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Making Sense of Remainders Day 3
Lesson 6 of 7
Objective: SWBAT investigate real world problems in which remainders are shared, dropped and rounded.
I display the problem 44 / 7 on the board. I ask students to evaluate and analyze my thinking when I record the quotient as 42 R 2.
The reason I chose this as a warm up is because this is a very common error among fourth grade students. Many fourth grade students confuse or mix up their multiplication product from a related multiplication fact, as the quotient of the division problem.
This warm up allows students to self reflect on whether or not they also do this.
Then, I ask students to list the three ways remainders are used in division. Students respond with, "drop it, share it, and round it." Then I have students solve 26 / 5 in their notebooks as I pass out the supplies needed for today.
It often takes a jump in understanding for students to apply the procedural algorithm of division with remainders to real-world situations where remainders are encountered. A child who can easily calculate 40 divided by 6 = 6R4 will too often state 6R4 as the answer to the number of cars necessary to transport 40 children to a baseball game if 6 children can fit in each car.
The problems in this lesson will first review the concept of division as proportional reasoning involving equal shares and then they will lead children to discover the three usual ways of dealing with remainders in real life: they are either used to round up to the next whole number, they are dropped and discarded, or they are split evenly among the participants.
For this lesson, students sit with their learning partner in a circle on the floor. I direct students to solve the first problem on page two of the division problem worksheet with their learning partner. Students use Math Practice Standard 1 as they make sense of each problem and make sense of the situation involving remainders. As students talk with their learning partner, I am observing and listening to their conversations. After about most pairs have finished, I direct students to freeze and put their pencils down. I then ask students to show a thumbs up if they found a quotient for the problem. I don't always call on students that have answers, which my students have grown accustom to. I might call on a student with a thumb up, or I might ask a student that doesn't have a thumb up to discuss the problem and confusing aspects about the problem. Then, I can guide students' responses in order to help the students that did not get an answer. I have found that this strategy takes the emphasis off of the "right answer" or "the answer" to how did you get your answer and why did you do what you did.
I continue with this strategy as students work to finish all problems on the page. I don't get bothered by the quantity that we (as a class) get through, this lesson is more focused on the why and how to solve division questions.
In the second half of this video, a student questions his learning partner about why they drop a remainder.
You can watch this video and hear a partner discuss dropping the remainder for the flower problem on the division problem set worksheet.
Student debrief - Wrap Up
For this student debrief, I wanted to give my students a review task and assessment of multiplication with a two step word problem. I think this is especially important because so often, students assume that once they begin a new unit or new chapter, every word problem they get, must be using the new skill. I did have several students say, "but it doesn't make sense to divide" after seeing the problem. It was a good way for me to remind students that math isn't about just practicing skills in isolation for large amounts of time, but rather using the skills learned to solve all kinds of problems.
Click here to see an incorrect student's assessment and to hear my thoughts.
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The federal transportation bill is a major source of funding for biking projects in Michigan. As the bill has evolved over time, it’s become more supportive of biking projects.
That positive forward momentum maybe over with the latest draft bill called MAP-21.
Stay tuned for what steps we can take to push back on this.
From the League of American Bicyclists web site —
Late last week, the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works released their draft of the surface transportation authorization bill, the law that will determine transportation programs and funding. The?America Bikes Coalition?has reviewed the?600 page document?and issued the following statement:
The America Bikes coalition ? representing the nation?s leading bicycling and walking groups ? today expressed their appreciation for the continued inclusion of funding opportunities for biking and walking in MAP‐21.
America Bikes remains deeply concerned, however, that bicycling and walking programs suffer disproportionate cuts in funding in the new bill, and that significant additional activities are made eligible for these limited funds. We remain committed to working with the EPW Committee and full Senate to resolve these issues, especially in the light of the Senate?s continued, strong bi‐partisan support for bicycle and pedestrian funding as shown in several recent votes on the Senate floor.
The process of honoring the public?s strong support for these programs begins immediately with amendments that have been introduced already by Senate supporters of dedicated funding for non‐motorized transportation.
Specific concerns include:
1. The current dedicated funding programs for bicycling and walking are combined into one program, with significantly less funding;
2. An expanded list of eligible activities are added to this smaller funding pot, including such big‐ticket items as NEPA compliance and land acquisition for wetland mitigation; and
3. The proposed bill effectively allows states to completely opt out of the program and would allow all this money to be redirected to highway construction.
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-Hurricane Sally strengthens into a Category 2 storm on Monday.
-There’s a chance it will make landfall in southeastern Louisiana, a state still recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Laura.
-According to the National Hurricane Center, the center of Sally is expected to move near the southeastern Louisiana coast Monday night.
-It is to make a landfall on the Gulf Coast late on Tuesday, possibly as a Category 3 hurricane.
-The storm appeared to shift east early Monday, placing Mississippi’s and Alabama’s entire coasts under a hurricane warning.
Hurricane Sally strengthens to Category 2 as it moves toward the US Gulf Coast, write Eliott C. McLaughlin, Amir Vera and Hollie Silverman for CNN.
Forecasters warn of storm surge and flash flooding
Further strengthening is expected in the next 24 hours before the storm makes landfall, the NHC said.
“Sally could approach major hurricane strength,” the NHC said, adding that the storm’s wind speeds have increased by at least 40 mph in just a 12-hour period, a process called intensification.
A Monday evening update showed the storm about 135 miles southeast of Biloxi, Mississippi.
Emergency declaration for Louisiana and Mississippi
“Since Sally is forecast to be moving very slowly around the time of landfall, a slower rate of weakening is indicated since a large portion of the circulation will remain over water for some time,” the National Weather Service said.
-President Donald Trump approved emergency declarations for Louisiana and Mississippi, the White House said.
-This means Trump authorized the Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to assist with all disaster relief efforts in the two states.
Mississippi officials are working to make decisions on possible mandatory evacuations, Gov. Tate Reeves said.
During a briefing, the governor said he feared his state would bear the brunt of Sally’s rain and storm surge, and he urged residents to prepare for prolonged power outages. Shelters are opening for evacuees, he said.
Alabama and Mississippi get ready
-Officials were handing out sandbags in Saraland, Alabama, north of Mobile.
-While residents on Dauphin Island, a barrier isle on the Alabama coast, were also preparing for flooding.
Gov. Kay Ivey issued a state of emergency for Alabama and closed all beaches as of 3 p.m. (4 p.m. ET) Monday. She further recommended evacuation, especially for nonresidents and those in low-lying or flood-prone areas.
Shelters are also preparing for the incoming storm, but are keeping Covid-19 in mind.
The Mississippi State Medical Needs Shelter opened Monday, but will only be operating at half capacity, with socially distanced medical-grade cots, the state’s health department announced.
Only one caregiver will be allowed to accompany a resident inside the shelter and residents are asked to bring a mask.
Landfall on Wednesday
Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said Hurricane Sally was expected to make landfall around Biloxi at 2:00 am (0600 GMT) on Wednesday.
“The storm surge projections continue to be worrisome with anywhere from five to eight feet (1.5 to 2.4 meters) of coastal surge,” Reeves said.
“We are continuing to be very concerned about the amount of rainfall,” he said, adding that some areas could be drenched in as much as 20 inches (50 cm) of rain.
Sally is one of five active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic Ocean.
The others are Hurricane Paulette, tropical storms Teddy and Vicky and tropical depression Rene.
According to meteorologists, the only other time there were five active tropical cyclones in the Atlantic at the same time was in September 1971.
Hurricane Paulette, a Category 2 storm, pounded the island of Bermuda on Monday with strong winds and heavy rains, according to the NHC.
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judgecorp writes: "The new fast Wi-Fi, 802.11n, has a problem in the enterprise. Businesses power their access points over the Ethernet to avoid extra wiring, but 802.11n uses two radios and multiple antennas, which overloads today's power-over-Ethernet standard (802.3af). This and other issues has caused a probably temporary slowdown in business Wi-Fi sales, and Wi-Fi equipment makers from Cisco on down have proposed a ton of different workarounds. Surprisingly, Siemens says it's solved the basic problem, running full-strength 802.11n over plain 802.3af PoE, in an access point based on the same Wi-Fi chips used by Cisco and the others. Even more surprisingly, Wi-Fi analyst Craig Mathias says the claim is true based on lab tests. Now, if only Siemens would tell us how it is done..." | <urn:uuid:45f7e553-275d-4481-8e7a-6932d93bd4a5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://slashdot.org/~Klaus_1250/tags/fresh | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00027-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940563 | 191 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing (1840-1902) left us his 1886 tome Psychopathia Sexualis: eine Klinisch-Forensische Studie. The book, first published in 1886 (and translated from German into English in 1892), features 200 case studies to help physicians, psychiatrists and judges know more about fetishism, sadism, masochism (terms the author coined) homosexuality, ymphomania, necrophilia, pederasty, coprophilia, bestiality, transvestism, exhibitionism and incest. Before Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing’s work, all fields of sexuality were branded as “perversions”. Now named, these “deviant sexual behaviours” could be better studied and discussed. Science was now in control of those unnatural urges.
These pictures are from Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing’s private papers.
The work was not intended for everyone:
Psychopathia Sexualis was intended as “a medico-forensic study.” Krafft-Ebing presented the case histories’ most sordid details in Latin “in order to exclude the lay reader.”
“The object of this treatise is merely to record the various psychopathological manifestations of sexual life in man and to reduce them to their lawful conditions,” writes Krafft-Ebing in his introduction to the first edition. His book was aimed at “men engaged in serious study in the domains of natural philosophy and medical jurisprudence.”
Upon the publication of Psychopathia Sexualis, Krafft-Ebing became a prominent, if controversial, figure. He promoted psychiatry through a series of public lectures about his research, lectures which were described as “showy,” “glamorous” and “highly sensational.” He was not interested simply in self-promotion. He entered the public debate by opposing Paragraph 175, a part of the German Kingdoms’ legal code (adopted in 1871) that criminalized homosexuality. In spite of this progressive stance, Krafft-Ebing still considered homosexuality an illness that begged for treatment and a cure.
Harry Oosterhuis notes:
Around 1890, when Krafft-Ebing introduced fetishism, sadism and masochism in his Psychopathia sexualis and his Neue Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Psychopathia sexualis [New Research into Psychopathia Sexualis], his explanatory focus clearly shifted from a physiological to a more psychological understanding – not so much were bodily characteristics or actual behaviour decisive in the diagnosis of perversion, but inner feelings and personal history. Consequently, he located the seat of sexual desire in the personality. It was the psychological attitude behind outward appearance and behaviour that counted as the defining criterion of contrary sexual feeling, sadism, masochism and fetishism. 82 The association of the abnormal act with its ‘psychological motive’, and the ‘abnormalities of thought and feeling’ were crucial, Krafft-Ebing wrote, even if people were not aware of them; discussing sexual desire he – as well as some of his clients – frequently used the psychological terms ‘unconscious’ and ‘latent’.
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The textbook in question is
- An Introduction to the Calculus: Based on Graphical Methods, G A Gibson, MacMillan & Co Ltd, London 1901-65 (23rd printing)
I acquired this excellent little treatise in my usual way, at a second-hand bookshop, and in due course realised that its treatment of the catenary was by far the clearest and most rigorous of any texts I had available (including the internet).
But only now has it also occurred to me that there are levels of coincidence involved that would have had Arthur Koestler sitting up on the edge of his chair.
In 1901, the year of first publication of this textbook, George Alexander Gibson was Professor of Mathematics at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College – where Robert Waddell was taking mathematics lectures during the first year of his course in Naval Architecture, in which a study of advanced calculus would have been essential. It is therefore highly probable that this very textbook would have been recommended to the students as an up-to-date resource to invest in. It is also conceivable that Gibson himself would have been closely involved in the delivery of the course, and may even have taken the podium himself.
The following information has been extracted from the University of Glasgow website www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0269&type=P.
George Alexander Gibson (1858-1930) was Professor of Mathematics at the University from 1909 to 1927. He was awarded an LLD in 1927. The Gibson Lectureship in the History of Mathematics was founded in 1927 from funds raised by his friends, and provides for periodic lectures.
Born in Glasgow, Gibson graduated with an Ordinary MA from the University in 1881 and gained a Euing Fellowship in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy. He became Assistant to the Professor of Mathematics in 1883 and then a lecturer. He was Professor of Mathematics at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College from 1895 until he was appointed to the University Chair in 1909.
Gibson was a respected mathematician who wrote several text books and was recognised as a leading historian of the development of his discipline.
See also the interesting biographical link www.glasgowwestaddress.co.uk/1909_Glasgow_Men/Gibson_George_Alexander.htm
But what really makes the hairs stand up on the back of ones neck is the next link, www.theglasgowstory.com/image.php?inum=TGSD00063, in which Professor Gibson is depicted in a high-wire performance on, of all things, a catenary!!!
Cartoon in Glasgow University Magazine 31 October 1923 by "Psi" (Ian Phillips), depicting Professor George Alexander Gibson.
Gibson (1858-1930) entered the University of Glasgow in 1874 and after graduating he became assistant to William Jack, Professor of Mathematics. In 1895 he became Professor of Mathematics at the Glasgow and West of Scotland Royal Technical College. He left in 1909 to become Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow, where he reorganised and raised the level of teaching, providing tutorials for all students and dividing the classes into smaller groups.
Gibson wrote a number of widely used textbooks, mainly on calculus, and became an authority on the history of mathematics. He was also one of the early members of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society. A series of lectures was instituted in his name after his retirement and in 1930 the first lecturer in the series was Albert Einstein.
Reference: Glasgow University Archive Services, DC198/32a
And now sit back and enjoy his incisive account of the catenary equation.
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Crying Statue of Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain Unveiled in Aberdeen Museum of History
To celebrate the music and legacy of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, the musician’s home town of Aberdeen, Wash., declared the frontman’s birthday (Feb. 20) as ‘Kurt Cobain Day.’ To further immortalize the memory of Cobain, a statue of the musician playing guitar and crying has been installed in the Aberdeen Museum of History.
April 5, 2014 will be the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, which news channel King 5 did not tip-toe around when beginning their coverage of the new statue (watch below). “Kurt Cobain, the singer of Nirvana, was a well-known heroin addict who shot himself nearly 20 years ago,” anchor Dennis Bounds stated. After cutting away to field reporter Drew Mikkelsen, the story quickly became about the statue’s installation in the Aberdeen Museum of History, a feat 20 years in the making.
In a separate report from KOMO 4 (watch above), Aberdeen Mayor Bill Simpson spoke about Cobain’s contributions to popular music. “We want him to be known for his music,” he said. “This has been a long time coming; we should have done it long ago. Paul McCartney said Kurt Cobain was a genius, that said a lot for me.”
Construction of the Kurt Cobain statue, which was built by artist Randi Hubbard, actually began 20 years ago, shortly after Cobain took his own life. The city was “unwilling to take” the statue of Cobain, which just sat around in a muffler shop for two decades before being unearthed for the Aberdeen Museum of History.
Around 5,000 people visit the museum each year, but Mayor Simpson is optimistic about the statue’s drawing power when it comes to tourism. “We hope this is just as big as Graceland, eventually,” the Mayor declares.
Nirvana will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Class of 2014 on April 10 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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COMPANIES USING ON-SITE HEALTH CLINICS TO CUT COSTS
August 13, 2007
As companies try to rein in rising health care costs, workers in many industries are dealing with on-site health clinics, says the Detroit Free Press.
According to the consulting firm Watson Wyatt Worldwide:
- An estimated 23 percent of large employers -- those with at least 1,000 employees -- have on-site health clinics as of 2006-2007.
- Another 6 percent of these large employers plan to add clinics next year.
Salisbury, Md.-based Perdue Farms is considered a pioneer in slashing health care costs by building on-site health clinics:
- By taking charge of administering and managing its health plan, Perdue has reduced its health care costs.
- The average cost per worker was 3 percent lower during fiscal year 2007, which ended for the company on March 31, compared with fiscal year 2004.
- Nationwide, the cost of employer-sponsored health plans rose an average of 8 percent in 2006.
"It's an issue of corporate will, not technical ability," said Dr. Roger Merrill, chief medical officer at Perdue. "Companies don't want to be in the medical business. My answer to that is you are already in the medical business if you are spending millions of dollars in medical bills."
Source: Luladey B. Tadesse, "Companies using on-site health clinics to cut costs," Detroit Free Press, August 13, 2007.
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A seemingly paradoxical experiment is described whereby a length of wire is stabilised upside down by vertical periodic oscillation of its support. The quantitative details of the experiment reveal an upper and lower bound on the excitation frequency for stability. The results of recent theories are presented that explains the details of what is observed. It relies on a new phenomenon of so-called resonance tongue interaction. The result is verified via asymptotic calculation based on a onedimensional rod model and numerical results on a spatially discretised system of links. This novel gravity defying effect has potential application to the stabilization of other spatially extended systems via parametric excitation. | <urn:uuid:3a651e0f-c87d-4ac9-ab00-07bc64705018> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://research-information.bristol.ac.uk/en/publications/the-indian-rope-trick-via-parametric-excitation(d25b9137-44a3-4981-bcef-68422c539c31).html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00530-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919095 | 141 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Congress finally struck a deal to end the government shutdown on Wednesday night, after weeks of bitter partisan bickering. This means hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal employees are returning to work on Thursday.
But even before NASA got its website back up and running (many federal agencies' websites were inactive during the shutdown), the agency broke its 16-day silence on Twitter — and was met by a collective cheer.
— NASA (@NASA) October 17, 2013
Here's how the science-minded community welcomed NASA back.
— Alex Autin (@AlexAAutin) October 17, 2013
— Penn State Science (@PSUScience) October 17, 2013
Their efforts during the shutdown did not go unnoticed by NASA.
Good morning. Thanks for all the support from #ThingsNASAMightTweet while we were gone. We missed you!
— NASA_Langley (@NASA_Langley) October 17, 2013
The chart below shows the emergence of the hashtag after the government shutdown began on Oct. 1.
Veronica McGregor, a media relations manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, also expressed gratitude to this community.
— NASA Goddard (@NASAGoddard) October 17, 2013
Angela Gibson, an educator who lives near Norfolk, Va., helped organize #ThingsNASAMightTweet.
"We have seen an outpouring of gratitude from various NASA accounts and individuals at NASA," Gibson told Mashable.
Gibson said the "small group of very dedicated space tweeps" that coordinated the effort plan to retire the hashtag after a space Q&A on Twitter Thursday night.
While it may have taken a bit longer than some other federal agencies, NASA's website became fully functional again late Thursday morning.
It's not just the organizers of #ThingsNASAMightTweet who are glad NASA is back, though. One of the most famous fictional space explorers of all time, Star Trek's Captain James T. Kirk, shares their sentiments.
@NASA You are coming back! I'm all excited! ;-)
— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) October 17, 2013
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Scientists at Georgia Tech have developed a new type of low-temperature fuel cell that directly converts biomass to electricity with assistance from a catalyst activated by solar or thermal energy.
Although low temperature fuel cells powered by methanol or hydrogen have been well studied, existing low temperature fuel cell technologies cannot directly use biomass as a fuel because of the lack of an effective catalyst system for polymeric materials.
Now, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new type of low-temperature fuel cell that directly converts biomass to electricity with assistance from a catalyst activated by solar or thermal energy. The hybrid fuel cell can use a wide variety of biomass sources, including starch, cellulose, lignin – and even switchgrass, powdered wood, algae and waste from poultry processing.
The device could be used in small-scale units to provide electricity for developing nations, as well as for larger facilities to provide power where significant quantities of biomass are available.
“We have developed a new method that can handle the biomass at room temperature, and the type of biomass that can be used is not restricted – the process can handle nearly any type of biomass,” said Yulin Deng, a professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Institute of Paper Science and Technology (IPST). “This is a very generic approach to utilizing many kinds of biomass and organic waste to produce electrical power without the need for purification of the starting materials.”
The new solar-induced direct biomass-to-electricity hybrid fuel cell was described February 7, 2014, in the journal Nature Communications.
The challenge for biomass fuel cells is that the carbon-carbon bonds of the biomass – a natural polymer – cannot be easily broken down by conventional catalysts, including expensive precious metals, Deng noted. To overcome that challenge, scientists have developed microbial fuel cells in which microbes or enzymes break down the biomass. But that process has many drawbacks: power output from such cells is limited, microbes or enzymes can only selectively break down certain types of biomass, and the microbial system can be deactivated by many factors.
Deng and his research team got around those challenges by altering the chemistry to allow an outside energy source to activate the fuel cell’s oxidation-reduction reaction.
In the new system, the biomass is ground up and mixed with a polyoxometalate (POM) catalyst in solution and then exposed to light from the sun – or heat. A photochemical and thermochemical catalyst, POM functions as both an oxidation agent and a charge carrier. POM oxidizes the biomass under photo or thermal irradiation, and delivers the charges from the biomass to the fuel cell’s anode. The electrons are then transported to the cathode, where they are finally oxidized by oxygen through an external circuit to produce electricity.
“If you mix the biomass and catalyst at room temperature, they will not react,” said Deng. “But when you expose them to light or heat, the reaction begins. The POM introduces an intermediate step because biomass cannot be directly accessed by oxygen.”
The system provides major advantages, including combining the photochemical and solar-thermal biomass degradation in a single chemical process, leading to high solar conversion and effective biomass degradation. It also does not use expensive noble metals as anode catalysts because the fuel oxidation reactions are catalyzed by the POM in solution. Finally, because the POM is chemically stable, the hybrid fuel cell can use unpurified polymeric biomass without concern for poisoning noble metal anodes.
The system can use soluble biomass, or organic materials suspended in a liquid. In experiments, the fuel cell operated for as long as 20 hours, indicating that the POM catalyst can be re-used without further treatment.
In their paper, the researchers reported a maximum power density of 0.72 milliwatts per square centimeter, which is nearly 100 times higher than cellulose-based microbial fuel cells, and near that of the best microbial fuel cells. Deng believes the output can be increased five to ten times when the process is optimized.
“I believe this type of fuel cell could have an energy output similar to that of methanol fuel cells in the future,” he said. “To optimize the system, we need to have a better understanding of the chemical processes involved and how to improve them.”
The researchers also need to compare operation of the system with solar energy and other forms of input energy, such as waste heat from other processes. Beyond the ability to directly use biomass as a fuel, the new cell also offers advantages in sustainability – and potentially lower cost compared to other fuel cell types.
“We can use sustainable materials without any chemical pollution,” Deng said. “Solar energy and biomass are two important sustainable energy sources available to the world today. Our system would use them together to produce electricity while reducing dependence on fossil fuels.”
In addition to Deng, the research team included Wei Liu, Wei Mu, Mengjie Liu, Xiaodan Zhang and Hongli Cai, all from the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering or the Institute of Paper Science and Technology at Georgia Tech.
Publication: Wei Liu, et al., “Solar-induced direct biomass-to-electricity hybrid fuel cell using polyoxometalates as photocatalyst and charge carrier,” Nature Communications 5, Article number: 3208; doi:10.1038/ncomms4208
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Jean-Baptiste du Val-de-Grâce, baron de Cloots (24 June 1755 – 24 March 1794), better known as Anacharsis Cloots (also spelled Clootz), was a Prussian nobleman who was a significant figure in the French Revolution. Perhaps the first to theorize world government, he was also an anarchist. He was nicknamed "orator of mankind", "citoyen de l'humanité" and "a personal enemy of God".
Born near Kleve, at the castle of Gnadenthal, he belonged to a noble Prussian family of Dutch origin. The young Cloots, heir to a great fortune, was sent to Paris at age eleven to complete his education, and became attracted to the theories of his uncle the abbé Cornelius de Pauw (1739–1799), philosophe, geographer and diplomat at the court of Frederick II of Prussia. His father placed him in the military academy of Berlin, but he withdrew at the age of twenty and travelled through Europe, preaching his revolutionary philosophy and spending his money as a man of pleasure.
On the breaking out of the Revolution, Cloots returned in 1789 to Paris, thinking the opportunity favorable for establishing his dream of a universal family of nations. On 19 June 1790 he appeared at the bar of the National Constituent Assembly at the head of thirty-six foreigners, and, in the name of this embassy of the human race, declared that the world adhered to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. After this, he was known as the orator of the human race, by which title he called himself, dropping that of baron, and substituting for his baptismal names the pseudonym of Anacharsis, from the famous philosophical romance of the abbé Jean-Jacques Barthélemy.
In 1792 he placed 12,000 livres at the disposal of the French Republic for the arming of forty or fifty fighters in the cause of man against tyranny (see French Revolutionary Wars). After the riots of 10 August he became an even more prominent supporter of new ideas, and declared himself "the personal enemy of Jesus Christ", abjuring all revealed religions.
In the same month he had the rights of French citizenship conferred on him; and, having in September been elected a member of the National Convention, he voted in favor of capital punishment for King Louis XVI, justifying it in the name of the human race, and was an active partisan of the war of propaganda.
Excluded at the insistence of Maximilien Robespierre from the Jacobin Club, he remained a foreigner in many eyes. When the Committee of Public Safety levelled accusations of treason against the Hébertists, they also implicated Cloots to give substance to their charge of a foreign plot. Although his innocence was manifest, he was condemned and subsequently guillotined on 24 March 1794. He incongruously followed Vincent, Ronsin, Momoro and the rest of the Hébertist leadership to the scaffold, in front of the largest crowd ever assembled for a public execution.
Cloots was an original political thinker who crafted his own interpretation of the meaning of the French Revolution. He was a proponent of the world state, and he sought to promote a more broad-minded and internationalist understanding of the Revolution's potential. He imagined the institutions of the world state along the lines of those of the French Revolutionary Republic. Cloots's thought was expressed in several works, most importantly in his Bases constitutionnelles de la République du genre humain.
- La Certitude des preuves du mahométisme (London, 1780), published under the pseudonym of Ali-GurBer, in answer to Nicolas-Sylvestre Bergier's Certitude des preuves du christianisme
- L'Orateur du genre humain, ou Dépêches du Prussien Cloots au Prussien Herzberg (Paris, 1791)
- La République universelle ou adresse aux tyrannicides (1792).
- Adresse d'un Prussien à un Anglais (Paris, 1790), 52 p.
- Bases constitutionnelles de la République du genre humain (Paris, 1793), 48 p.
- Voltaire triomphant ou les prêtres déçus (178?), 30 p. Attributed to Cloots.
- Discours prononcé à la barre de l'Assemblée nationale par M. de Cloots, du Val-de-Grâce,... à la séance du 19 juin 1790 (1790), 4 p.
- Doyle, William (1989); The Oxford History of the French Revolution; Clarendon Press. See p. 160: "... Anacharsis Clootz, a wealthy Prussian nobleman, who had left France in 1785 vowing never to return until the Bastille had fallen."
- Siegfried Weichlein, "Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, Nationalism", Unity and Diversity in European Culture C. 1800, ed. Tim Blanning and Hagen Schulze (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 96.
- Fremont-Barnes, Gregory, Encyclopedia of the Age of Political Revolutions and New Ideologies, 1760–1815, p. 329, Greenwood Pub. Group 2007
- Siegfried Weichlein, "Cosmopolitanism, Patriotism, Nationalism", Unity and Diversity in European Culture C. 1800, ed. Tim Blanning and Hagen Schulze (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 97.
- Doyle, 1989; p. 270. |"To substantiate the charge of a foreign plot, a clutch of colorful aliens perished with them too, including Clootz, who bade farewell to his beloved human race in front of the biggest crowd ever to surround the guillotine."
- Alexander Bevilacqua, "Conceiving the Republic of Mankind: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots", History of European Ideas (2012), pp. 1–20.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Cloots, De Grâce". Encyclopædia Britannica. 6 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 556. In turn, it cites as references:
- Avenel, Georges (1865), Anacharsis Cloots, l'orateur du genre humain, 2 vols., Paris: reprint Editions Champ Libre, 1976
- H. Baulig's articles in La Révolution française, tome 41 (1901)
- Labbé, François (1999), Anarchasis Cloots, le Prussien francophile. Un philosophe au service de la Révolution française et universelle, Paris, L'Harmattan, coll. l'Allemagne d'ier et d'aujourd'hui, 546 p.
- Mortier, Roland (1995), Anacharsis Cloots ou L'utopie foudroyée, Paris: Stock, 350 p. | <urn:uuid:c9e08de4-f5f0-499f-9158-dc35ffac55e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zims-en.kiwix.campusafrica.gos.orange.com/wikipedia_en_all_nopic/A/Anacharsis_Cloots | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.852068 | 1,574 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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The operation and construction of buildings account for almost half of the energy use in the United States. To meet global climate change targets, energy consumption of buildings in the long term must be reduced as well as carbon dioxide emissions. This article explores a theoretical building envelope that generates energy and produces water by drawing water vapor out of the air to deliver new sources of water; it lowers indoor humidity in hot and humid climates. The design in this model considers materiality, surface area and environmental conditions to influence building form. The case in this article considers materials and systems application in the design of the building envelope. The hygroscopic building envelope design strategically senses varying conditions of concentration and density of moisture laden air to provide visual indications of its performance. It is a building skin that emulates biological processes by creating pressure differences and transferring energy in various forms.
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Talking about management firstly means to qualify sediments in the correct way: are they waste or freely manageable materials? The answer is not simple and, being aware of that, the Italian legislator repeatedly intervened, from 2006 to 2012, with laws and regulations in order to offer legal certainties to the interested parties.
Commonly referred to as the FIDIC Blue Book, the second edition of the FIDIC Form of Contract for Dredging and Reclamation Works is an update which better reflects actual practice than the first book
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Car2X & C-V2X – connected vehicle pilot projects from the US
Audi engineers are busy working on developing the safest cars in the world. A key factor in this is the Car2X- and the C-V2X technology. It enables multiple possibilities of communication in connected vehicle traffic.
This is how Car2X technology works
Mobile communications technology over cellular networks is permanently installed in the vehicle. Using these channels, the car sends and receives information from other vehicles and from the road infrastructure – for example, from traffic light control centers. This Car2X communication takes place in near-real time. The car identifies itself within the network with its own unique token. The data flows anonymously into the communication network and is stored there for only a short period of time.
This is how the C-V2X technology works
C-V2X is a special kind of Car2X communication. This technology is still relatively new and is based on taking advantage of the 4G/5G mobile communications standards. The abbreviation stands for Cellular-Vehicle-to-X. The “X” is a placeholder – it can stand for various road users, traffic features, or other vehicles and can include traffic lights, crosswalks, road signs, school buses, constructions workers and more. C-V2X transmits data directly to and from the vehicle without traveling over the cellular network.
Here’s how the technologies improve road safety
The display in the cockpit informs drivers when they need to adapt their driving style to a new situation. This could be the case, for instance, if rain freezes on the roads or a construction site is hidden behind a bend. This enables drivers to recognize dangerous situations much earlier and to react appropriately. The technology thus increases the safety of passengers and other street users.
This view is shared by various traffic experts. “Car2X has the potential to further reduce the number of serious accidents and traffic fatalities,” explains Andre Seeck, Head of the Vehicle Technology Department at the Federal Highway Research Institute. The ADAC is even calling for this technology to soon be standard in all vehicles in Germany.
This is where Car2X communication already provides considerably more safety today
Alpharetta, Georgia: more protection for schoolchildren
Each year, around 100 schoolchildren are killed in traffic accidents in the United States. Around 25,000 are injured. Audi wants to improve the safety of the most vulnerable street users. This is why Audi is testing communication between its own vehicles and school buses in Georgia, as well as with the warning signs that are commonly found in front of schools in the US. Using C-V2X, the signs become beacons that provide alerts to approaching drivers when they are about to enter school zones during school hours and warn them if they are above the speed limit. School buses will also warn approaching vehicles when students are boarding or exiting the bus. In either case, drivers have enough time to slow down or come to a stop.
Virginia: greater safety for construction workers
A safety vest for construction workers that really lives up to its name – that’s what Audi’s latest project in Virginia is all about. The safety vest is developed by the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and equipped with C-V2X technology. It sends warning signals to drivers approaching the construction site − and informs the construction workers about oncoming vehicles. This makes traffic twice as safe.
Car2X technology – three questions for our Audi expert
In this interview, Anupam Malhotra, Head of Connected Services at Audi of America, tells us more about his current projects.
Do projects such as those in Virginia and Georgia have the potential of being implemented globally?
Anupam Malhotra: Yes, absolutely. But this does require the right infrastructure. In our project in Virginia, we are therefore also exploring how private investors can get involved when it comes to implementing the new technology. The goal is that these safety improvements should come with no additional service costs for our customers.
How much interest is there among the customers in this new technology?
Anupam Malhotra: We are regularly approached by Audi drivers who want to know when their city will finally implement Audi’s Car-2X based Traffic Light Information service. Last week alone, I received several e-mail inquiries.
No wonder: Traffic Light Information services improve driving behavior at street intersections and lower driver stress levels at the same time. Normally, amber traffic lights, for example, put drivers in a dilemma: should they drive through or brake? With the traffic light information and the countdown to the red light, it is much easier for them to make the right decision.
How does Audi ensure data protection with Car2X communication?
Anupam Malhotra: For Audi, data protection has top priority. A good example is networked traffic lights. As soon as a smart car enters an urban area with such traffic lights, the Car-2X system assigns it a token, i.e. a kind of recognition tag. This token is only valid in the city in question. It is therefore not possible to identify the license plate number or vehicle owner.
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Car2X communication will continue to gain importance. Anupam Malhotra believes the following scenarios are realistic in the near future:
- Scenario 1: E-bikes where the technology is built into the frame to warn cyclists of approaching cars − once the technology takes up less space and power, pedestrians will also be able to use C-V2X communication via their smartphones.
- Scenario 2: In the next step, vehicle manufacturers can integrate a mechanism in the car that intervenes if the driver does not react. For example, the brake system could prevent someone from crossing a red light.
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David Neale says he saw the writing on the wall late last winter. For more than 20 years, the 54-year-old had made a living playing bass and trombone at jazz festivals and clubs throughout southwestern Ontario.
But as gigs became fewer and farther apart, his income was being stretched thin. It was time to think of a career change — but what could a man well into middle age and with few other skills do to see himself through the rest of his working years?
The tractor trailers powering down the highway near his Tillsonburg, Ont., home gave him an idea. Why not take a six- to eight-week course at a local driving school and trade in nights in dimly lit clubs for days on the road?
Neale signed up at the Ontario Truck Driving School in London, Ont., forked over $6,300 in tuition — paid for by an Ontario government retraining grant — and now finds himself making up to $18 an hour ferrying car parts across Western Ontario for McClay’s Transportation of Ingersoll.
“This is something I can do for the rest of my life,” he says. “It is one of those jobs where they want mature people. And when you think about how much we depend on trucks to move almost everything we use or eat, there has got to be lots of job security moving forward.”
Neale is correct in his assessment, says Doug Switzer, vice-president public affairs for the Canadian Trucking Alliance in Toronto. The Alliance is the national trade group for the trucking industry, representing about 70 per cent of the big rigs on the road — 400,000 tractor trailers for 4,500 companies, by his estimate.
“One of the top items on the radar of all our members before the recession was where they were going to find enough drivers to meet future need,” he says. “Now that we are coming out of the recession that need is again top of the agenda.
“Truck driving can offer a terrific career for young people and those of almost any age looking for a career change or needing one following a layoff.”
Industry estimates suggest Canada will need about 150,000 new big rig drivers within the next decade as those behind the wheel today retire and as trucking and logistics continues to expand.
And that does not include the need for all other forms of trucking, including Class D rigs such as dump trucks or Class G delivery vehicles.
“There are probably 400,000 Class A (tractor trailer) trucks in Canada right now and maybe double that number for Class D,” he says. “In addition, there is anyone’s guess how many smaller Class G trucks are on the road. And they all need drivers.
“Some, like long-haul runs, need two. Demand for drivers is going to be absolutely huge.”
The greatest challenge may simply be getting young men and women to understand that truck driving, especially driving big rigs, can be a rewarding and enjoyable career, says Gus Rahim, president of the Ontario Truck Driving School in London.
“It is a lot more complicated and demands a lot more skills than most people expect,” he says. It is not just a matter of sitting behind a wheel eight to 10 hours a day and battling traffic as you pull a multi-ton load across the country.
Today’s drivers have to deal with border crossings, customs brokers, scores of different state and provincial regulations, the satellite technology that monitors vehicles and tracks their progress and be masters of wireless technology so they can stay in touch with family and dispatchers.
“We teach all that, and about 83 per cent of graduates find work at salaries that start in the $43,000 a year range,” Rahim says. To qualify, an individual must be at least 21 and have a Class A driving license, which can be gained through a training course.
And truck driving isn’t just about collecting a paycheque every two weeks. It can also mean becoming your own boss as the owner of a rig. Granted this option isn’t for novices, says Herman Fallick, president of CSA Transportation of Toronto. His company specializes in long-haul trucking and uses only independent operators, who might have one truck or many.
“We have 800 of them on our database right now,” he says.
CSA pays by the mile. That might mean a scale as low as $1 a mile heading down to California or $1.30 a mile on the return trip. The disparity comes from demand. Lots of freight comes north so loads are easy to come by; the southbound trip, however, may mean an empty trailer, so independent operators lowball bids to get their rigs south for those lucrative northbound loads.
“I can see a solid future for owner operators,” he says. So far this year business is already up 10 per cent.”
Challenger Motor Freight of Cambridge, Ont., operates on a different business model. About a third of its business depends on independent operators while the rest is handled by its own team of 1,400 drivers.
“We always need trained drivers,” says Bob Halfyard, director of safety. “Last year we hired 150 to 200 and put them through our own six- to eight-week training program. This year that number will likely be well over 200 because business is picking up again.”
What can those drivers expect? Inexperienced drivers start at 31.5 cents a mile, plus pickup and drop-off payments. Experienced drivers get 37.5 cents a mile.
“Our drivers usually average between $50,000 and $65,000 a year, but it is not unheard of to see some make $65,000 to $80,000 a year,” he says.
While women have traditionally shied away from driving big rigs, they are starting to see it as a viable career, Halfyard says.
“What we are seeing emerging is husband and wife teams. We usually have two drivers on long hauls and young couples who don’t have kids yet or older ones whose kids have all grown up are finding this a great job,” he says.
Companies are also creating driver wellness programs to help offset the rigours of day after day on the road, he says.
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[CentOS] CGI configuration - second post
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> If I run either of these scripts from a browser using www.domain.com it
> fails. If I run it from a browser using
> www.domain.com/cgi-bin/install.cgi or
> www.domain.com/cgi-bin/techtest.cgi it works.
Yes. Look at ScriptAlias in the config. And at the SELinux contexts in
> I have tried using a one line index.shtml file with that one line being
> either <!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/install.cgi"--> or <!--#exec
> cgi="/cgi-bin/install.cgi"--> and they both fail.
Calling www.domain.com/cgi-bin/install.cgi is the correct way, using SSI
together with cgi scripts calls for trouble.
And next time you ask something please include *error* messages.
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Good education is one of the most sought out dreams in America. Education is free for all American citizens, but obstacles like community unequal access to homes and property taxes prevent some from receiving these benefits. Nelson Mandela said that education is the most powerful tool through with which we can change the world. But inequalities in our society for students create a big setback in achieving the change we want to see.
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We help our clientele, which includes youth, acquire sophisticated understandings of societal processes that hinder progress by equipping them with communication skills that they employ in interrupting these practices. Schools, busineses, and communities, in turn, access new ways of learning from one another and from our youth the ethical complexities and life circumstances youth and future employees have inherited.
In schools and non-profits, students use their community research to teach others, and the school and community learn from them and access much-needed healing. In businesses and organizations, employee teams engage a similar process of collaboratively-led change-making that transforms their companies.
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No, it wasn't officials airing their dirty laundry.
But motorists going down Main Street recently might have been surprised to see a clothesline on the lawn of the McDuffie County Courthouse in Thomson.
Actually, the line of baby-sized T-shirts was put there to convey a message about the high rate of infant mortality in McDuffie County. A total of 47 infants have died before their 1st birthday in the last 10 years in McDuffie County, said Jodi Hudgins, the clinical services director for Enterprise Community Healthy Start Initiative.
Because September is Infant Mortality Awareness Month, ECHSI representatives asked Thomson Mayor Kenneth Usry to do a proclamation to go along with a walk and education event on Labor Day weekend in front of the courthouse.
"We wanted people to be aware that some of this can be prevented and we wanted people to understand that this is a concern for the community. ... It was not a fundraiser, it was simply an awareness raiser," Ms. Hudgins said.
Forty-seven pastel-colored onesies hung on the clothesline, each one representing an infant that had died. Ms. Hudgins said families with babies in strollers came and participated in a walk down Main Street, and educational materials addressing premature delivery, birth defects, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and car seat safety were distributed.
"We want people to be aware and to do things in their lives to prevent future problems," she said.
The McDuffie average infant mortality rate for 10 years of 14.3 is unacceptable when compared with the national average of 6.8, Ms. Hudgins said.
"So basically, if McDuffie County had the same rate as the national average, 20 fewer babies would have died in that 10 year period," she said. "That is significant."
The number one reason of infant deaths is premature birth. Healthy Start offers free programs, classes and services such as care by registered nurses for pregnant women, parental support groups, childbirth preparation classes, parenting classes and breastfeeding counseling. The program is available in McDuffie and Burke counties and is supported by various federal agencies.
"Part of what we do is try to reduce infant mortality rates by encouraging women to be healthier before they get pregnant, space their pregnancies apart and plan their pregnancies," Ms. Hudgins said.
Poor health before pregnancy greatly increases the risk of infant death, and for every infant who dies, thousands more suffer long-term ill health or defects, according to ECHSI literature.
In Thomson, the Enterprise Community Health Start Initiative office is located on Hill Street in the IGA shopping center. Dr. Sandra Mobley serves as the director.
Laura Tucker and Erica Hamilton are the registered nurses and Betty Burnette is the case manager at the McDuffie office.
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My Thumb's Rule of Airfoil Selection
Choosing an appropriate airfoil family for any given design is usually
simple. If the plane is to be a precision aerobat then a symmetrical
airfoil is most appropriate because it flies the same in any given attitude.
If the plane is to fly slowly or carry a load but is not intended to do
aerobatics then a flat-bottom or under-cambered airfoil should be considered.
By the way, when I say flat-bottom I don't mean a true flat-bottom
airfoil. Some airfoils are called "modified flat bottom." This
is an airfoil having a straight line from the main spar to the trailing edge
but curves up to the leading edge from the spar.
A modified flat-bottom airfoil is actually a semi-symmetrical airfoil, but most modelers consider it to be a flat bottom airfoil because
most of the underside isn't curved. I'm right, they're wrong, but if
you say semi-symmetrical then they'll picture something other than what
you're talking about.
Note: Any airfoil that is not
symmetrical is a cambered airfoil.
The terms "flat-bottom" and "semi-symmetrical" are not used by the
aerospace industry and they probably laugh at us when they hear us use those
terms. Nevertheless, this article is for us, not them, so I will
continue using these incorrect pretend names so you aren't shunned by your
fellow modelers who don't like it when you talk too fancy.
- Use for aerobatic airplanes - particularly monoplanes.
A design intended to be aerobatic should always have symmetrical flight
surfaces (wing, horizontal stabilizer and vertical stabilizer). Flat
surfaces (which are symmetrical sections) work well for tail surfaces to a
point but aren't as good as a true airfoiled section.
- Use for
secondary trainers, sailplanes and sport aerobatic biplanes. If
the biplane is intended to do precision aerobatics then a fully
symmetrical airfoil should be used.
Secondary trainer manufacturers make a big deal out of semi-symmetrical airfoils but
they are over-rated. If a beginner moves up too quickly and hasn't
mastered his primary trainer yet then a secondary trainer with this type
of airfoil is probably the best bad choice. Otherwise, a
lightweight, well behaved model with a symmetrical airfoil makes a good
Sailplanes often use highly refined and tested airfoils that
provide the best lift to drag so that they can scoot
across the sky quickly in their search for thermals and then climb easily
in the lift.
Sailplane designers tend to take a lot of care in their airfoil
selection. They have to because the airfoil is the only thing making
their plane fly. They don't have an engine to fall back on.
- Don't use true flat-bottom airfoils for anything.
- So called "modified" flat bottom airfoils are excellent for slow,
True flat-bottom airfoils are a poor choice for any design. They
are next to impossible to trim properly because they are extremely speed
sensitive. It may be possible to trim this trait out, but it means
spending hours tweaking the wing incidence, decalage and engine thrust.
I've never flown a model with a flat-bottom airfoil that could even
come close to being trimmed as it was built. I don't particularly
enjoy cutting the tail off my planes numerous times attempting to get it
The rest of this discussion refers to modified flat bottom airfoils.
Flat bottom airfoils are used for powered aircraft that are willing to
make the compromise of having more drag in exchange for slow flight or
high lift capabilities. They do not penetrate the air well but can
stay aloft at very low speeds. I have built a handful of models
having flat bottom airfoils that can hover right in front of me because
the aircraft's minimum flight speed was below the wind speed.
For example, if the model can fly at 10 MPH and the wind is blowing 15
MPH then the model can fly backward (relative to the ground) at 5 MPH.
As far as the air is concerned (which is the only thing the airplane cares
about) the aircraft is flying forward at 10 MPH.
An aircraft that is identical except for having a symmetrical airfoil
will have a higher minimum flight speed.
- Use for scale models, sailplanes and some high-lift situations.
I don't know much about under-cambered airfoils. They are mostly
used for scale aircraft from the dawn of aviation. They tend to have
high lift and are sometimes used in free flight models and some very small
radio control aircraft.
A reflexed airfoil has a trailing edge
that is turned up slightly. The airfoil shown above is extremely
exaggerated to get the point across. I haven't tested it but it
probably has five times the amount of reflex it needs. If you print
the image and scale it to your design, then don't hand launch the model
— it will probably loop, hit you in the
back of the head and kill you instantly.
Most airfoils have a natural tendency to pitch forward. If you
were to push a wing forward or just drop it, it would rotate or tumble forward
all the way to the ground.
The horizontal stabilizer prevents an aircraft from doing the same
thing. Flying wings don't have a stabilizer so the wing must be
self-stabilizing. The reflex provides this stabilization.
Note that a true reflexed airfoil isn't necessary and often isn't used
with flying wing model aircraft. A lot of designers fake it by
adjusting the elevons so they are slightly up.
Thwing! and my
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AD 1070-1077, Doorway Of The Norman Refectory
Medium: Photographic print
In 1070 Lanfranc became the first Norman Archbishop of Canterbury. He rebuilt "in all haste, the houses essential to the monks. For those which had been used for many years, were found too small for the increased numbers of the convent. He therefore pulled down to the ground all that he found of the burnt monastery, whether of buildings or the wasted remains of buildings, and, having dug out their foundations from under the earth, he constructed in their stead others, which excelled them greatly both in beauty and magnitude. He built cloisters, celerers' offices, refectories, dormitories, with all other necessary offices, and all the buildings within the enclosure of the curia, as well as the walls thereof. As for the church...he set about to destroy it utterly, and erect a more noble one. And in the space of seven years, he raised this new church from the very foundations, and rendered it nearly perfect."
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Recently I decided to take the Vaughan exit off I-55 to see how this little hamlet was doing. It’s been a while since I was through, maybe 2004 or 2005, but even then it seemed like things were slipping away. Vaughan was never a big town–maybe it would have qualified as a “village” back when that designation was still an official one. Vaughan’s primary claim to fame was the train wreck that killed engineer Casey Jones and that was made famous in “The Ballad of Casey Jones.” The wreck, which happened in 1900, occurred about a mile north of the Vaughan downtown.
Wikipedia actually has a detailed account of the accident and its aftermath.
After the wreck, Vaughan continued as a small-time railroad stop and later Highway 51 hamlet, but it was the opening of a museum dedicated to Casey Jones that kept it as a going concern until the twenty-first century.
According to Elmo Howell’s helpful Mississippi Home-Places: Notes on Literature and History,
In 1980, near the site of Casey Jones’s wreck in 1900, the state Bureau of Recreation and Parks opened a museum in a restored train depot moved to the Vaughan site from Pickens, Mississippi. Vaughan itself is a ghost town with only a store, post office, and a few vacant buildings. The state has restored a large commercial building across from the museum.
Howell’s book was published in 1988, so obviously the museum wasn’t even enough to keep the few “downtown” buildings going if he was already describing it as a “ghost town.” I’m not sure how successful the museum was, since Casey Jones’ hometown, Jackson, Tennessee, has its own Casey Jones Museum. Not to be left out, Water Valley, up the mainline, has a Casey Jones Museum too, housed in a reconstructed railroad building on the old railroad line in downtown.
The Vaughan museum, like several other historical state parks such as Florewood, was closed in 2004, and whatever chance Vaughan’s few buildings had withered away. In 2008, the town of West got a grant to have the depot moved up the tracks to its downtown, where it stands today as a visitor center. By my count, this little intrepid depot is now in its third location–is that a record? You can see a picture of the depot when it was at Vaughan here.
While the two-story building in downtown Vaughan is clearly too far gone for realistic hopes, the one-story old post office may still have a few years of life left in it, and at least two older homes still stand in varying stages of abandonment within a few steps of downtown.
From my brief observation, it seems that the recycling bins across from the downtown buildings are probably the main draw for people to stop here anymore.
Usually I end posts in the “Abandoned Mississippi” series with a call to action. This post may be more of a remembrance and an elegy. Vaughan, like many many Mississippi places once full of life–a particular kind of agricultural and railroad life–is slipping away. But its passing should not go unnoticed; it should be pondered. We can’t stop moving toward the future, but Mississippi will be different when all the places like Vaughan and Hot Coffee and Rodney have rotted away and disappeared back into the forest. | <urn:uuid:fde0a419-bc81-4df5-9c54-0d2c3176f14d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://misspreservation.com/2012/03/07/abandoned-vaughan-mississippi/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00532-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979376 | 706 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan has hosted a dinner for diplomats from 46 Islamic nations and territories.
The meal took place at the Prime Minister's official residence on Monday, during the Islamic month of Ramadan.
Ramadan is considered the most important religious rite for Muslims, with observers fasting from dawn to dusk.
Kan said it is meaningful for Japan, and for world peace, to strengthen ties with 1.3 billion Muslims in the world.
Gabon's Ambassador to Japan, Jean Christian Obame, said Japan has held the meal annually for the last 8 years, and he believes the unwavering treatment by the Japanese government demonstrates the strong ties between Japan and Islamic countries. | <urn:uuid:5f4caabe-91dc-4ee8-b1f2-7e7f678e4213> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mahaza.blogspot.com/2010/08/dunia-hormati-ramadan-malaysia.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00202-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966577 | 137 | 1.953125 | 2 |
I have been working on HawkTour now for over two years, and I started wondering today exactly how much code we’ve generated since we started. I thought maybe Eclipse had a project-wide line counter somewhere, but I couldn’t find it, so I just wrote a simple Python script to do it. The code is below.
# linecounter.py # Tyler Butler, 03/08/2005 import os total = 0 extensions = ['java', 'cpp', 'h'] for root, dir, files in os.walk('.'): for file in files: if str(file).split('.')[-1] in extensions: filename = os.path.join(root, file) f = open( filename ) total += len(f.readlines()) f.close() print "TOTAL LINES IN PROJECT: " + str(total)
Pretty simple, isn’t it? It just works in the current directory, but you can change that pretty easily. Also, if you want to add more extensions to count then just add them to the extensions list. | <urn:uuid:0a6ff5c4-6caa-4af6-8afa-59ca7190d35c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://tylerbutler.com/2005/03/code-line-counter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00209-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.880684 | 227 | 1.523438 | 2 |
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English Pronunciation - RARITY
Today's word is "rarity". This is a noun which describes something that is rare.
For example, you can say, "Since I now live 3,000 miles away from my parents, having dinner with my family has become a rarity."
Daily Pronunciation - REMINISCE
Today's word is "reminisce". This is a verb which means to go over past experiences in one's mind, or to remember.
For example, you can say, "I was just reminiscing about my high school years. I wish I could go back to that carefree period of my life."
Daily Pronunciation - RENDEZVOUS
Today's word is "rendezvous". This is a noun and a verb. As a verb, it means to come together or meet by arrangement.
For example, you can say, "Let's rendezvous at 6 o'clock at Jake's bar."
Daily Pronunciation - RENOUNCE
Today's word is "renounce". This is a verb which means to give up one's right to something.
For example, you can say,"T.S. Eliot renounced his US citizenship and became an English citizen."
Daily Pronunciation REPLENISH
Today's word is "replenish". This is a verb which means to nourish or fill up again.
For example, you can say, "Many cosmetologists say good moisturizers can help replenish the proteins in your skin and make you look younger."
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You are going to find much in way of Gandhi's writing and his thinking. It's a bit difficult to narrow down his authorship because so much of his thought is present in writings, diary entries, essays, speeches, and other items. There are "books," but the thought that Gandhi featured was prevalent in so much more than one genre of writing. Like so many thinkers of the time period, he did not feel himself limited to one domain of written expression. The link below is a fairly comprehensive list of his writings. I would examine this extensively. Of the works featured, there are some very interesting ones in terms of what they reveal about Gandhi's philosophy and value system. "Hind Swaraj; or, Indian Home Rule" was one of the first articulations where he was on his way to South Africa as a lawyer and is a reflection about the nature of truth that he features in his own mind and in his own analysis. It is interesting to see this as a potential "starting point," in terms of where "it all began." Another interesting title on this list would be The Story of My Experiments with Truth. It is widely considered to be known as his most known book because it helped bring to the world stage the idea of Gandhi as both a freedom fighter, but also as one with a moral grounding, as well. At the time of writing, Gandhi's campaign in South Africa had already been known and he was establishing himself as a figure in the Indian independence movement. This book is powerful in how it provides a moral, ethical, intellectual, and spiritual grounding or justification to the political framework he was advocating in India.
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Baby powder recalled after testing finds asbestos
Johnson & Johnson is recalling some of its Johnson's Baby Powder after testing found it contains asbestos.
At this time, the recall, announced Friday by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, involves just one batch of the product. Any packages with lot number 22318RB should be thrown out or returned to the store where it was purchased for a refund.
The recall could later be expanded, however, to include packages with other lot numbers.
The baby powder was found to contain chrysotile fibers, which the FDA says are a type of asbestos.
The federal agency is currently testing about 50 cosmetics and beauty products to see if they contain asbestos. The tests began in 2018. Another batch of Johnson's Baby Powder tested by the FDA came back negative.
Earlier this year, products from Claire’s and Beauty Plus Global were recalled over asbestos fears.
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Can Multiverse Theories Explain the Appearance of Fine Tuning in the Universe?Wednesday, October 28, 2015
For many theorists, the multiverse has the best chance of explaining the appearance of fine-tuning in our universe. Other explanations, such as appealing to chance or physical necessity, offer solutions from “inside the room” of our universe. Multiverse explanations, however, point once again to an external causal agent: a mechanism capable of creating an incredibly large number of universes, each with its own set of physical laws. According to this theory, most of these universes in the multiverse collection are incapable of permitting life. Our universe, however, through “a series of cosmic accidents,” just happens to support our existence. Multiverse theories overcome the incredible odds against life (and explain the appearance of fine-tuning) by increasing the chances of such a life-permitting universe.
Illustration from God's Crime Scene
In my new book, God’s Crime Scene, I examine all the naturalistic explanations for eight pieces of evidence in the universe (one of which is the delicate fine-tuning of the universe for the emergence of life). The multiverse theory fails to account for the appearance of fine-tuning for the following reasons:
This Explanation Lacks Evidential Confirmation
Multiverse models lack observational or experimental evidence. Scientists can’t access other universes in the multiverse because they are separated within the vacuum by too great a distance (and according to these theories, this distance is allegedly growing). As a result, many scientists, especially String Theorists, are suspicious about the existence of a multiverse. Some call it a “fantasy,” others call it “intellectually bankrupt” or a “cheap way out.” Lacking evidential support, many physicists see the multiverse theory as deficient when compared to efforts to find unity within the laws of physics.
This Explanation Requires Fine-Tuning
If there is a multiverse vacuum capable of such creative activity, it would be reasonable for us to ask how the physics of such an environment could be so fine-tuned to create a life-permitting universe. As Oxford philosopher Richard Swinburne observes, any proposed multiverse mechanism “needs to have a certain form rather than innumerable possible other forms, and probably constants too that need fine-tuning in the narrow sense . . . if that diversity of universes is to result.” Theoretical physicist, Stephen Hawking, when assessing “eternal inflation” models as a source for the multiverse, admits the same problem of fine-tuning: “The problem is, for our theoretical models of inflation to work, the initial state of the universe had to be set up in a very special and highly improbable way. Thus traditional inflation theory resolves one set of issues but creates another—the need for a very special initial state.”
This Explanation Relies on Speculative Notions of Time
Theorists who propose a pre-existing vacuum must account for the nature of time in this setting. All descriptions of this vacuum describe it as temporal (with bubble universes emerging or quantum events occurring over time). But the Standard Cosmological Model indicates time, as we know it, began with our universe. Physicist Alexander Vilenkin describes the dilemma this way: “There is no matter and no space in this very peculiar state. Also, there is no time . . . In the absence of space and matter, time is impossible to define. And yet, the state of ‘nothing’ cannot be identified with absolute nothingness.” Multiverse explanations must provide an account for the temporal nature of the vacuum lying at the core of their theory.
This Explanation Results in Absurdities Common to “Infinites”
Multiverse proposals result in a number of interesting (and disturbing) absurdities. If there are an infinite number of universes in the multiverse collection, and there exists a remote chance one of them could have a set of laws like ours (and a history similar to our own), we must accept (given the infinite size of the multiverse) an infinite number of universes resembling ours. In fact, if there’s a small chance any of these similar universes might have precisely the same history as our own (with someone exactly like you reading this book at this very moment), there are an infinite number of universes precisely the same as ours in every possible way. The absurdity of this proposal has been noted by a number of physicists and philosophers. Multiverse models describe an ensemble of universes both identical and slightly different from our own. As physicist and cosmologist Alan Guth admits, “There is a universe where Elvis is still alive.” The incredulity of such a proposal seems a high price to pay to accommodate a theory yet unproven by the evidence. Physicist Paul Davies says, “…the very notion that there could be not just one, but an infinity of identical copies of you, leading identical lives (and infinitely many others leading similar but not identical lives) is deeply unsettling.”
This Explanation Acknowledges an “External” Creative Cause
Those who propose multiverse models acknowledge the difficulty in explaining the apparent fine-tuning of the universe from “inside the room” of the natural universe. Multiverse models attribute the conditions of our universe to an “external” cause: a primordial vacuum possessing attributes necessary to create a life-permitting universe. The laws governing this primordial vacuum, however, are equally difficult to explain. Even cosmologist Lawrence Krauss acknowledges their foundational nature: “The laws themselves are all that exist. These laws themselves require our universe to come into existence, to develop and evolve, and we are an irrevocable by-product of these laws. The laws may be eternal, or they too may have come into existence, again by some yet unknown but possibly purely physical process.” The existence of these external laws, as well as the vacuum in which they exist, must be explained, and “this does beg the possible question, which might of course not be answerable, of what, if anything, fixed the rules that governed such creation.”
Efforts to employ multiverse theories to explain the appearance of fine tuning in our universe fail. Fine-tuning is best explained by an intelligent Fine-Tuner who had a purpose in mind. A Creator God, “outside the room” of the physical universe, is still the best explanation we have for the precision and tuning we see “inside the room”. This brief summary of the problem of fine-tuning in the universe just begins to describe the insufficiency of naturalistic theories. For a much more robust account of the inadequacy of naturalism in this regard, please refer to God’s Crime Scene, Chapter Two – Tampering With the Evidence: Who Is Responsible? | <urn:uuid:8c9e5c86-2a42-45d1-b50f-4fb8fd553829> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.christianity.com/blogs/j-warner-wallace/can-multiverse-theories-explain-the-appearance-of-fine-tuning-in-the-universe.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00094-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941663 | 1,446 | 2.375 | 2 |
Most people have a negative connotation when it comes to botox. It is known for altering a person’s appearance, but did you know it can help with a person’s excessive sweating, chronic migraines, or cervical dystonia? At Bourhill Plastic Surgery, we offer services botox Long Island along with Dysport and Jeaveau injections.
Botox, also known as Botulinum toxin type A, is a drug that doctors will use in small doses to treat certain health conditions. More commonly, botox Long Island is known for reducing or vanishing the appearance of wrinkles. The desire to look young forever and take care of your appearance is very natural; botox does just that, but it is not a permanent fix. Botox Long Island lasts three to twelve months, depending on where you receive the treatment. When injected, it will paralyze or weaken specific muscles and block certain nerves. Since botox is a paralyzing toxin, it also helps health conditions that are uncontrollable due to the muscles or nerves located in specific areas of one’s body.
If you are suffering from any of these conditions, botox Long Island may be the best option for you. Botox is a non-surgical procedure that produces results within a few days.
With any procedure, there are always risks and side effects that one should take into consideration. The risks and side effects of botox are:
These effects are not permanent but are crucial to consider when deciding whether or not botox is right for you. It is also essential to remember that botox is not permanent and will require one to go back to receive more injections every few months or so, depending on where the treatment was received.
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No amount of medical knowledge will lessen the accountability for nurses to do what nurses do; that is, manage the environment to promote positive life processes.
— Florence Nightingale, 1859, Notes on Nursing
Celebrating Earth Day
With over 17 million nurses and midwives globally, we can create a healthier world for present and future generations. At the heart and spirit of Florence Nightingale’s legacy is the knowledge that our external environment is inextricably interconnected to the health and wellbeing of all species and ecosystems, a concept that is reflected in the first principle of integrative and holistic nursing—human beings are inseparable from their environments.
In this time of increasing concerns about the impact of the environment on the health of individuals and communities, identifying and reducing health risks associated with environmental exposures and potential hazards in the workplace, community, and home is rapidly becoming part of our nursing practice and leadership role.
A healthy planet means fewer diseases
The health of our planet plays an important role in the spread of disease originating from pathogens that transfer from animals to humans. As we continue to encroach on fragile ecological ecosystems, we bring humans into ever-greater contact with wildlife and illegal wildlife trade, increasing attributed to human diseases.
Any positive environmental impact in the wake of the COVID pandemic, must include changing our production and consumption habits towards cleaner and greener. Only long-term systemic shifts will change the trajectory of CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
So, in the aftermath of the crisis, there is a real opportunity to meet that demand with green packages of renewable energy investments, smart buildings, green and public transport, healthier food production, and increased green jobs.
Since COVID-19, and the world slowing down, residents of India can see the peaks of the Himalayas for the first time in 40 years, and canals in Venice, Italy are clear again. Mother Earth can again breathe and has shown us that she is resilient.
As cities and, in some cases, entire nations weather the pandemic under lockdown, Earth-observing satellites have detected a significant decrease in the concentration of a common air pollutant, nitrogen dioxide, which enters the atmosphere through emissions from cars, trucks, buses, and power plants.
The drop, observed in China and Europe, coincided with stringent social-distancing measures on the ground. Air pollution can seriously damage human health, and the World Health Organization estimates that conditions stemming from exposure to ambient pollution—including stroke, heart disease, and respiratory illnesses—kill about 4.2 million people a year.
What can we learn from this momentary pause?
The better we manage nature, the better we manage human health. An important pillar in our post-COVID recovery plan must be to arrive at a measurable and inclusive framework, because keeping nature rich, diverse and flourishing is part of our life’s support system. As life gets back to normal, we hope that the “new normal” can create a “different economy” that can fuel green jobs, green growth and a different way of life, because the health of people and the health of planet are one and the same.
As we move forward post COVID-19, Nurses and nurse coaches have a unique opportunity to raise our collective voice and lead global efforts for creating a healthier planet. By continuing Nightingale’s environmental knowing, nurses are organizing and leading initiatives as environmental advocates for their patients, families, and communities.
By assessing the environments in which people live, work, and play, nurses are integrating environmental awareness, education, and coaching, using preventive health strategies and thus improving health outcomes. Nurses with environmental health knowledge are closing the information gap by educating consumers, colleagues, hospital administrators, school personnel, parents, families, and communities.
As the World Health Organization and the United Nations has declared 2020, the year of the Nurse, this is our time to have a critical role to play in transforming the health of all communities, now and for future generations.
As Co-Founder of the International Nurse Coach Association for over a decade, Susan has been teaching and developing coaching program and currently through the Integrative Nurse Coach™ Academy. She is Board Certified in Health and Wellness Coaching, Holistic Nursing, and Clinical Nutrition. Susan has authored several chapters on Nutrition and Environmental Health for Holistic Nursing, Integrative Nursing, and Nurse Leadership textbooks.
She has co-authored Nurse Coaching and Self-Assessment chapters in; Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice, 7th edition (2015-2020) and is co-author of the award winning book (ANA Gold Seal, 2015) Nurse Coaching: Integrative Approaches for Health and Wellbeing (2015) and The Art and Science of Nurse Coaching, an ANA Publication (2013), that led the way to establishing the standards for practice in the emerging Nurse Coach role. For the past 20 years, she has been the Nurse Coach and Nutrition consultant for Special Immunology Services at Mercy Hospital in Miami and is currently the Director of Nurse Coaching at Rezilir Health in Hollywood, Florida.
Susan continues to integrate lifestyle health and wellness education into diverse communities, bringing her expertise and passion as a nurse, clinical nutritionist, and medical anthropologist. She has developed and implemented integrative health initiatives for diverse community organizations including the Yellow Courtyard, Integrative Health Symposium, Urban Zen, New York Open Center, The Lower East Side Girls Club, Kripalu, Omega Institute, and the University of Miami and Florida Atlantic University.
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The Salutation to the Aged Friar by Sir Charles Lock Eastlake PRA, 1793-1865. Exhibited at the Royal Academy 1840. Oil on canvas, 37 1/4 x 44 1/2 inches. Courtesy Forbes magazine Collection.
Forbes, Christopher. The Royal Academy Revisited (1837-1901). Ed. and intro. Alen Staley. Catalogue of exhibitions at Princeton University and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [New York: Forbes Magazine Collection, 1975.]
Robertson, David. Sir Charles Eastlake and The Victorian Art World. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1978.
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However, the commission imposed three conditions:
Commission acting chairperson Paula Rebstock said the decision to authorize the joint marketing arrangement reflected the fact that the development of some gas fields required a joint venture approach so gas from those fields could be brought to market as quickly as possible.
"The commission prefers separate marketing because competition is enhanced by more competitors. The purchasers of the gas may be able to negotiate lower prices, and better terms and conditions when they have a choice of supplier. Joint marketing lessens competition and represents a detriment to the economy."
However, the commission accepted that joint marketing should result in the earlier development of New Zealand's largest new gas field, and that early development had significant benefits to the New Zealand public.
Ms. Rebstock cautioned other players against assuming any automatic approval of other joint marketing and selling proposals, saying this decision reflected the present state of the gas market.
A statement by the Pohokura joint venture partners said that the attaching of significant conditions might delay development of the project and pose additional project risk. The partners are considering the possibility of an appeal of the commission's decision either on a joint or individual basis. An appeal must be made by September 30, 2003.
However the largest partner Shell New Zealand said the Commerce Commission's approval of the application to jointly market gas was a positive step towards delivery of the project.
Shell NZ's chairman Lloyd Taylor said that from a Shell perspective, Pohokura is still on track for first gas in 2006, despite the company's disappointment about the Commission's conditions attached to the joint marketing approval.
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In preparation for tomorrow’s book review, I thought I’d talk about the many helpful and crazy uses for butter…not that you’re going to have to find many other uses for it if you are a strict follower of the woman discussed tomorrow 🙂
1. Like it’s peanut butter cousin, regular butter can help remove glue from your hands and gum from your hair.
2. Rub you knife down with a little butter before slicing into sticky items, such as dried fruit or pies. Butter (and shortening) also works great if you’re making rice crispies or anything with melted marshmallows. Simply coat your spoon with butter and just dare something to stick to it! 🙂
3. Hate to say Mary Poppins was wrong, but a little touch of butter does help the medicine go down. If you’re unable to swallow pills, try rubbing them with a little butter to help them quickly glide down your throat.
4. Butter is a great treatment for minor skin irritations. Rub a generous amount of butter on sunburn, dry skin, and minor burns twice a day. DO NOT pull a Kramer and cover yourself in butter before going out for a tan. 😉
5. If you’re in a pinch for hair conditioner, use some butter! It provides amino acids to fine hair and is a great way to get a healthy shine!
6. SAVE YOUR CHEESES! Coat the cut edges of hard cheeses with a little bit of butter to prevent them from getting hard and moldy. You can also rub the cut side of an onion to keep it fresh longer.
7. Love cooking fish but hate the leftover smell? Rub some butter on your hands and wash them with warm soap and water and your hands will be odor free (and smooth!).
8. Use butter to help remove those water stains from your wood furniture. Rub about 1 TB butter on the mark and let it sit overnight. Wipe away excess with a soapy sponge.
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How many dyne/square centimetre in 1 exabar?
The answer is 1.0E+24.
We assume you are converting between dyne/square centimetre and exabar.
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The SI derived unit for pressure is the pascal.
1 pascal is equal to 10 dyne/square centimetre, or 1.0E-23 exabar.
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The SI prefix "exa" represents a factor of 1018, or in exponential notation, 1E18.
So 1 exabar = 1018 bars.
The definition of a bar is as follows:
The bar is a measurement unit of pressure, equal to 1,000,000 dynes per square centimetre (baryes), or 100,000 newtons per square metre (pascals). The word bar is of Greek origin, báros meaning weight. Its official symbol is "bar"; the earlier "b" is now deprecated, but still often seen especially as "mb" rather than the proper "mbar" for millibars.
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Have you ever wondered if it’s okay to say, “The corporation had their records audited” or whether you should say, “The corporation had its records audited”? This is basically a subject-verb agreement issue. Let’s begin by reviewing what style guides say regarding this issue: “Is a corporation a single entity or a group of people?”
Let’s look at it this way: if Company X is an entity, then anyone writing about it should probably say, “Company X launched its latest money-saving offer.” Just my opinion. Now let’s go to the experts.
The Gregg Reference Manual, Ninth Edition, by William Sabin says that when using organizational names, treat them as either singular or plural (but not both). Ordinarily, it suggests you treat the name as singular unless you wish to emphasize the individuals who make up the organization. In that case, use the plural.
Gregg uses these examples to make sure there’s subject-verb agreement:
Brooks & Rice has lost its lease. It is not looking for a new location. OR Brooks & Rice have lost their lease. They are now looking for…But NOT Brooks & Rice has lost its lease. They are now looking…
THEY or IT? If the organization is referred to as “they” or “who,” use a plural verb with the company name. If the organization is referred to as “it” or “which,” use a singular verb.
Professor Charles Darling says, “The names of companies and other organizations are usually regarded as singular, regardless of their ending: ‘General Motors has announced its fall lineup of new vehicles.’ Try to avoid the inconsistency that is almost inevitable when you think of corporate entities as a group of individuals: ‘General Motors has announced their fall lineup of new vehicles.'”
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BIBLICAL Horizons, No. 36
Copyright 1992, Biblical Horizons
The fact that Paul was by trade a tentmaker has usually been taken as the springboard for a discussion of whether pastors should have other jobs or not. The Biblical answer is yes and no. The apostles received tithes so that they could devote themselves full time to the ministry of the word and prayer (Acts 6:2, 4; 1 Cor. 9:14). On the other hand, in situations with small churches and missionary situations, it is well for the pastor to "make tents" in order to sustain himself. Another situation in which tentmaking is in order is this: Many churches today are so full of carnal people that a pastor’s livelihood will be threatened if he preaches anything like a true gospel message. In such a situation, it is good for the pastor to have a trade he can fall back on, so that he will be bold in preaching. Then, if 3/4 of the congregation departs, he can still keep the pastorate and build the church back up with real sheep.
Another observation that is often overlooked in connection with tentmaking is this: Paul’s trade enabled him to sit in the market and talk with people during the day. Tentmaking was a trade that kept him in constant touch with an important aspect of his ministry. Pastors who need to make tents should think about similar jobs. A job as an editor will hone his communication skills, for instance. In a technological society, it is harder for a pastor to find a tentmaking job that is "close" to his pastoral calling, but he should think about the problem and try to find something as close as possible.
All this is true, but does not go far enough. Such an interpretation does not rise above moralism, failing to do justice to the theological undercurrents of the text. It is significant in a symbolic sense that Paul was a tentmaker. His occupation is directly related to his work of church planting and building, and fulfills a pattern found in the Old Testament. When we understand this, we can get a better picture of what modern tentmaking jobs might be like.
When the Sinaitic Covenant was established, God called Moses to be the prophet. God gave Moses the blueprint for the Tabernacle, the tent of God. God gifted another man, Bezalel, with the Holy Spirit of "wisdom, understanding, and knowledge" and put him in charge of actually building the Tabernacle (Ex. 31:3). God appointed another man, Oholiab, to help him, but nothing is said about the Holy Spirit in connection with him (Ex. 31:6). "Bezalel" means "God Protects," and that is what the Tabernacle as a shelter was all about. "Oholiab" means "Father’s Tent," which is also what the Tabernacle was all about. Theologically, the Spirit-filled Bezalel represents the Spirit, and Oholiab represents the contribution of Israel, the Bride. In terms of the theology of Exodus, we see God give Moses the blueprint in Exodus 25-31, and we see the Spirit and the Bride building the Tabernacle in Exodus 35-40.
When the Kingdom Covenant was established, God called David to be the prophet. God gave David the blueprint for the Temple (1 Chron. 28:11-19), the house of God. God gifted another man, Solomon the son of David, with "wisdom and knowledge" to build the Temple (2 Chron. 1:11-12). The Holy Spirit is not particularly mentioned here, but we are to understand that He alone gives wisdom and understanding. Solomon appointed another man, Hiram-abi, to help him (2 Chron. 2:13-14). Theologically, Solomon represents the Spirit of God who builds the Temple after David is gone, and Hiram-abi represents the Bride, who assists. In terms of the theology of Chronicles, we see God give David the blueprint in 1 Chronicles 22-28, and we see the Spirit and the Bride building the Temple in 2 Chronicles 2-7.
There are certain advances in conception from Sinai to Jerusalem. Moses does not die and go to heaven before Bezalel starts his work, while David does die before Solomon starts his. Also, while the Tabernacle was made of Egyptian spoils as well as Israelite contributions, the part played by Gentile God-fearers is much greater in the building of the Temple. Hiram of Tyre, a convert, sends much material for the Temple, and Hiram-abi himself was the son of an Israelite woman and a Tyrean man (2 Chron. 3:3-16 and 3:14). In fact, it was Hiram of Tyre who recommended Hiram-abi to Solomon (2 Chron. 3:13).
The kings of Judah, who repair the Temple from time to time, are permanent Bezalels, permanent Solomons. As the Holy Spirit is the Second Comforter and Heir of Jesus Christ the King, so Solomon and his successors are the heirs of David.
King and priest cooperate at all times in the building of the tent and house. Exodus 28 and Exodus 31 belong together, as God appoints Aaron to oversee the spiritual and moral aspect of the Tabernacle and Bezalel to oversee its physical plant. The covenant with Phineas, guaranteeing his line permanence in the house of God as priest (Num. 25:10-13), is parallel to the covenant with David, guaranteeing his line permanence in the house of God as king (2 Sam. 7). The Phineas line of Zadok came to permanence when Solomon became king. (The Davidic Covenant cannot be understood rightly unless it is connected with the Phineas Covenant, its complement.)
It is less explicit, but I believe we can see the same pattern recapitulated at the time of the Restoration Covenant. The prophets this time are Haggai and Zechariah, especially the latter, who in his "night visions" receives a blueprint of how the new covenant is established by God’s removal of sin so that the Temple can be rebuilt (Zech. 1-6, especially chapter 3). These two men carry on the previous work of Ezekiel, who revealed the Spiritual dimensions and social structure of the Restoration Temple before his death (Ezk. 40-48). The Restoration Temple is then built under the direction of the last Davidic prince Zerubbabel and the high priest Jeshua. For reasons I have explained elsewhere (Biblical Chronology III:3, March 1991), the death of Jeshua the high priest completed the work of restoration, since the death of the high priest enables all those in exile to return to the land (Num. 35:28; Num. 20:29-21:1; Josh. 24:33). His death immediately precedes the arrival of Ezra with materials to furnish the Temple, a point that emerges when we realize that the Darius of Ezra 1-6 is the same as the Artaxerxes of Ezra 7-10 and Nehemiah 1-13 (Biblical Chronology III:2-5).
In the Restoration period, the Temple-maintainers are no longer the Davidic-Solomonic kings, but the line of high priests. King and priest are combined in the crowning of Jeshua (Zech. 6), and the Davidic king-line goes "underground" until the coming of Jesus. Zerubbabel, then, becomes Chief Layman, as Ezekiel 46 had prophesied concerning the Restoration Temple. With this in mind, we can see Ezekiel, Zechariah, and Haggai as Moses, Jeshua as Bezalel, and Zerubbabel as Oholiab. In the next generation, the work of Jeshua as Temple-builder is carried on by Ezra, and the work of Zerubbabel as Chief Layman (representing the Bride) is carried on by Nehemiah.
Once again there is a progression from the Kingdom Covenant to the Restoration Covenant. The presence of the God-fearing Gentiles is much more pronounced in connection with the Restoration Temple. The God-fearing kings of Persia, Cyrus and Darius, order that the Temple be built and help furnish it. They send Ezra and Nehemiah to make sure that it is being done correctly. While the Jews are busy apostatizing by marrying heathen women (Ezra 9-10; Neh. 13) and allowing heathens to have rooms in the Temple (Neh. 13), the Godly Persian kings are actively working to purify the Temple through their agents Ezra and Nehemiah.
We now have a pattern that we can abstract as follows:
1. God gives the blueprint to the Prophet.
2. The Prophet enlists a Chief Tentmaker.
3. The Chief Tentmaker enlists other tentmakers among the members of the Bride.
When we get to the New Covenant, we see this pattern played out in its fullness. The Father gives the blueprint to the Son, who is the Great Prophet, and who speaks and does only the Father’s will. After the death and ascension of the Son, the Son commissions a Second Comforter, His Heir, to become Chief Tentmaker. This is the Holy Spirit, whose arrival in Acts 2 begins the building of the Church, the new house of God. The Spirit enlists members of the Bride to help Him. The leaders of the Bride are the Apostles and pastors, including Paul.
Thus, the Father is God the Author; Jesus is Moses the blueprint-revealer; the Spirit is Bezalel the Chief Tentmaker; and Paul is Oholiab the leader of the Bride’s contributions.
The Father is God the Author; Jesus is David the blueprint-revealer; the Spirit is Solomon the Chief Templebuilder; and Paul, a Jew raised in Gentile Joppa, is Hiram-abi the leader of the Bride’s contributions.
The Father is God the Author and is also represented by the Godly Gentile commissioners of the Restoration Temple. Jesus is Ezekiel-Haggai-Zechariah, prophetic blueprint-revealer. The Spirit is Jeshua-Ezra. And Paul is Zerubbabel-Nehemiah.
When we see this we see that we are all, like Paul, tentmakers. Pastors are the leaders in this tentmaking operation, the building of the Church.
From all this we see that Paul’s tentmaking occupation carries with it a deep association with God’s plan for building the Church. Paul’s occupation as tentmaker symbolizes and thus is intimately related to his calling as Church builder. He made tents not primarily so that he could be fed and clothed, but primarily to relieve the Church of the burden of caring for him, so that the Church’s money could be used elsewhere in the building up of the Church (Acts 20:34; 1 Cor. 4:12; 9:15; 2 Cor. 11:7; 12:13; 1 Thess. 2:9; 2 Thess. 3:8).
I derive the following two applications from this study. First, it is appropriate for men to engage in tentmaking when the Church is small and struggling. This frees up the money of the Church for other uses.
Second, tentmaking occupations should ideally be related to ministry work. For instance, music is one of the most important aspects of the work and worship of the Church. For a pastor to make his money as a music teacher would be an excellent tentmaking job, because his experience there would play into the upgrade of the work and worship of the Church. A similar occupation would be teaching Bible in a Christian school. Financial counselling would also be a good tentmaking occupation, because the pastor could use his expertise and experience to help the members of his parish. But of course, if these jobs are not available, anything will do. | <urn:uuid:c4e19ae7-4598-4543-b2e8-29a5a7b9f044> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.biblicalhorizons.com/biblical-horizons/no-36-tentmaking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721555.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00179-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957065 | 2,516 | 2.171875 | 2 |
I offer 1:1 Body Mind Coaching and Therapy:
Body Mind coaching and therapy are both powerful and effective ways to explore your relationship with your body and mind, reconnect with your existing internal resources as well as develop new ones.
Coaching or Therapy?
In my experience coaching and therapy are both useful processes of change that enable us to be at our best more of the time.
You may know if you are interested in coaching or therapy; however, if you are unclear about what the difference is and therefore unsure which will most help you be at your best, I give a short description below.
The focus of attention in coaching is on creating practical actions plans to achieve specific goals in the future. The core question is “What do I need to do to get from here to there?”
Body Mind coaching may help you if you are wanting to explore issues such as
- Find new ways of working
- Reduce stress levels to create work-life balance
- Be more assertive with a colleague you find difficult
- Overcome self-doubt that may be holding you back from achieving your goals or performance outcomes.
Whereas in therapy, the focus of attention is on understanding how and why our past experience is impacting our ability to function and be at our best now. The core question is “What do I need to heal so I feel comfortable in my own skin and can live fully in the present?”
Body Mind therapy can help with a wide range of issues, from the more easily identifiable such as anxiety & depression and relationship problems to non-specific issues such as feeling emotionally confused and uncertain what you want from life.
What does Body Mind mean?
In essence, a Body Mind approach means understanding
- what we experience in our body (sensations, feelings, muscle tension)
- what goes on in our mind (thoughts, reflections, fantasies)
- how both these influence our behaviour and relationships.
It is also rooted in the well-recognised interconnection between our biology, neurology and psychology.
When we are unable to express what is happening on an emotional level our feelings can become embodied; that is they can become literally trapped in our muscles and body tissues creating fixed patterns of how we hold and move our body. For example we might hunch our shoulders or clench our jaw.
Likewise, our thoughts too can become embodied - a habitual part of our mind creating fixed internal beliefs about who we are. For example “I’m not good enough” or “I can’t cook/do maths/understand technology...”.
Whilst the focus of attention and the goals may differ in coaching and therapy, the overall outcome in both is what I call “integration”; that is being at our best where we feel at ease with who we are and how we are living our life; we feel comfortable in our own skin, free from confusion and inner conflict.
How does coaching or therapy with me work in practice?
I offer a free 30-minute initial consultation where we discuss the changes or issues you want to work on as well as explore whether coaching or therapy would be the best approach to start with. Whichever approach we agree is not fixed in stone and can be reviewed at any time.
At the first session we spend some time discussing and agreeing more specific goals for the work including how long it might take. Again, this is not fixed in stone and we can review or re-negotiate it at any time. Subsequent sessions will unfold in line with this initial agreement.
The “tools” I use for both coaching and therapy include talking, listening, movement, breathing, energy, attentive awareness, and touch. Please note that any direct physical contact between us will only be with your express agreement.
We will review our progress regularly to ensure you are getting what you want and that we are both clear on what is working well and change anything not working so well.
My ethos is that of working in partnership. I am not there as an “expert” as I believe you are your own best expert. Equally, I am not there to do it for you. Rather, I offer you a compassionate safe space, acting as your guide and witness, sharing my observations and knowledge to support you in doing for yourself.
For your part, a desire to learn and grow, a willingness to engage with yourself honestly and the courage to explore what might feel like the unknown will help you get the most from either coaching or therapy.
Book your free 30-minute initial consultation now…
We can all benefit from both coaching and therapy at different times through our lives. If you find yourself wondering why – after all the things you have tried already – you still lack confidence or don’t feel at ease with yourself I can help you. Why not book your free 30-minute initial consultation now and give yourself the opportunity to find out:
- Whether coaching or therapy is the best option for you right now
- What might be the most useful aspect of your experience for you to focus on
- How often we might meet & how many sessions might be helpful?
This consultation also allows us to get a sense of each other and if we want to work together: whilst it is essential that you feel safe and confident that you want to work with me, it is equally important for me to be clear that I can support you to be at your best.
I look forward to hearing from you.
I offer a free 30 minute initial phone consultation.
Thereafter sessions cost £60 and last 75 minutes.
I am open to discussing a concessionary rate with you if you are unwaged or have a low income.
I am predominantly offering Body Mind therapy and Coaching sessions online via Zoom at the moment. If you prefer face-to-face sessions we can discuss how we can make this work in the light of any Covid restrictions or safety measures. Face-to-face sessions would take place in my therapy room in West Kirby.
NB. My therapy room is situated on the first floor and so is not fully accessible, so I am happy to discuss alternative venues if you have any disability or condition that means stairs are unworkable for you.
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"Jihad: Waging Peace and Justice" according to the Canadian Islamic Congress
"Many lives to avenge oh ye pagans" Islamiway website extols the joys of Jihad and shows Lady Liberty as a Muslimah
The President of the Canadian Islamic Congress Mohammed Elmasary : "Jihad :Waging Peace and Justice"
According to Elmasry's explanation below on the CIC website , Jihad is a peaceful humanitarian movement which only uses violence when expedient.
by Prof. Mohamed Elmasry
1. The word Jihad (from the Arabic root Ga-Ha-Da) is a verbal noun meaning exerting an effort, expounding an energy, striving, working to improve, struggling, doing one's best.
From the same Arabic root, there is Majhood (effort), Mojtahed (a person who does his/her best), Ijtehad (Islamic science of deducting Islamic laws from basic sources), Johid (potential or energy as in electrical potential or energy) and Jihad (persuasion as in (29:8), (31:15), (6:109)).
2. Jihad in Islam is waging peace and justice. Jihad is a war against unjust, oppression, exploitation, tyranny, fear, corruption and denying the masses basic human rights (4:75-76) and to establish justice, peace, freedom, especially freedom of religion, security, equity and social justice (2:193).
The tools for launching this exploitation, tyranny, fear, corruption and denying the masses basic human rights (4:75-76) and to establish justice, peace, freedom, especially freedom of religion, security, equity and social justice (2:193).
The tools for launching this war are knowledge, effort, resources, activism, awareness, praying, persuasion, combativeness, advocacy in addition to exercising social, political and military pressures (9:111), (8:60), (9:44-45).
The use of the military option is not ruled out and would be used if and only if it is the only option to stop a greater evil (2:216). The rules of engagement are so strenuous for a given military option to qualify as Jihad. Not every military campaign is a Jihad (2:244).
3. Jihad in Islam is not meant for domination, and not to achieve personal, territorial and/or economical gains and not to exercise power and control. Any type of aggression would make Jihad null and void (2:190-191).
4. One of the most important objectives of Jihad in Islam is to stand for those who are oppressed and/or forced out of their homes just because of their religion (22:39-40).
5. Those who are performing outward Jihad must also spiritually reform themselves by performing (al-jihad al-akbar), an inward personal and more difficult type of Jihad (29:69), (22:78).
This type of Jihad is the internal spiritual and moral struggle which should lead to the victory over the ego. This is an important, necessary, and meritorious type of Jihad. In effect, this type of Jihad is the one which we wage against our lower selves, according to the Prophetic traditions. This personal effort made to overcome the self is considered to be "the greatest Jihad", as mention in a Hadith narrated by Imam Ahmed.
6. It is impossible for Jihad to be performed by an oppressor, a tyrant, a transgressor or an exploiter; it does not matter what that person/government/group calls his/her/its actions. Nor there is Jihad for those who are after personal, tribal and national gains (9:24).
It is precisely in such a context that Jihad meant not to have a negative but a positive meaning both inwardly and outwardly and it is in this sense that Islam has stressed the positive aspect of combativeness; peace belongs to those who are inwardly at peace and outwardly at war with the forces of unjust.
7. Jihad is an unselfish and noble effort for the good of humanity (29:6), involving many sacrifices; money, time, effort, and the ultimate sacrifice of all, life itself. But the rewards of this unselfish and noble act are immense (29:69), (9:41), (4:74), (3:142), (9:16), (9:111), (49:15) and its negligence is costly for humanity (9:38-39), (9:24), (9:81).
8. For political and historical reasons, the word Jihad in the West connotes violence. It is most often translated into English not only as "a holy war," but also a war waged against non-Muslims, a kind of Crusade in reverse.
Today in the West the term Jihad leads people to believe that Muslims are supposedly encouraged to take up arms in order to impose their faith by force, annihilating those who reject it.
This is contrary to the Islamic teachings that it is not for man but for God alone to judge and punish disbelief and that compulsion in religious matters is formally forbidden (2:256). It is regrettable that in Western public opinion, Jihad seems to have retained only the misleading meaning of "holy war."
9. The Qur'an explicitly safeguards the clergy, declaring that God protects non-Muslim places of worship: "Did not God check one set of people by means of another, there would surely have been pulled down monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, in which the name of God is commemorated in abundant measure."
This prohibition is corroborated and elucidated by the Prophetic tradition which forbids soldiers to do harm to any religious persons, whereas they could logically have been the primary targets if the motive of "holy war" had been religious.
Without putting Western civilization on trial, we should nevertheless mention by way of contrast that several centuries later, the founders of international law in Europe excluded the Muslim "infidels" from the benefits of the law of wars. Yet, the concept of "holy war" remains branded as the expression of the Muslims' religious fanaticism. How ineradicable are the prejudices!
10. Jihad was and still being invoked in Muslim protests against foreign occupation, oppression and exploitation during colonialism, post-colonialism, and neocolonialism, a cause perceived as both just and necessary.
However some Muslims must bear responsibility for the bad name given to Jihad. Today some contemporary governments and groups in Muslim countries make reference to Jihad only in its military meaning, through words and deeds, in order to hide their moral, social and political bankruptcy. In the process they kill the innocent, cause only death and destruction and do not advance the cause of peace and justice. But regrettably they are the ones who show up regularly in the newspapers and on television.
11. Today Muslim's outlook on Jihad are one of the following: a. All types of Jihad is irrelevant to Muslims today. b. All types of Jihad is justified except these types which involve the use of armed resistance. c. All types of Jihad is very much relevant and needed today, from the inward spiritual struggle against one's lower self, to activism for peace, justice, social justice,...etc, to armed resistance whenever armed resistance is justified; for example against foreign occupation, oppression, tyranny and unjust.
[Prof. Mohamed Elmasry is national president of the Canadian Islamic Congress.]
Below: A poem extolling Jihad on the Islamiway website .
The Understanding Islam article on it's homepage stresses that" Muslims follow a religion of peace,mercy, and forgiveness,and the majority have nothing to do with the grave events which came to be associated with their faith".
Apparently the author of the Jihad poem missed this lesson.
What Is Islam?
Islam is not a new religion, but the same truth that God revealed through all His prophets to every people. For a fifth of the world's population, Islam is both a religion and a complete way of life. Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy, and forgiveness, and the majority have nothing to do with the extremely grave events which have become associated with their faith .
MIM :The Islamiway webmaster converted because "Islam was termed a terrorist religion" and credits America and Israel for his conversion.
Innocent Afghan's bombed and ME!!!! American Jeans, American Cokes, Music , Movies!!! I just couldn't take that anymore...."
The Islamiway webmaster is so desperate to "pimp for the Prophet" that he converted Lady Liberty into a Muslimah as well.
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GE’s Evolve LED lighting system has been installed on the hospital’s parking lot and parking deck, following a trial in its then newly-built employee parking lot in May 2010. Impressed with light quality and uniformity, Aultman retrofitted a second, older lot using high-pressure sodium fixtures with the same product, GE says. Thirty-two Evolve LED Area Lights replaced 52 high-pressure sodium fixtures in the lot.
Aultman’s average expense to light the HPS-equipped lot was $1,500 a month including the cost of an electrical contractor to replace failed fixtures. Since the LED conversion, the hospital’s utility bill has fallen to $400 and the hospital hasn’t placed a service call yet, GE says.
The hospital security team is particularly happy with the even lighting coverage, GE says.
GE Evolve LED fixtures use thermal management and mechanical and optical design to improve their performance, GE says. They provide an estimated 10-year service life: four times the recommended service interval of traditional high-intensity discharge lighting, the company says.
In April, GE lighting announced that a retrofit carried out at Marriott International’s headquarters in Bethesda, Md., is expected to will reduce electricity use by 860,000 kWh, or 66 percent, and save more than $120,000 in annual combined energy and maintenance costs.
The anticipated payback period for the lighting project is slightly more than two years. GE estimates energy expense savings at $104,000 per year, and maintenance mitigation at another $210,000 savings over the decade. Marriott also will receive more than $130,000 in utility rebates and EPACT savings.
In related news, administrators at a hospital destroyed by a tornado say their replacement building is 32 percent more efficient than the ASHRAE standard, reports the National Association of Farm Broadcasters News Service.
Kiowa County Memorial Hospital in Greensburg, Kan., was rendered unusable following a tornado in 2007, but as plans to rebuild began, hospital administrators began to look into the environmental impact of the new building as well as the long-term savings that could be garnered through energy efficient processes.
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To get thick hair, you must take care of your hair. Avoid chemical based hair products. Don't wash it every day and avoid heat styling tools. Maintain a healthy lifestyle. Eat a well-balanced diet with plenty of vitamin B and iron. Try to reduce stress levels. Lastly, consider specialized treatments such as hair growth products, extensions, or transplants.
Caring for your Hair
1Avoid chemical based shampoo, conditioner and styling products. Most hair products contain chemicals that are effective at cleaning your hair but may cause much damage. Some people aren't affected by these chemicals, but if you're worried about thinning hair, it's best to avoid them.
- Sodium laurel and laureth sulfates are cleaning agents found in most shampoos. They strip the hair of natural oils and cause hair to weaken and fall out over time.
- Choose organic products or products made with natural oils and soap agents. Check www.thegoodguide.com for detailed information about different hair products and which ones are better to use for those concerned about hair loss.
2Don't wash your hair every day. Our scalps produce natural oils that coat the hair and protect it from outside damage. When these oils are washed away every day, the hair becomes weaker over time.
- Everyone's body is different, but most people should be able to comfortably wash their hair two to three times a week without it getting too oily. If your hair is naturally quite oily, you might want to wash it three to four times a week instead.
- Washing too infrequently can also be harmful. People with thinning hair often find themselves more susceptible to dandruff and scalp conditions which can be avoided by regular (though not daily) washing.
- Use a "dry shampoo" to treat your hair in between washes. It keeps it looking fresh and has the added benefit of making hair look thicker. Dry shampoo is a powder you can comb through your hair, especially around the roots, between washings.
3Use essential oils to thicken your hair. Chamomile, lavender, rosemary, thyme, geranium, cedarwood, almond oil, coconut oil, Indian gooseberry oil and many and many more, help thicken hair follicles.
- Apply 10 to 20 drops of your chosen oil to your scalp, and massage the oil in with your fingers. Use you fingers to rub the oil down to the tips of your hair.
- You could also mix 3 to 5 drops of essential oil into your shampoo or conditioner when washing your hair.
- Deep condition your hair by adding five to 10 drops of essential oil to 3 to 4 ounces of castor oil, olive oil, jojoba oil or sunflower oil. Apply the oil to your hair, taking care to cover each strand. Wrap your hair in a towel and let the oil sit for 30 minutes, then shampoo and condition as normal.
- Not just any oil will do. Research into hair thickening oils published in the Journal of Cosmetic Science shows some, like coconut oil, penetrate better than others.
4Treat your hair gently to decrease hair loss. Use a wide-toothed comb instead of a brush, and work out the tangles with care, rather than pulling them through.
- Be especially gentle when your hair is wet. Don't towel it dry roughly or wring it out, since this may cause some hairs to break. Use a towel to gently squeeze and pat your hair dry instead.
- Avoid ponytails and other hair styles like weaves and braids that pull and stretch the strands of your hair, these can cause breakage or worse, Traction Alopecia
5Avoid heat styling tools. Use blow dryers, straight irons, and curling irons sparingly. Overusing heated hair appliances causes your hair to become dry and brittle, making it fall out much more easily.
6Allow your hair to grow in its natural texture and color. Avoid dyes, highlights and chemical treatments. Any type of chemical applied to your hair will damage it and dry it out. Even natural hair lightening techniques, like using lemon juice, can cause your hair to fray.
7Try volumizing techniques for a fuller appearance. There are many volume-boosting products on the market. Go for the ones with natural ingredients.
- Wash your hair with a volumizing shampoo to add waves and volume to the crown of your head, making your hair appear fuller.
- Apply a volumizing conditioner to the strands and roots of your hair every time you shampoo. Avoid putting the conditioner on the top of your head near the roots of the hair, which can make hair appear thinner by weighing it down.
- Try using root lifters and volumizing sprays when styling your hair to get the fullness you are looking for.
8Get your hair cut. Cutting off dry, dead ends adds new life to hair, making it appear thicker. Short blunt cuts, such as bobs, make hair look fuller.
Making Lifestyle Changes
1Eat a well-balanced, healthy diet with plenty of vitamin B and iron. Many people experience thinning hair because they have nutrient deficiencies.
- Vitamin B plays a large role in the health of your hair, and getting enough of it is essential to keeping thick hair and reducing how much you shed. Good sources of vitamin B include fruits, vegetables, nuts and brown rice, among others.
- Diets deficient in iron lead to poor hair growth. Good sources of iron include beef, pork, lamb, poultry, fish, green leafy vegetables and iron-enriched grain products.
- Take prenatal vitamin supplements. Prenatal vitamins contain the right mix of vitamins for healthy hair, and as a bonus, healthy nails and skin.
2Protect your hair from chemicals and pollutants. It's difficult to avoid exposure to everyday environmental toxins, but there are a few preventative methods you can try:
- Wrap your hair in a scarf or hat when you walk or bike through heavy traffic. Pollution caused by cars can dull and flatten your hair, making it appear limp and unhealthy.
- Wear a swim cap in chlorinated pools. Have you ever had a stylist ask you if you're a swimmer? Chlorine stays in hair and makes it visibly dry and damaged. Protect your hair in the pool, or be sure to wash it with a good shampoo before the chlorine dries.
3Massage your scalp regularly using your fingertips. Massage by moving your fingers in little circles. Massaging increases circulation to your scalp, helping it grow healthy hair.
4Examine your stress level. Stressful situations often lead to hair loss. If you have a source of stress you can remove from your life, consider doing so.
- Some sources of stress are unavoidable, but they usually go away after awhile. If your hair is falling out due to a stressful situation, it will probably grow back with the situation is resolved.
- Thinning hair itself can be a source of stress. Calm your mind by doing everything you can to help your hair be healthy, like using natural products, making healthy lifestyle choices, and getting all your vitamins.
Pursuing Treatment Options for Thicker Hair
1Try an over-the-counter hair growth product. There are products made for both men and women that are found to be effective by many people.
- Some of the products are hair growth-stimulating shampoos, and others have a more complicated application process that requires you to sit with the product on your head and allow it to work. Do some research to figure out which is right for your needs.
- Test the product on one discreet part of your head before applying it to your entire scalp, since you may have an allergy.
2Get hair extensions. Extensions are attached to your existing strands of hair in such a way that they blend in with your natural texture and color. They can be as long or short as you want.
- Extensions can be expensive, so conduct some research before you choose what type to get.
- Visit a stylist to ask for information about extensions and have them placed in your hair.
3Instant hair thickeners are becoming widely available. Coloured sprays and creams can be used to colour the scalp and give the appearance of thicker hair. Another option is Nanogen, tiny keratin fibres which bind to your hair making it thicker, but wash off easily. These are a more flexible solution that transplants.
4Consider hair transplants. Commonly called hair plugs, hair transplants are surgically inserted in spots where hair is balding or thinning.
- This method is usually pursued by men, but women with thinning hair may also get hair transplants.
- Hair transplants are done in a doctor's office. Consult your doctor or ask for a referral to get further information about whether you are a good candidate for this procedure.
If I were to put it in a braid every day, would it help make my hair thicker?wikiHow ContributorPutting it in a braid everyday is actually a good thing as it protects the hair from damaging. It probably won't make your hair thicker just by doing that, because the hair is growing from the scalp.
If I put my hair in a loose ponytail every day, will it make it thinner?wikiHow ContributorDepending in your hair type, if the elastic is too tight or rubs a lot, it may make your hair thinner. To get around this, keep the ponytail loose (and use a hair tie that is soft and expandable) as you've mentioned, and braid your hair.
What are some causes of hair loss and thinning hair?wikiHow ContributorStress and a poor diet are common causes of hair loss and thinning hair. Hormones, genetics, and illness are other common causes.
What do you do when you try all of these things but your hair still is thinning more than ever?wikiHow ContributorDon't wear it in a ponytail or put any heat/products on your hair. If this hair loss continues or is already of considerably concern to you, consult a doctor if the situation to check that you don't have alopecia.
I had recently bleached my hair and it thinned out a lot even when I cut it, I have naturally thick hair, will it grow back out thick?wikiHow ContributorYes, it will grow back thick. Just stop doing any damage to your hair by bleaching it again or other hair procedures like coloring.
How much shampoo should I use regularly to get thick hair?wikiHow ContributorThe amount of shampoo you use won't change the thickness of your hair. Use a nickel-sized amount unless you have very long hair.
Is combing essential for thick hair?wikiHow ContributorCombing makes it easier for your hair to grow without unsightly knots. If not combed, the hair can end up looking very messy in appearance too.
How do I stop my hair from turning grey and white?wikiHow ContributorYou cannot really stop that. You are welcome to dye your hair, though. A balanced diet and exercise with daily nutrients will additionally keep your hair healthy and might delay some color changes but mostly it's genetics so you can't do a lot. It never hurts to focus on keeping your hair healthy though.
Can I change my hair's natural type, which is thin, into thick hair suddenly?wikiHow ContributorNo, there is no way to suddenly change the type of hair you have, but you can follow the steps in this guide to achieve results over time.
- Don't keep your hair out, ponytailed, or in a bun every day. Keep hair clean and use good oil in hair. After completing those steps, braid you hair. Many people wash their hair and braid it when it's still wet, don't do that because you hair will smell, you might also lose hair, and etc.
- Put olive or coconut oil on your hair, for minimum of an hour before you shower, recommended at least once or twice a week for best results.
- Maintain a healthy diet full with essential vitamins and nutrients for healthy looking hair.
- Always read the bottle before putting anything in your hair.
- Try your best to untangle hair slowly and gently, using a wide-toothed comb. Never use a brush in wet hair as it can break the strands.
- Don't pull your hair or stress it out too much.
- When drying your hair, don't towel-dry it; let it dry naturally.
- Don't overuse tools like flat irons.
- Add oil drops to the conditioner. Add your conditioner to your end only, run your fingers through it and make your way to the top. You will see the difference in your dry ends.
- If you eat fish, that can help your hair get thicker.
- Moroccan oil works well to thicken hair.
- Use coconut milk containing shampoos and conditioners that do not contain high levels of sulfates.
- Add conditioner to dry hair and leave on for 20-40 mins then rinse your hair so all the conditioner is out and let it air dry.
- Do a deep conditioning treatment every time before you shampoo. You can blend 2 tbsp. of warm olive oil with 1/2 of a banana.
- Use argan oil or an argan oil hair mask.
- Buy a split end conditioner treatment to prevent the need for common trims.
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Please join Laura Waterman Wittstock on Wednesday, March 12 from 9 to 10 am as she talks with Melanie Peterson-Hickey, Jackie Dionne, and John Poupart to discuss the report to the MN Legislature: "Advancing Health Equity in Minnesota." We will also talk about building state/community partnerships and the report: "Using Culture as an Asset-A Time for Action."
The introduction from Dr. Ed Ehlinger, Commissioner of Health, says in part: ....today’s statistics tell us that we are still far from the equality envisioned by our country’s founders or dreamed about ... Those shortcomings are starkly evident in Minnesota where, on average, people are among the healthiest in the country, while a significant number of Minnesotans,particularly people of color and American Indians, are not as healthy as they should be. Sadly, the disparities present in Minnesota are some of the greatest in the country."
Melanie Peterson-Hickey graduated from MSU in 1980 with majors in Sociology and Corrections. She completed her master's degree in Administrative Leadership in Education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1986 and her doctorate in Educational Policy and Administration at the University of Minnesota in 1998. Melanie worked for several years in institutions of higher education in student affairs, administration, and teaching including the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, St. Olaf College and the University of Minnesota. Since 2000, she has been employed in the public health field as a Senior Research Scientist at the Minnesota Department of Health.
Jackie Dionne is the Director of American Indian Health, Tribal & Community Liaison for the Minnesota Department of Health. She is the Minnesota Department of Health's first Indian Health Director. She acts as a liaison between MDH and the tribes. Commissioner Ehlinger established this new position to work with MDH to accomplish its mission of protecting, maintaining and improving the health of all Minnesotans. Jackie brings with her a wealth of experience working with the Twin Cities American Indian Community and previously serving on several boards that have been instrumental in the Twin Cities community.
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by Carla Haire, CPA, MT
When I was a new tax preparer, my greatest fears revolved around when to use semicolons in business writing. Like many who share such fears, I’ve managed to avoid semicolons all these years. However, thanks in part to the collapse of Enron, my career is now fraught with perils more frightening than punctuation. I’m here to write about one in particular, something that leaves even seasoned preparers like me quaking in their dress shoes: the Schedule M-3.
Oh, if only we could go back to the simple, early days when there was only the sweet, complacent Schedule M-1 to reveal the book-to-tax differences for a corporation or partnership! Today, Schedule M-3 is required for any entity with assets in excess of $10 million. With today’s rising property costs and inflation, a commercial building alone can bring total assets to an amount greater than that.
This means the Schedule M-3 looms on the horizon for many preparers of corporate and partnership tax returns. Since I’m one of those preparers, I suppose I should learn a few things about the M-3, such as, is it truly more terrifying than semicolons? I sure hope not!
The M-3: Where To Begin?
Oh, my. Have you seen this “schedule”? It’s three pages long, not including the required peripheral forms, statements, and attachments. It’s involved, it’s complicated, and it has foreign-sounding phrases like “Subpart F, QEF, and similar income inclusions.” Huh? At least there aren’t any semicolons!
Let’s Try the Instructions ...
Okay, I am a reasonable, fairly well-educated person. Am I going to let this form get the best of me? Not for an instant! I’m currently preparing a corporate (1120) return, so I’ll just read the Schedule M-3 instructions for that form. That should work, shouldn’t it?
Oops, not so easy. Those instructions are 27 pages long! Who has time for that? In early March, no less?
Clearly, the M-3 instructions—for Form 1120, not to mention Forms 1120S and 1065—will need to be a project for the summer, when I’m not so busy.
Let’s Try the Software ...
My tax software does so many things automatically, so I’m sure it will help me here. I’ll just prepare my client’s corporate return, confident that all the correct amounts will magically appear on the required lines of the forms and schedules. All I’ll have to do is enter the data and print and e-file the return. Right?
Hold your horses! Now that I’ve run the prepared return, what are all these EF messages about, telling me I can’t e-file because the information is incomplete, incorrect, or doesn’t otherwise add up?
It seems I’m back to reading words I don’t understand, reviewing instructions I don’t have time to thoroughly study, and trying to comprehend where to put what on the data-entry screens.
Deep breath. Let’s look at an EF message and figure out where I went wrong.
Finding the Missing Information
This message tells me that the Schedule M-3 reconciliation totals (Part II, line 30) don’t match the amount reported on Form 1120, page 1, line 28 (Taxable income before NOL deduction and special deductions).
Hmph. I know my line 28 is correct. So what gives?
What gives is that the software has carried to Schedule M-3 only the amounts I’ve typed in data entry. But it needs more information—information I never provided.
Should I be surprised that the software can produce only those amounts on the schedule that are readily evident from my data entry? Unless the little men inside the software have somehow riffled through the working papers and financial statements on my desk to discover the amounts and scurried back into the software while I was glassy-eyed from reading instructions, the software simply cannot know what amount to report on the Schedule M-3 lines—not to mention the columns—being incorporated into the reconciliation totals.
And how does the software know for sure which differences are permanent and which are temporary? I’m not even sure I know at this point!
Entering the Missing Data
Now that I know what’s missing, my job should be easy enough. I’ll just open the M3 screens in the software and type the missing amounts. Finally, this is starting to make sense!
Oh, goodness! Where have they hidden lines 1 through 13 for Part II? Well, wouldn’t you know it, the IRS requires statements for certain lines—statements that must be reported in a specified format. In Drake, that means more screens, with even more detailed information, to complete.
Reporting Amounts With No Differences
Super! I’ve spent more time on this than planned, but I’ve finally figured out all these special lines, and I’ve reconciled the amounts the software carried for meals and entertainment limitations, depreciation adjustments, tax-exempt interest, and the cost of goods sold.
But ... oh, dear. What am I supposed to do with the rest of the income and expense amounts, those that don’t have a specific line, where tax and book amounts are the same? Aha! There it is: line 28 on page 2, part II of Schedule M-3, which reads “Other items with no differences.” That’s exactly the field I need in order to have the column d amount to tie to the tax return. Yes!
All I need to do is calculate the difference between the amounts reported on the other lines of Parts II and III, and the amount reported on Form 1120, page 1, line 28, and enter the result on the “Other items with no differences” line. Whew! All done with that beast of a schedule. Time for an early vacation!
Those Darn Consolidations
Not so fast, mister! In Part I, line 4a asks for “Worldwide consolidated net income (loss) from income statement source identified in Part I, line 1,” and the program is telling me that my line 4a doesn’t tie to the corporation’s income statement. Sigh. How can I have missed something if my reconciliation totals are correct?
Is it time to start over? Do I need a good cry?
Heck no, buddy! The income statement is on a consolidated basis, and I apparently didn’t include the includible amounts from the other includible or nonincludible entities. (Is “nonincludible” even a real word?)
Since these amounts don’t belong on Parts II or III, I guess it’s back to the never-ending instructions.
Well, lo and behold, I didn’t have to go far. The instructions for Part I, line 7—only eight pages in!—clearly explain how to handle the “Net Income (Loss) of Other Includible Foreign Disregarded Entities, Other Includible U.S. Disregarded Entities, and Other Includible Entities” (if only I knew the difference). Off to screen M3 in Drake to enter that one amount that will call this schedule “complete.”
Wouldn’t you know it—no easy direct-entry fields here. Guess I’ll click this link to screen M3S for more required statements.
Now, what’s this about assets and liabilities on screen M3S? And what do those have to do with the book-to-tax net income or (loss) reconciliation? I’ll take these extra steps, since both the IRS and the software require them, but I am not happy about this. It’s no wonder the software doesn’t complete the schedule for me.
If I have to prepare this schedule in the future, I’m raising my fees. So what if my client ends up selling that commercial building to pay them. And if I lose the client? Hey, at least I won’t have to prepare a Schedule M-3 again!
That monster done, it’s now time to prepare the next return. Egad! Another return that requires a Schedule M-3. This one is going on extension! Guess I know how I’ll be spending my summer: reading Schedule M-3 instructions and taking CPE on consolidated financial statements and tax returns.
Maybe once I’ve conquered those, I’ll feel brave enough to take on those devilish semicolons!
Carla Haire, CPA, MT, was born at an early age to her mother and father. She is a Tax Analyst with Drake’s federal tax development group, where she specializes in the business tax packages. Before coming to Drake in 2002, she worked in public accounting in south Florida. She and her husband, Wayne, live in Franklin, NC, where they enjoy hiking and spending time with family. While she’s not as intimidated by the Schedule M-3 as she’d like you to believe, she really is a little scared of semicolons. | <urn:uuid:8e4262b8-6fa6-47b4-a31e-0a855e346308> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.drakesoftware.com/2011/03/schedule-m-3-scarier-than-semicolons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00211-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926401 | 2,023 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Frontline: The Spill
This investigative documentary revisits the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 20 years after it spewed more than 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaskan waters on March 24, 1989. Using the personal stories of those who lived through the experience and vow they will never forget, this troubling presentation looks at the corporate culture of pollution, regulation violations and the greed that may still exist. 2010/color/60 min/NR/fullscreen.
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Different Products on Supply Chain Business
Every company wants to improve its results, and to do so, they can use very different ways. The most common ways they use to achieve this goal are whether improvement of the quality or the reduction of their costs.
How do they do? What methods do they use? They want to sell more products, in more many locations, to target more customers and achieve better results.
Discussion About Supply Chain Business
On the other hand, they also want to cut their costs and that is the reason why they implement subsidiaries in many different locations and countries because they think it is always a good solution. However, sometimes (if it is not often), they happen to be wrong about their evaluation and analysis about the process they chose to carry out.
However, this article is not about preparation and wrong analysis of opportunities, but it aims at proving that complexity is the only result they get through these decisions.
First of all, what is complexity? Complexus (Latin) means “twisted together”, which is quite a good definition of this concept.
According to Wikipedia, “Definitions of complexity often depend on the concept of a “system” – a set of parts or elements that have relationships among them differentiated from relationships with other elements outside the relational regime.
Many definitions tend to postulate or assume that complexity expresses a condition of many elements in a system and many forms of relationships among the elements.”
Therefore, complexity appears through tremendous numbers of interactions between the numerous parts of a system. In fact, complexity keeps increasing while have more and more parts, which makes sense obviously.
A very small business does not imply complexity because interactions and relationships are limited to a few numbers of parties and people.
However, there might not be enough complexity in those businesses because it also means that results will not be as good as for bigger businesses.
Obviously, we are talking about profit here. Consequently, it is very logical that companies want to grow, in order to improve their results and beat their competitors in the market.
However, at some point, companies that cannot stop increasing anymore can end very badly, and this is because of over complexity.
Beyond a certain point, expansion involves complications and the turnover starts to decrease, as well as profitability. Therefore, every CEO should have a look at its entire business, and the parties and relationships that consist it.
In effect, your business might be becoming over complex because of useless interactions that make the business go down instead of helping it improve.
All the content of this article can be summarized by the complexity curve below:
Products Performanceon Supply Chain Business
To conclude, we have no choice but to accept that the more complex your business become, the less money you will earn. Thus, CEOs must pay more attention to what is happening when expanding a business.
In effect, management has to evolve while your business is expanding and that is the reason why it is important to take into account all the consequences that can appear every time you make a decision.
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Complexity can be unstoppable and make your business go bankrupt if you do not act before it is too late. If you want to understand more about growing businesses, you can read Vivek Sood’s book, The 5-STAR Business Network (http://bit.ly/5-STARBN). | <urn:uuid:f302f629-da25-4912-a2c5-9c1522c836ea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://globalscgroup.com/making-your-supply-chain-business-too-complex/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.971688 | 693 | 2.34375 | 2 |
The Oil & Gas Technology Centre has invested more than £1.6 million in new projects to accelerate the development and deployment of technologies to improve efficiency and reduce costs for operators.
To reduce the cost of inspecting and maintaining offshore infrastructure by 50% by 2021, the Aberdeen-based centre will co-fund the development of a new generation of unmanned drones and the latest ultrasonic technology to help manage asset integrity.
This will help developer Air Control Energy to deliver ‘a step-change’ in remote inspection of oil and gas facilities as advanced drones could be 20 times faster than traditional inspection techniques and reduce costs by 50% in comparison to traditional rope-access methods.
The centre is also working with TRAC Oil & Gas to develop a new electromagnetic method to inspect corroded pipework under insulation and composite wrap materials. This would enable companies to monitor the condition of hidden pipework, saving time and money compared to current approaches.
Using technology to transform the construction and operation of wells could reduce costs by up to 50%.
To support this, the centre is also co-funding a project with Deepwater Oil Tools to develop a special articulated joint which could enable drilling operations in rough weather conditions, saving tens of millions of pounds each year.
Meanwhile, Total, Chevron and Nexen have become members of OGTC’S multiple solution centres, while information technology firms Resulting and Kippitech have joined ITS Digital Solution Centre.
Subsea integrity specialist, 1CSI, has signed up to OGTC’s Asset Integrity Solution Centre and subsea technology company, Exnics, has joined the Small Pools Solution Centre.
Colette Cohen, Chief Executive of the Oil & Gas Technology Centre, said: “I’m pleased and proud to welcome our first members to the Oil & Gas Technology Centre and -given the significant level of interest in our activities – am confident many more will follow in the coming months.
“Since our launch in February 2017, we’ve screened almost 200 technologies and have an excellent pipeline of opportunities, with operating companies now facilitating field trials on the UKCS.
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Pakistan’s foreign minister has rejected India’s revocation of disputed Kashmir’s special constitutional status, saying the move violates a UN resolution.
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told a Pakistani TV station Monday from Saudi Arabia, where he’s on a pilgrimage to Mecca, that Pakistan would step up diplomatic efforts to prevent the revocation made by presidential order from coming into effect.
The order scraps an Indian constitutional provision that forbids Indians from outside the region from buying land in the Muslim-majority territory.
Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and both claim the region in its entirety. Two of the three wars India and Pakistan have fought since their independence from British rule were over Kashmir.
The president of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, Sardar Masood Khan, also rejected India’s presidential order and said that India “can go to war” with Pakistan in such a situation.
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Siamese fighting fish should be fed 1-2 times per day in very small amounts (2-3 pellets or pieces of other food). You should ensure all foods aside from pellets are broken into tiny pieces before feeding.
How much should I feed my fighter fish?
It is recommended to feed your betta fish two to four pellets, once or twice per day. Pellets expand when placed in water and are very filling for your betta fish. Freeze-dried or fresh food can be substituted for their pellet feeding 1 to 2 days per week.
How many pellets should I feed my fighting fish?
In the wild, bettas sometimes eat small insects that land on the water, so naturally, pellets are more effective. Anything between 4 to 6 pellets a day is a good amount to feed a betta.
How much flakes should I feed my betta fish?
Additionally, if there are enough flakes being placed in the tank that the filter can become clogged, there are too many being fed to him, so he may simply not be able to eat them all. Bettas only require one to two pellets or flakes per meal, twice a day.
Do betta fish need to eat everyday?
A common question we are asked, is “how often do you feed a betta fish?” Given their tropical nature, like most other warmer tanks, bettas need to be fed at least twice a day. This is especially important considering that many betta fish tend to be overfed, receiving large meals infrequently.
Can you overfeed a betta fish?
Keep in mind a betta fish’s stomach is not much larger than its eye – so it’s very easy to overfeed. Don’t be tricked into your betta’s large appetite, sometimes they would eat the whole pack if you tipped it in. They may look like they are hungry for more but it is important not to overfeed them.
How do I know if my betta fish is happy?
The signs of a happy, healthy, and relaxed betta include: Strong, vibrant colors. Fins are held open, but not taut, allowing their fins to billow and fold in the water. Feeds readily. Active, smooth swimming movements.
How do you feed a fighting fish?
You should offer high quality specialised Siamese fighting fish pellets/granules and supplement this with black worms, brine shrimp, frozen tubifex worms and daphnia. Siamese fighting fish should be fed 1-2 times per day in very small amounts (2-3 pellets or pieces of other food).
How many Aqueon pellets should I feed my betta?
A betta’s stomach is roughly the size of its eyeball and should not be fed a meal larger than that at once. This translates to about three pellets or brine shrimp per feeding. If you feed gel food, it should be about the same amount. A betta can be fed this amount once or twice a day.
How often do you feed fish?
For the most part, feeding your fish once or twice a day is sufficient. Some hobbyists even fast their fish one or two days a week to allow them to clear their digestive systems. Larger, more sedentary fish can go longer between meals than smaller, more active fish.
Are flakes or pellets better for bettas?
The reason that most people use pellets is that they’re often higher quality than their counterparts (flakes) and it’s also easier to watch how much you’re giving him. As well as generally being higher quality than flakes they also have the added benefit of looking more natural to your betta.
How do you help an overfed betta fish?
It’s typically caused by overfeeding, dry food or lack of fiber. First, fast your betta until the bloating subsides or defecation is observed, then adjust its diet accordingly. Avoid foods with fillers and feed pellets consisting mainly of fish or shrimp meal.
How long can Bettas go without food?
As we’ve just mentioned, betta fish can survive between 10-14 days without food. However, there are some major factors you should consider before leaving your betta fish unattended for such a long period of time.
Should I skip 1 day feeding betta?
While not advisable, Betta fish can survive up to 14 days without food! Missing a feed one day a week intentionally is good for your Betta but don’t miss feedings anymore than this. This will ensure the optimal health of your Betta fish. If you are worried about missing feedings too often don’t worry.
Do Bettas like light?
Do Betta Fish like Light? Yes, they won’t like anything too intense, but a standard aquarium light is perfect. Bettas also love aquarium plants, which need an aquarium light to grow and survive.
Why does my betta spit out his food?
Don’t be alarmed if the betta spits out its food. This, too, is common behavior and it’s believed to be a mechanism for breaking down and softening the food. Try some live bloodworms or live brine shrimp as treats if all else fails, either one will almost always entice your betta into eating.
How do you know when fish are hungry?
How To Tell If Your Fish Is Hungry Your fish is digging around the substrate (searching for food). Waiting and the top of the aquarium (for feeding time). Behavior changes (aggression). Noticeable weight/size changes. Slow or sluggish behavior.
How big is betta fish poop?
Betta Fish With Hanging Poop Healthy betta poop is brown and globby. Larger than normal globs can also be a sign of constipation like the photo above from cooneyms on Fishlore. Remember, a betta’s stomach is about the size of their eye, so only feed 2-4 pellets 1-2 times daily.
How many mini pellets should I feed my betta?
Bettas are very prone to bloat and constipation. So 1-3 pellets once a day is fine. Once a week, you might want to treat him with a second meal of 2-3 freeze dried bloodworms or brine shrimp.
Do betta fish get lonely?
Do They Get Lonely? Betta fish are naturally territorial and should not be housed with any other betta fish because they will fight and injure each other, often resulting in death. They are unlikely to get lonely in their tank; however, if they are in a small tank, they may get bored.
Can Bettas recognize their owners?
Do Betta Fish Recognize Their Owners? Surprisingly, science has found that fish are capable of recognizing their owner’s face, even if the owner is standing by the tank with other people. It’s normal for betta fish to swim to the front of the tank when an owner comes up to it. | <urn:uuid:a28cbc93-280c-4718-91c5-6e4c4d0d03f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fishkillflea.com/how-much-to-feed-chinese-fighting-fish-in-the-usa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.955088 | 1,478 | 1.882813 | 2 |
CCS and Power Systems
Advanced Energy Systems - Gasification Systems
Long-Term Refractory Durability Tests (Transport Gasifier)
Performer: Southern Company Services, Inc.
Project No: NT0000749
The Power Systems Development Facility (PSDF) gasification process features the transport gasifier, which is a dry-feed, non-slagging, fluidized bed gasifier. The gasifier has operated successfully on a wide range of fuels, including sub-bituminous, bituminous, and lignite coals as well as biomass fuel. It consists of an assembly of dual-layered refractory-lined pipe and is ideally suited to process low-rank coals, which are more than half of the worldwide reserve. The outermost refractory is for insulation as it is necessary to withstand the variations in temperature (ambient up to 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit). The inner most refractory provides erosion resistance as it must also tolerate corrosive gases, rapidly flowing fuel, and ash particles. Failure of the refractory requires unit shut-down and the loss of valuable power production.
In the gasifier, solids from the separation and collection unit enter the lower portion of the mixing zone and combust to provide the heat necessary for the gasification reactions. Coal and sorbent are fed to the gasifier in the upper mixing zone, where hot circulating solids traveling upward from the lower mixing zone provide the heat necessary to devolatilize and gasify the coal in the riser, producing syngas and gasification ash.
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By DARA BUTTERFIELD
Anti-wind campaigner Lyndsey Ward has called for the Scottish Government to increase planning fees on large-scale renewables to plug the budget gaps in local authorities.
This is despite claims that the low fees are driving investment and creating jobs across the country.
Ward has claimed that a developer at a recent windfarm exhibition has told her they were spending £22,000 to lodge an application, whereas the same plans would be charged about £250,000 in England.
She said: “The Highland Council cuts are insane when we are subsidising the wind industry. In a simple stroke, thousands more pounds could be poured into the council’s coffers to make our roads safer, our children given the required education and boost our services.”
“If we charged the same amount as England to deal with these highly complex planning applications I believe that a) the Highland Council and councils across Scotland would not get so swamped with planning applications and b) the planning fees would at least cover the cost of processing them and any PLIs (public local inquiries) and appeals that may follow.
“The low fees are encouraging developers to chance their luck in Scotland with speculative applications at the expense of our vital services.”
However, a government spokesman defended the current policy, insisting: “Scotland’s green energy potential is bringing jobs and investment to all parts of the country, and onshore wind is a part of that renewable energy revolution, which is also helping to cut household bills.
“As such, we have no plans to increase application fees to prevent renewable developments coming forward.”
“Our policy on wind farms ensures we strike the right balance between our energy needs and potential, and the need to protect some of our most precious scenic assets – which is why applications are only approved when they meet strict conditions and why no wind farm developments can go ahead in National Parks and National Scenic Areas.” | <urn:uuid:2c14c840-729c-4b5f-9cfe-c3213c57eed4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.scottishenergynews.com/scot-govt-reject-calls-for-higher-planning-fees-for-wind-farms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.962115 | 401 | 1.625 | 2 |
Niagara Falls, Ont. – Over the weekend, history was made when Nik Wallenda, tightroped himself across Niagara Falls. With mist hitting him in the face and as he stared down into the churning waters 60 meters below Wallenda made history and lived to talk about it.
One careful step at a time Wallenda battled winds and near-blinding spray to make history, becoming the first person to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Others have crossed the water on tightropes, but over the gorge downstream and not for more than 100 years.
Nothing can beat that view, he said.
“Just staring at the falls from here is breathtaking,” Wallenda said after successfully completing his daredevil act. “To be directly in the middle, directly above the falls…it takes your breath away. It’s just unreal.”
Wallenda was unbelievably calm as he slowly, painstakingly, proceeded step-by-step along the steel cable stretched across the falls. He even found time to give an interview as he was perched precariously over the raging waters below.
“Oh my gosh, it’s an unbelievable view,” he told ABC, which was broadcasting the spectacle live.
“I’m so blessed to be in the position I am, to be the first person to be right here and to be the first person in The world who will ever be right here.”
A crowd of tens of thousands of people packed onto the roadway by the falls — some waiting more than 12 hours to watch the historic performance — and they erupted with cheers as Wallenda ran the last few steps to the safety of the platform anchored in Canadian turf.
“The most amazing part was when he was on the line and he was waving at the people,” said eight-year-old William Clements. The boy, who came with his family from Dresden, Ont., jumped up and down with excitement as Wallenda knelt down on the wire toward the finish, took a hand off his balance bar and waved.
Wallenda started his journey on the American side of the falls and finished less than half an hour and 500 meters later on the Canadian side, where his passport was promptly checked by border officials.
“No I’m not carrying anything over, I promise,” a tired but happy Wallenda told the customs agents.
The distance and the heavy mist made it difficult for those watching in Niagara Falls, Ont., to see exactly when Wallenda set foot onto the wire, but eventually his red jacket came into view.
“When you first started to see him it just looked like he was floating in the mist,” said Greg Cooper, who came from Mississauga, Ont., and snagged a front-row view.
Wallenda has been walking wires since he was a child and had dreamed of this exact stunt since he was six years old. He comes from a long line of aerialist daredevils as a seventh-generation member of the famed Flying Wallendas.
He has performed many death-defying acts in his time, but was clearly not used to the literal strings that came along with signing a deal with ABC to live broadcast the event.
His father Terry Troffer, talking him through the whole walk, asked Wallenda about his biggest bone of contention — the safety tether that ABC insisted he wear.
“How’s that harness, it’s not cutting off any circulation?” Troffer could be heard asking Wallenda at one point. Wallenda wore a microphone and an ear piece
during his walk.
“No, I just feel like a jackass wearing it,” Wallenda replied.
Placing one steady foot in front of the other, trying not to get distracted by the raging waters below, Wallenda was “in the zone,” he said. That is, until ABC had a request.
“Actually, I had a producer in my ear saying, ‘You know what, you need to slow down a little,'” Wallenda said later. “I was like, ‘I don’t want to slow down. I want to get across to the other side.'”
The deal with ABC allowed Wallenda to recoup some — it hasn’t been revealed exactly how much — of the estimated $1.3 million the stunt cost him in permits, technical set-ups and marketing.
Normally, Wallenda said he focuses on the movement of the wire to guide him through a walk, but when he looked down to see fast-moving water and looked up to see rising mist, it posed a “very unique, weird situation.”
He could see the thousands of camera flashes as he approached and heard the roar of the crowd only once he was almost safely across, he said.
The throngs of people came armed with lawn chairs, umbrellas, snacks and sunscreen to stake out the best viewing spots.
Muriel Marsh, 81, came from Paris, Ont., about 120 kilometres away, Thursday night and snagged her spot on a hill at 7 a.m. Friday.
“To see this fellow walk across on the wire, I think that’s fantastic and very brave and very clever,” she said. “You’ll never have a chance again.”
Bert Dandy and his family arrived at 10 a.m., about 12 hours before Wallenda started his walk, and zeroed in on what he deemed the best seat in the house. Sitting in a lawn chair a few down from Marsh, perched on a hill with an unobstructed view of the whole wire, Dandy said people had offered him $20 per chair — he had five — to give up his spot.
No dice, he said.
Dandy loaded up the family van Thursday night in Niagara Falls with supplies, went off to work overnight then arrived at the falls. He should be unconscious by now, he said, but he is just too excited.
“I told my kids, I said, ‘This is a once-in-a-lifetime event — for free,'” Dandy said, holding a “Go Nick Go!!” sign.
“I said, ‘We’ve got to get our buns down here. We’ve got to camp out for many, many hours and get a good spot and see history in the making.”
For Wallenda, the walk was all about honouring his ancestors’ legacy and fulfilling his personal dream. He spent years preparing for the walk, both by practicing on a wire and filling out endless paperwork, and he said he hopes people can take inspiration from it.
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Patna, Sep 18 Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today conducted an aerial survey to take stock of the scale of erosion caused by floods in Gopalganj district.
Later, Kumar reviewed the flood situation, erosion and drought at a high-level meeting in Gopalganj, an official release said here.
The meeting was attended by state Water Resources Minister Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh, Art and Culture Minister Shivchandra Ram, Chief Secretary Anjani Kumar Singh and other senior officials.
During the meeting, the CM said water was receding and this may lead to erosion. He also reviewed the steps and preparedness to deal with erosion.
Meanwhile, flood situation has eased in Bihar with almost all major rivers except four flowing below danger-level, further mitigating the chance of threat of floods, the release said.
The four rivers which are still flowing above the danger mark are Punpun, Baghmati, Kamlabalan and Kosi.
Flood waters had entered a few villages of Punpun block of Patna district after seepage at its sluice gate on September 13 following heavy rains. But the seepage was blocked the same night, and flood waters stopped entering the villages, the release said, adding Punpun is witnessing a receding trend.
As per the Central Water Commission report, water level of Punpun was flowing 96 cm above the danger mark of 50.6 meters.
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There is still a preponderance for non-disabled actors in theatre and television to 'crip up' for disabled roles. Mik Scarlet looks at the slow emergence of disabled actors within mainstream representation and discusses the question of a disabled actor playing a character who has a different impairment to their own?
From my earliest memories of watching drama, I remember disabled characters. My first memory is of Commander Samuel Stone, the hoverchair using boss of Troy Tempest in Gerry Anderson's Stringray. While the Commander was a puppet in a kid's TV show, disabled people also featured in adult drama.
Raymond Burr gave us Chief of Detectives Robert T. Ironside and here in the UK Roger Tonye played Sandy Richardson in the soap Crossroads. While all these characters were wheelchair users, they were all played by non-disabled actors, although Roger Tonye became disabled during the 15 years that he played Sandy.
Ever since my childhood back in the 1970's disabled characters have featured on stage and screen. I even played a few myself, appearing in Brookside, The Bill and 2.4 Children among others. A major moment in the portrayal of disabled people in UK soaps was the casting of Julie Fernandez as Nessa Lockhead in the BBC's Eldorado in the 1990’s, marking the casting of a disabled actor in a feature role. Since then the numbers of disabled actors working with the mainstream of the dramatic arts have increased steadily.
However while the numbers of disabled talent breaking through has grown, the majority of disabled characters are continued to be played by non-disabled actors. I won't try to list them as I just don't have the space, but we all have personal favourites. I say favourites, but I don't mean in a good way as most of the disabled community views the casting of non-disabled actors to play disabled characters as the easiest route to untruthful portrayal and unrealistic story lines.
However it is understood within the industry to be a sure fire route to being acclaimed as a talented actor and even to gain those longed for awards. So however much disabled people complain, we still see non-disabled actors ready to ‘crip up’. This practice also means that the wealth of disabled talent out there find it even harder to gain employment.
After years of complaining and campaigning things are changing. While we still see non-disabled actors playing disabled, a recent example being the BBC's Big School using a sighted actor to play a visually impaired character, we are seeing a growth in opportunities for disabled acting talent to shine.
Driven by a desire to be more representative the dramatic arts are also embracing the concept of ‘inclusive casting’. This is where disabled actors are cast to play any role, whether it calls for an impairment or not. Liz Carr playing Clarissa Mullery in the BBC's long running crime drama Silent Witness is a high profile example of this, as none of the scripts so far have mentioned disability other than in passing.
An issue that is rearing its head now that there is a real commitment to use more disabled acting talent is "is it OK to use a disabled actor to play a character who has a different impairment to the own?". Recently I auditioned for the part of a character who had Motor Neurone Disease and before I got to BBC Elstree do strut my stuff, I was overcome with the feeling that I should not be trying out for this job.
While I am a disabled actor, I do not have MND and I would also say I do not look like someone who does. With my typical career suicide I discussed this issue with the casting director, and it transpired they did not choose me for the role. I still don't know if the actor they did go with had MND, although it was made clear they would only cast a disabled actor. If the actor they did pick did not have MND is that a good thing, with a disabled actor getting work, or is it a just another form of ‘cripping up’? It's a question most disabled people have yet to consider.
I don't know myself, but I do know I did feel uncomfortable with the idea of playing an impairment I have little experience of, yet I really can't play a character that could walk. If wheelchair-using actors don't get to play the roles that call for a wheelchair-user then they won't have much of career. Whether that role went to a non-disabled actor or a disabled actor, if they play a wheelchair-user but do not actually use one themselves is there any difference? Or should we rejoice that disabled talent is getting the break they so rightly deserve?
I also worry that by casting disabled actors to play against their impairment we might be giving a green light to non-disabled actors ‘cripping up’, as it is driven by this attitude that it is the talent that counts. I am sure that casting a black actor to play an obviously Asian character would not be received favourably, so why should it be okay when casting for a disabled role?
Disabled actor Kiruna Stamell is superb in the National Theatre's production of Great Britain, and she proves that disabled actors can hold their own in a strong cast of non-disabled actors. I know that anyone seeing Ms Stamell's performance will come away no longer believing the stereotype held by so many in the industry that there isn't enough talented disabled actors out there. Sadly I understand that Ms. Stamell’s understudy is not disabled, even though that position is the key route for new actors to gain experience. If disabled talent does not get those lesser roles how can the talent pool ever grow?
We are at a crossroads around the portrayal of disability in drama, both around how it is shown and by whom, and it is vital that we point the industry in the right direction as at the minute they are keen to work with us to get it right. If we miss this chance it may be many years before the pendulum of fashion that causes the desire for these kind of changes swings in our favour again.
It's an important issue and one that will shape the portrayal of disability and disabled people for many years to come. I wonder, what do you think? | <urn:uuid:9d49e0fa-c2e6-4ee7-ae68-166c40e0c1e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/?location_id=2569 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.977946 | 1,288 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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1686 Conquest of Nauplion, Peloponnese
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VEROVERING VAN NAPOLI DI ROMANIA, Romeyn Hooghe (1686)After the Turkish defeat near Vienna in 1683 the Turkish Empire in Europe fell more or less apart. The Turks were attacked from all sides. In 1686 the Venetian army led by Francesco Morosini occupied large territories in the Peloponnesos. During this war the city of Nauplia was conquered. Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) engraved this conquest of the city.
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Re: Flat, smooth foundation?
When Mehring first made foundation in 1857 it was a flat, dipped sheet with indentions of the cell bottoms, and no cell walls as we have on foundation today. Being dipped it was thick at the bottom of the sheet and thinner at the top. The angle of the cell bottoms was wrong so the bees had to rework all the foundation before making cells on it. In 1895 E. B. Weed made a machine to make foundation in a continuous sheet of uniform thickness, and roller mills were made to form the cell pattern with the 120 degree angle in the base and beginning cell walls. These improvements made foundations that the bees preferred, and trying to re-think the process today is not a profitable use of time.
The older issues of the American Bee Journal and the Bee Culture magazine tell the story of the 1800s beekeepers developing the management techniques we use today, and anyone can read and see the evolution in thought and management practices. They argue over many of the same subjects that we do today. One thing stands out, the beekeepers of that period were tight with a dollar. They were interested in profit. They were in search of the most efficient techniques. If comb foundation was not a benefit to them they would not have used it.
Hobby beekeepers like myself can piddle and play with keeping bees, we can try new things (at least things that are new to us, almost everything has been tried by someone before) but as a group, we seem to have become very gullible. A statement is made, and then is repeated until it becomes truth. How often do we try a procedure for ourselves before we accept it as fact? I see statements about management techniques made on Beesource that contrary to my experience, but that can be explained because of differences in location and the strain of bees being used. I also see statements made about historical beekeeping practices that are half-truths, and that is harder to explain. We should make an effort to study our beekeeping history so that we can give as accurate information as possible, and we should not repeat what we read on the net until we have tried it several time and found it accurate. If we do pass along information/recommendations that we have not checked ourselves, we should say that we have not tried it and let the reader beware.
When anyone reads my posts, be assured I will do my best to be accurate, but don't believe it as though it is carved in stone. Try everything for yourselves in your area with your bees and prove or disprove it, then you can pass along to others what you have learned with confidence that it will work for them.
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A collection of jewels belonging to an anonymous Indian royal family will go under the hammer later this month at international auction house Bonhams’ Indian and Islamic art sale.
The family, who are based in the UK and wish to remain anonymous, will be parting with a number of treasures on April 19 that have been in their possession for generations, including a South Indian marriage necklace or ‘manga malai’, a jewel encrusted dagger, and extravagant princely jewels such as an emerald and diamond-set belt buckle.
“This is a treasure trove. They are magnificent examples of 18th and 19th century craftsmanship and provide a wonderful opportunity to purchase an heirloom once owned by Indian royalty,” said Rukmani Kumari Rathore, specialist in Islamic and Indian art at Bonhams.
The ‘manga malai’-- one of the highlights of the collection -- is composed of linked mango-shaped elements, lavishly set with rubies and diamonds, and estimated at 50,000-70,000 pounds. The “mango garland” design is unique to southern India, where the mango is regarded as a symbol of love and fertility, Bonhams said in a statement.
The ‘manga malai’ was worn by women at special occasionssuch as weddings and also by traditional temple dancers (known as ‘devadasi’ or servants of the god or goddess), who would dedicate their lives to the worship of temple deities in a manner akin to marriage.
Similar necklaces can be found in the David Collection in Copenhagen and the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha. The dagger is an impressive gem-set enamelled piece decorated with gold, rubies and diamonds. The hilt is of a type rarely produced in Mughal India and finds comparison with 18th century Persian daggers of similar form. It was probably made in Rajasthan, known for its royal workshops and enamelling centres carrying on the Mughal tradition of superlative quality enamelling.
There is a similarly decorated hilt in the Nasser D Khalili Collection in London. Set with a formidable 17th century Ottoman double-edged watered steel blade, it is estimated at 30,000-50,000 pounds.
Also among the princely family’s treasures is a rare belt buckle set with emeralds and diamonds and estimated at 18,000-25,000 pounds. The front is set with precious stones and the reverse exquisitely enamelled in green and green colours with elegant floral motifs.
A delicate yet magnificent armband will also feature in the sale. A central octagonal diamond is flanked by diamond- set motifs, with the reverse side decorated as attentively as the front with fine enamelling comprising gold scrolling floral motifs on a dark green background. This delicate and quietly beautiful piece is estimated at 8,000-12,000 pounds. | <urn:uuid:e8016bac-57b2-4573-bab0-433e68973f53> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.hindustantimes.com/india/jewels-belonging-to-anonymous-indian-royals-to-be-auctioned-in-london/story-gp0GtZpM5gZGYIMrRUktqO.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00538-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949648 | 611 | 2 | 2 |
Capsid protein structure, self-assembly, and processing reveal morphogenesis of the marine virophage mavirus.
ABSTRACT: Virophages have the unique property of parasitizing giant viruses within unicellular hosts. Little is understood about how they form infectious virions in this tripartite interplay. We provide mechanistic insights into assembly and maturation of mavirus, a marine virophage, by combining structural and stability studies on capsomers, virus-like particles (VLPs), and native virions. We found that the mavirus protease processes the double jelly-roll (DJR) major capsid protein (MCP) at multiple C-terminal sites and that these sites are conserved among virophages. Mavirus MCP assembled in Escherichia coli in the absence and presence of penton protein, forming VLPs with defined size and shape. While quantifying VLPs in E. coli lysates, we found that full-length rather than processed MCP is the competent state for capsid assembly. Full-length MCP was thermally more labile than truncated MCP, and crystal structures of both states indicate that full-length MCP has an expanded DJR core. Thus, we propose that the MCP C-terminal domain serves as a scaffolding domain by adding strain on MCP to confer assembly competence. Mavirus protease processed MCP more efficiently after capsid assembly, which provides a regulation mechanism for timing capsid maturation. By analogy to Sputnik and adenovirus, we propose that MCP processing renders mavirus particles infection competent by loosening interactions between genome and capsid shell and destabilizing pentons for genome release into host cells. The high structural similarity of mavirus and Sputnik capsid proteins together with conservation of protease and MCP processing suggest that assembly and maturation mechanisms described here are universal for virophages.
Project description:Virophages, e.g., Sputnik, Mavirus, and Organic Lake virophage (OLV), are unusual parasites of giant double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) viruses, yet little is known about their diversity. Here, we describe the global distribution, abundance, and genetic diversity of virophages based on analyzing and mapping comprehensive metagenomic databases. The results reveal a distinct abundance and worldwide distribution of virophages, involving almost all geographical zones and a variety of unique environments. These environments ranged from deep ocean to inland, iced to hydrothermal lakes, and human gut- to animal-associated habitats. Four complete virophage genomic sequences (Yellowstone Lake virophages [YSLVs]) were obtained, as was one nearly complete sequence (Ace Lake Mavirus [ALM]). The genomes obtained were 27,849 bp long with 26 predicted open reading frames (ORFs) (YSLV1), 23,184 bp with 21 ORFs (YSLV2), 27,050 bp with 23 ORFs (YSLV3), 28,306 bp with 34 ORFs (YSLV4), and 17,767 bp with 22 ORFs (ALM). The homologous counterparts of five genes, including putative FtsK-HerA family DNA packaging ATPase and genes encoding DNA helicase/primase, cysteine protease, major capsid protein (MCP), and minor capsid protein (mCP), were present in all virophages studied thus far. They also shared a conserved gene cluster comprising the two core genes of MCP and mCP. Comparative genomic and phylogenetic analyses showed that YSLVs, having a closer relationship to each other than to the other virophages, were more closely related to OLV than to Sputnik but distantly related to Mavirus and ALM. These findings indicate that virophages appear to be widespread and genetically diverse, with at least 3 major lineages.
Project description:BACKGROUND: Recent advances of genomics and metagenomics reveal remarkable diversity of viruses and other selfish genetic elements. In particular, giant viruses have been shown to possess their own mobilomes that include virophages, small viruses that parasitize on giant viruses of the Mimiviridae family, and transpovirons, distinct linear plasmids. One of the virophages known as the Mavirus, a parasite of the giant Cafeteria roenbergensis virus, shares several genes with large eukaryotic self-replicating transposon of the Polinton (Maverick) family, and it has been proposed that the polintons evolved from a Mavirus-like ancestor. RESULTS: We performed a comprehensive phylogenomic analysis of the available genomes of virophages and traced the evolutionary connections between the virophages and other selfish genetic elements. The comparison of the gene composition and genome organization of the virophages reveals 6 conserved, core genes that are organized in partially conserved arrays. Phylogenetic analysis of those core virophage genes, for which a sufficient diversity of homologs outside the virophages was detected, including the maturation protease and the packaging ATPase, supports the monophyly of the virophages. The results of this analysis appear incompatible with the origin of polintons from a Mavirus-like agent but rather suggest that Mavirus evolved through recombination between a polinton and an unknown virus. Altogether, virophages, polintons, a distinct Tetrahymena transposable element Tlr1, transpovirons, adenoviruses, and some bacteriophages form a network of evolutionary relationships that is held together by overlapping sets of shared genes and appears to represent a distinct module in the vast total network of viruses and mobile elements. CONCLUSIONS: The results of the phylogenomic analysis of the virophages and related genetic elements are compatible with the concept of network-like evolution of the virus world and emphasize multiple evolutionary connections between bona fide viruses and other classes of capsid-less mobile elements.
Project description:Virophages, which are potentially important ecological regulators, have been discovered in association with members of the order Megavirales. Sputnik virophages target the Mimiviridae, Mavirus was identified with the Cafeteria roenbergensis virus, and virophage genomes reconstructed by metagenomic analyses may be associated with the Phycodnaviridae. Despite the fact that the Sputnik virophages were isolated with viruses belonging to group A of the Mimiviridae, they can grow in amoebae infected by Mimiviridae from groups A, B or C. In this study we describe Zamilon, the first virophage isolated with a member of group C of the Mimiviridae family. By co-culturing amoebae with purified Zamilon, we found that the virophage is able to multiply with members of groups B and C of the Mimiviridae family but not with viruses from group A. Zamilon has a 17,276 bp DNA genome that potentially encodes 20 genes. Most of these genes are closely related to genes from the Sputnik virophage, yet two are more related to Megavirus chiliensis genes, a group B Mimiviridae, and one to Moumouvirus monve transpoviron.
Project description:The large (90-nm) icosahedral capsid of bacteriophage T5 is composed of 775 copies of the major capsid protein (mcp) together with portal, protease, and decoration proteins. Its assembly is a regulated process that involves several intermediates, including a thick-walled round precursor prohead that expands as the viral DNA is packaged to yield a thin-walled and angular mature capsid. We investigated capsid maturation by comparing cryoelectron microscopy (cryo-EM) structures of the prohead, the empty expanded capsid both with and without decoration protein, and the virion capsid at a resolution of 3.8 Å for the latter. We detail the molecular structure of the mcp, its complex pattern of interactions, and their evolution during maturation. The bacteriophage T5 mcp is a variant of the canonical HK97-fold with a high level of plasticity that allows for the precise assembly of a giant macromolecule and the adaptability needed to interact with other proteins and the packaged DNA.
Project description:BACKGROUND:Analysis of metagenomic sequences has become the principal approach for the study of the diversity of viruses. Many recent, extensive metagenomic studies on several classes of viruses have dramatically expanded the visible part of the virosphere, showing that previously undetected viruses, or those that have been considered rare, actually are important components of the global virome. RESULTS:We investigated the provenance of viruses related to tail-less bacteriophages of the family Tectiviridae by searching genomic and metagenomics sequence databases for distant homologs of the tectivirus-like Double Jelly-Roll major capsid proteins (DJR MCP). These searches resulted in the identification of numerous genomes of virus-like elements that are similar in size to tectiviruses (10-15 kilobases) and have diverse gene compositions. By comparison of the gene repertoires, the DJR MCP-encoding genomes were classified into 6 distinct groups that can be predicted to differ in reproduction strategies and host ranges. Only the DJR MCP gene that is present by design is shared by all these genomes, and most also encode a predicted DNA-packaging ATPase; the rest of the genes are present only in subgroups of this unexpectedly diverse collection of DJR MCP-encoding genomes. Only a minority encode a DNA polymerase which is a hallmark of the family Tectiviridae and the putative family "Autolykiviridae". Notably, one of the identified putative DJR MCP viruses encodes a homolog of Cas1 endonuclease, the integrase involved in CRISPR-Cas adaptation and integration of transposon-like elements called casposons. This is the first detected occurrence of Cas1 in a virus. Many of the identified elements are individual contigs flanked by inverted or direct repeats and appear to represent complete, extrachromosomal viral genomes, whereas others are flanked by bacterial genes and thus can be considered as proviruses. These contigs come from metagenomes of widely different environments, some dominated by archaea and others by bacteria, suggesting that collectively, the DJR MCP-encoding elements have a broad host range among prokaryotes. CONCLUSIONS:The findings reported here greatly expand the known host range of (putative) viruses of bacteria and archaea that encode a DJR MCP. They also demonstrate the extreme diversity of genome architectures in these viruses that encode no universal proteins other than the capsid protein that was used as the marker for their identification. From a supposedly minor group of bacterial and archaeal viruses, these viruses are emerging as a substantial component of the prokaryotic virome.
Project description:Virophages are small double-stranded DNA viruses that are parasites of giant DNA viruses that infect unicellular eukaryotes. Here we identify a novel group of virophages, named Dishui Lake virophages (DSLVs) that were discovered in Dishui Lake (DSL): an artificial freshwater lake in Shanghai, China. Based on PCR and metagenomic analysis, the complete genome of DSLV1 was found to be circular and 28,788 base pairs in length, with a G+C content 43.2%, and 28 predicted open reading frames (ORFs). Fifteen of the DSLV1 ORFs have sequence similarity to known virophages. Two DSLV1 ORFs exhibited sequence similarity to that of prasinoviruses (Phycodnaviridae) and chloroviruses (Phycodnaviridae), respectively, suggesting horizontal gene transfer occurred between these large algal DNA viruses and DSLV1. 46 other virophages-related contigs were also obtained, including six homologous major capsid protein (MCP) gene. Phylogenetic analysis of these MCPs showed that DSLVs are closely related to OLV (Organic Lake virophage) and YSLVs (Yellowstone Lake virophages), especially to YSLV3, except for YSLV7. These results indicate that freshwater ecotopes are the hotbed for discovering novel virophages as well as understanding their diversity and properties.
Project description:Virophages are critical regulators of viral population dynamics and potential actors in the stability of the microbial networks. These small biological entities predate the replicative cycle of giant viruses, such as the members of the Mimiviridae family or their distant relatives, which produce within the cytoplasm of their host cells a viral factory harboring a complex biochemistry propitious to the growth of the smaller parasites. In this paper, we describe the isolation and the characterization of a new virophage, the eighth, that we named Guarani. We observed that Guarani exhibits a late replication cycle compared to its giant virus host. In addition, like all Sputnik strains, Guarani is able to infect the three lineages A, B and C of the Mimiviridae family, and affects the replication and the infectivity of its host virus. In terms of genetic content, Guarani has a 18,967 bp long double-stranded DNA genome encoding 22 predicted genes very similar to Sputnik genes, except for ORF19 and ORF12. The former is more related to Zamilon while the latter seems to be novel. The architecture of the Guarani genome is closely related to Sputnik and Zamilon strains, suggesting a common origin for all these virophages.
Project description:Search of metagenomics sequence databases for homologs of virophage capsid proteins resulted in the discovery of a new family of virophages in the sheep rumen metagenome. The genomes of the rumen virophages (RVP) encode a typical virophage major capsid protein, ATPase and protease combined with a Polinton-type, protein primed family B DNA polymerase. The RVP genomes appear to be linear molecules, with terminal inverted repeats. Thus, the RVP seem to represent virophage-Polinton hybrids that are likely capable of formation of infectious virions. Virion proteins of mimiviruses were detected in the same metagenomes as the RVP suggesting that the virophages of the new family parasitize on giant viruses that infect protist inhabitants of the rumen.
Project description:Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) is a nonenveloped virus with an icosahedral capsid composed of two proteins, VP2 and VP3, that derive from the processing of the polyprotein NH(2)-pVP2-VP4-VP3-COOH. The virion contains VP1, the viral polymerase, which is both free and covalently linked to the two double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) genomic segments. In this study, the virus assembly process was studied further with the baculovirus expression system. While expression of the wild-type polyprotein was not found to be self-sufficient to give rise to virus-like particles (VLPs), deletion or replacement of the five C-terminal residues of VP3 was observed to promote capsid assembly. Indeed, the single deletion of the C-terminal glutamic acid was sufficient to induce VLP formation. Moreover, fusion of various peptides or small proteins (a green fluorescent protein or a truncated form of ovalbumin) at the C terminus of VP3 also promoted capsid assembly, suggesting that assembly required screening of the negative charges at the C terminus of VP3. The fused polypeptides mimicked the effect of VP1, which interacts with VP3 to promote VLP assembly. The C-terminal segment of VP3 was found to contain two functional domains. While the very last five residues of VP3 mainly controlled both assembly and capsid architecture, the five preceding residues constituted the VP1 (and possibly the pVP2/VP2) binding domain. Finally, we showed that capsid formation is associated with VP2 maturation, demonstrating that the protease VP4 is involved in the virus assembly process.
Project description:Assembly of tailed bacteriophages and herpesviruses starts with formation of procapsids (virion precursors without DNA). Scaffolding proteins (SP) drive assembly by chaperoning the major capsid protein (MCP) to build an icosahedral lattice. Here we report near-atomic resolution cryo-EM structures of the bacteriophage SPP1 procapsid, the intermediate expanded procapsid with partially released SPs, and the mature capsid with DNA. In the intermediate state, SPs are bound only to MCP pentons and to adjacent subunits from hexons. SP departure results in the expanded state associated with unfolding of the MCP N-terminus and straightening of E-loops. The newly formed extensive inter-capsomere bonding appears to compensate for release of SPs that clasp MCP capsomeres together. Subsequent DNA packaging instigates bending of MCP A domain loops outwards, closing the hexons central opening and creating the capsid auxiliary protein binding interface. These findings provide a molecular basis for the sequential structural rearrangements during viral capsid maturation. | <urn:uuid:5c939cf7-97c2-46ce-9933-a31cfd962c12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.omicsdi.org/dataset/biostudies/S-EPMC6048507 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.920948 | 3,746 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The thaw when it came to our village, Comins Coch, was swift. The overnight rain and the warm south-westerly wind soon drove the fields clear of snow, leaving only the hardened toboggan runs and the thick ice of the sunken lane as evidence of the big freeze. Looking east, towards the higher ground of Trefeurig, the view which had been a swath of unmarked snow was transformed into a dank, yellowed landscape with a few threadbare white patches, remnant drifts that picked out the field boundaries.
Alongside the lane, the stream – recently all but silenced by seven degrees of frost – has thrown off the thick layer of ice that had built up. Splashes from the small waterfall had cast frozen armour on the waterside plants, in a series of pendulous shapes and patterns. Now the plants hang limp and destructured at the stream edge with the other detritus of the thaw, which includes two vertebrate casualties of the cold, a shrew and a song thrush. I hope it isn't the thrush that, until a few days ago, eagerly grazed the berries from our holly tree.
The steel-blue sky that stood over the snowfields has been replaced by a deep anticyclonic gloom – a grey blur of a sky that robs the landscape of contrast and hangs low over the hills. As I walk towards the disused quarry that overlooks the village, a light but insistent drizzle begins to fall. Soon, every downward-facing point of blackthorn in the hedgerow has accumulated its own droplet of moisture.
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Ryan-Murray Budget Deal Debate
Aired December 10, 2013 - 18:28 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.
VAN JONES, CO-HOST: Welcome to CROSSFIRE. I'm Van Jones on the left.
S.E. CUPP, CO-HOST: I'm S.E. Cupp on the right. Tonight, we have breaking news, a brand-new deal to avoid another government shutdown.
JONES: But it contains a lot of stuff that Republicans don't like and Democrats don't like. Let's go right to CNN's chief congressional correspondent, Dana Bash.
DANA BASH, CNN CHIEF CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Van. And as you look, the headline is that there is a deal and that you have the Republican budget chair standing next to the Democratic budget chair, in the House and the Senate, hand in glove, saying that they worked on this together. That in and of itself is phenomenal, given the atmosphere that we have seen for years here in Washington.
It is not expansive. It is not the grand bargain that many people want and we need in this country to reduce the deficit, but it is baby steps, a two-year deal to do away with those arbitrary forced spending cuts and, instead, replace it with different cuts that Congress would agree to that would be more acceptable to some Democrats and some Republicans, depending on how they look at this.
Both of the lawmakers said that this is not what they want, but they both said, "Look, we are in divided government. This is what we're going to get."
JONES: Well, Dana, look, there's opposition on both sides of this deal, though, so can you help us understand what some of the concerns are from Democrats and from Republicans?
BASH: Sure. Let's start with some of the Democrats, some of the liberals. They are not happy because the way that some of the changes are paid for is by forcing federal workers and those in the military to contribute more to their pensions. That's not something that a lot of Democrats like.
They also wish that there were -- there was an extension of unemployment benefits in this. That is not in this deal.
On the Republican side, you have a lot of conservative opposition from the outside, a lot of groups, including the famous Koch brothers, who have really financed a lot of conservative campaigns, writing a letter warning conservatives to vote against this, because they like those forced spending cuts because it keeps the -- it keeps spending down in a way that doesn't allow for members of Congress to change things. So that is, certainly, a problem on the conservative side.
But you did hear Paul Ryan say he's confident this is going to pass the House. You've seen this movie before. Things change when Republicans get in a room. We're going to watch for an important meeting, Van and S.E., tomorrow morning among House Republicans to hash this out and make sure that they can actually pass it. The deadline is by the end of the week.
CUPP: Thanks, Dana. We appreciate it.
In the CROSSFIRE tonight, Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff of California and Republican Congressman Tim Huelskamp of Kansas.
Congressman Schiff, let me start with you. Is this a good deal? Are you happy with what Paul Ryan and his counterpart announced today?
REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D), CALIFORNIA: Well, I'm pleased that we're back to negotiating again, and we may avoid another fiscal cliff or shock to the economy.
But I'm skeptical about what I've heard so far. I don't want to see an agreement that's balanced on the backs of federal employees who have already given up over 100 billion in terms of sacrifice over the last few years in lost wages and a freeze in terms of their income.
So is it balanced? This is going to be one of the questions I'm going to have. I don't like the fact there's no unemployment -- extension of unemployment compensation in this. I don't know about where we're going with revenue, I also think that where it looks like we're going for revenues. It doesn't make a lot of sense. Tacking on fees to airline tickets is a strange way to finance the government. I'd much rather see us do away with some of the farm subsidies to the major agra businesses that don't need them as well as closing other special- interest tax loopholes.
So I'd have to say, I don't like a lot of what I've heard about it, but the only thing I do like is that it might avoid another shock to the economy.
JONES: So it's good that we're moving forward, but I turn to you, Congressman. Now, a lot of conservative groups have already come out saying they hate this thing. Americans for Prosperity hates it. Heritage hates it. Freedom Works hates it. Are you willing to, in the name of moving forward and getting some deal, avoiding another shutdown, are you willing to buck those big conservative voices and stick with Paul Ryan?
REP. TIM HUELSKAMP (R), KANSAS: Well, I think far too often the question in Washington seems to be "Can we make a deal?" I'd rather say, "Can we find a solution?"
This deal raises spending. There's no way around it. It's more spending for both sides. And for far too long, most conservatives would agree that's the problem in Washington. I don't know how a deal is good for conservatives or for Americans if spending is going to go up.
JONES: Given what you know and given the fact that the alternative might be a shutdown, would you be willing to support it for now? Maybe you can do more later on, but are you willing to support Paul Ryan now? Knowing what you know now, would you vote for it?
HUELSKAMP: I would not. And it's usually not a binary choice. There are other options and proposals. But at the end of the day, in August of 2011, we said we're going to have some hard caps on spending. And what they're trying to do is blow through these caps. And our Republican Congress, we've discussed this for the last couple years. And the leadership has said again and again, this is the one thing we've achieved for $3 trillion in increases in the deficit.
CUPP: But so Congressman, let me push you on that. So you're suggesting, then, for Republicans who have just weathered some not fun weather during the first shutdown, you're suggesting for Republicans that it's better that they reject a bad medium-term deal than -- or you're saying it's better to go through another shutdown than to accept a bad medium-term deal?
HUELSKAMP: Well, in a way, I'm surprised leadership would even be offering this. Because we've talked about this again and again, about long-term solutions. So Paul Ryan's been very clear about that. We need not just short-term ideas; we need long-term solutions. That is one of the changes --
JONES: Do you feel that Paul Ryan has sold you out? You saw him at this press conference. He was not saying the things that you're saying now. He was saying you've got to take what you can get. Do you feel that Paul Ryan sold you out?
HUELSKAMP: I don't know about selling out. I'll have to see the details on that. And I will not say that.
But at the end of the day, spending is going up. Republicans and conservatives in particular have said for years we've been spending too much money, and the bipartisan agreement -- bipartisan usually scares us. That means more spending at the end of the day.
CUPP: Well, Congressman Schiff, let me ask you a similar question. Paul Ryan rarely gets credit for working across the aisle, and he does it frequently. Are you going to give him credit for coming up with this bill, working with Patty Murray?
SCHIFF: You know, I give him credit for that, absolutely, for trying to hammer something out. It may or may not fly. I think --
CUPP: Yes, but all we hear is the intransigent Republicans, the obstructionist Republicans. I'd like to give him a little credit.
SCHIFF: No, I think he deserves credit. This is not easy for him to sell to his own conference, as you can tell from our conversation here. So I do give him credit.
But I don't know whether we'll get there, because we're going to lose a substantial number of Republicans. We're going to lose a substantial number of Democrats if what we hear about the deal is that it too disproportionately impacts the federal employees if it doesn't go after any of the special interest tax breaks that Democrats would like to see help finance an end to the sequester.
Democrats don't like the sequester level. We feel this is an austerity budget that's really doing damage to the economy. I think if, frankly, we had an economy, if we had a budget that was making an investment in infrastructure and jobs and we were able to pass the president's jobs bill, our economy would have fully recovered from their session by now. So I don't think any of this is good economics. The only question is, is this less worse economics than going through with the sequester?
CUPP: But wasn't -- let me be a little counterintuitive. Wasn't the sequester good for you guys? Wasn't the sequester good for Democrats in that you got those defense cuts you wanted and you got to paint Republicans as being cold-hearted, slashing those social programs? What are you going to lean on now?
SCHIFF: I don't think it was good for Democrats at all. And Democrats don't think it was good for the country. And we're not willing to trade even a short-term political advantage for something that's damaging the economy.
A lot of Democrats, myself included, think the defense cuts are too steep too fast. They don't let the Defense Department go through a reduction in a more methodical way. So there's not a lot Democrats like about the sequester at all.
But the most significant thing is there are millions of people who are still struggling to get by, still struggling to find work, still struggling to stay in their homes. And all of this seems very unnecessary and a result of this austerity budget.
JONES: Well, you know, one of the things that I am interested in, talking about giving some credit to Paul Ryan. I'd like to give some credit to President Obama. And I wanted you to agree.
President Obama in some ways has defamed the Tea Party. You are a very strong hero for the Tea Party movement. You guys had one weapon, a super weapon. That was the shutdown.
And President Obama stood his ground, let you guys overshoot on the last shutdown. You can never fire that weapon again. And now you've got to take what you can get. Don't you have to give President Obama a little bit of credit for having played this chess game pretty well?
HUELSKAMP: We should give Harry Reid credit for the shutdown. It was Harry Reid --
JONES: Oh, was it?
HUELSKAMP: -- who wouldn't let things come to a vote. And one thing we can't forget is that it was President Obama and the two folks that announced the deal. And Adam, I voted against the Budget Control Act that started the sequester. It's interesting: Washington said it was the worst thing ever, but they all took credit for it in August 2nd of 2011. And so if it was such a bad deal, then why did they agree to it? Why did they move forward on that?
At the end of the day, we understand we have a spending problem here, and this increases spending. We all just agreed to a bipartisan agreement just two years ago.
SCHIFF: I think -- I supported the Budget Control Act, and I think that many of us who did made one fundamental misjudgment, and that is that we thought within the Republican Caucus, there would be such strong opposition to the defense cuts that they would never go along. That was the gamble.
But in fact, as it turned out, the deficit hawks were more powerful than the defense hawks, and that was a miscalculation. And we are all paying a serious price for that.
JONES: Well, now the deck has been reshuffled. We're going to have to -- we'll come back after the break. We'll keep talking.
Speaker John Boehner is going to need some Democratic votes to get this deal through the House. Next, I want to ask you, Congressman, what will -- will that spark a Republican revolt that could cost the speaker his job?
JONES: Welcome back. In the CROSSFIRE tonight, we have Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff and Republican Congressman Tim Huelskamp.
Tonight, we are following breaking news. We've got reaction coming in to the just-announced deal to avoid another government shutdown. We're going to go back to CNN chief congressional correspondent Dana Bash -- Dana.
BASH: That's right, Van, and just to recap, this is a deal that would last for two years. It would do away with those forced spending cuts and instead put in some new cuts. But raise the level of spending for the next year, at least.
And that is something that Paul Ryan, who is the architect on the Republican side of this deal, said that is necessary, because there's divided government. But guess what? As you can imagine, not all of his Republican colleagues agree, especially some others who might want to run for president in 2016.
Senator Marco Rubio of Florida just released a statement saying that he opposes this, because he says that this does nothing to deal with the long-term problems in the budget, dealing with the debt and deficit, and also, because he likes those forced spending cuts.
And this is something that we've heard from conservative groups all day long, writing letters to conservative members of Congress, saying, "Please oppose this," because they don't want to do away with those spending caps. Because that's -- they feel that that is really the only way, even in the short term, to force Congress to keep spending in the government down.
So you definitely see a 2016 presidential fight already shaping up. People say well, maybe it's too early to talk about the presidential race. No way. So much of this calculation going on, on both sides, all about that.
CUPP: Never too early for us here at CROSSFIRE. We're happy to have that debate. Thanks, Dana.
All right. While this deal is controversial, it's something we almost never see here in Washington: a bipartisan compromise. Look at House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan today.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. PAUL RYAN (R-WI), BUDGET CHAIRMAN: As a conservative, I think this is a step in the right direction. What am I getting out of this? I'm getting more deficit reduction. So the deficit will go down more by passing this than if we did nothing. That's point No. 1.
Point No. 2, there are no tax increases here.
Point No. 3, we're finally starting to deal with auto pilot spending, that mandatory spending that has not been addressed by Congress for years. Look, this isn't easy.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
CUPP: So Congressman Huelskamp, Democrats are giving up some stuff in this. Is Paul Ryan wrong that what you're getting is not enough to push you over the edge to be in favor of this bill?
HUELSKAMP: We are a little disadvantaged to Paul, given we haven't seen the full details.
CUPP: -- about it. That's true.
HUELSKAMP: But that never stops people from commenting. But as I understand it, spending will be up higher. But this is not an unprecedented deal. This happened in December 2011, and it happened last December, as well. Every time there's some bipartisan agreement, there's more spending in Washington. This is the same. It's not unprecedented. They did the same thing each December.
And I think at the end of the day, as was indicated by Senator Rubio, this doesn't get to the heart of the problem, which is spending. Too much spending. It's $700 billion deficit. It's not good enough, you know, moving it a few dollars.
But I think spending is going up.
CUPP: But can we get to a deal that you want? I know the deal you want. I understand. I understand the disappointment in the deals that Boehner has put forth and he's gotten Republicans to sign off on. I get it.
Could we ever get the kind of deal you want?
HUELSKAMP: I think we've always settled for less than we can get with this leadership. At the end of the day, the American people want better than this. And they're going to say, this is what you did? This is considered a great, grand bipartisan deal?
And at the end of the day, spending is going to go up. The deficit, I believe, is going to be higher. We're still waiting to the final detail.
VAN JONES, CO-HOST: Well, you used a very interesting word there. You said "leadership". So, that brings the question Boehner.
Boehner is now in a very tough situation. And he's going to be looking over his shoulder at people like you. Is his speakership in jeopardy?
He is going to have to reach out to Democrats to get this thing passed. He can't get you. When he does that, does that put his speakership in jeopardy? Will you stay with Boehner even if he raises these caps and raising some revenue?
HUELSKAMP: Well, I don't see any speaker losing at midterm, as we see it now. But at the end of the day, the old Hastert Rule was we got to get a majority of your Republicans and they haven't even asked us. We've been out of town for the weekend. And all of a sudden, they have this deal.
Again, this has happened two Decembers in a row.
REP. ADAM SCHIFF (D), CALIFORNIA: Let me point out two problems with the so-called Hastert Rule. First of all, there are some major issues that we've been fighting on for a decade. Comprehensive immigration reform, for example, that could go to the president tomorrow if we would simply take it up for a vote in the House.
And by sticking to this artificial rule, you're prohibiting a bipartisan agreement. It would be a strong bipartisan vote that would send that package to the president. And there are a lot of other priorities that could go to the president but for that rule.
SCHIFF: Now, it does require the speaker to show leadership and it does require him to stare down some of the Tea Party caucus. But at the end of the day --
CUPP: It's fair enough.
HUELSKAMP: What was the Pelosi rule that prevented immigration to come to the floor when she was speaker? Why didn't she pass an immigration bill? To blame it on the Republicans when you had control of the House, and Senate and presidency, there was some rule. They didn't want to do it then.
CUPP: Let me bring it back to this --
SCHIFF: What changed that equation, frankly, was the elections, and the Republican recognition --
HUELSKAMP: Two straight years, two straight years to do whatever you wanted to do and you didn't do it.
SCHIFF: If the GOP ever wanted a shot at the White House again, they needed to show some flexibility in immigration. And that's a positive change, but we are so close, and to come this close after 10 years and see it held up by not even a statute, or regulation, simply a policy called the Hastert Rule is just a terrible disservice to the country.
CUPP: Let me bring it to the current debate and the budget news out today. I want to ask you, Congressman Schiff, about the potential and the news that we're getting that the unemployment benefits extension is not included in this. Is that a deal breaker for you? And hey, if Nancy Pelosi gets the votes, will she have caved on a really crucial issue for Democrats?
SCHIFF: Well, what I'm hoping will happen is that unemployment is not part of this deal. Let's hope we can put together a side deal that does pass unemployment compensation.
CUPP: Well, let me ask you about this deal -- is it a deal breaker for this deal?
SCHIFF: I don't know if it's a deal breaker for this deal. It depends on what else is in it.
JONES: But for Democrats, shouldn't it be?
CUPP: Oh, I can hear this in 2014 being a big deal.
JONES: You have to be clear now and you know as much about this as anybody, and you care as much about it as anybody. But you're talking about 1.3 million active job seekers. You're talking about 20,000 veterans being thrown under the bus right before Christmas and Democrats signing off on that? Can you sign off on that?
SCHIFF: You're exactly right.
JONES: In a side deal? We're supposed to wait (ph) for a side deal?
SCHIFF: Well, it's going to have to mean that the rest of this agreement has a lot to offer. And this is why I started off at the beginning of our conversation tonight saying I'm very skeptical, because it unemployment is not included. If it is unfairly balanced on the backs of federal workers, it's not going to have my support, and I think it's not going to have a lot of Democrats' support.
CUPP: Certainly not. I mean, you got this progressive wing leading the party leftward. I don't think that's going to stand. SCHIFF: What I hope will happen is that there can be an additional agreement on unemployment. That will sweeten the deal that's on the table.
CUPP: That's a big risk that you've got to take, though, voting for this in hopes that something else will come down the line.
SCHIFF: We only have a few days, so we'll know about the one when we know about the other.
JONES: Well, listen, we're going to get a little bit more information. We want to go to the White House to get some reaction from our senior White House correspondent Brianna Keilar.
What are we learning out there at the White House?
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Hi there, Van.
Well, early reaction and this is just what we're getting on background from officials as we await an official statement from the White House, is that they're looking on this very favorably. One White House official telling me they see to be a very positive development. And I just got this, pardon me, so I'm reading it off my iPhone.
They say it's great to move beyond governing by crisis after the chaos of October. They said the sequester is doing real harm. This is a balanced package that helps deal with that. And also adding that they don't love everything in there, but that's what compromise is about.
So I think this is certainly what President Obama will be saying that he supports. He is currently on his way back from Africa and we are waiting official reaction, Van and S.E.
JONES: Brianna, just one question, though. The president spent an awful lot of political capital last week. His entire speech to the country, his weekly address was about unemployment insurance. He was talking about --
KEILAR: That's right.
JONES: -- active job seekers.
Now, you've got this deal on the table. It has nothing in there about that. And the White House is saying that's a good thing?
KEILAR: I think they're not saying that's a good thing. Let me explain what we've heard from Jay Carney, and certainly you could argue that the preference would have been for unemployment insurance to be in this package.
Jay Carney was asked last week, will the president sign a bill that doesn't include unemployment insurance? He side step that, making it -- certainly making you wonder if the president may do that. It sounds like he's going to do that.
We've heard from Jay Carney. He said that it's is important that unemployment insurance is passed. The vehicle for it doesn't matter so much.
So I think you heard President Obama pressing for it last week. He did dedicate his weekly address. So, I think he's going to continue to push for it when you're talking about 1.3 million Americans who are losing their unemployment benefits.
But when it comes to this bill, it sounds like he will sign it.
CUPP: OK. Thanks, Bri.
Stay here for our continuing breaking news coverage of the budget deal and we'll be back after this.
CUPP: We're back with Adam Schiff and Tim Huelskamp.
We're following breaking news of a budget deal reached on Capitol Hill.
Let me ask you, Congressman, we just heard from White House correspondent Brianna Keilar that the White House pretty much likes this bill. But don't you think it is really just a short term fix that kicks the can down the road on so many other long material problems?
SCHIFF: Absolutely. But it's probably from the White House point of view, better than going through another budget fight and another ballooned economy that that would produce. Nobody was expecting a big deal here. I think expectations were set very low and they have met those expectations, at least in the White House's view.
CUPP: Sorry, Paul Ryan and Patty Murray.
JONES: And final question for you, Congressperson. Now, from my point of view, this is a small breakthrough but it's a historic breakthrough. I think we now see the end of the shutdowns, the end of the spending caps. There is a grand bargain out there for you. I think this president actually wants to bring the deficits down. He's going to need some tax increases though to sell his base. Will you help the president now that we're in a new era looking for the next grand bargain?
HUELSKAMP: No more tax increases. In my understanding, this has tax increases in it.
JONES: They call them fees. Your friend Paul Ryan called them fees.
HUELSKAMP: People in Kansas are going to pay more money to Washington and they know how that works.
HUELSKAMP: And they had a big tax increase last January and we still have a $700 billion. The problem is spending. This deal raises spending at the end of the day.
JONES: Well, listen, we are -- we're very low. We did bust these caps apparently. We came up a little bit, not a whole lot.
But now, listen, we're in a new era. There could be another bipartisan deal that could be more to your liking for deficit reduction. But you and I both know, you're going to have to accept some tax increases. Are you willing to do to get the deficit reduction? To get the debt off the backs of your kids? Are you willing to compromise or find some common ground, whatever the word is, with this president?
HUELSKAMP: With this president, raising taxes just like anywhere else, it's not going to help the economy, and this deal does need the economy. We need a growing economy. We need less regulations, and we haven't even talked about the president's health care plan.
If you want to get the economy growing, you've got to roll back on something on that.
SCHIFF: I have to say that continuing with this sequester, with this austerity budget, which it is by any other term is the worst for the economy. It kills job growth. It kills investment in our future. And ultimately, it's just the poorest of economics. And that's why we're not fully recovered.
If Congress would at least get out of the way, I think the economy would have fully recovered by now.
JONES: Well, listen, I want to thank both of you for being here, Representative Adam Schiff and Representative Tim Huelskamp.
The rest of you, I want to you stay engaged with us here. You can go Facebook or Twitter to weigh in on our "Fireback" question. Are you happy with the budget deal and this breakthrough? Right now, 40 percent of you say yes, 60 percent of you say no.
The debate will continue online at CNN.com/Crossfire, as well as on Facebook and Twitter.
From the left, I'm Van Jones and I'm happy.
CUPP: From the right, I'm S.E. Cupp, and I'll wait to see.
Join us tomorrow for another edition of CROSSFIRE.
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- Coarctation of Aorta repair - a birth defect that results in the narrowing of part of the aorta (the major artery leading out of the heart).
- Patent Ductus Arteriosus closure - an abnormal circulation of blood between two of the major arteries of the heart - the aorta and the pulmonary artery.
- Tetralogy of Fallot treatment - a common cause of "blue babies". | <urn:uuid:ddcbd398-74f5-4701-a861-11938ca3c788> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.apollohospitals.com/departments/heart/treatment/pediatric-cardiology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00220-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.908455 | 247 | 2.875 | 3 |
Both groups complained that the city spends money on stadiums, fountains and bonuses for bureaucrats while cutting costs on education and the needs of children, passing on the expenses to working people.
We marched with the Educational Accord and Democratic Students Association and various other groups came to lend their support.
ZSP has also propagated the idea of the possible collectivization of these school kitchens, which normally employ 3-4 people and could be self-managed. Some parents and cooks like this idea and we will see if they decide to pursue it. We offered support if any workplace decides on this, with a view to not working as a capitalist business, but as a real collective.
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Biorepository at UOG receives 30,000-specimen coral collection
A biorepository of Micronesian marine specimens at the University of Guam Marine Laboratory is welcoming its largest addition yet — a private collection of around 30,000 coral specimens from Richard Randall, a UOG professor emeritus of marine biology.
The facility — the Guam Ecosystems Collaboratorium for Corals and Oceans (GECCO) Biorepository — is both a physical and cyber warehouse of records and images that is operated by the Guam EPSCoR program, which is funded by the National Science Foundation.
Randall’s collection includes specimens from Guam and throughout the Pacific and reflects the 56 years he spent at the UOG Marine Laboratory researching coral reef biology and geology.
“It’s an impressive collection that’s really important for us to take care of and share with the world and try to use it to provide an impetus for collaborative research,” said David Burdick, the biorepository’s collections manager.
During the late 1960s, Randall witnessed the first crown-of-thorns starfish outbreak in Guam and managed to retrieve a few coral samples before they were eaten. He claims some of the specimens in his collection may be new species, and others may no longer exist.
“In some cases, if he’s described a new species, we’d have to publish in a book or a journal about it [to officially establish it as a new species],” Burdick said. “I feel like we’re always trying to play catch-up trying to understand more about these organisms before we lose some of them.”
Randall took meticulous field notes about each of the specimens, Burdick said.
“He recorded an unusual amount of data, like where it was living, its name, and how much light it was exposed to, and how that may have influenced its shape. That information can help us understand their habitat requirements and discern between similar species,” Burdick said.
So far, the facility has received less than one-tenth of the collection, and it may take years to catalog each item and upload them to the GECCO Biorepository’s online database.
“Right now, we’re going through all of the coral specimens and cataloging the ones we have,” said Kelsie Ebeling-Whited, the biorepository’s technician. “We log the specimen number, the note number, its species and family. We want that all in a database so that we know what corals we have [in Guam and the region].”
Once the collection has been processed, it will serve as a resource for researchers around the world to reference and better understand the diversity of the corals found in the Pacific. The collection will also be accessible to the public as it’s added to the biorepository’s online database. | <urn:uuid:b402a6a4-98ae-45d3-8b55-28d6e92d988f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uog.edu/news-announcements/2020-2021/2021-biorepository-at-uog-receives-30000-specimen-coral-collection.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.947655 | 631 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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How to Dismantle the 'New Jim Crow'
I HEAR A STIRRING, a rumbling. An awakening. Sometimes the sound is so faint, I worry it’s my imagination, my optimism getting the best of me. I pause, listen, and wait. Here it comes again. I want to rush to my window, fling it open, stick my head way out, and look around. Is it happening? For real this time? Is the sleeping giant finally waking up?
God knows we’ve slept too long.
Many of us—myself included—slept through a revolution. Actually, it was a counterrevolution that has blown back much of the progress that so many racial justice advocates risked their lives for. This counterrevolution occurred with barely a whimper of protest, even as a war was declared, one that purported to be aimed at “drugs.”
Really, the war took aim at people—overwhelmingly poor people and people of color—who were taken prisoner en masse and then relegated to a permanent, second-class status, stripped of basic civil and human rights such as the right to vote, the right to serve on juries, and the right to be free from legal discrimination in employment, housing, and access to education and public benefits. Branded “criminals” or “felons,” millions of people discovered that the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement no longer applied to them.
A penal system unprecedented in world history emerged in a few short decades; by the year 2000, 2 million people found themselves behind bars, and 60 million were saddled with criminal records that would condemn them for life—staggering statistics, given that in the 1970s there were only about 350,000 people in prison.
I am listening carefully at my window now. I hear that rumbling sound, signs of an awakening in the streets. My heart leaps for joy. People of all colors are beginning to raise their voices a little louder; people who have spent time behind bars are organizing for the restoration of their civil and human rights; young people are becoming bolder and more defiant in challenging the prison-industrial complex; and people of faith are finally waking up to the uncomfortable reality that we have been complicit in the birth and maintenance of a system predicated on denying to God’s children the very forms of compassion, forgiveness, and possibilities for redemption that we claim to cherish.
When the Spirit Says Go
The fight against mass incarceration is joined by an emerging faith-based movement.
Cruel and Unequal
Blacks and whites use drugs at about the same rate, yet African Americans are 10 times as likely to be imprisoned for drug offenses. The unbalanced effects of the 'war on drugs.' | <urn:uuid:b295c32d-8bcf-438f-a8df-cfc5420fdd2a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://sojo.net/biography/michelle-alexander?quicktabs_top_stories_this_week=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00157-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966691 | 597 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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Performance Assessment: An International Experiment.
Semple, Brian McLean
The second International Assessment of Educational Progress focused on the mathematics and science achievement of 13-year-olds. Performance assessments were used as part of the overall assessment in four countries (England, Scotland, Soviet Union, and Taiwan) and five Canadian provinces. The performance assessment approach drew heavily on the experience of the United Kingdom in such assessments, but added features to meet the needs of an international study. The performance tasks required students to apply concepts, observe, measure, manipulate equipment and materials, and record and interpret data. Approximately 3,000 students participated in the 1991 mathematics and science assessments. Scores varied widely from task to task and from country to country. Relative performance of countries and provinces generally differed from those identified by written curriculum-based tests. A major lesson learned from the experimental test administration is that this form of performance assessment can be used reliably in international comparative studies although at an estimated cost three to four times greater than that for an equivalent number of written test questions. Sample mathematics and science tasks are included, and there is an appendix on problem solving in mathematics that describes outcomes produced by Scottish students. (SLD)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Comparative Testing, Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, International Studies, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools, Mathematics Achievement, Performance Based Assessment, Problem Solving, Sciences, Scores, Student Evaluation, Test Construction, Test Results
Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Tests/Questionnaires; Numerical/Quantitative Data
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Sponsor: National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC.; National Science Foundation, Washington, DC.; Carnegie Corp. of New York, NY.
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RANDOLPH, N.J. - A student at a New Jersey community college who stutters said he was told not to speak in his class, CBS News station WCBS-TV reports.
Philip Garber Jr., who has been taking classes at the County College of Morris, said the incident made him feel like "stuttering is something to laugh at and that it's not something to take seriously."
The outspoken 16-year-old has been taking the classes to overcome his stuttering. He said an adjunct professor in a history course told him not to ask questions during class to prevent disrupting the other students.
"The first feeling was just shock," Garber, an aspiring photojournalist, told WCBS-TV.
Garber said he was even more shocked when the adjunct professor told him to write out his questions before and after class. That's when the college administration got involved and moved him to a similar course, where he felt more comfortable."He was in fact discriminated against in this class -- that is other students were not asked to make the same accommodation," college President Edward Yaw told WCBS-TV. "So that is something we take seriously."
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Garber has had a stutter all of his life. He has been home-schooled and has gotten speech therapy.
"I have never experienced this level of discrimination," he told WCBS-TV.
The adjunct professor was unable to be reached for comment, but many students who are not in the class support the 16-year-old.
"He paid for his tuition like everybody else did, and it's not fair that he's not allowed to speak in class," student Henny Harmon told WCBS-TV.
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Quotations from the writings of Ellen G. White with . . .
D E S I R E ( 10 RELATED PHRASES )
This word Desire appears 7,380 times in the published writings of EGW See page on Original site
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+ Great Desire ( )
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The phrase Desire to . . . appears 3,365 times in the published writings of EGW
Desire to be . . . ( 427 )
+ Desire to be Christian ( )
+ Desire to be free > Desire to be freed from doubt ( 3 )
+ Desire to be first ( 25 )
+ Desire to be in harmony ( 5 )
+ Desire to be reconciled to God ( 3 )
Desire to be like . . .
- - Desire for . . .
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|Balaam "loved the wages of unrighteousness." 2 Peter 2:15. The sin of covetousness,which God declares to be idolatry, had made him a timeserver, and through this one fault Satan gained entire control of him. It was this that caused his ruin. The tempter is ever presenting worldly gain and honor to entice men from the service of God. He tells them it is their over conscientiousness that keeps them from prosperity. Thus many are induced to venture out of the path of strict integrity. One wrong step makes the next easier, and they become more and more presumptuous. They will do and dare most terrible things when once they have given themselves to the control of avarice and a desire for power. Many flatter themselves that they can depart from strict integrity for a time, for the sake of some worldly advantage, and that having gained their object, they can change their course when they please. Such are entangling themselves in the snare of Satan, and it is seldom that they escape. Patriarchs and Prophets, page 439.5|
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|God never asks us to believe, without giving sufficient evidence upon which to base our faith. His existence, His character, the truthfulness of His word, are all established by testimony that appeals to our reason; and this testimony is abundant. Yet God has never removed the possibility of doubt. Our faith must rest upon evidence, not demonstration. Those who wish to doubt will have opportunity; while those who really desire to know the truth will find plenty of evidence on which to rest their faith. Steps to Christ, page 105.2|
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Embalm: to treat a deceased human being so as to protect from decay: to fill with sweet odors
Embalming is the science of the care of the deceased. This procedure involves delaying decomposition, a temporary disinfection of the body along with careful manipulation of the physical and facial features. Combined, these treatments are to restore a visual status to the deceased human remains that are more appealing to the public while still supporting the realization that a death has occurred. This is completed in a dignified and respectful manner.
Embalming replaces the normal body fluids with formaldehyde or gluteraldehyde, which chemically binds the proteins in human remains to protect them and destroy bacteria and viruses that naturally occur in human tissue. When a person dies, the natural antibodies in our tissue die as well and bacteria will quickly multiply and breakdown the tissues as it hosts these foreigners.
Embalming may have originated in Egypt and has been in practice dating back to the kings and pharaohs of their ancient civilizations. They have been found preserved in their burial chambers, not necessarily with chemicals, but with wine, spices, oils, resins, salts, and perfumes. The removal of their organs that contained the bacteria, along with an arid environment, helped to support their preservation and thus promote the embalming techniques of that time.
The discovery of formaldehyde in 1859 supported further activity in embalming. In modern times, embalming techniques were altered to use the arterial system in our bodies to transmit fluid throughout our vessels, not just our organs. Embalming also gained acceptance by the need to bring our deceased troops home for burial during the American Civil War, as soldiers died in other states and transportation was slow over the road or by rail. The majority of deceased soldiers were still buried where they fell, but caskets could bring some of the mortally wounded back to their hometowns with the help of grave registration volunteers. Ice was used then (when available) to slow the natural decomposition process and has been used when necessary during recent time.
While some religious groups in America do not use embalming, it is widely used throughout the United States with arterial embalming being the most common. Other embalming techniques are usually required when an autopsy is performed on the decedent. The embalming procedure today consists of removing blood from the body by inserting a tube into the heart or large vein near the heart and emptying quantities of blood from the body. While the blood is being withdrawn from the vein the embalming solution (formaldehyde / gluteraldehyde) is being entered into the arteries. The skin accepts the injected fluids and begins to hydrate and appear more acceptable for viewing. The face may begin to fill out and also become more agreeable for viewing but it may need direct injections in certain areas that are still unacceptable. The mouth will require adhesion of sorts to keep features in place, eye-caps are placed under the eyelids, with petroleum jelly or humectants being applied to the eye area, and cosmetic coloration may be used to further the best appearance possible. Near the final stages of preparation, embalming fluids may be directed into the chest and abdominal cavity with the preparatory help of an invasive device called a Trocar, used to infiltrate these areas and make them accessible to these fluids.
Upon completion of the embalming, the funeral director will determine the body to be ready for clothing and application of cosmetics if needed. The family may supply the appropriate dress, suit, sweater, etc. that fits the personality of the deceased. This preparation for the final appearance of the deceased is one of the most important aspects of the entire funeral experience and attention to detail is paramount. Always consult with a licensed and trusted funeral director and never hesitate to ask questions. | <urn:uuid:dc20f241-4a4c-4714-a37e-47c867303b56> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.americanfuneralhomes.com/AFH-embalming.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00054-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96437 | 776 | 3.609375 | 4 |
Inflammatory conditions like inflammations of the gum may increase the risk of the Alzheimer's disease if people are exposed to them early in life.
According to a research study that is presented in the first Alzheimer's Association International Conference on Prevention of Dementia held in US, periodontal conditions could affect the incidence of Alzheimer's disease in people.
AdvertisementAlzheimer's disease affects the brain cells and slowly destroys them. The main symptoms of the disease are decreasing memory, ability to reason, creative abilities and learning powers.
Researchers had studied identical twins in finding out the risk of Alzheimer's, as previous studies have established that Alzheimer's disease may be hereditary by nature. They had measured the incidence of gum disease from the incidence of loose teeth or lost teeth, among other factors of the survey.
The research report linking poor oral health to increased risk of the disease was the surprise result of the research. Scientists of the study suggest that good oral health may not prevent the disease but early exposure to gum inflammation can have severe and long reaching consequences.
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Content © The Birth Rites Collection. Not for profit company Ltd by guarantee no: 5805902
Founded by two women, BRC aims to facilitate the production of new cutting edge works by artists who might not normally address the subject because of it’s taboo status within contemporary art practice, to support the work of artists whose work already engages with issues on this subject and to acquire relevant existing works to expand the collection. The collection currently comprises of photography, sculpture, painting, wallpaper, drawing, new media and a documentary film.
Through the presentation and dissemination of the work in the public domain, BRC encourages debate and increases awareness around childbirth practice. The project highlights issues like the shift towards medical intervention in birth and explores the impact of biomedical advances in technology. We explore whether society’s focus on propelling women on to an equal footing with men in the workplace, erodes their importance as mothers and investigate how free women are to give birth in a way they want. The Birth Rites Collection considers who controls the process of childbirth and why. | <urn:uuid:fee2c0f8-b1dc-4602-8efe-f824b78248ee> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://birthritescollection.org.uk/about/4541214325 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00073-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931171 | 215 | 1.664063 | 2 |
To assess the validity of using hospital administrative data to measure variations in surgery for early-stage breast cancer, ICD-9-CM coded information was compared with corresponding tumor registry data for 1293 breast cancer patients undergoing lumpectomy or mastectomy at a tertiary referral center from January 1989 to October 1993. Relative to 'gold standard' tumor registry data, the administrative data proved 83.4% sensitive and 80.4% specific in identifying women with localized disease who would be potential candidates for lumpectomy. The proportion of women with localized disease undergoing lumpectomy in groups defined by race and insurance status was nearly identical, whichever data were used. Administrative data, which is often readily and publicly available, may be useful in studying variations in breast cancer treatment in key demographic groups.
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The Australian economy is ending 2015 having delivered another year of economic growth.
At around 2.5%, the performance of the economy remains disappointingly weak.
But it is not all bad news.
The positive aspects for the economy in 2015 that resulted from record low interest rates, the very weak Australian dollar and what was a booming housing market were more or less offset by low and falling commodity prices and heightened anxiety about the strength of Australia’s market export market, China.
With that slightly disappointing background, the big test will be to see whether the economy can reach or even exceed its potential during 2016. If so, it would mean a year where real GDP growth was above 3%, with the unemployment rate falling below 5.5% and the inflation rate locked into the 2 to 3% target range set by the Reserve Bank.
As is often the case, the outlook for 2016 has several conflicting factors at play.
The pessimists point to the sharp falls in commodity prices as a major concern for the economy.
They are correct in terms of the severity of the downturn in that segment of the economy, but it needs to be remembered that mining in total accounts for well under 10% of the Australian economy.
Which begs the question, what is the outlook for the other 90%?
The news there is generally good.
Consumer spending is holding up well, as is new housing construction, even if the bulk of the rapid growth in new housing starts may be topping out.
Sectors including tourism and education are booming.
Here the low Aussie dollar is encouraging tourists and students to come to Australia and spend their money here.
Indeed, tourism and education are setting up to be the drivers of export growth over the next year or two.
It is also the case that for most businesses that kept their heads above water when the Aussie dollar was above parity with the US dollar a couple of years ago, they are getting a huge competitive boost with the currency now around 70 US cents.
Here manufacturing and agriculture are doing well with rising exports after a tough period a couple of years ago.
The key point is that the Australian economy is poised to lift its growth rate into 2016.
This is certainly not to say we are heading for boom-like conditions, rather growth is likely to exceed 3% during the course of the year, the unemployment rate is likely to fall slightly on the back of this faster rate of growth and when the government delivers the budget in May, it will likely show a narrower budget deficit than was presented in the recent mid year update.
For the RBA, it means interest rates will not be cut and that during the course of the year, it may start to give thought to the notion of lifting interest rates if the economic pick up is broadly based.
2016 should be a good year for the Australian economy, with the positive aspects working to add to economic growth overwhelming the problems that are associated with weak commodity prices.
Stephen Koukoulas is a Yahoo7 Finance expert with
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Men without foreskins have lower rates of human papillomavirus (HPV) and herpes, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. A group of uncircumcised Ugandan men were enrolled in the study, and half were randomly selected to go under the knife. Two years later, the newly snipped men were 25 percent less likely to have contracted herpes and 36 percent less likely to have HPV.
The reason is probably a combination of two factors, says study author Dr Ronald Gray. “The underside of the foreskin has less of a protective layer of protein than regular skin, and there’s a moist cavity under the foreskin that might harbour the viruses longer.
Circumcision removes the vulnerable tissue as well as the moist environment.” | <urn:uuid:05198830-d652-4440-9274-789ec1685182> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mh.co.za/sex-women/in-favour-of-the-snip/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00176-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974583 | 164 | 2.59375 | 3 |
On Wednesday, President Trump is set to propose a tax plan that would include “maybe the biggest tax cut we’ve ever had.” Here’s what he wants to do and what it means for you.
First, he’ll probably unveil his corporate tax rate cut, which he has proposed to slash from 35 to 15-20 percent. But he’s also pledged to reduce individual taxes, too. He wants to reduce the number of tax brackets and simplify the system, including deductions and loopholes, and reduce the top tax bracket from 39.6 percent to 33 percent.
Right now, our tax system includes seven brackets, and Trump’s tax plan would pare it down to just three: 12 percent 25 percent, and 33 percent. He’s also proposed to increase the standard deduction from $6,300 to $15,000 for single taxpayers and from $12,600 to $30,000 for married couples filing jointly. To offset the cost of that, he’s proposed to eliminate personal exemptions, including exemptions for dependents, and the head-of-household deduction. During the campaign, he did propose a plan for deducting childcare expenses (the Center for American Progress estimated it would save middle-class families an average of $5.55 a year).
The Tax Policy Center crunched the numbers to see how much taxpayers would save with the changes. Unsurprisingly, the cuts benefit the wealthiest taxpayers most. Middle-income households would receive an average tax cut of about $1,010 (1.8% of after-tax income) while the top 1% of earners would get $214,690 (13.5% of after-tax income).
With the exemptions eliminated, some taxpayers would actually pay more under the new plan, namely those who earn between $20,000 and $50,000 a year and have children. You can use this calculator to see how your own taxes would change under Trump’s proposed plan.
Trump has also proposed to end the Alternative Minimum Tax, a tax designed to offset the cost of loopholes that allow the super wealthy to shelter a large percentage of their earnings (Although the AMT has complicated taxes for a lot of middle-income taxpayers, too).
Overall, he’s proposing some pretty massive cuts, which begs the question: how is this going to affect the budget? Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has said that the “tax reform will pay for itself with economic growth.” The idea is that we give taxpayers more money, and they use it to stimulate our economy.
Economists don’t think it’s that simple, though. Mark Mazur, director of the Tax Policy Center, says that the effect would be modest. We might see a short-term boost, but these cuts will more likely drive us into deeper debt, which would stall any kind of growth.
As economist Alan Cole of the Tax Foundation put it, “There’s no pure tax cut that pays for itself.” | <urn:uuid:926b2cf6-af5d-427d-8ab1-e4dd0757918a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lifehacker.com/what-to-expect-from-trump-s-plan-for-the-biggest-tax-c-1794633060 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.973278 | 629 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Vaping is linked to a substantially increased risk of COVID-19 among teenagers and young adults, according to a new study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
The study, which was published online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, is the first to examine connections between youth vaping and COVID-19 using US population-based data collected during the pandemic.
Among young people who were tested for the virus causing COVID-19, the research found those who vaped were five to seven times more likely to be infected than those who did not use e-cigarettes.
“Teens and young adults need to know if you use e-cigarettes, you are likely at immediate risk of COVID-19 because you are damaging your lungs,” said the study’s senior author, Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, PhD, professor of pediatrics.
‘Not just a small increase in risk’
“Young people may believe their age protects them from contracting the virus or that they will not experience symptoms of COVID-19, but the data show this isn’t true among those who vape,” said the study’s lead author, postdoctoral scholar Shivani Mathur Gaiha, PhD.
“This study tells us pretty clearly youth who are using vapes or are dual-using [e-cigarettes and cigarettes] are at elevated risk, and it’s not just a small increase in risk; it’s a big one,” Gaiha said.
Data were collected via online surveys conducted in May. Surveys were completed by 4,351 participants ages 13 to 24 who lived in all 50 US states, the District of Columbia and three US territories. The researchers recruited a sample of participants that was evenly divided between those who had used e-cigarettes and those who had never used nicotine products. The sample also included approximately equal numbers of people in different age groups (adolescent, young adult and adult), races and genders.
Participants answered questions about whether they had ever used vaping devices or combustible cigarettes, as well as whether they had vaped or smoked in the past 30 days. They were asked if they had experienced COVID-19 symptoms, received a test for COVID-19 or received a positive diagnosis of COVID-19 after being tested.
Young people who had used both cigarettes and e-cigarettes in the previous 30 days were almost five times as likely to experience COVID-19 symptoms, such as coughing, fever, tiredness and difficulty breathing as those who never smoked or vaped. This may explain why they were also more likely to receive COVID-19 testing. Depending on which nicotine products they used and how recently they had used them, young people who vaped or smoked, or both, were 2.6 to nine times more likely to receive COVID-19 tests than nonusers.
Among the participants who were tested for COVID-19, those who had ever used e-cigarettes were five times more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than nonusers. Those who had used both e-cigarettes and conventional cigarettes in the previous 30 days were 6.8 times more likely to be diagnosed with the disease. The researchers did not find a connection between COVID-19 diagnosis and smoking conventional cigarettes alone, perhaps because the prevalent pattern among youth is to use both vaping devices and traditional cigarettes. Other research has shown that nearly all nicotine-using youth vape, and some also smoke cigarettes, but very few use cigarettes only, Halpern-Felsher said. | <urn:uuid:0517c7e3-51c4-4db8-9ec0-063e1b38d502> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dhnewswire.odha.on.ca/association-between-youth-smoking-e-cigarette-use-and-coronavirus-disease-2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.981302 | 740 | 3.34375 | 3 |
By SHELLEY GRIESHOP
MINSTER — The faces of five Manhattan firefighters who
perished in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will forever be etched
in the minds of workers at a small business in this Auglaize
A memorial plaque honoring the brave firefighters from Fire
Engine Company 55 was manufactured at TradeMark Designs Inc.
in Minster and shipped Friday to the New York fire house in
time for a special dedication ceremony next week.
“We kind of babysat this piece, all of us,” said
Linda Erb, sales/service representative for the company, which
specializes in chemical etching. “This has touched everyone
here. It’s heart wrenching. It brings it all back.”
Head shots of the five smiling men, ranging in age from 27 to
55, are arranged in a half-circle on the plaque in front of
the New York City skyline as it looked before the horrific events
two years ago.
With gentle but steady hands, production manager Trey McKinney
tightened the bolts that attached a rustic axe head onto the
bottom of the plaque Friday morning.
“I just wish this (9/11) had never happened,” said
McKinney, as he stepped back to take one final look at the golden,
20-by-24-inch work of art.
The axe head is not only a sad reminder of the 343 New York
City firefighters who died, but one of the few pieces retrieved
from the demolished fire truck that brought the ill-fated crew
to Ground Zero that day.
Eight of the two dozen firefighters assigned to Engine 55 were
out on a reported gas leak when the first plane struck the north
tower of the World Trade Center. They immediately headed to
the scene 20 miles away.
Twelve-year veteran of the department, firefighter Paul Acciarico,
recalled the sequence of events that day.
“They entered the lobby, we know they entered the lobby.
They probably had orders to. Later we talked with people who
saw them going up the stairs,” Acciarico, 37, said.
Then, as the men in full firefighting gear climbed the steps
to help lead others away from danger, the unthinkable happened.
The building began to collapse.
“They never had a chance,” Acciarico added.
Debris came tumbling down and people jumped in desperation from
hundreds of floors above, as millions of Americans watched their
television sets in horror. It wasn’t long before the men
and their fire truck were buried in the rubble.
Vincent “Buddy” Zeccardi grew up just a block away
from the 105-year-old fire house and now operates “Caffe
Roma,” a small cafe just across the street. The 67-year-old
knew all the firefighters well. He routinely waved good morning
to them as he arrived for work each day and used to bring them
homemade desserts prepared at his pastry business, he said.
It was Zeccardi who brought the idea for the plaque to Arista
Trophies in New York, a client of manufacturer TradeMark.
“It was just something I wanted to do. I come from this
neighborhood,” Zeccardi said in a phone interview Friday.
“I got to know all these guys pretty well over the years.”
Zeccardi said he is close to the firefighters and worries about
them like family. The feeling is apparently mutual. Zeccardi
was invited to the fire station two weeks after the terrorist
attack when President George W. Bush met the families of the
“It’s still hard to talk to them (the firefighters)
about the ordeal,” said Zeccardi. “They still get
choked up at times.”
The firefighters, Faustino Apostol, Robert Lane, Chris Mozzillo,
Stephen Russell and Lt. Peter Freund, were all laid to rest
between Oct. 6, 2001, and Jan. 12, 2002. Two of the men, Freund
and Apostol, left behind wives and children.
As workers at TradeMark found out bits and pieces about the
courageous victims and the families they left behind, they began
to feel a connection to the pain and suffering that took its
toll on our country without warning on Sept. 11, 2001. The tragedy
took more than 2,800 lives that day.
“We’ve looked long and hard at the faces on this
plaque, and we’ve wondered how the lives of so many families
has changed the last two years,” Erb said. “We know
they were good men, proud men, and they never batted an eye
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1st February 2019
When someone goes into cardiac arrest, early defibrillation is a crucial part of the chain of survival as their chance of surviving without intervention decreases by an estimated 10% with every passing minute.
To help raise public awareness about Defibrillators, on 1st February 2019 for the fourth year running the Patient Engagement & Community Involvement Team (PECI) team at the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust will launch its month long campaign #Defibuary.
As well as promoting key messages about this life saving equipment, the Trust is also asking for the public’s help to ensure that all defibrillators across Wales are registered with the Trust. To get involved, just take a photo or selfie with a defibrillator and send it with its location details including postcode via Twitter to @WelshAmbPIH using the hashtag #Defibuary. Last year’s campaign saw over 180 pictures being submitted. Prizes are also available to be won.
Last year residents of Llandegfan won a Welsh Ambulance Service defibrillator for their amazing effort in encouraging all members of the community to get involved in the campaign. A defibrillator donated by Cariad was also awarded to a Community First Responder for the Tonypandy and Pontypridd area who highlighted the low number of defibrillators in Tonypandy but who along with the wider team continues to raise funds to purchase defibrillators for their local community.
There are some great prizes to be won including a community debrillator, beauty products donated by John Lewis, family day pass for Mountain View Ranch, two complimentary tickets to Folly Farm, family vouchers for Snowdon Railway, family tickets to Dan-yr-Ogof Cave, four tickets to Welsh Mining Experience in Rhondda Heritage Park and a family of four voucher for Adventure Golf at Heatherton World of Activities.
Dr Brendan Lloyd, Medical Director for the Welsh Ambulance Service, said: “When someone goes into cardiac arrest, early defibrillation is a crucial part of the chain of survival. In fact there are a number of people in Wales who are alive today thanks to the quick-thinking actions of bystanders in using a nearby defibrillator”.
“We have been working with a range of Healthcare Professionals and colleagues to ensure defibrillators in the community are registered on our computer system. This enables our call takers to advise callers and increases the opportunity to retrieve life-saving equipment quickly and save lives”.
“That’s why we’re encouraging everyone to familiarise themselves with where they can find the closest piece of lifesaving equipment available to them. Hopefully you will never need to use it, but it really could make all the difference.”
“WAST will be working closely with partners from ‘Save a Life Cymru’ and will actively target and support groups who are already teaching CPR within their communities. It will help them to build local networks, identifying communities across Wales who have fewer CPR training opportunities, helping them share their knowledge and skills. This will strengthen the chain of survival and build local community resilience.”
Please get involved and help save lives by tweeting your pictures to @WelshAmbPIH using the hashtag #Defibuary.
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In an extraordinary story that has become depressingly ordinary, the New York Times reports that Chinese hackers "persistently" attacked the newspaper, "infiltrating its computer systems and getting passwords for its reporters and other employees." The attacks began around the time journalists were preparing a story on the massive wealth the family of China's Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has allegedly accumulated, but the methods, identification, and apparent objectives of the hackers have been seen before in previous attacks on defense contractors, technology companies, journalists, academics, think tanks, and NGOs. Bloomberg, which published a story on the wealth of the family of Xi Jinping, China's top leader, has also been reportedly attacked. While just one case in a sweeping cyber espionage campaign that appears endemic, the attack on the Times does highlight both the willingness of Beijing lean out and shape the narrative about China as well as the vulnerability the top leadership feels about how they are portrayed.
As with many cases of cyber espionage, the break-in is assumed to have started with a spear-phishing email, a socially engineered message containing malware attachments or links to hostile websites. In the case of the attack on the security firm RSA in 2011, for example, an email with the subject line "2011 Recruitment Plan" was sent with an attached Excel file. Opening the file downloaded software that allowed attackers to gain control of the user's computers. They then gradually expanded their access and moved into different computers and networks. | <urn:uuid:2eb6c1dd-3502-4031-91f3-a4a095a33504> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cfr.org/china/peoples-republic-hacking/p29909 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00519-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96937 | 296 | 1.960938 | 2 |
If startet, the program will show a message containing the amount of electrical current that is available to the phone through usb connection measured in Milliamperes [mA]. Normally the values should be 100, 300, or 500.
Who needs this program?
Ever wondered why your phone charges quite quickly if it is connected to the usb port of your computer and why it takes much longer on your laptop? Or why it sometimes is connected to a machine and doesn't charge at all, and another time it does? On the same machine!
The answer is easy:
- USB protocol supports a few available values for electric current usage of plugged in devices.
- Not every USB port supports every strength.
- In fact, there are lots of machines out there, that will give different strengths on different ports (esp. laptops!).
- With 100 mA, the phone can barely load!
- With 300 or 500 mA, the charging icon will sometimes appear. No way to tell whats going on...
Start the application, and you will be sure of how much your precious droid can suck from that source :-)
As this program is only confirmed to work on Motorola Milestone/Droid so far, please feel free to try it on your device and drop me a note if it also works (or not :-) ).
Marius Oksfjellelv pointed out, that this program could be used to check the functionality of USB ports on arbitrary machines, as a defect port could give different or no Amperage at all.
p.s.: A fancy icon is still to come. Suggestions welcome!
p.p.s.: The program will terminate immediately, so there should be no battery drain because of this nice little app.
p.p.p.s.: If your device is connected to a wall charger, the amount of current from the usb subsystem is 0, as it is not connected to a usb device. If you want to know the current, take a close look at the charger ;-)
p.p.p.s.: And no ads, of course.
* In fact, it doesn't always exit the vm. Thats the way Dalvik likes it.
possible expected messages are:
- "Current current: nnn [mA]"
where nnn should be in the set [0,100,300,500]. If you disover different behaviour, please get in contact with me.
- "The file seems to be empty."
As the message says, the file seems to be there and could be opened (no FileNotFoundException) but doesnt containg anything. That only happened to me in Emulator-Mode, when I cleared the content manually.
- "File not found."
An exception of guess-what-type occured. This normally means that the file does not exist and your hardware *maybe* doesn't support this feature.
- "finally, the highly unexpected message!"
no comment on that one. Inform your favourite intelligence agency immediately.
- anything else
Weird. Call Fox Mulder.
Great app, would highly recommend it!
Good app, great value.
Good app, great value.
This doesn't work on the nexus one either. Says the file is empty.
Im not sure if you have gotten this tested on the HTC Hero, but i tried it now, and i get that "The file seems to be empty:(" message.
Though, i had a plan for this app when i DL'ed it. That i would use it to find weak or defect USB port on my and other computers. | <urn:uuid:44849da3-ce96-4cb9-aacb-cfc7e02695ed> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://slideme.org/application/usbcurrent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720475.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00354-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93242 | 750 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Which is the best file format for your wallpapers/digital images?
We all have lots and lots of images saved in our computer. They could be our digital memories from the last vacations in Grand Canary islands, from our friend parties, or family reunions. Or they could be large collections of artistic pictures - we all love Picasso. Right? We pile these images until there is no more space in our computer. So, we all have the same question: which is the best file format to store our images? Should we store our images in JPEG format or BMP? Which format is safest and which is losing quality? Which format is the smallest one? Which is more popular/supported?
Lossless versus Lossy formats
Most image formats support compression. The compression can be lossless or lossy. Lossy compression is an image compression method where small amounts pixels are lost (intentionally) during compression in order to decrease the size of the resulted file. In lossless format all pixels are retained which results in a better image quality but larger file size.
JPEG format (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
JPEG is the most popular image format used by digital cameras, web sites, documents, etc. JPEG pictures can store up to 16.4 million colors.
The main advantage of JPEG format is the size - because JPEG standard supports compression, converting an image to JPEG will result in very small files.
The disadvantage of JPEG format is that the JPEG is a lossy format. This means that whenever we convert an image to JPEG, we lose information (small details become fuzzy and blurry). However, if the compression factor is set appropriately, our eyes won't see any difference between the original image and the JPEG image.
But, if we compress the image too much, loss of details are thrown away and the resulted image will be very poor, as in the example below:
Original JPEG image with a compression factor of 5. File size: 48 KB.
The same image with a compression factor of 60. File size: only 5 KB.
As we have seen above there is a big difference between the two images! The second image is much smaller (only 5 KB) but it was practically destroyed and it cannot be used anymore.
Another issue related to image compression is that whenever we edit and resave a JPEG image, the level of degradation raises. Resaving the image more than 4-5 times will definitively ruin the image.
When to use JPEG format?
Save as JPEG your photos and other images that have millions of colors. If you save as JPEG your images that contain text, large blocks of solid color, or simple shapes with crisp edges, when the image is compressed the text, color, or lines may blur and probably you don't want that.
JPEG2000 is the successor of JPEG standard. JPEG 2000 delivers much better compression than JPEG and also better quality. JPEG 2000 supports both lossless and lossy compression.
By compressing a JPEG2000 image to different levels we'll see that the biggest change of quality is between 80 and 95. Up to a compression factor of 80 the quality loss is not obvious.
Comparison between JPEG2000 at different compressions:
JPEG2000 image - compression 50. File size: 43 KB
JPEG2000 image - compression 70. File size: 25 KB
JPEG2000 image - compression 75. File size: 21 KB
JPEG2000 image - compression 80. File size: 16 KB
JPEG2000 image - compression 90. File size: 8 KB
JPEG2000 image - compression 95. File size: 3 KB
If we save an image as JPEG2000 at 16 KB and then we save it also as classic JPEG at the same size, we see significant differences.
Comparison between JPEG2000 and classic JPEG:
JPEG 2000 image saved at 16 KB
Classic JPEG image saved at 16 KB
Enlarging the image will show the differences even better:
JPEG2000 image - Detail
JPEG image - Detail
As we have seen, images saved as JPEG2000 are much crisper and sharper.
The big disadvantage is that JPEG2000 is not as popular as JPEG. Many programs (for example, Microsoft Word, Firefox 10) do not have yet support for JPEG2000. However, some programs such as BioniX Background Wallpapers Changer Ultimate and Paint Shop Pro support this format!
Hint: when you convert your images to JPEG 2000, you should search for the best compression level, which should be around 80.
When to use JPEG2000 format?
Use JPEG2000 when you want to store small images with a good quality.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
GIF is an obsolete format, supporting only 256 colors, which is not anymore enough for modern necessities.
Advantages of GIF format:
Disadvantages of GIF format:
Supports only 256 colors.
It doesn't support semi transparency (as PNG does).
The quality of a GIF image is not as good as JPEG or PNG image quality.
As we can see in the image below, the image has over 10.000 red nuances. As GIF supports only 256 colors it won't be able to save all those nuances. A GIF image can be saved with different methods of color reduction: Web-safe, Median cut, Optimized OctTree. Web-safe is the safe approach of saving GIFs but we'll result in poor images. Median Cut and Optimized OctTree will give better results but the size of the image will be bigger. Additionally we can apply dithering which will increase the image quality substantially:
Original image saved as high quality JPEG (18 KB)
Same image saved as GIF (64 KB) - Median Cut
Same image saved as GIF (7 KB) - Standard/Web - safe
Same image saved as GIF (69 KB) - With dithering
Conclusion: GIF format is not suitable for compressing complex images representing landscapes, people, etc but it is suitable for 'artificial' images: banners, logos, monochromatic sketches, drawings, never save a complex image (a landscape for example) as GIF.
When to use GIF format?
Save your images as GIF when they have a small, fixed number of colors. GIF file format is NOT suitable for images with gradient colors or for photographic images (including wallpapers).
BMP format is the most popular format around. BMP is capable of storing images in any color depth, from black-and-white to 16.4 million colors.
Advantages of BMP format:
Supports pretty much any kind of image
Supports any image color depth
Supports any image size
Doesn't lose information (it is a lossless format) and it is supported by any software program in the world.
Disadvantages of BMP format:
BMP has a gigantic disadvantage: the size of a BMP file is the biggest of all formats since BMP does not support compression (as JPEG does).
Image saved as BMP. Resulted size: 980 KB
The same image saved as JPEG. Resulted size: 137 KB
When to use BMP format?
Save your images as BMP when you want to store your image exactly as it is - without losing a single bit of information. This sounds appealing but when you will see how much space your BMP will engulf, you will probably change your mind and convert them to JPEG/JPEG2000.
PNG (Portable network graphics)
PNG is also a popular file format. The size of a PNG image is bigger than JPEG's but smaller than BMP's. PNG's compression is among the best available amount lossless image formats.
Advantages of PNG format:
Disadvantages of PNG format:
As we can see in the figure below the quality of the PNG image is as good as BMP's but its size is a bit smaller.
Image saved as PNG. Resulted size: 631 KB
When to use PNG format?
In some cases PNG format can be used when you have to save a screen capture. If quality is important, don't forget to set its color depth to 16 million colors (24 bit color depths).
TIF (Tagged Image File Format)
TIF file format is very popular in professional areas: graphic artists, in the publishing industry, professional photographers. But that's it. Its poor compression characteristics don't make it a choice for regular users.
Advantages of TIF format:
Disadvantages of TIF format:
A TIF image is almost as big as a BMP image. For example, the image below was saved as TIF and it has 951 KB while the size of the original BMP image is 980KB. However, the BMP does not have the disadvantage of being poorly supported by software programs as TIF has.
Image saved as TIF. Resulted size: 951 KB
When to use TIF format?
We strongly recommend not using this format. It has no real benefits for you.
Today, the most popular file format is JPEG, but JPEG2000 comes in force as more and more programs offer support for it. GIF and TIF it's to obsolete to use it at all. PNG is good for saving black and white drawings (if set it to 256 colors) or natural images (if set to 16 million colors) when we don't want to lose quality at all. BMP offers the same quality preservation as PNG but its size is a bit bigger.
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Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten‘s newest project focuses on the cultural and corporate wars between bikes and cars. The international doc focuses on commuters already relying on bicycles for their daily commute — like 40% of Copenhagen.
The film investigates the world-wide automotive production business, tracking its evolution into a multi-billion dollar industry that relies on a society that relies on cars. According to the data presented in the film, there will be over two billion cars on the road by the year 2020, nearly double of what it is today. What good is a car if you can’t use it to get anywhere… except for into a traffic jam?
I was born in Malmö, Sweden, a city where the bike is the natural choice for going from one place to another. I’ve traveled the world wondering why there is so little space for bikes, why it’s so dangerous when it’s so much more fun to explore a city by bike. The car model as we know it has reached an extreme level with constant gridlock and millions of productive hours lost. The frustration is growing and cities need to look into new models.
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Personal info targeted in multiple Instagram scams: Internet Scambusters #585
Instagram scams are among the latest con tricks to hit social networking sites.
Crooks are targeting the 150 million users of the photo-sharing site with phony offers aimed at stealing their identities or their cash.
We have the details in this week's issue, along with tips on how to avoid being scammed -- not just on Instagram but on all social networks.
Let's get started...
Instagram Scams Fool Hundreds of Thousands
It sounds hard to believe but an estimated 100,000 people have willingly given away their usernames and passwords in an Instagram scam.
Instagram is one of the big players in the latest craze for image-sharing social networking sites.
It's owned by Facebook and has more than 150 million members, many of whom use it to legitimately share family, fun and friendship photos.
It's also used legitimately by many celebrities and businesses to visually promote themselves.
Often, Instagram photos are cross-shared via other networks, like Facebook and Twitter.
And, just like most social networking sites, it relies on "likes" and other actions to spread connections, which makes it another ready-made target for scammers.
Internet security company Symantec reported two big Instagram scams towards the end of 2013.
In the first, an app that was available on most smartphones and other mobile devices promised to get users lots more followers.
In return, they had to provide their Instagram sign-on details, which, when you think about it, then gave the app maker the ability to log on to victims' accounts and use them to fulfill its offer of following others -- and do whatever else they wanted!
Remarkably, Symantec estimates that 100,000 people did just that, creating what the security firm called a "social botnet," a network of accounts that the app operator controlled.
Symantec reported: "(U)sers actually opt(ed) in to having their Instagram account externally controlled for the purpose of auto-liking and auto-following others. When we tested the application, right away our Instagram account began liking pictures without any consent or interaction from us."
But that's not all. The app then started asking users to pay to get new members via a "virtual currency" -- "coins" they could buy with real dollars.
Users were also offered free coins if they recommended the app to others.
It's not known if the sign-on details the app maker obtained were used for any other sinister purpose, like trying them out on other accounts.
Action: The app has since been removed from online stores but if you were a victim, you should change your password.
You should never provide sign-on details to a third party, and always use different passwords for every account.
Another 100,000 Fooled
Just a few weeks after that incident, Symantec reported that another 100,000 Instagram users had fallen for a hoax in which they received a message saying a huge number of accounts were going to be randomly deleted.
Victims were asked to repost the picture announcing the supposed deletion, on their pages, in effect causing them to "follow" the hoaxer's own account.
The account was subsequently deleted, with no real harm apparently done.
"However," says Symantec, "the message is clear: social network users are constantly targeted by scams, spam and hoaxes and these campaigns succeed, which is why those responsible for them keep pursuing them."
Action: If you're an Instagram user and receive any warnings or other messages that purport to come from the site, check Instagram's blog.
Better yet, follow the official Instagram account, where you will see all legitimate updates.
Yet More Scams
As if to echo Symantec's warning, a number of other Instagram scams have been uncovered in the past few months.
Many of them are photos offering free air tickets or other gifts in return for taking actions like reposting, tagging, following, commenting and so on.
No need to go into the details of what each of these terms means here. If you're a social networker, you'll likely know.
But the effect is to direct more and more attention to the scammer's posting, which often contains a link that leads to a page either laden with advertising or hosting malware that infects your PC.
According to the Internet tech news and intelligence site Mashable, other recent Instagram scams include:
* A claim by a scammer that he/she knew a trick that would add zeroes to a $2 Green Dot Moneypak card.
All you had to do was buy the card and tell the scammer the number, which, of course, he/she promptly spent!
* A student loan forgiveness hoax, which again requested victims to follow.
The scammers set up an account using the name of the official student loan organization known as Sallie Mae and claimed 150,000 students loans were to be canceled.
Students who fell for it were asked to provide personal information, which was then used for identity theft.
* A dieting scam using before and after photos purporting to show the same woman after she had followed the diet plan.
Mashable noted: "Weight loss scams are rampant on Instagram. The mobile photo app lends itself perfectly to this type of scam, because it's easy to post oh-so-convincing before and after photos."
The tech site said the supposed product did exist but, according to reviews, didn't work at all.
Sadly, there are many more Instagram scams, some of them trying to convince victims they're genuine by highlighting other scams.
How to Avoid the Scammers
What can you do to avoid being snared?
First, be wary of any site supposedly belonging to a company like an airline that specifically offers giveaways and nothing else.
As Mashable says: "Why would a company create a new profile just for promotions and have to build up a following all over again, when they already have a profile?"
If there's only one picture posted on the account, that should immediately raise a red flag.
If the posting purports to be a competition, check if the rules and regulations are shown.
Watch out for links with shortened domain addresses. Crooks use these to hide their real Internet location.
See this Scambusters report for more on this trick, How to Spot and Stop a URL Shortener Scam.
Finally, of course, don't give away personal information, including passwords and bank or credit card details, to someone you don't know.
That applies to all social networking sites, no matter how tempting the offer. In fact, the more tempting, the more likely you're being lined up for an Instagram scam.
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The enactive approach is a growing movement in cognitive science that replaces the classical computer metaphor of the mind with an emphasis on biological embodiment and social interaction as the sources of our goals and concerns. Mind is viewed as an activity of making sense in embodied interaction with our world. However, if mind is essentially a concrete activity of sense-making, how do we account for the more typically human forms of cognition, including those involving the abstract and the patently nonsensical? To address this crucial challenge, this collection brings together new contributions from the sciences of the mind that draw on a wide variety of disciplines, including psychopathology, phenomenology, primatology, gender studies, quantum physics, immune biology, anthropology, philosophy of mind, and linguistics. This book is required reading for anyone who is interested in how the latest scientific insights are changing how we think about the human mind and its limits. | <urn:uuid:6802aa7f-edc6-401c-aea3-e81264940450> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studyingcore.com/product/more-ways-than-one-fostering-creativity-in-the-classroom-ebook/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.906831 | 355 | 2.96875 | 3 |
After you determine that you do indeed have premenstrual syndrome (PMS), it's important to do 2 things: find out what you can do for yourself, and find a physician sympathetic to your concerns and who does not simply dismiss your symptoms as something you have to put up with.
In terms of self-help, many women find exercise helps a lot, as do yoga and relaxation techniques for others.
Taking 600 mg of calcium twice a day has also been found to be very effective.
Many women try to find factors in their diet that worsen symptoms, especially caffeine, salt, chocolate, sugar, and alcohol, although objective studies have not found these to be consistently linked with PMS. Still, it always pays to try to minimize your intake of anything you suspect might be making your symptoms worse to see if that helps.
Among the most popular treatments for PMS are "natural" remedies such as Vitamin B6, vitamin E, evening primrose oil, magnesium, herbal teas, fish oils (for bloating), and gingko, although objective studies have not found any of these to be effective.
A small study found that chaste tree berry (Vitex agnus-castus) might help with some PMS symptoms, although this report requires validation with much larger randomized studies.
Many medications have been tried in PMS. One of the most popular is progesterone, usually in vaginal or rectal suppository form, although studies have shown that progesterone is not generally effective for PMS, and should probably be reserved for special cases. On the other hand, a study using a pill that releases a steady dose of progesterone has shown some promise.
Although birth control pills produce lighter periods, they do not often help with PMS symptoms, and some women even report worse symptoms on the pill.
Specific PMS symptoms can sometimes be treated with medications, such as, for example, diuretics to treat fluid retention, and anti-inflammatories for pain.
For the more severe psychological symptoms, especially in premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), SSRI antidepressants such as fluoxetine (Prozac®) are currently popular. These are, however, potent medications that often produce troublesome side effects such as sleep problems and disturbances in sexual functioning, and should also be reserved for special cases.
For the most severe cases of PMS, GnRH agonists (medications that induce a menopause-like state) can help, but these controversial medications produce many side effects such as hot flashes, mood swings, sleep and sexual function disturbances, and because of long-term risks of osteoporosis and heart disease, these medications should not be used for more than 6 months.
Danazol, a synthetic testosterone, is also sometimes used for severe cases of PMDD. Danazol, however, produces many side effects (hot flashes, acne, weight gain, masculinization effects such as voice deepening and growth of the clitoris, mood swings, and others), and it has also been linked recently to an increased risk of ovarian cancer, so its use should be very limited.
As to potential new therapies, a medication called Ph80, which is taken as a nasal spray, has shown some promise and is now in advanced testing.
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By Annemarie Schumacher Dimech, President and Co-Founder of the Women’s Brain Project
Further to the outbreak of the #COVID19 pandemic, Sara Rubinelli started issuing recommendations for the general public on her social media channels. She is a Professor of Health Communication at the University of Lucerne, and President of the International Association for Communication in Healthcare.
Background: The importance of communication in health crises
The COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing measures have changed our daily life considerably within a very short span of time. Although the focus right now is on controlling the spread of this virus as well as finding an effective cure, the psychosocial effects of this situation should not be neglected.
Studies conducted during or after past pandemics on subjective well-being found both negative and positive outcomes. In spite of a reduction in well-being, particularly in vulnerable groups (e.g. the chronically ill, women, and unemployed), a stronger sense of community was also reported.
A recent review by the Lancet of studies investigating the psychological impact of quarantine confirmed these findings, and emphasized the importance of communication.
The role of communication in the media as well as on a policy level indeed has a huge impact on people’s reactions, affecting behaviours and mental health. The goal is to empower people to take necessary precautions to safeguard their health and that of others.
As one study put it: “Ideally, pandemic communications maximize the public’s capacity to act as an effective partner by encouraging prevention, promoting containment, and fostering resilience and recovery”.
So, let’s dive in.
Interview with Professor Rubinelli
Prof. Rubinelli, what motivated you to start publishing recommendations for the public on social media on how to manage information about COVID-19?
Information about COVID-19 is ‘technical’: it often implies knowledge of epidemiology, medicine, public health, economics and, moreover, of scientific thinking as a process to build or analyse evidence.
This is not something that comes naturally to most people. That’s why, with my colleagues Nicola Diviani, Claudia Zanini, and Maddalena Fiordelli, we decided to publish some guidelines [see visuals at the end of this article] to assist people in evaluating information about COVID.
We are not experts in medicine, so we do not write about what is right and wrong in dealing with COVID-19 as a health condition. However, we provide tips that people can use to evaluate whether or not information is based on scientific evidence. If it isn’t, then it is a point of view.
Why did you choose this particular format?
We looked for a medium that can be easily used and implemented, which is why we decided to use Instagram. Taking an overly detailed approach or discussing how science works would be interesting from a knowledge perspective, but short guidelines are, in our view, the best way to give practical advice that people can really use in their daily life.
How would you describe the impact of communication in a situation such as the current one?
Massive! Communication plays a main role. The World Health Organization (WHO) went as far as to speak about an “info-demic”, a pandemic of information!
Everybody speaks about COVID-19, but the sources are not always qualified to say the things they say. For example, there have been actors who spoke about how patients should be treated. That’s their point of view, and should not be shared as if it were scientific fact.
I understand that in a world of freedom of speech, everybody can say what he or she thinks. Nevertheless, we have to be careful on how we express our opinions, because what people hear or read influences attitudes and behaviour: and it is very dangerous if people do not fully understand the risks associated to COVID-19.
They might develop a perception of risk that is too low (e.g., think that COVID-19 is like a flu) or too high (e.g., that everybody is at high risk of dying).
What are the risks of fake news and incorrect information?
As I was saying, our risk perception is influenced by several aspects including our knowledge and beliefs. When we rely on misinformation, we might end up engaging in suboptimal behaviours.
There are different types of misinformation: fake-news, reconstruction of the events through conspiracy theories that are unsupported, non-experts that are influencers and therefore are persuasive, individual views not supported by scientific evidence.
I think we need to thoroughly explain in a comprehensible way the phenomenon of an “info-demic”. We cannot tell people what they should believe. Most of us live in democracies where everybody is free to believe what they want. However, it is important to make people aware when something is – or is not – based on evidence.
Have you observed gender differences when it comes to health communication?
There are gender aspects in the way health providers are portrayed on the media. One such example is that very often, males are more prominent than women in articles and photos about COVID-19 (and this in spite of women making up 70% of healthcare workers, according to the World Health Organization).
But on this topic, I would need to do a proper study to confirm what at the moment is a hypothesis.
There are definitely differences, as for instance women tend to be the ones taking care of children and elderly parents, so their understanding of prevention measures can have a catalytic effect.
In all types of communication, gender stereotypes and biases create a priori assumptions in our minds, thereby influencing our communication with others. In the clinical context, these biases affect both clinicians’ perception of their patients as well as patients’ and public’s expectations (also in terms of non-verbal communication). There is also evidence of gender-differences in communication – for example, female doctors provide more psychological support during the conversation while male providers insist more on the evidence-based aspect, they spend more time presenting tests rather than talking about how the patient feels.
How can communication contribute to addressing health inequities, or support vulnerable groups in a time of crisis?
Health institutions can present tailored information that address vulnerable groups especially. These groups are not easily reached by top-down communication. Thus, different target audiences have to be clearly defined and an analytical effort is needed to understand how to deliver information in ways that is comprehensible and that actually reach them.
All of this cannot be easily done in an emergency situation.
Therefore, institutional risk communication for public health threats have to be planned long before a crisis. This means investing resources into strategic and crisis communication.
How can communication help cope with the after-effects of the COVID-19 pandemic?
I am not a psychologist, but I have my personal view on this. Communication supports the expression of feelings. At the moment, we need to verbalise our emotions, label our beliefs, fears, stress, and all the negative aspects that derive from witnessing this challenging time in our history.
This is not only a public health crisis; it is an economic crisis, and it challenges a lot of certitudes we had before. We somehow need to rebuild ourselves. Some people are doing this already, whereas others need more support.
Communication is key. It is a channel for the governments, but also for individuals and communities to to work together to equip our future society to deal with the unexpected.
Communications during COVID-19
Rubinelli and her team put out their guidelines as five “chapters”. Each visual below represents one of the chapters and links to the corresponding pdfs with the full content are below.
- Chapter 1: Who is the speaker?
- Chapter 2: Is the speaker credible?
- Chapter 3: What do the numbers tell us?
- Chapter 4: Why does it take so long to develop a vaccine?
- Chapter 5: Is science contradicting itself?
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hookworms, whipworms, and microscopic intestinal parasites (like coccidia and
Giardia) are relatively common in pets, but that doesn’t mean that they can’t cause serious illness. Young, sick, or debilitated pets can even die if they are heavily infected with parasites. If your pet has parasites, accurate diagnosis, including identification of the parasite(s) present, is important to determine the best treatment and help ensure a full recovery. Fecal diagnostic tests, such as fecal flotation and
Giardia testing, are an important part of this process.
Parasites can cause clinical signs such as diarrhea,
vomiting, and weight loss. If your pet is showing any suspicious signs, your veterinarian may recommend performing fecal flotation and
Giardia testing to determine if parasites are the cause. However, some pets don’t develop clinical signs, so periodic testing of “healthy” pets is also recommended. Your pet’s routine wellness examination is a convenient time to perform parasite testing. Even pets that regularly receive parasite preventive medication (e.g., daily or monthly medication) should be tested periodically because no single medication is effective against all possible parasites.
Any new pets that are being introduced into your home (whether adult pets or puppies/kittens) should be tested for parasites before meeting your other pets. Many parasites are transmitted through contact with fecal material, so if your new pet has worms, he/she can infect your other pets. Even if your new pet seems perfectly healthy, you should schedule an examination with your veterinarian as soon as possible. Parasites, viruses, and other medical problems aren’t always apparent, so your veterinarian may recommend a fecal flotation and
Giardia test, along with some other diagnostic tests, to help ensure that your new pet is healthy before playing with your other pets and family members.
Some intestinal parasites, such as
roundworms and hookworms, are zoonotic. This means that they can infect humans. Periodically testing your pets for parasites is a good way to help protect your other family members.
To test for
intestinal parasites, your veterinarian needs a stool sample from your pet. Ask your veterinarian for a stool specimen container. Otherwise, a clean, dry container or plastic bag can be used to hold the sample. A fresh sample is preferable to a sample that is more than a day old, and only a small amount (approximately a teaspoonful) is generally needed for testing. Also, if you have multiple
cats sharing a
litterbox or multiple
dogs using the same exercise area, many veterinarians will accept a “representative” sample from your household of pets.
If you aren’t comfortable collecting a specimen at home, your veterinarian can obtain a stool sample during an office visit, either during a routine rectal examination of your pet or with a device called a fecal loop. A fecal loop is a small plastic wand with a small loop on the end. After applying lubricant, your veterinarian can gently insert the loop into your pet’s rectum and collect a sample of fecal material.
To perform a fecal flotation, your veterinarian places a small amount of fecal material into a small container and mixes it with a special solution. This solution is made so that the eggs of many parasites (such as whipworms,
roundworms) will float to the top. Your veterinarian then covers the top of the container with a microscope coverslip and allows it to sit for a few minutes. During this time, the parasite eggs float to the top of the solution and stick to the coverslip. After a few minutes, your veterinarian collects the cover slip from the top of the tube, places it on a microscope slide, and examines it under a microscope to find and identify the eggs.
Giardia organisms can sometimes be identified using fecal flotation, but some veterinarians prefer to use a different test, called a
SNAP test, to screen for
SNAP test detects
antigens (proteins produced by the parasite) in the fecal material of infected pets.
Some veterinarians perform fecal testing in the office, so results may be available the same day. Other practices use an outside laboratory for diagnostic testing, so results may take a few days. Some veterinarians use other diagnostic techniques (such as centrifugation or evaluation of fecal smears) to help identify parasites.
Testing for parasites helps identify zoonotic parasites that can pose a risk to children and other family members.
Although some pets infected with
intestinal parasites develop diarrhea or other clinical signs, many pets don’t show any signs at all. The only way to identify and treat infected pets is to test them periodically for evidence of infection. Fecal flotation and
Giardia testing are helpful for identifying infected pets.
This article has been reviewed by a Veterinarian.
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Scholarship Opportunities in Bahrain
The following is a list of scholarship opportunities for Bahraini high school students intending to pursue their undergraduate degree. There are two main scholarships:
Crown Prince International Scholarship Program offers annual scholarships to ten Bahraini students (5 boys and 5 girls). The Scholarship Program benefits include that the students will have the freedom to choose the university and major. Also, the Program does not bind the scholarship holders to work for a particular organization or to even return to Bahrain. Students are also provided with internship and career development guidance, and if needed, later on, job placement. In addition to that, students are given salary at the beginning of each semester.
The selection process for CPIS is naturally very selective. Those who are considered for the first stage of the scholarship process must be in 11th grade, have an overall 97% GPA or higher, and have to take 2 exams that asses their English and critical reasoning abilities. 60 students are then chosen: 20 public school boys, 20 public school girls, 10 private school boys, 10 private school girls, to undergo the Candidacy program that to will lead to selecting the final recipients. During this period, the students take part of different courses from leadership and critical thinking to IELTS and SAT training. The final selectionwill depends on the student’s score on those standardized exams, high school GPA, and a small percentage on their critical thinking and leadership training scores.
Student who are admitted into the Scholarship, can take a foundation year in a boarding school to
increase their chances into getting admitted into a top university.
BAPCO, a partnership with the Ministry of Education, offers high school students scholarships to pursue their studies in Bahrain or abroad. Scholarship holders receive a monthly stipend, summer training in the company, and a prep year after high school, if needed. Also, years of study are counted as years of service to the company. To apply, a student must be a Bahraini citizen, have a minimum 95% GPA or what is equivalent to that and a 5.5 score or higher in IELTS. BAPCO offers scholarships for the following majors to those interested in completing their undergraduate studies overseas:
• Chemical Engineering
• Petroleum engineering
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In a recent study, scientists have found electronic cigarette vapor has NO toxic effect on the cells found in human lungs. Fresh research, funded by British American Tobacco (BAT), suggested inhaling nicotine vapor could be as safe as breathing air.
To perform these experiments, the tobacco giant teamed up with the MatTek Corporation, maker of human cell models used in “in vitro” laboratory experiments. Scientists then used a “smoking robot” to expose these lung cell replicas to tobacco smoke, two different brands of e-cig vapor, and plain old air.
After being exposed to old-fashioned smoke for six (6) hours, the cells died. However, after subjecting the cells to an “aggressive and continuous” dose of e-cig vapor, researchers claimed the damage to the airway tissue was “similar to that of air”. BAT spokesperson, Dr Marina Murphy, stated “by employing a combination of a smoking robot and a lab-based test using respiratory tissue, it was possible to demonstrate…. the e-cigarette aerosols used in this study have no [toxic] effect on human airway tissue.”
There are plans to tests a wider variety of e-cigs, to prove its results. “Currently there are no standards concerning the ‘in vitro’ testing of electronic cigarette aerosols,” said Marina Trani, Group Head Scientific Product Stewardship at British American Tobacco. “Our protocol could prove very useful in helping the process by which these guidelines might progress.”
The debate about e-cigarette safety has been raging for several years. Study after study have highlighted health risks, although most experts agree vaping is much safer than smoking cigarettes. Dr Michael Siegel, professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at Boston University’s School of Public Health, welcomed the latest study as evidence of the safety of electronic cigarettes; stating “Despite the limitations of the research, it adds additional evidence to support the contention that vaping is a lot safer than smoking.”
He called on public health bodies and anti-tobacco groups alike to encourage smokers to swap to vaping; a step which would “transform the nicotine market and achieve a huge public health victory.” going on to proclaim, “Such a phenomenon would result in the greatest public health miracle of our lifetimes.”
However, the health expert warned overheating liquid nicotine could produce dangerous toxins. Personally, overheating e-juice taste horrible and should be avoided for that reason alone. Vaping advocates claimed the previously research results, which found e-cigs vapor held dangerous chemicals, were false due to the nicotine liquid being exposed to high temperatures.
VokeEarlier this year, British American Tobacco announced the release of a device called Voke, not currently available on the market, which is licensed as a medicine and produces no heat, working more like an asthma inhaler than an electronic cigarette.
Tom Pruen, Chief Scientific Officer of the Electronic Cigarette Industry Trade Association, stated he was satisfied the latest research was accurate. “While I’m sure that for many the source of the research will be a problem, of recent years the science conducted by the tobacco industry has been of very good quality, and despite the historic issues I wouldn’t view it with any greater skepticism than research conducted elsewhere,” he said. He went on to add, “the results are not unexpected. Not only are the components of an e-cig aerosol expected to be of low toxicity, based on a large number of analytical studies, but this research broadly agrees with a previous study.”
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Located in southern Tajikistan, the Khudkham River bridge is one of the most spectacular bridges in the world. The bridge is 28m long.
Located in the Panj valley, the bridge is built with iron planks over the Khudkham River. The road over the bridge is the Kulob-Qal'ai Khumb road, also known as R-44 or P-44 road.
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Jason Davis @jasonrdavis reports that LightSail, call sign KK6HIT, is operational again. Nine beacon packets on 437.435 MHz (AX.25, 9600 bps FSK) were received during 2:14 pm EDT pass on June 6, 2015.
Update: The sail started deploying at 1947 UT on June 7, 2015. A fully deployed sail would result in LightSail’s orbit decaying rapidly and burning up in the atmosphere potentially within a matter of days. Amateur radio operators around the world are encouraged to listen for LightSail and submit data. Details can be found at http://sail.planetary.org/missioncontrol
If you wish to try catching a glimpse of LightSail as it soars across the sky there are viewing tips at
For the latest information read Jason’s blog on the Planetary Society website http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/
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Joan Aiken Mortimer’s Tie Illustrated by Quentin Blake
BBC Publications 1976
The fourth of Joan Aiken’s Arabel and Mortimer books, Mortimer’s Tie is also the first I’ve ever read, but not being acquainted with what preceded the events here was, I felt, no barrier to following what was happening. And what a lot happens! You don’t need to know quite how Arabel (who is “still too young for school”) acquires her pet raven Mortimer, you just need to know what results when the corvid is introduced into a human environment. One word: chaos.
Kathryn L Ramage: The Abrupt Disappearance of Cousin Wilfrid. Storylandia, The Wapshott Journal of Fiction Issue 16,
The Wapshott Press, Summer 2015.
When the Great War began in the summer of 1914, I was a boy of eighteen. Like so many boys of my age, I was eager to go and fight. We saw it as a grand opportunity for adventure, as well as a chance to do a fine and noble thing. Dulce et decorum est … but none of us believed we would be the ones to die for our country. We couldn’t possibly imagine how many of our number would die. We couldn’t foresee that we would return to —
Kathryn Ramage’s Death Among the Marshes introduced us to Frederick Babington, gentleman sleuth with a twist. Traumatised by the war (as the beginning of his memoir hints) he had no doubt hoped to find a return to normality — or at least sanity — but tragedy still dogged him when deaths among his landed gentry family threw suspicion on all and sundry. In a bid to escape the guilt that had resulted from his ‘bungled’ attempts to solve mysteries he goes to Abbotshill between Ipswich and Stowmarket to reassure his Aunt Dorothea: she is being pestered by Freddie’s cousin Wilfrid and his mother Lydia who dispute she has a right to Abbotshill House.
When Wilfrid quarrels with Freddie too, and it subsequently turns out that he has had altercations with others in the extended family, things look increasingly suspicious when the black sheep of the family then disappears. Has he simply gone away in high dudgeon or has he been done away with? Enquiries by the local police and by Freddie seem to highlight plenty of individuals with possible motives for seeing Wilfrid out of the picture, but until a body turns up no answers can be arrived at. Then a body does turn up, but it isn’t Wilfrid’s.
You will often find them if you glance above you in a medieval church, high up on nave or chancel walls. Corbels are those stone brackets that project from the wall; they were designed to support a cornice, or more often the springing of an arch that rises like a slender tree trunk, curving and sprouting liernes to join other stone ribs so as to form a tracery of slender branches, supporting in their turn the distant vault.
They’re the counterpart of the capitals on freestanding pillars, those stone approximations of mighty trees; the capitals are sometimes plain (like Doric capitals) or abstract (like the ‘eyes’ on Ionic capitals) or even representational (as with the foliage on Corinthian capitals). Romanesque masons had fun carving shapes out of them: amongst them we might observe a grotesque face or an acrobatic exhibitionist, a shiela-na-gig or an angel, maybe even a foliate head or Green Man.
The name however comes via French (corbeau means crow) from the Latin corvellus, a little raven. Supposedly the corbel’s shape resembles a crow, raven or even a beak, but I don’t see it myself; and in a quick scan of my books on Romanesque sculpture and online I’ve come across precious few beaked carvings (Kilpeck church in Herefordshire has one such, a splendid beaked monster).
Be that as it may, the Latin corvus has supplied the collective term for the crow family: corvid. In Britain this family is represented by the raven, the carrion crow, the rook, the chough and the jackdaw — all predominantly black — while the magpie and the jay each have a more motley plumage. All have fascinating stories to tell.
Susanna Clarke Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell Bloomsbury 2007 (2005)
Here is a homage to Regency literature that surpasses mere pastiche. Here is an alternate history that makes one doubt the history one knows. Here too is a fantasy for those who hate fantasy. Here, in short, is great literature — involving as well as immersive, and above all beautifully written. It certainly deserves its accolades, both public and individual.
This is a story about the revival of English magic in the early 19th century brought about by the foremost magicians of the age. This is also a story about the dangers attached to re-awakening dormant forces that one may not understand, let alone control. All those Arabian Nights stories about the perils of letting the genie out of the bottle or of unwittingly killing the genie’s son by carelessly discarding date stones are reminders that fairy folk and their peers are not to be trifled with unless you know what you’re letting yourself in for. So it proves for Gilbert Norrell and for his pupil Jonathan Strange.
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) was for long considered a condition solely characteristic of males, but thankfully it is now recognised that girls and women get it too. That not all professionals are up to speed on this is illustrated by the author’s own experience: only recently diagnosed herself (and this after several years studying the condition closely) she found to her distress a male clinician not only incredulous that a woman could have ASD but also questioning the reliability of the diagnosis. For females however there are many differences in their manifestation of the condition; because diagnosis of autism was traditionally based on male behaviour patterns, female presentation of those behaviours didn’t necessarily conform to male norms. In addition many females soon learn — usually better than males — how to play the game when it comes to social expectations, and this can mask their underlying condition.
But the crucial point to make is that women and girls are statistically just as likely to have the condition, and Hendrickx’s work aims to contribute to the pressing need for an “account of the female phenotype to better identify and help ASD females.” In her own case despite an IQ of over 150 and years of being a consultant on ASD (not to mention a parallel career as a stand-up) she still came late to a diagnosis; how much more pressing must it be for females who have felt they were different from what scientists call a neurotypical (NT) population but had never been in a position to establish why?
The Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke, illustrated by Charles Vess. Bloomsbury 2007 (2006).
I have quite a few illustrated reprints of 19th- and early 20th-century folk- and fairy-tale collections on my shelves, some even facsimiles of the originals, and so this collection of short stories by the author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in many ways seemed familiar. Not only were the Charles Vess illustrations deliberately reminiscent of those of Arthur Rackham and his ilk, but the writing often recalled antiquarian texts with the occasional scholarly footnotes.
In fact I was often reminded of the ghost stories of M R James in that they seemed as if written by an earlier avatar of that academic. Above all, of course, the style was unmistakably that of Susanna Clarke’s own magnificent debut novel with its Regency aesthetic and period spelling – and no worse for that.
That this collection has been compared unfavourably with that doorstopper of a fantasy is unfortunate since it should be judged solely as a group of short fictions: as such it is much more successful than many an uneven selection of miscellaneous tales, even those by a single author.
Imagine the scene: it is Christmas Eve, the date for the traditional Mince-pie Ceremony at Battersea Castle. An unfamiliar London custom? It’s not surprising as this is 1833 in the alternate history of Joan Aiken’s Wolves Chronicles, also known as the James III sequence. James III is the Stuart monarch and he has travelled by sled from Hampton Court to be at the ceremony. On the frozen Thames.
If that seems unlikely, consider this: for two centuries we had a Little Ice Age when rivers regularly froze over. So deep and long lasting were these conditions that Frost Fairs were held on the Thames, when it was even possible to light bonfires on the ice without repercussions. The last great frost fair occurred during the winter of 1813 to 1814. A famous print shows people and tents on the ice: to the left is Three Cranes Wharf near Blackfriars in the City, and in the distance we see a bridge with around twenty stone piers; this must be Old London Bridge (Southwark Bridge wasn’t built till 1819) which had had its old houses and shops demolished in the mid 18th century.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. Black Hearts in Battersea begins one “fine warm evening in late summer” with Simon leading his donkey over Southwark Bridge in London. Joan Aiken isn’t more specific than this so I’m guessing this might be at the tail-end of August. Alternatively it may be that late September is the period she means. Why? Here’s my thinking.
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As Jesus was leaving Jericho with his disciples, followed by a large crowd, there sat by the road a blind beggar, Bartimæus (the son of Timæus). When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he cried out, "Jesus, son of David, have pity on me!" Many reproved him, saying, "Keep still," but he cried out the more, "Son of David, have pity on me!" Jesus stopped and said, "Call him." So they called the blind man and said, "Have courage! Get up, he has sent for you." Throwing off his cloak, he sprang up and came to Jesus. Jesus said to him, "What do you want me to do for you?" The blind man answered, "Master, let me receive my sight." Then Jesus said to him, "Go your way, your faith has healed you." And at once he received his sight, and followed Jesus along the road.
When Jesus and those with him were drawing near to Jerusalem and had reached Bethpage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples ahead, saying, "Go into the village over there. As soon as you enter it, you will find a colt tied, which no one has ever ridden. Untie it and bring it here. If any one asks you, 'Why are you doing that?' say, 'The Master needs it and will immediately send it back.'"
So they left him and found a colt tied, outside a door, on the street. As they untied it, some of the men standing there said, "What are you doing, untying the colt?" The disciples answered as Jesus had told them, and the men let them take it. When they had brought it to Jesus, they threw their cloaks upon it, and he mounted it. Many also spread their clothes on the road, while others strewed leafy branches cut from the fields; and people in front and behind kept shouting:
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July 29, 2020
A new study seeks to connect gun ownership levels and concealed carry laws with mass shootings and other firearm homicides. The author, Emma E. Fridel of Florida State University, attempts to compare the impact of gun ownership and concealed carry legislation on the incidence rate of mass shootings and firearm homicide in the U.S. from 1991-2016. How does the author do this? By using questionable data to argue for predetermined conclusions. This is agenda-driven “research” at its worst.
An Exercise in Cognitive Dissonance
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On Friday, Feb. 15, a 150-foot wide asteroid is expected come within 17,200 miles of Earth's surface, the closet known approach for a space rock of this size.
Asteroid 2012 DA14 will be visible through binoculars or a telescope to people in parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, as it flies over Indonesia at the time of its closest approach, around 2:25 p.m. on the East Coast.
The animated image above, provided by NASA, shows asteroid 2012 DA12 as it was seen from from the Faulkes Telescope South in Siding Springs, Australia, on Feb. 14. The asteroid appears as a white line that passes through the stars in the background. It was 465,000 miles away at this point.
The image below, an an overlay of 12 one-minute exposures, caught a glimpse of the space debris a day earlier on Feb. 13 in Australia (the morning of Feb. 12 in the States), when it was was 770,000 miles above Earth's surface.
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Signals is the story of the world economy, told in the language of everyday objects, places and events - from magazine covers and supermarkets to public protests.
Pippa Malmgren argues that by being alert to the many signals around us, we can be empowered to deal with the varied troubles and treasures the world economy inevitably brings.
Economics is not just maths and data. Perfume and makeup are part of the world economy, too. Signals will help you understand why the size of chocolate bars, steaks and apartments are shrinking. It explains why the government says we face deflation, yet everyone feels their cost of living is rising and their standard of living is falling. Rising protein prices are felt not just during your weekly shop but by the leaders of emerging markets who are obliged to reach for food and energy assets to feed their people. The increasing near misses between America's spy planes and the fighter jets of China and Russia are no coincidence.
Malmgren reveals how our daily lives are affected by the ongoing battle, created by central bankers, between inflation and deflation. The fallout of this battle is evident in the rise of antiestablishment voting, the return of social unrest to emerging markets, the movement of manufacturing jobs back to the West and pressure from mass immigration.
Economic forces are breaking the social contract between citizens and their states. If the only real solution is innovation, then the key question becomes whether governments are hostile or hospitable to efforts to build tomorrow's economy today.
Malmgren shows us who is already building the future and how to be part of it. With its wonderful range of examples, from a Vogue magazine cover to a protest by a Tibetan monk, Signals demonstrates that although we can't predict the future of the world economy, we can better prepare ourselves for it.
Far from being the concern of only a privileged few, Malmgren shows that economics is a hot topic that touches every life.
Written and read by Dr Pippa Malmgrem.
©2016 Pippa Malmgren (P)2016 Orion Publishing Group
"A tour de force." (Lord Rose, former CEO and Chairman of Marks & Spencer)
"Dr Pippa Malmgren's book is essential reading." (Dr Liam Fox, former British Defence Minister)
"Better than Piketty." (James Galbraith, Chair of Government and Business at the University of Texas)
the delivery sounds like a kindergarten school teacher reading to credulous children confusing logical tone with logic.
a history book
it's non fiction?! there are no characters, save perhaps the author
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