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Settler officials called on parliamentarians on Sunday to apply new
environmental laws to West Bank settlements in Area C, presently outside the
scope of that legislation.
“Our hands are tied when it comes to
enforcement if this change is not made,” said Yitzhak Meyer, director-general of
Samaria’s environmental protection association.
He explained that his
association and the one for the Binyamin Region were the enforcement arms of the
local authorities in the West Bank.
A legislative vacuum exists in West
Bank settlements when it comes to the environment, he said. Old environmental
regulations seen as applicable to settlements there have been erased and
replaced by tougher laws that do not cover Area C, under Israeli civil and
As a result, in recent years it has become impossible
to force factories in West Bank industrial parks and settlements to comply with
environmental restrictions, Meyer said.
He added that although former
environmental protection minister Gilad Erdan had taken the issue seriously,
Israeli officials for the most part ignored complaints.
The issue is
complicated by diplomatic concerns. Attempts to apply Israeli law to Area C are
often seen as a backhanded way of annexing that region of the West
On Sunday, the heads of the Samaria and Binyamina environment
protection association wrote a four-page letter on the topic, which they sent to
the media, the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria, the Environmental
Protection Ministry and the Justice Ministry.
Meyer explained that this
drive had nothing to do with diplomatic concerns and was purely an enforcement
issue. He added that the request was only to apply the laws to West Bank
settlements and industrial parks.
The failure to apply such legislation
to the municipalities of Judea and Samaria infringes upon the welfare of those
living there and creates an atmosphere of environmental lawlessness, the
letter’s authors explained.
“Largely, the non-application of Israeli
environmental law enables developers, private businesses and other bodies to
find in Judea and Samaria options for establishing a pollution haven,” they
The Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria said it needed more
time to respond to the letter.
Environmental Protection Minister Amir
Peretz (Hatnua) and his ministry took a middle- of-the-road position that spoke
to the need for environmental protection, but did not advocate for full
application of the environmental laws.
“We act according to the
conception that environmental pollution knows no borders and that environmental
protection should be systemic, and from a desire to improve the quality of life
of all the population,” Peretz said in a statement.
legal authority that governs in the Judea and Samaria region is the legal
advisor in Judea and Samaria,” the statement continued.
“It is important
to remember that the victims of environmental pollution in the Judea and Samaria
region include the entire population, and this also includes the
In their letter to the media, the environmental protection
associations cited eight examples of problematic areas that have arisen in the
last five years due to new legislation.
These include: the Local
Authorities Law (Environmental Enforcement – Authorities of Inspectors), the
Non-Iodizing Radiation Law, the Clean Air Law, the Packaging Law, the Asbestos
Law, the Electronic Waste Law, the Environmental Protection Law (Powers of
Inspection and Enforcement) and the Pollutant Release and Transfer Register
The only one of these eight to even have been presented in
draft form for application in Judea and Samaria is the notion of bringing in
“green police” to the Israeli settlements through the Environmental Protection
Law, which the writers said they hope will begin to take place within a few
The failure to implement the Local Authorities Law (Environmental
Enforcement – Authorities of Inspectors) has meant that although some
municipalities in the West Bank have trained environmental inspectors, such
specialists still have no enforcement authority in the region, the authors
This has led to issues regarding the ability of contractors from
Israel proper to enter the settlement areas in order to empty their building
Meanwhile, the lack of legislation also enables residents to dump
raw sewage on the ground and thereby contaminate the aquifers without
punishment, in a hydrologically sensitive region, the letter
Without the equivalent of the Non-Iodizing Radiation Law in
place, businesses are setting up facilities that emit radiation without proper
Meanwhile, the lack of legislation similar or identical to
the Clean Air Law means that air quality hazards are prominent throughout the
West Bank, and that wasteburning sites and industrial plants can release
emissions without permits that would be required in Israel proper, the authors
The absence of a law like the Packaging Law means that local
authorities are not required to determine arrangements for collection of
packaging, and residents do not have the opportunity to participate in the
Environmental Protection Ministry’s program for waste separation at the
Similar issues plague Judea and Samaria residents due to the fact
that they need not abide by the Electronic Waste Law, the authors
A lack of a law similar to the Asbestos Law indicates that there
are no rules determining the use of asbestos, nor regarding the proper
dismantling of asbestos – rules that are “critical to the preservation of public
health,” according to the letter.
Lastly, by not employing the Pollutant
Release and Transfer Register Law in Judea and Samaria, the government is
freeing businesses that operate in the region from providing transparent data on
emissions that they release to the environment in the region. Without the
requirement of such mandatory data registry, a “distorted picture” of the
pollution situation of the area emerges, the authors stressed.
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The sleek, all-glass exteriors that distinguish Apple stores around the world have landed the computer giant in the headlines, and in court.
New York grandmother Evelyn Paswall is suing the Calif.-based company for $1 million after she walked into the glass door at one of Apple's Long Island locations and broke her nose. The 83-year-old was returning an iPhone at the company's Manhasset store on Dec. 13, 2011, when the injury occurred, according to the New York Post.
Paswall's suit claims the company does not do enough to warn customers, particularly the elderly, about its stores' exteriors.
"My client is an octogenarian. She sees well, but she did not see any glass," her attorney, Derek T. Smith, told the Post.
"Apple wants to be cool and modern and have the type of architecture that would appeal to the tech crowd. But on the other hand, they have to appreciate the danger that this high-tech modern architecture poses to some people," Smith said.
The suit, filed in the U.S. Eastern District federal court, claims that, "The defendant was negligent . . . in allowing a clear, see-through glass wall and/or door to exist without proper warning."
The Post reports that, as of this weekend, the Manhasset store had small white warning strips on the glass exterior. Paswell's attorney did not confirm whether or not the warning strips were in place at the time of his client's accident, but said they are still not enough to protect elderly customers like Paswell.
"The stereotypical Apple customer is a Gen-Y person or a teenager or a college student, but they have to realize that the elderly generation are their customers, too," he said.
Reached for comment today by ABCNews.com, Smith said he stood by his comments to the Post and that neither he nor Paswell would be making any additional comments at this time.
Workers at the Apple store in Manhasset also declined comment.
While there have been previously reported incidents of accidents occurring at Apple stores, this is believed to be the first lawsuit of its kind against the company.
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The year 2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the landmark civil rights decision, Brown v. Board of Education, and the Law Review at the University of La Verne College of Law has chosen to honor the occasion by sponsoring a symposium, “Brown v. Board of Education at 60: Cause Lawyering for a New Generation”.
The symposium is slated to occur on February 28, 2014 and will explore many of the issues that cause lawyering has always raised, as well as many of the new questions that have arisen over time: What does it mean to be a “cause lawyer“? What are some of the most effective advocacy techniques that cause lawyers deploy outside of the context of litigation? How do cause lawyers affiliated with formal advocacy groups account for individual attorneys who – without regard for the organizations‘ strategic preferences – file claims on behalf of their clients who possess common legal interests? The symposium proposes to examine these and other questions by investigating cause lawyering in four specific settings: voting rights, immigration, reproductive rights, and LGBT equality. | <urn:uuid:098ccf4f-2c39-4b84-8d51-6f23518b2ce8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://law.laverne.edu/event-listing/law-review-symposium/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00068-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963754 | 216 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Isaiah 32New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
The Kingdom of Justice
1 See, a king will reign justly
and princes will rule rightly.
2 Each of them will be like a shelter from the wind,
a refuge from the rain.
They will be like streams of water in a dry country,
like the shade of a great rock in a parched land.
3 The eyes of those who see will not be closed;
the ears of those who hear will be attentive.
4 The hasty of heart shall take thought to know,
and tongues of stutterers shall speak readily and clearly.
5 No more will the fool be called noble,
nor the deceiver be considered honorable.
6 For the fool speaks folly,
his heart plans evil:
perverse speech against the Lord,
Letting the hungry go empty
and the thirsty without drink.
7 The deceits of the deceiver are evil,
he plans devious schemes:
To ruin the poor with lies,
and the needy when they plead their case.
8 But the noble plan noble deeds,
and in noble deeds they persist.
The Women of Jerusalem
9 You women so complacent, rise up and hear my voice,
daughters so confident, give heed to my words.
10 In a little more than a year
your confidence will be shaken;
For the vintage will fail,
no fruit harvest will come in.
11 Tremble, you who are so complacent!
Shudder, you who are so confident!
Strip yourselves bare,
with only a loincloth for cover.
12 Beat your breasts
for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine;
13 For the soil of my people,
overgrown with thorns and briers;
For all the joyful houses,
the exultant city.
14 The castle will be forsaken,
the noisy city deserted;
Citadel and tower will become wasteland forever,
the joy of wild donkeys, the pasture of flocks;
15 Until the spirit from on high
is poured out on us.
And the wilderness becomes a garden land
and the garden land seems as common as forest.
16 Then judgment will dwell in the wilderness
and justice abide in the garden land.
17 The work of justice will be peace;
the effect of justice, calm and security forever.
18 My people will live in peaceful country,
in secure dwellings and quiet resting places.
19 And the forest will come down completely,
the city will be utterly laid low.
20 Happy are you who sow beside every stream,
and let the ox and the donkey go freely!
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What is the point of joining a religion other than having a higher power to believe in? How could being part of a religion affect and change a life? These questions are commonly asked in today's society. The fact of the matter is that religion actually does so much more than just give someone something to believe in.
Religion can be one of the main influences on a person's life. One of the ways religion influences one's life is by affecting the way they think and their opinions about things. The way a person of a certain faith might form their opinions would be centered around their church's standards. These opinions will lead to choices, and therefore also be centered around their religion's standards. Their religion will help them to make choices now that they can be proud of later. These choices will shape the type of person someone will become. One goal for any religion is to become a better person. If a person follows their church's standards, and lets the church influence them, then they will accomplish that goal.
In every faith there is input and output. Religion will always give back in some way. One of the ways it gives back is to help achieve compassion for others. All religions are different, but the concept of compassion is taught in every religion. Being compassionate helps people to respect others and be more understanding toward another person's situation.
Not only does religion help to gain respect for others, but also for one's self. Self-worth is another commonly taught concept in religion. This teaching helps people to realize that they do not need to lower their standards for anyone or anything. By learning this, people will gain a greater confidence and it will make it easier to stand for what is right. This confidence in one's self and one's religion will lead to a happier and more successful life. So, although religion may take time and energy, it all pays off.
While religion may give people something to believe in, that is not the only thing it does for people. In my case, being a member of a religion has proved extremely influential and beneficial. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons, and my religion has always positively influenced my life and benefits me everyday.
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Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful can now boast a fleet of two 26-foot river cleanup boats after celebrating the maiden voyage of the organization’s second boat earlier this week with a cleanup held on Fort Loudoun Lake of the Tennessee River. The nonprofit’s board members and their families participated in the cleanup, removing 1,453 pounds of trash during the boat’s first venture on the water.
The purchase of the custom aluminum john boat, named The Holston after one of the two rivers that converge to form the Tennessee River, was made possible largely through funding and donations from TVA, Yamaha Rightwaters, a Knoxville-based Home Depot (Schaad Road) store, and Premier Watersports of Knoxville.
“Having this second boat in our fleet is going to be a gamechanger that will allow us to arguably double our impact for the seven-state Tennessee River watershed,” said Kathleen Gibi, KTNRB executive director. “We’re particularly proud that such a wide-ranging representation of sponsors who we see as champions for our waterways were willing to step up to help us acquire this boat, because it’s going to take an effort from all levels of the community to protect our precious river system.”
Having just one boat up until now, KTNRB hosts over 40 river cleanups a year throughout the seven-state Tennessee River watershed, with more than 700 volunteers helping them to remove over 152,000 pounds of trash in 2021. Following the cleanup held this week, nearly 300 volunteers have helped to remove over 85,000 pounds of trash in 2022 thus far.
TVA, who helped to start Keep the Tennessee River Beautiful in 2016, provided funding that primarily assisted with the purchase of the custom john boat and trailer. Though TVA is primarily known for supplying power to 153 individual local power companies, it also has a Natural Resources group that supports more than 40 river cleanup groups each year.
“Since TVA helped KTNRB acquire their first boat in 2019 and was a founding partner, it only made since that we help with the expansion of obtaining the second boat," said Rebecca Hayden, director, Natural Resources at TVA. "Providing funding to organizations like KTNRB help TVA to meet is mission of service by providing natural resource stewardship and outdoor recreation opportunities on TVA’s public lands and waters across the valley. Their efforts help to provide a safe, natural environment not just for the public, but also for wildlife.”
Yamaha Rightwaters donated the V MAX SHO 90 outboard motor and tiller arm. The motor matches a replica donation Yamaha made in 2020 for KTNRB’s first boat, The Tennessee. Since the first motor donation was made in 2020, KTNRB has been able to remove over 293,000 pounds of trash from the Tennessee River watershed.
“Two Yamaha facilities call the Tennessee River home, so it only makes sense for Yamaha Rightwaters to work alongside of KTNRB to keep the Tennessee River’s waterways clean,” said John O’Keefe, specialist, Government Relations, Yamaha U.S. Marine Business Unit and KTNRB board member. “This is an organization that is really making a difference – it’s that simple. We look forward to helping KTNRB accelerate its mission with a second cleanup boat.”
Yamaha Rightwaters has also consistently sponsored KTNRB’s annual Ripple Effect Awards, through which river champions are recognized for outstanding efforts to protect local waterways. Preparing a boat to be river-worthy involves expenses beyond the boat, motor and trailer purchase, and KTNRB received help on this front, as well.
A Knoxville-based Home Depot (Schaad Road) store donated approximately $2,500 in supplies. This included a truck bed tool box that was welded onto the boat to serve as a dry box, pressure-treated wood that was used to make volunteer benches spanning the 26-foot boat, and a variety of river cleanup tools and safety gear that help the boat to meet U.S. Coast Guard standards.
Premier Watersports of Knoxville saved KTNRB a large sum by donating the labor expenses of installing Yamaha’s motor and tiller arm. They also donated a gas tank (filled with gas), and a boat battery with a water-proof case.
“For a nonprofit with a humble budget like ours is, these covered costs go a long way for us to be able to make an even greater impact on our waterways, and we’re so very grateful to each of our sponsors for making this boat purchase possible,” said Ms. Gibi.
Until now, Ms. Gibi said that KTNRB was in the position of each cleanup relying on their one boat being operational. As their first boat had been through several years of service and as the requests for river cleanups have increased, they realized that a backup boat was essential.
Soon, however, Ms. Gibi said that KTNRB staffing will add two positions that will serve as boat captains at cleanups, among other organizational responsibilities. Currently, Ms. Gibi is the only full-time staff member and sole boat driver for the nonprofit. She said they’re working on securing funding for the new positions now and hope to begin hiring in 2023.
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It’s the military power stupid
Common National Interests
In a pamphlet titled ‘Israel: A Strategic Asset for the United States’ published by the Washington Institute, Robert D. Blackwill and Walter B. Slocombe set out the mutual interests that bind the USA to Israel
As a global power, the United States has national interests that range far beyond the greater Middle East, but that region is among the most critical for our country. U.S. interests that especially involve this vast area include:
– preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, especially nuclear weapons;
– combating terrorism and the radical Islamist ideology from which it is spawned;
– promoting an orderly process of democratic change and economic development in the region;
– opposing the spread of Iranian influence and that of Iran’s partners and proxies;
– ensuring the free flow of oil and gas at reasonable prices;
– resolving the Arab-Israeli dispute through a process of negotiations; and
– protecting the security of Israel.
Israel’s national interests are virtually identical:
– to prevent nuclear proliferation, especially by Iran or via terrorist groups;
– to fight terrorism, radicalism, and what Israelis refer to as “global jihad” ;
– to promote stability and the long-term development of liberal democracies in the greater Middle East; and
– to maintain peaceful borders with its neighbors, including a peace agreement with the Palestinians based on a two-state solution.
Indeed, there is no other Middle East country whose definition of national interests is so closely aligned with that of the United States.
On important issues, Washington and Jerusalem do sometimes differ, a phenomenon not unique to the U.S.-Israel relationship, as witness just three of the many examples where the United States parted ways with its closest treaty allies: with Britain and France, during the 1956 Suez crisis; with Britain and France, when they secretly connived to slow or prevent the unification of Germay in 1990; or with France and Germany, when they opposed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. The United States and Israel may ascribe different levels of threat to the challenges they face, accept varying degrees of risk in addressing those threats, and disagree on ways to advance their common national interests. Over the decades, the two sides have periodically had policy flare-ups, some even bitter, on topics ranging from Israel’s preemptive action against Iraq’s nuclear reactor to Israeli sales of weaponry and military technology to China. Some of the most contentious policy disputes have been about actions affecting the peace process—the diplomacy aimed at resolving the many different aspects of the Arab-Israel conflict.
From the Ford administration’s punitive “reassessment” of relations to the George H.W. Bush administration’s showdown over loan guarantees, when various U.S. presidents and Israeli governments have staked out different positions on key issues (notably, the wisdom and legitimacy of Israeli settlement construction), the disputes unsurprisingly capture the headlines.
But more frequent are those instances when the two sides have worked together successfully over more than thirty years to achieve shared policy objectives, especially the series of peace treaties and agreements that have been an anchor of U.S. influence in the region.
This list also includes instances when Israel subordinated its own policy preferences to accommodate those of Washington, such as acceding to the George W. Bush administration’s insistence that the Palestinians hold legislative elections in 2006, despite Israeli misgivings—which regrettably proved prescient—that it risked triggering a destructive process that eventually led to the Hamas takeover of Gaza. Through it all, decades of experience show that the two sides have learned how to manage their differences in the service of their common national interests.
This commonality of interest has long been the dominant theme of the U.S.-Israel bilateral relationship, even on the difficult issue of Israel’s relations with its Arab neighbors.
Israeli contributions to U.S. National Interests
In addition to and outside of the peace process, history provides numerous examples of specific Israeli actions that have benefited U.S. national interests.
During the Cold War, the most celebrated were Israel’s daring theft of Soviet radar from Egypt in 1969, Israel’s positive reply to President Nixon’s request to fly reconnaissance missions and mobilize troops to help turn around Syria’s invasion of Jordan in 1970, and Israel’s sharing of technical intelligence on numerous Soviet weapons systems captured during the 1967 and 1973 wars. More recently, Israeli counterproliferation efforts—including bombing the Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981—have contributed substantially to U.S. interests. And the 2007 attack on the North Korea–supplied Syrian reactor, never formally acknowledged by Israel, ensured that Bashar al-Asad’s progress toward a nuclear weapon—and a very dangerous proliferation move by North Korea—was stopped at an early stage.
On a number of occasions, Israel has also made difficult decisions not to act—policy choices sometimes made in discordance with its own strictly national interests and perspectives—and that restraint has been important to U.S. national interests. Such was the case with Israel’s decision to accede to a U.S. request not to retaliate against Iraqi Scud attacks during the first Gulf War, which American officials feared would lead to Arab states withdrawing from the international coalition. Similarly, after a sometimes ugly dispute with Washington, Israel agreed to terminate the sale of problematic weapons and military technology to China and deprive itself of both a major market for its world-class military exports and a source of influence with Beijing.
Today, Israeli contributions to U.S. national interests range across a broad spectrum. For example:
Through joint training and exercises as well as exchanges on military doctrine, the United States has benefited in the areas of counterterrorism cooperation, tactical intelligence, and experience in urban warfare. The largest-ever U.S.-Israel joint exercise is scheduled for spring 2012.
Israeli technology promotes American interests. Increasingly, U.S. homeland security and military agencies are turning to Israeli technology to solve some of their most vexing technical problems. This support ranges from advice and expertise on behavioral screening techniques for airport security to acquiring an Israeli-produced tactical radar system to enhance force protection. Israel has been a world leader in the development of unmanned aerial systems, for both intelligence collection and combat, and it has shared with the U.S. military the technology, the doctrine, and its experience regarding these systems. Israel is also a global pacesetter in active measures for armored vehicle protection, defense against short-range rocket threats, and the techniques and procedures of robotics, all of which it has shared with the United States.
In the vital realm of missile defense cooperation, the United States has a broad and multifaceted relationship with Israel, its most sophisticated and experienced partner in this preeminent domain for the United States. Israel’s national missile defenses—including the U.S. deployment in Israel of an advanced X-band radar system and the more than 100 American military personnel who man it—will be an integral part of a larger missile defense architecture spanning Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Persian Gulf that will help protect U.S. forces and allies throughout this vast area.
For this reason, the director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency recently praised the specific contribution that Israel’s integrated, multilayered command-and-control network makes to the U.S. military’s ability to defend against the Iranian missile threat.
While it is certainly true that Israel gains significantly from generous U.S. financial assistance to its military—most of it spent in America—Israel’s defense industries have certain unique competencies that benefit the United States. One result is the growing importance to the U.S. military of Israeli defense goods, as the United States has taken advantage of access to unique Israeli capabilities in key “niche” areas of military technology. Overall, the value of annual U.S. purchases of Israeli defense articles has increased steadily over the past decade, from less than a half billion dollars in the early 2000s to about $1.5 billion today.
Among the Israeli-developed defense equipment used by the U.S. military are short-range unmanned aircraft systems that have seen service in Iraq and Afghanistan; targeting pods on hundreds of Air Force, Navy, and Marine strike aircraft; a revolutionary helmet-mounted sight that is standard in nearly all frontline Air Force and Navy fighter aircraft; lifesaving armor installed in thousands of MRAP armored vehicles used in Iraq and Afghanistan; and a gun system for close-in defense of naval vessels against terrorist dinghies and small-boat swarms.
Moreover, American and Israeli companies are working together to jointly produce Israel’s Iron Dome—the world’s first combat-proven counter-rocket system.
Counterterrorism and intelligence cooperation is deep and extensive, with the United States and Israel working to advance their common interest in defeating the terrorism of Hamas, Hizballah, and al-Qaeda and its affiliate groups by sharing information, supporting preventive actions, deterring challenges, and coordinating overall strategy. Joint Special Forces training and exercises, collaboration on shared targets, and close cooperation among the relevant U.S. and Israeli security agencies testify to the value of this relationship. The United States has taken advantageof access to unique Israeli capabilities in key “niche” areas of military technology.
More broadly, Israel is a full partner in intelligence operations that benefit both countries, such as efforts to interdict the supply of parts to Iran’s nuclear program or to prevent weapons smuggling in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. This intimate relationship reinforces overall U.S. intelligence efforts by providing Washington with access to Israel’s unique set of capabilities for collection and assessments on key countries and issues in the region, since Israel is able to focus resources and attention on certain targets of central importance to the United States. Such was the case, for example, when Israel passed to the United States conclusive photographic evidence that Syria, with North Korean assistance, had made enormous strides toward “going hot” with a plutonium-producing reactor. As Israel’s strategic intelligence collection capabilities (e.g., satellite and unmanned aerial systems) mature and improve, this cooperation and exchange of intelligence information and analysis will increasingly serve U.S. national interests.
Given that Iran and its allies in the greater Middle East represent clear and present dangers to U.S. interests, Israel’s military—the most powerful in the region—plays an important role in addressing those threats posed especially by Syria, Hizballah, and to some extent, Iran itself. The ability of the Israeli armed forces to deter the military ambitions of destabilizing regional actors promotes American national interests because it presents our common enemies with an additional—and potent—military capability to resist their aggression.
As Israel’s strategic intelligence collection capabilities mature, this cooperation and exchange of intelligence information will increasingly serve U.S. national interests.
Looking to the future, Israel’s world-class expertise in two cutting-edge areas of national security—cyber defense and national resilience planning and implementation—will increasingly redound to the benefit of the United States.
Israel is a primary place where the United States can build an enduring partnership to try to secure the cyber commons, as enunciated in the administration’s International Strategy for Cyberspace. With its world-class information technology, R&D, and cyber-security capabilities, Israel will be an ever more important player in efforts to secure cyberspace and to protect critical U.S. national infrastructure from cyberattack. Through the Israel-based activities of major U.S. companies or the licensing in the United States of Israeli technologies, Israel’s excellence in cybersecurity already benefits critical U.S. infrastructure such as banking, communications, utilities, transportation, and general Internet connectivity. And if security concerns of both parties can be managed, Israel can become a major partner in efforts to exploit the military applications of cyberpower, in the same way that the two countries have established collaborative relationships in intelligence and counterterrorism.
Finally, drawing on its experience in building a flourishing economy and vibrant democracy despite decades of conflict and terrorism, Israel has a role to play in helping the United States deepen its own internal resilience in dealing with terrorist threats against the homeland and the impact of natural disasters.
Israel’s world-class expertise in cyber-defense and national resilience planning and implementation will increasingly redound to the benefit of the United States.
In a political context, it is important to note that Israel—unlike other Middle Eastern countries whose governments are partners with the United States—is already a stable democracy, which will not be swept aside by sudden uprising or explosive revolution, a fact that may become more important in the turbulent period ahead. Moreover, for all our periodic squabbles, Israel’s people and politicians have a deeply entrenched pro-American outlook that is uniformly popular with the Israeli people. Thus, Israel’s support of U.S. national interests is woven tightly into the fabric of Israeli democratic political culture, a crucial characteristic that is presently not found in any other nation in the greater Middle East.
We do not argue that Israel’s assistance to the United States is more valuable to the United States than American support of Israel is to Israel. Nor do we deny that there are costs to the United States, in the Arab world and elsewhere, for its support of Israel, as there are costs to U.S. support of other beleaguered—and sometime imperfect—friends, from West Berlin in the Cold War to Kuwait in 1990-91 to Taiwan today. We are, however, convinced that in a net assessment those real costs are markedly outweighed by the many ways in which Israel bolsters U.S. national interests and the benefits that Israel provides to those interests.
In particular, we believe that the United States can have strong and productive relations with Arab and other Muslim nations while sustaining its intimate collaboration with Israel and that U.S. support for Israel is not the primary—and probably not even a dominant—reason Islamist terrorists target the United States. The long-standing U.S. commitment to Israel has not prevented development of close ties with Arab nations who understand that however much they disagree with U.S. support for Israel, they benefit from a good relationship with the United States on other issues.
Nor has it made the Arab oil-exporting states any less conscious of their own economic and strategic interest in a reasonably stable flow of oil to world markets, or their eagerness to buy first-class military equipment from the United States or to enjoy the benefits of U.S. protection against Iranian or other aggression.
To put it differently, would Saudi Arabia’s policies toward the United States be markedly different in practice if Washington entered into a sustained crisis with Israel over the Palestine issue during which the bilateral relationship went into steep systemic decline? Would Riyadh lower the price of oil? Would it stop hedging its regional bets concerning U.S. attempts to coerce Iran into freezing its nuclear weapons programs? Would it regard current U.S. policy toward Afghanistan more positively? Would it view American democracy promotion in the Middle East more favorably? Would it be more inclined to reform its internal governmental processes to be more in line with U.S. preferences? We judge positive answers to all these questions as “doubtful” at the very least.
Moreover, for all the “Arab street’s” popular attacks on the United States as Israel’s friend, America remains a magnet for young Arabs—in popular culture, in education, in commerce, and in technology. And concern with Israel, though real, remains a lower priority in most of Arab public opinion than more immediate preoccupations with economic progress and pervasive corruption.
Toward deeper US.-Israel cooperation
The conclusion of our analysis is that the U.S.-Israel relationship is a significant asset to U.S. national interests. And the potential for even greater U.S. benefits from deeper cooperation is substantial. In this context:
U.S. political leaders, from the White House to Congress, should expand the national discussion on U.S. Middle East policy to include the role of the U.S.-Israel relationship as a strategic asset to U.S. national interests. “U.S. national interests” deserve equal billing with “shared values” and “moral responsibility” as fundamental rationales for the bilateral relationship.
The U.S. government should seek to maximize the advantages the United States can derive from cooperation with Israel and to expand partnerships both in traditional areas (e.g., military, intelligence) and in new areas (e.g., cyberwarfare, homeland resilience).
U.S. security, strategy, and policy communities should more seriously engage on the strategic aspects of the U.S.-Israel relationship: how to further develop bilateral ties and how to leverage this relationship to advance broader U.S. national interests.
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The first couple paragraphs of this piece give some explanation of why young Muhammad bin Salman was able to get away with it.
Deeper into the article the writer seems to misconstrue the power relationships between U.S. politicians and the Kingdom. The individual American pols of both parties, and especially the folks at the Department of State, have great respect for the Saud clan's wealth.
From The Independent:
Saudi Arabia may be in for a nasty shock when Obama steps down
The mood in the US is changing as politicians and the media explore Saudi links to 9/11 terror attacks
U.S. President Barack Obama speaks with Oman's Deputy Prime Minister Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmoud al Said (L), Saudi Arabia's King Salman (2nd R) and Bahrain's King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa (R) during the summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Foreign leaders visiting King Salman of Saudi Arabia have noticed that there is a large flower display positioned just in front of where the 80-year-old monarch sits. On closer investigation, the visitors realised that the purpose of the flowers is to conceal a computer which acts as a teleprompter, enabling the King to appear capable of carrying on a coherent conversation about important issues.
One visiting US delegation meeting with King Salman recently observed a different method of convincing visitors – or at least television viewers watching the encounter – that he can deal with the escalating crises facing Saudi Arabia. The king did not look at the group but at a giant television screen hanging from the ceiling of the room on which was appearing prompts. Simon Henderson, the Saudi expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, who tells the story, writes that off to one side in the room was an aide who “furiously hammered talking points into a keyboard".
Of course, King Salman is not the only world leader past or present whose inability to cope has been artfully concealed by aides and courtiers. But eyewitness accounts of his incapacity does put in perspective the claim by the White House that President Obama’s visit to Saudi Arabia and two hour meeting with the king on 20 April was “cordial” and cleared the air after a troubled period in Saudi-US relations.
It is hardly a secret that real authority is shifting to Crown Prince Muhammad bin Nayef and his son, Deputy Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman. But the power vacuum does help explain the bizarre and self-destructive nature of present-day Saudi foreign policy that suddenly shifted from cautious use of Saudi Arabia’s vast oil wealth to further its aims, while always keeping its options open, to a militarised and confrontational pursuit of foreign policy objectives.
It is not exactly that the Saudi's priorities have changed, but that the means being used to achieve them are far riskier than in the past. Since King Salman succeeded to the throne, Saudi Arabia has escalated its involvement in the war in Syria and engaged directly in an air war in Yemen. Both ventures have failed: greater support for armed opposition to President Bashar al-Assad in Syria early last year allowed the rebels to advance, but also provoked direct Russian military intervention, making Assad very difficult to displace. Bombing Yemen has not forced the Houthi opposition out of the capital Sanaa and, where the Houthis have retreated, there is chaos which al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has used to set up their own mini-state on the south coast of Yemen.
The Saudi leaders are more or less openly saying that they are waiting for the departure of President Obama from the White House to resume their status of most favoured ally of the US. The permanently anti-Saudi bias of the present administration, though usually verbal rather than operational, came across clearly in the interviews with Mr Obama and his top officials in the Atlantic by Jeffrey Goldberg. He says that “in the White House these days, one occasionally hears Obama’s National Security Officials pointedly reminding visitors that the large majority of 9/11 hijackers were not Iranian, but Saudi"....MORE | <urn:uuid:34a09928-d797-41aa-a46b-24b11cb70a5f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://climateerinvest.blogspot.com/2016/04/some-thoughts-on-saudi-arabias.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00194-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95967 | 829 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Providing useful tips and information, this book is suitable for archers of various levels. Illustrated with nearly 250 black and white photographs and 80 diagrams, it analyses shooting techniques and tuning, and also emphasizes the development of mental toughness.
Easy-to-understand instruction for traditional archery. Covers both target shooting and bowhunting. Includes the author's exclusive tiered training program for instinctive shooting with in-depth advice on selecting bows, arrows, and accessories.
Explains the path to achieving Zen, a balance between the body and the mind. Based on the result of the author's quest to learn archery... Læs mere
Stay on target with all the essential information needed to learn recurve, compound, or traditional shooting. Get step-by-step instructions on aiming, shooting, tuning equipment, and maintaining equipment. Also includes information on target and field archery competitions.
Bored and ignored wife and mother accidentally tells the truth; with hilarious and surprising results.
The Archery Drill Book features over 120 drills to help archers refine their routine and increase accuracy and precision in their shots with step-by-step instructions, detailed photos, coaching tips, and variations to fit their skill level.
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This cooking game for girls has many fun and challenging levels. Compete against a computer opponent to see who can be the best chef! In the first mini game you have to find all the items on the recipe list. Then chop all of the ingredients before your opponent to win the next few rounds. After that it's time to cook the burger patties and finally catch all of the falling ingredients to put together a tasty cheeseburger.
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The Delta variant is sweeping the country. COVID-19 illness rates are increasing. Many large employers such as Google, Facebook, Morgan Stanley, Tyson Foods, and The Washington Post have made vaccination mandatory for their employees. The federal government has decreed that vaccines are mandatory for some executive agency employees. The Secretary of Defense has indicated that he will seek a vaccine mandate for active duty military members by mid-September. In this climate, many employers may be wondering if they, too, should make COVID-19 vaccinations mandatory for their workforce. Here are some practical and legal considerations as you evaluate this course of action:
- The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has stated that employers can
- Ask employees if they are vaccinated
- Require proof of vaccine status, as long as documents related to vaccine status are maintained as confidential medical records
- Mandate vaccines as a condition of employment
- However, the EEOC has also cautioned that an employer rule mandating vaccination must provide a mechanism for employees to seek an accommodation based on medical reasons or religious beliefs which prevent vaccination
- The Department of Justice has issued a formal opinion that the Emergency Use Authorization status of the current vaccines does not give employees a legal basis to refuse to comply with an employer’s vaccine mandate
- Two federal circuit courts have upheld mandatory vaccination rules for an employer and a public university, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined a request to intervene to issue an emergency injunction in one of the cases, allowing the public university to move forward with its vaccine mandate.
- Although many bills are pending across the country, so far only two state legislatures have actually passed laws limiting or prohibiting private employer vaccine mandates. These states are Oregon and Montana.
While it appears that the federal courts would likely uphold properly crafted employer rules mandating vaccines, subject to medical and religious accommodations, the practical issues when deciding whether to implement such a rule that should be considered include the following:
- Does your company have the financial resources to defend a lawsuit if a vaccine mandate is imposed and then challenged by an employee in court?
- What types of jobs would the mandate apply to and why? What about your employees’ job duties support a mandatory vaccination policy?
- What are the COVID-19 case counts and positivity rates in your area?
- Are others in your industry mandating vaccination?
- Are your clients mandating vaccination, and does a mandatory vaccination policy impact your company’s ability to serve its clients?
- What is the history of COVID-19 spread in your workplace before the vaccines became widely available? Were alternative measures effective in minimizing the spread, and are those measures still effective in light of new variants of the virus?
- What percentage of your workforce is presently unvaccinated?
- If your company mandates the vaccine, will those employees quit? If they do, what impact does that have on your company’s ability to carry on your business?
- Does your company have the administrative staff necessary to process, evaluate and document the potentially large number of requests for accommodation that you will likely receive?
One way to obtain information that could help inform your decision making process is to conduct an anonymous survey of your workforce, asking employees to tell you if they are vaccinated, and whether they would get vaccinated if your company made it mandatory (subject to religious and medical accommodations), or if they would look for work elsewhere.
Although the practical considerations may ultimately drive your decision, if your company decides that a vaccine mandate is appropriate, be sure to consult your employment counsel so that a legally defensible written policy can be developed, with the appropriate communication tools and evaluation metrics for any requests for accommodation based on religion or medical condition, and to ensure that any wage and hour issues relating to time spent obtaining a vaccination are properly addressed | <urn:uuid:7d246b0d-0b9b-4847-bd2b-afe05426819e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.poynerspruill.com/thought-leadership/practical-and-legal-considerations-related-to-vaccine-mandates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.958482 | 771 | 1.890625 | 2 |
International Standard Bible EncyclopediaSABBATHS, OF YEARS
Greek4521. sabbaton -- the Sabbath, ie the seventh day (of the week)
... Word Origin of Hebrew origin shabbath Definition the Sabbath, ie the seventh day
(of the week) NASB Word Usage Sabbath (58), Sabbaths (1), week (9). ...
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1207 -- second, after the first.
Strong's Hebrew7676. shabbath -- sabbath
... sabbath. Word Origin from shabath Definition sabbath NASB Word Usage every
sabbath (2), sabbath (73), sabbaths (32). every Sabbath. ...
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ThesaurusSabbaths (53 Occurrences)
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Moons (17 Occurrences)
Desecrated (17 Occurrences)
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Bible ConcordanceSabbaths (53 Occurrences)
Matthew 12:1 At that time did Jesus go on the sabbaths through the corn, and his disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck ears, and to eat,
Matthew 12:5 Or have ye not read in the law that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Matthew 12:10 and lo, there was a man having the hand withered, and they questioned him, saying, 'Is it lawful to heal on the sabbaths?' that they might accuse him.
Matthew 12:11 And he said to them, 'What man shall be of you, who shall have one sheep, and if this may fall on the sabbaths into a ditch, will not lay hold on it and raise 'it'?
Matthew 12:12 How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep? -- so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.'
Matthew 28:1 And on the eve of the sabbaths, at the dawn, toward the first of the sabbaths, came Mary the Magdalene, and the other Mary, to see the sepulchre,
Mark 1:21 And they go on to Capernaum, and immediately, on the sabbaths, having gone into the synagogue, he was teaching,
Mark 2:23 And it came to pass -- he is going along on the sabbaths through the corn-fields -- and his disciples began to make a way, plucking the ears,
Mark 2:24 and the Pharisees said to him, 'Lo, why do they on the sabbaths that which is not lawful?'
Mark 3:2 and they were watching him, whether on the sabbaths he will heal him, that they might accuse him.
Mark 3:4 And he saith to them, 'Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save, or to kill?' but they were silent.
Mark 16:2 and early in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, they come unto the sepulchre, at the rising of the sun,
Mark 16:9 And he, having risen in the morning of the first of the sabbaths, did appear first to Mary the Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven demons;
Luke 4:31 and descended to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbaths.
Luke 6:2 and certain of the Pharisees said to them, 'Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbaths?'
Luke 6:9 Then said Jesus unto them, 'I will question you something: Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save or to kill?'
Luke 24:1 And on the first of the sabbaths, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bearing the spices they made ready, and certain 'others' with them,
John 20:1 And on the first of the sabbaths, Mary the Magdalene doth come early (there being yet darkness) to the tomb, and she seeth the stone having been taken away out of the tomb,
John 20:19 It being, therefore, evening, on that day, the first of the sabbaths, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were assembled, through fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and saith to them, 'Peace to you;'
Acts 17:2 Paul--following his usual custom--betook himself to it, and for three successive Sabbaths reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Colossians 2:16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
Exodus 31:13 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying,'Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
Leviticus 19:3 "'Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
Leviticus 19:30 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 23:15 "'You shall count from the next day after the Sabbath, from the day that you brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven Sabbaths shall be completed:
Leviticus 23:38 besides the Sabbaths of Yahweh, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your freewill offerings, which you give to Yahweh.
Leviticus 25:8 "'You shall count off seven Sabbaths of years, seven times seven years; and there shall be to you the days of seven Sabbaths of years, even forty-nine years.
Leviticus 26:2 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
Leviticus 26:34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.
Leviticus 26:43 The land also will be left by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them: and they will accept the punishment of their iniquity; because, even because they rejected my ordinances, and their soul abhorred my statutes.
1 Chronicles 23:31 and to offer all burnt offerings to Yahweh, on the Sabbaths, on the new moons, and on the set feasts, in number according to the ordinance concerning them, continually before Yahweh;
2 Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the name of Yahweh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him incense of sweet spices, and for the continual show bread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts of Yahweh our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
2 Chronicles 8:13 even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the Sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the set feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tents.
2 Chronicles 31:3 He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the Sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of Yahweh.
2 Chronicles 36:21 to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Nehemiah 10:33 for the show bread, and for the continual meal offering, and for the continual burnt offering, for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
Isaiah 1:13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.
Isaiah 56:4 For thus says Yahweh, "To the eunuchs who keep my Sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and hold fast my covenant:
Lamentations 2:6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Ezekiel 20:12 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
Ezekiel 20:13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:16 because they rejected my ordinances, and didn't walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Ezekiel 20:20 and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
Ezekiel 20:21 But the children rebelled against me; they didn't walk in my statutes, neither kept my ordinances to do them, which if a man do, he shall live in them; they profaned my Sabbaths. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:24 because they had not executed my ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my Sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers' idols.
Ezekiel 22:8 You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Ezekiel 23:38 Moreover this they have done to me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my Sabbaths.
Ezekiel 44:24 In a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to my ordinances shall they judge it: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts; and they shall make my Sabbaths holy.
Ezekiel 45:17 It shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal offerings, and the drink offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meal offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 46:3 The people of the land shall worship at the door of that gate before Yahweh on the Sabbaths and on the new moons.
Hosea 2:11 I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies. Zephaniah
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First, you will want to look at the file analhead.h. These are all user-settable options, but most of them you can override later. You will probably want to check the first few options in the file, but you can even leave most of them until later.
When you have done that, you need to compile the program. How to do that depends on which system you're using.
maketo compile the program. On most systems, that will be sufficient. If it fails to compile, have a look in the Makefile to see if there's anything that you need to change to suit your configuration, and try again. It says in that file what to do. In particular, Solaris 2 (SunOS 5) users need to change the LIBS= line (and may need to change the DEFS= line -- see below).
If you haven't got gcc, you will need to change the compiler - try acc or cc instead. If it still doesn't compile, try DEFS=-DNODNS to ignore the DNS lookup code.
There is a known problem with HP-UX 10 and some versions of gcc. If it complains about an error in the <sys/stat.h> library, you need to upgrade to gcc version 22.214.171.124 or later, or use HP's cc compiler. HP's compiler is not an ANSI C compiler by default, so you need to specify -Ae in the CFLAGS to tell the compiler to use ANSI C.
SunOS 4's cc doesn't seem to have the necessary header files for ANSI C. Often gcc doesn't work either -- you will probably need to use acc.
SunOS 5 sometimes seems to have a broken strcmp() function. If you get an "illegal instruction" error when running analog, compile it with the -DNOSTRCMP in the DEFS= line.
Compiling under VMS. Type
MMSto compile analog. Under VMS 7.0 & 7.1, there is a VMS bug that stops analog compiling. The fix is to add "/define=(_VMS_V6_SOURCE)" to the cflags definitions at the top of the file descrip.mms.
Compiling under Acorn RiscOS. The Makefile is called Make.Risc, and you will have to rename it to Makefile before running make. Also you have to make directories called C, H and O, and move the sources files into the appropriate directories: e.g., alias.c must be renamed C.alias. And you will find that there are some filenames in the header file analhead.h that you want to change to fit into the RiscOS directory structure.
Compiling under OS/2. Although there is a precompiled version of analog for OS/2, if you want to compile your own you will need the EMX package. You should edit the Makefile to have OS=OS2 and LIBS=-lsocket. Then after running Make, you need to run the command
EMXBIND -b ANALOGto generate the analog.exe executable.
analogto run the program. (Or ./analog if for some reason . isn't in your $PATH.)
You can configure analog by putting commands in the configuration file, which is called analog.cfg by default. Two commands you will need straight away are
LOGFILE logfilename # to set where your logfile lives OUTFILE outputfile.html # to send the output to a file instead of the screenThe logfile must live on your local disk -- analog doesn't fetch it from across the network. There's a sample logfile supplied with the program.
There's a list of basic commands later in the Readme. Also there are a few to get you started in the configuration file already, but there are lots of others available. You can read about all the commands in the section on customising analog.
There is one other way to give options to analog, via command line arguments, given on the command line after the program name. These are just shortcuts for configuration file commands.
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“Repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”
It’s an injunction most English-speaking people have heard, and most of them have conceivably either attempted to live by it or filed it in the “wrong” box. As an adult, I have done the latter. I imagined the sentence loaded with metaphysical and meta-ethical baggage that melts under the spotlight of modern inquiry. I saw it as an egregious oversimplification of human motivation and choice. And for these reasons, I rejected it and similar Christian teachings as incapable of offering much to any contemporary human attempting in earnest to navigate the choppy and sometimes dark waters of their own internal being.
But Cynthia Bourgeault offers a radically different interpretation of that sentence. One that I’ve never heard stated so eloquently. One that brings it to life once again, as an adult, for me.
In “The Wisdom Jesus”, Bourgeault rejects the commonly held thought that Jesus was here in order to get you to believe something about him (i.e. that he died to save you from your sins). And she spurns the notion that his main point was that he wants you to be nice (which is funny when you say it out loud, but how often do we, unbeknownst to ourselves, actually frame most of what he was on about that way?)
Bourgeault systematically and methodically makes the case that Jesus was calling people to transform in ways that would transform the world around them. And that this is not something that he (or anyone else) could do for them, it is something they had to do for themselves. (This is in fact, she writes, the point of the baffling parable of the five wise (read: transformed) bridesmaids who wouldn’t be nice and share their oil with the five foolish (read: unenlightened) ones: “The oil stands for the quality of your transformed consciousness, and unfortunately, it’s impossible to become conscious unconsciously, through a donation from somebody else. You have to do the work yourself.”)
Similarly, through this lens, the instructions “repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” take on a different meaning. Borgeault notes that the Greek word being translated as “repent” is “metanoia,” which means to “go beyond your own mind” or to “go into the large mind” depending on how you translate the prefix “meta.” Either way, this does not sound like a command to change the direction of your life or to stop doing bad things. It sounds like an instruction to transform the way you know and see the world. And although this fact is often ignored, what is meant by “at hand,” is not a place you go when you die, but a place that is right here, right now. So, as Bourgeault puts it, the kingdom of heaven is “not later, but lighter – some more subtle dimension or quality of experience accessible to you right in the moment. You don’t die into it; you awaken into it.” Later, she writes, “It is a whole new way of looking at the world, a transformed awareness that literally turns this world into a different place.”
All of this raises the question, if Jesus wanted his followers to awaken into a transformed awareness of the world, one characterized by a passionate, unified heart that is capable of loving with a fire that is “not of this world”, just how did he expect us to get there? “How do we die before we die? How do we love our neighbors as ourselves? How do we bridge the gap between what we believe and what we can actually live?”
Bourgeault believes that “Jesus does leave us with a path for getting across that gap,” and, although to her way of thinking it is something few human beings have ever achieved, it is what her book is principally about. I highly suggest that you read the book and form your own judgements about it. As for me, I’m not there yet. I do not claim to be enlightened and if anything I’m only more conscious now of how big the gap between the world I live in and the “kingdom of heaven” is.
At the same time, something in me says, “yeah, this is what Jesus was really trying to teach people. This is what he was on about. This is the weird, crazy stuff that baffled the spiritual leaders and turned the world upside down back in his day. It wasn’t just about being nice, and it wasn’t about dogma. Those things wouldn’t have had much of an impact. But this would have stirred the pot.”
What do you think?
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As an artist, dancer and choreographer who sought to “enlarge the possibilities” given in any one space, body or moment, Merce Cunningham may have seen in his imminent death the chance to make irrefutably creative choices about just how that passing would take place.
In July 2009, at 90, the respected dance choreographer died quietly in his New York apartment. His death propelled decisions that culminated in a two-year Legacy Tour for the dancers. A plan makes provisions for digital preservation of the company's vaunted works and the transfer of the foundation to a trust, while the tour is working its way across the globe.
For two shows this week, Modlin Center will present the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the last set of dancers to be trained by the master. What makes these performances so bittersweet is the directive that the company dissolve after a final performance in New York on New Year's Eve 2011.
In light of this finality, you can imagine Cunningham savoring a sort of posthumous koan, or riddle: Within an art form “that gives nothing back” to its dancers, that extracts blood and sweat for little reward, he perhaps means to play with ideas of permanence and impermanence, giving us a taste of the corporeal before letting it evaporate forever.
In Richmond the company will perform evening-length “Events.” As the company's executive director, Trevor Carlson, explains these creations, “They are like movement collages, with choreography that will cover over six decades of Merce's creative life.”
Carlson seems most passionate about the depth of the choreographer's influence: “I worked with [Merce] for 12 years, and he totally changed my life, my perspective on the world and my work. Merce believed that if you say ‘no' to something, you wipe out any chance for growth or possibilities. You've closed the door. But if you say ‘yes,' regardless of whether what you're doing is feasible, you might find out something that you hadn't known before.”
Cunningham's appetite for the possible, for leaving the door open and saying “yes,” was voracious. It can be seen in his collaborative works with musicians as varied as John Cage and Sonic Youth, and with visual artists such as Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. It's apparent in his use of technology for creating movement options. Instead of eschewing a changing world, he sought the possible in it.
Perhaps when we as an audience bid a Richmond farewell to Merce Cunningham's Company, we can intuit this spirit of the possible, of playful dualities such as change as movement and movement as transformation. All of which point to Cunningham's very much alive essence — as unraveling secret, as a constant unfolding in the lives he touched. S
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The first two panoramic TWIN systems in the world have been installed and put into operation in the Main Triangel building in Frankfurt by ThyssenKrupp Aufzüge, a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp Elevator AG. The Main Triangel is an office complex combining modern working and lifestyles under one roof. Located directly on the banks of the River Main, the building offers roughly 30,000 square meters of space for 1,200 employees. The TWIN principle with two independent cabs running in one shaft provides a modern, efficient and aesthetically appealing transportation concept.
Our TWIN elevators with destination selection control system take passengers to their destinations quickly and reliably. As they take up less room than conventional elevators, these systems free up valuable space for other uses.
The new technical developments needed to allow TWINs with glass cabs to run in an open shaft allowed the architects of the Main Triangel building to maintain the light, open concept of the largely glass facade. Alongside technical innovations, ThyssenKrupp Aufzüge delivered an innovative, aesthetic solution.
The cabs, each with a capacity for 18 people, and their support structures are positioned on the outside of the building where they are exposed to significant changes in temperature and climate. To ensure that passengers are transported reliably and in comfort, the panormatic TWINs are equipped with underfloor heating, air conditioning and heating elements in the glass walls. None of the switches or cables in the shafts are visible; for example, the suspension ropes are hidden in closed sections running the full height of the shaft.
The Main Triangle building's unusual appearance is down to its triangular shape and sloping design from seven to 15 stories. The two elements of the building - the "High Rise" and the "Forum" - and the atrium between them are cleverly combined into a single unit by a fine glass roof.
In addition to the first two panoramic TWIN elevators, ThyssenKrupp Elevator has installed nine further systems in the Main Triangel building. Alongside the fire service, garbage and freight elevators, these include a further panoramic elevator group and a conventional passenger elevator. These eleven installations with a total of 13 cabs ensure that employees and visitors to the impressive building are kept moving smoothly.
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In February, 2005 issue of Cultural Anthropology, Karen Ho analyzes the ways in which Wall Street investment banks proclaim and define themselves as global and project images of their dominance and hegemony. Ho explores the differing versions, uses, and definitions of the global at various sites of cultural production and transmission such as marketing schemas of investment banks, and the process of recruitment, orientation, and training of new employees. The work that it takes to constitute “global presence” is “partial, incomplete, high-pressured, and ephemeral” and even the most seemingly global and powerful actors generate “contradictions, complexities, and implosions.”
Juxtaposing the self-representations of investment banks with academic critics of global capitalism, Ho points out that many cultural theorists and social scientists overlook the heterogeneous and complicated particularities of global capitalism, parallel representations of capitalist promoters they criticize, and thus help to create an image of capitalist totality. Global capitalism is not a “borderless world” whose global power and control relentlessly saturates “any remaining void,” nor is it a “no man’s land” that is “foggy and slushy, impassable and untamable.” Instead, Ho argues, it is “a set of constructed events,” based on a variety of promises, performances, and proclamations which can also become “actual goals with precarious outcomes.” Globalization is “a hope, a strategy, and a triumphalist ideology.” Moreover, within a political economy that requires constant change and flexibility, global strategies of Wall Street investment banks are “context specific, prone to change, and continually unstable.”
Cultural Anthropology has published a number of other essays on globalization and neoliberalism. See Ahmed Kanna’s “Flexible Citizenship in Dubai: Neoliberal Subjectivity in the Emerging 'City Corporation'” (2010); Daromir Rudnycjyk’s “Spiritual Economies: Islam and Neoliberalism in Contemporary Indonesia” (2009); and Bill Maurer’s “Due Diligence and ‘Reasonable Man,’ Offshore” (2005).
Cultural Anthropology has also published a range of articles on capitalism and finance. See, for example, Douglas Holmes’s “Economy of Words” (2009); Hirokazu Miyazaki’s “Economy of Dreams: Hope in Global Capitalism and Its Critiques” (2006); and Caitlin Zaloom’s “The Productive Life of Risk” (2004).
About the Author
Karen Ho is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota. She writes and teaches on capitalism and globalization, cultural studies of finance capital, feminist studies, comparative race and ethnicity, and American culture. Her book Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street, published by the Duke University Press in 2009, examines the everyday practices and ideologies of Wall Street investment bankers and explores how a financially dominant but unstable market system is produced and justified through the structures and strategies of corporations and larger economy. Ho has also published in American Anthropologist: “Disciplining Investment Bankers, Disciplining the Economy: Wall Street’s Institutional Culture of Crisis and the Downsizing of American Corporations”, and in Encypledia of Social and Cultural Anthropology: “Finance.”
Commercial for Morgan Stanley: "World Wise"
Commercial for JP Morgan: "I work for JP Morgan"
Even though Karen Ho conducted her fieldwork before the most recent financial crisis of 2007, her research offers insight into the ways in which financial booms and busts are constructed.
An Interview with Karen Ho on the Culture of Wall Street
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Additional Works by the Author
"Finance". Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2nd Ed, eds. A. Barnard and J. Spencer. 2010, Routledge.
"Disciplining Investment Bankers, Disciplining the Economy: Wall Street's Institutional Culture of Crisis and the Downsizing of "Corporate America"" American Anthropologist. Vol.111(2) June 2009.
Liquidated: An Ethnography of Wall Street. 2009, Duke University Press.
Liquidated in the Media
An Anthropologist on what is wrong with Wall Street? Time Magazine.
The Anthropology of Wall Street. New York Times Blog.
Liquidated. Financial Times.
Did Wall Street Cause Economic Woes? Smart Money
Elyachar, Julia. Markets of Dispossession: NGOs, Economic Development, and the State in Cairo. 2005, Duke University Press.
Fisher, Melissa and Greg Downey, eds. Frontiers of Capital: Ethnographic Reflections on the New Economy. 2006, Duke University Press.
Miyazaki, Hirokazu. "The Temporalities of the Market." 2003, American Anthropologist Vol 105(2)
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Fishing at sunset (Picture BC photo)
The number of fishing lodges in the Lumby area gives a clue to what anglers can expect.
Monashee Mountain glaciers give rise to the Shuswap River and countless clear running creeks, while the Aberdeen and Greystokes plateaus host abundant small lakes. At lower elevations, several nearby lakes provide excellent fish habitat.
Troll, cast or fly-fish for rainbow and lake trout, Dolly Varden, Coho, Chinook and Kokanee salmon.
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On the last day of summer he walked again to the dock and loosed the lashings and dropped the ropes into the well of the boat and stepped onto the foredeck and then into the cabin and took a paddle and pushed the boat away from the dock and toward the middle of the lake. The morning was clear and warm, warmer in fact than it had been for a week or so, and a thin cloud of mist lay over the water in the narrow coves between the mountains on both sides of the lake. Except for the shallow ruffle from the boat as it moved silently into the wide lake, the water was still and placid as a painting. Nothing moved and the lake was strangely quiet now that all of the vacationers had returned to their homes in the cities and towns and all of the children who bobbed and swam and skied day after day were sitting somewhere in classrooms.
Once completely clear of the dock and in deep water he started the engine and then idled the boat as he thought of which way he would go; up or down the lake. Below him now was wider water. Around the first bend in what was, before the impoundment, the Reeser River, the lake fanned wide both east and west. The land had been cleared and developed on both sides and the waterfront houses painted and new in their broad lawns that swept down to docks and decks and patios. In July and early August this stretch of water would have been ripped with the white wakes of ski boats of all sizes and the sound of the engines and the laughter and screams of the skiers would have filled the air.
Upstream the lake would soon begin to narrow. Near the top of the lake, where the river still ran in its natural course and pool, the water was always clearer and the scene quieter. He turned the boat upstream, thinking of the Great Blue Herons and the Green Herons that worked the shallows where the river fed into the lake. He kept the boat at a crawl and put his feet up onto the dash of the craft and laid back in the captain’s chair as the boat crept against the current.
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This image of Saturn was taken by Voyager I in 1980
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Like the inner planets and Jupiter, Saturn is clearly visible in the night sky. The ancient Greeks named the planet after the god of agriculture and time. It wasn't until 1655, however, that we knew Saturn had rings. Galileo saw two lumps on either side of Saturn, be he didn't know what they were. The astronomer Christian Huygens later found out they were rings.
Much of what we now know about the second largest planet in our solar system comes from the Voyager spacecrafts. Voyager took close-up pictures of Saturn and its rings. They clearly show the large gaps in between the rings, called the Cassini Division and Encke Division.
Recently, a lot of research has been devoted to Saturn's moons. Huygens discovered Saturn's largest moon, Titan, in 1655. Six other satellites were discovered by various astronomers before 1800. Many smaller moons were found by the Voyager spacecraft.
Cassini is the newest mission to Saturn. If all goes as planned, it will reach the planet in 2004. Cassini will study Saturn and its largest moon, Titan.
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The AEGIS iPRO prevents damage that could otherwise lead to generator or motor failure, unplanned downtime, costly repairs, and lost revenues. It is available in a range of sizes to accommodate generator/motor shafts up to 30 in. in diameter. To facilitate field retrofits, the iPRO split-ring comes in mating halves that simplify installation around the shafts of coupled equipment. Common sizes (for motor shafts between 2.5 and 12 in. in diameter) are typically shipped within five days.
If not diverted, shaft voltages induced by variable frequency drives (VFDs) discharge through the bearings of motors, generators, and coupled equipment. Embedded securely in the AEGIS FiberLock channel along the inner circumference of the iPRO, six rows of conductive microfibers completely surround the motor shaft, providing millions of discharge points for harmful shaft currents and creating the path of least resistance that effectively diverts these currents away from bearings to ground.
The AEGIS iPRO is ideal for medium-voltage motors that drive pumps, compressors, mixers, shredders, conveyors, and other machinery used in mining, food processing, wastewater treatment, petrochemical refining, and many other applications. It is also ideal for protecting the bearings of generators in both utility and on-site power generation systems.
Compatible with current-monitoring equipment, the AEGIS iPRO is engineered to safely divert high-current and high-frequency dv/dt shaft currents and works in the presence of oil, dirt, grease, or other contaminants. As part of a preventive maintenance program, it can be installed whenever bearings are replaced. | <urn:uuid:19b5f68d-6682-447e-b01d-71a231b1c91c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.csemag.com/home/single-article/shaft-grounding-ring/ab5f323163f03bfeeafbc5fd51555215.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00188-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.89505 | 447 | 1.617188 | 2 |
MapleChange, a relatively minor Canadian cryptocurrency exchange, announced on October 28, 2018, that it would be shutting down after losing its bitcoin stash in a security breach. The news, however, didn’t yield any major impact on the global cryptocurrency market as prices hold steady in the aftermath of the ordeal.
$6 Million Stolen from MapleChange
MapleChange took to Twitter on October 28 to inform the community that hackers had exploited a software “bug” to breach its network.
Cryptocurrency exchanges have been an increasingly lucrative target for cybercriminals since early 2017 when the popularity of the asset class started soaring. While incidents like these are never good news, MapleChange’s relatively smaller user-base has ensured that the spillover effect in the broader market is by and large contained.
At the time of the hack, the exchange had less than 2,000 followers on Twitter as compared to the 880,000 followers of the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance.
Shortly after the MapleChange announcement, many prominent market analysts and industry insiders warned investors to avoid unknown and smaller exchanges as they are often unregulated and more vulnerable to security breaches. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao also weighed in by asking investors to refrain from signing up with smaller exchanges if they “don’t have anything in their cold wallets.”
Although the hack of MappleChange has not led to any significant adverse consequences for the global cryptocurrency market, the brunt of the attack has befallen users of the now-defunct exchange.
MappleChange Won’t Issue Refunds Right Away
MappleChange assured its users of a thorough investigation into the security breach. However, the exchange ruled out any possibility of affected users getting a refund before the investigation concludes.
“Because we have no more funds to pay anyone back, the exchange has to close down, unfortunately. This includes all of our social media,” MappleChange tweeted.
MappleChange later announced the hacker managed to get away with only eight BTC, in contrast to the 913 bitcoin figure which has been floating around on the web.
The exchange didn’t specify any tentative timeline within which users could expect a refund. Expectedly, the news hasn’t gone down well with the majority of traders who lost their funds during the attack. Their sentiment was echoed by the extended crypto community, and the consensus is that a foul play cannot be dismissed.
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Reading is both fun and a good source of learning, but sometimes we all just want someone to read us a story, no matter how old we are. You may not know it yet, but the iPhone can actually do just that by reading aloud just about anything, and it’s all thanks to a handy accessibility toggle rather than a fancy new feature – your iPhone already has it, and anyone can take advantage of it.
The feature in question is Speak Screen, and it’s part of the iOS accessibility settings for those with poor eyesight. As it turns out, though, the feature can actually come in surprisingly handy for those that just want to have a smartphone read to them, and let’s be honest – who doesn’t?
If you do, here’s a handy guide on what buttons you need to press and in which order. Enjoy.
Step 1: Head into the Settings app on your iOS device, then tap General, and then Accessibility.
Step 2: Next, tap Speech and then turn on Speak Screen.
Step 3: Find an article, book or anything else that you want to have read to you. You could even have your emails read, should you so please.
Step 4: Swipe down from the top of the screen with two fingers. Alternatively, tell Siri to “speak screen.”
Step 5: Relax while your iPhone reads aloud. There are on-screen controls for stopping the reading in its tracks or, just as importantly, restarting it.
That’s all there is to it. Apple’s accessibility features are aimed at making life a little easier for those that need it, but there are often reasons for everyone else to check them out too. Speak Screen is one of those features that can be enjoyed by anyone, especially those who wish they were still being read bedtime stories!
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Northampton company secures investment to expand its automotive emissions testing facilities with climatic testing capabilities.
MAHLE Powertrain has been awarded £2.1m towards the construction of a state-of-the-art climatic vehicle emissions test centre at its UK base in Northampton. The funding, provided by the South-East Midlands Local Enterprise Partnership (SEMLEP) through the Local Growth Fund, will safeguard existing jobs while creating new opportunities for highly skilled engineers.
Development of the multi-million-pound MAHLE Powertrain technology centre on St. James Mill Road is already underway, with the site expected to be completed in mid-2018. The centre of automotive excellence is part of the region’s economic plan to create a knowledge hub capable of competing on the world stage and will support the business’ drive to develop the next generation of lighter, cleaner and more efficient powertrains.
Commenting on the funding, Dave Beecroft, director of sales and marketing at MAHLE Powertrain, said: “We have worked hard with SEMLEP to secure this investment as part of an ongoing plan to expand and enhance our vehicle emissions testing capability in Northampton. This funding will allow us to grow the business and create employment opportunities by placing us at the forefront of the requirements of the new Real Driving Emissions legislation, which comes into force later this year.”
The new centre will see MAHLE Powertrain, which works with vehicle manufacturers across the world, offer an even broader range of test services. From on-the-road PEMS (portable emissions measurement system) through to dyno-based road simulations and comprehensive emissions testing, manufacturers will be able to complete full testing regimes in the UK, meeting stringent new air quality and environmental targets.
In addition, the centre will allow MAHLE Powertrain to fully simulate the new test cycle, with the added ability to control the atmospheric pressure within the chamber, a first for the UK. Simulating altitudes of up to 5,000 metres allows insight into how engines perform in vastly different environments, meaning results are much more comprehensive.
Backed by a Government fund of £59m, the investment builds on the recent National Infrastructure Commission report and the publication of the Government’s Industrial Strategy, both of which earmarked the South-East Midlands as a key area for future growth.
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Sanderling is a social community for educators. With Sanderling you can create professional learning profiles, engage with an active educator community to share best practices and resources, take courses and create projects, and earn digital Open Badges demonstrating evidence of their learning and professional growth.
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This wonderful woman has some incredible ideas. I am intrigued and somewhat upset about her collective intelligence theories and research. I am intrigued because when people get together and play online games, they do problem solve and think critically and do so every few seconds. I know that if something isn’t working for my squad in Team Deathmatch on Gears of War 3, we come up with a new tactical procedure to eradicate the opposing force. The same thing happens in any kind of co-op online play. A strategy is built and executed, be it a flanking of enemy forces or carrying a huge bomb around an empty warehouse with one another.
The reason it upsets me is because I am not very involved in the online community. I have no facebook or myspace or twitter or however many other social nonsense sites there are to choose from. Perhaps that doesn’t pertain to online gaming, but let me get a little deeper into it. How many of us actually talk to each other outside of class? I can name…2 people I regularly actually face to face talk to outside of class. Seeing as how I have no facebook or what have you, I can’t comment on how often you guys interact with each other on some social network interface rather than a call or meet up somewhere.
That being said, since I am not so involved in the online scene of things, and collective intelligence is where McGonigal sees the future heading, does that mean I am inferior/not as intelligent? I’m not so sure. On the one hand I want to up and get into the scheme of things. On the other, I’ve played games by myself for 20 years or so and figure I may have an upper hand. If playing online games helps obtain a collective intelligence, then single player gaming must help the individual gamer with problem solving and critical thinking skills. Either way, I am stuck at a crossroads. To social network or to not social network. Right now, all of mine is done via XBox live. | <urn:uuid:ef6752b0-a108-451e-8b1e-723ab2e37198> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://imamp.colum.edu/blogs/?p=33720 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00127-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959654 | 416 | 1.570313 | 2 |
NAME: White Anemone
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HARDINESS ZONE: 4 - 9
LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun - Part Shade
SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average - Dry
QUANTITY: 25 Seeds
OTHER: In addition to gorgeous blooms, the Anemone has fuzzy, attractive foliage. They bloom early in the spring and continue to bloom throughout the summer. They tolerate heat and dryness well, and attract bees and butterflies. After the blooms are spent in the fall, the Anemone has interesting spiky seed heads that last for several weeks.
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MINDEN, Nev. -- Bently Biofuels broke ground this week on the future site of a potentially Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified (LEED) biofuels station and convenience store here, which will feature three fueling islands pumping diesel, biodiesel and ethanol, the Reno News & Review reported.
"We are pursuing probably a LEED Silver certification on the building and the project itself," Bently Biofuels general manager, Carlo Luri, told the newspaper. "It will use lots of local materials, recycled materials, energy efficiency, solar power, obviously, so it's going to be a pretty cool facility."
LEED is a voluntary rating system for buildings certified through the U.S. Green Building Council, according to the report.
The facility will include a 3,500-square-foot convenience store that will be markedly different from others in the region.
"I don't think Minden needs another 7-Eleven or Minimart," Luri said. Product assortment details are far from being finalized, but Luri told the paper he's talking with sustainable coffee roasters and solar-powered beer brewers, along with food from local farmers.
"The whole thing will go together -- a green building, and hopefully a green building with not too many Twinkies in it," he said.
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Floor lamination is an important aspect when considering remodeling your home. Budget is an important factor to consider for redecorating a house with laminated floors. There are plenty of options for floor lamination like carpet, tile, hardwood, and laminate wood. But why floor lamination is important for home remodeling goes beyond working with a budget.
Carpet flooring is heavier for the pocket than stone flooring. However, stone is not preferred for its hardness. That is why most of the residents opt for wood flooring. Hardwood flooring is old fashioned and gives an aesthetic look. It is costlier than laminated flooring. Durability, ease of installation, and the maintenance complement to budget as other influencing factors for laminating floor.
Why Floor Lamination Is Important For Home Remodeling:
The first thing to do before laminating floor is to level the sub-floor. You can level it with sand or any recycled material to fill voids.
Create a gap for all doors to slip laminate sheets beneath them.
The main flooring and felt under it should run in the same direction for stability.
Use spacers to maintain the patches of wood. Remove them after laminating is done for each room.
Fill gaps on the floor with small pieces of wood.
Floating floors are mostly considered for easy flooring. If the sub-layer is covered with asbestos then, floating floors make the job easy.
Engineered wood is an option for basement or where there is a chance of water leakage. Engineered wood is certified for its durability in damp areas. Different layers of wood materialized with real wood as top layer structure the engineered wood.
Some of the popular flooring types are hardwood, lamination, stone or tile, carpet, and bamboo. Engineered wood is eco-friendly option as the top layer is only from trees and rest of the layers are other woods.
Pros and Cons of different flooring types:
Hardwood gives authentic look and stays for a long time but expensive. Laminating can get the look with stain, equally durable and less expensive.
Carpet flooring adds color and style to flooring with its finishing. It is a burden on the pocket though with regular maintenance.
Stone is best flooring option with choice of color and smoothest finish, and ease of transport. Maintenance is also cheap, but it is left out by most as it gives a discomfort feeling.
Bamboo flooring is also classy, affordable, eco-friendly, and easy for installation. The cons are; it is vulnerable to moisture, stain or polish fades in few years and cannot hold heavy furniture.
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June 04, 2008
The following is a summary of a report to the Board of Directors of Grameen Foundation regarding social business viability by Khalid Shams, Former Deputy Managing Director, Grameen Bank.
Grameen’s Social Business Initiatives
Grameen Bank has been experimenting with new social business ventures since the early ‘90s. It has effectively used the microfinance platform for launching several social enterprises. Some of these were ‘for-profit’, while others were ‘not-for-profit’ entities, but each had a distinct corporate mandate for social development. Grameen Bank itself would be an example of such a social business enterprise, which provided microfinance related services to the designated rural poor and the bank is also owned solely by the borrowers themselves. Some of the social enterprises were created in direct response to the demand of GB borrowers i.e. the Sixteen Decisions of the bank, as well as the rural poor, for essential services needed for development of health, education, nutrition, and alleviation of poverty.
Some of the enterprises were concerned with extension of new technologies that could directly raise the income and productivity of the poor trapped in such traditional sectors like agriculture, fisheries, rural industry. New ventures were also launched for development of information and communication based technologies.
More recently, Professor Yunus has taken the initiative of setting up “social businesses” that aim to provide nutrition and health services to a targeted client. In these new ventures, after the initial capital costs have been fully recouped, the investors agreed to take only nominal dividends, plowing back all profits for further expansion of the social business. Grameen-Danone Foods Ltd, and the newly formed Grameen Eye Hospitals are the latest examples of more rigorously designed social business models.
Numerous Grameen social enterprises have had both direct and indirect social development impact. They have clearly demonstrated that some of the social objectives of a poverty alleviation program can be achieved in a business like way. But with more to measure than simply the financial bottom line of the conventional company balance sheets, how is the social impact itself assessed? In case of Grameen social enterprises, a successful social business venture may be evaluated on the basis of the following criteria:
A. The social development impact on a targeted clientele group.
B. Profitability of the business venture to ensure sustainability.
C. Application, development and extension of technologies that can raise productivity of the poor.
The Challenge of Developing Viable Business Plans
The developed as well as the developing countries have had long traditions of “philanthrocapitalism” and different business models have been tried out in many countries. Bangladesh has also been an incubator for many social enterprises. But the primary concern right now is to address the massive task of poverty alleviation. A major challenge is to meet the needs of the poor for their social development in a more business like way, to ensure sustainability in the long run. As with any new business venture, there are inherent risks and challenges that must be addressed by a social enterprise.
It is important for such an enterprise to:
- clearly establish both the social and business objectives of the enterprise, providing it with a distinct corporate identity.
- pilot test and develop the modus operandi for providing social services as well as applications of technology necessary for fulfillment of its objectives.
- develop suitable organization, management and delivery systems that will be able to function at grassroots and ensure full corporate accountability to the board of directors.
Recruitment, Placement of Leadership
Senior management and the board of directors must be both professionally competent and at the same time fully committed to the social and business mandate of the enterprise. There must be a realistic plan to recruit and retain the management team, in the given market context.
Raising Equity and Initial Seed Funds
As with any business start-up, but more so with social ventures, raising the seed capital or equity will be the most crucial challenge. Start up costs can be daunting and investors are reluctant to provide the required seed funds as equity capital. A social business, in which investors do not stand to make much of a profit to recoup their initial investments, may face further obstacles in raising the needed capital.
Enterprises with predominantly social objectives such as education and health, generally require endowment funds to meet start up capital costs.
Management of technology-based joint ventures have proven to be a major challenge, but successful ventures have tend to be more profitable in the long run as evidenced by Grameen Telecom, another not-for-profit company and its Village Phone Program.
The Future Prospects
Globally, and in particular in the USA, there is a strong interest in initiating development and poverty alleviation programs through social business ventures. The existing MFIs, including wholesellers of microfinance services like Grameen Foundation, have in many instances successfully scaled up their microcredit operations. These can be leveraged further for launching new social business ventures. | <urn:uuid:5427d6bb-ca9d-47eb-b295-198c76992992> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.grameenfoundation.org/blog/developing-social-business-strategy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00238-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953233 | 1,033 | 2.265625 | 2 |
One of my responsibilities as chairman of the Cobra Intelligence Group was to brief the Foreign and Defence Secretaries on the intelligence, to help them make the decision when a hostage rescue mission was being considered for British citizens kidnapped in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Authorisation of the US special forces mission to rescue Linda Norgrove will have been one of the toughest calls William Hague has ever had to make. The hostage-takers will have had plans to kill Ms Norgrove should a rescue be attempted. They will have prepared a defence against such an operation, putting the rescuers' lives in severe danger.
A rescue operation would only have been agreed if there was no other way of saving Ms Norgrove's life. Since she was seized on 26 September, British, American, Afghan and allied intelligence agencies will have worked to find out where she was being held, who was holding her and their intentions.
By Friday, intelligence had pinpointed Ms Norgrove's location in the remote, mountainous and densely forested Dewagal valley of eastern Kunar. Intelligence also confirmed that she was being held by a local group of the Kunar Taliban in an inaccessible area of this lawless province. The presence of civilians where she was being held captive added significant complications.
The outcome of Linda Norgrove's kidnapping has been a tragedy. The heartless killing of this defenceless aid-worker is entirely in keeping with the Taliban's normal callous brutality.
I am confident that the British and American governments and intelligence agencies spared no effort in seeking to secure Ms Norgrove's release. And we can only be in awe of the courage of the US special forces, who risked their lives to save hers.
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It is an application that you can install it on the target device of your child and get access to the online control panel further you can go to the features where you need to activate the live screen recording tool.
Starting a business today seems extremely easy because with the help of the internet, one can practically accomplish just about anything. However, the problem with the modern era is not the lack of information, but the abundance of it.
The Java programming language was developed more than 24 years ago by Sun Microsystem. In the past few years, it has become the foundation of most of the websites and applications we are using these days.
Business organizations these days are digitally advanced and transformed due to the rise and the rise of the technology. Therefore, employers are used to providing computer laptop and desktop devices to their employees. The internet-connected devices enable employers to perform digital operations in working hours to increase the productivity of the business.
It is one of the most frequently asked questions from the users because we all are curious to know about who is snooping on our profiles secretly. Despite the popular demand from the users, Facebook never considered it as a real feature.
The subject of business security is fairly broad, but for example, let’s focus on one of the more pressing aspects that concern businesses of all types and sizes – cybersecurity. Cybersecurity is needed because of the existence of cyberattacks and hackers, which have been around as long as the internet has. In fact, modern internet services like Spectrum bundle deals come equipped with antivirus software and malware protection.
Modern-day Kanban is associated with the Toyota Production System, but the term Kanban was widely used in the 1600s in Japan. Japan was recovering from a devastating period and several small-sized shops started flourishing in the lanes of Japan. Fisherman selling fishes, artisans, shops selling clothes were becoming a popular sight.
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I recently wrote an article for The Flying Fugu about the History of Sushi (did you know that Sushi didn’t actually originate in Japan? Click and read to find out more! Please and Thank you). Anyway, as I was combing through Flickr for pretty pictures of sushi, I found Sakurako Kitsu’s photostream of clever bento boxes (the Japanese version of a lunch box) and thought I’d share a few of them with you.
In Japan, the whole “Don’t play with your food” thing doesn’t really apply. When I taught preschool, lunch time was always interesting because the kids would show up with lunch boxes full of food that more closely resembled works of art than anything edible. It was clear from some of the intricate designs that their moms had spent at least an hour splicing and molding and prodding their four-year-old’s tomatoes, hot dogs and seaweed into little Mickey Mouses or bunny rabbits. It was cute but it made me wonder: Who was it for? It wasn’t for the kids, that was for sure. Most of them didn’t seem to even notice.
But I appreciated it. I mean, wouldn’t it be cool to sit down at snack time, pry off your tupperware lid and see this:
But I digress. As promised, here are the ‘travel-themed’ bentos (okay, I know I’m stretching it a bit with the Star Wars bentos, but come on! They’re pretty cool, right?). Enjoy!
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Kotura is weeks away from announcing a partnership with “a large CMOS foundry” that will make its silicon photonics chips. The news is one more sign companies including Cisco, Intel and Luxtera aim to ship the technology in 2014 as a disruptive, lower cost alternative to today’s 100 Gbits/second optics.
Kotura (Monterey Park, Calif.) is “in the early stages of the R&D process” with the unnamed foundry, said Arlon Martin, vice president of marketing, contracts and government affairs for Kotura. “There’s been a lot of work in the background, but we are not ready until late 2013 to sample product from them,” he said.
The privately-held company employs about 80 people and shipped its first silicon photonics chip in 2006. Since then sales have grown to about 100,000 units a year made in its own modest facility.
Kotura hopes to be in production in 2014 with a 4x5 mm module that pumps 100 Gbits/s over one optical fibre. It will consume about 3.5W and, thanks to its use of single-mode fibre, it can theoretically deliver distances of 20 meters to 2 kilometers.
The product uses four external lasers—its only optical components—modulating four 25 Gbit/s signals on to a single fibre with wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). The module also contains a third-party CMOS driver. Kotura’s CMOS chip, made in a 200nm process, uses some germanium for its light detector function.
Martin said the product could start selling for less than $1,000 in volumes and eventually decline to about $100. That compares with some estimates of as much as $100,000 per port for 100G Ethernet today and about $250 for 40G.
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Two contrasting loves are at the center of Enduring Love: Joe and Clarissa's love for each other and Parry's love for Joe. By playing with the dual meaning of "enduring" as either something that lasts or something that must be suffered, McEwan explores the fragile nature of "true love." Joe claims that he has always thought his and Clarissa's love was the "kind to endure," meaning last, but, by the end of the novel, their love seems to be over. Conversely, Parry's love for Joe is the kind of love that Joe must "endure," meaning suffer through. Parry's love is also the kind that endures, or lasts, as revealed by Parry's letter to Joe nearly three years later. Joe also refers to de Clérambault’s syndrome as a dark, distorting mirror of love. He recognizes in Parry a parody of reckless, irrational, "sane" love that becomes monstrous when divorced from reality. Through its juxtaposition of these two loves, Enduring Love forces the reader to question the difference between the two loves and decide which one is the "enduring love."
The idea of reading is central in the novel, as both Joe and Clarissa read for their jobs. On a larger scale, however, the novel explores the many ways in which people can "read" the world around them. In Enduring Love, the idea of reading corresponds to points of view. Each character has a differents lens, or point of view, through which they read the world. Joe's lens is highly rational, grounded in science and research. Clarissa's lens is more emotional, taking cues from subtle interpretations and intuitions. Parry, as Joe notes, is stuck in love's "self-referential prison," only reading what he wants to read. Coupled with reading is the idea of signals, a key part of Enduring Love. Parry constantly references the "signals" Joe sends him, Clarissa sees her open desk drawer as a "signal" from Joe, and Jean Logan tries unsuccessfully to read the signals of the picnic basket and scarf in her husband's car.
Coupled with reading, storytelling, or the exploration of narrative, is an essential part of the novel. As a writer, Joe is keenly aware of his choices in telling us, the readers, his story. He begins by explaining how to choose a beginning, as well as the artificiality of beginnings. From this stems the idea of the artificiality of all narratives. Joe tells the reader that a beginning should be chosen based on what will make the most "sense" of the events. He chooses to begin with the balloon accident, a senseless event that forces all the characters of the novel to rewrite it into a story that makes sense to them. Joe responds by trying to tell a story in which he is not responsible for Logan's death. Jean Logan responds by narrating a story in which her husband was not faithful to her, and therefore she hasn't lost as much as it seems. With the notion of the artificiality of stories comes the reminder that Enduring Love is, in fact, just a story. McEwan cautions the reader to approach it with a skeptical and analytical eye since it, too, is artificial and has an ulterior motive.
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The balloon accident underscores the struggle between fate and chance within Enduring Love. Joe, as a scientific atheist, believes the accident to be chance and struggles with the meaninglessness of John Logan's death as a result. Parry, as a Christian, views the encounter as fate, claiming that it happened in order to bring Joe to Parry and to God. The structure of the balloon accident evokes the struggle as Joe worries that "it was a precarious form of transport when the wind, rather than the pilot, set the course." Joe might interpret the winds as mere chance, or at least part of a large scientific narrative. Parry would credit the winds' movements to God, viewing them as essential in bringing Joe and him together.
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Religion is important in Enduring Love because it is ostensibly Parry's motivating factor. As a strong and outspoken atheist, McEwan doesn't present religion positively, making the most religious character a raving madman. At the same time, however, McEwan recognizes that there are many types of religions. For Joe, science and rationality are a sort of religion. He finds meaning in a "circle of life" evolutionary belief system and has his faith shaken when events like Logan's death and Parry's mania don't fit into that circle. It is significant that when Joe struggles with understanding Logan's tragedy he turns to his science writing as well as his failed science career for support.
Enduring Love is rich with intertextual references. Clarissa, as an English professor, constantly references other texts, including Paradise Lost and John Keats's poems. Joe also makes many references, including two to Lewis Carroll and Alice in Wonderland. These references reinforce the reader's awareness of Enduring Love as a novel and provide a vast narrative background for the story. When Joe references Carroll at the hippies' house, comparing Steve to "the Dormouse" from Alice in Wonderland, he compares his voyage into Parry's and the hippies' world to the topsy-turvy "wonderland" into which Alice stumbles. When he compares his and Jean Logan's picnic to Carroll's picnic, he reduces the supposedly rational adults to children looking for a comforting and entertaining narrative.
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If your insulin levels are healthy, the more you eat, the more insulin your body releases to regulate your blood sugar. However, if your body has to create too much insulin due to excess sugars and carbohydrates, it can become insulin resistant.
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Are you familiar with Bitcoin and methods related to gaining profit from Bitcoin- cryptocurrency? There is a vast crowd who don’t know about the bitcoin faucets. That’s why I am going to explain to you the profitable Bitcoin faucet options through a list.
In the beginning, you should know the general concept of the Bitcoin faucet. As mentioned above, many people don’t know even a little about this. After this, you will read the bitcoin faucet list in this article.
So, it would be good to know and cover the general knowledge first. Below is the list in which you will know the pros and cons of different faucets.
What is Faucet?
If you search what Bitcoin Faucet is, then the standard answer you will get is a rewards system. Technically, this definition is accurate to a great extent and is much more than the ordinary meaning. Let’s elaborate on this.
If you left the faucet in the bathroom or kitchen and did not close it properly, you will notice that water drips from it slowly. But if you place any bucket or bowl under this dripping faucet, it will fill within a few days.
It is the exact thing that Bitcoin faucets do; consider Bitcoin as water. A Bitcoin faucet is a known website that provides you with a pinch of Bitcoin. To obtain a purpose, you have to watch the videos in the form of ads, solve the captchas, or do something like this. These are convenient tasks that can be done quickly.
These websites offer you the Bitcoin whose unit is known as “Satoshis,” named after its creators. A satoshi is known as the minor Bitcoin amount, which is imaginable too. In simple words, you can say that 100 million satoshis are equal to the only single Bitcoin.
The satoshi’s number will be different, which a Bitcoin faucet provides the person for the task. In this way, there are specific sites that got a high rate. On the other hand, some locations don’t have high rates.
First Bitcoin Faucet
If we talk about the very first Bitcoin faucet, it was created in 2010 and was released after one year for public use. The creator and composer of the first Bitcoin were named Gavin Andresen. He is the man known because he has excellent involvement in the cryptocurrencies, but significantly – the Bitcoin.
Additionally, there is a fantastic offer for the users; Bitcoin Faucet is ready to offer 5 Bitcoins as a reward. At the early stages of the development of Bitcoin, it was worth only $0.01. In this situation, the website is ready to offer $0.05 as earnings.
For this earning purpose, you are not supposed to do anything hard, but only simple tasks. Like you have to watch the video in the form of ads or solve the captcha by writing the correct words you see in the given field. So, these are some simple tasks that you can do.
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The principal aim and objective of the Bitcoin faucet list are to educate and spread awareness among those who don’t know about Bitcoin Cryptocurrency. When you take a step and enter into the Bitcoin faucet, it will offer you gamification to learn about the transactions of cryptocurrencies.
As a result, you will get credits from the game in the form of coins. Not only this, but you can also try other different methods of transaction found in the Bitcoin faucet app or site.
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The owners of the faucet put some Bitcoin amount in the wallet of cryptocurrency. The wallet might be in the form of a hardware wallet. The wallet got an internet connection; it connected to the personal Bitcoin faucet website.
When people play games or watch a video, they will be paid this Bitcoin amount as a reward. The amount will be added to your Cryptocurrency wallet. If you want to earn money from the Bitcoin faucet site, you must have noticeable and unique content. With the help of this, you can easily stand out in the crowd.
Every day the new Bitcoin faucets pop up; that’s why there is high competition in the market for Bitcoin faucets. If you have original and unique ideas, then you have the opportunity to grow up in a crowd of competitors.
Are Faucets Safe?
It is not entirely safe. If you are using the Bitcoin faucet, then there is a risk. The reason behind this is there are too many sites that are present that claim to be an online wallet service. But all are a scam; basically, these fake websites are made to separate you from all your crypto.
When you deposit anything, then the website will disappear, and they take all your deposits. So always be aware of these fake websites and scams.
List of Bitcoin Faucet
The complete bitcoin faucet list is given below:
At the beginning of 2018, the Cointiply was introduced, and now it is considered one of the best Bitcoin faucets. It contains a simple interface and too many methods to claim Bitcoin. However, this site provides you the opportunity to claim 200 satoshis every 60 minutes.
The best part of this is there are too many methods to earn Bitcoins. These methods include:
- Offer walls
- Click ads
- Watching videos
- Browser games
If you are a person who wants to try your luck, then the best thing is that Cointiply contains the function of coin multiply. However, Cointiply is considered a very stable website. Other than this, you have the opportunity to withdraw with the help of FacetHub.
But when you have reached up to 35,000 Satoshis. But if you have collected more than 100,000 Satoshis, then you can withdraw directly to your Bitcoin wallet.
The FaucetPay has considered the micro wallet provides. With the help of FaucetPay, you can quickly receive the micropayments. The best part of this is that you can receive all micropayments without any extra fees.
The FaucetPay is also considered a famous provider for the micro wallet. But the main thing is that if you are going to use the Faucets, it is compulsory to use the FaucetPay. However, here you can find too many ways of earning.
The first thing you have to do is enter the cryptocurrency address you want to earn. After this, you have to select both the crypto and faucet you want to use. You will get 1 RP at every login, and for your kind information, at every 600 satoshis, you will earn 10 RPs. However, there are too many other ways to earn, like roulette, craps, etc.
It was introduced in the middle of 2018. Now, it is on the list of most profitable Bitcoin faucets. However, to earn from this, you have to draw a random number, and then you can earn a certain amount of satoshis.
Other than this, you can draw a random number every 60 minutes but only for one time. If we talk about the prizes range, then it is between $0.0003 to $300. When you earn the worth of $1 Bitcoin, then at the time, you can withdraw it and send it directly into your Bitcoin wallet.
Is the free bitcoin faucet legit that you earn on FreeBitcoin? The answer is Yes, and you should not worry about this platform.
Coinpayu website was introduced in 2019, and it is a PTC website that means Paid To Click. The main earning method from this website is that you have to click on the ads and earn rewards.
Other than this, it contains a few elements of GPT sites that will provide you the opportunity to earn from surveys and different offers. If you want to earn from Coinpayu, it is compulsory to have a crypto digital wallet because it only pays in cryptocurrency. You can use the Coinbase or any other crypto digital wallet.
However, when you spend 10 to 30 seconds, then you can get 1 to 10 satoshis from the Coinpayu. Other than this, you will find three types of ads here, including video ads, window ads, and surf ads. There is no big difference in these ads, and you can easily earn from Coinpayu.
If you want to earn crypto, then AdBTC is the best place for you. It is crypto earning platform that works with the PPC method, which means Pay-Per-Click. The primary method of earning crypto from this website is viewing ads, and it also pays you if you click on the sponsored link given on the AdBTC.
However, this website comes in two languages that are English and Russian. The AdBTC was introduced in 2017, and the best part of this website is that you can earn satoshis just after login into your account.
For this, you have to go to the Earn section, and here you have to click on the Start Earning BTC. You have to solve the captcha, and after this, the reward is added to your account.
Autofaucet-Dutchycorp, a very long-name website, provides you with the Autofaucet. This website was introduced in 2018. It offers you the SSL and is located in France. However, we don’t know the information about the owner of Autofaucet-Dutchycorp.
However, if we talk about the earning ways, you can earn coins with the help of two ways. The first way is you have to roll after every 30 minutes, and as a reward for it, you will get the cryptocurrency. The second way is you can watch the surf ads and earn coins.
If you have a FaucetHub account, then the Firefaucet is the best way to earn crypto. The Firefaucet is the auto faucet service, and it sends the Bitcoin automatically into your FaucetHub account. However, when you start it, then the Firefaucet automatically claims the cryptocurrencies according to your choice.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What’s a Bitcoin Faucet?
The Bitcoin faucet is a reward system, and it provides you the opportunity to earn a small amount of Bitcoin in the form of satoshis. However, the reward system of the Bitcoin faucet will give you satoshis if you perform different tasks like watching ads, solving captchas, and many other tasks.
What is the highest-paying Bitcoin faucet?
According to the report of 2020, the Moon Bitcoin is the highest paying Bitcoin faucet. Like the other Bitcoin faucet, the Moon Bitcoin also rewards you a Bitcoin if you watch ads, complete the captchas and surveys, and many other tasks.
Are Bitcoin faucets legit?
Well, Is a bitcoin faucet legit or not? The simplest answer is “Yes.” The Bitcoin faucet is totally legit, but there are too many websites present that claim to be an online wallet service. And when you deposit your coin into their website, it will disappear and take all your coins.
Are crypto faucets safe?
Too many people believe that the crypto faucets are fraudulent, but it is not the case. The crypto faucets are totally safe; you can get rewards by solving captchas, completing surveys, mining, and many other ways.
What is a free Bitcoin faucet?
The free Bitcoin faucet is a legit website that offers you a small amount of Bitcoin by completing the different tasks.
What app gives you free Bitcoin?
The Blockchain game is the best and free app that gives you free Bitcoin. But the main thing is that it is available for Android, not for iOS. You can earn Satoshi with the help of playing games and completing other tasks.
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Benito Mussolini (Corsi)
Back in 1892 a group of enthusiastic radicals met at Genoa and ushered the Italian Socialist party into existence. In the same year, and practically at the same time, the Silesian Convent at Paenza opened its huge iron door to admit a wild-eyed lad into the service of the Church. "He seems quite vivacious," remarked the rector to the hopeful mother of the lad, "but I reckon he'll do."
A number of years later a mass of workingmen were conducting a strike in an industrial section of Romagna. The strikers were alone an their fight, abandoned by their leaders, disowned by a hostile Camera del Lavoro. There had been plenty of mass-meetings, plenty of agitation. Demands were made and rejected. Hopes of victory were fast vanishing. At the eleventh hour out of the mob comes a youth with fire in his eyes and hatred in his heart. He must speak. "Comrades," he shouts, "you have had enough words, enough speeches, enough demonstrations, enough nonsense! You have the strength of numbers and the force of arms! You have no head! Here, take mine! This is the hour of revolution—revolution at once!" The discouraged mob stood aghast in the presence of this mere youth who dared to speak of revolution. But his words had penetrated. The mob reacted in all its fury. The passion of revolution took hold of the abandoned strikers. 'To the railway! To the railway! Revolution!" shouted the frenzied men and women. But they had hardly advanced when a troop of cavalry compelled them to disperse. They fled to their homes. The revolution was blocked. The youthful agitator, beaten by superior force, downed in his plan of battle, was led away by a kindly band, disillusioned but not discouraged. He would try again. He was born for the revolution.
The wild-eyed lad at the Silesian convent and the youthful revolutionist urging the mob to action were one and the same. To-day, after thirty-odd years of agitation and leadership, Benito Mussolini is at the head of the Italian Government, realizing the aspirations of his youth.
Millions of newspaper readers the world over are asking, Who is this Mussolini? What kind of a man is he?
Not excepting the romantic d'Annunzio, this enfant terrible is the most picturesque figure in all Italy. If I could find his prototype in America, I would engage in comparisons. But, fortunately, or unfortunately If you will, America breeds no Mussolinis. Men of his type are to be found in Latin countries, where temperament and impulse abound. As a man he is unique, sui generis. As a leader be is not to be compared. At this time of writing he has his country in the palm of his hand, to crush it if he pleases, to save it if he so wills. He is the organizer and the builder of the Fasci. He is also their master mind.
He comes from the soil, and he hates democracy. He speaks with provincial pride of the little Roman town of Varano de Costa, where, forty years ago, he first saw the light of day. His father, an iron worker, was an ardent internationalist who suffered imprisonment for his loyalty to Marx. His mother, not unlike many Italian mothers of her day, hoped to have her Benito a priest of the Church. But, as destiny would have it, Benito was a rebel from the day of his birth, a rebel against the clergy, against society, against law and order. The Silesian fathers got rid of the vivacious lad with a sigh of relief, and he later took to teaching. He did not teach for long. The atmosphere of the schoolroom, like that of the chapel, bored him. He craved for action, for adventure, for life. He abandoned the schoolroom and set out for Switzerland. The news of his father's arrest on the day of his departure failed to hold him back. He is not a man who will hold back. He went right ahead to Yverdon, arriving there with two lire in his pockets. After roaming for days from job to job, he was finally arrested and imprisoned on a charge of vagrancy. He returned to Italy, determined to "upset the world and everybody in it." He did.
Mussolini was born for the pen, and he followed his inclination. As a boy he had written many articles and much bad poetry. In Switzerland he bad worked as a mason. He would be a Journalist. In Trento he joined the martyr Cesare Battista and wrote for "Il Popolo." He gave himself to the cause of Italian irredentism. employing his pen, which was also his sword, with fierce hatred against Austria and the Austrians. He left Battista and founded "La Lotta di Classe" in Forli. His articles and editorials were so bitter, so venomous, so belligerent, that all Italy came to know Mussolini, the merciless revolutionist. He demanded the leadership of the Socialist party, as he has demanded the Government, and the party surrendered. He assumed the editorship of the "Avanti," the official organ of the Socialist movement, and, fearing "neither Rome nor hell," set out to "put blood, nerves, and iron in a huge empty body." Under his leadership the Socialist party assumed a belligerent attitude in Italian politics. Mussolini was the bitterest agitator and the most aggressive propagandist the Italian Socialists had ever seen. He was not for the class struggle. He was for class war.
Then the World War came. A deep love of country, slumbering for years in the heart of the revolutionary, came to life with the first booming of the guns. Mussolini could not resist its magnetism. He was a born fighter, a man for the trenches, a dynamic human force. The policy of neutrality decided upon by his party was not for him. He would not be a pacifist. He could not be. He cried out for war, and he ceased to be a Socialist. "Traitor!" shouted his comrades. "Scoundrels, cowards!" thundered Mussolini.
On November 15, 1914, the first issue of "Il Popolo d'Italia," the bitterest anti-Socialist organ in Italy, appeared on the news-stands of Milan. Through its columns Mussolini cried out for war—for war against Austria and Germany, for war against the Socialist and Communist parties, against all the enemies of Italy. He fought for and in the war. All Italy listened to the emotional, dramatic, inspiring war speeches of Mussolini, the redeemed. Four years later he began the organization of the Fasci. The first to respond to his call were the Arditi.
What has happened since then is practically a matter of common knowledge. With his million Fascisti, who compose the most remarkable movement of youth in the history of any nation, he ha brought the Socialist and Communist parties to their knees. He has assumed absolute control of the Italian Government. It may truly be said that in the hands of this man lies the fate of Italy.
Mussolini is an eccentric man of remarkable force and initiative. Though he betrays a childish sentimentalism in his acceptance of political ideas, he is inclined to be egotistical, cruel, and unscrupulous. He is not a cultured man. He abhors the academic mind and hates the doctrinaire. His articles are superficial, his speeches abound in adjectives. But he is as aggressive with his pen as with his tongue. The editorials in "Il Popolo d'Italia" are venomous, menacing, and always polemical. One of the editors of the Fascista organ gives this picture of Mussolini at work in his office:
In the editorial offices there is complete silence. Mussolini is at work. Facing him, on the wall, hangs the black flag of the Arditi, with its prominent skull and dagger; on the table, between the barricade of books and the mass of manuscripts, rests his revolver; a bit further, on a volume of Carducci, a hunting knife, with its blade of steel, glitters in the sunlight; close to his inkwell is another revolver, a smaller one of feminine elegance. On the book-case—rather, on a mass of manuscripts never to be published—are boxes of bullets; near by rests his Fascista cane. In this formidable armory, standing out in perfect contrast to the black flag, Mussolini loads, murmurs, shrieks, threatens, and explodes. He hammers out his thoughts. His pen cuts deep into the paper. He works like a workman. He glories in his work.
"Clemenceau," says Nitti, "has been throughout his whole life a formidable man of destruction." Mussolini differs from Clemenceau only in that be can also build. He Is a doer of things. He believes in accomplishment, in achievement, and has no patience with men who will not act. In his large, protruding eyes there is bitter determination and much iron. He built up the Socialist party and then abandoned it. He followed with the building of the Fasci. He will now build an iron government.
Mussolini, unlike many of the party leaders in Italy, cannot be credited with firm political convictions. He is continuously in a state of political change. Even to-day the public opinion of the country is hopelessly divided on what Mussolini actually believes and desires. He has been a Socialist and a Socialist leader for many years. But was he truly a Socialist? Did he fully grasp the Marxian theories of government? It is difficult to answer the question. I am inclined to believe that he was lured by the romanticism of the Socialist movement. He loved to fight, and the Socialist party, the class struggle, offered him the opportunity to fight. He has never believed in reform through the ballot. He believed and believes in the right of might. As a youth he believed in industrial and political revolution. As a leader of the Socialists he believed in settimana rossa and la guerra di classe. In the war he was a soldier of the trenches. In peace he guided his Fascisti through civil war.
To-day, with the reins of government in his hands, this man, ferocious as a tyrant and human as a child, promises to restore law and order. "Democracy," he has said, "has failed in Italy. This is the day of the dictatorship."
Will he restore the Government to all the people of Italy or will he continue to dominate single-handedly, as he has dominated from that day in Romagna when he urged the striking workmen to revolution? The nation awaits breathlessly the next move of Benito Mussolini. | <urn:uuid:1dfb762a-bfe4-4882-af0d-c77d70ed8cca> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini_(Corsi) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00079-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982112 | 2,283 | 3.0625 | 3 |
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WikiLeaks on Tuesday dropped one of its most explosive word bombs ever: A secret trove of documents apparently stolen from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) detailing methods of hacking everything from smart phones and TVs to compromising Internet routers and computers. KrebsOnSecurity is still digesting much of this fascinating data cache, but here are some first impressions based on what I’ve seen so far.
First, to quickly recap what happened: In a post on its site, WikiLeaks said the release — dubbed “Vault 7” — was the largest-ever publication of confidential documents on the agency. WikiLeaks is promising a series of these document caches; this first one includes more than 8,700 files allegedly taken from a high-security network inside CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Va.
“Recently, the CIA lost control of the majority of its hacking arsenal including malware, viruses, trojans, weaponized ‘zero day’ exploits, malware remote control systems and associated documentation,” WikiLeaks wrote. “This extraordinary collection, which amounts to more than several hundred million lines of code, gives its possessor the entire hacking capacity of the CIA. The archive appears to have been circulated among former U.S. government hackers and contractors in an unauthorized manner, one of whom has provided WikiLeaks with portions of the archive.”
Wikileaks said it was calling attention to the CIA’s global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of weaponized exploits against “a wide range of U.S. and European company products, includ[ing] Apple’s iPhone, Google’s Android and Microsoft’s Windows and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert microphones.”
The documents for the most part don’t appear to include the computer code needed to exploit previously unknown flaws in these products, although WikiLeaks says those exploits may show up in a future dump. This collection is probably best thought of as an internal corporate wiki used by multiple CIA researchers who methodically found and documented weaknesses in a variety of popular commercial and consumer electronics.
For example, the data dump lists a number of exploit “modules” available to compromise various models of consumer routers made by companies like Linksys, Microtik and Zyxel, to name a few. CIA researchers also collated several pages worth of probing and testing weaknesses in business-class devices from Cisco, whose powerful routers carry a decent portion of the Internet’s traffic on any given day. Craig Dods, a researcher with Cisco’s rival Juniper, delves into greater detail on the Cisco bugs for anyone interested (Dods says he found no exploits for Juniper products in the cache, yet). Meanwhile, Cisco has published its own blog post on the matter.
WHILE MY SMART TV GENTLY WEEPS
Some of the exploits discussed in these leaked CIA documents appear to reference full-on, remote access vulnerabilities. However, a great many of the documents I’ve looked at seem to refer to attack concepts or half-finished exploits that may be limited by very specific requirements — such as physical access to the targeted device.
The “Weeping Angel” project’s page from 2014 is a prime example: It discusses ways to turn certain 2013-model Samsung “smart TVs” into remote listening devices; methods for disabling the LED lights that indicate the TV is on; and suggestions for fixing a problem with the exploit in which the WiFi interface on the TV is disabled when the exploit is run.
ToDo / Future Work:
Build a console cable
Turn on or leave WiFi turned on in Fake-Off mode
Parse unencrypted audio collection
Clean-up the file format of saved audio. Add encryption??
According to the documentation, Weeping Angel worked as long as the target hadn’t upgraded the firmware on the Samsung TVs. It also said the firmware upgrade eliminated the “current installation method,” which apparently required the insertion of a booby-trapped USB device into the TV.
Don’t get me wrong: This is a serious leak of fairly sensitive information. And I sincerely hope Wikileaks decides to work with researchers and vendors to coordinate the patching of flaws leveraged by the as-yet unreleased exploit code archive that apparently accompanies this documentation from the CIA.
But in reading the media coverage of this leak, one might be led to believe that even if you are among the small minority of Americans who have chosen to migrate more of their communications to privacy-enhancing technologies like Signal or WhatsApp, it’s all futility because the CIA can break it anyway.
Perhaps a future cache of documents from this CIA division will change things on this front, but an admittedly cursory examination of these documents indicates that the CIA’s methods for weakening the privacy of these tools all seem to require attackers to first succeed in deeply subverting the security of the mobile device — either through a remote-access vulnerability in the underlying operating system or via physical access to the target’s phone.
As Bloomberg’s tech op-ed writer Leonid Bershidsky notes, the documentation released here shows that these attacks are “not about mass surveillance — something that should bother the vast majority of internet users — but about monitoring specific targets.”
By way of example, Bershidsky points to a tweet yesterday from Open Whisper Systems (the makers of the Signal private messaging app) which observes that, “The CIA/Wikileaks story today is about getting malware onto phones, none of the exploits are in Signal or break Signal Protocol encryption.”
The company went on to say that because more online services are now using end-to-end encryption to prevent prying eyes from reading communications that are intercepted in-transit, intelligence agencies are being pushed “from undetectable mass surveillance to expensive, high-risk, targeted attacks.”
As limited as some of these exploits appear to be, the methodical approach of the countless CIA researchers who apparently collaborated to unearth these flaws is impressive and speaks to a key problem with most commercial hardware and software today: The vast majority of vendors would rather spend the time and money marketing their products than embark on the costly, frustrating, time-consuming and continuous process of stress-testing their own products and working with a range of researchers to find these types of vulnerabilities before the CIA or other nation-state-level hackers can.
Of course, not every company has a budget of hundreds of millions of dollars just to do basic security research. According to this NBC News report from October 2016, the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence (the alleged source of the documents discussed in this story) has a staff of hundreds and a budget in the hundreds of millions: Documents leaked by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden indicate the CIA requested $685.4 million for computer network operations in 2013, compared to $1 billion by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).
TURNABOUT IS FAIR PLAY?
NBC also reported that the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence was tasked by the Obama administration last year to devise cyber attack strategies in response to Russia’s alleged involvement in the siphoning of emails from Democratic National Committee servers as well as from Hillary Clinton‘s campaign chief John Podesta. Those emails were ultimately published online by Wikileaks last summer.
NBC reported that the “wide-ranging ‘clandestine’ cyber operation designed to harass and ’embarrass’ the Kremlin leadership was being lead by the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence.” Could this attack have been the Kremlin’s response to an action or actions by the CIA’s cyber center? Perhaps time (or future leaks) will tell.
Speaking of the NSA, the Wikileaks dump comes hot on the heels of a similar disclosure by The Shadow Brokers, a hacking group that said it stole malicious software from the Equation Group, a highly-skilled and advanced threat actor that has been closely tied to the NSA.
What’s interesting is this Wikileaks cache includes a longish discussion thread among CIA employees who openly discuss where the NSA erred in allowing experts to tie the NSA’s coders to malware produced by the Equation Group. As someone who spends a great deal of time unmasking cybercriminals who invariably leak their identity and/or location through poor operational security, I was utterly fascinated by this exchange.
BUG BOUNTIES VS BUG STOCKPILES
Many are using this latest deluge from WikiLeaks to reopen the debate over whether there is enough oversight of the CIA’s hacking activities. The New York Times called yesterday’s WikiLeaks disclosure “the latest coup for the antisecrecy organization and a serious blow to the CIA, which uses its hacking abilities to carry out espionage against foreign targets.”
The WikiLeaks scandal also revisits the question of whether the U.S. government should instead of hoarding and stockpiling vulnerabilities be more open and transparent about its findings — or at least work privately with software vendors to get the bugs fixed for the greater good. After all, these advocates argue, the United States is perhaps the most technologically-dependent country on Earth: Surely we have the most to lose when (not if) these exploits get leaked? Wouldn’t it be better and cheaper if everyone who produced software sought to crowdsource the hardening of their products?
On that front, my email inbox was positively peppered Tuesday with emails from organizations that run “bug bounty” programs on behalf of corporations. These programs seek to discourage the “full disclosure” approach — e.g., a researcher releasing exploit code for a previously unknown bug and giving the affected vendor exactly zero days to fix the problem before the public finds out how to exploit it (hence the term “zero-day” exploit).
Rather, the bug bounties encourage security researchers to work closely and discreetly with software vendors to fix security vulnerabilities — sometimes in exchange for monetary reward and sometimes just for public recognition.
Casey Ellis, chief executive officer and founder of bug bounty program Bugcrowd, suggested the CIA WikiLeaks disclosure will help criminal groups and other adversaries, while leaving security teams scrambling.
“In this mix there are the targeted vendors who, before today, were likely unaware of the specific vulnerabilities these exploits were targeting,” Ellis said. “Right now, the security teams are pulling apart the Wikileaks dump, performing technical analysis, assessing and prioritizing the risk to their products and the people who use them, and instructing the engineering teams towards creating patches. The net outcome over the long-term is actually a good thing for Internet security — the vulnerabilities that were exploited by these tools will be patched, and the risk to consumers reduced as a result — but for now we are entering yet another Shadow Brokers, Stuxnet, Flame, Duqu, etc., a period of actively exploitable 0-day bouncing around in the wild.”
Ellis said that — in an ironic way, one could say that Wikileaks, the CIA, and the original exploit authors “have combined to provide the same knowledge as the ‘good old days’ of full disclosure — but with far less control and a great many more side-effects than if the vendors were to take the initiative themselves.”
“This, in part, is why the full disclosure approach evolved into the coordinated disclosure and bug bounty models becoming commonplace today,” Ellis said in a written statement. “Stories like that of Wikileaks today are less and less surprising and to some extent are starting to be normalized. It’s only when the pain of doing nothing exceeds the pain of change that the majority of organizations will shift to an proactive vulnerability discovery strategy and the vulnerabilities exploited by these toolkits — and the risk those vulnerabilities create for the Internet — will become less and less common.”
Many observers — including a number of cybersecurity professional friends of mine — have become somewhat inured to these disclosures, and argue that this is exactly the sort of thing you might expect an agency like the CIA to be doing day in and day out. Omer Schneider, CEO at a startup called CyberX, seems to fall into this camp.
“The main issue here is not that the CIA has its own hacking tools or has a cache of zero-day exploits,” Schneider said. “Most nation-states have similar hacking tools, and they’re being used all the time. What’s surprising is that the general public is still shocked by stories like these. Regardless of the motives for publishing this, our concern is that Vault7 makes it even easier for a crop of new cyber-actors get in the game.”
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I am a mentor in the first-to-college program at my children’s high school called Transitioning Together or T2. They arrange speakers to talk to our group including a representative from the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority or MEFA, a nonprofit that provides resources and tools to help students navigate the college planning process, particularly the financial aspect.
What he said was startling. Most colleges are not need-blind! Admission decisions sometimes do take financial need into consideration in which students who do not need financial aid are favored.
Most colleges have to meet a revenue goal when they make admissions decisions. At the beginning of the admissions decisions, the pot of money for financial aid is full. But as the admissions period winds down, there are still a few spots left for the new incoming class but the financial aid money from the college or university has been spent.
Therefore, here are a few tips that I have gleaned:
- Even if you need financial aid, you should still apply Early Decision (binding) assuming that this is your top choice. Often, applying Early Decision is also slighter easier in terms of getting admitted.
- You can ask for an early financial aid read to see what you might receive. You can also use the school’s financial aid calculator for a ballpark estimate.
- If your financial aid package ends up being unworkable, you can ask to be released from the binding commitment to attend that school.
- It’s always best to apply to college on the front end of the admissions window. Applying on the last day to submit will give you the worst odds of being accepted and for receiving the least amount of financial aid that the school could offer.
- The stronger the candidate you are, the more you increase your odds of getting a generous financial aid package.
- Highly competitive schools with large endowments are able to give the most generous financial aid packages.
For help with financial aid, go to MassEdCo.org,
Federal Direct Student Loans are in the student’s name and don’t need a parental guarantee. Through this program, students can borrow up to:
$5500 Freshman Year
$6500 Sophomore Year
$7500 Junior Year
$7500 Senior Year
for a maximum total of $27,000
At a fixed interest rate of 3.74% (the current rate for 2021-2022), the estimated monthly payment is $300/month for ten years to pay this amount back. The estimated total debt including interest is $32,000 to $34,000. This is the best way to get a student loan. Federal Direct Student Loans can also be reconfigured for a longer repayment period of up to 20 to 30 years.
The upshot is to apply early when the financial aid money has not been spoken for. Consider Early Decision (binding) even if you are seeking the best financial aid package possible. Finally, be sure to fill out your FAFSA and CSS as soon as the applications open up.
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by Fr. Landelin Robling OSB
Just as the Rule of St. Pachomius (ca. 345) prescribes its followers to possess a knowledge of reading and writing, so St. Benedict desires the novice for his profession day to "make a written statement of his promise." "Let him write this document with his own hand; or at least, if he doth not know how to write. let another write it at his request, and let the novice make his mark and with his own hand place it (the promise) on the altar" (c. 58). In a later chapter (67) St. Benedict speaks of the artists of the monastery, to which category the scribe and the illuminators belong. Their work is to be performed not with pride and self-glory, but "cum omni humilitati...ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus."
In his loving paternal solicitude St. Benedict wishes all the necessaries to be within the enclosure, where "the various arts may be plied inside of the monastery, so that there may be no need for the monks to go about outside, because it is not good for their souls" (c. 66). Looking to the monk's eternal welfare by removing the occasion for the vice of private ownership, he explicitly enjoins the Abbot to give them every necessary thing; "namely, cowl, tunic, stockings, shoes, girdle, knife, pen, needle, towel, writing tablet that all pretence of want may be removed" (c. 55). This resembles an earlier chapter (33) where he explicitly mentions the book, writing tablet, and pen:
The vice of personal ownership must, by all means, be cut out in the monastery by the very root. so that no one may presume to give or receive anything without the command of the Abbot; nor to have anything whatever as his own, neither a book, nor a writing tablet, nor a per. nor anything else whatsoever, since monks are allowed to have neither their bodies nor their wills in their own power.
To gain internal composure and a spirit of recollection by keeping worldliness outside of the monastery, "let it not be allowed at all for a monk to give or to receive letters ... without the permission of the Abbot" (c. 54). These several points convince us that some writing was being performed in St. Benedict Is own cloister. But nowhere does he concretely speak of a writing room, although the oratory may have been used for this purpose as we shall see.
Conjectures frequently prove to be a reality. Apartments occupied by several members at one time are mentioned in the Rule. Firstly, the common apartment for the novices where they are to "meditate, eat and sleep... and to be tried in all patience" (c. 58). Then other common "cella" mentioned in the Rule area Oratory, chapter-house, dormitory, refectory, infirmary, and the guest-hall. Only one small or individual call is spoken of, the "cella ostiarii" (c. 66).
At the beginning of Lent the books were brought to the chapter-house from the library for distribution. Did St. Benedict's library also mean or include a writing room? We do not know. The oratory must be considered as a place for silent, reverent prayer. That it was a convenient place for other uses is implied by St. Benedict's warnings: "Let the oratory be what it is called, and let nothing else be done or stored there" (c. 52). What does St. Benedict mean by the verb 'condatur' which translators render 'stored'? This verb has a second meaning 'to compose or write.'26 If this is St. Benedict's meaning, then the abuse is evident.
26 Thesaurus Lingae Latinae, Vol. III, under "condo" shows it to be used as "scribo."
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But the fact is that country music was changed as well. Here are the four biggest ways that it did, for better and for worse.
1. Alan Jackson Becomes a Legend
He was still getting solid radio airplay and record sales in 2001, but it seemed like his glory days were behind him. Then, he stepped on to the CMA Awards stage and debuted “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” to a stunned industry crowd on national television.
It was the perfect song by the perfect artist at the perfect time, and it launched an amazing return to the head of the pack. The commercial success was great, but it’s worth noting that “Where Were You” served notice that he was undergoing an artistic renaissance as well. The big hits that followed – “Drive (For Daddy Gene)”, “It’s Five O’ Clock Somewhere,” and “Remember When” – were the best of his career. Heck, of anybody’s career.
On the same night that Jackson performed his instant classic, Toby Keith just sang his latest hit, the novelty number “I Wanna Talk About Me.” But the following spring, he came out with the next quintessential post-9/11 anthem, “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue.”
While it didn’t lead to nearly the same level of artistic growth that Jackson experienced, it did launch Keith into the rarefied air of country superstardom. For most of the next decade, he’d be an instant add at radio. And if some of those hits made us wince, it was still great to see the finest male vocalist of his generation get his due. For those of us who thought that he was robbed at radio and industry award shows in the nineties, it was rewarding to see him have his day.
National unity began to fade in the run up to our invasion of Iraq, and country radio picked a side, much to the detriment of the format. The shamelessly jingoistic “Have You Forgotten?” became a seven week #1 for Darryl Worley, while a criticism of President Bush wiped the Dixie Chicks off of the radio dial.
The upshot? Country radio sent the message that if you weren’t on board with the Bush Administration, you better keep your mouth shut. Then again, with Worley’s career fading soon after “Have You Forgotten?”, opening it was no guarantee for long-term success, either.
This was the worst of it. Country record sales exploded in 2002, and the industry credited it to traditionalists Jackson and Keith. Radio drew the conclusion that listeners didn’t want any more pop-flavored country, despite the fact that two of the biggest selling albums of the year were by Shania Twain and Faith Hill.
Both ladies struggled at radio with their top-selling projects, and the careers of Lee Ann Womack and SHeDaisy nearly ended. Even ten years later, with the top-selling artists being Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, most female artists are still struggling to get radio play. | <urn:uuid:d38998fe-1725-4153-a54f-58b8df818ed5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.countryuniverse.net/2011/09/12/four-ways-that-911-changed-country-music-for-good/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00222-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974448 | 668 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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After pulling together a group of historically Black institutions with notable experience in minority-focused health research, Hampton University officials have announced that the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities is awarding the university a five-year, $13.5 million grant to lead an HBCU consortium to combat and reduce health disparities in minority men. The HBCUs partnered with Hampton are Jackson State University, Clark Atlanta University, Howard University, North Carolina A&T State University and St. Augustine’s University.
The Hampton University Men’s Health Initiative has identified six core areas on which it will implement comprehensive solutions to health disparities that disrupt and cut short the lives of minority males, particularly that of African-American men. The initiative is focusing on prostate cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, melanoma in Hispanics and violence prevention. The researchers will be implementing a sustainable collaborative research model in each of the six areas to bring about improved health outcomes for minority men.
“The incidence of prostate cancer, heart disease, diabetes, and these other conditions have been particularly devastating in the Black community,” says Dr. William Harvey, the president of Hampton University. “This initiative will focus on four approaches to combatting health disparities – research, education, training, and intervention outreach.”
Hampton officials say that while the initiative is focused on reducing health disparities, the project’s overall goal is to improve the health of all Americans.
Harvey explained that the consortium was developed such that initiative’s research and clinical work would benefit from the particular strengths of the individual schools. For example, Harvey noted that Hampton, after having developed its widely-acclaimed $225 million Proton Therapy Institute as an innovative approach to fighting cancer, is well-positioned to focus on prostate cancer, which disproportionately affects minority men. According to the American Cancer Society, Black men have a 59 percent higher incident rate of prostate cancer than White men.
In another example, Jackson State University has developed a strong reputation for its health disparities research and intervention around cardiovascular disease, according to officials. Harvey notes that the Howard University psychology department will be playing a key role with violence prevention and that Clark Atlanta University researchers have been heralded for their cancer therapy research.
“I believe in working together to emphasize the collective power that HBCUs can exert to solve problems. This initiative is not about Hampton, but what HBCUs can accomplish when they bring their respective strengths to a project and work together,” he says.
Terone Green, an expert of minority health care programs and the national director for alliance development with the Sullivan Alliance, credits Harvey with putting together what Green sees as an impressive coalition of HBCUs. The Hampton initiative “plays well into the position Dr. Harvey has taken as it relates to issues around African-Americans, especially men, after leading the successful development of proton beam center,” he says.
“This [initiative] is a natural extension of what [Harvey’s] attempting to do to address health disparities,” notes Green.
He adds the grant award is significant because it’s unusual to see the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities awarding a grant as large as the one that’s going to the Hampton University Men’s Health Initiative. “Typically, what you see are multi-year grants in the $5 million to $6 million range,” says Green, who has served on the institute’s advisory board.
Dr. Raymond Samuel, a Hampton University chemical engineering professor and the initiative’s co-principal investigator, says researchers with the initiative will focus on planning in the first year, which has just gotten underway. The initiative is receiving $1.5 million in its first year and $3 million annually in subsequent years, according to Samuel.
“We’re really at the stage of putting together an infrastructure and administrative system for the consortium,” Samuel said.
He explained the federal award “is not the biggest grant that’s been awarded to us, but it’s the largest one to focus on biomedical research.” Hampton University’s track record in scientific and technical research has largely resulted from university work in physics, astronomy, and atmospheric sciences, Samuel noted. | <urn:uuid:21281564-650f-4414-99b2-5e914efe4127> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.diverseeducation.com/institutions/hbcus/article/15093416/hampton-university-to-lead-minority-male-health-initiative | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.948078 | 891 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What favor does Ludvik ask of Kostka?
2. Ludvik overhears his neighbors in the hotel as soon as he is settled in. What does he learn about the neighbors?
3. Where do Helena and Ludvik go after running around the woods and Helena sings, "Oh brightly shines the sun in our garden..."?
4. What is the name of Helena's daughter?
5. What does Helena's co-workers say about her at work?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the circumstances under which Helena fell in love with Zemanek.
2. How does Ludvik find out the identity of the woman who shaved him?
3. After Marketa and Ludvik speak candidly about the postcard, Ludvik suggests he could win Marketa despite everything. How, and what, does he do?
4. How does Ludvik describe Kostka?
5. Why did Ludvik send Marketa the postcard?
6. What is Kostka's bachelor pad like?
7. How does Ludvik take the first part of his shave?
8. How is Ludvik's attitude immediately following his move to Ostrava?
9. Describe Ludvik's hotel room in Moravia.
10. How is Ludvik received by the dark Slovak NCO who got a first at marksmanship?
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What is the significance of "the mirror" to the characters of "The Joke"? Pick two characters to focus your essay.
Essay Topic 2
Compare and contrast the symbolism inherent in the gifts Ludvik and Lucie give to each other during their time together in Ostrava.
Essay Topic 3
What does the Black Insignia signify to Ludvik? To the Party?
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GREEN SCREENMovie Industry Joins Environmental Cause
Like any other industry, the film business puts out its share of waste: building and taking down sets, printing and shipping film reels, even the bags and cups used at concession stands. And like many other industries today, film studios, distributors and exhibitors are taking steps to “go green,” by doing everything from installing solar panels to using disposable forks made from potatoes.
“Not just with theatres, but in all of our day-to-day lives, there’s always all kinds of little steps you can take,” says Nancy Gribler, VP of marketing for Sundance Cinemas. “It’s amazing and rewarding when you see how the small steps start to add up.”
At both its theatres, the Sundance in Madison, Wisconsin, and the soon-to-debut Sundance Cinemas Kabuki theatre in San Francisco, Sundance has aimed to incorporate environmentally aware policies from the ground up. “Part of Sundance’s core philosophy is trying to improve upon a somewhat un-green industry. We actually take great care in trying to do things in a more sustainable way,” Gribler explains.
Sundance’s construction process aims to use both reclaimed wood from other sources and recycled plastics, from the finishes on the building to the theatre seats. In the dining areas, a major part of the Sundance Cinemas, the disposable cups and clamshell boxes are made from corn syrup, which means they’re biodegradable. And yes, their forks are made from potatoes, from a brand called Spudware. Customers are asked to separate the recycling from the garbage, but the theatre employees are called upon to go the extra mile.
“We take it upon ourselves to go through the trash and separate the trash and the compost,” Gribler explains, adding that patrons have shown “a lot of support” for the program. “It’s up to us to help to educate the patrons. That’s our responsibility.”Over in Belgium, the Kinepolis theatre circuit has undertaken a similar program of environmental awareness in every aspect of its business. “Environmentalism is really in the context of corporate social responsibility,” says Myriam Dassonville, corporate communications manager for Kinepolis. “It’s a certain responsibility that cinema groups have to assume towards the people and towards the planet.”
Kinepolis builds all of its complexes across Europe, and the company uses local building materials and bases its construction on the local climate. “We have a complex in Spain, Kinepolis Valencia, where it’s very warm. There we have an open entrance, [and] we use this free and natural ventilation, so we don’t use cooling units,” Dassonville explains.
Kinepolis also considers location in terms of how far the theatre’s employees and patrons may have to travel to get there. “We always try to be in the presence of a train or a bus station,” notes Dassonville. “We can reduce the pressure of traffic; it’s very important to us. We also try to build apartments in the complexes, when it’s possible, so that members of the staff can live near work.”
In Chicago, Kerasotes Theatres has built their first multiplex featuring a “green roof”—a landscape of plants and rocks that helps keep energy inside the building and reduces heating and cooling costs. New regulations in the city of Chicago demanded the roof be built, but Ted Constan, marketing coordinator for the circuit, said Kerasotes was excited about the innovative roof design. “From an ecological standpoint, it’s a great opportunity to be involved in.”
One new waste-reducing step that Sundance, Kinepolis and Kerasotes have all been able to take recently is thanks to Dolby, which has introduced reusable 3D glasses for use when watching films like Beowulf. Though it’s up to the theatres to wash them and make sure customers don’t walk out with them, Dolby senior VP Ioan Allen says the glasses both save the theaters money and cut down on how many materials get thrown away.
“People think they’re more expensive. On the day that you buy them and pay the check, they are more expensive, [but] that cost is shared,” Allen explains. “Our reusable glasses we have tested at beyond 500 screenings and washes. If you take that mass into account, the cost per screening for our reusable glasses is somewhere between 10 and 20 cents.”
Kinepolis recently used the glasses for the opening of Beowulf, and Dassonville says they were a success. “They are lightweight but durable—high-performance. They’re designed to be used lots, lots of times.” Sundance has installed a specific glasses washer in the theatre, and Gribler says the new glasses also met with a positive response. “We got the most amazing comments over the weekend about the experience,” she comments.
The new reusable glasses are not the first time Dolby has taken a major step toward reducing the film industry’s environmental impact. More than six years ago, Dolby and Kodak teamed up to introduce a new technique for adding soundtracks to film, eliminating the use of dangerous silver and the chemicals used to process and clean it. Allen won an Academy Award earlier this year for this innovation, which uses cyan dye to add soundtracks.
“One-hundred percent of all Hollywood films are now released 100% cyan worldwide. It’s an amazing achievement we pulled off somehow,” Allen says modestly.
In the old process, a layer of silver was added to the final film stock in order for the projection bulb to properly read the soundtrack. In the process, however, millions of gallons of water were used to wash the film over and over again, not to mention the corrosive and caustic chemicals the projectionists had to handle once the film was delivered. In the early 1990s, Kodak approached Dolby to find a way to take silver out of the equation, and Dolby responded with a process that used cyan dye for the soundtrack, and replaced the tungsten bulb in projectors with a special red LED light. The new red light can read older silver soundtracks as well as cyan, and provides the added benefit to projectionists of never burning out mid-screening the way tungsten bulbs once did.
According to Allen, the redeveloping process involved with silver soundtracks was the “biggest single environmental problem” in the film industry. “The chemicals used [with silver soundtracks] totaled 3.5 million pounds of chemicals a year. That’s what’s not being used anymore,” he adds.
Though cyan dye has transformed the impact of 35mm prints on the environment, the advent of digital cinema should play a decisive role in reducing the environmental impact of the movies. “We’re looking at getting rid of film altogether and going digital, which would be a great cost decrease,” Constan says. “Film has a lot of chemicals in it. Digital is a little hard drive, and it’s reusable.”
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Object Lessons: the State of the Art
The OO approach
The canonical, online sources for developments in object technology have changed little over the last couple of years -indicating some stabilization.
Structured programming (SP) was a common approach until the early 80's, with its emphasis on subroutines and the top-down decomposition of programs. In the late 80's, programs became composed of libraries of 'Objects' -aggregates of functions and data. Some problems are still better solved with SP techniques, and much existing code remains non-OO -written using procedural script, macros and traditional languages.
Object Oriented FeaturesObject-oriented languages like Java provide, however, features not found in other languages:
Encapsulation: an object consists of related data and code, bundled together.
Inheritance: classes can be extended to subclasses, code can be re-used.
Polymorphism: a variable that can hold an object of some class can hold an object of any subclass.
Protection: some of the data and code of a class can be hidden from the outside world.
- enhanced quality
- object stability within flexible processes
- faster development
- easier maintenance
- encapsulation, abstraction, re-use: objects can provide optimal granularity, the balance between flexible functionality within an object (cohesion) and reusability (lower coupling)
Unified Modeling Language (UML)
This is the modeling language for specifying and visualizing software systems. The UML represents a collection of engineering practices that have proven successful in the modeling of complex systems. In 1995, Rational Partners created this first international standard for object-oriented modeling.
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
This is an iterative, web-enabled set of software engineering processes that provide guidance to development activities. The Process provides each team member with a unified approach to developing software via an on-line knowledge base that assigns responsibilities to the development team and allows access to new tools via plug-ins.
The momentum of design patterns continues to grow. Mature engineering disciplines have handbooks that describe successful solutions to known design problems. Design patterns and pattern languages are an attempt to describe successful solutions to common software problems.
This language continues to be hot, despite being a mature technology now. The Java technology is an object-oriented, platform-independent, multithreaded, programming environment, providing the foundation for smart Web and networked services. All kinds of systems can talk to each other -- from smart cards to supercomputers -- regardless of the underlying hardware or system software.
A Web service can be defined as "a loosely coupled collection of (markup language) software components that represents a business function and can be accessed by another application (a client, server or another Web service) over public networks using generally available protocols and transports (i.e. SOAP over HTTP). SOAP (Simple Access Open Protocol) is a protocol used for exchanging structured data in a decentralized, distributed environment. Web services are broadly comparable with object/component-based development architectures, and offer (subject to further development of security and standards) the benefits associated with object-orientation.
There's a lot of interest in Microsoft's new platform for developing software and running Web services. The .NET development framework allows support for XML-based Web services created in all current programming languages (especially the popular OO languages like Java). Applications and XML Web services created in one language can therefore be programmed in any of these other supported languages. The new ASP.NET, for example, separates code from HTML and supports the new C# language and its CRL (Common Runtime Language) which supports more than 20 other languages.
Developers who fail to use these OO technologies effectively in the future may face an array of difficulties. The resulting programming work could be harder to understand, and under perform because it mirrors reality less faithfully. Ultimately, there may be nightmarish maintenance issues.
Once there are effective standards for interoperability and security, developers will be faced by many new opportunities and challenges in the relation of network-enabled, service-based computing. See the next article Object lessons: the future of OO design.
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Dreaded Neon Tetra Disease!?
I had 3 jumbo cardinal tetras for about 2-3 months, they were perfectly healthy. I decided to add 3 more so they could school. The day after I lost 2 of the tetras, one was dead dead, the other had a curved spine and looked like it couldn't swim. The next day 2 more had died, similar symptoms. It has been about 1 1/2 weeks since that with my two remaining tetras, they always seemed to be a bit restless, but I was hoping it would be because they didn't have a school. Now today I noticed a swarm of white bubbly spots on them, they are still restless, and a loss of appetite. I have 1 male guppy in the tank as well, and so far none of this has phased him. The tetras are still schooling together, as well as have a nice color to them, sometimes they calm down...but they seem very stressed.
Is this the neon tetra disease, false neon tetra disease, maybe ich? (although they don't seem to be itching against the gravel.) Is it worth me getting antibiotics for the fish?
EDIT: I take that back, my fancy guppy appears to be hiding by the heater, which is something I haven't seen him do. (he shows no physical signs)
Water conditions: 7.2 pH, 0 Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrate. 78 degrees.
I don't know the symptoms of neon tetra disease but your pH is much higher than cardinals prefer - they do best in very soft water, with pH below 6. This may have contributed to them becoming more susceptible to this disease.
Cardinal tetras are supposedly resistant to NTD... although a quick search on the internet showed a picture of what is supposed to be NTD on a cardinal.
Neon tetra disease usually first presents as restlessness. As the disease progresses the fish may develop deep white spots that destroy the color, abnormal muscle movements, difficulty swimming, lumps in the flesh and occasionally spinal deformities.
Columnaris, false NTD is an external bacterial infection, and to me, looks really different. NTD is internal and aside from deformities the outer skin is normal looking. [columnaris] This disease can also lead to spinal deformities but externally looks different from NTD.
Ich presents as white spots and the fish will look like it was rolled in salt.
If it is NTD, unfortunately the afflicted fish will need to be euthanized and the aquarium will have to be cleaned. It is highly contagious and can infect all kinds of fish.
If it is columnaris, treat with broad spectrum antibiotics.
Late stage NTD can cause white patches. They are normally small and can be confused for ich until they become larger and are irregularly shaped. There is no confirmed cure for NTD, it is highly contagious but only seems to affect characins, with some barbs and loaches being the exception. This would explain why the guppy is unaffected, livebearers, catfish, and puffers seem to be immune to it. While columnaris affects all species. Its always hard to pin a diagnosis down but, it sounds like NTD to me. I have never been able to cure it although rumors exist that erythomycin is effective. My PH is 7.4-7.6 and I could never keep tetras healthy so I don't keep them anymore.
Last year I got some neon tetras that had this diease I tried eveything and still lost all of them. I did have other fish in with them a pair of Honey Gourami, Harlequin Rasbora, and golden barbs all the others were fine just the neons were infected Good luck with them.
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Many people visit the chiropractor only after they’ve tried everything else—even pharmaceutical drugs and surgery. Chiropractic adjustments are non-invasive and completely natural. The practice of chiropractic dates back to 2700 B.C. Today, chiropractic adjustments are still very relevant to our health. The spine is a column of vertebrae that protect the spinal cord and the many different segments of nerves in there. Perhaps you know the common benefits of chiropractic adjustments—decreased back and neck pain, proper alignment and posture—but what are some of the more surprising benefits of getting chiropractic adjustments?
Better Range of Motion
While some people are hypermobile (really flexible), others struggle with getting the full range of motion that comes with your body due to injury or just everyday use. When your spine is properly aligned, you experience an increase in your range of motion. Proper range of motion will benefit you in ways you didn’t realize you were missing out on. You may be able to easily turn your neck and head while driving to check a blind spot, or you may be able to bend over without pain to tie your shoes or to garden. This increased range of motion helps to restore some of the flexibility we’ve lost since childhood, and many times sedentary lifestyles make us stiff and uncomfortable, therefore leading to chronic pain. Our bodies were designed to move, and chiropractic adjustments can help your body get some of its motion back.
Your spine is home to many nerves that help control all kinds of things in your body, from sexual function to digestion. The nerves in the thoracic and lumbar regions of your spine help regulate all your major digestive organs. A simple misalignment of the spine could throw off your proper digestive process and you may be experiencing problems such as heartburn, flatulence, diarrhea, upset stomach, or constipation. While a healthy diet is also huge for healthy digestion, you may eat great and still experience problems. If you’ve ruled out any food allergies, chiropractic adjustments may be able to help.
When your spine is misaligned, or your hip is out of place, or whichever other structural issues you may have, it makes it easier for your body to harbor tension and therefore pain. This could make it impossible to get comfortable at night or it could disturb your sleep cycle, and as we all know, proper sleep (both quality and quantity) is vital to our health. You may have subluxations, or minor dislocations in your spine, that cause a disconnect between your body and the brain, and can put your body in a stressful state where you experience and imbalance of being tired and not being able to achieve proper rest. When your spine and skeletal structure are properly aligned, your circulation will improve and your brain and spine communication will be properly supported as well.
A Healthier Pregnancy
Your body undergoes many changes during pregnancy. In addition to weight gain, certain areas of your body will experience more stress due to the baby and an altered center of gravity. These shifts can cause lower back, hip, and joint pain. Chiropractic adjustments can not only provide relief from this increased tension, stress, and pain, but your chiropractor can also suggest exercises, nutritional advice, and safe practices to help you along in your pregnancy. Besides pregnancy, chiropractic adjustments can also help if you have painful periods, as nerves that connect to your reproductive organs may be experiencing disconnect due to misalignment of the spine. If you have trouble getting pregnant, chiropractic adjustments may be able to help as well by opening this line of communication.
Improved Athletic Performance
For athletes, chiropractic adjustments can help greatly. Whether you’re running, biking, swimming, or lifting weights, having proper posture and an aligned spine is crucial for preventing injury to your body and causing unnecessary wear and tear. If your spine is shifted even slightly, your exercise routine will cause your body to wear on this misalignment, therefore accelerating the damage process and eventually causing you pain and discomfort.
Chiropractor Dr. Foote at Nashville Spine and Sport explains the benefits of getting adjusted for athletes. “I’m able to adjust athletes on a daily basis. Adjusting athletes will have multiple benefits for that person such as balance, increased range of motion, decrease in musculoskeletal pain, and injury prevention. When athletes incorporate chiropractic care into their regimen, they often have a better production rate.” Getting chiropractic adjustments ensures that your body is properly aligned for your workout routine and not getting out of balance due to a misalignment. With these improvements, as well as some postural advice from your chiropractor, your can perform even better at your sport, and you’ll be pain free.
Chiropractic adjustments have many amazing benefits. When you consider the fact that the spine is the house of many nerves that connect to all sorts of different things in your body, you begin to see the full picture that chiropractors see when looking at your health. From leg pain to breathing problems to insomnia, chiropractic adjustments can do much more than just relieve back or neck pain. | <urn:uuid:3f96591d-61ef-464a-b714-d60eb8ef8338> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://naturalnewsblogs.com/surprising-benefits-getting-chiropractic-adjustments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.952191 | 1,085 | 2.015625 | 2 |
When participants sign on to be a part of a reality TV show, they sign contracts and are then bound by the terms of the contract. If the participants violate the terms of the contract, then they risk being kicked off of the show. This is what binds the participant. However, there are laws and regulations which govern reality TV shows. This may be hard to believe since many reality TV shows seem cutthroat, but contestants are aware of the type of TV show they are taking part in and they agree to such treatment in their contracts because that is what makes the show interesting.
The FCC regulates what we see on TV, but the shows are prohibited from rigging of any kind, exploiting children, and other such things as nudity and language that are not censored. Those are your standard FCC regulations. However, there have been statements that have claimed that the show Survivor is not subject to game show regulations set forth by the FCC.
Such rules set forth by the FCC involve the Prime Time Access Rule and the Financial Interest and Syndication Rules, which has a large effect on game shows. What the first rule does is give total control of a certain time slot to a local station to do what they please and the second rule gives the producers limited ownership of a program after its initial run. However, these rules don’t really interest the public. What interests the public are the censorship rules.
Regarding the claim that Survivor is not subject to the game show regulations of the FCC is contradictory to what the show has claimed. The FCC rules are mostly effective in the areas of censorship and making sure that there is no rigging going on although the above applies as well. They say that reality shows do not leave much room to cheat anyway despite what some may believe. If the FCC caught reality shows rigging, the reality shows would be severely fined. If the contestants found out that the shows were being rigged, then the shows would be facing numerous lawsuits.
Lessons were learned many years ago from such shows as Quiz Show where the producers were feeding the questions and the answers to the contestants before they went on the show. If the audience loved a particular contestant, the producers wanted to make sure that contestant stuck around for a while. Once the ratings would fall, the process would start all over again so that the audience would once again fall in love with a particular contestant.
However, when we look at the reality shows of today, we may absolutely enjoy a particular contestant for them to get voted off. That hardly constitutes any type of rigging because the show is risking viewership if a beloved contestant is gone. The FCC regulates how these shows conduct themselves and they make sure that everything is done fairly to the best of their ability because, if the show is found out, the show risks everything, including their reputation. If they risk their reputation, then they lose viewership. When a show loses viewership, they are then taken off of the air and placed into syndication if they’re lucky. Some reality shows have been on the air for so long that it would be a shame for such things to happen, but scandal does occur and solutions must be reached. However, sometimes it is the scandal that brings even more viewers to a show than ever before. But if the show is deceiving their viewers, then viewers feel violated. | <urn:uuid:eabb6cef-7d5b-49c4-be99-25e08c9a1958> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nicwong.com/are-there-specific-laws-or-regulations-that-reality-tv-shows-are-required-to-follow/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.978172 | 668 | 2.234375 | 2 |
We're jumping into the discussion of 7 Tools for Cultivating Your Child's Potential by Zan Tyler. The 7 Tools Book Club is always open for anyone who wants to join! Start here with all the details of the 7 Tools Book Club and then catch up on any of these posts you might have missed:
Chapter 5: Worldview
“Worldview gives both focus and direction to our children's lives.” pg. 104
Zan talks about three obstacles in this chapter that keep us from developing a Biblical worldview:
- The separation of sacred and secular
- The separation of church and society
- The separation of Christianity and the mind
These things need not be separated! We need to show our kids how to integrate their faith into all areas of their lives.
Apologia has an amazing resources that Zan references in this chapter: The What We Believe Series. We've been slowly working our way through Who is God? which is the first volume. There's an illustration near the beginning of this book that likens worldview to glasses – if your glasses are not clear and in focus, your view of the world will be skewed. We need to teach our kids how to find and use the proper glasses at an early age!
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In our latest Notable Narrative, “The Boy Who Died of Football,” Sports Illustrated senior writer Thomas Lake takes on the collapse of high school football player Max Gilpin during team practice in Louisville, Kentucky, in 2008. Gilpin’s subsequent death loads the story with power, and Lake labors under a kind of accountability to the dead, as well as an obligation to be fair to the coach who may or may not be responsible.
Along with family members and community officials, the narrative has a shadow cast of characters in the form of thousands of kids nationwide who will be playing football next fall and each fall after that. Could what happened to Max Gilpin happen to them?
Lake juggles elements of news you can use, the drama of the court case and a tremendous amount of reporting, folding it all into a chronology which moves back and forth between that last practice and later testimony. Writing about those who watched Max suffer, Lake directly addresses the challenge of constructing any kind of narrative at all:
The events of the next 50 minutes are a case study in the limits of eyewitness testimony. No video footage surfaced in the police investigation, and the roughly 140 spectators told stories that ranged from the plausible to the mathematically impossible. They couldn’t even agree on whether Stinson was wearing a whistle that day. Nevertheless, a parade of witnesses said they heard the coach say one thing that set the tone for the gassers. It seems strange that Stinson still denies saying it to the runners, because it wasn’t just soccer parents who said they heard it. It wasn’t just assistant coaches and disgruntled players. In the opening statement at Stinson’s trial for the reckless homicide of Max Gilpin, the coach’s own defense attorney acknowledged, “Jason said it.”
Lake brings all the information he can unearth to bear in an effort to understand what those last days were like for Max. The final section juxtaposes the best and the worst: a first kiss and a death scene. In combining them, Lake closes with events so universal their meaning seems clear – as if it might be possible to tell a story not by lining up the facts but by understanding one true thing. | <urn:uuid:b04126ed-a33f-45ab-a8ee-1806f5f6f3dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://niemanstoryboard.org/stories/death-and-football-reconstructing-the-last-days-of-max-gilpin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.964514 | 458 | 1.5 | 2 |
A court in Vietnam sentenced three bloggers for producing "anti-state propaganda".
Blogger Nguyen Van Hai, alias Dieu Cay, was sentenced on Monday to 12 years in prison and policewoman turned dissident Ta Phong Tan was given 10 years, while Phan Thanh Hai, the only one of the trio to plead guilty, was handed a four-year term. after a trial lasting just a few hours.
The bloggers were charged with conducting propaganda against the one-party communist state under Article 88 of the criminal code, which rights groups say is one of many "vaguely defined articles" used to prosecute dissidents.
"Their crimes were especially serious with clear intention against the state," Court President Nguyen Phi Long said, adding that "they must be seriously punished".
All of the defendants will also have to serve between three and five years under house arrest after they complete their prison sentences.
"They abused the popularity of the Internet to post articles which undermined and blackened (Vietnam's) leaders, criticising the (Communist) party (and) destroying people's trust in the state," Long said.
Nguyen Van Hai, whose plight was als highlighted by US President Barack Obama, and Tan had "caused disorder" in the court and so were not allowed to make closing statements, he added.
In a speech that was curtailed when the audio feed from the courtroom was cut off, Nguyen Van Hai said he had never been against the communist state.
The charges relate to political articles the bloggers posted on the banned Vietnamese website "Free Journalists Club" as well as their postings on their own blogs, denouncing corruption and injustice and criticising Hanoi's foreign policy.
Dieu Cay, one of the founders of the Club of Free Journalists, is known for his writings calling for greater respect for human rights and democratic reforms. He is also known for his criticisms of China’s claims over disputed islands in the South China Sea.
Rights groups including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have repeatedly called on the Vietnamese government to drop the charges and release the three bloggers immediately.
Vietnam bans private media and all newspapers and television channels are state-run.
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Using discrete choice experiments for environmental valuation
This paper provides with a review of the state of the art of environmental valuation with discrete choice experiments (DCE). The growing body of literature on this field serves to emphasise the increasing role that DCE are playing in environmental decision making in the last decade. The paper attempts to cover the full process of undertaking a choice experiment, including survey and experimental design, econometric analysis of choice data and welfare analysis. The research on this field is found to be intense, although many challenges are put forward (e.g. choice task complexity and cognitive effort, experimental design, endogeneity or model uncertainty). Reviewing the state of the art of DCE serves to draw attention to the main challenges that this methodological approach will need to overcome in the coming years and to identify the frontiers in discrete choice analysis.
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Fritz Perls - a male celebrity - born on Saturday July 8th 1893, in Berlin, Germany,.
Fritz Perls is the philanthropist and humanitarian who is deeply concerned about the state of the world, for which she has great compassion and idealism. He has a utopian personality, and will spend her life trying to realize some aspect of her utopian dream, sacrificing money, time, and energy for a better world.
His broad outlook on life allows Perls to see the big picture, and to often shy away from dealing with the minute details. That is why Fritz Perls attracts people who can fit into her larger plans and take over the areas he considers uninteresting. Consequently, Fritz evaluates people on the basis of what they can do for the larger cause. He is a true egalitarian, rarely prejudiced and would not accept social biases of people.
Interior decorating, landscape art or photography can be the sort of fields in which Fritz's imagination and creativity can harmoniously arrange the beauty already potential in the environment. However, due to his strong social consciousness - he can be an effective politician, lawyer, judge, minister, teacher, healer, environmentalist or in any other vocation that carries a clear social impact.
Fritz Perls has a romantic personality, but his love is more impersonal as he tends to be focused on her dreams instead. When not in harmony with his true nature, Fritz can fall to moodiness, or become aloof, and withdrawn. He can also become timid, uncertain, and ungrateful, putting the blame for his troubles on others or the world. He is often disappointed by the realities of life, her own shortcomings, and those of others, and is relentlessly driven to improve upon it all - striving for greater accomplishments. This is Fritz's life-lesson - to accept the natural limitations of the world and its habitants in order to make it possible for him to enjoy life more fully.
Perls must learn to let go of material possessions and relationships because holding on too tightly to anything causes him pain. The more he gives, the bigger is his reward, and the most successful and satisfying road for him is sharing and sacrificing for the larger goal, without expecting anything in return. Fritz Perls' greatest chance at success is to tie his personal fortunes to an endeavor that makes the world a better place for others. It may very well turn into a highly successful and lucrative enterprise, providing amply for Fritz and her family. More...
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Fritz Perls is full of energy, always on the go, fidgety, and quite hyperactive. Life is in a constant motion for him and he devours it powerfully.
He has great ability to put thoughts into action, and there is no wait once he sets his mind on something. Where others tend to think or dream, Fritz already takes action while radiating energy, enthusiasm, and livelihood around.
His physical stamina is strong, and he loves mental and physical exercise. Fritz Perls keep himself physically or mentally busy at all times, and he feels better spending time outdoors and eating natural foods.
Limited space is a major challenge for Fritz, while exercise, proper diet, and rest are critical for his health. A good walk in the fresh air serves as an intellectual vehicle for him.
January 24th 2017 is a dynamic and even hectic for Fritz Perls that may bring some change in his career.
Generally speaking, today is a day of unexpected events that may even include travel.
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The wonders of God are enormous and in an extra ordinary way have strengthened our little faith and made easy our daily struggles and gave us hope to gaze into the farfetched future. God’s wonders have facilitated our journeys of crisscrossing the villages, rivers, streams and forests and above all climbing and descending steep hills of Mission District of Beandrarezona. The wonders of God have made the unexpected and impossible to happen in the Mission District of Beandrarezona from the time we assumed it.
For those who are not familiar with our Mission District is situated in the region of Sofia, in the province of Mahajanga, and in the district of Bealalana. The region of Sofia has surface area of 52, 504 square kilometers with an approximate population of 985,000 habitants. Mission District of Beandrarezona consists of three rural communes with a population of 51,170 people out of whom 716 are Catholics. Ninety percent of the Catholics are youth and children.
The dominant ethnic group is the Tsimihety, who are predominantly farmers and mainly they grow rice, tobacco, peanuts, beans, maize etc. Farming is carried out on small scale using traditional methods. It is one of the poorest places in the region of Sofia. Poverty is felt hardest among the youth who are the majority. There are no road networks which hinder movement of people and agricultural products to local markets.
The program of house to house evangelization and visiting the villages has been rolled out. It is a good experience to meet people in their normal milieu. The reception is so far positive and people appreciate these visits. This activity demands endurance and determination to maneuver through paths, rivers and hilly terrain. Most people are friendly and welcoming. There are forty-five villages which are far apart from each other and with no roads; mostly we do these vast distances on foot. The distances from one village to another are within a range of 20-90 kilometers. Our furthest Christian Community is in range of 90 kilometers from the headquarters of the Missionary District/Parish of Beandrarezona, it is a two days walk on foot due to the type of topography. We have visited outstations and villages under our jurisdiction. It has been an adventure because some villages and outstations have never been visited by any priest since the creation of the world, while other villages were last visited by Capuchin Friars who were mainly from Europe.
The number of Christians in an outstation ranges from 5-30. However, there are villages without a single Catholic. Each outstation has a catechist. These catechists are men of good will, who were chosen by Christians in order to lead Sunday celebrations, plan and organize prayers like the rosary and lastly take care of the Church land. The following factors were put into account when they were being chosen: first, good reputation in the community and second, being literate. These Catechists don’t have any catechetical formation and in extreme cases a few of them are not baptized. It may sound strange to some people but this is our reality. Catechists who are yet to be baptized are helped by Senior Christians to give catechetical instructions to catechumen, as they undergo catechetical instructions.
Several outstations have semi-permanent structures which are in a dilapidated state, while others have makeshift structures constructed in peoples’ homestead and serve as places of worship and meetings.
Christian Community after Sunday Eucharistic Celebration
Christian Community gathered for Sunday Eucharistic Celebration in a makeshift structure
The parish is yet to acquire pieces of land in several focal villages making these communities not to have a permanent place of worship thus becoming vagabond. Generally, there are very few adult in a given Christian Community rendering it very difficult for them to raise money for the purpose of purchasing land. The highest numbers of Christians are youths and children who have no monetary power. It is a challenge because a Christian Community needs a permanent place of worship which is also a permanent point of reference.
Formation of Christian communities is in progress. Its objective is to create a sense of belonging and ownership of the parish. Catechists have formation sessions which enable them to carry out their duties in a better way. Several themes have been expounded such as vocation of a catechist, the role of the catechist in a Christian community and in the parish, the importance of prayer (such as Rosary) in Christian life, simple concepts of liturgy such as liturgical year, liturgical colors, parts of the Mass and liturgical gestures and reflection on Sunday readings, etc. Meetings are scheduled every three months and last for four days, because of long distances catechists arrive on Tuesday and leave on Sunday morning after morning Mass. Each catechist shares his experiences and work done during the last three months.
Some of the catechists
We have rolled out the formation programs for the children and youths, which consists of seminars, sports, catechetical instructions etc. Youths and children make the highest percentage of Christians of Mission District of Beandrarezona. This is a good sign of a very brighter future of the Mission District and a formation program to accompany these youth is already on course.
Père Makori having a formation session with a youth
Most parents of these youths and children are not Christians and have no problem seeing their children participating in Church activities, attending catechism classes and receiving sacraments. However, they don’t recognize Sunday as a day of worship and dedicated to Church activities, often they force their children to work on farms on Sundays, making it difficult to implement youth activities during weekends. We do not have physical structures where to organize some of these activities especially during rainy season thus hindering the smooth running of formation programs.
We have been celebrating fahamadiana (exhumation) of the dead. For the Malagasy eternity is connected to the ancestral grave. The past and future converge in the family tomb. The family astrologer determines the days of exhumation. Bones are re-assembled in their original position then wrapped in new shrouds. The descendants are invited to dance with the ancestors. It is a big feast for the family and entire village.
Carrying a casket back to the family tomb
Poverty and illiteracy are the most dangerous enemies of the people at Beandrarezona. Poverty is felt at all levels of life. In this context, the most endangered species are the girl child and the boy child, because they can’t afford basic needs. Girls are forced to get involved in sexual relationships with adults who promise them a better future which at the end is a mirage. These girls often get pregnant; as a consequence become young mothers at a tender age. For the boy child education is not a priority. The emphasis is put on the number of children one has fathered, the number of cows and rice paddies acquired as property. In most cases, the boy child gets involved in petty crimes and the abuse of alcohol and drugs (Rongony). Poverty and illiteracy hinder the development of this community.
Several initiatives have been taken though the journey is still very long and bumpy; few targets have been realized and yet more are to be the achieved. This mission journey demands courage, determination and support from each and every one of us. We thank God for His amazing power and work in our lives. We cannot forget His goodness and blessings over us during these times of Covid-19. Again our gratitude goes to Him who is giving us hope in these toughest times by strengthening us for His purposes.
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- Berronar Truesilver
- Clangeddin Silverbeard
- Deep Duerra
- Dugmaren Brightmantle
- Gorm Gulthyn
- Haela Brightaxe
- Marthammor Duin
- Thard Harr
The majority of the Morndinsamman resided in Dwarfhome (when it was still located on Mount Celestia) under the leadership of Moradin, creator of the dwarves. Duerra and Laduguer lived in Hammergrim, having been exiled by Moradin. In 1383 DR, Moradin led the Morndinsamman on a crusade against the dark powers of Hammergrim, slaying Duerra and Laduguer, but at the cost of Gorm and Haela.
As of 1479 DR, only Moradin, Berronar, Clangeddin, Dugmaren, Marthammor, Thard and Vergadain remains in Dwarfhome. Abbathor is serving Bane as an exarch and the status of Dumathoin and Sharindlar is unknown.
- ↑ Eric L. Boyd, Erik Mona (May 2002). Faiths and Pantheons. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 115. ISBN 0-7869-2759-3.
- ↑ Brian R. James and Ed Greenwood (September, 2007). The Grand History of the Realms. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 159. ISBN 978-0-7869-4731-7.
- ↑ Bruce R. Cordell, Ed Greenwood, Chris Sims (August 2008). Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide. (Wizards of the Coast), p. 81. ISBN 978-0-7869-4924-3. | <urn:uuid:461aa265-2f7c-47b5-ab21-9a27ee6edc8e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Morndinsamman | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00535-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.681266 | 359 | 1.75 | 2 |
An increased risk for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was found among patients with endometriosis, according to study results published in Scientific Reports.
Recent studies have demonstrated a higher prevalence of allergies and autoimmune diseases among patients with endometriosis. Researchers of the current nationwide, population-based, retrospective cohort study sought to examine the association between endometriosis and risk for SLE.
They used data from Taiwan’s National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), which was established by the National Health Insurance (NHI) program. The Longitudinal Health Insurance Database served as the dataset for the study cohort, yielding a sample of 1 million participants from 23 million beneficiaries of the NHIRD. The index date of the cohort was the date of the initial endometriosis diagnosis, with the outcome measurement being the diagnosis of SLE and use of hydroxychloroquine for 1 year. The study endpoint was the occurrence of SLE or withdrawal from the NHI program, whichever occurred first.
Researchers initially matched individuals with vs without endometriosis in a 1:6 ratio. They conducted propensity score matching by accounting for covariates, such as age, comorbidities, use of corticosteroids, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), and hormonal medications, to control confounding between the endometriosis and nonendometriosis groups. Overall, after matching, 16,758 participants from both the endometriosis group and nonendometriosis group were enrolled in the study.
Results of the study revealed that individuals in the endometriosis vs nonendometriosis group had a significantly higher incidence density rate of SLE (0.3 vs 0.1 per 1000 person-years) and adjusted hazard ratio (aHR, 2.37; 95% CI, 1.35-4.14). Researchers did not observe any significant effects of age, hypertension, chronic liver disease, uses of corticosteroids, NSAIDs, and hormonal medications in the HR/aHR of SLE. They observed a similar association in the sensitivity analysis, with a significantly higher aHR for SLE among patients with laparoscopically diagnosed endometriosis (aHR, 4.74; 95% CI, 1.07-20.93).
According to subgroup analyses, patients with endometriosis aged between 30 and 45 years, those receiving NSAIDs, and those who were not receiving hormonal medications all had higher risks for SLE. Among patients with endometriosis, surgical intervention did not significantly affect the risk for SLE.
Researchers concluded that clinicians should be aware of the association between endometriosis and SLE when managing patients with these conditions. “However, further basic medical [research] are needed to clarify the link and mechanisms between endometriosis and SLE,” they added.
Fan Y-H, Leong P-Y, Chiou J-Y, Wang Y-H, Ku M-H, Wei JC-C. Association between endometriosis and risk of systemic lupus erythematosus. Sci Rep. 2021;11(1):532. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-79954-z | <urn:uuid:0f6f151e-8a11-4716-8335-8761c44ed714> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rheumatologyadvisor.com/home/topics/systemic-lupus-erythematosus/significant-association-between-endometriosis-systemic-lupus-erythematosus-sle/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.931166 | 685 | 1.882813 | 2 |
In an effort to modernize its strategies and methods, the Dutch police works closely with the Brightlands Smart Services Campus as part of the Innovation Lab (iLab) project. Through utilizing innovative technology and by working together with companies and educational institutions, the Police is looking to bulletproof its future.
Dutch Police and the Brightlands Smart Services Campus
The Police in the Netherlands have 65,000 employees – 51,000 police officers and 14,000 employees who fulfill other positions in supporting the police. In the spirit of their core values that are courageous, reliable, unifying and honest, the police force is actively scouting for opportunities to join with other organizations to find efficient, scalable and sustainable solutions to security challenges.
iLab is the innovation lab of the National Police, where with the help of innovative technology and smart collaborations with educational organizations and entrepreneurs, the Authority is exploring ingenious ways to cope with critical ongoing security issues.
The iLab is located on the Brightlands Smart Services Campus in Heerlen, as the latter is a focal hub for innovations and talent development in the field of science and technology. Intelligent collaborations between educational institutions, researchers and entrepreneurs is key to the iLab.
ReCheck at iLab – Pitchy Friday
ReCheck was happy to join the iLab’s Pitchy Friday event this February 14th. The company presented its blockchain-based data protection solution in front of employees of the Police. ReCheck’s CEO Emiliyan Enev introduced the discussed the main benefits of using such a tool. He had to describe how it can enhance, optimize and further secure current operations related to:
- Storage of digital evidence;
- Time-stamping evidence and tracing of all interactions with particular records;
- Exchange of sensitive data within police units or between the Police and third parties;
- Chain-of-custody – monitor the sequence of custody, control, transfer, analysis, and disposition of electronic evidence;
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Donnovan Hill, the California teenager whose paralyzing football injury led to increased safety protections for young players after he sued a youth league, has died, a lawyer for his family said Thursday.
Hill died Wednesday at an Orange County hospital of complications from surgery related to management of his injury, attorney Robert Carey told The Associated Press. He was 18.
Hill was 13 when he fractured his spine during a 2011 Pop Warner championship game in Laguna Hills, south of Los Angeles. It left him with minimal use of his arms and no independent movement below his chest.
Hill and his mother, Crystal Dixon, claimed in a 2014 lawsuit against the youth league that the teen used a dangerous headfirst tackling technique promoted by his coaches.
The suit alleged that Hill was punished when he objected to the technique in practice and that he used it in games with no repercussions. In an interview with ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” in 2013, his coaches offered conflicting accounts on whether they encouraged headfirst tackling.
Head coach Sal Hernandez said he warned Hill against using the technique, but assistant coach Manny Martinez defended its use.
The lawsuit revealed the lack of safety protections for Pop Warner players. Founded in 1929, the league promoted a safety-first philosophy and claimed young people played for coaches trained in proper tackling.
But in a deposition, executive director Jon Butler conceded that the national office does not check whether coaches actually receive such training, ESPN reported. The sports network first reported Hill’s death.
Hill reached a seven-figure settlement with Pop Warner in January, though exact details were not disclosed. The case set an important legal precedent that will force national organizations to enforce rules all the way down to the community level, said Carey, the attorney.
“Donnovan’s case will have an impact on young athletes for generations,” he said. “It will help ensure that those in charge of safety — from directors and coaches to whole organizations — will not be allowed to shirk their duties or avoid responsibility.”
Hill is survived by his mother.
His death was announced the same day Pop Warner said it is eliminating kickoffs in its three youngest football divisions, as another safety-focused rules change. The ban will begin this fall. Instead of kickoffs, the ball will be placed at the 35-yard line to start each half and following scores. | <urn:uuid:00dda5c9-7c5a-47c8-b2c9-e9419c6cf2a7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://urbanacitizen.com/wire/national-wire/16999/teen-football-player-whose-injury-raised-safety-efforts-dies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00557-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980356 | 494 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Adventure continues and this time more difficult. Dinosaurs maintain the Ice Age struggle with the last chapter. They have reached the torrid zones but they are not still in the safe zone. There are still lots of puzzle and obstacle to get through. Dinosaurs can brake the soil pieces by jumping onto them in the new chapter and they can use as a means of horned dinosaurs.
Big Dinosaur: Move: "W,A,S,D" Action: "G,H"
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Small and Medium Enterprises
Once the technologies investigated at Holst Centre get to a more mature stage, the mutual benefit of including SMEs into a global research network can potentially be huge. SMEs can bring essential application knowledge to the Holst Centre ecosystem and the SMEs can – in turn – benefit from the state of the art technology that becomes available at Holst Centre.
Already, Holst Centre built a track record of collaborating with SMEs. Examples of past and running projects and partnerships with SMEs include: InnoPhysics, IntrisicID, Maastricht Instruments, iKnow, Singulus Mastering and Target Compiler Technologies.
In 2014, Holst Centre reached an agreement with the Brabant Development Agency (BOM – Brabantse Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij). BOM actively pursues licensing deals based on the Holst Centre IP portfolio, aimed towards high-tech (local) SMEs and clusters of SMEs. For that purpose, BOM has assigned a part-time resident to get a good grip on the developments at Holst Centre.
Currently, initiatives are being developed to inform SMEs of the possibilities of collaborating with Holst Centre trough workshops, presentations and networking events. For the latest information on these initiatives or to discuss the possibilities of cooperation, please contact Peter Visser, firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:95bba2ee-b2b1-41f3-8c27-d4f7c1ddce0b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.holstcentre.com/about-holst-centre/small-and-medium-enterprises/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00044-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.872875 | 286 | 1.5 | 2 |
Because varroa mites, and to a lesser degree, tracheal mites, are such a steady danger to honeybee health, they garner much of the attention of the beekeeping world.
Beekeepers seems to rarely mention ants, but the presence of ants can sometimes be a huge nuisance – especially here in Southern California. During the late summer and early fall when ant populations are at their peak and bee populations are beginning to decline, relentless rows and rows of ants march through apiaries on their way towards vulnerable beehives, seeking prized honey and pollen.
Fortunately, for the most part, bees are able to fight off the onslaught. Guard bees frantically patrol the openings to the hive, chasing ants away one at a time. Most of the time, the bees are able to hold their own and keep the ants at bay. One of the best ways that a beekeeper can provide support to a colony that is struggling with ants is to place the colony on a hive stand. The legs of the stand can then be placed in cups of vegetable oil, providing a natural and effective barrier against ant invasions.
Without protection, sometimes the ants can get the upper hand on a weak colonies. Unchecked, ants can force even a strong colony to abscond – a sad and tragic sight for any beekeeper. | <urn:uuid:246c7c18-ac3f-4184-a4a5-afefc99993f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wildflowermeadows.com/2018/10/ants/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.941389 | 268 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Council member Ken Cockrel must be trippin! On Tuesday, December 11, after he, along with Saunteel Jenkins, James Tate, Gary Brown, and Charles Pugh, voted to approve the ill-conceived Hantz land sale proposal, he was quoted in the Detroit Free Press as saying, “a ‘no’ vote would have sent the message to the world that Detroit isn’t really serious about urban agriculture.” The foremost advocates and practitioners of urban agriculture in Detroit opposed the Hantz proposal. It is groups like Feedom Freedom Growers, Earthworks Urban Farm, the Garden Resource Program and D-Town Farm that have informed the nation and the world that Detroiters are serious about urban agriculture.
A web chat with Raj continues the conversation from his lecture on the Green Revolution.
The Green Revolution
Advertisements showcase products to consumers, convincing them that this product or that product is the choice that best suit their needs. What happens when children are exposed to advertisements for foods that negatively affect their health?
Raj Patel author, journalist, and food policy expert, continuously challenges our presumptions about the global economy with his work both as a policy analyst and activist. He has worked for some of the most prestigious international organizations and protested against them, and constantly works to find ways to improve the world’s food system.
Please join us at the launch reception for the Food Labor Research Center (FLRC), a new project of the UC Berkeley Labor Center.
The FLRC is the first research center in the country to focus on the intersection of food justice and worker justice, and to raise awareness about the wages and working conditions of the 20 million workers in the U.S. food system. Founded this fall as a project of the UC Berkeley Labor Center, the FLRC has already collaborated with the Food Chain Workers Alliance to produce two reports, The Hands That Feed Us and A Dime a Day.
Join us for food, wine, and ‘food for thought’ from leading food and labor thinkers.
How do communities overcome local food issues like food deserts and big-box grocery stores?
EE103: The Green Revolution – Raj Patel, Author, Activist, Economist
Jim Goodman, at the Kickapoo County Fair, talks with Raj about the state of Dairy Farming in the US. | <urn:uuid:b811fd0b-16c8-4cd7-8ceb-050fd6602b6d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rajpatel.org/author/sandeep/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00536-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949789 | 480 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Embrun Travel GuideEdit This The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and see
Embrun is a small city in Ontario, Canada, located 30 minutes southeast of Ottawa, the national capital of Canada. Indeed, Embrun is located in Canada's National Capital Region. The town has a population of about 8,000.
The town got its name from the town of Embrun in the Hautes-Alpes region of France.
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Airport Security Management: Airport security refers to steps and measures taken to safeguard passengers, airport and airline crew, aircrafts and airport infrastructure and cargo at the airports from any potential harm, accidents and threats. In order to achieve this, a combination of both human and material resources is employed at various security check points.
These measures enable the authorities from protecting people and assets at the airport from unlawful interferences such as acts of terrorism, sabotage, threat to life and property, communication of false threat, and bombing etc.
Airport Security Management has increasingly become important in the present times given past unfortunate incidents associated with airports.
Importance Airport Security Management
- Large number of people travel through airports and can be seen as potential targets for terrorist attacks and other threats.
- Large number of people any also increase the threat for hijacking of planes and other undesirable incidents within the aircraft harming passengers and crew.
- Airports can be used for transporting dangerous and harmful materials such as lethal weapons, narcotic drugs and other smuggled items.
- Airports, to any country, one of the most critical infrastructures. Any harm to the airports may result in seriously crippling the countries transport system.
- Airport security also is way to reassure people of a country and people travelling to a country that the country in question employs sufficient measures to ensure the safety of its people.
Implementing Agency of Airport Security Management
The agency responsible for protecting airports varies from one country to another. While some countries may have special agencies or forces assigned for the purpose of airport security, some other countries may authorize airport security to local police or security agencies. In many a countries facing extreme threat, airport security is managed by the countries armed forces.
In India, airport security is governed by the Airport Authority of India. The AAI has further constituted a separate body called as the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) to carry out the function of safeguard the passengers, crew, ground personnel, the general public and the airport infrastructure against unlawful acts as per ICAO Standards and Recommended Practices laid down in Annexure-17 to the
Chicago Convention. BACS was set up in the year 1978 with the responsibility of laying down standards and measures in respect of security of civil flights at International and domestic airports in India.
Role and Functions of Airport Security Management
The functions of Bureau of Civil Aviation Security as stated in the BCAS website are:
- ‘Laying down Aviation Security Standards in accordance with Annex 17 to Chicago Convention of ICAO for airport operators, airlines operators, and their security agencies responsible for implementing AVSEC measures.
- Monitoring the implementation of security rules and regulations and carrying out survey of security needs.
- Ensure that the persons implementing security controls are appropriately trained and possess all competencies required to perform their duties.
- Planning and coordination of Aviation security matters.
- Surprise/Dummy checks to test professional efficiency and alertness of security staff.
- Mock exercise to test efficacy of Contingency Plans and operational preparedness of the various agencies’.
To carry out the above listed functions, BCAS has appointed a paramilitary force known as the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). CISF has formed an Airport Security Group to protect all airports in India. Every airport in India has been given an APSU (Airport Security Unit) which is a trained unit to counter unlawful interference with civil aviation. Apart from the CISF, every domestic airline in India has its own security teams, which look after the aircraft security.
Airport Procedures and Measures towards Airport Security
Although, airport security had been a matter of prime importance for airport authorities around the world, but even since the recent events such as America’s 9/11 and Air India’s plane hijacking, airport security has further become a function of critical importance for the civil aviation authorities any country. Discussed below are some of the most widely used measures across all airports globally to safeguard passengers, crew, and cargo and airport infrastructure from potential unlawful interferences.
- Barriers around airports: Airports are normally built with high fences, barriers and walls in order to act as a first line defence from persons trying gain access unlawfully. These barriers or fences are difficult to climb enclose the entire airport property. Security personnel of the airport undertake patrols regularly to scan the perimeter in case any breach or damage to the barrier.
Especially in the case of sensitive areas such as the fuel depots or the terminals and baggage handling facilities are further secured with additional security measures like more fences and security checkpoints. All access gates attached these fences are monitored both by a security personnel station and surveillance cameras.
Also measures are taken not to allow any heavy vehicles in close proximity to the airport. There are several check points installed along the road leading to the terminal building to detect any potential treat. All vehicles are also parked slightly away from the terminal building to ensure there is no direct threat to the terminal.
- Identity Checks: In order to gain access into the airport passengers must produce a valid ticket along with any of the prescribed photo identity documents. The airport crew is also expected to pass through this identity check each time they enter the terminal.
In India, CISF security personnel personally check through the documents to verify the identity of the passenger. Also, in some larger airports today, random baggage checks using x-ray machines are done right after the passenger enters the terminal and before he proceed for the check-in.
Also, passengers are educated and sufficiently warned through public address system or displays at airports telling passengers not to leave their bags unattended. These are very important questions as innocent passengers’ bags may to be used transport unwanted items like weapons, bombs or smuggled items which may pose to be of security threat.
- Metal Detectors at the doorway and Security Check: every one entering the terminal is mandatorily made to undergo the metal detectors placed within the entrance of the terminal and also during the safety checks. These metal detectors are equipped to signal or beep when persons are carrying any metal objects with them or wearing on their body.
At the safety check area all passengers’ baggage and belongings must undergo the xray machine including mobile phones, wallets, handbags, belts, boots and jackets. Passengers also are frisked employing a handheld detector by security personnel and lots of a times physically examined. Once examined passengers’ boarding passes are stamped by the personnel.
- X-Ray Machines and its uses: While the passengers undergo the metal detectors, their baggage and other belongings are skilled the X-ray machine placed nearby within the security check area. A conveyer belt carries each item past an X-ray machine and baggage are placed in tray.
Items like laptops, mobile phones and other electronic items are asked to be placed separately during a tray. Since different materials within the baggage absorb X-rays at different levels, the x-ray image on the monitor shows the safety personnel to ascertain distinct items inside passengers’ bags.
Items are typically shown in distinct colours on the display monitor, supported the character of fabric within the bag, to represent one among three main categories Organic, Inorganic and Metal. Any undesirable metal items are physically checked by the personnel if required. All baggage is later stamped indicating that they need skilled a radical examination.
- Baggage Scanner: For the luggage checked in and also for cargo an outsized sized X-ray machine and, sometimes, CT Scanners are wont to detect any undesirable items which will be of threat once on board the flight.
- Immigration Check: just in case of international flights, a compulsory immigration sign up done to make sure that the passengers are carrying valid passports, visa and other required documents. The immigration personnel also sort any persons that have insufficient or fake documents. Any passengers found suspicious also are questioned separately by the immigration personnel.
- Security Checks at Boarding Gates: At boarding gates the airline crew also a security personnel confirm that passengers are carrying the boarding card and baggage has skilled the scanning by verifying the stamping.
The airline crew scan the Universal Product Code on the boarding card to verify passengers’ details before passengers move towards boarding the aircraft.
- Security Personnel On-board: In some countries, authorities also depute security personnel to be present on board the aircraft through the journey to safeguard the passengers and crew against any unlawful events during the flight.
- Personal items
- Martial Arts and Self Defence Items
- Explosive Materials
- Flammable Items
- Sharp Objects
- Sporting Goods
- Guns and Firearms
Guidelines by Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, India
In order to further enhance security management at airports, BCAS has prescribed various guidelines to be adhered by all domestic and international airports. These guidelines cater to varied sections of the airport and are intended to safeguard passengers, crew, and cargo and airport infrastructure.
SECURITY MEASURES AT AERODROMES / AIRPORTS
Planning, design and layout of the Aerodrome security requirement
(1) the design , design and layout of the aerodrome should be consistent with the specifications provided within the national civil aviation security programme which incorporates
a. security control applied to passenger, baggage, cargo, courier, express parcel, mail, catering store and supply;
b. protection and control of access to airside, security restricted area and other sensitive aerodrome area and facility;
c. the utilization of security equipment; and
d. Architectural and infrastructure related requirements.
(2) Every aerodrome operator must establish security restricted area at aerodrome serving civil aviation which must be in accordance with the safety risk assessment administered by the Commissioner.
(3) Aerodrome operator must make aerodrome design mentioned within the national civil aviation security programme by integrating the planning and construction of latest facilities and alternation to existing design and facilities at aerodromes shall be administered after obtaining in writing the approval of the Commissioner.
Every aerodrome operator must construct a fringe wall of the peak of two .438 meter (8ft) with overhung fence of 0.457 meter (1.5ft) round the aerodrome, as long as the Commissioner, keeping in sight the threat or the other reason, may by order, increase the specification of the perimeter wall.
Provision of lighting, road for patrolling and lookout
The aerodrome operator should make the subsequent security arrangements at the aerodrome, namely:-
a) lighting for perimeter and the other sensitive area at the airport;
b) all-weather road for patrolling by the safety personnel; and
c) observation or command posts for the safety personnel in the least major parts of the airport;
Provided that the Commissioner may, taking into consideration the safety perceptions make such order in writing as could also be deemed most appropriate for security arrangements. Airport Security Management
Aerodrome security programme
Every airport operator should, with the approval of Commissioner, build and accommodates airport security programme in accordance with the national civil aviation security programme and any modification to such programme shall be created when the approval of the Commissioner.
Security clearance for operations at airport
a) All airport operators should start operation at airport solely when getting the clearance of security arrangements and therefore the approval of the airport security programme from the Commissioner.
b) Where the Commissioner isn’t happy that the operator has didn’t accommodates the provisions, he might suspend or cancel the safety clearance and security programme granted or approved by him.
Handling of unattended or suspect baggage
The airport operators should
a) construct and maintain a protected and isolated space for putting a suspect or unattended baggage just in case of any suspicion; and
b) Get identical investigated and disposed off at the earliest doable.
Business establishment at airport
a) All field operators should permit the fitting of any establishment within the security restricted space of airport solely when getting security clearance during this regard from the Commissioner;
b) Where any establishment is established within the security restricted space when the approval of the Commissioner, the owner of the establishment should essentially accommodates establishment security programme in accordance with the national civil aviation security programme.
Protection of facilities closely-held by airport operator
Every field operator should demarcate and shield all very important installations closely-held by him together with technical and maintenance, power provides, electrical sub-station, management towers and alternative building utilized by traffic services and communication facilities. Airport Security Management
Aviation Security cluster
(1) Every airport operator should interact as several numbers of personnel of presidency security agency which can be determined by the Commissioner appropriate for playing security duties appointed to that beneath these rules.
(2) The personnel engaged shall be selected as Aviation security cluster ought to be selected as chief airport Security Officer.
(3) The Aviation Security cluster should work beneath the final supervising and direction of the airport in-charge.
(4) The airport operator ought to offer facilities and support to the Aviation Security cluster as is also approved by the Commissioner.
(5) In case of any emergency things, the Commissioner is sceptered to create necessary changes within the preparation of Aviation Security cluster.
Duties of the Chief airport Security Officer (Airport Security Management)
The Chief airport Security Officer performs following duties, namely
(i) safeguarding of passengers, crew, ground personnel and alternative airport users, aircraft, airport and connected facilities together with very important installations at the airport;
(ii) enforcement of access management measures into the restricted space of the airport;
(iii) Security of the sides of the airport;
(iv) Screening of passengers, their baggage and hand baggage;
(v) surveillance at intervals and around airport;
(vi) enforcement of security measures at varied space together with automotive parks, viewing gallery, field edifice and areas on the point of movement area;
(vii) enforcement of prescribed security measures;
(viii) maintenance of order and discipline within the field premises;
(ix) supervision of the movement of persons within the restricted or sterile areas;
(x) maintenance of liaison with native police and intelligence agencies for any assistance; and
(xi) Any alternative duty appointed by the Commissioner associated with field security.
Ground handling service
All ground handling service provider must provide ground handling services at any aerodrome only after obtaining the security clearance and the approval of its security programme form the Commissioner.
(1) The airport operator should build contingency plans to influence acts of unlawful interference with the approval the Commissioner.
(2) The contingency plans should be tested at regular intervals as is also such as by the Commissioner.
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By Charisse Jones, USA TODAY
Businesses that drastically cut back on travel may be sacrificing profits for short-term savings, two new studies released Tuesday say.
The reports, commissioned by groups representing the travel industry, sought to show in dollars and cents the effect travel can have on a business' bottom line at a time when companies have slashed travel in response to falling revenue and a public perception that some trips are more excess than necessity.
"We understand there's an economic downturn," says Christopher Pike of IHS Global Insight, an economic forecasting and consulting firm that conducted one of the studies. "It doesn't mean cutting business travel by 30% when an industry's sales are down by 5%. That's where we're saying you're probably going too far."
The IHS report determined that U.S. companies are potentially missing out on $193 billion in profits this year because most are not spending what they should on business trips.
The research, commissioned by the National Business Travel Association and American Express Business Travel, culled data from government and private sources on 15 industries from 1998 through 2007.
Another study, conducted by Oxford Economics, also found a link between travel and corporate profitability. Each dollar spent on travel by a U.S. company can generate an average $3.80 in profit and $12.50 in increased revenue, it says.
"Our candid hope with this study is to move the needle a little bit," says Adam Sacks, managing director of Oxford Economics. He says companies need to realize that it's prudent to see beyond the immediate benefit of cutting out travel to save money.
"There are bottom-line benefits to be realized (on the) immediate horizon," he says. "But over a 12-month period, we've seen cuts in business travel that would generally be (considered) penny-wise and pound-foolish."
The Oxford study, commissioned by the U.S. Travel Association and Destination Marketing Association International, analyzed federal data on 14 industries for 13 years through 2008. Oxford also surveyed several hundred business executives and travelers.
PhoCusWright, a travel-industry research firm, projects a 15% drop this year in the amount spent by corporations on travel compared with 2008.
Airlines have been especially hard hit by the falloff. In its latest forecast, released Tuesday, the International Air Transport Association predicted airlines worldwide would lose $11 billion this year. That's $2 billion more than previously expected.
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Modi came to power unelected. Soon after his becoming Chief Minister of Gujarat, the Gujarat Riots happened. Shamelessly defending the massacres as a righteous “reaction” Modi successfully polarized the majority against the minority to win in 2002.
For the younger readers, who don’t remember the Vinash Purush speeches that preceeded the Vikas Purush speeches, here are some excerpts (Apologies for poorly edited video. Will try to replace with better version when I figure out the video editor):
While these speeches can get him elected by a majority just recovering from unrest and not wanting threats, this is not possible to recreate for every election.
Enter APCO – in 2006 – supposedly to promote a vibrant Gujarat (remember India shining in 2004?) but very conveniently in time for the 2007 elections.
APCO has a rich history of making ugly people better (Read: Mechanics of Narendra Modi’s PR agency : APCO Worldwide – Orchestrating our Future). Considering the ruling party’s penchant for snowing people under avalanche of FIRs, I thought it prudent to use infographics reported by media. Here are some of APCO’s clients.
The task was to show that Gujarat under Modi had become an ideal state that people worldwide would want to invest in and visit. APCO’s advisory council is illustrious.
Of course, this was happening on the state budget. Or as elite economists like to call it, on the Gujarati tax payer’s money.
We saw the “Vibrant Gujarat” campaign emerge even more strongly in 2010 and 2011 in time for Gujarat Assembly Elections 2012. Also an election Modi won.
And now here is the strange part. Gujarat Government spent massive amounts of money in 2013 to polish up Gujarat image. Incidentally, the Gujarat image was a key part of Modi’s election campaign for the Lok Sabha Elections. Additionally, moving from APCO to Indian PR firms probably allowed money to deliver more as well, now that the formula was established.
One wonders why the Gujarat Government needs PR firms based in Delhi in the run up to the Lok Sabha Elections. Also, the PR firms were not just expected to promote Gujarat, but to ensure positive coverage in News media – and this is in official government documents requesting tenders.
For example, Request for proposal for Selection of Public Relations Firm from June 2013 is interesting in “Scope of work” – Page 23 onwards. It desires the following from the providers.
Put together, this is a request for tenders for paid news Nationwide – not even in Gujarat. Now why in the world would Gujarat government want to acquaint people Nationwide of what is happening in Gujarat in the year before National Elections? Particularly when the Chief Minister was to use Gujarat as an advertisement of himself in his National Campaign more than BJP achievements? All pretending to be on some other budget of course – sometimes Gujarat Government, sometimes hiding behind the party being allowed unlimited expenses. Narendra Modi’s speeches have constantly referred to the information spread about Gujarat by these paid campaigns as resounding praise for Gujarat (in other words, his leadership) and built his campaign around it. So not only is it use of government funds to undermine the media and fool people into thinking Gujarat gets spoken well more than other states, but also to aid personal and party campaign in National elections.
But this is hardly the only such request for tenders. Here is another similar one from November 2013 asking for arrangements for Indian and foreign media visits including number of media personnel with expenses paid. It doesn’t get more paid news than this, does it?
But wait. It gets better. Here’s one from 2012 asking for Facebook 3,00,000 Facebook likes (from 8,000) for the IEC page (which sings virtues of Gujarat under Modi). Remember Modi’s popularity boom on the internet? And yes, it wants likes in very specific ways – from Gujarat, target cities of India, target countries worldwide, etc. Page 20 onwards. You’re welcome.
Then you have Request for proposal from Total Solution Provider of Multi Media work including short video, documentaries, social media communications along with web portal design and mobile application development and maintenance work for I.E.C. Activities from June 2013.
These requests for proposals are just a few from the first page of search results.
Quite clearly, there is a boom in advertisement of Gujarat in the build up to National Elections, ON GUJARAT GOVERNMENT FUNDS. The promotion is well beyond the state of Gujarat and the purpose it serves is unclear.
Of course the Gujarat Government has a right to market itself as an investment destination, but the use of this material in Modi’s campaigns needs to be reviewed as well, considering the timing and the abundant use of exactly these kinds of services in his campaign.
There are other examples of paid news including the excellent reporting in Caravan Magazine about the right wing influence in Network 18 and a brazen instance of paid news – which ought to be verified by the Election Commission. Surely an individual’s budget cannot afford Prime Time TV and still be within limits?
Last year, Vivian Fernandes, who co-wrote Bahl’s book, was dispatched to Gujarat to interview the chief minister, Narendra Modi. A person involved with the production of the interview recalled that Fernandes asked Modi a difficult question about water conservation in Gujarat. Modi’s organisers had asked to see the questions before the interview, and demanded the water conservation question’s removal. When Fernandes sprung it on him anyway, Modi broke away from the camera and glared at a public relations executive in the room. “Why is he talking like this?” the person recalled Modi saying. “Are we not paying for this interview?” The production crew realised that the interview was part of a promotion for Modi. When Bahl heard about the curtailed interview, he reportedly told Fernandes, “We should have a clear line between marketing and editorial.” – See more at: http://www.caravanmagazine.in/reportage/network-effect?page=0,1
It should not be so difficult to verify whether any such interview marked as marketing appeared on TV. And, if the ones that did appear on TV after Modi filed his nomination appear in Modi’s accounts. Surely one on one interviews of Prime Ministerial candidate cannot be put on a BJP budget?
CMS Media Labs analysis also shows that Modi got 33.21% of Prime Time coverage on five channels (Aaj Tak, ABP News, Zee News, NDTV 24×7 and CNN IBN) monitored (not including India TV or Times Now – where Modi interviews appeared). Modi received nearly 7.5 times more coverage than Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi during prime time. Kejriwal got about 10.31% of total coverage (much of it criticism), Gandhi got only about 4.33%. In party-wise coverage, BJP had nearly 38% or about 1,507 minutes, while about 1,101 minutes or 27.75% of television news coverage went to Congress.
Additionally, several exposes that showed BJP in bad light – putting up false candidates, seats, votes and more got silenced by media.
Paid news nailed Ashok Chavan. Should Modi be an exception? Election Commission should examine details of the work furnished through hires of such PR firms on Gujarat Government funds and verify that they have not been used for National campaigning by official party and leaders accounts and that Narendra Modi’s campaigns do indeed fit the 70 lakh he is legally allowed after all the loopholes or expenses have run out. Manufactured popularity must not subvert the principles of free and fair elections. | <urn:uuid:44ae6fdb-310a-47c5-b712-d7bec9b7b2df> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://aamjanata.com/the-brainwash-chronicles-sponsored-by-gujarat-government/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00150-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95922 | 1,598 | 1.703125 | 2 |
E-Curriculum Builders Seek a Personalized Approach
Flexibility to address students' varying abilities seen as key feature of high-quality content.
With a wealth of online courses for school districts to choose from, plus an abundance of interactive activities, videos, and digital information to sift through to design such courses, school leaders are embracing a variety of approaches to build online curricula.
Districts are buying online classes from nonprofit and for-profit providers, making their own from scratch, accessing open-source options, or combining all three approaches. Despite often being considered a “new” avenue of education, online-course providers say they’re tapping years of experience to determine the leading methods of appealing to students and getting them to interact with online material.
“We’re always learning what is most effective and what’s not,” said Cheryl Vedoe, the president and chief executive officer of the virtual-course provider Apex Learning, based in Seattle. “We’re developing a significant body of knowledge from our experience.”
Assessing the Agenda for Change
Some research has already given schools and course providers a few guidelines on the hallmarks of a good online curriculum, said Cathy Cavanaugh, an associate professor of educational technology at the University of Florida, in Gainesville. One of the most important aspects of an online course, she said, is a direct connection between strategies and activities in the course and outcomes or goals.
“Some districts apply an evaluation process to look at whether a course is designed in a way that aligns it toward leading students to accomplish standards,” she said. “That must be a fundamental aspect of the course.”
When it comes to instruction, Ms. Cavanaugh doesn’t consider an online offering that is solely computer-based, with no teacher support, a true course. “It may be interactive and provide digital assessments, but for K-12 students a course must be moderated and mediated by an online teacher,” she said. “The instructor is a key element.”
Within an online course, the teacher should play a central role, assessing students, facilitating their engagement and the learning experience, and providing feedback, Ms. Cavanaugh said. There should be a number of ways for students to interact with teachers—everything from e-mail to Skype and instant messaging.
With both teacher- and computer-based assessments, high-quality online courses should be able to provide more differentiated instruction than a student might get in a face-to-face class, Ms. Cavanaugh said.
Apex is thinking hard about how to meet students on those different levels. Nearly all the company’s core courses are offered in three versions: advanced, proficient, and a level for students who are struggling to achieve basic literacy.
“We have really found that the most significant benefit of online learning in a digital curriculum is that it can more easily and effectively address the needs of individual students,” Ms. Vedoe said.
Focus on the Individual
To customize the company’s curriculum, each version of the same Apex course employs different techniques to reach students, Ms. Vedoe said. In the advanced version, there are more opportunities for students to apply and extend what they’re learning, and those courses may contain more graded work. The courses aimed at proficient students may have more study sheets, worksheets, and graphic organizers; the literacy-focused courses, while containing much of the same material, may provide more audio of instructional texts, while students read along.
Building online curricula that engage students and work for Web-based classes takes more than just digitizing the coursework used in a face-to-face classroom. To connect with students and keep their interest in the online world, experts have developed a list of do's and don'ts for crafting online curricula.
• Make sure online courses meet state standards.
• Provide multiple points of entry for the material, including text, video, and audio.
• Use games and simulations to engage students.
• Use wikis, blogs, message boards, and chat rooms to encourage students to interact with one another and the teacher.
• Seek feedback from students about the features they like or don’t like in online courses. • Review established courses annually to update them with new features or make sure links are still current.
• Include large blocks of uninterrupted text for students to read on their own.
• Distract students with too many multimedia bells and whistles for a particular lesson.
• Use fancy graphics or animation just because they’re the latest digital fads. (Make sure new features advance the curriculum.)
• Include critical information likely to be tested in optional parts of the course.
Some philosophies Apex has developed may seem counterintuitive, Ms. Vedoe said. For example, Apex plays down the use of video in some courses aimed at struggling readers, she said.
“The natural assumption is that if you’re dealing with at-risk students who have struggled in school, that you want to use more media, video and such, but researchers have found that can be extremely distracting to poor learners,” she said. “You want to get them more focused with fewer distractions.”
Joy Smith, the chief development officer at the Florida Virtual School, or FLVS, based in Orlando, said the state-sponsored school’s courses offer a variety of paths for students in accessing material contained in an online course.
For instance, a middle school critical-thinking course, designed to enhance students’ analytical skills and to impart academic and life skills, allows students to enter as a “reader, writer, thinker, or learner,” she said. Though students ultimately must complete each course path—the thinker path, for example, teaches goal-setting and looking at how to learn from failure—students are permitted to choose the way they go through the online course.
Allowing them to choose makes students feel as if “they have ownership” over their learning, Ms. Smith said. “We don’t tell them what to do. We give them opportunities to pick what they’re interested in.”
Ms. Smith said FLVS is also doing more project-based learning within courses, using projects that build on each other. For example, a FLVS health course requires students to either create a Web site, commercial, or article that teaches teens about community wellness. Whichever project a student chooses, each activity takes them step by step through the process of creating, say, an article, by coming up with a topic and creating an outline.
Emphasizing project-based learning helps address the issue of academic integrity, so students can’t copy and paste from Internet sites or look up yes-or-no answers, Ms. Smith said. Though it’s impossible to completely prevent students from plagiarizing, using project-based learning makes it more difficult than using a multiple-choice assessment that could allow students to search easily for answers, she said.
Designers of FLVS courses also make sure that whether the course is biology or a foreign language, there are certain cohesive components so students consistently feel comfortable with the way material is presented. Tabs run across the top of each course for easy navigation, and most are laid out in a way that Ms. Smith describes as learn, practice, and assess.
The Florida Virtual School emphasizes a “mixed” approach to building the courses. The course designers use videos, for example, from the Silver Spring, Md.-based Discovery Education or try to find other high-quality applications already created and then add their own material.
“Our first attempt is to find something that we can wrap our instructional strategies around,” Ms. Smith said.
The interactivity of the FLVS courses is also a high priority. Students might be asked to research a topic together and present viewpoints, or they might debate an issue or contribute to group discussions. An Advanced Placement course about the environment, for example, has students plan a “green” vacation together, Ms. Smith said.
To better understand what is working or not working in its online courses, Ms. Smith said FLVS makes it a point to survey students regularly. Students are clamoring for ways to use their mobile phones, for instance, so the Florida school is working on embedding opportunities to use smartphones into some courses.
Though schools often have their students take courses from online schools such as FLVS or purchase courses from companies like Apex, some decide to build their own.
Mary T. Schlegelmilch, the e-learning supervisor for the 46,000-student Omaha, Neb., public schools, said she often focuses on looking for multimedia applications that will pique students’ interest. “We’re looking for new creative technology that will engage students in the learning process,” she said.
Ms. Schlegelmilch said the district learned quickly that “you can’t just put worksheets and a textbook online,” particularly when an online course is being developed for students seeking credit recovery to make up for courses they’ve failed.
“If a student fails in a regular classroom and you give them the same thing again but just online, you’re not going to get anywhere,” she said.
Elements of a course need to be kept to short, manageable nuggets—no 50-minute videos, she said.
To build their own courses, district curriculum supervisors in Omaha first look at open-source options, such as the National Repository of Online Courses, a nonprofit group based in Marina, Calif., that provides free, high-quality online courses. Next, they might turn to other organizations—such as the National Geographic Society— that offer high-quality materials even though they aren’t free.
The Omaha district often buys what Ms. Schlegelmilch calls “learning objects”—a video, simulation, animation, or podcast—and builds a lesson around those objects.
She said many of the textbooks the district already owns have online versions, which also have supplemental materials that can be incorporated into an online course.
Chris Rapp, the former curriculum director at the Boise-based Idaho Digital Learning Academy who now works for the Evergreen Education Group, said curriculum specialists at the academy build their courses in a similar manner, looking for learning objects that work within the lessons they’re trying to create.
“We try to cherry-pick the best stuff,” he said.
He cited a simulation the state-sponsored online school bought from ExploreLearning, a Charlottesville, Va., company that sells simulations aimed at grades 3-12. That simulation mimics a common live lab experiment in which students study the effect of a sprig of seaweed placed into a vial with a snail, compared with a vial containing just a snail. The students put vials in the light and the dark and measure the effect that the oxygen produced by the seaweed has in keeping the snail alive. With the simulation, students can try all the scenarios, but don’t have to wait days or weeks to see the outcome, Mr. Rapp said.
Much of online-course creation is based on boosting interaction with students, Mr. Rapp said. “Whenever we build a course, we think about how the student is interacting with the content, with the teacher, and with other students,” he said. “Everything is designed around making those things occur.”
Themistocles Sparangis, the chief technology director for the 680,000-student Los Angeles Unified School District, said his district gets courses from local universities and from Apex Learning, but also creates its own.
The first step in evaluating courses is to make sure they meet the academic standards for California, he said. Mr. Sparangis said he, too, puts an emphasis on feedback and cooperation in online classes. He said online courses can capture a detailed picture of students’ participation by examining how often they log in to a course, how much time they spend online,how they progress through the course material, and the extent of their participation in chats, blogs, and wikis.
“In a traditional classroom, the teacher has to engage in many techniques to monitor engagement: moving around the room, checking student body language, listening to their group conversations,” Mr. Sparangis said. “In the online world, I can monitor electronically in much more detail. It’s a powerful tool.”
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Like many farmers in Bangladesh, Nazrul Islam Khan, from the western district of Jessore, grows cucurbits, plants from the gourd family that include cucumbers and melons. For many years, he and his neighbors suffered great losses due to the melon fly (Bactrocera cucurbitae), an insect that decimates cucurbit crops.
But after scientists from a USAID-funded program taught him how to use pheromone traps, Nazrul made a profit. “We call it the ‘magic trap’ because it magically traps fruit flies,” he said, referring to a recycled plastic bottle containing water, a small amount of pesticide, and a capsule of cuelure. Cuelure is a chemical compound that mimics female melon fly sex pheromones. When the trap is placed in a field of melons, “it works wonders,” Nazrul said. “Insects flock to the bottle to drown.”
Scientists working with the USAID program demonstrated that the pheromone trap can catch 5 to 18 times as many flies as the original trap using mashed gourd instead of cuelure. Eliminating hundreds of flies daily, the traps reduce the cost of pest control, since farmers no longer apply pesticides so often and their yields increase. When farmers use cuelure traps together with mashed gourd traps, their net returns can more than triple.
The news about cuelure spread quickly among Bangladesh’s farmers. Some were so eager to try the new technique that they were stealing pheromone traps from research fields before cuelure had become publicly available.
The project has been so successful that the Bangladeshi Minister of Agriculture announced he would register and import enough pheromone to treat almost 1 million acres of cucurbit crops (an area the size of Rhode Island). Today, thousands of cucurbit growers in Bangladesh have adopted the use of cuelure to manage melon flies. Government extension agencies in 15 districts offer farmer field school demonstrations for pheromone baiting, and in Jessore alone more than 90 percent of the farmers are now using the “magic trap.”
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Heart disease is the leading cause of mortality in the US with over 600,000 deaths each year. While gut health and heart disease may seem unrelated, in reality, the friendly bacteria living in our intestines may offer more benefits to our heart and overall health than ever imagined.
Inflammation in the gut can drive an inflammatory response in blood vessels that run to and from the heart, leading to hardening of the arteries and ultimately heart disease. The Lyon Study published in the journal Circulation found that inflammation is even more central to heart disease than elevated levels of cholesterol.
“When we talk about the relationship between gut health and heart disease, we should focus on inflammation caused by a condition called leaky gut,” says Tina Anderson, CEO of Just Thrive Probiotic. “Leaky Gut Syndrome causes increased intestinal permeability which allows toxins to leak into the bloodstream, triggering widespread inflammation.” Symptoms include bloating, gas, cramps, food sensitivities, aches and pains – to name a few.
“In the presence of endotoxins, the immune system reacts by sending a message to the body to initiate a ‘protective’ inflammatory response. These endotoxins lodge in the body’s tissues and continuously ignite an inflammatory immune response that threatens our overall health instead of protecting it,” says Anderson
These toxins cause small injuries to the vascular wall and incite the immune system to produce inflammatory cytokines, and more inflammation and oxidation that ultimately produces plaque in the arteries, explains Anderson. “This dangerous inflammatory cycle increases the likelihood of heart disease.”
In this light, according to Anderson, healing the gut is a vitally important first step in the fight against cardiovascular disease. Here are her four simple tips anyone can adopt for improving gut status to reduce the onset of inflammation:
- Take a daily probiotic. Probiotics – the supplemental form of healthy bacteria – are a key daily component to your diet. Probiotics help increase your body’s supply and quality of healthy bacteria. Look for spore-forming Bacillus strains naturally designed to survive the harsh stomach environment and thrive in the body’s digestive tract. A recent human clinical trial on leaky gut showed spore-forming Bacillus strains could reverse leaky gut (endotoxin response in the bloodstream) within 30 days. [World Journal of Gastrointestinal Pathophysiology]
- Eat fermented foods. In addition to a daily probiotic, fermented foods can also provide healthy bacteria that can help reduce inflammation and fight disease. Fermented foods are naturally rich in beneficial bacteria and can help balance your inner ecosystem to further reduce your risk of heart disease.
- Eat a whole-food, plant-based, high-fiber diet to give your gut the nutrients it needs to functional optimally. Read every label. Try eliminating common food allergens like gluten, dairy, eggs, corn, yeast, soy, and peanuts.
- Reduce your sugar intake. Period. End of sentence. Reduce your sugar!
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India is a country with varied climate and diverse culture. While travelling in train in India, it is most obvious when with every passing hour the scenery changes. The dunes of Rajasthan make way for paddy fields in Madhya Pradesh. The heavy turbans of Rajasthan turn into white cotton caps in Maharashtra. Even the geographical region are amazingly different with Northern region being dominated by the Himalayan mountains, eastern part being surrounded by Arabian sea, western side surfing the Bay of Bengal and southern India being surrounded by Pacific Ocean. Travel India to explore the corners of the country filled with different colors.
Travelling in India can be a spiritual experience as well as the adventure activity depending upon whether you are in Rishikesh or Kanchanjunga mount. The ghats of Haridwar evoke a feeling of separation from worldly affairs and closeness to the divine God. The white waters of Rishikesh invite the adrenaline rush in the blood. The shores of Ganges invite the most hardened worshippers of Shiva to meditate in its proximity.The golden triangle in India are the most travelled area in India. The triangle involves the beautiful city of Agra,the city of Rajputs, Jaipur and the capital of India,Delhi.
Travel India to find out the amazing mugal architecture, Taj Mahal being one of the few. Taj Mahal situated in Agra was built by Shah jahan for his loving wife, Mumtaj Mahal. Agra is also famous for Red fort which used to house the mugal army in olden days. Fatehpur Sikri was the residence of Akbar the great and still smells of its magnificent past. Fatehpur Sikri boasts of Buland Darwaja and Dargah of Chisti, Akbar's teacher.
Jaipur, which is lovingly called as pink city and rightly so with pink color being prominent color on all the walls around the city. The city boasts of Rajasthani style architecture with so many gates being present all over the city. It is famous for Hawa Mahal,Aamer fort and Jantar mantar. Travel India to get a taste of princely palace and taste of Rajasthani royalty.
Delhi,capital of India and the most beautiful of all, carrying on its shoulder the glorious past and equally blood bathed history. The mugals architecture is seen all over the city giving Delhi a character. The Jama masjid, Delhi Fort are few examples of Mugal monuments which are glorious to watch. The British built the Parliament, Rastrapati Bhavan and the famous India Gate in memory of soldiers killed in world war one. Travel India to get a look at the past mingling with present and giving way to a phenomenon called Delhi. | <urn:uuid:bb989b8a-9828-40e4-98e4-2f26b21ab1c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.embarkontravel.com/india/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.942442 | 575 | 2.046875 | 2 |
THE United States-Canada-Mexico academic connection is broadening and deepening, according to recent surveys in each country.
More than half of the US universities with linkages expect to expand programs in the next three years, according to a 1993 survey by the Institute of International Education in New York.
A separate study in 1992 by the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education in Mexico City shows that more than half of the 34 Mexican universities with ties to the US and Canada have set up new programs in the past several years.
A 1993 Canadian study by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada shows similar trends. About half the links with US institutions are two to four years old. Almost 30 percent of the Mexican connections are a year old or less. A majority of the Canadian respondents cited NAFTA as bolstering exchanges in the next three years.
Among the obstacles to expanding ties cited in the surveys was lack of funding, lack of information on the process, and logistical and administration problems.
The US survey shows that 182 US universities have links to Mexican schools and 109 have agreements with Canadian institutions. Fifty-six had ties to both Canadian and Mexican universities. Questionnaires were sent to 3,440 US universities and colleges. A total of 1,219 responses (35 percent) were received.
The Mexican survey of 77 institutions produced 34 responses. Thirty Mexican schools reported having 193 exchange agreements with US institutions. There were 22 reported agreements with Canadian universities.
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The Hill Rush was a short lived tradition, lasting about four years from 1911 to 1915. It is possible that this event is related to a Stair Rush which took place on the steps of the Main Building in earlier years.
Hill Rush Rules:
Section 2. The Rush shall take place on Grand Street between Seventh and Eighth streets.
Section 3. At 8:00 p.m. the Seniors, Juniors and Freshmen shall leave the gymnasium, marching through Seventh Street to Grand Street. The Freshmen shall wait at the corner of Grand and Seventh streets until the Seniors and Juniors have taken their places along the curb and the street is clear. At a signal from the Referee after the street has been cleared the Freshmen shall start up the hill. The Sophomores may attack them any time after the head of the Freshmen line shall have reached the east line of Institute alley. The Sophomores shall not be permitted East of the east curb of Eighth Street. The rush shall continue twenty minutes from the time the Referee gives the signal to the Freshmen to start up the hill. If at the end of that time one-fifth or more of the Freshmen who were in line at the time the Referee gave the signal to start, have reported to the Referee or his representative on the east sidewalk of Eighth street at the head of Grand Street, the Freshmen shall be declared the winners, otherwise the Sophomore shall be declared the winners.
Section 4. No ropes, chains or similar articles shall be used in this rush by either class.
Section 5. Any Freshmen who reports to the Referee or his representative a second time or who has not come up Grand Street from Seventh street between curb lines during the progress of the rush shall cause ten men to be subtracted from the number who have reported to the Referee.
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Frank Borzage’s back-to-back Kay Francis films of 1935, “Living on Velvet” and “Stranded,” may not be among his most fully realized works — “Velvet,” in particular, suffers from a clumsily imposed happy ending — but they make a lovely matched set. In both films, George Brent plays a typically disengaged Borzage hero — in “Living,” he’s distracted by grief, in “Stranded” by work — who is brought down to earth in one film, and elevated up to it in the other, by stronghearted women played by Kay Francis. In “Stranded,” she holds the perfect metaphorical job for a Borzage heroine: a Travelers Aid volunteer who directs lost souls to their proper destination.
Both films have been released by Warner Archive, along with Robert Florey’s 1933 period melodrama starring Francis, “The House on 56th Street.” All seem to be untouched television masters, littered with speckles and scratches, but at least they’re back in circulation. My New York Times review is here. | <urn:uuid:e15f23e6-7ffe-4d73-bf34-7f0bd493ab7a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.davekehr.com/?p=747 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00124-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958292 | 248 | 1.65625 | 2 |
There were a few things I did and didn't expect when I first heard about the now controversial Cordoba Initiative's Muslim community center project in Manhattan. Of course, right wing fringe hysteria and contrived national debate -- that was easy to predict. But in truth, I never thought it would get as far as it has. And never did my jaded skepticism expect to see Mayor Bloomberg and other NYC authorities support Muslim rights to religious freedom so unequivocally. But the real shockers for me are 1) the national polls which reveal a deep seeded anti-Muslim bias in American society and 2) the way in which Democrats are balking on one of our country's greatest values because of a midterm election. That the construction of a "Muslim YMCA" has devolved into a lame discussion of "why there?" is not only insulting to our constitutional principles, it shows how little we have come as a society since 9/11, despite incessant overtures by American Muslims to be fully accepted in our society.
Let there be no mistake. For decades American Muslims have struggled to reconcile a falsely conceived identity crisis which pits their American and Muslim loyalties at odds. On the one hand were the hardcore old world loyalists who saw themselves only in terms of the global Muslim community and its post-colonial drudgery. On the other hand were the moderate pragmatists who saw it part and parcel of the Islamic message itself to be productive integrated members of American society. But after years of dominating the local mosque scene, the old world loyalists were routed and shunned after the events of 9/11 -- across the country governing boards were restructured, fiery imams replaced, and community education efforts re-doubled.
At the same time, western governments' initiated campaigns to produce a "kinder, gentler Islam" for the 21st century. For better or worse Muslims the world over jumped on this "good Muslim/bad Muslim" bandwagon and with the active help of the FBI, the State Department, or Rand (to name a few examples), community leaders have striven to nurture a culture of interfaith dialogue, civic participation, and responsible political discourse.
From towering figures in the American Muslim community like Dr. Ingrid Mattson, Shaykh Hamza Yusef, and Imam Zayd Shakir to the corner mosque preacher, Sunday school teacher, and student leader, the American Muslim message since 9/11 has been resolutely non-violent, ecumenical, and anti-Islamist. Even American universities (many state funded by the way) have even become bastions of progressive Islamic discourse where Muslim professors and graduate students are encouraged to explore, amongst other things, alternative methods of Quranic interpretation and kick start the long awaited "Islamic Reformation." All of this Good Muslim soul searching has produced a number of amazing leaders seemingly equipped to diffuse the ominous clash of civilizations.
Now the irony:
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the main force behind the Cordoba House, is among the best of them. He earns high marks right across the liberal Muslim check list: interfaith, Sufi, anti-Islamist, gender equity. Such scores have earned him the right to represent American Muslims on behalf of US government sponsored trips to the Middle East to talk about religious life in America -- something he has been doing since the Bush administration. Now, Imam Feisal -- not just the good Muslim, but one of the best Muslims -- is being tarred and feathered, branded as a radical, and left out to dry by a half-stepping President who has finally seen the limits of his hope's audacity.
What is it exactly then that America wants from its fellow citizens who happen to face Mecca when praying? If everyone agrees on the right to the build the center, on what grounds does the question of its location arise -- guilt by association? Were Muslim Americans not also among the many murdered by al-Qaeda and Co. on that fateful day nine years ago? Have they not borne the brunt of an ignorant and ongoing backlash of hate crimes and systematic discrimination? Were Muslims not assured, even by George Bush (and God forgive me for saying something good about Bush), that America understood that there was a world of difference between Islam and the political violence of Bin Laden and his likes?
The only standing argument that the Park 51 community center shouldn't continue as planned is the one which posits that American Muslims should accept that they, by simple virtue of their faith commitment, inherently share company with the perpetuators of international terrorism. It is a patently absurd argument that every American, regardless of their religious confession, must reject outright. If they don't, they in effect, are demanding that American Muslims accept second class citizenship.
To be honest until last night I still thought of 100 better ways to spend the 100 million dollars needed for Park 51. But today, I urge Imam Feisal and all others supporting the project to fight on because what is at stake is not a piece of abandoned property or a gloomy midterm election -- it is a fundamental American value, and like it or not Islam has long been an American religion.
Muslims were the navigators on Columbus's ships. They made up a full fifth of the enslaved Africans brought to pick this country's cotton. A generation later they were just as much a part of Ellis Island as any other immigrant. Some of them have been building cars since the first plants opened in Detroit. And there are now third generation African American Muslim children that can recite the Quran in Arabic by heart. Muslims are all of America's next door neighbors be they doctors, lawyers, teachers, mechanics or refugees.
Perhaps Muslims need to learn from other minorities in this country that Civil Rights must be fought for -- they can't be given to you, and you definitely can't beg for them. So, Imam Feisal, get some good lawyers and build that Islamic center -- and make it with a tall minaret and a big fat dome while you're at it -- Muslims are American too. | <urn:uuid:8f5adb4d-fce0-4f19-9229-d952aa5466b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/abbas-barzegar/americas-good-muslims-are_b_686690.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00479-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962656 | 1,227 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Portuguese translation of denounce
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The world would denounce Burnell and God would strike him down for a thief.Somewhere East of Life
He was one of the first within the military to publicly denounce the August coup and back Yeltsin's stand against the conspirators.Code Breaker
He refused to denounce them publicly, although no one would seriously have blamed him.The Sound of Murder
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First released in 1975, this is C. W. McCall's seminal, ground-breaking work, which brought the freedom of the American open road and Citizen's Band radio to Britain. For a few brief years everyone in the UK aspired to a CB radio, with its connotations of freedom, independence, and putting one over on the authorities. 'Convoy' associated the CB radio with lorry drivers, but we could rarely get on the air because it was always full of schoolchildren talking to their friends three doors away, who could actually have opened their bedroom windows and shouted to each other. Once the kids were in bed the airwaves were jammed with middle-aged overweight baldies with handles like 'Rocky' talking to grandmothers with handles like 'Lolita'. Much like Internet chat-rooms, really... It just wasn't the same over here, anyway; They have Interstate 44 - we have the M42...
The Government killed the CB craze in Britain in 1981. They made it legal to own one.
So now, download the record here (convoy.mp3 - about 3.5MB), unwrap a Yorkie, and sing along!
(British visitors - want to know what it all means? Read the Glossary!)
[On the CB]
It was the dark of the moon on the sixth of June
[On the CB]
By the time we got into Tulsa Town,
[On the CB] Ah, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that, Pig Pen? Negatory, Pig Pen; you're still too close. Yeah, them hogs is startin' to close up my sinuses. Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten.
Well, we rolled up Interstate 44
[On the CB]
Well, we laid a strip for the Jersey shore
Convoy! Ah, 10-4, Pig Pen, what's your twenty?
10-4 - 10-codes are widely used in radio transmissions. (Even the British police use them, though the meanings of the various numbers vary from force to force.) 10-4, in this context, is an affirmative response.
10-9 - Repeat last message.
Bear - See 'Smoky Bear'.
Cab-over - Style of lorry where the cab sits directly over the engine, ie there's no bonnet. Nearly all British lorries are 'cab-overs'.
Chi-town - Chicago, Illinois.
Chicken coops - Weigh Stations.
Copy - 'You gotta copy on me?': Are you receiving me?
Flip-flop - 'On the flip-flop': On the return journey.
Front door - To have the front door means to lead a convoy. Not surprisingly, to have the back door (which isn't used in the song) means to bring up the rear.
Hammer - 'Put the hammer down': To put your foot down.
I-one-oh - Interstate 10.
Jimmy - Make of truck (GM - General Motors).
Kenworth - Make of truck.
On the side - Monitoring transmissions, but no longer transmitting.
Pete - Make of truck (Peterbilt).
Reefer - Refrigerated trailer.
Rigs - Vehicles, especially trucks.
Rubber Duck - Decoy. A lone truck which goes ahead of the main convoy to draw police patrols out of hiding.
Smokies - See 'Smoky Bear'.
Smoky Bear - Police. Apparently the US Forestry Service some years ago ran a publicity campaign to encourage people to be careful not to start fires, which involved a large bear in a police-style uniform. The bear was called 'Smoky Bear', and the name started to be applied to the police.
Suicide jockey - Driver hauling a dangerous load.
Twenty - 10-20. Home destination.
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7 Things to Do in Response to Needlestick Injury
To help healthcare workers facing possibly one of the scariest situations they may encounter throughout their careers, The American Nurses Association (ANA) has come up with an action plan if they are accidentally stuck with a needle. The healthcare worker should:
- Provide care to exposure site by washing wound and skin with soap and water and flushing mucous membranes with water (for a blood splash or other potentially infectious material exposure incident).
- Immediately seek evaluation and treatment for the injury from the emergency department or your employee health center.
- Report the incident to your supervisor and document it according to employer policy, including the type and brand of device causing injury, department where injury occurred, and explanation of incident.
- Identify and document source patient (if known) who should be tested for HIV, hepatitis C and hepatitis B (depending on known immunity of healthcare worker). Hospital may have to seek consent.
- Be tested immediately and confidentially for HIV and hepatitis B (if immunity uncertain or unknown) and C.
- Get post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) when source patient is unknown. If
source patient tests positive for:
- HIV Then start prophylaxis within two hours of exposure.
- Hepatitis B Then get the hepatitis B Immune Globulin (HBIG) injection and initiate the hepatitis B vaccine series if you are unvaccinated; no treatment necessary if you are vaccinated with known immunity.
- Hepatitis C Then no customary prophylaxis; but consult your physician or other care provider about experimental post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP).
- Get follow-up testing, counseling and monitoring of post-exposure prophylaxis toxicity.
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Diversity in the computer games industry✎
The project aims to increase diversity (including gender, ethnicity, sexuality and function) in the computer games industry so that the industry becomes more inclusive, reflective and innovative, and people feel more comfortable playing and developing more types of computer games. It is a long-term project divided into three steps:
- analyses of conditions, obstacles and opportunities for diversity in the games industry;
- analyses of game development processes from a diversity perspective;
- analyses of game companies’ work environments, including recruitment processes, from a diversity perspective.
Though the project works on local, regional and national levels, it is quickly reaching the international level due to the global nature of the computer games industry.
The project has promoted the inclusion of diverse research topics, portfolios and perspectives: Firstly, by considering the entire game sector and collaborating with representatives from that sector; secondly, by working in an interdisciplinary manner and using a ‘practice analysis’ research method that operates on micro, meso and macro levels.
This project distinguishes itself from others with the scale at which collaboration within the whole innovation system in a specific sector has been implemented (game companies, game education institutes, gaming communities). A central goal is diversity, at all levels, and also all aspects of diversity. | <urn:uuid:e655c34e-b8d2-4f4d-a05b-fe8fc1583965> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.rri-tools.eu/-/diversity_insp_practice | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00271-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939074 | 265 | 2.5 | 2 |
Yesterday, I found an advertisement that was published regularly in the Irish Independent from April till May 1905. As far as I know, this is the only Williams advertisement that mentions the Academy model. The advertisement teaches us a lot about how this machine was marketed at the time (1905):
"Six months ago we commenced selling our well-known WILLIAMS TYPEWRITER No. 2 at a discount of 40 per Cent from the established price. We not only reduced the price but added some new devices, thereby making the machine a little better than before. To distinguish from previous models we call it the Academy Model"
I didn't find similar advertisements in old US papers, but on the internet, I found two pictures of the Williams Academy, made in USA: one on Flickr and the other one in the online Powerhouse Museum Collection.
Ah, and in case you wonder what is Foolscap: here is all you need to know.
Edit: I just received a copy of "Die Schreibmaschine und ihre Entwicklungsgeschichte", written by Ernst Martin (1949), and there it is (p. 129): "1904 erschien eine Neubearbeitung des Modells 2 zum preise von $ 65. Diese Maschine hatte jetzt die Verbesserungen des Modells 4, behielt indessen das dreireihige Tastenfeld bei." | <urn:uuid:0ee0726f-f3b8-47c5-a6d7-efec9e53a867> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://schrijfmachine.blogspot.com/2011/12/williams-typewriter-academy-model-no-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00153-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.866091 | 309 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Solana Solar Plant's Weak Output Will Improve, Officials Say
The Solana solar plant near Gila Bend has turned in a weak performance in its first year-and-a-half in operation, but officials say it's about to show a dramatic improvement.
In November, New Times reported that the $2 billion Solana solar plant near Gila Bend had produced only two-thirds of its advertised electricity output.
Over the weekend, the Wall Street Journal reported that the plant is producing only "half" of the expected output.
New Times talked to Arizona Public Service on Monday to find out what's going on.
The concentrated solar plant, built by Spanish firm Abengoa Solar, has been held up as a potential model for the future of solar power because it performs better in some ways than photovoltaic panels. Solana uses parabolic mirrors to focus the sun's rays on tubes containing a molten solution that retains high heat and powers two steam turbines. It can keep producing electricity for several hours after sunset, a much-touted feature that helps APS meet part of its late-afternoon peak load with renewable energy.
We checked on Solana's first-year output after reading an article last year about the unexpectedly dismal output of the Ivanpah concentrated solar plant in California. It turns out that plant, operated by NRG Energy Inc., is more sensitive to contrails and clouds than scientists realized and had produced only half of its expected output in its first year. After making some inquiries, New Times learned that the Solana plant's output was also under-whelming.
Abengoa and APS, which is contracted with the Spanish company to buy the power Solana produces, told New Times in November that the plant was, in fact, working correctly. Although published reports and government documents about the plant all predicted its output would be about 900,000 megawatt-hours per year, and Solana had only produced 600,000 megawatt-hours in its first year, officials said the lower output was expected because time was needed to work out the kinks of the system.
Wait and see, they said — the numbers will go up.
According to Saturday's Wall Street Journal article by Cassandra Sweet, that might not be the case: "Ivanpah isn't the only new solar-thermal project is struggling to energize the grid. A large mirror-powered plant built in Arizona almost two years ago by Abengoa SA of Spain has also had its share of hiccups. Designed to deliver a million megawatt hours of power annually, the plant is putting out roughly half that, federal data show."
From that, it sounds like the plant's performance is getting even worse.
However, Brad Albert, APS' general manager of resource management, says he believes Solana's second year of production will exceed the first.
Projections show the second-year output will be "somewhere north of 700,000 megawatt-hours," Albert says.
A megawatt is equal to a million watts, and a megawatt-hour (mwh) of electricity is what's needed to keep, for example, 10,000 100-watt light bulbs burning for one hour.
Albert wasn't able to share Solana's output stats since January, saying he wasn't sure what the numbers were. But he admits it's possible the plant produced only half of its expected output for the first three months of 2015 due to maintenance work that interfered with plant operations.
Some of the steam-generation equipment was problematic last year, he says.
"That equipment had some leaks in it," he says. "That's why they had a maintenance outage — to address the problem that was the major holdup for them, if you will, last year."
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He also points out that the WSJ erred in saying the plant was expected to produce one million megawatt-hours annually, so "half" of that higher figure actually would be more than half of the true expected output.
Albert also says he didn't have numbers today to show the plant had improved production from April to mid-June this year over the same time last year.
There's reason to think the plant must not have performed better since April compared to the previous year — namely, that awesome May we just had.
Dan Leins, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix, says that from April until now, there have been "more clouds across the entire region than what you'd have typically."
Sustained cloud cover can have a big impact on Solana's operation. Logically, then, the Solana plant is going to have to work much better than before if it's really going to get to 700,000 mwh for the year.
It already is working better, Albert says.
Despite the middling production from January to March due to maintenance, and despite the cloudy weather of the last couple of months, he's sticking with his projection of 700,000 mwh.
"The plant is gradually improving operations," he says, adding that Solana's cranking out the megawatts this week because of the sunny weather.
APS is only contracted to buy the electricity the plant produces, so its ratepayers won't lose money even if the plant habitually under-produces.
Abengoa, which paid for the bulk of the plant's construction, stands to lose some of its investment if the plant never gets up to speed. (So do taxpayers, who chipped in 30 percent of the cost of construction.)
Concentrated solar plants have already been the source of criticism due to their high price compared to industrial-scale photovoltaic solar plants. Big projects like Solana and Ivanpah need to perform better if the public's going to help build more of them.
Frederick Redell, general manager for Abengoa Solar, sent New Times an email on Monday saying he was unable to comment for this article until sometime today. We'll update the article with his response after he contacts us.
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Back to work or school after the long summer?
What are you going to do with your pooch?
He’s been pampered all summer long with walks outside, playtime at the park, and frolicking at the beach. Don’t make him sit home alone all day. Look into boarding, day care, training school, or boot camps for your pup. He’ll get to play and learn all day while you’re at work or school and come home happy, rested, and ready for more the next day. Finding a place you trust to leave your dog can be nerve racking. We’ll give you a list of great places to send your pooch as well as what to look for in a doggie care facility.
First off, research more than one place. Ask around and turn to friends who can give you great reviews on your local options. And since this place will be taking care of your baby, you want to ask anything and everything you can think of. Bring a pen and paper to write your notes down and get a tour of the facility, check to see if they have the proper licensing, and make sure they can provide for your dog as you do … like administering medicine and special feedings.
Secondly, get all the details. Where will he sleep, play, eat? How do they accommodate shy, old, or sick dogs? How often will he be walked and how many dogs is he walked with? What is the cost? This seems like a ton of questions but you want to make sure your dog is safe and well cared for.
You can also do a test run of the facility to see how well your dog does away from you. Most places will give you a progress report and you can call to check up on him. Some boarding facilities also host play groups during the week. This is a great chance to meet the staff, trainers, and see how well your pooch interacts with other dogs in that environment.
Once you pick a place, you want to specify an emergency plan for your pooch. If he gets hurt, you want to know that he is getting the best care. Make sure they have all your phone numbers – home, cell, and a backup number like a friend, family member, or spouse.
There are a few types of places you can look into:
Day Care: This is a great option for people who work long hours. You drop your dog off before work and pick him up when you’re done. Your dog will get walked a few times during the day and get to play and socialize with other pups. Most places don’t feed our dog for day care so take that into consideration. This is the cheapest option at about $15 to $50 a day, but you can put your dog in day care for five days a week or as little as one to keep costs low
Boarding: Dog boarding is when you leave your dog overnight. These facilities will often feed and walk your dog and have play time throughout the day. The place can range from boarding dogs in cages to luxury dog hotels where your pup has his own room. Depending on the scene, boarding can range from $20 a night to $100. Make sure you’re aware of the cost up front.
Training Schools and Boot Camp: These places will not only care for your pup with walks, play time, and feedings but they will teach him basic commands and obedience for you. What’s better than coming home to a perfectly trained pooch? These classes are smaller and will be the most expensive option.
Don’t know where to start? Check out these national sites that’ll help you find the ideal situation for you and your pooch. But remember, ask around and check out the place first. Yelp, Find Pet Care, Petsit USA, and Best Friends Pet Care. | <urn:uuid:6ba3cd7a-c321-4c4b-83ab-1ec4589f47ea> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hartz.com/Dogs/Training_and_Play/Play/Back_To_School_Doggie_School.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00233-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970867 | 805 | 1.554688 | 2 |
What sorts of changes can be made to render the present economic order more just? Are there religious roots or responses to the present economic structure and its recent crisis?
Nine theologians met in Geneva 31 May and 1 June to explore critical theological tools and insights supportive of new economic arrangements.
Several participants have also participated in the World Council of Churches (WCC) programme on Poverty, Wealth and Ecology and its “greed line” project.
The conference was sponsored by the John Knox International Reformed Centre, Geneva, in celebration of its 60th anniversary, and participants were welcomed by Centre president Cyril Ritchie. Plans call for publication of the conference papers in the John Knox Series in collaboration with WCC Publications.
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Preheat the oven to 325°F and grease a 9-inch glass pie plate.
Trim the roots and darkest green leaves from the leeks cut the leeks in half, lengthwise and then cut them into bite-sized pieces. Wash the leeks thoroughly in a large bowl of water. We do this step twice because no one likes sandy food! Use a slotted spoon to lift the washed leek pieces out of the water. Place clean leeks on a bed of paper towels, to drain.
In a skillet, cook the bacon and garlic until crisp, over medium to medium-high heat. With a slotted spoon, transfer the bacon to paper towels to drain. Pour out the bacon grease but do not wipe the pan; the leeks with cook in the remainder of the flavorful grease.
Sprinkle the leeks with salt and add to the skillet, which should be heated to medium-high. Stir the leeks frequently until they are softened. When the leeks are soft, place them evenly in the pie pan and add the bacon and garlic as an evenly-distributed layer.
In a medium mixing bowl, stir together the baking mix and pepper and then stir in half of the milk. Once the milk is incorporated, stir in the remaining milk and the eggs. Stir in the cheese just enough to moisten it and break up any clumps of cheese. Pour the batter into the pie plate, covering the leek and bacon mixture. Bake the quiche until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean or about 45 minutes. Let the quiche stand for about 15 minutes before slicing and serving, so that it can set up a bit. Serve warm. | <urn:uuid:7a3b2766-dfea-4035-9d7b-b78541a0d4af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nueskemeats.com/recipes/cherrywood-smoked-bacon-leek-quiche/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.914346 | 346 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is the Plant and Animal Agrosecurity Facility (PAAR) at OARDC?
This facility allows researchers at the Ohio State University to study microscopic organisms that present serious health risks to plants and food-producing animals and that could also cause undue economic hardship to Ohio and the nation. Additionally, studies on how insects play a role in these diseases will also be conducted in this facility. To perform studies aimed at understanding how these organisms produce disease, researchers need a secure, state-of-the-art laboratory especially designed and equipped to handle this type of research. The PAAR facility is such a building.
2. What are the benefits of having a facility such as PAAR?
PAAR enhances OSU's College of Food and Agricultural Sciences (CFAES) nationally and internationally recognized research programs on infectious diseases of plants and animals, further contributing to the viability of Ohio’s $100 billion-plus agricultural sector — the largest industry in the state. The facility allows Ohio to be proactive in the development of new diagnostic tools, treatments, vaccines, or genetically resistant animals and plants to reduce economic losses from diseases and pests. These types of studies are a central component of CFAES’s mission to assist in producing safe, healthy, and affordable food and agricultural products and a sustainable food and agricultural system. The PAAR facility will also enhance OSU's ability to attract highly competitive faculty and grants to the state and increase revenue from new grants and potential inventions and intellectual property resulting from PAAR research.
3. Why did The Ohio State University build this facility?
CFAES Wooster is the largest university agricultural bioscience research center in the United States. It has an excellent mix of scientists and experts in infectious diseases of plants and animals and insect-borne diseases of plants. Studies in these areas are conducted by faculty in the Department of Plant Pathology, the Center for Food Animal Health Research Program (CFAH), and the Department of Entomology. The PAAR facility will allow researchers at CFAES Wooster to continue their innovative research on plant and animal diseases in a facility that meets federal standards for those pathogens having major economic impacts on animal and plant health.
4. What is unique about the PAAR facility?
PAAR is the only facility in Ohio and one of only two nationally with capacity for both plant and animal research at the BSL-3 and BSL-3 Ag safety levels. Another three facilities nationwide have the BSL-3 Ag safety level designation for animal-related research only. PAAR is the first BSL-3 facility on the CFAES Wooster campus and Ohio State University’s first BSL-3 Ag facility.
5. What do BSL-3 and BSL-3 Ag mean?
Biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) and biosafety level 3 Ag (BSL-3 Ag) refer to safety guidelines established by federal law for conducting research with a variety of microorganisms. Under federal guidelines, all facilities handling potentially infectious agents must adhere to strict procedures to insure containment of these pathogens. Depending on the ease with which microorganisms can be transmitted, they are classified as BSL-1, BSL-2, BSL-3, or BSL-4, with BSL-4 carrying the highest risk of infection. A BSL-3 Ag facility meets the standards for handling diseases of food-producing animals classified at the BSL-3 safety level. CFAES Wooster has several BSL-2 laboratories and greenhouses. Ohio State has several BSL-3 laboratories on the Columbus campus, but PAAR will be the first BSL-3 laboratory at CFAES Wooster and the only one at the university for use with livestock.
6. Is the PAAR facility safe?
Yes. PAAR will comply with all federal and institutional requirements regulating the construction and safe operation of BSL-3 and BSL-3 Ag labs. For example, the building will have special airtight construction and the outgoing air will be filtered through High Efficiency Particulate Air (HEPA) filters that trap microorganisms and prevent escape into other sections of the facility and the surrounding environment.
7. What kind of research on plant and animal diseases will be conducted at the PAAR facility?
The types of research done in this facility will most likely vary over time because the university will attract new researchers with new or different interests; additionally, new plant and animal diseases and insect pests will continue to emerge over time. However, the focus of the PAAR facility will remain on plant and animal diseases as long as this is the mission of CFAES. For the immediate future, studies conducted in this facility will include:
•Avian influenza, which threatens the $93 million turkey industry in Ohio and for which there is no effective vaccine available at this time.
•Soybean rust, which threatens the 4.4 million acres of soybeans planted in Ohio with revenues of $1 billion annually (a 10-percent loss of soybean yield in Ohio due to rust would result in at least a $100 million economic loss to producers).
•Emerald ash borer, which is projected to cause $3 billion in economic loss to Ohio over the next 10 years due to destruction of ash trees.
8. If CFAES researchers are already studying plant and animal diseases, why does it need PAAR?
PAAR will allow CFAES scientists to conduct research on diseases of plants and animals (such as soybean rust and certain viruses) that cannot be handled at current facilities because of federal safety restrictions. Having this facility will allow university scientists to compete for additional federal grants and hire talented faculty whose work requires BSL-3 and BSL-3 Ag laboratories. Overall, PAAR will enable CFAES and The Ohio State University to continue to meet industry and state expectations, providing proactive answers to impending disease problems facing Ohio’s plant and animal industries rather than being reactive once the problems occur.
9. Will the PAAR facility be used to conduct any studies on human diseases?
The PAAR facility will be used to conduct studies on diseases of animals that are zoonotic (transmitted from animals to human beings).
10. What is the cost of the PAAR facility and what are the sources of funding?
PAAR has an estimated cost of $22.2 million. Funding comes from state of Ohio capital funds, CFAES funds and federal grants.
11. Where is the PAAR facility located?
PAAR will be located on the CFAES Wooster campus next to the Center for Food Animal Health (CFAH) on Ferguson Drive.
12. What about future BSL-3 facilities on the CFAES Wooster campus?
At this time the PAAR facility meets our researchers’ needs for the foreseeable future.
13. What about physical security? How safe is the facility from intruders?
The facility uses multiple layers of physical security, monitoring and access control, prohibiting entry to any persons not authorized for access. For public safety, specifics on security mechanisms are confidential.
14. Will any of the research done in this building include biological weapons-related studies?
No. Research is focused only on diseases of importance to plants and animals. Additionally, The Ohio State University prohibits all forms of weapons research as a matter of policy.
15. What about classified research? Will classified research be done at this facility?
The Ohio State University does include some classified research among the approximately 4,000 projects it has underway. The university is obligated by law to acknowledge conducting such research but withholds specific information as prescribed by law.
16. Will this facility use laboratory animals in its research?
Yes. Laboratory animals will be used in the PAAR facility. PAAR will be constructed to meet the animal care guidelines of the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care.
17. What oversight mechanisms have been put into place to responsibly monitor the activities underway at the new facility?
The facility is registered through the USDA and oversite is provided through multiple on and off site agencies. USDA, AAALAC, IACUC and IBC all play roles in oversite of projects and facility.
18. How will infectious agents and materials be moved into and out of the facility?
Infectious agents will be moved into the facility under strict protocols and guidelines that require the use of special transport containers and specially trained personnel. CFAES will not move any infectious agent out of the facility, as all work with these agents will occur within the PAAR facility.
19. What is a select agent?
Select agents/toxins are those that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services considers to have the potential to pose a severe threat to human health and those that the U.S. Department of Agriculture considers a severe economic threat to the plant industry.
20. Who is in charge of ensuring that laboratories such as PAAR follow current guidelines for safety and security?
The federal government has established the current guidelines for safety and security in these facilities. All personnel working in the facility will be required to be trained in the handling of specific infectious agents used in the PAAR facility and the established guidelines for safety and security. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) will inspect the facility and review plans prior to operation and while the facility is in operation to ensure compliance with federal regulations. Ohio State University’s Office of Environmental Health and Safety will provide oversight to ensure compliance with federal regulations and institutional requirements.
21. Could this facility be converted from a BSL-3/BSL-3 Ag to a BSL-4 laboratory?
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Abusing the depth buffer
(this might be an advanced topic, but because I'm an intermediate programmer I'll put it here for now.)
What I want to do is draw a shape, and write to gl_FragDepth so that it "erases" the existing depth values in that shape's region, setting them to what they would be if I had called glClear(GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT). HOWEVER: I only want to erase the depth values that are *behind* the shape that I'm drawing. I want the depth values in front of the shape to remain as they are.
In theory, this is simple:
1) Ensure that the depth test is enabled.
2) Draw the shape, testing fragments against the depth buffer
3) If the fragments pass the depth test, proceed to write a uniform value to gl_FragDepth
The problem is that depth testing occurs after fragment processing, which means there's no way to tell whether a fragment has passed the depth test from within the fragment shader. Even on hardware that allows early depth testing, as soon as I try to write gl_FragDepth, the early depth test is disabled. Even if I explicitly request an early depth test, I can't write to gl_FragDepth!
Has anybody here had any luck trying something like this? Is it possible? What might be some workarounds?
Is it possible to read the value that's currently inside the depth buffer from within the fragment shader? Then I could do the depth test myself to see whether or not it should be overwritten... (Framebuffer Objects, maybe?)
Thanks in advance!
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