I demonstrated in the previous chapter,…creating the logo was not actually…a linear process…so what we are about to do is only possible…with the benefit of hindsight.…And so what we're going to do in this movie…is create and customize a new document.…So the first thing you want to do,…once again inside Illustrator,…is to go up to the File menu and choose…the New command,…and then go ahead and change the profile…to Basic RGB.…
So even though one of the versions of…this document will be a two color print job,…we're best off working in the RGB space…because it's a lot more flexible.…That way we can create backlit versions…of the logo, screen versions, and so forth.…Alright, now I'm gonna change the size…of the document,…and this is very important if you want to…get the same results,…make sure that your units are set to Points,…
- Identifying the brand's objectives
- Sketching a design
- Drawing the artwork in Illustrator
- Selecting the perfect font for a logo
- Adding type
- Choosing and assigning spot colors
- Adding vector-based shading with gradients
- Using photographic details for a more photorealistic look
- Changing the orientation of a logo
Skill Level Intermediate
Designing and Animating a Mind-Bending Illusionwith Deke McClelland1h 26m Intermediate
Designing Your Own Online Avatarwith Deke McClelland3h 37m Intermediate
Photoshop CC Essential Training (2013)with Julieanne Kost14h 58m Beginner
1. Brainstorming and Development
2. Drawing the Art for Your Logo
3. Setting the Type
4. Assigning Spot Colors for Print
5. Adding Device-Independent Shading
6. Adding Some Photorealism
7. Changing the Orientation
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The classic cartoon hero Popeye was an early champion of plant-based protein demonstrated in his theme song, “I’m strong to the finish ‘cause I eats me spinach….” For years mothers, including my mother, used Popeye as an example to encourage their children to eat spinach because it would make them healthy and strong. Nutritional science has proven once again that Mom was right — approximately 51% of the calories from spinach are protein!
Today, protein is synonymous with animal products and the majority of meals are built around a meat centerpiece. Vegetables have been relegated to a garnish or small side dish that is all too often oiled and overcooked. Where did this dietary concept originate? The word “protein” is derived from the Greek word proteios, meaning “ of prime importance,” perhaps explaining its preeminent position in dietary discussions today. Also, throughout history meat-based meals were a symbol of an affluent lifestyle while those of the lower classes consumed a “substandard” plant-based diet. The unspoken cultural assumption that persists today is that a plant-based diet is inferior and deficient in protein and contributes to a weakened body.
The good news is that the growing body of nutritional research is illuminating the fallacy of this cultural myth. Research has shown that all plants contain protein and at least 14% of the total calories of every plant are protein. Broccoli contains more protein per calorie than steak and, per calorie, spinach is about equal to chicken and fish. Of course, you’ll need to eat a lot more broccoli and spinach to get the same amount of calories that you do from the meat. Multiple studies have shown that if you are meeting your caloric needs through plant-based nutrition, you will satisfy your body’s protein requirements.
Some simple math proves the point. If you consume 2000 calories per day from plant sources containing 14% protein, the total number of calories from protein equals 280. Divide 280 calories by 4 ( there are 4 calories per gram of protein) to find that this diet would supply 70 grams of protein — more than enough for the average man or woman. Classic studies of protein nitrogen balance have shown that women require, on average, 30-50 grams of protein per day and men require 50-70 grams per day based on weight.
Nutritional research has also discovered that plant-based protein from a wide variety of sources adequately supplies all the essential amino acids required for a healthy body. It is not necessary to consume a “complete” protein at every meal. The body’s innate intelligence utilizes the protein from multiple meals to provide the necessary building blocks. In addition, every bite of plant-based protein offers the extra health benefits of fiber, antioxidants, phytochemicals, vitamins and minerals.
How can you add more plant-based protein to your diet? By simply eating more plants. Beans (27% protein) lentils (36%), chickpeas (33%), peas (30%), and kale (22%) provide the greatest opportunity to acquire micronutrients packaged with protein. Practical solutions to add more of these include adding beans/legumes to salads, stews and soups. Use higher protein vegetables like spinach, kale, lentils, broccoli, beans and peas in each meal or recipe. And for a nutrient-rich breakfast, consider starting your day with a smoothie made with bananas, blueberries, kale, spinach, strawberries and fresh almond milk. So, now you too can claim, “…I’m strong to the finish, ‘cause I eats me spinach” …and kale…and lentils…and chickpeas…and beans!
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Expanding Iowa’s Earned Income Tax Credit
Helping to Fill Gap between Income and Basic Needs for Working Families
Policy Brief (2-pg PDF) April 5, 2013
The Iowa General Assembly is once again considering expanding Iowa’s meager Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). The Cedar Rapids Gazette editorial board recently had this to say about these efforts: “A state that hands out tens of millions of dollars in tax breaks to large firms in the name of job creation should be able to afford providing a justifiably bigger break to Iowans already on the job. The earned income tax credit expansion is an endorsement of work over dependency, a pushback against a growing tide of child poverty, an economic shot in the arm for local business and tax relief for families that need it most.”
Just how much working families do need a boost from the EITC can be seen in light of the actual costs of raising a family in Iowa. Working full time, year round, even at the median wage of about $15 an hour ($31,200, less $2,387 in payroll taxes), is not enough for families with children to cover the costs of food, rent, child care, transportation, and other essentials even on a very basic, no-frills budget. We estimated such basic household budgets for Iowa families of various sizes in our 2012 report, The Cost of Living in Iowa. The results for two family types are shown in the table below. A single parent working full time with a small child would need about $32,300 to meet basic expenses, while a married couple, two-earner family with two children would need over $50,000.
Half the jobs in Iowa pay less than the $32,300 needed by the single parent in Table 1. Many jobs pay minimum wage, which means about $15,000 per year if she works full time. At that income level, the federal and state EITC, along with other refundable credits (Iowa’s child and dependent care credit and the federal additional child tax credit), will raise her after-tax income $4,100 closer to the basic needs budget line, filling about a quarter of the gap between basic needs and disposable income. These credits continue to boost after-tax income as she earns a higher and higher wage but they are reduced as income increases. An increase in the state EITC from 7 percent to 20 percent of the federal would not get this family to the basic needs level, but it will help to undo some of this problem of family income adequacy. This change in the law means an additional $400 for the single parent working minimum wage.
A similar picture emerges for the two-parent family with two children (one under age 6, the other age 6 to 18). With two people earning minimum wage and working full time, the family has $30,200 in total annual earnings, but $1,700 in payroll taxes and $500 in Iowa income tax subtracts from this income. The fact that low-income families do not pay federal income tax at this income level while the state requires taxes demonstrates the lack of recognition for the costs of raising a family under the Iowa income tax. Also it needs to be noted that these working families are taxpayers: In addition to payroll taxes, they pay sales taxes and gas taxes and property taxes, included in cost of household expenses, rent and transportation in our cost of living figures. The refundable credits (state and federal) are sufficient to offset payroll and income taxes and provide an additional $3,780 toward filling the gap between basic needs and disposable income (Figure 1). An increase in the state EITC to 20 percent would add $430 to this amount. The family would still be $15,900 short of the $50,300 in disposable income needed to meet basic needs.
Increasing the Iowa EITC to 20 percent of the federal, from its current 7 percent, would not undo the shortfall minimum-wage families face in getting to a no-frills budget level, but it would help fill the basic-needs gap for over 200,000 Iowa households, including 37 percent of Iowa children. In fact, a strong case can be made for increasing the credit to 30 percent, which would align the EITC with the Iowa income tax overall, which on average is about 30 percent of the federal. Such an increase would also help offset the Iowa tax system’s poor treatment of families, with a personal credit of just $40 per child compared to the $3,800 federal personal exemption.
The Gazette, Cedar Rapids. Editorial: “More to spend: Raise tax credit to help working families, boost economy.” Sunday, March 31, 2013. http://thegazette.com/2013/03/31/raise-tax-credit-to-help-working-families-boost-economy/
Lily French, Peter Fisher and Noga O’Connor. The Cost of Living in Iowa, 2011. The Iowa Policy Project. May 2012. http://www.iowapolicyproject.org/2012Research/120531-COL.html
Iowa Department of Revenue. Iowa’s Earned Income Tax Credit Tax Credits Program Evaluation Study, revised February 2012. www.iowa.gov/tax/taxlaw/EITC2011_revised.pdf
Charles Bruner. Resolving Inequities in Iowa Taxes. Iowa Fiscal Partnership. February 2012. http://www.iowafiscal.org/2012research/120202-IFP-EITC.html
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Augustine’s Philosophical Anthropology:
Immortality of Human Soul in a Composite Soul-Body
In The City of God, Saint Augustine presents Varro as his representative who holds his two-substance dualistic anthropology. He defines what constitutes a man to be a whole man. An individual human person is an essential body and soul composite. The soul apart from the body and vice-versa cannot be recognized as the whole man. The man has to have both the degenerative material body and the immortal soul together as a unity. My goal in this paper is to show how Augustine used the Platonic tradition as his philosophical framework to harmonize and shape the Christian philosophical anthropology that is compatible with the teachings of the Christian Scriptures.
His works on philosophical anthropology show that he was under strong influence of Platonism, Neo-Platonist work of Plotinus and Porphyry. Frederick C. Copleston claims that Augustine used much of the neo-Platonic ideas while formulating the Christian world and life view. Despite the fact that he had been a Platonist before his conversion to Christianity, his view on the soul seeks to reinterpret the Platonic and neo-Platonic view of the immortality of the soul. For Augustine, the souls are created but immaterial substance simultaneously that bears the image of God.
Firstly, the Platonism claims the souls to be existed eternally and self-sustaining substance that are not created on contrary to what Augustine believes. Diogenes Allen, the professor of Philosophy, writes that “the care of the soul was the fundamental concern for Socrates, Plato, and Plotinus; they all believed that soul is immortal and is capable of existing without a body.” For Plato, the soul is the real person which has certain entities like inherent potentiality of independent existence and full functionality apart from the body. It escapes from the death; hence it also avoids the obliteration of the material body which is merely “the prison house of the soul.” It is the principle of life that carries the essential property of body. Therefore, soul is the life-force for the body.
Secondly, the body is a matter that is also competent to exist on its own, but the functionality comes to halt by virtue of being inert after death that is followed by decomposition. Socrates thinks this is how “death separates the soul from the body.” If there is such a thing called death, then it is merely the separation of the soul from the body. So, it is safe to say that death of a person does not mean an end of personal existence. Death only provides the escape way for the soul to be liberated from the body that is impure and polluted, according to Platonic view. For that reason, the body is prison house indeed that is made for the soul to live in the certain time and space but not a real person.
Finally, Plato believes that the human soul is a rational and a real person. The real knowledge of the Form is only possible, if the soul is pure and immortal. “Pythagoras himself apparently thinks that what makes the soul divine is the intellect, the power to know the true, unchanging reality,” says Allen, “this is the order, proportion, and harmony in the universe evident to reason and the senses.” Socrates first introduced the soul as the “source of motion” as well as “the intelligence or mind of a person.” In this sense, the soul or the intelligence or mind of a person must pre-exist bodily existence. By means of the virtue of soul, then the real knowledge ought to have independent recognition; it cannot be otherwise. Thus, the soul must have ontologically existed from eternity by means of its eternal characteristics; hence has it bore the basic Ideas or knowledge.
Unlike Platonism, the anthropology of Neo-Platonism does not consider the soul as the principle of life. “Soul is related to Intellect analogously to the way Intellect is related to the One. As the One is virtually what Intellect is, so Intellect is paradigmatically what Soul is.” Having said this, the soul transcends everything except the One, because everything emanates from the One. Therefore, the human is more like God.
Nevertheless, Plotinus views the totality of a human person is only the reflection of the temporal embodied life of the soul that the soul uses the body as the instrument to individualize itself. The distinction between an individual and the soul-body composite is quite plainly explained in terms of the individual human alikeness with “a cognitive agent or subject of cognitive states.” So, the soul is a rational being or a true self in a material body.
By the time of Augustine, the philosophical problem of the relationship between the body and soul was still continuing in the marketplace of philosophy schools. He obviously acknowledges the fact that man is the apex of creation and is created with the soul and the body. Nevertheless, he makes distinction between two as the soul-body unity. Copleston presents Augustine’s position on the soul-body, as he views “a soul is a possession of a body does not constitute two persons but one man.” The body and the soul should be taken into account in relation to both, because the soul, as he perceives, ought to be identified with the body too. The soul alone cannot be counted as a whole person or otherwise.
Augustine reasons his arguments for the immortality of soul, first, in the human mind and secondly, in the Scriptures of Christian God and its teachings. Augustine argues that the soul must be a reality because of its capacity to reason. O’Connor summarizes Augustine’s argument as follows: “Truth so exists in the soul that it is inseparable from it, but Truth is immortal, there, the soul is immortal.” He applies the Truth to the soul and argues back to the truth again to imply the undividable correlation between two.
In other words, the soul is a rational being actualizing its essence into the material and corporeal body in order to be a fully human being. “Since the truth can only exist in an incorporeal substance that is alive, and is inseparably connected with it as with its subject, this incorporeal substance, i.e. the soul, must everlastingly live.” In view of the fact that only living substances can reason and the soul is living. Therefore, the soul must be necessarily an incorporeal substance in order to do reason. Thus, the soul is immortal.
The human soul once identified as incorporeal is now a living substance that is the axiom which animates the body. The living soul directs and guides the body. Augustine insists that if the truth to be immortal, then he reasons, unquestionably on Platonic basis, that the human soul must be immortal, since the truth can only exist in the incorporeal soul. In this very sense, that the soul is superior and manipulates the body for sensory experiences but not the other way. “Consequently, if, as we said above, the soul is a subject in which reason is inseparably (by that necessity also by with it is shown to be in the subject) neither can there be any soul except a living soul, nor can reason be in a soul without life, and reason is immortal; hence, the soul is immortal.” By applying the same logic that the reason resides in the mind, Augustine analyzes why the soul is immortal.
The first reason for the immortality of the soul, for Augustine, is the nature of science which is believed to be eternal. According to his writing, science exists everywhere and can never ceases to exist into human mind. It is eternal and the nature and the truth it has cannot be invalidated. The reason is that the equilateral triangle always has three equal angles and three equal sides. The form of the equilateral triangle exists in our human mind without seeing it once we know its basic characteristics. It is rooted in the absolute truth and the science.
He further maintains that science needs lives for its own existence. And science is only possessed by the living, so it cannot dwell in anything that cannot reason. “If we exist who reason, that is, if our mind does, and if our mind cannot reason rightly without science, and if without science no mind can exist except as a mind without science, then science is in the mind of man.” Obviously, the point here is, if science is unchangeable, surely the unchangeable must also be the same eternal property that holds another eternal property. By applying the same logic, we can say that the mind in which eternal science exists ought to be eternal in terms of its nature that eternal cannot exist in non-eternal.
Likewise, reason comes from the mind. In the process of reasoning, the soul performs solely devoid of any assistance from the body. Our thought or reason comes to exist independently through thinking. As Augustine contends that science is the synonym for all knowledge of any type and kinds; science exists and dwells in the human mind. And whatever comes to exist independently through our thought is thus eternal. Therefore, the human mind is eternal and it always lives. O’Connor puts the argument very succinctly:
The human soul contains knowledge, but all knowledge pertains to some science, and science is immortal, therefore the soul is immortal. This argument is followed by another which also appealed strongly to the mind of Augustine at the time it was formulated. The soul of man is immortal because it is the seat of Reason which is immortal. Reason is another of those things which exists in the soul in an inseparable manner, but Reason can exist only in a living subject, and since it must exist always, its subject must be immortal, therefore the human soul is immortal.
The second reason for the immortality of the soul is the Reason itself which is immutable. Our reason originates from the mind. Now, it is lawful to say that Reason is in the mind or reason itself is a mind giving the qualifications of the soul as inseparable with the Reason. We have already talked about Reason that it is also, in the same manner like science and mind, must be necessarily inseparable from the subject (referring to the body), since the Reason needs the living subject according to its nature to function as a complete unit.
The body is mutable due to its alteration in its mode of existence. On the other hand, the Reason is immutable and undeniable in the sense that it applies the same mode consistently in its reasoning. Nothing can influence the mode. Two and two always are four and their existing mode does not change at all. The mode of these numerical values does not change but always exist in the same mode. Therefore, the Reason then is immutable.
Augustine writes that the soul is immortal because God created them and intended them to be immortal. It bears the very image of God. As a result, the soul is superior to the body, says Cooper. Also he argues that God created the soul as a “simple spiritual substance” that does not decompose. This is obvious whatever does not decompose lives. The soul escapes the bodily death, because God bestowed immortality while he created in his image.
Augustine knows the Platonic ideas of reincarnation of the soul. In the City of God, he states that “Plato said that souls could not exist eternally without bodies; for it was on this account, he said, that the souls even of wise men must some time or other return to their bodies.” For Plato, the eternal soul does return to live in another body to become a reincarnated being. That kind of soul shall return to the Father after death of the body. In their reincarnated state, they will escape the misery of the ill world and suffer no more.
Once we evaluate these two views of Plato and Porphyry, we come to know that these views are contrast with the Christian view of the resurrection of the body and the soul. The opposing both views deny the bodily resurrection. Porphyry says that the pure soul belongs to the wise and righteous that should only return to the incorruptible bodies in the world to live a blessed and immortal life. He knows that the cycle of this life, reincarnation should come to an end for the deliverance of these righteous soul, but he thinks that any philosophical school of thoughts has not discovered yet.
If we put these two views together, we can find the missing link that Augustine found to formulate Christian life and worldview about the soul-body eternal life in harmony with the Scripture. That missing link is the grace of Christ that Porphyry did not find because he did not seek rightly for the universal way of the deliverance of the soul. He writes, “We (Christians) say that the separation of the soul from the body is to be held as part of man’s punishment. For they (concerning other philosophers) suppose that the blessedness of the soul then only is complete, when it is quite denuded of the body, and returns to God as a pure and simple, and, as it were, naked soul.” And Augustine does not buy this argument due to its inconsistency in its logic which contradicts with their doctrine of reincarnation.
On the contrary, if we put Plato and Porphyry’s views together, what we find here is the closest resemblance of the Christian doctrine of resurrection of the saints in the end days. Porphyry believes that the holy or the purified soul will never return to live again in the misery. “Let Porphyry then say with Plato, they shall return to the body; let Plato say with Porphyry, they shall not return to their old misery: and they will agree that they return to bodies in which they shall suffer no more.” These views from Plato and Porphyry echoes Christian thought as Augustine himself had suspected them to be Christian.
After examining Augustine’s position on the immortality of the soul and the soul-body composite as a union, we can easily assume how much Greek Philosophy and individual philosophers had influenced his thought. The Platonic traditions and the Neo-Platonic thought can be easily traced in his writing, as sometimes he expressly declares and deliberates their thoughts into his works. His philosophical theology of original sin, free will, and the nature of human soul was very influenced by Neo-platonic. For example, Augustine praises Porphyry for substituting Plato’s view that the human soul will not return to beast rather than human bodies.
In the history of Christianity, the Neo-platonic influenced always did not prove to be disadvantage. Augustine used much of their materials to shape the Christian philosophical thought without losing originality of the orthodox theology of the Church Fathers who lived before him.
In addition to his contribution in the early church, Augustine’s philosophical theology played a major role in the development of the Reformation theology. His philosophical theology can be seen in the works of Thomas Aquinas. Later, Reformers like Luther, and especially John Calvin were much influenced. The theology of Total Depravity and the Irresistible Grace of Augustine had a huge impact on Calvin.
Thus, Augustine’s philosophical theology and especially the Christian philosophical anthropology have great impact throughout the church history. Apostle Paul’s teaching was the guidance for Augustine to keep the orthodox theology of the Church from syncretism and philosophical pluralism of the time. Through his anthropological philosophy, we can now understand what makes us as a complete human person and implication of our soul living in the eternity with God.
Allen, Diogenes. Philosophy for Understanding Theology. Atlanta, Ga.: John Knox, 1985. Print.
Augustine. Basic Writings of Saint Augustine: On the Immortality of the Soul. Trans. Whitney Jennings Oates. Vol. 1. New York: Random House, 1948. Print.
Augustine. The City of God. Trans. Marcus Dods. New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006. Print.
Augustine. “The Immortality of the Soul.” Trans. Ludwig Schopp. The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation. Vol. 4. [New York]: Catholic University of America, 1947. 10-15. Print.
Cahn, Steven M. “Plato.” Classics of Western Philosophy. 7th ed. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Pub., 2006. 49-113. Print.
Cooper, John W. Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-dualism Debate. 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 1989. Print.
O’Connor, William P. The Concept of the Human Soul According to Saint Augustine. Thesis. Catholic University of America., 1921. Milwaukee: Archdiocese of Milwaukee, 1921. Print.
“Plotinus.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Web. 19 Apr. 2010. <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/>.
“Plotinus.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 30 June 2003. Metaphysics Research Lab, CSLI, Stanford University. 26 Apr. 2010 <http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/>.
Augustine, The City of God, XIX,3 (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), 805.
Copleston, A History of Philosophy: Augustine to Scotus (Tunbridge Wells: Burns & Oates, 1999), 15.
John W. Cooper, Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and Monism-Dualism Debate, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989), 10.
Allen, Philosophy for Understanding Theology, (Atlanta: John Knox, 1985), 118.
Cahn, Classics of Western Philosophy: Phaedo (64c), (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2006), 53.
Allen, Philosophy for Understanding Theology, (Atlanta: John Knox, 1985), 32.
Cahn, Classics of Western Philosophy: Republica (1,353d.), (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 7th ed., 2006), 129. Socrates asks Thrasymachus if he could perform anything without assistance of soul.
Cahn, Classics of Western Philosophy: Phaedo (76c,e), (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 7th ed., 2006), 60.
Copleston, A History of Philosophy: Augustine to Scotus (Tunbridge Wells: Burns & Oates, 1999), 78.
William Patrick O’Connor, The Concept of the Human Soul according to Augustine: Immortality of the Human Soul, (Milwaukee: Archdiocese, 1921), 59.
Ludwig Schopp, The Fathers of the Church: A New Translation, Saint Augustine: Immortality of Soul, Vol. 4 (New York, 1947), 10-15.
William Patrick O’Connor, The Concept of the Human Soul according to Saint Augustine: Sources, (Milwaukee: Archdiocese, 1921), 12. This is taken from his published dissertation for his PhD program.
Basic Writings of Saint Augustine: Augustine on the Immortality of the Soul, Vol. 1, Part One (New York: Random House, 2006), 306.
Ibid, 301.
Ibid, 301.
O’Connor, The Concept of the Human Soul according to Saint Augustine: Sources, (Milwaukee: Archdiocese, 1921), 60. This is taken from his published dissertation for his PhD program.
Augustine, Basic Writings of Saint Augustine. Trans. Whitney Jennings Oates. Vol. 1, (New York: Random House, 1948), 302.
Cooper, Body, Soul, and Everlasting Life: Biblical Anthropology and Monism-Dualism Debate, 2nd ed. (Grand Rapids: Eerdman, 1989), 11.
Augustine, The City of God: Book XXII, Ch. 27 (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), 1021.
Ibid, 1021.
Augustine, City of God: Book X, Ch. 32 (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), 409.
Augustine, City of God: Book XIII, Ch. 16 (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), 507.
Augustine, City of God: Book XXII, Ch. 27 (New York: Barnes & Noble, 2006), 1021.
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Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America
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The answer to this ""why"" appears to be because conservatives are awfully mean, arrogant, manipulative and hypocritical. For a book that is supposed to give pride and justification for liberals, it focuses a great deal of its text on conservatives. Even in discussing liberalism's history, positions and overall ideology, the book's thesis appears to be ""why you shouldn't be a conservative,"" certainly not an overwhelming argument to become a liberal. However, Alterman's assessment of the contradictions, misinformation and foul play by conservatives in order to taint the word ""liberal"" in the cultural context is particularly interesting when held up against extensive research revealing that the majority of Americans are ""liberal"" when it comes to most social issues. For most of the performance, Malcolm Hillgartner reads in a straightforward voice with good pace and tone. His intensity increases to coincide with the more outrageous acts or events in what Alterman considers to be a war on liberal identity. Simultaneous release with the Viking hardcover.
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The majestic Tsaritsyno Estate in Moscow is currently home to a fascinating Russian fashion exhibition; a large-scale fashion retrospective exploring the history of Fashion Behind the Iron Curtain. The exhibition features over 1000 examples of Russian style, spanning seven decades from the 1920s to the 1990s.
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Now in its seventh year, the Cannes Classics section at the Cannes Film Festival offers a selection of restored and re-discovered films ahead of their re-release in theaters or on DVD. This year’s roster includes a range of movies from around the world from filmmakers Jean Renoir, Luchino Visconti and Luis Buñuel to Volker Schlöndorff, John Huston and Hector Babenco. Also on tap are a group of four documentaries about films, filmmakers or the film industry.
The complete Cannes Classics lineup follows:
– “La Bataille du Rail” (The Battle of the Rails) (France, 1946, 82’) by René Clément, awarded the Jury Prize in 1946, restored by INA and Full Images, will be screened in the presence of Mrs. Johanna Clément.
– “Bouru Sauve des Eaux” (Boudu Saved from Drowning) by Jean Renoir (France, 85’, 1932), a restoration presented by Pathé in a never-before-seen version that includes scenes that were cut in the original. Copy restored by the Cinematheque of Bologna.
– “Tristana” (Spain/France/Italy, 99’ 1970) by Luis Buñuel, selected in Cannes in 1970, will be shown as part of a celebration of Spanish cinema at the initiative of French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand, who has invited his Spanish counterpart and several contemporary Spanish artists. Copy preserved by the Filmoteca Espagnole. The film will be presented by Pedro Almodovar.
– “Il Gattopardo” (The Leopard) (Italy, 185’, 1963) by Luchino Visconti, winner of the Palme d’Or in 1963. Restored in association with Cineteca di Bologna, L’Immagine Ritrovata, The Film Foundation, Pathé, Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, Twentieth Century Fox and Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale. Restoration funding provided by Gucci and The Film Foundation. Digital Picture Restoration, Colorworks. Sound laboratory services, L’Immagine Ritrovata. Special Thanks to Martin Scorsese, Titanus and Giuseppe Rotunno.
– “Die Blechtromel” (The Tin Drum) (Germany, 140’) by Volker Schlöndorff, winner of the Palme d’Or in 1979, restored and re-edited by Kinowelt in a ‘director’s cut’ presented by the author.
– “Khandahar” (The Ruins) (India, 102’) directed in 1983 by Mrinal Sen, one of Indian cinema’s greats, who will be attending the screening. Restoration by Reliance MediaWorks with the support of the Indian State and the National Film Archive of India.
– “La Campagne de Ciceron” (France, 111’, 1989) by Jacques Davila who passed away in 1991, in the presence of the film crew, who have come back for the occasion. Restoration presented by the Cinematheque of Toulouse with the support of the Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema. The film will be re-released on DVD by Carlotta.
– “La 317e Section” (France, 94’), which won Best Screenplay in 1965; copy restored by the Cinematheque Française and StudioCanal with the support of the Franco-American Cultural Fund, in the presence of its director Pierre Schoendoerffer and the President of the Cinémathèque Costa-Gavras.
– “Le Grand Amour” (The Great Love) (France, 87’), in competition in Cannes in 1969, directed and presented by Pierre Etaix. Film Restored by Studio 37, the Technicolor Foundation for Cinema and the Fondation Groupama Gan for Cinema.
– “African Queen” (United States / United Kingdom, 105’, 1951) by John Huston. Copy restored by Paramount Pictures and ITV, and sponsored by Angelica Huston.
– “Au Petit Bonheur” (Happy Go Lucky) by Marcel L’Herbier (France, 102’, 1946). Copy restored by the Archives Française du film (CNC) and StudioCanal.
– “Psycho” (United States, 109’, 1960) by Alfred Hitchcock. Copy restored by Universal Pictures and Audionamix. Please note that the film’s soundtrack has been restored/reconstructed.
– “Kiss of the Spider Woman” (United States / Brazil, 120’) by Hector Babenco, (Best actor – Cannes – 1985). Copy restored by Ascent Media and Prime Focus, in the presence of the film crew for its 25th anniversary. The film will soon be re-released in France (Carlotta Films).
Finally, the World Cinema Foundation, established in Cannes by Martin Scorsese in 2007, presents: “Mest” (The Red Flute) by Ermek Shinarbaev, (Kazakhstan, 96’, 1989), “Ket Lany Az Utcan” (Two Girls in the Street) by André de Toth (Hungary, 85’, 1939,) and “Titash Ekti Nadir Naam” (A River Called Titas) by Ritwik Ghatak (India, 158’, 1973,). The copies come from the national film archives of Kazakhstan, Hungary and India. They were restored by the Cinematheque of Bologne / L’Immagine Ritrovata.
The Cinematheque of Bologna will also be presenting two short films: “Il Ruscello Di Ripasottile” (Italy, 1941, 6’) by Roberto Rossellini, and “The Eloquent Peasant” by Chadi Abdel Salam (Egypt, 1970, 8’).
– “Hollywood Don’t Surf” (United States, 2010, 85’) by Greg MacGillivray, explores the theme of surfing in American films, with contributions from, among others, John Milius and Steven Spielberg.
– “Cameraman: The Life of Jack Cardiff” (United Kingdom, 2010, 90’) by Craig McCall, a documentary on the life and work of one of the greatest British cinematographers who has worked for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, Alfred Hitchcock, Richard Fleischer, John Huston.
– “Men Filmen Ar Min Alskarinna” (…but Film is My Mistress) (Sweden, 2010, 66’) by Stig Bjorkman, is the second in a series of unseen footage of – and by – Bergman, a document produced by the Ingmar Bergman Foundation.
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The Wall Street Journal turns to psychology to understand and explain the “power paradox“: Nice people are the ones entrusted with positions of power, but once they become powerful they turn into dicks. Yet instrumental rationality and common sense explain their behaviour better than psychology.
Bad behavior ranges from the shouting of profanities to inappropriate flirting to judges who don’t put as much thought into a decision as they did when they were on a lower rung. It doesn’t take a genius to see what these have in common: they provide a benefit to the person who engages in them, while imposing a cost on people around them.
But it’s the people around them that decide whether or not they end up in a position of power; a position they presumably want to be in. The trade-off becomes clear: the joy of engaging in bad behaviour vs the joy of being promoted.
Thus, a person who is low on the ladder has more to gain than someone higher up: a person at the bottom of a 5 step pyramid has 5 levels to climb. His boss already has the higher salary and position and only worries about 4 levels and so on. The cost of nastiness is therefore higher. When the price of a good increases, demand decreases. Conversely, a person higher on the ladder has a) less to gain and b) insulation from accountability.
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Natural Factors Bromelain is an enzyme concentrated in the stem of the pineapple plant to break down proteins into various amino acids during digestion. It is anti-inflammatory and helps in weight loss. Therefore, the capsule contains bromelain which has a potent potency of enzyme activity.
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Don't hike property tax to fund road projects
By A TIMES EDITORIAL
Published March 21, 2007
A county task force is looking to build new roads with old sources of money. Members should look elsewhere.
Suggesting a property tax increase as a way to accommodate growing road construction costs fails to recognize the political realities confronting local elected officials waiting for legislative tax reform from Tallahassee.
But that is just what the county's impact fee tax force offered: a 1 mill increase in property taxes, or a nearly 17 percent increase over the county's current general fund property tax rate. The property tax, a proposed increased gasoline tax, and new higher impact fees still leave the county short of its projected road-building costs.
As detailed in Monday's Times, the county is proposing to delay work on 22 roads costing $950-million.
The list is particularly troubling in fast-growing central Pasco. Extending Collier Parkway north of Hale Road and adding two lanes between Hale and Parkway Boulevard in Land O'Lakes had been scheduled to begin in two years. Now, it is pushed beyond 2012. The state previously announced it was delaying construction of a wider U.S. 41, which means no improved traffic flow on north-south routes in the middle of the county for at least four more years.
In Wesley Chapel, where school traffic and commuters snarl State Road 54 each day, the county also is delaying a new four-lane Curley Road from SR 54 to Wells Road. That means parents and school buses heading to Wesley Chapel High and Elementary schools and Weightman Middle School will remain in traffic still longer.
Commissioners face hard choices, but certainly the recommendations from the task force provide little political cover. The developer-friendly committee suggested the property tax increase as a way to reduce proposed impact fee increases. The logic is self-serving, aimed at their own bottom lines.
Commissioners face the very real possibility of retooling county operations to account for spending cuts depending on which tax reform proposals meet legislative approval. Gov. Charlie Crist and legislators are seeking ways to reduce tax burdens brought on by escalating property values and the inequities of the Save Our Homes amendment that caps appraisals of homesteaded property at 3 percent a year.
Against that backdrop, rising costs for raw materials has ballooned the price of building roads. The county's $218-million road construction fund will be exhausted by the end of next year with $53-million needed to complete work planned for the next two years. The five-year building plan called for $1.1-billion to be spent on 83 projects.
A county proposal to more than triple the transportation impact fee for a single-family home to $13,000 brought howls from the building industry and a threatened boycott of the county from fast-food giant McDonald's because of the proposed jump in commercial fees. The county assembled the task force to discuss alternatives, but those answers last week are just as unpalatable.
Pasco homeowners pay for repaving their residential streets through special assessments attached to their property taxes. Others already have paid impact fees and finance their neighborhood roads through community development districts.
Expecting those people to cough up additional property tax dollars to pay for road construction projects to accommodate growth is unrealistic.
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A B,C,D Culture
Culture eats strategy for breakfast – Drucker
Education is changing rapidly. Every year, as the world we are preparing students for changes, so too must education. I admit, as an educator, the change can be daunting at times, but not only is it the appropriate thing to do it can also be exhilarating. In a great number of schools and districts throughout the nation, however, the change process is something that is feared and in essence conspired against by cultures that reinforce a B,C,D culture. B,C,D cultures focus on (B) blaming others, (C) complaining, and (D) defending personal actions or the status quo. This concept and codification of the behaviors was recently popularized by Urban Meyer’s book Above the Line.
As we start to think about B,C,D behaviors let’s not simply point the finger, but also point the thumb. This behavioral pattern is not reserved for any subset of people – we all do this. If you deeply think about this you will find the behavior pervasive in all areas of your life. Great leaders are able to identify this behavioral pattern and eliminate their compulsion to act in this manner. Moreover, they influence the behavior of others and create a culture which refuses to let this toxic mentality deter progress in their organizations.
If you subscribe to the theory (and I do) that every system is perfectly designed to achieve the results they produce, then your current reality will ultimately be your destiny unless change exists. B,C,D cultures – particularly where B,C,D behaviors are honored and influence decision-making – make significant change almost impossible to undertake. The lesson is this – if you want to make significant improvements or change to your organization –the elimination of B,C,D behavior is an absolute priority.
Blame is often levied when someone does not feel as though they wish they felt. This may be because they are anxious, stressed, or overwhelmed. Most commonly, this is found when people feel a level of inadequacy or ineffectiveness. When someone is willing to blame someone else for an emotion they are presenting an external locus of control. They are, in essence, giving their boss, co-worker, community members, et cetera permission to make them happy or unhappy.
Ironically, this is behavior that we do not tolerate from students, but often exhibit as educators. Think about our reaction if a student said they were overwhelmed because a teacher gave them too much to do. We would immediately focus on what the student could control and try to find ways to support them and help them grow. We would not tolerate them giving into this outside stress. We would use terms like growth mindset and grit and continue to move forward. Giving in and making no progress would not be an option. As educators, however, we often let our peers exhibit the same behavior without remediation – and worse, we allow those behaviors to impact how we behave.
Complaining takes so much energy and has solved none of the myriad of problems we face in schools. Complaining always reminds of Todd Whitaker’s statement that we will be waiting an awful long time to educate kids if we are waiting for the divorce rate to be zero. In typical B,C,D behavior the complaining usually encroaches on the elaborated discussion of why what is being done to someone is unjust or unfair. As you may expect, this often results in feedback about individuals in particular, even in some cases extending to students. Stop me if you have heard about the ‘different’ kids today who lack (insert any positive characteristic you choose) compared to previous generations.
In my experience, the statements of complaint usually fall into one of two domains: “Who moved my cheese” or “They should walk a mile in my shoes.” Who moved my cheese statements usually show discontent with a lack of control over a situation, particularly when complete control was once perceived. It is important in this case to remember that hindsight often paints a rosier picture than what actually occurred. On the other hand, the walk a mile in my shoes commentary is usually reserved for demonstrating decision-makers must have a lack of perspective. This is often very common and an easy complaint whenever a decision-maker’s job description does not match someone who is impacted ‘in the trenches.’
Almost always, when someone is exhibiting behavior that blames others and complains about the current reality, a defense is inherently made for the person’s original behavior. Typically, when someone is not happy with the direction something is headed it becomes easier to dig in and show why what you are doing was correct in the first place. While this seems natural, it is the most dangerous (my opinion) of the three types of behaviors. By stating the ‘defense’, the person making the statement becomes positional and demonstrates a true resistance to change.
Suggestions for Moving Past B,C,D behaviors
Agree to the following set of guiding principles for adult interaction:
In every conversation, seek solutions, do not admire problems.
Embrace that the status quo is not, nor ever will be, good enough for our kids – but that does not mean that all current practice is to be condemned.
As humans we have choice in our effort, mood, and belief in an internal locus of control. Choose wisely.
Best practice is not an initiative nor should it be confused with one. Having high expectations for performance is always desired, great leaders understand they must provide support along the way.
People do have a capacity for change – and it can be exceeded. Change is a process, not an event, and leaders must be mindful of that
Examples of B,C,D behavior
“Common Core is ruining education. No teacher can teach Math like this – there is no way a practitioner would have come up with standards like this. I have no idea why they think teaching Math like this is a good idea. My students had fine scores every year before this change.”
“I cannot even teach anymore because all I do is analyze data. I have no idea why District Office makes us do all this extra work – it is so meaningless. I know my kids have been successful in the past – I don’t need data to tell me that.”
“We have another initiative for District Office. I have no idea why incorporating technology is so important. There is no way they understand elementary education if they think this will make a difference for us. My kids for the past 15 years have done just fine without having a tablet in front of them. This is going to be a disaster.” | <urn:uuid:639a79e9-518e-4f0d-ab6d-264bfe97c01a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mytowntutors.com/2016/04/the-price-of-progress-in-education-no-a-bcd-culture/ | 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 | 0.960899 | 1,552 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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April 22nd, 2014 at 9:00 am
Looking to do your part to help be kind to the earth? How do you know which products are greener than others or what company is rated better in terms of ethics and safety?
What if there was an easy way to look up a product and find out if it is organic, fragrance-free, or produced using best practices like fair trade, recycled material, or honoring human rights?
GoodGuide.com is a website that can give you all of this important information about thousands of products, from diapers to laundry detergent to pet food to cars. Using a ratings system, their team of environmental scientists evaluate the products on a scale of 1 to 10 so you can easily tell which products make good sense environmentally, and which ones you might think twice about.
The site is very easy to use and provides lots of good information. You can customize the criteria to reflect the categories that mean most to you, whether it’s health, environment or social responsibility. And if you use the mobile app, you can scan the product code in the store and know right away if the item fits the bill. If you install the transparency filter on your web browser, it will reveal the GoodGuide rating of any item you shop for online.
This is pretty handy stuff and very enlightening. Get the real scoop on the product’s footprint, not just the marketing babble.
Happy Earth Day!
April 18th, 2012 at 7:12 am
April 22, 2012 marks the 42 observance of Earth Day, originally founded as a protest movement in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. 20 million Americans participated in that first Earth Day.
Today, concerns about the environment continue to grow and young mothers are key players in the new Green Economy, interested in sustainability, as well as organic and green products.
As moms we worry about our children’s future and taking care of their home planet. It can be overwhelming trying to raise green families. Luckily, technology is stepping in and maybe this list of green apps will help (it even includes a kids’ app based on the new movie version of The Lorax).
Our biggest responsibility, however, is to teach our kids to become protectors of the Earth. Earth Day is a great place to start, and I always start with books. The watchwords for all budding ecologists are reduce, reuse, and recycle. Here are a couple of my favorite picture books on these Earth-Day friendly topics:
The Dumpster Diver by Janet S. Wong takes reusing to the extreme, but kids love it and it’s bound to spark a lot of creativity.
And speaking of creative ideas, Earth Day is a great time to start a homemade craft box. Most kids love crafting and there are plenty of materials around the house ready for artful repurposing. Find and decorate a big shoebox (I recommend one for each child). Then go on a family treasure hunt to fill it with crafty items like:
- broken crayons
- buttons, zippers, and ribbons from old clothes
- fabric and paper scraps
- old greeting cards (lots of great images to cut out and reuse)
- empty toilet paper rolls
- lids from bottles and jars
- stray game pieces
- paper clips, rubber bands, odd bits of string
There’s no end to the goodies you can find, and this project will keep going and growing long after Earth Day. Then, on the next rainy day, a quick Internet search will lead you to tons of recycled craft project ideas.
Since I’m the resident animal blogger, I can’t resist the opportunity to talk about the world’s foremost recycler: worms. Vermicomposting is a cool way to lower your family’s carbon footprint by composting non-fatty kitchen scraps. You can make or purchase pre-made worm bins (complete with worms); it’s a great family project. If you’re not quite ready to jump into full-fledged vermicomposting, try this simple “worm castle” project to let your kids see how worms do their work.
Image Credit: Blue Marble, NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring
March 30th, 2011 at 1:00 am
Every year, I think we should plan something to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, but we never do. Maybe it’s just me, but since it’s modern incarnation began in 1970, Earth Day has seemed less of a celebration than a doomsday proclamation, and guilt has never been much of a motivator for me. It just makes me feel, well, guilty.
But this year, with the specter of radiation haunting us in the wake of the disasters in Japan, I’ve been moved to really celebrate this holiday. The ultimate power of Mother Earth over the destiny of our fragile human race has motivated me to stand up and take notice — maybe even pay a little respect.
The good news is that after more than four decades of Earth Days, there are lots of ways, big and small that we can make a difference. My favorite is called Party for the Planet™, where more than 100 zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) sponsor Earth Day celebrations, some with just a single event, and others with an entire month of activities. No guilt, just a big party for our true Home (capital H).
Check out your favorite zoo’s website for a calendar of activities, or bookmark the AZA site for a growing list of participants. For those traveling over spring break in April, keep in mind that many zoos offer reciprocity with free or reduced admissions for zoo members. Here’s a list of zoos that participate in the AZA Reciprocity Program.
For those not near enough to a local zoo to participate in Party for the Planet, the Earth Day Network offers lots of other suggestions. This year’s theme is A Billion Acts of Green®. The United Nations has proclaimed 2011 as the International Year of the Forest. Kids aged 6-14 are invited to Paint Life in a Forest, in a contest to win $2,000 and a United Nation’s sponsored trip to Indonesia for the UNEP-Tunza International Children’s Conference (deadline April 15).
Or plan your own Party for the Planet. Here’s a list of great Earth Day read alouds from my friend, fellow writer and “readiologist” Esme Raji Codell. Or create a simple Earth Day craft. Or maybe just sing along with Tom Chapin’s Happy Earth Day.
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BASIC Fracture Mechanics: Including an Introduction to Fatigue discusses the fundamentals of fracture and fatigue. The book presents a series of Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code (BASIC) programs that implement fracture and fatigue methods.
The first chapter reviews the BASIC, while the second chapter covers elastic fracture. Chapter 3 deals with the stress intensity factors. The book also tackles the crack tip plasticity and covers crack growth. The last chapter in the text discusses some applications in fracture mechanics.
The book will be of great use to engineers who want to get acquainted with fracture mechanics.
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As part of the second block of the exercise sessions, adapted versions of some prominent experiments will be conducted in class.
The general idea is for you to gain some experience from the perspective of an actual participant. Try to approach these experiments with that in mind. For instance, you should not use your knowledge of Nash equilibrium to determine what to choose in a given situation. The right approach would be to imagine that you have never taken this course in fact.
I won't be providing any material incentives for participation so again, you will have to humor me and try to care about the payoffs. Since it is a group activity, please be patient and try not to get distracted so that others don't have to wait for you unnecessarily.
Again, these experiments will be flawed in many ways so they should not be taken seriously from the methodological perspective. They are intended to provide you with a certain experience that will hopefully motivate your reasoning and improve your learning altogether.
When active, the experiments can be reached here. You must use your personal id (check your university email) to login.
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Studies in this week’s Hutchins Roundup find that where productivity growth occurs determines who benefits the most, information in patent disclosures boosts innovation, and more.
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Using data on 193 U.S. metropolitan areas from 1980 to 2000, Richard Hornbeck of the University of Chicago and Enrico Moretti of University of California at Berkeley find that the average worker benefits substantially from productivity growth in manufacturing, but who benefits most depends on where the growth occurs. When productivity rises in a city, total employment rises because of in-migration of workers from other cities. Most of the migrants are high-skilled workers because low-skilled workers are less likely to move. As a result, wages of the high-skilled rise less than wages of the low-skilled, reducing inequality. But wages are only part of the story: Productivity-driven migration pushes up housing prices, benefiting homeowners but not renters. Workers’ purchasing power also rises outside of the cities experiencing the productivity increase, the authors find. However, in these areas, the wages of high-skilled workers rise by more than those of less-skilled, and house prices and rents fall. As a result, benefits accrue primarily to the high-skilled and renters. The authors argue that neglecting geographic spillovers from local productivity growth masks substantial variation in experiences across areas and people.
Several legal scholars have argued that patent disclosures, which contain technical details, are not useful in practice because patentees can game the system to make it difficult for fellow inventors to extract useful information. Jeffrey Furman of Boston University and Markus Nagler and Martin Watzinger of the University of Munich challenge this view by examining the effects of an expansion of the Patent and Trademark Depository Library system from 1975 to 1997. Before the internet, detailed information on patents was only available through patent libraries so proximity to a patent library increased access to information, they contend. After a new patent library opened, local patenting increased by 17 percent relative to similar regions that had no patent libraries. They also find that inventors within a 15-mile radius of a patent library cited more geographically and technologically diverse patents, and that the effect of being near a patent library disappeared after the introduction of the internet. These findings suggest that information in patent disclosures boosts innovation, they say.
Using data on the credit card transactions and bank accounts of 850,000 Californians, Rebecca Diamond of Stanford University and co-authors find that enrollment in health insurance increased after the introduction of the Affordable Care Act, but half of new enrollees dropped out before the end of the plan year. The authors find that drop-outs are costly to cover, because they spend heavily while insured and then drop out and stop paying premiums. The authors show that this behavior undermines health insurance market stability and, in theory, can drive insurers to exit and cause insurance markets to break down. However, using data on plan price increases, they show that in practice insurers are able to shift the costs of attrition to non-dropout enrollees, who become less willing to give up their insurance plans and therefore less sensitive to prices over time, which prevents markets from unravelling. Their findings highlight the importance of designing social security programs to minimize attrition, not just maximize enrollment, they argue.
Chart of the week: There are now more job openings than unemployed people in the United States
Quote of the week:
“Our asset purchase program (APP) has been the pivotal component of our strategy for countering and reversing the crisis. As you know, since the program’s inception in 2015, the Governing Council of the European Central Bank has made net asset purchases under the APP conditional on progress towards a sustained adjustment in the path of inflation to levels below, but close to, 2 percent over the medium term. … Next week, the Governing Council will have to assess whether progress so far has been sufficient to warrant a gradual unwinding of our net purchases. … The key question for monetary policy is: Will growth remain sufficiently strong for the ongoing pressure on resource utilization to continue to nudge inflation along a pathway that rises fast enough towards our objective?” says Peter Praet, member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank.
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October 20, 2013
The report that follows is based on my notes taken during the event. I have not tried to capture everything, just the key points. I am hoping that my comments do not misrepresent what the speakers were saying – some it was from the live translation there, and some of it was from the responses to questions afterwards, rather than from the original speeches.
After introductions by Krister Kumlin & a brief video, Tom Flynn was the first speaker, and pointed out, that when considering the acquisition of obviously looted artefacts “Most museums now know better”. The thing is of course, how to get museums to act retrospectively – to apply the rules that they would use now to actions that they made well before their current rules and guidelines came into force.
He also added, that “Nowadays, the social network acts as a critical filter to the acquisition of disputed artefacts”. This is a good point, as museums nowadays have a far greater interaction with the public than perhaps ever before. People’s opinions mean more to them than they ever used to, and as a result, it is important to let museums know if what you think they are doing is morally unacceptable.
German MEP Jo Leinen had a simple message – drawing on the words of another German politician, he quoted Willie Brandt “we have to unite what belongs together”.
The Spanish MEP, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez took a slightly different viewpoint from some of the other speakers, looking at this action by Britain, in the context of other actions that occur within Europe. He felt that it was particularly important that the countries of northern Europe, in some way recognise that although they might be economically the powerhouses of Europe today, they still owe so much culturally to the Mediterranean countries in the South of Europe. He stressed a message that Campaigns such as Marbles Reunited have also long emphasised, that “It is not about sending the Parthenon Marbles back to Athens, but about reuniting them”.
Bernard Tschumi, the architect of the New Acropolis Museum was not able to attend the event in person, but provided a pre-recorded video. He pointed out the importance of the Parthenon Frieze itself, noting that “The Parthenon frieze is not just a sculpture, but an astonishing piece of narrative”. He explained that the design of the new museum had “reconstituted the continuity of the frieze”. Another important point that he made, was that “No photograph can ever reconstitute the emotions of standing in the Parthenon Gallery at the Acropolis Museum” I have often thought the same thing myself, although this is not the only location that this applies to – the Acropolis itself is an even better example. For this reason, I feel that any who feel ambivalent to the case really ought to try to visit Athens & experience both these locations for themselves and understanding the magic of the spaces, before perhaps re-evaluating their feelings on the issue.
Louis Godart explained how the restitution of Italian artefacts from US Museums had been secured, explaining that “In Italy, we approached museums in the US & said that if they did not return artefacts, we would not lend anything to them, but that if they cooperated, then we would make long term loans of other artefacts in return”. Exchanges of artefacts were one of the proposals put forward by Evangelos Venizelos when he was Greek Culture Minister in 2003, although Greece has always been reluctant to issue any sort of threats to withdraw cooperation – the carrot was presented, but with no stick as an alternative, the donkey wasn’t that interested in it…
Maurice Davies, from the Museums Association in the UK explained that every few years he is asked to speak about the Parthenon Sculptures, and that each time he does this, he looks to see what has changed in the intervening period. He started off lamenting that things had not happened at the pace he might have hoped for describing how “Some years ago, I wrote that I would like within the next 10 years, to see some of the marbles from the British Museum displayed in Athens, at least temporarily. Unfortunately, this has not yet happened”. He quickly became more upbeat though, as he considered other areas in which progress had been made, pointing out that “Things are improving – ten years ago, there was no proper communication between the Acropolis Museum & the British Museum”. He called for further “quiet collaboration between museums – based on their common interests, not their differences”. He went on to explain how these things happen slowly “I believe that through this collaboration, the first small step on the journey has now been taken”.
On the ways to approach the issue, he was reluctant to see politicians taking too big a role in the proceedings, as he knows their propensity for creating deadlines based on elections dates, without considering that sometimes tasks take much longer. He pointed out that “Progress is most often achieved if politicians set the context, but then remain in the background”.
Journalist Henry Porter described how his interest in the case of the Marbles had been inspired by Christopher Hitchens Book: The Parthenon Marbles: The Case for Reunification, where he pointed out that “Hitchens was at his most forensic, analytical & brilliantly polemical”. He went on to describe his own feelings, that “Visiting the Duveen Gallery is like coming across a beautiful renaissance drawing that you know is stolen in a friend’s apartment – you are struck by its beauty, yet you feel that it is wrong to appreciate it in that context”.
Moving on from this, he looked at the notices from the British Museum in the Duveen Gallery. He was highly critical of the arrogance of some of the statements made by the museum, but in the end, took the positive approach that “The British Museum is reminding us that there are no strong arguments for the retention of the Marbles. If there were any, they would have written them on their notices”.
Professor Dusan Sidjanski from the Swiss Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles was keen to emphasise a point that he has made to me many times before, that “We should avoid confrontation – this monument [the Parthenon] should not be the subject of litigation or a trial”. He also lamented the gloomy atmosphere of the British Museum, describing how “I’m saddened whenever I enter the Duveen Gallery at the British Museum – the time has come for the sculptures to see the light of day once more”.
The key messages from MEP Rodi Kratsa, who had facilitated the use of the European Parliament as a venue for the event, were about raising awareness. She talked about it both in the context both of the general public “The first thing that we need to do is raise awareness among members of the public & political decision makers” and then with respect to MEPs, noting that “We should prepare people [in the European Parliament] of action now, ready for the time in the future when the tools to take action become available”.
In the discussions afterwards, a number of further themes developed. In response to discussions of how perhaps European laws might be implemented that could affect the British Museum, Tom Flynn pointed out that “The British Museum would be against any suggestion of intervention from the European Parliament”. He also noted though that “The British Museum Act of 1963 is currently the great immovable object in the way of negotiations”. Finding solutions that can at least start with potential to circumvent this act is key, as it means that the discussions at least have a chance of starting, without being blocked at the first hurdle.
Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez took the view that legal action might well be the key to break the current deadlock on the Marbles, commenting that “I do not believe that they will return without a legal decision”. He also hinted though that the place to search for such a decision was not within the UK, as he pointed out that “A legally binding decision that compels the British Museum to return the Marbles will never come from a British court”. Perhaps most importantly (as an encouragement to those who want to get involved in the issue), he pointed out that “We will not succeed without a strong social mobilisation in Britain & in Greece to support the return of the sculptures”. This is exactly the sort of thing that organisations such as Marbles Reunited try to promote – and if more people join up with such groups, then social mobilisation like he describes becomes easier & more effective.
When asked how Greece could move things forward, Henry Porter suggested that “If I were the Greek government, I’d make friends with the current opposition party in the UK”, suggesting that not only is the Labour Party likely to be more receptive to the return of the sculptures, but that by negotiating with them while they are not in power, it would perhaps be easier to negotiate with them now, while the stakes seem lower, with the hope that agreements can be made on a route forward that is then pursued later once the political situation in the UK changes.
Echoing Tom Flynn’s comments regarding interference from political processes, Maurice Davies pointed out that “Ever since its founding, the British Museum has always been very sensitive to any hints of political interference”. He described how “In the UK, it is almost impossible for a politician to tell a museum what to do”. He then suggested something that pragmatically may well be a step forward, but at the same time might be unacceptable to many restitutionists, that “pragmatically, perhaps it would be easier to start by uniting some pieces together in Athens & others together in London”. In response to suggestions that a legal approach might be the answer, he countered that “No dispute over cultural property involving museums has ever been [directly] resolved by talking about the legal concepts of ownership”, and suggested that perhaps a better route would be to “Take things one step at a time, with no preconditions over the course that events might take”.
A final closing point that interested me came from the audience. Kelly Agathos, who I had met a few years previously when she was working for EasyCruise in Athens highlighted something that I’m sure many others following the case would agree with, when she pointed out that “In the past, the Greek government had opportunities, but did not grasp them”. There are a number of cases where this has (in my opinion) been the case, although there are of course other factors, such as other issues within Greek politics at the same time, and financial constraints, but it is a shame that the momentum of some events such as the 2004 Olympics & the opening of the New Acropolis Museum have perhaps not been capitalised on as fully as might have been possible.
Overall, it was a good event that was well attended & did a good job of raising awareness of the issue at a European level. From reading the discussions above, it will be clear that although everyone there shared a common aim, there were many different opinions on how to get to that goal. That is not to say any of the routes advocated are right or wrong, or even that any of them should be seen as mutually exclusive to the others. It is a complex cases & there are many different angles from which it might be approached, so it is important to explore & understand all of them, before mobilising in a particular direction.A report from the Roundtable on the Parthenon Marbles held in Brussels.,
- Round table discussion on: The reunification of the Parthenon Marbles – a European concern : October 11, 2013
- The legal arguments for the return of the Parthenon Marbles : October 16, 2012
- The Parthenon Marbles – why now is the time for legal action : April 8, 2016
- British Museum blocks oil platform rescue operation because of Elgin Marbles connection : April 1, 2012
- Why the “No Marbles – No flame” flame campaign for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures won’t succeed : May 9, 2012
- British Museum can loan Parthenon Marbles, just not to Greece : December 5, 2014
- British Government agrees to UNESCO mediation for Parthenon Marbles : April 1, 2014
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The second change affects pink slips. Pink slips for vehicle safety inspections are now only issued electronically and are called e-Safety Checks. Authorised Inspection Stations are now called e-Safety Stations. The e-Safety Check will be transmitted electronically to the RTA.
The RTA says the aim of the changes is to save motorists time and money.
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A Tesla car caught fire at a motor vehicle cemetery in Rancho Cordova, California, USA. The car was badly damaged in a crash three weeks ago.
When the firefighters arrived, the electric vehicle caught fire. Every time a fire was extinguished, the car’s battery compartment would light up again, Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District firefighters wrote in an Instagram post.
Firefighters and car cemetery workers tried to turn the car to one side to direct water into the battery. But the firefighters wrote: “Tesla caught fire repeatedly due to residual heat.”
A Tesla car caught fire and took tens of thousands of gallons of water to put it out
So they tried something else: they used a tractor to dig a hole in the ground, managed to get the car in, and then they filled the hole with water. This allowed firefighters to flood the battery and eventually extinguish the fire, which burned at more than 3,000 degrees, Captain Parker Wellborn, a spokesman for the fire department, told the Washington Post.
It took the 10 firefighters more than an hour and 17,000 gallons of water to put out the flames, Wellborn said. About the same amount of water is used to put out a fire in a building.
Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Electric car fires, a novelty for firefighters
Wellborn said the fire department had not yet determined what caused the “spontaneous fire to ignite”. He said this was the first time his division, which serves Sacramento, had put out a Tesla fire.
Wellborn noted that the department is preparing to meet more and more, especially as more and more electric vehicle owners are installing battery chargers in their garage.
“This is something completely new for firefighters. We are still trying to understand fires [de vehicule electrice]Wellborn said.
Another Tesla caught fire in 2020 and another in 2021
The situation in Sacramento is similar to other electric vehicle fires in recent years and presents the potential risks faced by drivers, automakers and fire departments.
In December 2020, a home in San Ramon, California was set on fire after two Tesla cars caught fire while they were parked in a garage. One of the cars was left empty overnight when it caught fire, and the fire spread to a second Tesla. Then the garage caught fire and at least six fire engines were needed to put out the fires.
In Woodlands, Texas, two passengers died in April 2021 after a driverless Tesla car veered off the road, crashed into a tree and caught fire. The battery ignited and burned for four hours, requiring more than 113 thousand liters of water to extinguish the flames.
Another Tesla Model caught fire in Frisco, Texas, that sounded like a flamethrower, after its owner veered off the road after hearing strange noises coming from the car.
What are manufacturers doing to reduce these risks?
Such incidents prompted some car manufacturers to recall thousands of electric vehicles due to the fires. In December, General Motors recalled 141,000 Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles after their batteries began to ignite spontaneously. Audi and Hyundai have also recalled electric vehicles due to the fire risk.
Turning off a Tesla battery can take up to 24 hours and may require between 11,000 and 30,000 liters of water “put directly on the battery”. However, Wellborn said the amount of water needed to put out battery fires could be closer to 76,000 or even 113,000 liters.
Wellborn said that lithium-ion batteries in electric cars can be difficult to extinguish because they continue to burn until all the stored energy is released: “We’re basically struggling to release the energy.”
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A number of years ago on American Television was a game show for kids called, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. So often I feel like Fräulein Carmen, except my program should be, Where in Germany Is Marcus Hochstadt and his Trusty Staff. I won’t however, make you guess clues — or play a silly game — the answer is Murr in Baden-Württemberg, along a river of the same name & pretty close to the Neckar.
It’s not unchartered territory, thousands of people live here now; and all sorts of big names in history have lived here at one point or another — Neolithic guys, Bronze and Iron Age folks, and even the Romans. I can only think that they just love the Swabian-Franconian Forest; or the great soil that’s perfect for viticulture.
Speaking of wine, there’s a lot of going on here in Murr. Wine tastings and wineries, all perfect to pair up with some scrumptious Swabian fare. No need to worry about your waistline, eat up — then go jump into the Mineralfreibad (with wave pool), play some tennis, do the hiking trails, and end with a tootsie soak at the Kneipp facility.
Still, as wonderful as all this is — it was Murr’s Village Church of St. Peter (b. 14th/15th century) that totally stood out in my head. Its wide tower and off-white walls under a dark stormy sky, framed by bright white houses managed to make me even speechless.
I also found that Murr is the perfect location for exploring around the region. Make Murr your base as you go see neighboring Benningen’s Jupiter Column; the Schiller National Museum & German Literature Archives in Marbach; and medieval Kloster in Steinheim.
You should know by now that a place like this is going to have a castle. You’re not all that far from Burg Lichtenberg. Cool, time to raid (I mean, visit) a medieval castle. Who’s with me?
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The Thanksgiving holiday is not racist. It was a celebration of thanks between the old world and the new.
The horrors of human history are well documented, from the Roman Empire, to the Persian Empire, to the Mayan sacrifices. The conquest theory of domination has long been practiced by our ancestors; it is human nature.
Yes, the European settlers conquered the Indian tribes in North America, just as the Indian tribes in North America had wiped out tribes before them. Yes, our ancestors experienced or enabled slavery; but no one in America today has legally owned a slave, nor any of the last few generations.
Trump is not fascist. He actually loves America and its people. Let him do his job.
The Founding Fathers of the United States of America, borrowed from the ancient Greeks, and Romans, and other cultures to create the most successful experiment in human governance ever devised. People who are born in America have won the economic and freedom lottery. White, black, yellow, or red, anyone here in these lands has more opportunity to prosper and live in safety and security than any where else on the globe. Why do you think so many people want to come here?
The Pilgrims gave thanks with the Indians to celebrate making it through the harsh winter. The Indians helped the White man. The whites shared their food with the Indians. We all know the story.
Why don’t we all take a page from this small event in history and learn from it. Help your neighbor. Even better, listen to your neighbor, his or her concerns, his or her way of thinking. Try to reach across the aisle. Maybe the other side will reach back.
No, the Thanksgiving holiday is not racist. It is a story of sacrifice and unity.
Let’s stop denigrating America. We need to unite to ensure our collective future. E pluribus unum.
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The WFH or Work From Home policy is intended to reduce the spread of the Corona virus. However, this sometimes creates new problems, namely weight gain because the activities we do are only at home.
In addition, staying at home sometimes makes us underestimate exercise time and spend more time relaxing. Moreover, snacking habits make body weight suddenly increase significantly.
How To Lose Weight During Quarantine?
So that you can lose weight during this quarantine period, you can follow some of the tips that we will share below. After reading and studying these tips, we are sure that over time your weight will start to fall according to the ideal body weight you want.
1. Consuming fiber foods
The first way to lose weight is to eat fibrous foods. You can get in the habit of consuming vegetables and fruit which can provide your body with more fiber and various other nutrients your body needs.
The nutritional content in these fruits helps in losing weight. We recommend that you focus on eating starchy vegetables, green vegetables, and also fiber. This aims to make your appetite more controlled so that your stomach is full and you don’t need to eat other foods.
2. Fulfill Water Needs Every Day
Did you know that water is also an important element that can help you lose weight? You can get in the habit of drinking water both before and after eating. It also aims to make your stomach feel full.
Make sure that the need for water every day is maintained. By getting used to simple things like this, over time your weight will decrease by itself. This method is very easy and can be practiced by anyone.
3. Reduce Consuming Sweet Foods
For this third way to lose weight, everyone will already know it. Consuming carbohydrate foods is necessary. But that does not mean that these foods come from sweet foods such as donuts, cookies, cereals, cakes, and the like are not good foods for those of you who are on a diet.
Then what should you do? Now try to eat foods that contain fiber and complex carbohydrates. You can also add whole grain products as a way to lose weight. For your information, complex carbohydrates take longer for the body to digest, so they will make you full longer.
4. Stop Counting Calories
Sometimes people who have a habit of counting calories actually cause an unhealthy mindset. They must always pay attention and count every calorie of every food they consume. Indeed, not everyone will experience something like this.
But you can avoid it by not focusing too much on calories. You better focus on the quality of the food you eat. You just have to look for foods that can reduce your daily food consumption but still provide a sufficient source of energy and nutrients for your body.
5. Reduce Fast Food, Processed, and Canned
The fifth way to lose weight is to reduce consumption of fast food, processed, and canned foods. We cannot deny that during this quarantine, we may consume the three types of food more often than in the conditions before quarantine.
As a result, you gain weight suddenly. For that, you must reduce your consumption of the three types of food and start eating healthier and better foods that you cook yourself. To be more optimal, take Meticore weight loss supplements to check, click meticore | <urn:uuid:33db5ae8-4c03-4f55-9c91-365cb66d6a34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ustechsregister.com/5-ways-to-lose-weight-easily-during-quarantine.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.96233 | 674 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The Prince of Tides is a long novel of twenty-seven chapters framed by a prologue and an epilogue. Strewn with autobiographical overtones, the novel recounts the life of the fictional Wingo family of Colleton, South Carolina, as seen through the eyes of narrator and protagonist Tom Wingo. Through his attempts to help a psychiatrist save Tom’s suicidal twin sister, Savannah, by telling the family story, he learns to face and accept his past and thus begins to set his own life in order.
In the prologue, Tom’s ambivalence about both his birthplace and his parents emerges in his recollection of his childhood as “part elegy, part nightmare.” He proclaims that his entire life has been dominated by the South Carolina low country tides and marshes and by his warring parents.
The novel then begins with news from Tom’s mother, Lila Wingo Newbury, that his sister Savannah, a famous poet, has tried to kill herself again and is in a psychiatric hospital in New York. Tom is struggling to survive himself, having suffered a nervous breakdown following the death of his older brother Luke. He has lost his job as a high school English teacher and football coach, and he realizes that his marriage to his college sweetheart Sallie, now a successful physician, is falling apart. Nevertheless, Tom leaves immediately for New York to help Savannah. A visit from him disturbs Savannah severely, however, and her psychiatrist, Susan Lowenstein, forbids additional contact and urges Tom instead to assist in Savannah’s recovery by telling her everything about Savannah and the Wingo family. Seemingly in no particular order, Tom begins to pour out the stories of his and Savannah’s past, stories that reveal a violently abusive father and a mother obsessed with social position and appearances. Tom does have happy memories of hours the three children spent with their father on his shrimp boat and of magical moments when their mother took them out to see the sun set and the moon rise almost simultaneously. Most of the stories, however, focus on an almost implausible series of events that Tom justifies by maintaining that “extraordinary things” happened to the Wingo family.
The most traumatic event, withheld until near the end of the novel, occurs the summer after the three Wingo children are graduated from high school. Three escaped convicts force their way into the Wingo home and rape Savannah,...
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Coal gasification project beginning to take shape
By the beginning of 2009, what is now a steel tower visible from the Braga Bridge and much of the town will be in use as the gasification reactor for a pilot project operated by GreatPoint Energy of Cambridge.
GreatPoint Energy’s technology “refines” coal by employing a catalyst to “crack” the carbon bonds and transform the coal into clean burning methane (natural gas). This single-stage process is called catalytic coal methanation and forms the basis of the GreatPoint Energy Bluegas process. The project, located adjacent to the Brayton Point Power Station, broke ground in February.
“We topped it off last week,” said GreatPoint’s Chief Financial Officer Avi Goldberg. “The sheet metal will be going up in mid-August.”
Goldberg said the building will be 14 stories high.
The facility will include a shrouded flare, which will be attached to the gasifier building.
The flare will be used to burn off gas that cannot be used by Brayton Point. The flare will be located on the top of the gasifier building and extend above the reactor building by approximately 15 feet. Since the flare is enclosed, there will be no visible flame from it.
The purpose of the pilot facility is to further test the coal gasification process with various fuels that will include coal, petcoke, which is derived from petroleum-refining residue, and virgin biomass.
The pilot facility design includes a 150-ton storage area for coal and other feedstock fuels. Fuels will be transported to the project site via truck. The fuel storage area is a three-sided structure with roofing and one open side for access to the storage area for loading and unloading. The storage area will be equipped with spray heads to minimize dust emissions from the feedstock storage pile. Watering of the coal pile will occur intermittently and will depend on weather conditions.
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June 8, 2009
New method devised to get rid of beg bugs
Ohio State University scientists combined bed bugs' own chemical signals with a common insect control agent to create a more effective extermination method.
The researchers said they discovered stimulating the bed bugs by spraying their environment with synthetic versions of their alarm pheromones makes them more likely to walk through agents called desiccant dusts, which kill the bugs by making them highly susceptible to dehydration.Doctoral candidate Joshua Benoit, the study's lead author, said a blend of two pheromones applied in concert with a silica gel desiccant dust proved to be the most lethal combination. Benoit, however, said he's reluctant to suggest the use of desiccant dusts with alarm pheromones until additional experiments are conducted.
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DC Comics has introduced plenty of gay, lesbian and bisexual superheros in recent years—and even a few transgender characters—but this week it may have broken new ground by revealing that the mystical Shining Knight is intersex. We say “may have” because the scene is open to interpretation. In Demon Knights#14, the Shining Knight—a.k.a. Ystin—is discussing future plans with a female comrade who’s seemingly taken a “shine” to the mystical hero. “I think you like one… aspect of who I am,” the Knight explains. “But I’m the other too. I was born this way. I’ve kept saying, whenever anyone asks. I’m not just a man or a woman. I’m both.” Ystin doesn’t elaborate on what the comment means exactly—was the Knight speaking literally or metaphorically? The series is set in the medieval past, so contemporary ideas of gender identity and transitioning are kind of out the window.
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The Fairies and the Christmas Child
- United States
More informationThe worst of being a Christmas Child is that you don’t get birthday presents, but only Christmas ones. Old Naylor, who was Father’s coachman, and had a great gruff voice that came from his boots and was rather frightening, used to ask how I expected to grow up without proper birthdays, and I thought I might have to stay little always. When I told Father this he laughed, but a moment later he grew quite grave.
“Listen, Chris,” he said. And then he took me on his knee - I was a small chap then - and told me things that made me forget old Naylor, and wish and wish that Mother could have stayed with us. The angels had wanted her, Father explained; well, we wanted her too, and there were plenty of angels in heaven, anyway. When I said this Father gave me a great squeeze and put me down, and I tried to be glad that I was a Christmas child. But I wasn’t really until a long time afterwards, when I had found the Fairy Ring, and met the Queen of the Fairies... (Summary by PG) | <urn:uuid:9e7bdf7a-ad8c-424b-a0a3-fc2c9f4c5aa8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tunein.com/audio-books/The-Fairies-and-the-Christmas-Child-p741945/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00349-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98806 | 251 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Our Views: Expand rather than restrict Wisconsin's online court records
A bill that would trim information available in the state's online court records system poses a serious threat to the public's right to know.
Those pushing this measure need a simple reminder: Almost all details on the Wisconsin Circuit Court Access website are public records. It took years to craft the Consolidated Courts Automation Programs, which users commonly call CCAP. The popular and free website just makes it easier for the public to view the records.
Still, bipartisan Senate Bill 526 would purge the system of information about criminal cases that don't lead to convictions or those overturned on appeal. Sponsors are Sens. Glenn Grothman, R-West Bend, Lena Taylor, D-Milwaukee, Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, Nikiya Harris, D-Milwaukee, and Fred Risser, D-Madison. The bill passed a Senate committee 5-0 last week and is available for a full Senate vote.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association calls it the most serious attempt during this session to deprive the public of full and accurate information on CCAP. The measure would undercut the site's usefulness. It's on a fast track despite opposition that includes the WNA, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council, Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen and State Courts Director John Voelker.
“Under this bill, WCCA would go from being a tool for tracking what happens in our state court system into being a registry of known offenders,” Bill Lueders, president of the Freedom of Information Council, said in a joint news release with Brett Healy, president of the John K. MacIver Institute for Public Policy. “Only the names of those found guilty would appear.”
Critics of CCAP argue that people use the website to discriminate against those seeking housing or jobs, even when those named were found innocent. Again, where is evidence of this abuse? Besides, laws already prohibit discrimination. Also, even information about acquittals can prove useful, revealing a litigious businessman, or an overzealous prosecutor. The innocent can use the website to clear their names.
The Freedom of Information Council opposes the notion that the way to deal with a perceived problem regarding use of public information is to make that information harder to obtain.
“We believe the people of Wisconsin can be trusted to make appropriate judgments about cases that are dismissed or lead to not-guilty verdicts,” Lueders said. “They don't need lawmakers stepping in to prevent them from knowing what is happening in the court system they pay for.”
Healy called the bill what it is—a horrible idea and step in the wrong direction. The website has already undergone tweaks. Instead of trying to hide more public information, lawmakers should look for ways to add to it so the information isn't as likely to be misused or misunderstood.
It has long been a principle in Wisconsin that all people are entitled to the greatest possible information regarding the workings of government and the official acts of our representatives. Readers should contact their senators and urge them to reject this bill.
“With all of the important issues left for the Legislature to deal with in the closing days of the session, legislators should not waste any more time on SB 526,” Healy said. “Wisconsin needs more transparency, not less.” | <urn:uuid:daa24979-0a05-4b48-9da3-23fd830ee1f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.gazettextra.com/article/20140311/ARTICLES/140319925/1034 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719843.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00293-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947215 | 699 | 1.53125 | 2 |
This is a bill in equity to enjoin Ellis H. Roberts, as Treasurer of the United States, from paying to any person any moneys of the District of Columbia, under certain acts of Congress
The principal allegations of the bill are that the railroad defendants are private corporations and all interested in the railway and terminal facilities of the District of Columbia; that the District of Columbia owns no stock in any of the companies nor is otherwise interested in any of them save as useful private enterprises, and yet it is required by said acts, "without any lawful consideration therefor," to pay the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company the sum of $750,000, and a like sum to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, "to be levied and assessed upon the taxable property and privileges in the said District other than the property of the United States and the District of Columbia," and for the exclusive use of said corporations respectively, "which is a private use, and not a governmental use;" that the public moneys of the District of Columbia are raised chiefly by taxation on the lands therein, and that the complainant is obliged to pay and does pay direct taxes on land owned by him therein. And the bill also alleges that the acts of Congress are "acts which provide for raising revenue and are repugnant to article I, section 7, clause 1, of the Constitution of the United States, and are, therefore, null and void ab initio, and to their entire extent, because they and each and every one of them originated in the Senate and not in the House of Representatives." Certain volumes of the Congressional Record are referred to and made part of the bill.
The first contention of appellant is that the acts of Congress are revenue measures, and therefore should have originated in the House of Representatives and not in the Senate, and to sustain the contention appellant submits an elaborate argument. In answer to the contention the case of Twin City Bank v. Nebeker, 167 U.S. 196, need only be cited. It was observed there that it was a part of wisdom not to attempt to cover by a general statement what bills shall be said to be "bills for raising revenue" within the meaning of those words in the Constitution, but it was said, quoting Mr. Justice Story, "that the practical construction of the Constitution and the history of the origin of the constitutional provision in question proves that revenue bills are those that levy taxes in the strict sense of the word, and are not bills for other purposes, which may incidentally create revenue." 1 Story on Constitution, § 880. And the act of Congress which was there passed on illustrates the meaning of the language used. The act involved was one providing a national currency, and imposed a tax upon the average amount of the notes of a national banking association in circulation. The provision was assailed for unconstitutionality because it originated in the Senate. The provision was sustained, this court saying:
"The tax was a means for effectually accomplishing the great object of giving to the people a currency that would rest, primarily, upon the honor of the United States and be available in every part of the country. There was no purpose, by the act or by any of its provisions, to raise revenue to be applied
This language is applicable to the acts of Congress in the case at bar. Whatever taxes are imposed are but means to the purposes provided by the act.
The legality of those purposes is attacked in the other contentions of appellant. All of the contentions rest upon the correctness of the allegation that the moneys provided to be paid to the railroad companies are for the exclusive use of the companies, "which is a private use and not a governmental use."
The titles of the acts are the best brief summary of their purposes, and those purposes are obviously of public benefit. We do not think that it is necessary to enter into a discussion of the cases which establish this. The scheme of improvement provided by the acts required a removal of the railroads from their situations, large expenditures of money by the companies, and the surrender of substantial rights. These rights are recognized and their surrender expressed to be part of the consideration of the sums of money paid to the companies. Indeed there is an element of contract not only in the changes made but in the manner and upon the scale which they are required to be made. As remarked by Mr. Justice Morris, speaking for the Court of Appeals:
"The case is practically that of a contract between the United States and the District of Columbia on the one side and the railroad companies on the other, whereby the railroad companies agree to surrender certain rights, rights of property as well as other rights, and to construct a work of great magnitude, greater perhaps than their own needs require, but which Congress deems to be demanded for the best interest of the national capital and by the public at large; and for this surrender of right and this work of magnitude commensurate with the public demand, Congress agrees to pay a certain sum, partly out of the funds of the United States and partly out of the funds of the District of Columbia. It is a simple case of bargain and sale, like any other purchase."
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In developed societies there is a growing interest in the control of body weight.
However, alongside legitimate health concerns with respect to being overweight, some exhibit worries which are driven by fashion, vanity or peer pressure.
This study investigates the relationship between concern over body weight, anthropometric parameters (real and desired) and the intake of energy (measured by means of a seven day food record), in a group of 130 young, female university students.
The body mass index (BMI) of this group (21.3±2.3 kg/m2) fell within the normal range for such subjects though there was a fairly high percentage of young women (28.4%) with BMI<20 kg/m2 - a figure that qualifies these persons as slim or slightly underweight.
Only 6.2% had BMI>25 kg/m2 indicating an excess of weight.
However, 65% of subjects expressed a desire to lose some weight and 33% had at some time followed a slimming diet.
Those who wished to lose weight showed a higher BMI than those who expressed no such desire, though 6.2% did show BMI<20 kg/m2.
Only 35% of subjects did not wish to lose weight and did not think of themselves as fat.
Although their BMI was fairly low (19.6±1.4 kg/m2) (P<0.001 compared to those who wished to lose some weight), these subjects showed the best energy intake with respect to energy requirements.
This was probably due to not undervaluing their diet.
The mean BMI desired by subjects was 20.6±1. (...)
Mots-clés Pascal : Nutrition, Poids corporel, Comportement alimentaire, Consommation alimentaire, Indice masse corporelle, Attitude sociale, Surveillance, Espagne, Europe, Alimentation, Homme, Femelle
Mots-clés Pascal anglais : Nutrition, Body weight, Feeding behavior, Food intake, Body mass index, Social attitude, Surveillance, Spain, Europe, Feeding, Human, Female
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Cote : 97-0220203
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by Chloe Perrin
Let’s have a think about toothpaste.
Why toothpaste, you ask? Well, you exhausted every game and TV series in lockdown week one, you’re sick of social media because all your friends keep trying to make you do exercise and you’ve had enough of allowing the news to encase you in a shell of unending dread.
So, what’s left? Toothpaste, that’s what.
I promise you, the ordinary household toothpaste can be your greatest friend during these trying times of fear and isolation.
Still not convinced? Not a problem! Here’s a list of ten incredible things you can do with your very own tube of toothpaste during the lockdown:
- A classic – you can clean your teeth with it! Who needs dentists, eh? Besides, it’s not like you’re going to see one of those anytime soon!
- Slather your body in it! If it’s good enough to fix your teeth, it might be good enough to fix you.
- Wash it all off your body! It really stings and now you can’t stop crying.
- Throw your toothpaste at spiders! The spiders won’t like it. But they also won’t stop you.
- Talk to the toothpaste. Ask it how long it’s been since you’ve both seen another human being. Keep asking. Don’t be put off by its silence, ask louder! Demand answers from the toothpaste!
- Use the toothpaste to create a protective circle around yourself because the spiders have started to revolt.
- Become romantically involved with your toothpaste – briefly, and because you’ve forgotten what normal is.
- Show the toothpaste pictures of your favourite dim sum places online and pretend you’re not eating there because you’re too tired and not because the government said no.
- Dump the toothpaste because it forgot your birthday.
- And this is really important – don’t wonder why you’re doing any of this. You have toothpaste, why would you need anything as distracting as healthy introspection? You know deep in your heart that you can’t risk focusing on anything else right now. Even though your skin hurts, even though everything’s sticky and you’re covered in spiders – even though you’re still crying, and you’re scared and lonely and you miss your family, it doesn’t matter.
If you can focus on your toothpaste, everything will turn out fine.
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|I am going to be gone for
4 days and I bought Aqua Globes for my plants. I was told to bring them in the house since they face West. Will I have wet carpets when I get back, and since they are going to get water, is there a reason to bring them in and not leave them out?
|I'm not sure why you might need to take your plants indoors if they generally live outside, other than plants in full sunshine can dry out faster than those in the shade. Is there a shady spot outdoors that you can move your plants to while you're gone? I'd vote for simply placing them in a spot outdoors that is protected from hot afternoon sunshine. Aqua Globes will release water into the soil only when the soil needs it so if you do end up taking your plants indoors, you shouldn't have to worry about wet floors. Just to be sure, though, why not put them in a bathtub or shower? Any runoff will go right down the drain instead of on your carpets. When I'm going away for a few days I just use pint sized water bottles and up-end one bottle per 1 or 2 gallon container. Larger pots get two water bottles, uncapped and sunk down into the soil to their shoulders. They supply enough water for about a week. Be sure to completely water each container a few hours before you set the Aqua Globes or water bottles into the soil. Have a nice trip!| | <urn:uuid:eb7019fe-23d1-489e-af90-3236fe880334> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://garden.org/frogs/view/104133/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.968419 | 310 | 2.265625 | 2 |
A lesbian from the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan has been granted asylum in the United States by the Department of Homeland Security. The woman, whose name is being withheld because of fears of reprisal by the Turkmenistan government against family members still in the country, had entered the country on a tourist visa and then applied for refugee status. She was aided by Columbia Law School’s Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic which prepared a dossier on the way gays and lesbians are treated in Turkmenistan.
Gay men can be imprisoned for two years on charges of homosexuality. Although there is no specific law against lesbians, they are discriminated in employment with few ever getting jobs. In some cases, in the mostly Moslem country, lesbians are forced by their families into marriages. The government also operates Soviet-style "re-education" camps where political dissidents and sexual minorities are "treated". The woman also had ties to dissident groups and feared she would be imprisoned for her political views. She was referred to the Columbia law clinic by Immigration Equality, a national organization focused on LGBT immigration rights. Since January, three law students students from the Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic have provided legal assistance to the woman.
The grant of asylum is believed to be the first-ever issued to a lesbian from Turkmenistan.
"The intensive research and information about conditions for lesbians and gay men in Turkmenistan gathered by the students on this case is now available to anyone from Turkmenistan seeking asylum because of their sexual orientation," said Prof. Suzanne B. Goldberg, who directs the Clinic. "We were very surprised at the speed with which we were given an interview after filing,” said Jonathan A.Lieberman, who worked on the case. "The interview, which has taken years to schedule for asylum seekers who applied before recent efforts were begun to trim the backlog, was scheduled for only a few weeks after the Department of Homeland Security received the application."
Lieberman and the two other students who worked on the case accompanied the women to the asylum office in Rosedale, New York for her hearing. "We are very proud that our client will be able to live openly as a lesbian and be safe from government-sponsored anti-gay persecution," said Marie-Amélie George who argued the case.
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Debt buyers use courts to collect debt, then cite arbitration clauses to deflect legal challenges
Debt collectors who buy up debt and sue to recover the money are deflecting class action suits challenging their practices with arbitration agreements purportedly signed by the debtors with their original lender.
Consumer lawyers criticize the practice as “the legal equivalent of debt collectors having their cake and eating it, too,” the New York Times DealBook blog reports.
Often judges require arbitration even though the debt collectors can’t produce copies of the agreement requiring individual arbitration. In one case, for example, a debt buyer didn’t have a copy of the original arbitration agreement signed with Citibank, producing instead a contract signed with the bank by one of the company’s lawyers.
One deflected suit had claimed a debt buyer was suing in Maryland though it wasn’t licensed to collect debt there. Another blocked suit claimed a debt buyer was suing to collect a debt even though the state statute of limitation on it had expired.
No data tracks how often debt buyers rely on arbitration agreements consumers signed with the original lender. But a Times examination of thousands of court records, combined with interviews of hundreds of people involved in such cases, finds that “debt collection companies have already used the strategy to great success,” the article says.
DealBook spoke with Peter Holland, a lawyer who ran the Consumer Protection Clinic at the University of Maryland’s law school. “It’s beyond hypocritical that the companies can use arbitration to avoid being held accountable in court, all the while using the courts to collect from consumers,” he told the Times.
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An incompetent cervix, also called a cervical insufficiency, is a condition that occurs when weak cervical tissue causes or contributes to premature birth or the loss of an otherwise healthy pregnancy.
Before pregnancy, your cervix — the lower part of the uterus that connects to the vagina — is normally closed and rigid. As pregnancy progresses and you prepare to give birth, the cervix gradually softens, decreases in length (effaces) and opens (dilates). If you have an incompetent cervix, your cervix might begin to open too soon — causing you to give birth too early.
An incompetent cervix can be difficult to diagnose and, as a result, treat. If your cervix begins to open early, your health care provider might recommend preventive medication during pregnancy, frequent ultrasounds or a procedure that closes the cervix with strong sutures (cervical cerclage).
March 12, 2015
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- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Committee on Practice Bulletins — Obstetrics. ACOG Practice Bulletin No. 142: Cerclage for the management of cervical insufficiency. Obstetrics & Gynecology. 2014;123:372.
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It is really important that we all find ways to stay active whilst we are staying at home during the current Coronavirus crisis. We have collated the following information which we hope people will find helpful.
Being active is not only great for your physical health and fitness, it can also improve your mental wellbeing by causing chemical changes in your brain which can help to positively change your mood. It also raises your self-esteem.
Whilst we cannot run any of our normal groups and exercise classes at the current time, there are a range of different workouts and information available online, so we thought that it would be helpful to collate some of this information, and to share some links, to help people to 'Stay Active whilst Staying at Home'.
A new ‘Active at Home’ booklet has been produced by Public Health England and Sport England to provide practical guidance to older adults on home-based activities to maintain their strength and balance. Access a copy of the booklet here
Age UK National
- Age UK has a dedicated page on its national website with advice for being active as you get older. As part of its Coronavirus Information and Advice pages, it also has a section on Wellbeing which includes an online chair-based exercise video
- The Age UK national website also has a link to the We are Undefeatable website – a movement supporting people with a range of long term health conditions, with the aim of encouraging people to find ways to be active that work with their conditions, not against them
- The Age UK national team have also produced The Healthy Living Guide
Bromsgrove District & Redditch Borough Councils – Video Exercise Classes
- Bromsgrove District & Redditch Borough Councils have been working with their instructors to produce a range of exercise videos (including Keep Active at Home, Tai Chi, Seated Exercise, Active Senior) to help people to stay active whilst staying at home. The videos are available to all via: Bromsgrove Exercise Classes and Redditch Health & Exercise Classes
Active Herefordshire and Worcestershire
Active Herefordshire and Worcestershire has been established as the strategic lead for sport across Herefordshire and Worcestershire. They have a dedicated page on their website called ‘Stay Active at Home’ which includes an An Activity Finder (to find ‘Virtual Sessions’) and a section on Gentle Activity with links to:
- Free fitness videos including Move it or Lose it, iCareiMove and 6in6 (exercises to help improve strength and balance)
They also have some additional helpful information on the Active Ageing section of their website.
NHS and Government Guidance
- The NHS have produced a Home Exercise Guide, 10-minute Home Workout Videos in addtion to its Fitness Studio Videos (which includes Yoga and Pilates)
- The Government have also produced guidance on mental health and wellbeing
Sports England - 10 Today
- Sports England has launched '10 Today’ a set of fun, 10-minute workouts intended to easily fit into your day to help get people stretching and moving at home. The sessions are available as both audio and video workouts from the 10 Today website.
Age UK BRWF is supporting Worcestershire County Council’s Here2Help campaign as a community response the current Coronavirus crisis. For more information please visit the Here2Help website or call 01905 768053.
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Trigger Point Therapy
What are Trigger Points?
Myofacial Trigger Points are hypersensitive places in the muscles that can create shocking amount of discomfort and some surprising effects, more than people can even imagine. It is a small patch of firmly contracted muscle located in a taut band of skeletal muscle. A Trigger Point (TP) is an isolated contraction affecting just a small patch of muscle tissue and is also known as “muscle knot” and may cause pain on that point or in the surrounding areas. Trigger Point Therapy is an effective treatment of these TPs. But, before opting for Trigger Point Therapy in Melbourne, you must know certain facts about the symptoms, causes and treatment of TPs.
Trigger Points resulting into Pain
Formation of trigger points can be predisposed by poor posture, de-conditioning, injury, mechanical imbalance (e.g. leg length inequality), joint disorders, vitamin deficiencies and non-restorative sleep. They can effect patient primarily in 3 ways:
- Trigger points can cause pain directly. Being a natural part of the muscle tissue, it causes pain during palpation.
- Trigger Points can cause referred pain. Pain can spread from trigger points to other locations, which is termed as “referred pain”. For example, trigger points in the muscles around jaw, face, neck and head may cause toothaches, chronic jaw pain, sinusitis, earaches, etc. Trigger points anywhere around the throat may cause a sore throat or lump in the throat.
- Trigger points complicate injuries. In many cases, trigger points may worsen strains (muscle tears), sprains, overuse injuries fractures, and tendinitis, even lacerations and lesions.
Trigger point Therapy at Alternative Myotherapy:
At Alternative Myotherapy, the assessment of trigger points typically considers symptoms, pain patterns and manual palpation. During the process of Trigger Point Therapy, myotherapists use their hands, elbows, or several tools to direct pressure exactly upon the trigger point. Trigger Point Therapy from Alternative Myotherapy can help in treating Trigger Points in 3 ways:
- It gently breaks down the restricted and contracted muscle fibres causing muscle knot.
- It directly stretches the trigger point’s knotted muscle fibres.
- It increases the circulation by unleashing the contracted fibres, thus enabling nutrients, and oxygen to flow to the spot.
This therapy can help you in reducing a number of ailments including:
- Back pain, neck pain and headaches
- Rotator cuff (shoulder) and jaw pain (TMJD)
- tennis elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, hand and arm pain
- Repetitive strain injuries
- Pelvic pain, hip pain and “Sciatic” pain (buttock and leg pain)
- Leg and knee pain and plantar fascitis (foot) pain
It may also help in curing bursitis, arthritis, disc pain (bulge/rupture/herniation) and radiculopathy, frozen shoulder, and fibromyalgia.
Book an appointment for Trigger Point Therapy in Melbourne
If you are suffering from Trigger Points, a Sports Massage in Melbourne or a Remedial Massage in Melbourne cannot solely treat the problem. You need to seek Trigger Point Therapy. At Alternative Myotherapy, Ali has over 10 years of experience in helping patients getting rid of these trigger points with soothing and effective Trigger Point Therapy in Melbourne. To book an appointment, you can call us at 0449 698 635 or reach to us at email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:2a875981-edd7-4ff6-a44a-231f67988c43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alternativemyotherapy.com.au/trigger-point-therapy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.905007 | 745 | 2.5 | 2 |
The RAF had learned much during those sixteen weeks of high drama. On 7 November, Air Vice-Marshal Park reported that:
The following changes in minor tactics have been found necessary:
The use of sections of four aircraft instead of three aircraft;
The pilots of a squadron to be trained to work in pairs for defensive fighting instead of working singly;
Formations patrolling on a wider front, instead of in the old “train” of sub-formations, line astern.
The adoption of more flexible formations, instead of the old type of rigid formation.
The general adoption of an above-guard, even when the enemy is attacked from above, instead of all members of a formation going down to engage.
No longer would RAF fighter pilots be committed to battle in the suicidal vic formation. The Commander of 11 Group, which had borne the brunt of the fighting, also reported on the ‘Performance of Enemy and Our Own Fighters’:
Below 20,000 feet: during intensive air fighting over the continent in May and June, the superiority in performance and armament of our eight-gun fighters was one of the principal causes of the very high morale of our pilots. Until about the close of September 1940, our fighters had little difficulty in dealing effectively with enemy fighters. Most engagements during this period took place at heights below 20,000 feet, where our Spitfires and Hurricanes, although in the case of the Hurricane not as fast, are more manoeuvrable and effective. At first the Me 110 was looked upon with a certain amount of awe, but after their first engagement with this type, our pilots were of the impression that it was the easiest of the enemy fighters to deal with, and now regard it with a certain amount of contempt.
It is found that up to about 20,000 feet a Spitfire is faster than both the Me 109 and Me 110. A Hurricane with a constant-speed Rotol airscrew is about as fast as a Me 109 at ground level but becomes slower as height increases. Compared to a Me 110, the Hurricane has little difficulty in overtaking this aeroplane at heights up to about 20,000 feet. Above this height the Me 109 is able to easily out-climb the Hurricane fitted with a constant-speed airscrew, but up to heights of about 15,000 feet a Spitfire with a constant-speed airscrew is just able to out-climb the Me 109. Both Hurricanes and Spitfires are able to out-climb the Me 110.
Above 20,000 feet: All types of enemy fighters are now said to be faster above 20,000 feet. This undoubtedly due to the fact that their engines are fitted with two-stage superchargers. Our fighters, fitted with engines with single-stage superchargers, are most effective between heights of 15,000 feet and 20,000 feet, and above this the power falls off rapidly, with a consequent falling off in performance both in manoeuvrability and speed.
As a result of this our fighters have found themselves at a serious disadvantage in the present stage of the battle, when engagements are taking place at heights above 25,000 feet and sometimes above 30,000 feet. At these heights the performance of enemy fighters is vastly superior to that of ours and it is only as a result of clever tactics that our pilots are making the best of this situation and obtaining a certain amount of hard-earned success.
As the Battle of Britain had worn on and the Luftwaffe’s experience in fighting aircraft with performance comparable to its Me 109 increased, it had sensibly pushed up the altitude at which the 109 operated – because it was there that the 109 had the edge. Because fighter combat is dictated by height and surprise, the RAF could not simply fly within the height-band at which their aircraft performed best. To do so would have simply invited 109s to bounce them out of the sun and from high above. So the RAF had to respond and take the 109 on at high altitude. The only British fighter capable of doing so was the Spitfire. As Park also wrote of the Hurricane Mk II ‘… although the engine is designed to operate at 30,000 feet, the aeroplane itself was never meant to operate at this height, and no amount of increase in engine power will have the effect of turning it into a high altitude fighter’. And for all the Hurricane’s attributes, that was its failing. Fighter combat was changing, with very high altitude increasingly becoming the decisive factor. As the Hurricane could not compete in that environment, its days as a front-line interceptor were numbered. Park considered that in future fighters should be able to achieve speeds of over 400 mph and heights of ‘at least 40,000 feet’. In due course the Spitfire would do just that.
If there was one thing for which the Hurricanes earned respect from its pilots, though, it was its ability to absorb great damage and keep flying. Galland wrote of a Hurricane that refused to go down: ‘I had damaged her so badly she was on fire and ought to have been a dead loss. Yet she did not crash, but glided down in gentle curves. My flight companions and I attacked her three times without a final result. As I flew close alongside the wreck, by now thoroughly riddled, with smoke belching from her, from a distance of a few yards I saw the dead pilot sitting in his shattered cockpit, while his aircraft spiralled slowly to the ground as though piloted by a ghostly hand’. Douglas Bader also enthused about the Hurricane: ‘Best of all it was a marvellous gun platform. The sloping nose gave you a splendid view, while the eight guns were set in blocks of four in each wing, close to the fuselage. The aeroplane remained rock steady when you fired. Unlike the Spitfire with its lovely elliptical wing which sloped upwards to the tip, the Hurricane’s wing was thicker and straight. The Spitfire was less steady when the guns were firing because, I have always thought, they were spread further along the wing and the recoil effect was noticeable’.
Other pilots remembered the Hurricane:
Pilot Officer John Greenwood, 253 Squadron:
We thought they were wonderful to fly after Battles. We thought they were great. But of course they weren’t really. When we went into battle with them we found that the Hurricane was far, far inferior to the Me 109.
Sergeant Charles Palliser flew Hurricanes with 17, 43 and 249 Squadrons:
If you offered me two Spitfires and one Hurricane, I’d take one Hurricane. Because they were TOUGH! They were like a cruiser, not a destroyer. And you could really fly. I had one of them where I had nearly no control … my rudder was hanging on by a thread and one of my ailerons was shot off, and the fuselage was damaged. But I was still flying! The engines, of course, were the same as a Spitfire, but the Hurricane flew at about twenty-five miles mph less than a Spitfire. I reckon I flew Spitfires for a week. I thought “Gee whiz, I’d like to take it home”. You know, the controls and what it could do. It was really faster than the Hurricane, was much smaller than the Hurricane. Anyway I went back to my Hurricane and said “This is for me!” And that was that. The Hurricane always got me home.
Sergeant Leonard Bartlett flew Hurricanes with 17 Squadron:
The Hurricane was a follow on from biplanes. It had a metal wing but it was of fabric construction aft of the cockpit. It was immensely strong, had a wide undercarriage, and you could do anything with it. It would get you out of trouble. Flying – it was immensely strong and a very good aeroplane. The Spitfire was different. You got into a Hurricane, but somehow, a Spitfire tended to fit more around you. It had a much narrower undercarriage. Airborne it was fine. Once airborne both were great. But I think landing separated them. On runways you had to be very careful with a Spitfire, or you were in real trouble.
Sergeant Tony Pickering was with 501 Squadron at Kenley and Gravesend:
One day I came across a lone Ju 88 somewhere over Kent, heading back to sea. I thought that it would be no problem to catch up the Hun, press the gun button and that would be it. Suddenly he just pulled away from me, just left me standing, had at least an extra fifty mph on me, and that was the last I saw of him. The Hurricane just wasn’t fast enough. We even used to bend the throttle levers in flight, trying to squeeze a bit more boost out of the Merlin. A Spitfire would have caught that Ju 88. In the Hurricane’s favour was that it could take a terrific amount of punishment but still keep flying, whereas the Spitfire couldn’t take quite as much.
Although the Hurricane was later used in ground-attack roles, carrying both bombs and sometimes armed with four cannons made possible by its strong wing, its performance limitations dictated its complete replacement by the Spitfire – its cannon problems resolved – as the RAF’s front-line day fighter in 1941. No-one could argue, however, that the Hurricane and its pilots had not done sterling work when it mattered most, however – and that was during the dark days of 1940.
The fighting in 1940 had shown that good though the Me 109 was – unlike the Me 110 which was found fundamentally wanting as a day-fighter – it was not perfect. In September 1940, the RAE at Farnborough comprehensively reported on ‘Messerschmitt 109. Handling and Manoeuvrability Tests’. The aircraft’s ‘most serious defect’, the report concluded, was the 109’s ‘inability to roll fast in a high speed dive because of its heavy ailerons’, although the Spitfire, it said, was ‘about as bad’. In Germany, it had already been decided that the Me 109E had come to the end of its useful development and a replacement, the Franz, had been produced. The new Me 109F was curvaceous, whereas the Me 109E was angular in appearance. Tellingly, it had elliptical wings – like a Spitfire. Redesigned radiators, flaps, a symmetrical engine cowling, removal of tail struts, new supercharger intake and a smaller rudder completed the airframe package. The fighter was also powered by a new and improved engine, the DB 601E. In the battles of 1941 and 1942, the Me 109F would prove a tough adversary, until, of course, the FW 190 appeared and, in the words of the top scoring RAF fighter pilot of the Second World War, Air Vice-Marshal Johnnie Johnson, ‘saw us all off’. And so fighter development went on, with both sides effectively locked into an arms race that would soon involve the Americans – who were able to produce the long-range offensive fighter that both sides needed so badly in 1940: the North American P-51 Mustang. The American designers, though, had the benefit of the RAF’s early wartime experience and the P-51 only became far and away the best fighter of the Second World War once it was powered by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine. So in terms of long-term Allied fighter design and development, the British experience in producing the Hurricane and Spitfire was essential. | <urn:uuid:9c218eee-a260-4291-97bb-9a3c3124a83d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://weaponsandwarfare.com/2016/08/21/spitfire-ascendant/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00540-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984024 | 2,422 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Earlier this week, we covered the different ways pet-related businesses can pivot during the COVID-19 crisis and how social media marketing can help them make an impact in their communities. This article, the second in a four-part series, is dedicated to online education — a hot-button topic for educators, parents and children learning at home right now. Let’s dive right in!
- You don’t need to be a video or branding expert to teach your audience something on social media. Prop your phone up on a chair, work out a math problem on a whiteboard and viola! You just added so much value to a parent’s day.
- Now more than ever, people are craving rich content, and you absolutely have something to offer. The only way you can use social media wrong as an educator is by not using it at all.
- You can partner with local schools and businesses digitally on social media. Tag them in your content, start a Facebook Group with them, organize Zoom webinars and co-host them as an event on Facebook. The COVID-19 crisis might feel like it’s hindered your reach, but actually it’s only allowing you to think more creatively.
For Tutoring Businesses and Educators
Let’s face it: Parents have a lot on their plates right now. They’re trying to be both parent and teacher, not to mention chef, house cleaner, coach and all the many other hats they must wear.
Children have a lot on their plates, too. For many of them, this is the first time they’ve had to learn in an exclusively online environment. And although they’re no strangers to the internet, they’re not necessarily going to have a seamless transition to online learning.
Moreover, they’re isolated from their friends. Graduating seniors are having an especially rough end of the year, missing out on social activities, spring sports, grad nights and graduation ceremonies. There are no do-overs when it comes to these precious moments.
However, here’s where tutoring businesses, retailers of educational materials, music and art teachers, and other educators have an incredible opportunity to not only ease the burden on parents, but also offer extra support to students as they shift to online education. While you can’t replace the moments they’re missing out on at school, you can give them the one-on-one support they need to feel successful with their academics.
Even if you don’t have an online learning platform in place for your business, you can use other tools like Zoom, Google Classroom and your own social media pages to connect with students. In addition to providing virtual tutoring sessions, you can go live on Facebook and Instagram with fun videos, downloadable organizers and tips to entertain your audience. Why not solve a math problem or recite a children’s book in a creative video?
Connect with your local schools, too, to offer support services for educators and further your reach. Offer to create tutoring lessons tailored to teachers’ lessons plans that they can then share with their students. Use your social media pages to share all the great work you’re doing with hyper-local posts featuring your tutors and the people they serve.
Ever wondered what a personalized online tutoring session with Tutor Doctor is like? Check out these highlights from an hour long session with one of our tutors teaching reading.
For Any Business With Something to Teach
As people pick up new hobbies and strive to further their education at home, all different types of businesses can provide online lessons related to their business. Some people are simply looking to pass the time in ways that involve more than sitting on the couch and binging the latest reality show (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Others are jobless and looking to expand their skill sets as they look for new work.
You can step in and be of service during the COVID-19 crisis. As Forbes writes: “While many Americans will be forced to reevaluate their career options in the months and years to come, some will undoubtedly use this time of uncertainty and isolation to acquire practical skills that will increase their chances of finding employment once companies are hiring again.”
These online classes, many of them free, may be focused on a specific career outcome, like a technology skill, or they may be simply a dose of positivity in a time of crisis. Even higher education institutions are hopping on board. For instance, Yale is currently offering its most popular class, “The Science of Well-Being,” for free — something we all want to learn more about, right?
As a business owner, you’re an expert in something that your customers will want to learn more about. Think about some of the FAQ you tend to get over and over again. How can you answer those questions in an online learning environment while creating more engagement and connection with your customers?
You can use the same tools that tutors and educators use to teach your audience something new. Add in webinars and YouTube videos and share those on your social media channels as links or downloads, branded with your company name. When they have a question about your area of expertise, guess who they’re going to turn to? That’s right, you.
So don’t think of it as giving something away for free; think of it as building brand trust and awareness — not to mention just being a good human being in these challenging times.
For Cybersecurity Firms
With online platforms, there’s always a risk of hackers and unsafe situations, for children and parents alike. Cybersafety firms have an opportunity to teach consumers how to protect their personal information online, avoid cyberbullying and online predators, prevent hackers from accessing their online meetings, and protect themselves as well as seniors and children from the many scams that are arising out of COVID-19.
For cybersafety experts, social media provides an ideal platform to share safety tips and best practices. People of all ages can benefit from your posts and quick videos addressing some of the most common concerns and scams that have arisen from the COVID-19 crisis.
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George Eliot: The Use of Objects and Imagery in "The Mill on The Floss"
The Victorian age was a time period in which the world of matter and objects outweighed the importance of the natural world; a time when materialism, economy, industry and scientific advancement took priority over all natural entities, and connected men with material objects more than with the innate world which they were first derived. Along with the severe connection to the unnatural and material world came the repression of natural human instincts, bending and molding people unnaturally to fit the skewed standards of a patriarchal society. …
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And then I saw this:
- Robert J. Samuelson
- Opinion Writer
So, it starts out sounding pretty sane.
This minimum wage business is tricky. On its face, raising the wage seems an easy way to fight poverty. Just pay low-wage workers more. After all, some scholarly research finds that, within reasonable limits, there’s no job penalty. A higher minimum doesn’t reduce employment much, if at all.
That's it. Just end it there. We should, of course, raise the minimum wage. There is no downside. That's it. It's really just that simple!
Unfortunately, it may not be that simple.
Oh, God. . . Okay, go ahead. How is it not that simple?
Unfortunately, it may not be that simple.
Democrats propose raising the present federal minimum of $7.25 an hour to $8.20 this year, $9.15 in 2015 and $10.10 in 2016. Assuming no job losses, almost 28 million workers would benefit by 2016, estimates the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a liberal think tank. That’s about 17 million who now make less than the proposed minimums, plus 11 million slightly better-paid workers who would get increases to keep them above the minimum.
Oh, well that does complicate things - oh, wait. no. no, it's still pretty simple.
Someone working 40 hours a week at the minimum would see annual wages go from $15,080 now to $21,008 in 2016. Today’s annual wage is about 20 percent below the federal poverty line for a family of three, while the 2016 wage would slightly be above the line for a family of three (though not of four), says EPI. Not all workers would receive big increases, because many work part-time (46 percent), don’t stay for a full year or already are above the minimum. Still, wage gains could be sizable.
Yes, sizable. Going from below the poverty line to just slightly above it. Let's call that "sizable." Sure.
Now, if you're trying to say that $21,000 a year is still a starvation wage, especially for someone trying to support a family, you'll get no argument here. But since you write for the Washington Post Op/Ed page, I'm guessing that that is not the complicating factor you're referring to.
Economist John Schmitt of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, another left-leaning think tank, says that recent minimum-wage studies find that “modest increases” have “little or no employment effect.” Businesses turn to other ways of absorbing the added costs rather than reducing payrolls or workers’ hours, he says. Better-paid workers mean less turnover. This cuts firms’ recruitment and training costs; it also raises workers’ productivity, because they’re more familiar with their jobs. Finally, firms adopt “small price increases.”
So, it's a win-win! When does it get complicated?
All this sounds plausible; it may also be incomplete.
For starters, the minimum wage is a blunt instrument to aid the poor because it covers many workers from families that are well above the federal poverty line.
Wait. Your objection is that raising the minimum wage would help too many people?
By the administration’s figures, 53 percent of workers who would benefit from a higher minimum come from families with incomes above $35,000, including 22 percent with incomes exceeding $75,000.
Okay. If you have two adults working full-time at a paltry $8.45 an hour, that adds up to about $35,000/year. Do you think that couple is going to be able to support a family on that?
Next, economists still disagree on the job effect. In studies — and their review of other studies — economists David Neumark and J.M. Ian Salas of the University of California at Irvine and William Wascher of the Federal Reserve conclude that higher minimums do weaken low-wage employment. Under plausible assumptions, even a small effect (say, a 1 percent job loss for each 10 percent increase in the minimum) implies nearly a million fewer jobs over three years.
Oh, come on! No one really believes that. Businesses hire only the workers they need. It's not like they've been hiring extra workers just because they can afford extras. And the amount they have to pay their workers doesn't change the number of workers they need. They may have to raise prices a smidge, or maybe, God forbid, have a slightly smaller profit margin, they aren't going to go without needed employees just because of a small increase in the price of labor. And make no mistake, what is being proposed is a pretty small increase.
First, the proposed increase is huge. By 2016, it’s almost 40 percent.
Oh my God. Huge? Yes, it's almost 405, but it's less than three dollars an hour. Back when I worked fast food, we usually had about 5 or 6 employees on duty at any one time. I think that's still pretty typical. So if an average fast-food restaurant has to make up an extra $15-$20 each hour, how big a deal is that? Maybe the dollar menu needs to become the buck-and-a-quarter menu. I can't see this being a big deal.
By 2016, it’s almost 40 percent. Similar gains usually have occurred when high inflation advanced all wages rapidly. The minimum mainly kept pace. That’s not true today. Compared to average wages, the proposed hike in the minimum appears to be the largest since the 1960s.
So, because the minimum wage has not kept pace with inflation, that's a reason for not trying to catch up? There wouldn't need to be this "huge" increase if the minimum wage had kept up. If it had kept up, it would be significantly more than $10.10/hour.
Second, businesses have been reluctant job creators. They curb hiring at the least pretext. They seem obsessed with cost control.
So if it isn't a minimum wage hike, it will be something else. It will be a bad horoscope or inclement weather, or a hangover. Businesses never like hiring people. Why pretend that keeping wages at subsistence levels is going to change that? The minimum wage has been a poverty wage for a long time and you don't see businesses running out hiring people now, do you?
Would employers take the minimum’s steep costs in stride — or react by cutting hiring and automating more low-paid jobs (example: supermarket checkouts)?
You mean, they might do what they're already doing?There is no wage low enough to keep businesses from trying to automate, or try other ways to get more work done with fewer employees. Those of us with regular jobs see this every day.
Which matters more for low-income workers: added jobs or higher incomes? There’s a powerful symbolism to raising the minimum, but the notion that it can be boosted sharply without any job penalty may be a mirage.
Well, here's the thing. Higher incomes will lead to added jobs. Because the people making those higher incomes will have more money to spend, which means increased business. . .you know, it's really just basic Econ 101 stuff. Everybody knows this, except, apparently, for the op/ed section of the Washington Post. | <urn:uuid:111cb6e6-1689-419e-8b1d-0b809d033ee1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wwwirritant.blogspot.com/2014_01_17_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.96236 | 1,579 | 2.03125 | 2 |
It’s clear that unified communications is the buzzword du jour. Practically every enterprise is devising strategies for unified communications (or about to do so). As my colleague, Irwin Lazar, puts it in his blog: “The reality is that the worlds of telephony, video, IM, and collaboration are rapidly converging.”
There’s just one small catch: What, exactly, is unified communications? IP telephony vendors ( Cisco, Avaya, Nortel and so on) define it as “ VoIP with collaboration layered on top”. Traditional collaboration players (IBM, Microsoft ) define it as “collaboration with real-time communications thrown in.” And new entrants — such as Google — are defining it as a hosted application-layer service that you get from the Web.
If this is starting to sound like the proverbial three blind men and the elephant, that’s because it is. The exact definition of unified communications is in the eye of the beholder — and vendors all have limited perspectives.
I think it’s still a bit too early for a comprehensive definition of unified communications — that usually happens once a technology has transitioned from “emerging” to “emerged”. But there are a couple of things I can be confident about.
First is that voice is harder than it looks. I recently got into an interesting debate over whether voice is a desktop application. I’m not sure it is — for one thing, when I’m on the phone I’m usually away from my desktop, if that’s at all possible (I’m a pacer).
But that’s not really the point. Making real-time communications work reliably on a large scale is a slightly bigger challenge than the desktop vendors want to admit. The switching infrastructure and processes that telcos have built up over the years are truly formidable — and though VoIP changes the implementation of the solution, it doesn’t reduce the scale or scope of the problem. (Keep in mind that communications networks predate the transistor — VoIP is the fourth-generation technology in an architecture that started with human switching elements).
And although one should never bet against Microsoft, one of the few things the folks in Seattle never get quite right is networking (remember Netbios/Netbeui?). So despite the fact that Microsoft is trying hard to slow the progress of the VoIP vendors by sowing fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD), I’m reluctant to concede that Microsoft’s won the game just yet.
A second thing I’m confident about: Whatever unified communications ultimately ends up meaning, the definition has to include mobile/wireless interfaces. And that’s another reason that voice isn’t just another desktop application — the desktop model of a standard operating system running a range of add-on applications doesn’t yet dominate the wireless universe (if it ever will).
I’m also confident that while Google may ultimately change the rules of the game, its current strategy is to out-FUD the FUDsters. In other words, Google’s actions are aimed at stalling Microsoft, not meeting real enterprise needs for unified communications.
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Calendrical savants can name the weekdays for dates from different years with remarkable speed and accuracy. Whether calculation rather than just memory is involved is disputed. Grounds for doubting whether they can calculate are reviewed and criteria for attributing date calculation skills to them are discussed. At least some calendrical savants possess date calculation skills. A behavioural characteristic observed in many calendrical savants is increased response time for questions about more remote years. This may be because more remote years require more calculation or because closer years are more practised. An experiment is reported that used functional magnetic resonance imaging to attempt to discriminate between these explanations. Only two savants could be scanned and excessive head movement corrupted one savant's mental arithmetic data. Nevertheless, there was increased parietal activation during both mental arithmetic and date questions and this region showed increased activity with more remote dates. These results suggest that the calendrical skills observed in savants result from intensive practice with calculations used in solving mental arithmetic problems. The mystery is not how they solve these problems, but why.
Calendrical savants are people with pervasive disabilities who can tell you the weekdays corresponding to dates without resorting to external aids such as calendars or computers. Some surveys suggest it is the most common savant skill (e.g. Saloviita et al. 2000). It is certainly one of the strangest. These may be linked: so rarely is it reported in typically functioning people that any indication of it is remarkable. In this paper, we use existing research to argue that some calendrical savants have skills that go beyond rote memory. They therefore challenge accounts of savant skills in terms of rote learning just as the originality of savant artists and the inventiveness of savant musicians do (Sloboda et al. 1985; O'Connor & Hermelin 1987). Although we shall argue that the skills of several previously studied calendrical savants include date calculation, this does not imply that they calculate to answer every date question. In the second part of the paper, we describe a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) investigation to determine whether savants take longer to answer questions about more remote dates because these involve additional calculation or more extensive memory search.
Before discussing the grounds for attributing date calculation skills to savants, we consider why some have rejected calculation as a basis for their skill. A principal reason is that calculation draws on cognitive processes that constitute general intelligence. It thus seems paradoxical that people with low measured intelligence should show prowess in a form of calculation that is rarely shown by people with superior levels of cognitive functioning.
The simplest explanation is that the calculations involved are not very demanding. Calendrical skills are not rare in typically functioning people because they are difficult to acquire: Cowan et al. (2004) described two typically developing boys who showed calendrical skills at the ages of 5 and 6. Both had developed them without instruction.
It is more likely that calendrical skills are uncommon in the general population because few people are motivated to develop them. Indeed, on following up the boys 2 years later neither had progressed much in calendrical skill. Both had found more conventional domains in which to excel and receive attention and praise. By contrast, calendrical savants may not have opportunities to develop other socially engaging skills.
Among those motivated to develop calendrical skills, the level of intelligence is likely to affect the development of skill: in a set of calendrical savants, there is a relationship between the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scales Intelligence Quotient (WAIS IQ) and calendrical skill (Hermelin & O'Connor 1986; O'Connor et al. 2000). Omnibus intelligence tests such as the WAIS have limitations for assessing people with autism (Happé 1994; Frith 2003). Most of the sample in O'Connor et al. (2000) had received diagnoses of autism.
Even stronger relationships might be observed between calendrical skill and intelligence when measured with tests that require less informal knowledge, although this would depend on whether amounts of practice were similar. Although some claim that savant skills do not develop with practice (e.g. Snyder & Mitchell 1999), there is evidence that they do (Scheerer et al. 1945; Horwitz et al. 1965; Hoffman 1971; Rosen 1981; Cowan & Carney 2006).
The confounding of informal knowledge with computation might also have led to claims that calendrical savants cannot be calculating to solve date questions because they lack even basic arithmetical skills. The WAIS arithmetic subscale features arithmetical problems embedded in verbal contexts. The context may cause difficulty, not the computation. Ho et al. (1991) described a calendrical savant who performed poorly on WAIS arithmetic but was very successful on tests that just required calculation.
Cowan et al. (2003) also observed differences between WAIS arithmetic scores and a test of mental arithmetic, the graded difficulty arithmetic test (GDA, Jackson & Warrington 1986) in a sample of calendrical savants. In normal adults, performance on the GDA is highly related to WAIS arithmetic. The calendrical savants showed no such association: several showed marked discrepancies between the tests. No savant performed at a superior level on the WAIS arithmetic test and several performed poorly. By contrast, several calendrical savants were at ceiling level on the GDA: they were also more proficient on calendrical tasks.
The GDA just involves addition and subtraction, but algorithms for date calculation typically involve division (e.g. Berlekamp et al. 1982; Carroll 1887). However, the suggested process of date calculation by calendrical savants does not involve division. Instead, it involves converting the target year into a known year by addition or subtraction (Cowan & Carney 2006; Thioux et al. 2006).
Another feature of calendrical savants that has been considered to argue against calculation is that they are typically unable to give an account of how they solve date questions (O'Connor 1989). Normally, one would expect conscious awareness of calculation. However, savants may not be able to introspect even when they can be observed counting when solving problems (Scheerer et al. 1945). If savants do not mention calculation even when they can be observed to be calculating, then what they do not say about their method is inconclusive about the basis of their skill.
In summary, calculation by calendrical savants has been considered unlikely because of their measured intelligence, their apparent lack of arithmetical skills and their silence about their method. None of these is compelling.
Positive evidence that the skill does not just reflect memory for calendars is provided when savants can answer questions outside the range of calendars that they could have memorized. Just being able to answer questions about dates in the future is not decisive as there are several sources of information about future dates: diaries often give the calendar for years in the near future. Calendars for more remote years can be obtained from reference books such as Whitaker's Almanac and perpetual calendars. The range of years these cover is, however, limited. Reference books and perpetual calendars do not cover more than 400 years in the Gregorian period, as the Gregorian calendar repeats every 400 years. Typically, they cover fewer. So a savant who can answer questions concerning years more than 400 years in the future must calculate to work out the correspondence between a remote year and a closer one. Several reports of savants with very large ranges exist: Tredgold & Soddy (1956) mentioned an inmate of an idiot asylum who could answer questions on any date in the years from 1000 to 2000. George, the more able of the twins studied by Horwitz et al. (1969), correctly answered all questions asked concerning years between 4100 and 40 400. O'Connor et al. (2000) described three savants who correctly answered questions for years further in the future than 8000: GC, MW and HP.
Systematic errors provide another form of evidence that the skills are not just the product of memorizing calendars. Century years such as 1800, 1900 and 2000 are only leap years in the Gregorian calendar if they are exactly divisible by 400. Some savants respond to date questions as though all century years were leap. They answer questions about dates in the nineteenth century with the day before the correct answer, e.g. claiming that the 14 July 1886 was a Saturday when it was a Sunday. For dates in the eighteenth century, their answers are 2 days before the correct day and for future centuries their answers are days after the correct answer, e.g. claiming that 1 July 2192 will be a Monday rather than a Sunday and that 22 May 2209 will be a Wednesday instead of a Monday. These systematic deviations are inconsistent with a method solely based on remembered calendars. Extrapolation from calendars studied is more likely, but this implies that they have detected regularities to extrapolate from and that they have used these to calculate correspondences between remote and proximal years (O'Connor & Hermelin 1984; Hermelin & O'Connor 1986). Calendrical savants who made such systematic errors have been described by several researchers: Kit (Ho et al. 1991), TMK (Hurst & Mulhall 1988), Donny (Thioux et al. 2006), DM and JG (O'Connor et al. 2000).
The remote past can also provoke systematic errors inconsistent with memorizing. Before adopting the Gregorian calendar, European countries used the Julian calendar in which every year exactly divisible by four is leap. Countries adopted the Gregorian calendar in different years: from 1582 for Italy, France, Spain and Portugal, to 1923 for Greece. Adoption of the Gregorian calendar involved more than just the change to century years: a number of days were dropped in the year of change. When Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar in 1752, the days between 3 and 13 September did not happen, a cause of some civil unrest. False extrapolations of the Gregorian calendar to years before 1752 were made by George (Horwitz et al. 1969) and MW (Cowan et al. 2003). GC assumed that 1700 was a leap year but was ignorant of the omission of days in 1752 (Cowan et al. 2003). Donny (Thioux et al. 2006) and DM (Cowan et al. 2003) extrapolated their versions of the calendar across the change date. Only HP (Cowan et al. 2003) responded consistently with the change and knew what dates had been omitted.
Another way of establishing that savants can calculate to solve date problems was derived by analogy with research on children's arithmetic. Dowker (1998) devised a test of children's knowledge of arithmetical principles, which involves first determining the range of problems a child could reliably solve and then presenting them with problems beyond it but with the solution to a problem related to it by an arithmetical principle. So, for example, a child who could solve single-digit addend problems such as 9+8 but not two-digit addend problems such as 26+72 would be told that 44+23=67 and asked whether they could solve 23+44 (related to it by commutativity). The calendrical analogue involved first establishing the limits of the range of years within which the savant could answer correctly, telling them days for dates outside that range and then asking them to solve date questions related to them by calendrical regularities. Two such regularities are the 1 year, 1 day rule (the same date in adjacent years falls on adjacent days unless there is an intervening 29 February) and the 28 year rule (the same date in 28 years apart in the same century falls on the same day). Answering both types of problem correctly requires knowledge of the principles and discrimination—the correct answer to 1 year, 1 day problems is never the same weekday but it is always for the 28 year rule problems. Savants who answered both types of problem correctly included DK and PE, as well as GC and MW (Cowan et al. 2001).
Any of the above characteristics might be regarded as sufficient evidence that a particular calendrical savant's skills are more than just memory. None, however, are necessary. It would be wrong to conclude that a savant cannot calculate dates just because their range is less than that of a perpetual calendar or because they do not systematically err. An inability to solve related problems outside their range is also inconclusive: it proved beyond the ability of the experimenters to explain the task to some savants (Cowan et al. 2001). So our conclusion is that at least some calendrical savants, and maybe all, can calculate the answers to date questions.
A feature of many calendrical savants, even those with limited ranges, is that they take longer to answer questions concerning years more remote from the present (O'Connor & Hermelin 1984; Dorman 1991; Cowan et al. 2003). This could result from increased calculation for more remote years (O'Connor & Hermelin 1984). It might also result from differential effects of practice. As a result of practising date calculations and studying calendars, savants may develop richer networks of associations between dates and weekdays and stronger associations for more proximal years.
Behavioural data are equivocal about why response times increase with remoteness. Imaging studies can help to resolve the issue. If areas of greater activation when calendrical savants answer date questions overlap with those when they are calculating answers to arithmetical problems, then calculation is the probable basis. If remote years elicit even greater activation of these regions, then these are likely to involve more calculation, as O'Connor & Hermelin (1984) hypothesized.
The neural processing of numbers in the brain involves several different regions. For example, the right fusiform gyrus is implicated in the identification of Arabic numerals (Pinel et al. 2001). However, it is generally agreed that the parietal lobe has the major role (Dehaene et al. 2003). In particular, the intraparietal sulcus (IPS) is involved in representing quantity in both humans (Pinel et al. 2004) and monkeys (Nieder 2005). Supporting this idea are data from an experiment (Pinel et al. 2001) in which subjects had to decide whether a number was larger or smaller than a memorized reference number (65). There were three categories of target, close (60–64, 66–69), medium (50–59, 70–79) and far (30–49, 80–89). Reaction times for classifier target numbers decreased as the distance of the targets from the reference. These reaction time differences were paralleled by the magnitude of the activity elicited in left and right IPS (−40, −44, 36 and 44, −56, 48). The more difficult the numerical comparison (i.e. the closer the numbers), the longer was the reaction time and the greater was the activity in the IPS.
The study of calendrical savants is problematic for a number of reasons. First, there are too few suitable savants for a group study to be conducted. We originally attempted to scan four, but one was unable to remain in the scanner for long enough. Another was unable to learn to press buttons instead of responding orally. It is therefore necessary to conduct single case studies. Given the very limited power from such studies using fMRI, we chose to restrict our investigation to the parietal lobe and to test the hypothesis that calendrical calculation engages this region in the same manner as mental arithmetic.
The second problem is that it is not possible to scan ‘normal’ volunteers doing calendrical calculation because their abilities would typically be dramatically inferior. To avoid this problem, we asked our calendrical calculators to perform an established mental arithmetic task (Menon et al. 2000) that could be compared with normal volunteers. We then used conjunction analysis to locate regions in parietal cortex that were activated both by mental arithmetic and by calendrical calculation. Finally, we asked whether these regions also showed a difficulty effect when calendrical calculations were performed on dates that were more or less remote from the present.
2. Material and methods
Two autistic calendrical savants (GC and MW) and a normal adult male participated. GC and MW are examples of classic autism and have WAIS IQs of 97 and 82, respectively. Both GC and MW show evidence of being able to calculate dates by having ranges that transcend those of perpetual calendars, making systematic errors for dates in the remote past and by being able to use calendrical regularities to solve date problems outside their range. GC is left-handed and MW is right-handed. Written consent was obtained from both savants before each occasion on which they were scanned. MW's parents accompanied him and also consented to his participation. The study was approved by the National Hospital research ethics committee. The single normal participant was tested on the mental arithmetic task to check that the results of Menon et al. (2000) could be replicated in a single subject.
(b) Experimental tasks
We modified Menon et al.'s (2000) verification task slightly to increase the probability of calculation. Initial and final numbers always contained two digits, e.g. ‘25−6+8=27; true or false?’ The control task presented strings of eight digits and also required both true and false, e.g. ‘3 4 9 0 5 7 8 6 contains 0; true or false?’
(ii) Calendrical tasks
We used two types of calendrical and control tasks on different occasions. Calendrical I featured dates from the 1940s and 2020s, e.g. ‘3 March 2025 is a Monday; true or false?’ The control task comprised statements about the initial letters of months, e.g. ‘July begins with J; true or false?’
The second session calendrical task, calendrical II, featured dates from three periods, varying in remoteness from the late twentieth century. Close dates sampled from the 1970s and 1980s, e.g. ‘16 July 1981 is a Monday; true or false?’ Medium dates sampled the 1940s and 2020s. Remote dates featured the 1910s and 2050s. The control task presented statements such as ‘8 June 2055 is a June day: true or false?’, using dates from all six decades.
Each task involved equal numbers of true and false statements. There were 60 different items for each of the arithmetic, first session calendrical task and control tasks and for each of the periods in the second session calendrical task. All calendrical task items concerned Mondays.
Testing occurred in two sessions for the savants and one for the normal participant. Problems were visually presented. The interval between problems was fixed at 8 s. Participants responded by pressing buttons with their left or right thumb to indicate true or false, respectively, and response times were recorded. Savants were scanned for four blocks in both sessions. In the first session, a block consisted of 30 items from a particular task (arithmetic or calendrical task dates) and 30 items from the corresponding control task. In the second session, a block consisted of 45 calendrical task items, 15 from each period and 15 control items. The normal participant received the two arithmetic blocks. The order of problems within each block was randomized.
(c) Data acquisition
Images were acquired using a 1.5 tesla Siemens Sonata MRI scanner to acquire gradient-echo, T2-weighted echo-planar images with blood oxygenation level-dependent contrast. Each volume comprised 36 axial slices of 2 mm thickness with 1 mm slice gap and 3×3 mm in plane resolution. Volumes were acquired continuously every 3.077 s. Each run began with six ‘dummy’ volumes discarded for analyses. At the end of each scanning session, a T1-weighted structural image was acquired.
(d) Data analysis
The images were analysed with SPM2 (Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, London, UK) using an event-related model (Josephs et al. 1997). To correct for motion, functional volumes were realigned to the first volume (Friston et al. 1995a), spatially normalized to a standard template with a resampled voxel size of 3×3×3 mm and smoothed using a Gaussian kernel with a full width at half maximum of 8 mm. In addition, high-pass temporal filtering with a cut-off of 128 s was applied. After pre-processing, statistical analysis was carried out using the general linear model (Friston et al. 1995b). The response to each problem was modelled by convolving a 4 s boxcar starting at problem onset with a canonical haemodynamic response function to create regressors for each problem type. Problems that were incorrectly answered were omitted. Residual effects of head motion were corrected by including the six estimated motion parameters for each subject as regressors of no interest. Contrast images (e.g. arithmetic versus control problems) were then calculated by applying appropriate linear contrasts to the parameter estimates for the parametric regressor of each event. Probabilities are corrected for multiple comparisons using false discovery rate (FDR) unless stated otherwise. In session 2, regions where there was a relationship between activity and increasing remoteness of the date were identified by the conjunction of the contrasts (remote–medium) and (medium–close).
According to an experienced clinical radiologist, inspection of the structural scans of the two savants indicated no structural abnormalities. We also looked for small scale differences in the structure using voxel-based morphometry (Ashburner & Friston 2000), but found no consistent differences in our two subjects in comparison with an age-matched control group. In particular, we found no differences in the parietal lobe.
(a) First session: mental arithmetic and calendrical I
(i) Mental arithmetic
Behavioural data are summarized in table 1. In testing GC, but not MW, there were a few invalid trials owing to the failure to press buttons (arithmetic, 7 out of 60; control, 8 out of 60). Table 1 shows both savants responded correctly to almost all valid trials and their response times were fast, although not as fast as the control subject.
Unfortunately, MW's first session data could not be analysed further owing to the excessive head movement (within session movement more than 7 mm). Table 2 shows activation in parietal cortex while performing the mental arithmetic task (versus control) for the group reported by Menon et al. (2000), the control participant and GC. Both the control participant and GC show considerable correspondence with Menon et al.'s data. The only difference is the indication of bilateral activation of the inferior parietal region in GC.
(ii) Calendrical I
Table 1 shows the accuracies and response times for the two calendrical savants on the calendrical and control tasks. Accuracy was high on both the calendrical and control tasks and there were no invalid trials.
A conjunction analysis (Friston et al. 2005) was performed on the data for GC to identify regions that were activated by both the mental arithmetic and calendrical tasks. This analysis revealed activations in the same regions of parietal cortex (table 3).
Figure 1 shows all the activity in common between mental arithmetic and calendrical calculation in GC using the glass brain format. In addition to parietal cortex, activity can be seen in premotor cortex, the supplementary motor area and in left inferior temporal cortex. These areas were also activated by the mental arithmetic tasks in the study of Menon et al. (2000). Figure 1d shows the major regions of activity superimposed on a horizontal slice from the structural scan of GC's brain.
(b) Second session
GC, but not MW, had a few invalid trials (close, 3 out of 60; medium, 6 out of 60; and remote, 7 out of 60). For valid trials, the overall accuracy was high, as table 1 shows. GC's accuracy for medium and remote dates was lower than that for close dates, but MW's accuracy did not vary: GC, Χ22,164=6.45, p<0.05; MW, Χ22,180=2.03, ns. MW made 10 errors on the task II control problems. All but one were correct answers to the corresponding calendrical question, suggesting that he failed either to recognize them as control items or to inhibit the response to the calendrical question.
Correct response times varied with remoteness of years according to analyses of log response times: GC, F2,141=24.22, p<0.0005, η2=0.26; MW, F2,174=67.70, p<0.0005, η2=0.46. Both answered close questions faster than medium but only MW took longer to answer remote than medium questions, according to post hoc Ryan–Einot–Gabriel–Welsch range comparisons (ps<0.05).
Neither savant showed excessive head movement during scanning. For GC, we could predict which regions in parietal cortex should show increasing activity with increasing remoteness on the basis of the first session. For MW, however, we had not been able to identify the relevant regions. As a strict test of the replicability of the results for GC, we used the regions identified for GC in the first session to guide our analysis of the data for MW in the second session. These were the two most significant regions of parietal cortex identified from the conjunction analysis of GC's mental arithmetic and calendrical calculation (left parietal cortex (−40, −56, 52), right parietal cortex (34, −64, 52); table 3). The nearest locations where there was significant activity (uncorrected) in session 2 were used to plot the data shown in figure 2. In addition, we performed an unconstrained analysis to identify the regions where activity increased with increasing remoteness of dates.
Table 4 shows the coordinates so identified. The regions of interest identified from the conjunction analysis of the first session for GC were included in clusters identified by the unconstrained analysis for both GC and MW. Figure 2 shows response time and associated activity in the parietal cortex on the same graph, as in Pinel et al. (2001). It reveals a striking correspondence between the increase in response time and neural activity with increasing date distance.
Despite some limitations, we were able to conduct a case study with one savant, GC, and a normal participant and replicate it with a second savant, MW. The results do contribute to our knowledge of savants, and, in particular, understanding why they take longer to answer questions about more remote dates.
When GC was doing mental arithmetic, the peaks of activation were in regions associated with arithmetic in studies of normal people (Menon et al. 2000). The conjunction analysis indicated that it was these regions that were particularly active when solving date problems. Data from the second session showed that it was these regions that increased in activity in both GC and MW when asked questions about more remote years.
For these savants, it seems that the relationship between response time and remoteness from the present reflects increased calculation for remote dates as hypothesized by O'Connor & Hermelin (1984). Whether this is generally true for savants who vary in response time with period is a matter for future research.
More tentatively, the lack of abnormalities revealed by the brain scans of the two savants does not support the proposal that all savants are severely brain damaged (Snyder & Mitchell 1999), or that savant skills are achieved by rededication of low-level perceptual systems (Mottron et al. 2006).
In summary, the calendrical skills of savants are most plausibly considered to develop from practice and extensive study of calendars. The skills may be unusual but they do not, in these two cases at least, seem to involve any abnormal cognitive processes or depend on fundamentally different brains.
The idea for this study originated in conversations with Neil O'Connor. We are grateful to Dr John Stevens for assessing the scans for structural abnormalities and to Professor Cathy Price for carrying out the voxel-based morphometry.
One contribution of 18 to a Discussion Meeting Issue ‘Autism and talent’.
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Educators in Kentucky have rolled out a new set of science standards.
Nearly two dozen parents, teachers, scientists and advocacy groups commented at the state Department of Education hearing on the Next Generation Science Standards. The broad set of guidelines will revamp content in grades K-12 and help meet requirements from a 2009 law that called for improving education.
“Students in the commonwealth both need and deserve 21st-century science education grounded in inquiry, rich in content and internationally benchmarked,” said Blaine Ferrell, a representative from the Kentucky Academy of Sciences, a science advocacy group that endorses the standards.
Seems reasonable right?
No so much. Opponents of the science standards have apparently lost their fucking minds:
The critics included parent Valerie O’Rear, who said the standards promote an “atheistic world view” and a political agenda that pushes government control.
Matt Singleton, a Baptist minister declared:
“Outsiders are telling public school families that we must follow the rich man’s elitist religion of evolution, that we no longer have what the Kentucky Constitution says is the right to worship almighty God,” Singleton said. “Instead, this fascist method teaches that our children are the property of the state.”.
There’s no end to the crazy:
At one point, opponent Dena Stewart-Gore of Louisville also suggested that the standards will marginalize students with religious beliefs, leading to ridicule and physiological harm in the classroom, and create difficulties for students with learning disabilities.
“The way socialism works is it takes anybody that doesn’t fit the mold and discards them,” she said, adding that “we are even talking genocide and murder here, folks.”
Superficially these objections are completely nuts. But, they make sense in context of right wing Christian rhetoric that teaches that the Holocaust was the direct result of teaching evolution and the natural outcome of accepting the concept of evolution leads to atheism, which leads to the Gulag Archipelago and Stalin’s decades long reign of brutality, oppression, murder and organized terrorism of the Soviet populace. The connection between the scientific theory of evolution and the Holocaust and the worst excesses of the Soviet Union may not seem obvious. It goes something like this:
Evolution teaches that the whole universe is just a giant accident, that people evolved by sheer happenstance. Which means, we’re nothing but animals. Since there is no god, there’s no morality and since we’re just animals there’s no reason for us to be moral. So all sorts of horrible things happen because there’ s no God and no morality. The Holocaust, genocide, the murder of “socially undesirable” persons are the obvious outcomes of a universe with no god and no morality.
So when these otherwise normal seeming persons stand up in public and announce that new science standards for the state of Kentucky will lead to genocide and murder, they aren’t just crazy, they’re responding to a narrative about evolution, morality and science which says science is dangerous because it denies God. But, without knowing that background, it’s pretty to easy to read or hear such statements and conclude there is no dividing line because fundamentalist and crazy. | <urn:uuid:93564706-452d-47fb-b149-7aeefc9668eb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oneutah.org/2013/07/the-fine-line-between-completely-nuts-and-deeply-conservative-keeps-getting-harder-to-distinguish/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00022-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93725 | 693 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Tiramisu, a new iphone application, allows bus riders in Pittsburgh, USA, to track their current location while riding the bus and, in turn, share this information with people who are still waiting, thereby creating a more complete map and schedule of bus routes and times.
The app requires that the rider activate the tracker in order to see when the next bus is due to arrive as well as its current “fullness”, which can be registered by riders. When he or she boards, the application sends the bus’ location to the main server so other riders can tell where that particular bus is and when it will arrive.
This same data can eventually be used by the city or county transit authorities to improve travel times and inform riders of slow buses. It allows cash-strapped transit systems to add GPS functionality to their lines.
“While better funded transit systems, such as those in Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco, can afford to make GPS-based information available to riders in real-time, the Allegheny County system is under tremendous budget pressure,” Steinfeld said. “Under such circumstances, a free, crowdsourced system such as Tiramisu offers an important alternative.” | <urn:uuid:539adb03-1a9d-4dd9-895c-677200fca28d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.busandcoach.travel/en/latest_news/tiramisu.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00403-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941975 | 252 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Gelastic seizure: Introduction
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Farmstead record ETN 025 - Farmstead: Bentries Farm
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|Grid reference||Centred TM 2874 5885 (148m by 114m)|
|Civil Parish||EASTON, SUFFOLK COASTAL, SUFFOLK|
Type and Period (6)
- CART SHED (19th century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
- FARM (16th century to 20th century - 1500 AD to 1999 AD)
- FARMSTEAD (16th century to 17th century - 1500 AD to 1699 AD)
- FARMHOUSE (16th century to 17th century - 1500 AD to 1699 AD)
- REGULAR COURTYARD F PLAN (19th century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
- BARN (16th century to 18th century - 1500 AD to 1799 AD)
Bentries Farm is a farmstead visible on the 1st Ed OS map The farmstead is laid out in a regular F-plan with the farmhouse detached and set away from the yard. The farmstead sits alongside a public road in an isolated location. There has been a partial loss of working buildings.
The property was formerly a substantial tenanted holding on the Duke of Hamilton’s Easton Park Estate and extended to 286 acres at the time of the tithe survey in 1838. The pantiled brick and weatherboarded cart lodge which flanks the entrance to the site dates from circa 1830 and was shown on the tithe map but not an earlier plan of the farm drawn in 1817. It was described in the Easton Park Estate auction catalogue of 1919 as a ‘4-bay Waggon Lodge with Granary over’, and includes a lean-to shed against its rear wall that was added as part of a major expansion of the farm complex between 1838 and 1883. Most of this complex is understood to have been demolished after sustaining major damage during the 1987 ‘hurricane’, leaving only the cart lodge and barn still standing along with a rebuilt shelter-shed and a building adjacent to the cart lodge that appears to represent the 1919 catalogue’s ‘Harness House with Loft over’. The cart lodge’s refurbishment included the renewal of its external weatherboarding and the partial removal of the internal divisions between its four bays, but in most respects it survives unaltered and represents a typical example of its kind. Well preserved and extensive examples of cladding painted with red ochre in this way are increasingly rare, and serve to illustrate the appearance of local farm buildings before tar became ubiquitous during the mid-19th century (S1).
Recorded as part of the Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project. This is a purely desk-based study and no site visits were undertaken. These records are not intended to be a definitive assessment of these buildings. Dating reflects their presence at a point in time on historic maps and there is potential for earlier origins to buildings and farmsteads. This project highlights a potential need for a more in depth field study of farmstead to gather more specific age data.
- --- SSF59079 Unpublished document: Campbell, G., and McSorley, G. 2019. SCCAS: Farmsteads in the Suffolk Countryside Project.
- --- SSZ54999 Vertical Aerial Photograph: various. Google Earth.
- --- SXS50088 Map: Ordnance Survey. 1880s. Ordnance Survey 25 inch to 1 mile map, 1st edition.
- <S1> SSF58313 Unpublished document: Alston, L.. 2017. Heritage Asset Assessment: The Cart Lodge, Bentries Farm, Easton.
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“The Lord’s Prayer” is a bit of a misnomer, as applied to the following:
“Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be Thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen” (Matthew 6:9-13).
These words actually comprise our Lord’s “model prayer” for others, namely for those who trust and seek to walk with Him. Our Savior could never pray such a prayer for Himself because He had no need to seek His Father’s pardon with words such as “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” “We have not a High Priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin” (Hebrews 4:15).
The 17th chapter of the Gospel of John actually contains that which could most accurately be termed “the Lord’s prayer.” The Apostle records for us the intercession of the Lord Jesus for His disciples (and for us) offered just before He returned to Heaven by way of the cross, the resurrection and the ascension.
“I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine… Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on Me through their word” (John 17:9; 20).
Fewer more sublime thoughts can grace our minds than the truth that our Savior prayed for us many centuries before our conception in our mother’s womb. One that perhaps equals such grace, however, involves the blessed truth that the Lord Jesus prays for us even now: “He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them” (Hebrews 7:25).
Think of it – in this moment, our Savior prays for us. He raises wounded hands to His Father and our Father, seeking provision, protection, and perhaps most of all, our awareness of God’s loving presence and involvement whereby we more and more walk in accordance with our high calling as His trusting sons and daughters. I know of no greater encouragement than this, the “Lord’s prayer” offered even now by One whose intercessions are always heard and answered…
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27-2c/3 Provisional Ball Played from Point Nearer Hole Than Original Ball Because Player Erroneously Thought Original Ball, Which Was Visible, Was Out of Bounds
Q. A player’s ball came to rest 20 yards over a green and beyond a white stake which the player’s caddie said was a boundary stake. The player played a provisional ball which came to rest short of the green, but closer to the hole than his original ball. The player played the provisional ball onto the green. At that point, he walked behind the green towards his original ball, which had been visible all along, and discovered that the white stake was not a boundary stake and that his original ball was in bounds. What is the ruling?
A. The player should have determined the status of his original ball before playing a second stroke with the provisional ball and, since the original ball was not out of bounds, he should have abandoned the provisional ball. When he failed to do so, the second stroke with the provisional ball was a stroke with a wrong ball — Rule 27-2c.
In match play, the player lost the hole (Rule 15-3a).
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The author of this commentary is chair of the Digital Radio Mondiale consortium.
Right from the beginning of 2021, Prasar Bharati, the public radio and TV broadcaster of India, has put its cards on the table. First it clarified that no AIR station was being closed anywhere in any state, a rumor that had made the media rounds in India.
Prasar Bharati has further announced that it is moving ahead with its plans to strengthen All India Radio, expanding its network with more than 100 new FM radio transmitters across India.
The AIR Network already comprises a few hundred stations and several hundred radio transmitters in one of the world’s largest public service broadcasting networks that operates on multiple terrestrial, satellite and internet platforms.
Prasar Bharati is also moving ahead with its plans to introduce digital terrestrial radio in India. According to the Indian broadcaster, select AIR channels are already available through digital DRM technology to listeners in many cities/regions. They can experience the power of DRM through a choice of multiple radio channels available on a single radio frequency in digital mode. These include AIR News 24×7 dedicated to news and current affairs, AIR Raagam 24×7 dedicated to classical music, apart from local/regional radio services and Live Sports.
According to Prasar Bharati AIR is in an advanced stage of testing digital technology options for FM radio, and a standard will be announced soon to herald the rollout of digital FM radio in India.
Already in 2020 AIR had introduced nonstop pure DRM transmissions with three services or programs on one frequency in four key metros: Mumbai 100 kW (1044 kHz), Kolkata 100 kW (1008 kHz), Chennai 20 kW (783 kHz) and New Delhi 20 kW (1368 kHz).
More varied and exclusive audio programs with Journaline multimedia content were already added and progress was made on the national rollout of DRM’s Emergency Warning Functionality (EWF), and a program information guide enabled by Journaline.
All these activities follow from the activities of a Project Monitoring Unit (PMU) in AIR set up a year ago. It undertook to identify the technical configuration of the DRM infrastructure for the entire country, the creation of popular, attractive content, the strong promotion of DRM broadcasts and intensified interaction with the industry aimed at manufacturing mass-scale receivers.
AIR has extended its infrastructure, as seen in Figure 1.
As far as the program content is concerned, AIR has already come up with new initiatives, like the 24/7 news exclusively in DRM broadcasts.
The entertainment channel is transmitting live sports events as well, such as cricket, which is the most popular sport in India; AIR is exploring the possibility of providing a Score Card under Journaline advanced text together with live cricket commentary in pure DRM (see Figure 2).
There are already several receiver manufacturers in India and abroad planning and starting production of receivers.
One such manufacturer, Gospell from China, has formed a partnership with Antriksh Digital Solutions to become their representative and distributor in India.
AIR also plans to acquire soon several thousand receivers.
Going forward, a key element of success in India is the further adoption of the standard by the automotive industry. Currently there are more than 2.5 million Indian cars with line-fit DRM receivers at no extra cost to the consumer. More brands are considering the introduction of DRM radios in their vehicles to satisfy consumer demand.
During the second national Car Forum organized at the end of November by NXP, an AIR representative said that it is imperative that the government seriously consider mandating DRM digital radio in all vehicles in the country.
In addition to MW and SW in 2021, efforts are being made to include DRM in FM, as the broadcaster and ministry are coming close to mandating a digital radio standard for the FM band.
The more cars there are in India with DRM radios, the better promotion of their DRM programs AIR can make to the general public. And this cannot just include audio in mediumwave but other bands too. There is demand for all core features of the DRM standard, of which Journaline has already been introduced. This should be followed by the Emergency Warning Functionality (EWF), station logos, AFS, announcement, blending to AM/FM and others.
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The United States has stopped shipping equipment related to the F-35 fighter jet to Turkey. Washington’s move comes after Ankara insisted on purchasing the Russian S-400 missile defense system.
Turkey has only received one unit of the fifth-generation fighter jet thus far. But all current and future shipments of equipment related to the aircraft have been halted, Pentagon said, unless Ankara gives up its commitment to take delivery of a Russian S-400 missile defense system.
A NATO ally of the US, Turkey was planning on ordering 100 F-35s, and had signed on to produce fuselage and other components for the next-generation aircraft. However, US lawmakers moved to exclude Turkey from the program, fearing Turkey’s planned purchase of the Russian-made S-400 air defense system could give the Russian system opportunity to learn how to track and spot the jet.
US President Donald Trump signed a bill last year blocking the transfer of F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, but the F-35 Joint Program Office said it would execute the transfer according to existing plans. Four US Senators introduced another bipartisan bill last week to prohibit the transfer until Ankara agrees to abandon the S-400 deal.
At present, the deal remains on the table. “The contract with Russia on S-400s remains in force and these defensive systems will be delivered to Turkey. Now talks on this issue are underway,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated on Friday, according to Russian news agency TASS.
The first of four S-400 batteries will be delivered to Turkey this July. Washington has thus far failed to woo its NATO ally away from the Russian system and to Raytheon’s more expensive Patriot system.
Turkey has been a vital partner in the F-35 program, which itself has been plagued by cost overruns, delays and performance issues while being the US military’s most expensive project to date. Turkey has been making parts of fuselage, landing gear and cockpit displays for the jets and has invested some $1.25 billion in the trillion-dollar program. Despite Turkey’s integral role, US officials told Reuters last week that Washington can press ahead without the Turkish components, although doing so will drive the cost of the project up further. | <urn:uuid:1ca50464-59a5-4181-8a39-6fd4fd3a44f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.minareport.com/us-suspends-f35-deliveries-to-turkey-over-s400-purchase/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.956795 | 465 | 1.578125 | 2 |
FROM VULNERABLE TO ViCTORIOUS
i-5 SUPPORT AT EACH MILEPOST
VULNERABILITY FACTORS Victims of trafficking often have a combination of vulnerabilities that lead them or force them into the life. These may include prior abuse, the foster care system, lack of a strong support structure, exploitation by family members or other trusted relationships.
(school, hospital, church)
Mandated reporters, service providers, and community members have an opportunity to identify and report trafficking when effectively educated and accurately informed. Trained personnel like teachers, church leaders, and health care staff can ask the right questions, build trust, and direct victims towards resources.
Trained hotel and motel associates also have an opportunity to disrupt, intervene, and provide access to services for victims.
Officers trained to take a victim-centered approach, elected officials adopting survivor and trauma-centered laws, and compassionate and competent authorities can have huge impacts on a survivor’s future.
VICTORY: Moving past
the life and starting
a new journey.
Survivors regain their footing and security. Support services and a sense of community and confidence can help them overcome past obstacles, get an education or career, and achieve economic independence. | <urn:uuid:24ff7293-ec78-4e5e-afda-c17297827f3d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.i5freedomnetwork.org/the-survivor-journey | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.924491 | 303 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Columbus, Ohio (CNN) - President Barack Obama said Wednesday he has "no regrets" about his comments last week supporting the rights of Muslims to build an Islamic center and mosque two blocks from the site of the September 11 terror attacks in New York.
"The answer is no regrets," Obama said when asked about bringing up the issue last Friday at a White House dinner commemorating the start of Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
At the dinner, Obama said those wanting to build the Islamic center and mosque have the constitutional right to religious freedom. On Saturday, he clarified that he was talking only about the right to build the center and not the "wisdom" of doing so close to "ground zero," where more than 2,700 people died when planes hijacked by terrorists slammed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
The remarks sparked a national debate on the emotional issue, with many Republicans condemning the president as insensitive to families of victims and out of touch with the views of most Americans.
Many Democrats responded that the right to religious freedom applies to all Americans, though some - including Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid - said they oppose having the Islamic center so close to ground zero.
A CNN poll showed 70 percent of respondents opposed having an Islamic center near the site of the September 11 attacks. A separate poll released Wednesday by the Siena Research Institute found 63 percent opposed it, but 64 percent said the center's developers have a constitutional right to build it.
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U.S. Sen. Al Franken
U.S. Rep. Tim Walz
With the hard-earned experience of two major wars over the last 12 years, Americans have developed a renewed understanding of the need to support our service members in battle and throughout their active-duty service.
Unfortunately, our warriors’ battles don’t always end when they return home. We’ve heard from many veterans who have returned bearing the scars of war – mental and physical disabilities incurred while protecting our freedoms. All they expect is that, in return for their service, our nation keeps its promises to them.
With the end of the war in Iraq, and the drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, the number of disabled veterans who need care is increasing exponentially. Despite the fact that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is processing more claims today than at any time in history, veterans are waiting too long to receive the benefits they have earned, creating an unnecessary financial hardship for veterans and their families.
The VA reports that 554,105 veterans have been waiting longer than 125 days to have their claim adjudicated. This is unacceptable, and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, a retired U.S. Army General who has dedicated his life to military service and taking care of our brave warriors, agrees. While the VA is currently making progress, we believe that there are commonsense measures Congress can undertake to bolster the VA’s efforts to ensure our veterans are getting the care they need in a more-timely manner.
Cutting through red tape
In response to Minnesota veterans and veterans’ organizations who have told us about the hardships the VA backlog imposes on veterans, we introduced legislation to help speed up the process.
We have introduced identical bipartisan measures in the House and Senate known as the “Quicker Benefits Delivery Act” that will remove several hurdles to getting claims processed quickly. Our legislation also ensures that disabled veterans can get at least some help and support while their claims are still being adjudicated.
First, our measure would allow local doctors to conduct disability medical examinations for veterans. This conserves VA resources, cuts back on long wait times at VA hospitals, enables quicker diagnoses of disabilities, and eliminates unnecessary trips to the VA for veterans in rural communities.
The bill also requires the VA to award interim benefits to clearly disabled veterans whose cases are still undergoing review to determine the full extent of their disabilities. This will allow veterans to receive important benefits quicker, while the VA works to review their claims and make a final decision.
And for veterans who go back to school under the GI Bill, our bill authorizes the VA to pay housing benefits more quickly so that student veterans can pay their rent on time.
In June, while we worked in Washington, D.C. to advance our legislation, our staff members in Minnesota met with veterans and their advocates in Caledonia and other communities around the state to get input on the backlog and discuss our efforts to end it.
Our goal with this legislation is simple: to uphold the promises we’ve made to our veterans by ending the backlog and getting them the benefits they have earned and deserve.
Al Franken represents
Minnesota in the U.S. Senate.
Tim Walz represents Minnesota’s 1st
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Our Scripture lesson for this article is found in Esther 4:10.
Then she instructed him to say to Mordecai, “All the king’s officials and the people of the royal provinces know that for any man or woman who approaches the king in the inner court without being summoned the king has but one law: that they be put to death unless the king extends the gold scepter to them and spares their lives. But thirty days have passed since I was called to go to the king.
When Esther’s words were reported to Mordecai, he sent back this answer: “Do not think that because you are in the king’s house you alone of all the Jews will escape. For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
May God speak loudly to our hearts through this passage in such a time as today, 2016!
Why were you born? College students wrestle with this. Philosophers do. Perhaps you have, too. I have another even more important question: Why were you BORN AGAIN?? Have you ever thought about that?
This text which is the greatest text in all of Esther, clearly falls out into 3 major points:
If you remain silent at this time
We may fail God and our duty, by doing or saying nothing! Or as St. Ambrose put it: Not only for every idle word must man give an account … but also for every idle silence!
How has America come to this pivotal point of gross darkness and overwhelming immorality? Why are we losing the war against evil in the most “churched” nation on Earth? It’s because of what the other side says and does, and because of what we the church DON’T say and do! We have been commanded to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ and His last message partnered with the Rev 14--3 Angels - with every nation, kindred tongue and people. All we have to do to disobey that is to say and do NOTHING!
Say nothing, do nothing. And we are guilty. We are the ones that by silence and indifference and spiritual lethargy have brought upon our land a true tidal wave, a Tsunami of wickedness and defiance against the Creator God! How has this happened you ask? Well, it’s been going on a very long time, and only a few have been really paying any attention. But if you were listening on April 3, 1965 you would have heard the following on America’s radio waves: PAUL HARVEY’S ‘IF I WERE THE DEVIL’ TRANSCRIPT:
If I were the devil … If I were the Prince of Darkness, I’d want to engulf the whole world in darkness. And I’d have a third of its real estate, and four-fifths of its population, but I wouldn’t be happy until I had seized the ripest apple on the tree — Thee. So I’d set about however necessary to take over the United States. I’d subvert the churches first — I’d begin with a campaign of whispers. With the wisdom of a serpent, I would whisper to you as I whispered to Eve: ‘Do as you please.’
“To the young, I would whisper that ‘The Bible is a myth.’ I would convince them that man created God instead of the other way around. I would confide that what’s bad is good, and what’s good is ‘square.’ And the old, I would teach to pray, after me, ‘Our Father, which art in Washington…’
“And then I’d get organized. I’d educate authors in how to make lurid literature exciting, so that anything else would appear dull and uninteresting. I’d threaten TV with dirtier movies and vice versa. I’d pedal narcotics to whom I could. I’d sell alcohol to ladies and gentlemen of distinction. I’d tranquilize the rest with pills.
“If I were the devil I’d soon have families that war with themselves, churches at war with themselves, and nations at war with themselves; until each in its turn was consumed. And with promises of higher ratings I’d have mesmerizing media fanning the flames. If I were the devil I would encourage schools to refine young intellects, but neglect to discipline emotions — just let those run wild, until before you knew it, you’d have to have drug sniffing dogs and metal detectors at every schoolhouse door.
“Within a decade I’d have prisons overflowing, I’d have judges promoting pornography — soon I could evict God from the courthouse, then from the schoolhouse, and then from the houses of Congress. And in His own churches I would substitute psychology for religion, and deify science. I would lure priests and pastors into misusing boys and girls, and church money. If I were the devil I’d make the symbols of Easter an egg and the symbol of Christmas a bottle [of alcohol].
“If I were the devil I’d take from those, and who have, and give to those wanted until I had killed the incentive of the ambitious. And what do you bet? I could get whole states to promote gambling as thee way to get rich? I would caution against extremes and hard work, in Patriotism, in moral conduct. I would convince the young that marriage is old-fashioned, that swinging is more fun, that what you see on the TV is the way to be. And thus I could undress you in public, and I could lure you into bed with diseases for which there is no cure. In other words, if I were the devil I’d just keep right on doing what he’s doing. Paul Harvey, good day.”
But we are not in “good days” now! Because as these prophetic words from 1965 warned, “if I were the devil I’d just keep right on doing what he’s doing”.
What on earth should we be doing about this monumental slide into evil? Part 2 coming up . . . . | <urn:uuid:5b7d7e5b-73b2-4a92-9072-f2633132ba0d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.fulcrum7.com/blog/2016/5/5/for-such-a-time-as-this-part-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00404-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976804 | 1,353 | 2.421875 | 2 |
PhD seminar by Mats Petter Wallander, Lund university
Tid: 12/6 2009, kl 13.00
Lokal: E:1406, E-huset, LTH
Titel: Constraint Programming Methods for Optimization of Single Shortest Path Routing
Opponent: Professor Nicolas Beldiceanu, Ècole des Mines de Nantes, France
In this thesis, we propose methods based on constraint programming
(CP) for solving an optimization problem in telecommunications, the single shortest path routing problem. The problem is to find optimal values for a set of routing configuration parameters in a shortest path routing protocol, for a given network. With optimal parameters, traffic is routed through the network in a way which is optimal w.r.t.
the available bandwidths of the network links. The routing parameters define a link weight for each network link, and the routing protocol makes sure that traffic between pairs of nodes in the network is sent along shortest paths w.r.t. the chosen link weight parameters. An example of such a routing protocol is the widely used Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol. We consider the version of shortest path routing that requires the shortest path to be unique for every node pair.
Our CP models for this problem use two kinds of constraints. First, we propose several different constraints for enforcing the shortest-path property, known as admissibility, on the paths used in the routing.
These constraints use new problem-specific propagation methods for ruling out inadmissible sets of paths. Our models also include resource-based constraints, for modeling the bandwidth consumption on links. Here, our central resource constraint is based on a linear programming (LP) relaxation of the problem, so our method can be understood as a hybrid CP-LP method.
In the last part of the thesis, we consider different methods for organizing the search process, and present experimental results from comparing different versions of our CP models. | <urn:uuid:11794fe0-7a4b-4b61-bd9d-ad56192c355c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ida.liu.se/ext/cugs/mpp-dr-abstract.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.8636 | 406 | 1.578125 | 2 |
In the countries like USA, people on average consume coffee every morning. Their day begin with one cup of energy boosting joe. Researchers have stated that daily consumption of the ordinary coffee might cause many bad effects on body. It cuts down on the insulin level elsewhere in the body. It also decreases the metabolism of system. These lead to several other problems existence. The coffee generates regarding heat within your body and really should not exceed the normal limit. If the temperature for the body exceeds to that of the normal limits this can final result in certain other complications.
While you’re on the Keto Sculpt Review diet, it is recommended that you store on carbohydrates for in regards to a 3 day cycle. Inside the third day, consume 1000 calories importance of carbs minimally two hours before necessary exercise for tomorrow. You can pick between two options of car-loading. You can 1) eat anything that you like or 2) start with high glycemic carbs and then switch to low glycemic carbs. If you’d like to eat may you want during this phase, you’ll need should in order to low-fat sugars. The whole purpose behind the carb-loading is to increase the glycogen in muscle tissues which will allow you to endure an extreme workout.
CKD’s are not very anabolic. Despite it’s initial name, the Anabolic Diet (also known due to the Metabolic Diet) will not increase your lean weight by incredibly. Although program is pretty decent at preserving muscle mass, but anti-catabolism and anabolism are 2 different processes. Much of the size increase you actually will experience while at the diet get due mostly to the weekend carbo loading. For anyone who is looking to obtain big associated with CKD’s, then you can certainly won’t be big all the time. Carbs constitute a significant amount within a muscle’s size, and who have’nt experienced it (i.e. 5-day ketogenic phase), you won’t look as big or as muscular as you’ll want to be all period.
The Ultrametabolism diet promotes eating raw, organic foods in exchange of processed items that come in a can or box. This requires the investment in several different fresh fruits and veggies as well as hard working liver. This raw diet merely helps to flush out toxins within the digestive tract that could be promoting fat storage, can also improve metabolism. Several individuals who have observed success this particular particular plan have reportedly lost 20 pounds in just 2 time.
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Strategy In Action: As being a competitor, it’s very easy for me personally to get up to date in the comparison games. There are so many awesome physiques at the national level, physiques that are light years ahead of mine.
Becoming lean and ripped will be 70% diet, 20% proper workout routine and 10% mental (you will try to be tempted, trust me). A really boils down to an easy mathematical difficult task. You must eat fewer calories then what your body requires, there are plenty of diets available in the market that might for you but you should find individual who is for you to be easiest for you to stick due to. You cannot diet and cheat at related time so diet selection is very crucial. | <urn:uuid:149a21c0-9c7f-4099-837b-6970cc109f31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aiutofiscale.com/why-it-is-advisable-to-consider-a-ketogenic-dietplan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.943741 | 868 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Aspartame is an artificial sweetener used as a sugar substitute in foods and beverages without adding excess calories. People often consume products with aspartame in an effort to maintain or lose weight.
The reason for aspartame poisoning is that it dissolves into solution, travels throughout the body and deposits within tissues. Unlike saccharin, the body digests aspartame. The digestive and absorption process results in aspartame accumulating in our bodies resulting in health problems.
Symptoms of Aspartame Poisoning
1. Physical Symptoms
The effects of aspartame are far reaching and negatively impact many organ systems and structures, causing a diminished level of functioning and enjoyment of life.
- Ear Symptoms. Tinnitus or buzzing in the ear is a common symptom of aspartame poisoning. Intolerance to noises and notable hearing loss can also occur.
- Eye Symptoms. Aspartame can cause decreased vision, particularly night vision, blurring, tunnel vision and eye pain. People will also note decreased tears, trouble wearing contact lenses and even bulging eyes.
- Chest Symptoms. Breathlessness, elevated blood pressure and skipped or racing heartbeat are all symptoms of aspartame toxicity.
- Gastrointestinal Symptoms. People often experience an upset stomach, diarrhea (possibly bloody), abdominal pain and painful swallowing when using aspartame as a sweetener.
- Skin and Allergies. Hives and intense itching, lip or mouth swelling and worsening of asthma all can occur due to aspartame.
2. Metabolic and Endocrine Symptoms
Metabolism and hormones are the cornerstone of our body's production of energy and ability to regulate itself. We produce a variety of hormones that regulate our overall health and wellness.
Diabetes control and increased weight are side effects of aspartame use. Others report hair loss, menstrual irregularity and severe premenstrual syndrome. Some may note marked weight loss and problems with low blood sugar.
3. Neurological Symptoms
The nervous system is a very delicate machine and very sensitive to minor amounts of toxins. Aspartame negatively impacts brain function and can trigger or mimic many serious disease processes.
Aspartame can cause or trigger the following neurologic conditions: memory loss, confusion, migraine, dizziness and unsteadiness, seizures, sever speech slurring, and chronic fatigue syndrome.
4. Psychiatric/ Psychological Symptoms
Serious psychiatric problems are known to occur due to aspartame and include aggressive or suicidal behaviors, severe depression, birth defects and severe cognitive problems in the baby, anxiety, insomnia, phobias and irritability.
Health Risks of Aspartame Poisoning
Additional Side Effects of Aspartame Poisoning
The health dangers of aspartame are widespread and can affect multiple body systems. Additional health dangers include: persistent craving for sweets, aspartame addiction, irreversible brain injury and cognitive impairment, stomach ulcers, birth defects, hyperactive behavior in children, aggression, severe depression and suicide attempt and ultimately death. Scientists and anecdotal patient reports continue to show the global negative effects on the human body.
Illnesses Triggered by Aspartame Poisoning
Aspartame poisoning triggers many subtle diseases. Even under the best conditions and in the hands of the skilled physicians, these conditions are difficult to detect. Diseases such as ALS, multiple sclerosis, Lupus, post-polio syndrome and Lyme disease can all be triggered by aspartame. Other problems such as Meniere's disease, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, thyroid disorders and Alzheimer's disease can all result from aspartame.
Relief for Aspartame Poisoning
What we eat in our diet has a direct role in the development of many health conditions. In most cases, aspartame poisoning resolves if the individual simply stops using sweetener-containing products. Cut out products like low calorie pudding, diet sodas, and gelatin mixes, and any powdered drink mix containing aspartame. Even some dried fruits and cereals contain aspartame. Reading food labels and avoiding aspartame can literally be a life changing activity.
Aspartame Detoxification Program
Detoxifying your body from the ill effects of aspartame is a powerful method to reverse any symptom related to using this artificial sweetener. Over 92 different signs and symptoms are attributed to aspartame. The detoxification program is the most effective way to remove the toxins produced from aspartame such as phenylalanine, aspartic acid and methanol and their damaging by-products. This 9 step program is easy to implement and will improve symptoms in 30 days.
- Read labels and remove any aspartame containing products from your diet
- Catalogue any changes and improvements in your health
- Submit your hair for analysis of toxins
- Be happy and enjoy feeling better
- Detoxify and eliminate aspartame and its by-products from your body
- Replace deficient nutrients in your diet
- Exercise regularly, rest and recover
- Aim for 75% raw food consumption at every meal
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Take a look at this story about a British study, which revealed that three-quarters of mums and dads say they don’t have time for bedtime stories.
I can see how bedtime stories are the first to go. Dinner, homework, packing for school or daycare the next day, shuttling kids to activities and giving baths before bed easily eat up what little time a parent has in the evening. But I also hate to see storytime get squeezed out.
According to the article published in the Telegraph, “Of the dads who said they didn’t read to their kids 87 per cent (sic) blame work commitments while more than a third (34 per cent) said they were too tired. While 89 per cent of mums said they did read to their children, more than half of them said cleaning distracted them and 49 per cent were sidetracked by other household chores or cooking.”
Are books part of your child’s bedtime routine, and what tricks do you have for keeping storytime a reasonable length?
I’ve had friends say that when kids aren’t old enough to read the words yet, it’s pretty easy to skip ahead in the story without them knowing. Anyone guilty? | <urn:uuid:acdb70c5-28ba-4a1d-960f-9c5b62830291> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.timesunion.com/parenting/1343/time-for-bedtime-books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00535-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977734 | 261 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The efficacy of early propranolol administration at reducing PTSD symptoms in pediatric injury patients: a pilot study.
Author(s): Nugent NR, Christopher NC, Crow JP, Browne L, Ostrowski S, Delahanty DL
Affiliation(s): Alpert Brown Medical School and Bradley/Hasbro Children's Research Center, One Hoppin Street, Suite 204, Providence, Rhode Island 02903, USA.
Publication date & source: 2010-04, J Trauma Stress., 23(2):282-7.
Publication type: Randomized Controlled Trial; Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Initial research supports the use of propranolol to prevent posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD); research has not examined pharmacological prevention for children. Twenty-nine injury patients (ages 10-18 years old) at risk for PTSD were randomized to a double-blind 10-day trial of propranolol or placebo initiated within 12 hours postadmission. Six-week PTSD symptoms and heart rate were assessed. Although intent-to-treat analyses revealed no group differences, findings supported a significant interaction between gender and treatment in medication-adherent participants, Delta R(2) = .21. Whereas girls receiving propranolol reported more PTSD symptoms relative to girls receiving placebo, Delta R(2) = .44, boys receiving propranolol showed a nonsignificant trend toward fewer PTSD symptoms than boys receiving placebo, Delta R(2) = .32. Findings inform gender differences regarding pharmacological PTSD prevention in youth. | <urn:uuid:bd60f0be-01a6-444a-a6f8-02b3ed1cd882> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.druglib.com/abstract/nu/nugent-nr_j-trauma-stress_20100400.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00050-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.871964 | 340 | 2.1875 | 2 |
A few years ago, a group of physicists created an unusual, never-before-seen subatomic particle. Using a particle accelerator at Riken, a Japanese research institute, they slammed streams of calcium nuclei against a metal disk, over and over, for hours at a time. Then, sifting through the aftermath of the collisions, they found their coveted particle. They named their creation: sodium.
That’s right, sodium. Don’t let the familiar name fool you; you’ll never find this object in ordinary table salt. Almost all sodium on Earth is sodium-23, where the number refers to the 11 protons and 12 neutrons that make up its nucleus. Yet those 23 particles do not encompass all that can or could be sodium. Technically, any nucleus with 11 protons is sodium. The periodic table, after all, organizes the elements by the number of protons in their nuclei, and sodium is element number 11. That says nothing about the number of neutrons the particle harbors inside.
What the physicists in Japan had created was a kind of Frankensodium, an 11-proton particle with a whopping 28 neutrons stuffed into its nucleus. This sodium-39 was the most massive isotope of sodium known to exist.
It took eight hours and hundreds of quadrillions of collisions—that’s 1017—to produce one single sodium-39. And it fell apart almost immediately. “The production rate is very small for these isotopes,” concedes Riken physicist Toshiyuki Kubo.
The specimen served its purpose, though. It set a new record for what sodium could be, a long-standing quest of a certain subgroup of scientists. Over several decades, physicists have gone down the periodic table—hydrogen, helium, lithium, and so on—to find the heaviest isotope of each element permitted by the laws of physics. Publishing this Monday in Physical Review Letters, the Riken physicists and their team confirmed that the limit for a fluorine nucleus is 22 neutrons, and a neon nucleus can contain up to 24. Sodium’s limit remains uncertain, but from this experiment, it appears to be at least 28 neutrons. Physicists call the limit the “neutron drip line,” because if you try to push a nucleus’s limit by adding another neutron, that neutron simply slips off without any resistance. | <urn:uuid:eff51656-6690-4172-93d3-4161ce21ac26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/story/what-makes-an-element-the-frankenstein-of-sodium-holds-clues/?fbclid=IwAR2fsguSQMr5QMKn4SqHy7OCvxiT38C_Ygy0qsehJMjKgPyhKGxk3D_BkDA | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.927489 | 501 | 3.875 | 4 |
Washington state is poised to restore data center tax incentives that sparked a building boom in the state in 2010, and could help the state compete more effectively with Oregon for future projects.
Last week the Washington state legislature passed sales and use tax exemptions for data centers built in rural counties, and Gov. Chris Gregoire is expected to sign the bill into law. Once it is signed, the bill will restore tax incentives that jump-started data center construction in Quincy, a small town in Grant County that is home to a cluster of major data centers for companies like Microsoft and Yahoo.
Since the tax break expired in mid-2011, the data center development focus in the Pacific Northwest has shifted to Oregon, which has won new projects from Apple, Fortune Data Centers, NetApp and Adobe.
Senate Bill 6635 passed the Senate on a 35-10 vote and passed the House 74-24 Friday morning. “The legislature finds that offering an exemption for server and related electrical equipment and installation will act as a stimulus to incent immediate investment,” the bill reads. “This investment will bring jobs, tax revenues, and economic growth to some of our state’s rural areas.”
Some Breaks Extend Through 2020
The bill exempts data center operators and their tenants from sales taxes on the purchase and installation of servers and related electrical equipment, including generators, UPS systems and switches anytime between now and July 1, 2015. The exemption also applies to replacement server equipment installed before April 1, 2020 – which could allow eligible companies to no sale staxes on several generations of hardware replacements. Data center operators typically refresh servers every three to five years, but that cycle is often shorter for hyperscale environments operated by many tenants in Quincy.
Companies receiving the tax exemption must create 35 new jobs within six years. To qaualify, a data center campus must be at least 100,000 square feet, with at least 20,000 square feet of space dedicated to housing servers.
The targeted tax incentives were first passed in March 2010 to allow a temporary exemption on the 7.9 percent tax on computers and energy for new data centers in 32 rural counties. To qualify for the incentives, companies had to commence construction by July 1, 2011.
Incentives Prompted Major Construction
Microsoft and Yahoo took advantage of the temporary incentive, building new phases on their respective facilities in the data center hub of Quincy, Washington. The projects each featured cutting-edge designs – featuring Microsoft’s modular approach and Yahoo’s “Computing Coop” – that make Quincy home to two of the world’s most efficient data centers. Sabey Corp. and Dell also began construction on new projects in Quincy, ensuring that they will qualify for the tax incentive.
But efforts to extend the incentives fell short, and they expired last July. Since then, data center site selection efforts have shifted south to Oregon, which has no sales tax.
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The solar hybrid Steam Injection Gas turbine (STIG) cycle uses both recuperated heat and solar heat in order to generate steam at a low temperature and pressure, and inject it into the cycle in order to augment the power output. An annual performance analysis of the Solar STIG cycle is presented for sites in Israel and India, with moderate and high annual direct insolation. The cycle operation was simulated in two modes: constant power output and variable power output following the variation of solar input. The solar contribution to the electricity production of the hybrid cycle and the solar to electricity efficiency were calculated, where the conventional reference system was either a conventional STIG or a conventional recuperated Brayton cycle. Results show annual solar fraction of up to 31% in constant power mode and up to 33% in variable power mode. The annual solar to electricity efficiency was in the range of 22-26% when the reference efficiency was based on the recuperated Brayton cycle, and 12-16% when the reference efficiency was based on an optimal conventional STIG cycle. These values are similar to or higher than the annual efficiency of current solar thermal power technologies, even though the hybrid STIG cycle uses low-grade solar heat at only 200. °C. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. | <urn:uuid:07c310b3-46e2-4af4-93db-f7fc361ca161> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research.vit.ac.in/publication/annual-performance-of-the-solar-hybrid-stig-cycle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.932555 | 257 | 2.515625 | 3 |
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Beowulf one of the longest poems ever written in the English language is a great epic that allows us as readers to learn many different aspects on life Although we may not all gather the same information from the poem it is apparent that everyone will at least learn one thing from Beowulfs epic As the reader reads this poem heshe may learn anything from how pride and coward ness can lead to a downfall how outside forces can lead to the endangerment of a society to how the courage of one can gain the respect and loyalty of others Throughout Beowulf we constantly see pride from certain characters In the beginning of Beowulf Beowulf himself is bragging about himself to others in lines 415-426 Although he just wants to gain the peoples confidence and he does defeat Grendel and other monsters at the end of this poem Beowulf is killed Perhaps because he had so much pride in himself that he believed that he could defeat the fire-breathing dragon alone However Beowulfs death might have been due to the coward ness of his men When Beowulf and his men go to fight dragon the men become so scared and nervous that they retreat without helping Beowulf at all in turn causing him to be killed Unferth is yet another character that suffers from pride Unferth is so full of himself that when Beowulf arrives at Heorot he tries to taunt him because Unferth is envious and thinks that he is better than Beowulf He tells the story of when Beowulf and Breca compeated in a swimming match lines 506-526 and Breca defeated him Unferth also does not believe that Beowulf can defeat Grendel However Beowulf does and Unferth has done nothing but kill his own kin Pride might have lead him to kill his own blood thinking it might earn him respectEndangerment of societies also takes place in Beowulf The major endangerment obviously is
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Bible Verse That Says Laughter Is The Best Medicine. But a broken spirit drieth the bones. The bible proclaims laughter a good medicine, but not the best medicine.
It has been proven to lower blood pressure and reduces stress hormones. Laughter as medicine laughter is often referred to as the best medicine. The bible proclaims laughter a good medicine, but not the best medicine.
One Of My Favorite Bible Verses About Laughter Comes From Proverbs 17:22 Which Says, “A Cheerful Heart Is A Good Medicine, But A Crushed.
“i believe that if people can get more laughter in their lives, they are a lot better off,” says steve wilson, ma, csp, a psychologist and laugh therapist. Proverbs 17:22 a merry heart doeth good like a medicine: It has been proven to lower blood pressure and reduces stress hormones.
But A Broken Spirit Drieth The Bones.
But a broken spirit drieth the bones. God is still in the miracle business and many believers experience the amazing intervention of the holy spirit. Laughter can truly be a great medicine for the mind, body, and soul.
Woe To The Prosperous Hunger.
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength. it's an interesting bible verse when you consider that some health centers treat patients who suffer from depression, stress, and diabetes with something they call laughter therapy one report claims. Bible verse that says laughter is the best medicine. Laughter is a powerful medicine.
Proverbs 17:22 A Merry Heart Doeth Good Like A Medicine:
The proverb can refer to the fact that laughter has a beneficial impact on. “they might be healthier too.”. Humor and joy are mentioned many times throughout scripture.
A Happy Heart Is Good Medicine And A Joyful Mind Causes Healing, But A Broken Spirit Dries Up The Bones.
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BOSTON, Mass. — Lottery ticket sales dipped in December by nearly $1 million below last year’s total — a drop Lottery officials attribute to two snowstorms that kept buyers out of stores.
During the Dec. 17 storm, Lottery agents lost out on rush hour sales when many commuters spent hours in their cars driving home, Beth Bresnahan, assistant executive director of marketing and communications, said during a Lottery Commission meeting Tuesday.
But a record $648 million Mega Millions jackpot prevented the sales drop from being larger, according to Bresnahan. Sales for the Mega Millions game ticked up $18 million for the month.
During the height of the snowstorm, state Lottery agents were ringing in $11,000 a minute in Mega Million ticket sales. The jackpot was the second highest jackpot in the history of the game, according to Lottery officials.
There were two winning tickets sold, one in California and another in Georgia. Lottery sales for the first six months of the fiscal year are lagging slightly behind last year’s record breaking sales, according to Bresnahan.
Overall net profits are up, totaling $39.5 million above last year due to a smaller prize payout. Lottery officials last month raised the agency’s profit estimates from $947 million to $957 million. Profits from the lottery are returned to cities and towns in local aid money.
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"The OWASP Top Ten provides a powerful awareness document for web application security. The OWASP Top Ten represents a broad consensus about what the most critical web application security flaws are...
We urge all companies to adopt this awareness document within their organization and start the process of ensuring that their web applications do not contain these flaws. Adopting the OWASP Top Ten is perhaps the most effective first step towards changing the software development culture within your organization into one that produces secure code. "
The full 22 page PDF can be seen here (opens in Google Docs because I don't trust PDFs. Not that I trust Google, either, come to think of it).
This year's list includes a completely new list of problems we have never seen before. No, wait, this is stuff we've been fighting for years. We need to get the word out to the right people, and it is pretty clear that we have a way to go on that front. This years' Top Ten features:
- A1: Injection
- A2: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
- A3: Broken Authentication and Session Management
- A4: Insecure Direct Object References
- A5: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
- A6: Security Misconfiguration
- A7: Insecure Cryptographic Storage
- A8: Failure to Restrict URL Access
- A9: Insufficient Transport Layer Protection
- A10: Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards
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Frederick Monroe Tisdel (1904-1908)
Tisdel was the President of the University of Wyoming from 1904-1908. He was born September 8, 1869 in Brighton, Massachusetts and in 1891 received a degree from Northwestern University, as well as from Northwestern School of Oratory. Furthering his studies, Tisdel received his M.A. from the University of Wisconsin, at Madison and obtained his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1900. He was head of the Department of English at Armour Institute of Technology, in Chicago, before he was called to the Presidency of the University of Wyoming. He was removed from office in 1908 on charges of "insubordination, untruthfulness, and maladministration."
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Editor's Note: The Tony Blair Faith Foundation has announced the Faith Shorts Film Competition asking young people between the ages of 14 and 27 to submit short films on how faith inspires you. The film competition is open to people of all nationalities and have to be submitted by July 9, 2012. HuffPost Religion applauds this effort by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation and encourage you to submit entries if you are interested.
The text below was provided by the Tony Blair Faith Foundation.
After leaving office as Prime Minister of Great Britain, Tony Blair set up the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. Through global education and community projects, the Foundation aims to build understanding between people of different faiths, cultures and beliefs.
How does your faith inspire you? It’s an interesting question, one open to many different interpretations and anecdotes which is precisely the idea behind Faith Shorts, the short film competition run every year by the Foundation. The Foundation is keen to hear from young people aged between 14 and 27 about their experiences of faith, whether personally, within families or communities, or what they’ve seen in the world around them.
More than ever before, the media has the power to expand the reach of religious ideas to new horizons. But media also has the power to shape these religious ideas and the public’s perspectives on religious traditions. With the technological innovations that allow citizens to become journalists and filmmakers, people around the globe have access to a host of different stories. Faith Shorts aims to harness this spirit to help break down stereotypes and promote understanding between people of different faiths, cultures and beliefs.
Now, calling upon young people to stand up and talk about faith is no easy ask, but each year, the entries surpass our expectations. The best films challenge stereotypes about religion, tell a compelling story and engage us in the filmmaker’s world. This competition allows for the exploration of complex issues in the most creative ways, from a young Jordanian inspired by her faith to learn how to forgive following a bomb blast affecting her family, to a group of young Bahá'í’s rapping about responsibility and faith. The competition debunks the myth that faith is merely a source of conflict, and shows it is an inspiring source of solace, solidarity and community interaction.
As Tony Blair says “we see this film competition as an opportunity for young people to share in their own words what their faith means to them. We hope their personal stories will help increase understanding between the main faiths, break down stereotypes and show a more positive face of religion.” So get your films in!
Judges include leaders from the worlds of faith and film –- from the Grand Mufti of Bosnia to Hollywood stars Hugh Jackman and Jet Li, with prizes including an all expenses paid trip to London to see your film premiered on the big screen at a red carpet event. For more information, or to enter yourself, visit www.faithshorts.org.
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This policy has nothing to do with the oft-stated US objections to the Israeli “occupation” and new construction in the West Bank and the parts of Yerushalayim beyond the pre-1967 “Green Line.” Instead, it seeks to turn back the clock to the situation in effect before the US recognition of Israel in 1948, and to insist that, with regard to Yerushalayim, Israel does not even exist.
The issue is even more symbolic because Israel has declared Yerushalayim to be its capital, and has located both the Knesset and the Prime Minister’s office in the city. Thus, the US refusal to refer to Yerushalayim in a legal government document, such as a passport, as part of Israel, takes on a dual significance, by denying the legitimacy of the state as well.
PART OF AN ARAB ATTEMPT TO REWRITE HISTORY
This State Department policy has been a sore point with US supporters of Israel since 1948, and has taken on added significance with the Arab campaign to rewrite the history of the city, and deny its ancient Jewish historic roots.
In fact, despite centuries of persecution by the city’s rulers going all the way back to Ancient Rome, Jews have maintained a constant presence in the city, often at great risk to their lives. With the increase in Jewish immigration to the city at the start of the 19th century, its Jewish community grew to represent a majority of the city’s population by 1860, and shortly thereafter forced its expansion to new neighborhoods outside the Old City walls.
Jews only began to move out of the Old City for their own protection following the Arab riots in 1929. There was still a sizable Jewish population living there in 1948, when Israel declared its independence. During the subsequent war, the Old City was surrounded, cut off and put under siege by Arab armies. When the Jewish defenders ran out of ammunition and were forced to surrender, all the remaining Jewish occupants of the Old City were also forced to leave. No Jews were allowed to return for the next 19 years, until the city was reunited under Israeli rule following the Six Day War. However, during that 19 year period, the Arab occupiers established the myth of “Arab East Jerusalem” which they have fought to preserve to this day, along with the US State Department.
Years of protests by friends to Israel to various presidential administrations to change that arbitrary State Department passport policy have fallen on deaf ears. The State Department position is that refusing to recognize any part of Yerushalayim as Israeli territory is essential to US foreign policy, and that foreign policy is the exclusive mandate of the executive branch of the federal government, rather than the courts..
CONGRESS STEPS IN, AND THE WHITE HOUSE IGNORES IT
However, in 2002, friends of Israel in Congress succeeded in adding Section 214 to the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (budget) for fiscal year 2003 which was entitled “United States Policy with Respect to Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel.” The first part of the section confirmed Congress’ support for the law requiring the US government to relocate its embassy in Israel to Yerushalayim. The law was passed during the Clinton administration, but ignored by Clinton and subsequent US presidents to this day. The next part of the section bars government funding for any official document that does not list Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The final part of Section 214 directly addresses the passport issue, and explicitly gives any citizen of the United States born in the city of Jerusalem, or their parents or guardians, the right to request that their place of birth be listed on their passport as Israel. That is in contrast to the established practice of the State Department to not list any country on US passports on which “Jerusalem” is listed as the place of birth.
President George W. Bush signed the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, with Section 214 included, but issued a signing statement which, in effect, called Section 214 an unconstitutional violation of the exclusive right of the executive branch of the US government to determine foreign policy. The administration also ordered the State Department to continue its passport policy regarding American citizens born in Yerushalayim, in deference to the delicate feelings of this country’s Arab friends over the legal rights of its own citizens.
ASSERTING A BABY’S RIGHTS
That is where the matter stood until Menachem Zivotofsky was born in 2002. Shortly thereafter, Menachem’s mother, showed up at the US embassy in Tel Aviv and demanded that her newborn son’s passport list his place of birth as Jerusalem, Israel, consistent with the stipulations of Section 214. When embassy personnel refused, Menachem’s mother called her former school friend, Alyza Lewin, the daughter of the famous Orthodox Washington attorney, Nat Lewin, to file a lawsuit against the State Department to force it to comply with Section 214 as Congress wrote it.
Aside from its inequity, the lawsuit argues that the State Department passport policy on Yerushalayim is inconsistent with US policy in two other comparable cases.
THE TAIWAN EXCEPTION
The first case is the exception which the State Department makes for US citizens born on the island of Taiwan. When the communists under Mao Zedong took over China in 1949, the leaders of the former government of China, under Chiang, Kai-shek, fled to Taiwan (then known as Formosa) and declared itself as Nationalist China. For 20 years, the US recognized Nationalist China as China’s only legitimate government and maintained a so-called 2-China policy. However, as part of President Nixon’s 1979 agreement to recognize Red China and establish formal diplomatic relations with it, the communists insisted that the US also recognize Taiwan as part of China and not an independent government. However, the US refused to abandon the nationalist government on Taiwan, and continues, to this day, in aiding in its defense against an invasion by communists from the mainland.
In 1994, Congress passed a law almost identical to Section 214. Since then, the State Department has allowed, without objections, US citizens born in Taiwan to list their place of birth on their passports as Taiwan, rather than China, even though the US no longer formally recognizes Taiwan as an independent country. Why, the lawsuit asks, won’t the State Department grant the same right to US citizens born in Yerushalayim?
WHY DO PALESTINIANS GET RIGHTS DENIED TO JEWS
The second anomaly in the State Department passport policy regarding Jerusalem is that it also gives US citizens born in the land of Israel before its independence was recognized by the US in 1948 the option to have their passports say that they were born in Palestine, even though the US has never formally recognized the existence of such a country.
The State Department claims that its passport policy is designed to avoid bruising the feelings of US citizens who may take offense to having their birth place in Jerusalem listed as being part of Israel. They have the right to have the word Israel deleted from the place of birth on their passport. The State Department also gives US citizens born in Chevron, for example, the right to request that “West Bank” be listed as the place of birth on their passports, even though the US does not recognize it as a country. In fact, State Department policy only discriminates against those US citizens born in Jerusalem who desire that their place of birth be list on their passport as “Israel,” most of whom happen to be Jews.
The federal lawsuit as filed calls the State Department policy on passports issued to those born in Yerushalayim to be both arbitrary and discriminatory to those who believe that the city should be listed as part of Israel, in accordance with the federal law.
The State Department, backed by the White House, still refuses to do so, claiming that Section 214 amounts to an unconstitutional infringement of the executive branch’s exclusive right to determine US foreign policy.
This is the crucial point which was at issue in last week’s Supreme Court ruling. It does not have anything to do with whether Jerusalem does or does not belong to Israel. It is, rather, simply a dispute over jurisdiction between the two branches of government. The Zivotofsky lawsuit contends that how a line on about 50,000 US passports owned by citizens born in Jerusalem reads will have no impact at all on US foreign policy or the legal status of the city. It is simply an internal and bureaucratic matter, well within Congress’ established authority to put various other requirements on the issuance of government passports.
ACCOMMODATING ISRAEL’S ENEMIES
In opposing the Zivotofsky lawsuit, government attorneys have warned judges that they have no right to set US foreign policy on the status of Jerusalem, even when it is clear that all Section 214 seeks to do is to honor the request of the US citizens born in Jerusalem, as to whether they want Israel listed as their place of birth or not. It is, rather, a reasonable accommodation which the State Department routinely makes to US citizens born in other places. Why, the lawsuit asks, should only those citizens who see Jerusalem as part of Israel, who are overwhelmingly religious Jews, be discriminated against, while accommodating only American citizens who, for personal ideological reasons, are “vehemently” opposed to carrying passports that show “Israel” as a place of birth?
The lawsuit argues that the State Department prohibition against listing Jerusalem as part of Israel is based upon the irrational fear that Israel’s enemies will mistakenly criticize American foreign policy based upon what is written in response to a citizen’s request in his own a passport. The lawsuit also illustrates the “folly” of the State Department’s concerns by noting that US government issues other official documents referring to Jerusalem as part of Israel without stirring up protests from the Palestinians or the rest of the Arab world.
In fact, during the years that this case was being tried in lower courts, the government admitted that the “place of birth” line on a US passport has no intrinsic foreign policy significance. Just like other entries on the passport, such as name and date of birth, its only significance is as a means of identifying the individual to whom the passport was issued, even though it is issued by the State Department.
TWO FAULTY ARGUMENTS
Nevertheless, the federal government’s case rejecting the Zivotofsky lawsuit basically stands on two arguments. The first is that the case revolves around a “political dispute” between the executive and legislative branches of government over which the courts have no jurisdiction. The second is that any ruling by the judiciary on this matter would infringe upon the exclusive right of the executive branch to decide US foreign policy. Lower federal courts refused to accept the lawsuit based upon one of the government’s arguments or the other, so the Lewins brought the Zivotofsky lawsuit to the Supreme Court, claiming that both government arguments against considering the case were wrong, and that it should be decided by the lower courts on its merits.
Monday’s decisive 8-1 ruling by the Supreme Court upheld the argument made by the Lewins that the case is within the jurisdiction of the courts to resolve, and sends it back to the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit for trial.
CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS SPEAKS OUT
The majority decision, written by Chief Justice John Roberts, clearly rejects the government’s arguments that the case seeks to resolve a political issue, or infringes on the constitutional powers of the executive branch. “The federal courts are not being asked to supplant a foreign policy decision of the political branches with the courts’ own unmoored determination of what the United States policy toward Jerusalem should be. Instead, Zivotofsky requests that the courts enforce a specific statutory right. To resolve his claim, the judiciary must decide if Zivotofsky’s interpretation of the statute is correct, and whether the statute is constitutional. This is a familiar judicial exercise.”
Roberts, in his decision, also notes that the question of whether Section 214 itself is constitutional has yet to be resolved, but that the Supreme Court will not take up the matter until a lower federal court has ruled on the substance of the lawsuit. “The courts are fully capable of determining whether this statute may be given effect, or instead must be struck down in light of authority conferred on the executive by the Constitution. . . [However,] ours is a court of final review and not first view.”
Justice Stephen Breyer was the only dissenter on the court, saying there is a “serious risk” that judicial “intervention will bring about ‘embarrassment,’ show lack of ‘respect’ for the other branches, and potentially disrupt sound foreign policy decision making.” On that basis, he argued that this was one of the rare cases in which an action by the federal government is not subject to judicial review.
THE BATTLE IS WON, BUT THE WAR IS NOT OVER
After a long legal battle, Nat Lewin celebrated Monday’s Supreme Court decision, but warned that the battle in the courts is not yet over. “We are only at the 7th inning stretch. There are at least two more innings to go,” he said, referring to a ruling by the lower court on the merits of the case, and then a second Supreme Court review of that ruling. He added that “the Supreme Court has made it clear that it wants to decide the separation of powers issue finally itself,” and that the decision written by Chief Justice Roberts made him “optimistic” about the outcome.
YERUSHALAYING WIlL GET ITS DAY IN COURT
In a written statement, Lewin explained, “It has taken nine years of litigation for us finally to get to this stage, at which a federal court will be deciding whether to enforce a right Congress gave to American citizens. I hope we will soon see the effective implementation of that law and the rejection of the State Department’s groundless objection to its enforcement. . .
“As a result of the Supreme Court’s decision, we will now be presenting to the Court of Appeals our arguments that Congress acted constitutionally, and that the Department of State may not unilaterally choose to disobey the Congressional mandate. . .
“The Court’s ruling is precisely the relief we sought when we filed our request for Supreme Court review. At that time we asked the Court to decide only the legal issue that the Court decided today in our favor. . . In today’s decision, the Supreme Court recognized the great difficulty of that constitutional question, and it deferred decision on it until after the arguments are considered and decided by the Court of Appeals. . . We welcome the full discussion of these important separation-of-powers. . .
“Menachem Zivotofsky has been our firm’s youngest client for the past nine years – since shortly after he was born. We hope that he will witness a successful conclusion to this litigation by the time he celebrates his Bar-Mitzvah.”
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Thursday, 28 April 2011
The Android Market is full of useful apps, but many of them ask for more permissions than you want to give them. Apps that work OK offline want internet access to download ads from banner farms that want to know your location. Some apps ask for permission to make phone calls or send out SMSs for no apparent reason. And do you really want apps that can read your contacts list to go online to nobody knows where?
Yajin Zhou and colleagues at North Carolina State University are making a permissions manager that will let you grant or deny permission to read your contacts, get your location, or track your phone by its unique device identifier, but...
...they've been beaten to it by Stericsson, the maker of Busybox. His app, Permissions Denied, lets you block each and every permission of each non-system app installed on your phone. Block their internet access, stop them from snooping in your contacts list, hide your location, prevent them from autostarting at boot, and much more.
Permissions Denied is free, but there's a donation version available if you want to buy the developer a beer.
Some apps may break when you take away their permissions, but that's no problem. Permissions Denied lets you restore permissions with a few taps.
Some minor things that I'd like to see fixed in the next version:
Permissions Denied lets you switch internet access on or off for an app, but only in an all-or-nothing way. It would be better if we could fine tune this, for example by allowing internet access over WiFi but not over a mobile data connection. But it's not a big deal, because Permissions Denied can play together with apps like DroidWall and AdAway.
The program doesn't always work. Whether it works for you depends on your phone and firmware version. The only way to find out if it does the job for you is by trial and error.
Permissions can only be denied, not spoofed. Some apps break when they don't get the permissions they expect, so an option to spoof permissions (like giving an app a bogus location or contacts list) would be welcome.
And Permissions Denied won't let you edit permissions of system apps. This may stop you from making your system unbootable, but it also stops you from removing permissions for bloatware like MySpace, Facebook, and other non-essential stuff that may be preinstalled on your phone. Too bad, because I'd like to revoke the startup permissions of the totally useless weather widget service that Motorola slammed onto my phone.
Permission Denied, DroidWall, and AdFree all require root access, but if you want to be in control of your phone you'll have rooted it anyway, right?
• Permissions Denied in the Android Market
• Permissions Denied on code.google.com
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
There's an Android Market full of apps that ask for way more permissions than they should. Apps that work OK offline want internet access to download ads from banner farms that want to know your location. Some apps ask for permission to make phone calls or send out SMSs for no apparent reason. And do you really want apps that can read your contacts list to go online to nobody knows where?
Unfortunately there's little you can do to control apps with too much of an apetite for permissions. You can keep 'em offline with DroidWall, you can block excessively nosy advertisers with AdFree, or you can simply choose not to install the app at all.
But it looks like we'll get more control. Yajin Zhou at North Carolina State University is making a permissions manager that will let you grant or deny permission to read your contacts, get your location, or track your phone by its unique device identifier. They named their baby "Taming Information-Stealing Smartphone Applications."
It doesn't look like their Privacy Settings Manager will get a built-in firewall, but we already have DroidWall for that.
The app is not available yet, and the authors didn't say when they would release the app and whether it will be free or commercial.
The Privacy Settings Manager is outlined in this paper: http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/jiang/pubs/TRUST11.pdf (pdf file, so you'll need Adobe Reader or another program that can read pdfs).
If you rooted your phone you can protect your privacy (and possibly your internet bill) with DroidWall and AdAway:
UPDATE: Yajin Zhou has been beaten by Permissions Denied from Stericsson. However, Permissions Denied only denies. It doesn't spoof. So please keep going, Yajin!
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The study of Paul and his letters can be exciting, challenging, and life-changing, but only if it is done well and only if students achieve more than a basic familiarity with the subject. This is exactly what Pauline experts Bruce W. Longenecker and Todd D. Still accomplish with their new textbook aimed at college and seminary level courses on Paul and his writings.
Longenecker and Still bring decades of study and expertise to Thinking through Paul, challenging readers to delve deeply into Paul's writings and wrestle with his richly-layered and dynamic theological discourse.
Seeking to situate their study of the Apostle in proper perspective, Longenecker and Still first look at Paul's life before and after his encounter with the risen Christ en route to Damascus, then examine each of Paul's letters individually, and finally synthesize the Pauline writings to highlight the main strands of Paul's theologizing-all the while keeping in mind the particular context of first-century Christianity. Filled with images, maps, charts, and questions for further study and discussion, Thinking through Paul is both engaging and easy-to-follow, making it the perfect choice for classrooms and for interested readers. | <urn:uuid:28fdab42-4882-4c91-b8ad-71f79fda9a1f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/thinking-through-paul-a-survey/9780310330868-item.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00065-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947462 | 241 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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In an earlier article, I reported on searching in Google Web Search for ten full-text books, which were found in Google Books and Internet Archive. Most of the titles included in that study had only one edition, which makes them relatively easy to search for. In this article I report on a more complex search, for one book title with multiple editions, searched in Google Web Search, and also searching directly in Google Book Search. I also report on results for searching a specific phrase from the book in Web Search and Book Search. In a separate article, I examine the results for the same title in Internet Archive.
Searching for the book
The book I used as a case-study example is Diagnostic and therapeutic technic, by Albert S. Morrow, which has four editions from 1911 to 1921.
Google Web Search: “Diagnostic and therapeutic technic” morrow – In the first 10 records retrieved, the only full-text books are two GBS records, from Harvard 1911 (#1) and Harvard 1917 (#4) [The 1911 edition was scanned twice by Harvard, as shown in the detailed GBS results below, so the boldface is used to distinguish the different versions]. There are no records from Internet Archive.
Google Book Search (searching the same phrase, limiting to Full-view): “Diagnostic and therapeutic technic” morrow – The only edition in the top 10 items is the same Harvard 1911 edition, ranked at the top of the list — It seems odd that only one edition is found in Book Search, when there were two editions in Web Search … BUT, there’s a trick in Book Search! – Clicking “More editions” brings up a great wealth of additional editions — Seven different records for four editions, from Harvard and Stanford, listed below in chronologic publication order, with search retrieval rank in parentheses (As mentioned above, the 1911 edition was entered twice by Harvard, distinguished by boldface and ID number):
Harvard 1911/uL8R (#4)
Harvard 1911/PqsR (#5)
Stanford 1921 (#1) [Results list incorrect, says 1911]
Harvard 1915 (#3)
Stanford 1911 (#2) [Results list incorrect, says 1915]
Harvard 1917 (#7)
Harvard 1921 (#6)
Taken together, these results for Web Search and Book Search raise questions —
With GBS records for several editions, is there any predictable reason why particular records appear in each of the searches? Why two records are retrieved in Web Search when seven are found in Book Search?
The favored record seems to be the Harvard 1911/uL8R one, which appears first in both Web Search and Book Search — Is this chosen because it’s the first edition? Why not choose the latest edition from 1921? It’s also notable that this seemingly favored record links to a rather confusing scan from the front cover of the book instead of linking to the clearly-displayed title page or table of contents, as most of the other records do.
“More editions” search – How is the order of these determined? Is it significant that the two top-ranked records noted on the list above are the only ones from Stanford? Another little glitch – Each of the entries linked from the initial “More editions” has its own “More editions” link, which goes to the same list as the initial list — An obvious oversight.
Both of the Stanford editions in the list have incorrect dates given in the search list. This fits my experience — I’ve found that Stanford GBS records are often quirky, especially compared to Harvard.
Searching for a *phrase* in the book
Google Web Search – The ability to search in Google Web Search for a phrase that occurs in a GBS book is invaluable — I searched Google Web for this phrase that I had seen in the Morrow book: “The tube devised by Crile is of German silver.” As expected, this gets only Morrow, which goes to page 117, with the phrase nicely highlighted, in the same Harvard 1911 edition that’s featured in the searches above for the whole book. Clicking on “Repeat the search with the omitted results included” retrieves six of the seven editions listed above, all with the phrase highlighted. Interestingly it also retrieves, ranked #2, the Internet Archive DjVu-formatted record for the book, which goes to the top of the book record instead of the highlighted occurrence on a page. Finding the Internet Archive record in a phrase search is surprising since there were no Internet Archive records retrieved in searching for the book title above.
Google Book Search (searching the same phrase, limiting to Full-view): “The tube devised by Crile is of German silver” – Searching for the same phrase in Google Books – This goes to the highlighted phrase in the the Stanford 1921 edition. This the only record retrieved (Interesting that this edition was ranked #1 in the GBS search for the book title). Clicking on “More editions” retrieves the same seven records listed above, which do not link to the highlighted phrase, but only to the beginning of the book.
Thoughts on Google Books and Metadata
There’s been much talk about metadata in Google Book Search, with strong complaints about its poor quality by Geoff Nunberg and others, especially as it relates to different editions, and the examples presented in this article fit into that category. I guess I take a less negative view of this than Nunberg — The upside that I see is that its better to have many editions, even with perplexing search patterns, than to have a more limited number of editions. The lesson that this little case study gives, I think, is to be aware of the quirks, and to be persistent. In particular, if you come across an interesting reference to a book in Google Books in a Google Web Search, be sure to “repeat the search with omitted results” and to do the search in Google Book Search.
Keeping multiple editions straight, which takes the large-scale organizational skills of a librarian, I suspect its going to take a while for Google to figure out how to do it well (hopefully with the help of librarians). Keeping multiple editions straight, I suspect, is something that librarians have more skill at than Google, and I suspect its going to take a while for Google to figure out how to do it well (hopefully with the help of librarians). On the other hand, where Google excels, as shown in this little study, is in hitting the small target — I apply this especially to Google’s ability to find specific phrases, and to highlight the phrase searched for, which I think will be very helpful for scholars.
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Become a Sandburg Home Junior Ranger
Learn about the Junior Ranger Program at the Sandburg Home, download a booklet to do at home and more. The park also has the 2016 Centennial Jr. Ranger program and the 50th Anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act Jr. Ranger program.
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Learn more about the requirements for the Girl Scout program here. Girls interested in earning their Silver or Gold awards through a park project should contact the park.
Boy Scouts can learn about the Scout Ranger Program here.
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The Little book of Aston Martin tells the story of one of Great Britain's most coveted motoring marques.
Aston Martin was formed in the 1920's and has had a roller-coaster ride ever since, often with financial struggles and with a number of changes of ownership. Yet, against all odds, this small company has managed to produce some of the most beautiful sports cars ever seen. And it continues to do so today.
This book includes details of many of the most important Aston Martins ever produced, from the very early models, right up to the stunning Vanquish, DB9 and Zagato. There is a brief description of each model, together with photographs and specification table.
Number Of Pages: 125
Published: 20th October 2011
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Cavities, caries tooth decay…, these are all terms used to describe the same dental problem, which is in fact one of the most common issues that people face with their teeth. In fact, dental caries is probably one of the few things keeping the tooth fairy in business.
Any wonder, then, that parents everywhere keep warning their kids to stay off the candy and brush their teeth regularly? Regular dental checkups can also help keep tooth decay at bay, since we can check the health of your teeth and let you know if you’re at risk.
What is Cavity Risk Assessment?
Cavity risk assessment is a preventive dental procedure that helps us identify the possibility of tooth decay before it occurs, so we can help you keep it from happening at all. If your teeth are already affected by caries, Dr. Patel can also suggest the right measures and perform corrective treatment to keep it from spreading.
Dental cavities, which are also known as caries or simply tooth decay, occur when the enamel protecting your teeth breaks down. This leaves them open to attack from a wide range of nasty bacteria that “eat into” your teeth, much like microscopic miners!
Dental caries is a complex disease process involving the normal bacterial make up in your mouth, the food you eat and the surface of your teeth. It’s a common dental health complaint across every age group. Over 90% of all adults over the age of 20 have some form of tooth decay, and it’s equally common among children and teens too.
When do you Need Cavity Risk Assessment?
Cavity risk assessment is ideally something that you should schedule on a regular basis, but especially if:
- You eat a lot of sweet, acidic or heavily processed foods (these can lead to bacterial buildup and enamel damage).
- You don’t have a proper routine for brushing, flossing and oral hygiene, or haven’t visited a dentist in a while.
- You’ve had tooth decay in the last 3 years (chances of reoccurrence are quite high if you’ve already had it).
- You notice changes in tooth color, spots or stains, cracks, chips or sensitivity to hot/cold foods.
- You’ve had other medical issues (heavy medication can also lead to bacterial imbalance and enamel loss).
What Does the Procedure Involve?
- Typically, the procedure begins with a bunch of questions that tell us what you eat, how well you clean your teeth, and your medical history.
- Based on your answers to these questions, we can identify any potential risk factors that may lead to tooth decay.
- If necessary, we will conduct a biofilm test which helps us identify specific aggressive strains of bacteria.
- Dental x-rays, cleaning and oral examinations are also conducted, to check the general health of your teeth and oral cavity.
- We will then suggest medication, dietary changes or dental therapies that can minimize the impact of these risk factors.
- If we find evidence of existing caries or other dental disorders, we will also suggest cosmetic or restorative procedures to help correct them.
Despite improvements like fluoridated water, toothpaste and other products in recent history, tooth decay remains a troublesome and widely-prevalent dental problem. Good oral hygiene, nutritious meals and professional cleaning are essential, to keep it at bay.
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Students who are in the final year of their studies in computing/information technology are involved in undergraduate student projects. Over a period of one or (usually) two semesters, the students work in teams on 'real' projects for 'real' clients. The projects involve the development of a substantial software system designed and built to meet the needs of their client. These may involve multimedia, database systems, graphics, games, internet, networking and educational software.
The students engage in the full project management and software development life cycle following some suggested milestones and with guidance from a supervisor within the Faculty.
If you, your business, sporting club, or school has a need for a computer system and can invest some time to work with our students as a client, please consider proposing a project. It is recommended that you suggest systems that are not critical to your business, as the final product will not be handed over until the end of two semester's work and may need further work before it can be used. In some cases, a prototype system may be developed after one semester.
This scheme is an excellent way to trial an idea and have a prototype system developed which you may then later choose to develop or extend professionally. The students are very enthusiastic and are mentored by experienced staff in the Faculty.
During February and early March, all the proposed projects will be assessed for suitability and you will be informed if your project has been selected.
If you know of students who will be enrolling to do an undergraduate IT project and you'd like them to work on your system, please indicate this in the comments section on the proposal form.
What does it cost?
If you are asking for a system to be developed using proprietary software or hardware system(s), you may need to provide these resources to our students to use for the duration of the project. We have some resources available to students on campus. Please discuss your particular software needs with the project coordinator when you propose a project. In some cases, it may be possible for students to use free, open source software to develop your system.
We cannot maintain the software after the project is finished (at the end of the enrolled semester(s)). It is your responsibility as the client to engage in detailed user acceptance testing before using the system. If further development is required you may need to engage some third party software developers (or the students themselves) at your own cost.
What sort of systems could be developed?
Previously our clients have included schools, small businesses and large corporate clients. It is essential that clients are accessible to students and are local.
Some examples of systems that have previously been developed include:
- Administrative software for a veterinary practice
- Educational games for schools
- Networking systems
- Management software for an accountancy practice
- HR systems
Other examples of the types of systems possible include: eCommerce website, inventory management system, tourist information system, virtual tours, small retail system, training system, educational software and online products/information kiosk.
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Hay meadows are an iconic feature of the English countryside and are of great agricultural importance, providing farmers with food for their livestock during the winter months as well as ecological importance.
Upland hay meadows are characterised by a suite of species including sweet vernal-grass, wood crane’s-bill, pignut, great burnet and lady`s mantles. They also provide an important feeding habitat for a wide range of bird and insect life. They are confined to areas with a history of non-intensive hay-meadow management at 200-400m altitude in the upland valleys of northern England and Scotland. Recent estimates indicate that there are less than 1000 ha in northern England and Scotland is believed to have less than 100 ha.
Lowland hay meadows are characterised by crested dog’s tail and common knapweed, these are nationally widespread but declining. Other typical species are red fescue and common bent-grass, with a range of wild flowers such as bird's-foot trefoil, meadow vetchling, common cat's-ear and yellow rattle. Less common species are meadow saxifrage, green-winged orchid, common twayblade and lesser butterfly-orchid. These meadows are of national biodiversity importance.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park contains a large proportion of the national upland hay meadow habitat. It is centred around Langstrothdale, Ribblesdale, Swaledale and Arkengarthdale. In addition, the nationally rare plants lesser butterfly-orchid, burnt orchid, montane eyebright and small-white orchid also grow in or in close association with this habitat. The Hay Time project has been a very successful hay meadow restoration programme in the Yorkshire Dales. It is hoped that this practical work will continue through environmental stewardship higher level scheme grants.
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Scrabble word: DANDY
In which Scrabble dictionary does DANDY exist?
Definitions of DANDY in dictionaries:
- noun - a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
- noun - a sailing vessel with two masts
- adj - very good
- A man who affects extreme elegance in clothes and manners; a fop.
- Something very good or agreeable.
- Suggestive of or attired like a dandy; foppish.
- Fine; good.
- adj - of excellent quality
- verb - to subject to a fine (a monetary penalty)
- noun - a man who is overly concerned about his appearance
There are 5 letters in DANDY: A D D N Y
All anagrams that could be made from letters of word DANDY plus a wildcard: DANDY?
Scrabble words that can be created with letters from word DANDY
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The Kindness Campaign is a bullying and violence prevention program for schools and communities founded by Barry K. Weinhold, Ph.D. Barry developed The Kindness Campaign in 1994 during his tenure at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs where he directed the Counseling and Human Services Program in the School of Education. The Kindness Campaign began as an experiment in Barry’s graduate classes and, over the space of seven years, grew into a community, regional and national program that was eventually adopted by 13 different communities and about 700 schools.
Here you see Barry with Leo the Kindhearted Lion, the mascot of the Campaign. Barry, with Leo strapped in the passenger seat beside him, gathered many smiles and surprised looks from other drivers and they drove around Colorado Springs and along the Front Range of Colorado. The two Kindness Buddies participated in many school assemblies, met with teachers and administrators and visited with many children in schools that adopted the Campaign.
Barry’s friends kidded him about his unusual friendship with Leo, and called Leo his “alter ego.” Barry always grinned and joyfully admitted it when they teased him.
Leo is a motorized robot who rides a small remote-controlled tricycle. He has a built-in microphone so that Barry can speak through Leo to the children. A built-in tape recorder allows him to sing pre-recorded Kindness songs to the children. Children loved on Leo so much that all of his whiskers disappeared!
As part of his community service work at the University, Barry began by creating program curriculum materials for preschool, elementary and middle schools and then, with the help local CBS television affiliate, expanded it into churches, businesses and governmental agencies and the larger community. Barry Tells the History of The Kindness Campaign
Barry’s Story About How The Kindness Campaign Started
In the summer of 1992, Janae and I reduced our belongings down to 17 boxes (12 of which were books) and left Colorado Springs to work for the United Nations on a project in Czechoslovakia. That fall the state of Colorado voted to amend its constitution to restrict the rights of gays and lesbians. Largely the result of a fear campaign spearheaded by a Colorado Springs group called Colorado for Family Values, news of this amendment reverberated around the world.
First, a little background about Colorado Springs. It is the home of over 71 fundamentalist Christian organizations, over 100 thousand military personnel and dependents, the Olympic Training Center and The Air Force Academy. Bill Moyers hosted a PBS documentary on Colorado Springs and after interviewing a number of its leaders, called it Ground Zero of the next Holy War.
After this amendment passed in the fall of 1992, we still proudly told people in Bratislava, Slovakia where we were living at the time that we were from Colorado. Their reply was Oh, that’s the hate state. How could you live there Although the U.S. Supreme Court struck down this amendment before it ever took effect, the damage to the common ground in the community was extensive. When we returned to Colorado Springs in the spring of 1993, we found a community divided with two camps that fired insults at each other through the media.
I decided that since this was my community, I either was going to be part of the problem or part of the solution. I took some time to search for ways I come intervene and even offered to help mediate the conflict. When that failed, I sought a way to restore common ground that had been destroyed as the result of this amendment. Finally, I hit on the idea of using kindness as the tool to help restore the civility and mutual respect that seemed missing. My idea was that thousands of acts of kindness go unnoticed each day because the media focuses on the violence and other bad news.
I decided to test my idea in one of my graduate classes at the university where I was teaching. I asked my students to keep track of the number of acts of kindness that they do in the next week and I supplied them with log sheets to record the acts. The 20 students came back with over 250 acts of kindness logged in for the week. I asked them to keep logging, and after three weeks, I knew I was right as their totals continued to climb.
I hypothesized that if I could get about 20% of the population of Colorado Springs focusing kindness and mutual respect, it would shift the consciousness of the city. In order to do that I knew I needed help from the media and I needed to know if the conservative Christian majority of the community would support this idea. I talked privately to a fundamentalist Christian minister that I knew about the idea and asked him if he that his colleagues would see this as some kind of new age program. He thought for a minute and then quoted several Bible verses and then said, No, kindness is theologically sound.
Garnering Media Support for the Kindness Campaign
With that concern settled, I went to talk to the News Director at the local CBS affiliate, someone I knew through a video project he had helped us produce. I told him I was interested in the station become the media sponsor of the kindness campaign I was starting. I explained how the news shows on his station could feature positive news stories and could help promote acts of kindness in the community. He was mildly interested, but I could see that my request was a stretch for a traditional network affiliate. He told me he would think about it, discuss my idea with others at the station and get back to me. I assumed from the tone of the meeting, that I might not even hear from him again.
However, I got very lucky. That afternoon on his station, Oprah Winfrey did her whole show on the effects of random acts of kindness on people. To make a long story short, the station agreed to be the media sponsor and remained in that capacity for over five years. They set up a kindness line where people could call in and report acts of kindness that they witnessed. Then they ended their evening news shows by playing one of these recorded messages. They also followed up on some of the more interesting ones and turned them into news features.
The kindness line caught on immediately and the station had hundreds of call each week. After six months, they conducted a viewer survey and found to their amazement that over 70% of their viewers knew about the Kindness Campaign and 75% of those said they thought the Campaign was having a significant effect on reducing violence in the community.
Another stroke of luck helped heal the rift between the two polarized groups in the community. The station agreed to tape and play Public Service Announcements during their broadcast day about the Kindness Campaign. They asked me to submit a list of names of key people to tape these announcements. Among a group of community leaders, I selected were the leader of the Colorado for Family Values group and the leader for the Citizen’s Project, the group that opposed the amendment to limit gay rights.
KKTV’s Community Relations Coordinator invited both of these men to the studio at the same time to tape the PSA and when they saw each other, they turned to leave. The station manager, who knew both of them, persuaded them to stay and do the 30 second PSA. They stood side by side and talked about the importance of kindness in the community. This PSA played repeatedly in prime time and throughout the broadcast day. Buoyed by the success of this ice-breaking meeting, these two men decided to continue meeting for lunch on a regular basis. This led to the formation of a project called dialogue dinners where a group, chosen because of their diversity, agreed to meet for three dinners together to discuss common areas of agreement and disagreement. The idea caught on and they organized over 400 of these dinners in the next several years.
The Currency of The Kindness Campaign
The currency of the Campaign a Kindness Button that people get for signing a pledge card to do an act of kindness for themselves or someone else. The instructions are to wear the button and to look for an opportunity to pass it on by catching someone else doing a kind act.
We then began to make presentation in the community and in schools. We made over 400 of these during the first five years of the Campaign and we started programs in over 125 local schools. We created a whole set of program guidesfor schools, pre-schools, families and for other communities that wanted to organize similar programs.
Shortly after the program began, I had an opportunity to speak before the city council. I told them that my vision was that someday Colorado Springs would be know as a Community of Kindness. I said I hoped to see signs at the airport and along the major highways leading into the city that would say, Welcome to Colorado Springs, a community of kindness. The home of over 250,000 kind people and a few sore heads. The council members seemed uncomfortable with my vision, except for one Councilwoman who smiled at me and winked. Little did I know that two years later that council woman would be the mayor and her
first act as mayor was to declare her intention to restore kindness and civility to city government. A year later, Colorado Springs became one of three U. S. cities to named a Community of Kindness. The others selected were Dallas, Texas and Angel’s Camp California.
The Impact of The Kindness Campaign
The impact of the Kindness Campaign was immediate in schools where bullying, put-downs and other forms of unkindness were affecting the learning climate. Some kids were actually afraid to go to school and about 10% dropped out before graduating because of the bullying and harassment they received at school.
Again, my hypothesis was that if you focus everyone’s attention on the positive things that were happening much of the unkind behavior would go away. The results of research we conducted showed that there was an immediate drop of over 30% in referrals to the office in the three weeks following the introduction of the Kindness Campaign in a school. The long-term results showed a yearlong drop of 26% from the previous year. Area businesses also adopted schools and paid for the time and materials needed to bring the Kindness Campaign to that school. Some companies actually paid their employees for the time they spent volunteering in their adopted school.
The other areas of the community that responded to the Campaign were the neighborhood associations and the churches. Several key neighborhood associations conducted an annual nomination and awards process to identify the kindest people in the neighborhood in various categories, like Kindest Senior Citizen. The area churches took part in an annual Interfaith Celebration of Kindness where each faith group presented the ways kindness is part of their faith community. After the service, we held a potluck dinner with each faith tradition bringing some food to share that was special to their tradition.
Making The Kindness Campaign A Community Affair
We ended each year with the Community of Kindness Awards Ceremony where children nominated the kindest adults, adults nominated the kindest children and youth, people nominated large and small businesses and non-profits for their contributions to the creation of a Community of Kindness. Finally, high and low profile individuals received Humanitarian Awards for their contributions to the community.
All of these things contributed to a major shift in consciousness in this community. Over about a six-year period, the Campaign spread to 11 other cities and eventually to over 600 schools in the U. S. and Canada. I had a great deal of fun and a good feeling, seeing that one person with an idea can still make a difference. One of my greatest compliments came from two eighth grade boys who were sitting outside their middle school when I arrived to give them more kindness buttons. I over heard one boy say to the other, Hey! There goes the kindness dude.
Purchasing the Kindness Campaign Materials
Initially the Kindness Campaign curriculum materials were sold in large three-ring binders that were mailed out to customers. In 2006 Barry converted all of the Campaign’s materials into a downloadable e-book format that are available in our Store, making them instantly available to teachers, school administrators, parents and community organizers.
Here’s are the materials you need in order to implement the Kindness Campaign:
- Creating A Community of Kindness: A Community Organizer’s Guide
- Bullying & School Violence: The Tip of the Iceberg
- Kind Beginnings: An Activity Guide for Fostering Kindness in Pre-schools
- Raising Kind Kids: An Activity Guide for Fostering Kindness in Families
- Rush to Judgment: The Trial of Eric Harris & Dylan Klebold, a screenplay
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Know What the Six Keys to Personal Success Are
Edited by Debbie, Charmed, Nate Pepperell, Eng and 2 others
What is true success? It is the accomplishment of the very best way of life that results when we apply God's standards. Even though we all make mistakes, our life can be successful. We will be learning from the wisdom of our Creator, what the six keys to success are for a happy life.
Six Keys to Personal Success
- 1Keep Money In Its Place.Advertisement
- 2Cultivate a Generous Disposition.Acts 20:35 tells us there is more happiness in giving than in receiving. Being generous can be done in many ways. Giving of one's self, can be one of the best ways. Research has studied that when people extend help to others, people will have better physical and mental well-being, including less depression.Advertisement
- 3Forgive Freely.We are to continue forgiving each other even if someone has a complaint against us. People today, are not so forgiving, and want to get even. But we all make mistakes and need forgiveness. Do we not appreciate someone forgiving us when we do wrong? Our Creator forgives us, we need to forgive also. (Colossians 3:13)
- 4Comply With God's Standards.God's commandments are clean, and good for us emotionally, mentally, and physically. (Psalms 19:8) They are a protection for us against drug abuse, sexual misconduct, drunkenness, and viewing pornography. (2 Corinthians 7:1)(Colossians 3:5). The harmful result of these can be crime, poverty, mistrust, families breaking up, mental and emotional problems, disease, and even death. On the other hand, those who follow God's standards of being morally clean, have self-respect, secure friendships, and inner peace. (Isaiah 48:17)
- 5Show Unselfish Love.1 Corinthians 8:1 tells us that love builds us up. What would our life be like without love? In chapter 13 verses 4-8 it tells us love is patient and kind. It unselfishly looks out for the welfare of others, and does not easily become offended. As parents, it means showing love to our children, and making sure we teach them bible based principles. Deuteronomy 6:6,7
- 6Be Conscious of Your Spiritual Need.The bible tells us we will be happy if we are aware of our spiritual needs. (Matthew 5:3). Millions of people in the world are finding answers to many questions they have wondered. What is the purpose of life? Is there a Creator? What happens at death? What does the future hold for us? Our Creator wants us to be happy, and live forever on this earth, the way it was originally meant to be. (Psalms 37:29). He promises us no more sickness. (Isaiah 33:24) No more crime. (Psalms 37:10-11) No more death. (Revelation 21:3-4) An abundance of food for all. (Isaiah 25:6). This is something to be happy about! Our Creator wants us to be happy and successful forever. We need to take in knowledge of his word, and if we put forth the effort to put what we learn into action, we can be happy. (John 17:3).Advertisement
More Tips for Success
- Have a wholesome fear of God. Proverbs 9:10.
- Choose Friends Wisely. Proverbs 13:20
- Control Your Tongue. 1 Peter 3:10.
- Have time for yourself. God Himself took a day off when He created the world.
- Be friendly with your neighbors. They surround you every day.
- Acknowledge that work is a blessing.
- Never waste food, which is a double blessing from God. Empty food from your plate as if you do not need to wash the plate and just return it to the dish rack.
- Read the Bible or a devotional based on the Bible every day before starting to do anything. It will refresh you.
- If you have problems with any of these steps, ask a question for more help, or post in the comments section below.
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Newspapers Realizing The News Is Really Interactive
from the it's-about-time dept
However, some newspapers are figuring this out. Check out this great story of how the Chicago Tribune interacted with some folks on Twitter to both get alerted to a story, report on it, and then spread the news. There's been plenty of talk about how breaking news often first appears on Twitter, but it's often mentioned in a way that suggests that Twitter and news organizations are somehow "competing." But that's not what happened with the Tribune.
Someone on Twitter in downtown Chicago noticed a bunch of scared people running out of Daley Center, claiming their lives were in danger -- so he Twittered about it, asking if anyone knew what was going on. Others started asking about it, and one user alerted the Chicago Tribune's twitter account. Then, the folks at the Tribune did what good professional reporters should do: checked out the story and twittered the details, while alsoposting a full article on the Tribune website about a bomb scare at Daley Center. And, following that, a bunch of folks who had originally helped alert the Tribune to the story, Twittered the Tribune's story as well.
It's a much more interactive role, where the Tribune relied on the community to help alert it to a story, and then did what it should be able to do better: professionally gather the details and report on the situation -- and then let the community share and discuss the story as well. Slowly, but surely, it looks like some news organizations are figuring this stuff out. | <urn:uuid:cacf58ec-477a-4594-8242-7e28955857ed> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20080815/0152151986.shtml?threaded=true&sp=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00149-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970611 | 324 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Israel-based company Elbit Systems has carried out a live demonstration of a remotely operated anti-submarine warfare (ASW) mission using its multi-mission unmanned surface vessel (USV) known as Seagull.
The Seagull platform conducted the operational ASW mission in Haifa Bay, Israel, via satellite communication (SATCOM) using control consoles located approximately 3,515km away.
The multi-mission USV system used its dipping sonar and Elbit Systems’ proprietary software to carry out real-time detection and classification of objects in order to demonstrate Seagull’s capability to deter and dissuade hostile subsurface activity.
Two operators from the Seagull team were involved in the exercise, a USV operator and sonar operator.
Elbit Systems’ Seagull solution is a 12m-long USV that can be operated either from a mothership or on-shore stations.
The unmanned system offers a wide range of multi-mission capabilities such as ASW, mine-hunting and minesweeping (MCM) and electronic warfare (EW), as well as maritime security and underwater commercial missions.
Seagull has a mission endurance of more than four days. The solution helps leverage modular mission system deployment and offers a high level of autonomy.
The USV is equipped with command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) capabilities to ensure improved situation awareness.
It is also capable of conducting end-to-end mine-hunting operations, including detection, classification, location, identification and neutralisation of bottom, moored and drifting sea mines, while taking the crew out of the minefield.
The USV system previously carried out an autonomous end-to-end unmanned mine countermeasure (MCM) mission in June, which demonstrated the solution's real-time operational capabilities in the Belgian North Sea.
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This man is Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal, 1861-1896, Philippine National Hero.
Flash Draw Created Sep 22, 2007 470 x 338px Unless noted Copyright 2007 mAtheL.
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you drew your national hero that shows a great respect to your country 10*
:D gling mo nmn drawing.. d ko lam full nam nya pla jose protacio rizal xD.. nga pala, sayang wala first drawing mo xD.. pero okay lang yan.. gumaganda nmn drawing mo eh
Azteeg!! Hehe kamukang kamuka tlaga ni Rizal! lol! Stupid hate-raters.... *10* :D
wow our national hero!!!!
d2.... palagi na akong nabiktima ng mga rate haters. wahhhh, nakakainis talga cla....
lol. c rizal.. eheheh astig ng shadings mo ha... ang galing mong gumamit ng fill tool.... btw, maganda 2nd drawing mo, marami lng talagang rate haterz
Si Rizal ay aking Idolo! :D
you could draw him again leanlester,besides mine is a bad one, my rating is low...
i was going to draw Dr Rizal, kaya lng na unahan mo ako
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Posted: May 27, 2009
Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology launches new projects
(Nanowerk News) In the second call for proposals, projects focus on either the development of new technologies or on the interface between biomedical research and genomics. The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) approved six RTD-projects today. They will engage a total of 47 research groups from both Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology (ETH Zurich und EPF Lausanne), as well as from the Universities of Basel, Lausanne, Geneva and Zurich. The Friedrich-Miescher Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation is also represented as the only privately financed institution. Eight groups belong simultaneously to one of the above-mentioned universities and to the Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics.
Each of the six approved RTD-Projects is coordinated by a researcher from a SystemsX.ch partner institution. Scientists from the University of Basel lead three RTD-projects. The Department for Biosystems Science and Engineering (ETH Zurich), the University of Lausanne and the Friedrich-Miescher Institute each lead one newly approved RTD.
This is a table of the RTD projects.
The international review panel of the SNSF was responsible for the evaluation process of the 19 projects submitted. The decision was made based on the scientific quality of the projects, and their alignment towards Systems Biology.
The budget for the six RTD-projects is 27.5 Million Swiss Francs in total. Institutions involved in each project are required to invest matching funds at least equal to those provided by SystemsX.ch. Hence, total investment for these six RTDs projects will be at least 55 Million Francs. The projects will be financed for the next four years, and research activities will start later this year.
With the present decision, the major financing quotas of SystemsX.ch for the period of 2008-2011 have been allocated. In 2008, eight RTD projects have been approved with a total budget of 45 Million Francs. These projects have advanced into their research phase and have already produced some highly interesting and valuable publications. The Federal Government had allocated a 100 Million Francs budget for investment in Systems Biology research from 2008-2011.
Members of the research initiative SystemsX.ch include the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne, the Universities of Basel, Bern, Fribourg, Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich, as well as the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) in Villigen, the Friedrich-Miescher Institute (FMI) in Basel, and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB).
Systems Biology aims to explain biological regulation at a cellular, tissue, organ, or whole organism level in order to understand living systems as a whole. To do this effectively, biological data needs to be collected, interpreted, and analyzed at a level above its individual role in specific cellular mechanisms, compartments, or components. The development of computer simulations of entire biological systems based on mathematical models is equally important. This allows biology and medicine to become a predictive quantitative science, which in the long term will simplify processes such as the discovery of novel and more personalized medications. | <urn:uuid:ba46e36a-c83a-42ae-9d40-dd75c4422ab8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=10854.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00404-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921321 | 680 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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