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By Butrus Ajak, Australia
December 15, 2010 (SSNA) — It was on 13th Dec, 2010 when “NCP’s political secretary Ibrahim Ghandour accused some SPLM officials of mobilizing citizens to vote for separation without heeding the dire ramification of a violent Separation he warned”.
By a brief glance at above quote, who can’t see beyond any reasonable doubt this thuggish regime of NCP had a hidden agenda and wants to impose disastrous Unity on people of South Sudan? Could international community pretend not to have heard an aerial bombardment of South Sudan territory? Have they said anything yet? Why can’t inconsistent Obama administration waits for Referendum to finish before taking Sudan off the terrorist list and other sanctions?
As Separation waves shake the Sudan, NCP stooges are more becoming like madmen with loaded guns, they are furious and highly desperate, and are uttering all venoms they have at their disposal on going away South. One Kenyan politician said and I quote” frogs croaking doesn’t prevent animals from drinking water” It is the case here. Calling earth and heaven isn’t solving anything in our midst with NCP!!! South is seceding no matter numerous threats and other insincere sabotage by NCP and our Southern parochial brothers who allow themselves be taken for a ride by callous Jellabin.
Here are their threats amongst others:
a. To mobilise their youth to take up arms and fight south if it secedes.
b. Not to recognize independent results as there is low turnout in Khartoum and other Northern centers.
c. That South will be wholly covered with War smoke if it secedes.
d. That South is unable to rule itself and would be better of if we (NCP) rule them.
e. That unity is the best option to save South from being a fail state.
f. That Southerners in the North will not be rendered medical services and other basic necessities if south secedes.
g. To arm South Militias and other pliable South Communities to cause insurgency during referendum votes.
h. To use head of SSRC Prof. Ibrahim khalil as their invisible hand to cause unnecessary hitching tactics to referendum votes.
i. That they have contingency plan for South if it secedes.
With aforementioned few remarks is there a better Unity still in place if Southerners vote Unity? Of course not!! Our County Sudan has been in Unity since its independence from British and to be honest with anybody reading this piece, South had been subjected to numerous cruelties by NCP resulting in several million lives lost, there had been massacred of Southerners by NCP’s Jihad. Our people suffered a great deal in that so-called trapping Unity not again!!!
In a common story that some of you might have heard, there a time all local chiefs from South Sudan were collected and all slaughtered for pretext they supported and worked in collaboration with Any-Nya 1, my grand grandfather was thrown into a well alive, some were skinned alive and left for beast and birds of the universe to feed on as they died slowly by the then NIF which is now NCP. These are bitter memories if one hears word Unity with the same Jellaba again. NCP is just unfortunate partner!!
Honestly, NCP is solely responsible for the balkanization of the Country as it happens. If anything, NCP must blame it selves for all the atrocities it committed on people of South Sudan, NCP exploited and marginalized native of the land for many years. So the SPLM and his allies bear no reproach whatsoever, they were forced into choosing Separation as a result of unfaithful, insincere, marginalize, considered inferior, genocide, oppression and exclusion among others.
NCP is reliable for not allowing the Country to enjoy peace ever since. And so, Ibrahim Ghandour and his NCP’s abysmal agents have to be informed to forget about violent Separation in the aftermath of looming South Separation. Violent Separation is out of question!!! South doesn’t want War as our President made it clear on several occasions that south isn’t interested in War at the time, south eyed for its benchmark which is conducting Referendum plebiscite serenely but this shouldn’t be taken by NCP’s inept as a chance to terrorize Southerners, we had been at War and I suppose NCP knew the capabilities of SPLM the time it was in the bush unless those who didn’t partake.
It would be a deadly mistake if NCP instigates War now, if anything, NCP will definitely lose this War. SPLM/SPLA is exceedingly capable of wiping of NCP in the Sudan and therefore NCP must consolidate and appreciate it is given portion of the Country to stay in, something they aren’t entitled to. NCP must warn its Warmongers not to awake a sleeping giant SPLM/SPLA it will turn nasty if the latter respond. This is right time to forge a bilateral agreement, promoting healthy relationship between the two to-be countries. It serves no purpose to hit your partner twice if he/she doesn’t react, SPLM/SPLA has shown this clearly in number of scenarios and not because it can not retaliate there are times for everything, now is time for referendum and possibly War later on if anyone wants.
NCP must, and must only blame it selves for exploiting, exclusion and mishandling their true and innocent partner (Southern Sudan), Dr. Ann Itto rightfully said it, SPLM officials are following people of South Sudan who are frustrated by NCP’s unhealthy relationship, that was true.
Finally, it is high time to test new mania which is Separation. We, Southerners had been in rocky life as I have mentioned above. Since independence, we had no stability just because of Unity with Jellaba. We, common people of South Sudan are tired of NCP’s dodgy deals and Separation must be tested this time. Our fathers grew up in the War and we too grew up in exile as well and our children are now growing up in the same predicaments resulting into many generation gaps in our lives.
Butrus Ajak is a concerned South Sudanese, an erstwhile red-army and Swinburne University graduate who live in Australia, and he can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org | <urn:uuid:d04b8b85-c32f-4af5-b5ce-49c2cdbe0992> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ssnanews.com/index.php/2010/12/16/violent-separation-is-out-of-question/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.963274 | 1,369 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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Gender, Environment and Poverty Interlinks in Rural India: Regional Variations and Temporal Shifts, 1971-1991
In India, the availability of natural resources to a large proportion of the poor rural population has been severely eroded over the past 20 years. This paper analyses the interrelationships between gender, poverty and environmental change in rural India, focusing on variations across regions and shifts over time during this period. The author briefly identifies the major factors leading to environmental degradation, then traces why and how degradation, coupled with a loss of communal property, has particularly adverse implications for women and girls in poor rural households.
These adverse class-gender effects include an increase in the time and energy that women and girls spend in fuel, fodder and water collection; a decrease in women's incomes from non-timber forest products and agriculture; an adverse effect on their health and nutrition; an erosion of women's social support networks; and a decline in their traditional knowledge of plants and species. The author maintains that the gender specificity of these effects stems from pre-existing gender inequalities in the division of labour; the intra-household distribution of subsistence resources; access to productive resources, other assets and income-earning opportunities; and participation in public decision-making forums.
The effects noted in the paper vary in form and intensity across India. The author traces these variations both descriptively and through the specification of an index for measuring gender-environment-poverty vulnerability. She finds that rural women are worst off in regions where these three dimensions of disadvantage are strong and reinforce each other, as in many parts of northern India, and especially Bihar. They are best off where all three types of disadvantage are weak, as in southern and north-east India, and especially Kerala.
The paper asserts that regions of high gender-environment-poverty vulnerability warrant special attention through schemes that give poor women greater control over economic resources, and especially over common property resources. Women's active participation in forest protection and wasteland development schemes not only improves family welfare, but also helps ensure scheme success, promotes gender equity, enlarge local knowledge systems, increases women's participation in public decision-making bodies, enhances women's bargaining power within and outside the household, and contributes to their overall empowerment.
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Topic: Cross (as in the Cross of Christ) (08/17/06)
TITLE: The Tree
By Jeffrey Snell
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Taken with prayer,
Through love of the steward-father became
Soft arms, a cradle
To protect the Son, a soothing place of rest.
The steward's touch returned with the season,
Seeking cooling shade
On journey in remembrance to His city.
The Son climbed and rode
The tree's branches as He grew into a man.
The tree's limbs spread and grew into a great
The sky in testimony. Then God approached
With strange sadness,
And with great care commanded the tree in grief.
Drop the seed there, He'd murmured tearfully,
And the offspring fell.
Carried briefly by currents it dropped cushioned
By His watchful breath,
Lighting on the ground, claimed by death greedily.
Leaves shivered as if a door were opened
To a sudden draft.
The darkening shell grew soft, a sleeper waking
To creep toward crack
Of air and light, breathing in as He ordained.
Water surged through the rising walls of jade
And carried new strength
Upward toward Him, joy and glory rising
Fulfilled in silence;
Sturdy grain and bark from fragile tissue made.
Time shifted and timbers shook as the Son
Testified the Truth.
Fear roared and rage swelled in the enemy's hands,
And in terrible
Darkness, freedom by prisoners was condemned.
Towering alongside its parent's limbs,
The offspring stood growing
In splendor and testifying to His hand;
Design's destiny, the hope for which each life lives.
Rivaling many brethren, it stood ready
As the men approached
With blades to pierce its skin and strip its branches
With callous reproach
For Him, a great honor it received with joy.
They sang a song, readying mighty swings,
One more criminal, one more cross, one more death.
Silent notes of praise it added, preparing,
As its parent did
Before, to cradle the Son in its arms.
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Today, I’m revisiting my recent blog post on the “Flockalypse” to try to shed some light on what scientists mean when they say that large numbers of birds being killed “happens all the time.” I’ve seen this phrase in the news a lot lately, and I want to point out that it does not mean that scientists think that these types of deaths are “okay.”
Instead of taking “happens all the time” as a dismissal of the importance of mass bird die-offs, let’s look at as recognizing that many, many birds are killed every day from causes that are directly related to human activity. How many? Well, that’s hard to estimate, for a couple of reasons. One big reason is that many of these deaths occur at night, and night-roaming scavengers quickly dispose of the evidence.
Here’s one estimate of numbers. A 2005 paper by Wallace Erickson, Gregory Johnson, and David Young (“A Summary and Comparison of Bird Mortality from Anthropogenic Causes with an Emphasis on Collisions“) estimates that 500 million-1 billion birds are killed each year in the U.S. alone from human-related causes. This includes:
- Collisions with buildings – 550 million (58.2%)
- Collisions with power lines – 130 million (13.7%)
- Cats – 100 million (10.6%)
- Cars, trucks, etc. – 80 million (8.5%)
- Pesticides – 67 million (7.1%)
- Communication towers – 4.5 million (0.5%)
- Wind turbines – 28.5 thousand (less than 0.01%)
- Airplanes – 25 thousand (less than 0.01%)
- Other sources (oil spills, fishing by-catch, etc) – did not estimate
While recent large mortality events have been in the news, the point I want to make is that a constant level of bird deaths occurs constantly due to human-related factors. These are large numbers. One in six bird species worldwide is threatened with extinction, because of the factors listed above plus things like habitat loss, invasive species, and climate change.
Looking at this list, you should be able to see a number of ways that we can work to prevent at least some of these deaths. Things like making windows and other structures more visible to birds, keeping cats indoors, and minimizing use of pesticides are all crucial to the survival of many species. (For more info on some of these efforts, see the American Bird Conservancy’s site.)
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UNDERSTANDING ABORIGINAL CULTURE
Dr. A.B. Kelly, 2nd December 2004
(Paper Presented to Terry Roberts,
“If the current policy towards Aborigines had been planned by a rabid racist whose aim was Aboriginal Genocide, it could not have been made more effective.”
There are two cultures in
There is both ignorance and confusion about Aboriginal Culture. There are a number of reasons for this situation. Few Australians have any contact with Aborigines. The ‘Aboriginal Industry’ has fostered deliberate distortions of the truth. More importantly there is the lack of any general understanding of the importance of culture. There is an even greater lack of any understanding of what constitutes the essence of any culture.
With very few exceptions, members of the Aboriginal Culture are genetically Aborigines. The exceptions are individuals who have some non-Aboriginal genes, but whose first part-Aborigine ancestor was incorporated into the tribal system on the assumption that he or she was the offspring of his Aboriginal parents. On that fallacious assumption the part-Aborigine had been allotted a ‘skin’, and was incorporated into the tribal ‘skin’ system. To marry or to be initiated, an Aborigine had to have a ‘skin’ (Anthropologically, belong to a ‘moiety’). Some members of the Aboriginal culture tested by de Lemos at Hermannsburg (mentioned later) fit into this exceptional category. Such people are part of the Aboriginal Culture. The majority of part-Aborigines are part of the Australian Culture, not of the Aboriginal Culture.
Any sensible policy directed towards the welfare of Aborigines has to take account of the fact that the majority of part-Aborigines are members of the Australian Culture, and are not members of the Aboriginal Culture. This is not to say that such part-Aborigines may not have suffered disadvantage, but there are other members of the Australian Culture who have suffered disadvantage for other reasons. The present policy towards such part-Aboriginal people, which assumes that they are members of the Aboriginal Culture, is based on a mistake.
I set out to understand the Aborigines and their culture. At that stage I had an interest in, but only a slight understanding of Anthropology and Philosophy. Despite my unusually close contact with Aborigines I found them very difficult to comprehend at that time. They are significantly different from other Australians.
After 40 years of working life, I commenced Tertiary
studies in Sociology, Philosophy and Theology in 1985. My studies included
research in the
In my Postgraduate research I sought to put my lifetime experience into context and, in particular, to make sense of my observations of Aborigines in the field. I obtained my Doctorate in 1998 for my thesis on ‘The Process of the Cosmos’. This thesis considered the nature of the cultural process, among other matters. My interest in Aborigines had developed towards broader cultural questions.
The situation of Aborigines has continued to deteriorate. An article in the April 2000 issue of Quadrant reported on the state of barbarism that had developed in every remote Aboriginal community. This report came as no surprise to me. The seeds of that decline into a state of barbarism had been initiated in the 1960`s. Before anything can be done to try to repair this situation, we have to understand where we went wrong.
When there was prohibition of the supply of alcohol to Aborigines, either as Aborigines or as Wards of the State, there was an incentive for part-Aborigines to gain an exemption from such prohibition, by demonstrating that, as members of the Australian Culture, they could conduct themselves appropriately. This incentive was lost when the prohibition on the supply of alcohol to Aborigines was abandoned.
At the same time it became financially advantageous for part-Aborigines who were members of the Australian Culture to be considered to be an Aborigine rather than a disadvantaged member of the Australian Culture. The blurring of the real cultural difference between Aborigines and other Australians, and the introduction of a pseudo-racial, rather than a cultural criterion, had to give rise to an abuse of any system designed to assist real Aborigines.
This pseudo-racial criterion led to the encouragement of a professional victim-hood on the part of part-Aborigines. Ironically, the historical basis for such a pseudo-racial categorisation had its origin in the slave-owning American Confederacy. Part-Negros were categorised as Negro rather than White, so they could still be bought and sold. It had no scientific or cultural justification.
In the Australian Magazine of 20-21 November 2004, Noel Pearson stated: ‘The Australian people set a lethal trap when indigenous people were exposed to the combination of welfare payments, idleness and access to legal and illicit addictive substances and gambling. I marvel at the ignorance and lack of foresight that allowed Australians to settle on such a policy after the end of the era of protection and official discrimination. How could we not see that the consequence would be short lives, illiteracy, tens of thousands of cases of severe sexual abuse and violent crimes, and cultural dislocation?’
It was the new policy that was based on both ‘ignorance and lack of foresight’. The previous policy of the ‘era of protection and official discrimination’ had not been based on ignorance. It had been based on both first-hand experience and the exercise of foresight. It was based on a realistic recognition of the cultural differences that existed, and still exist, between Aborigines and other Australians.
The adverse consequences of the new policy were not foreseen for one simple reason. It stemmed from the belief that Aborigines are the same as we are, just a bit darker. This belief is false. Real Aborigines are significantly different from us. Those who have never had any contact with real Aborigines tend to hold this false belief most strongly. By a real Aborigine I mean a person who is culturally and, almost without exception, genetically fully Aboriginal. The application of this false belief to real Aborigines has devastated them. If the current policy towards Aborigines had been planned by a rabid racist whose aim was Aboriginal Genocide, it could not have been made more effective. Every aspect of the current policy is effectively aimed at the destruction of vital aspects of Aboriginal culture. The survival of real Aborigines depends on recognition of the difference between the Aboriginal culture and our own. Any successful policy must be aimed at supporting the traditional culture by every means possible. No action should be taken that is detrimental to the Aboriginal culture. This does not mean that there is no room for any cultural development, but any cultural development should result from encouragement, not imposition.
The problem is essentially a problem of culture. The nature and role of culture has to be understood before we can hope to deal with the current problems in Aboriginal society. The roots of a culture are to be found in the ideas that the people of the culture take for granted, as to the meaning and purpose of human life. (Dix 1967,7)
Every culture is ultimately based upon a belief system, which tells the members of that culture who and what they are, and what the world is all about. This is the central role of a culture. Humans are made in such a way that they need a culture to complete them. We have an innate need of a culture, and we cannot live without one, or without creating one. A culture provides the necessary matrix for each individual’s development. (Midgley 1978,286) A person’s culture is literally that person’s second nature.
As humans need a culture to complete them, successful
attacks on the Aboriginal Culture will reduce them as human beings. The state
of nature adverted to by
In the 1950’s, when Aborigines were healthy and enjoyed long lives, every cattle station supported an Aboriginal camp where Aborigines were able to maintain their culture. They were able to conduct the ceremonies that were vital to the transmission of their cultural beliefs. The status of Aboriginal elders is based solely on the extent of their knowledge of the foundational stories of their Dreaming. That status enabled them to maintain social discipline. At the same time the camp provided a source of labour for the cattle station.
The two main disasters that overtook Aborigines in the 1960’s were the decision to apply Award standards to Aboriginal workers on stations, and the decision to remove the prohibition on Aborigines drinking. The Award ensured that the homogenous camps would be disbanded, with the Aborigines gravitating to towns or settlements and going on welfare - ‘sit-down money’. The second disaster, access to Alcohol, ensured their total demoralization. The elders no longer had the capacity to maintain the culture.
The inability of Aborigines to handle alcohol is similar to the inability of Europeans to handle heroin. This inability had been recognised everywhere there was contact between the two cultures, and prior to the 1960’s, prohibition had been the universal consequence. Aboriginal culture had never had to contend with drugs, intoxicants or narcotics, other than pituri, a mild and rare narcotic that was reserved for initiated men.
Europeans had been culturally and physically exposed to alcohol for thousands of years, and yet they still produce alcoholics who cannot tolerate alcohol. However in the 1960’s we were busy abandoning many of our own cultural restraints. So why should we continue to impose restraints on others, which earlier generations - who were clearly not as enlightened as the 1960’s generation - had found necessary?
The obvious consequences of cultural breakdown include increased crime, increased suicide and increased substance abuse. We cannot understand these symptoms without first having an understanding of the nature and role of culture in a society.
There was truth in the understanding of primitive Aborigines as a proud, innocent and noble race. In my experience, initiated Aborigines, particularly the elders were self-confident and proud. The pride of the initiated Aborigine came from knowing who they were, what they were, and what their role in the world was. They were convinced of the truth of their own cultural beliefs.
The cultural deterioration in Aboriginal society is far worse than in the broader society. There are a number of reasons for this. Aboriginal culture was transmitted through the process of initiation. The foundational myths were a male preserve. Only males were initiated. A non-initiated person was a non-person, with no rights.
Early contacts with Aborigines in remote areas were mainly made by European males. Aborigines were willing to ‘lend’ their females for a consideration. The result was a growing number of half-castes. While some early half-castes were initiated and so incorporated into the tribal system, it was soon realised by the elders that male half-castes presented the tribe with a problem. They were not the product of both their Aboriginal parents, so they could not be initiated or be fitted into the strict marriage system.
In the Aboriginal system, who a person could marry was strictly determined by the moiety or ‘skin’ of both parents. Once it was realized that half-casts were not the offspring of both Aboriginal parents, they presented a problem. They were despised, and likely to be killed. As a tribal elder expressed the position to me in 1951, ‘White fellow all-right, black fellow all-right, yellow fellow rubbish’.
Aborigines always referred to themselves as black
fellows. A retired Aboriginal Welfare Officer, Les Penhall, with whom I had
been on patrol in 1953, was recently told by an old black fellow in
Burnam Burnam, philosopher, writer and actor, was a lot more Aboriginal than many who claim to speak on behalf of Aborigines. He suggested that the authorities should listen only to full bloods on Aboriginal matters, rather than those who claim to be Aboriginal but who have, as he put it, ‘a severe pigmentation problem’.
Burnam Burnam’s view was that the attitude of the chromatically challenged to the real Aborigines, was that the real Aborigines exist to perform for the tourists, while the half casts were made to look after the money side of things.
Prior to the disastrous decision to make alcohol freely available to Aborigines, part-Aborigines had a motive to distinguish themselves from Aborigines. If they maintained normal community standards they could seek exemption from the prohibition on alcohol, but this exemption could be withdrawn if they abused alcohol. This system worked to the advantage of many individuals, and of their families. This incentive was removed when it became financially advantageous to be deemed Aboriginal, and alcohol was made available to all.
Although there are only two cultures in
Everyone who has had contact with real Aborigines,
particularly in those areas of
A paper by M.M. de Lemos, who carried out the Hermannsburg tests, is republished in The Psychology of Aboriginal Australians (1973) Kearney & Os. In the group of 80 children tested by de Lemos in the 1960’s, half the children were Aborigines and the other half were seven-eights Aboriginal. The environment of both groups was identical. The part-Aboriginal children had white great-grandfathers. These children, with a trace of European ancestry, showed markedly better performances in the tests. The general standard of the full-blood Aborigines implied ‘an inability to form logical concepts or to apply logical operations to the organization and systematisation of concrete data . . . affecting the level of logical thinking in all areas.’ Later studies appear to have avoided distinguishing between full blood and part Aboriginal subjects.
The occurrence of children in a tribal situation with white great-grandparents is rare. In the case of the Hermannsburg children it appears that the first children born after the initial contact with whites were not recognised as being other than the children of the Aboriginal parents, so they were initiated and incorporated in the tribe. The remoteness of European ancestry in the Hermannsburg test group shows that it took some time for Aborigines to realise that those, who they would later categorise as yellow fellows, did not have an Aboriginal ‘skin’ and so could not fit into the marriage structure of the tribe.
A Masters Thesis by Margaret S. Bain, published as The Aboriginal-White Encounter (1992) concludes that Aborigines are only capable of first-degree abstractions. These are abstractions that retain a direct link with empirical reality. Westerners regularly recognize and utilise second-degree abstractions, abstract concepts that have no direct link to concrete reality. Westerners understand the world differently from Aborigines. Bain also finds that while social processes in western society are both interactional and transactional, utilising both first degree and second-degree abstractions, Aboriginal social transactions are purely interactional, utilising only first-degree abstractions. They are one-way actions, prescribed by law.
This analysis came too late to prevent a number of tragedies in the black-white encounter. When whites gave food or other gifts to Aborigines in early encounters, the Aborigines interpreted this as the performance of a duty. Their law prescribed all their giving. They had no concept of a charitable action. When the gift was not repeated this was interpreted as a failure to obey a law. The white man was liable to be punished by spearing. A number of people speared during early contacts were known to be well disposed and generous to Aborigines.
In The Psychology of Aboriginal Australians, we find that Mathew had concluded in 1910 that Aborigines ‘were unreflective and averse to both abstract reasoning and sustained mental effort’. In 1872 Wake had suggested that to speak ‘of intellectual phenomena in relation to the Australian Aborigines is somewhat of a misnomer’.
The explanations of these phenomena put forward at the time were all evolutionist, the assumption being that social development could be understood on the biological model.
I would argue that Aboriginal mental development is better understood as a function of human cultural self-creation.
The Aborigines had a culture that provided a complete explanation of the world. Knowledge was passed on, but there was no motive to increase the sum of knowledge.
Aboriginal Australians became locked into a non-progressive culture, which limited their possibilities of mental and cultural self-development. The fact that a small admixture of European genes has a significant effect on mental development seems to indicate a Lamarckian form of mental development in other people and their progeny. Evidence of the ‘Flynn Effect’, which shows a generational increase in IQ in problem-solving societies, supports this view.
The differences between real Aborigines and part-Aborigines have to be taken seriously if Aboriginal policy is to be effective. Most Aboriginal policy is premised on the assumption that there is no difference between Aborigines and part-Aborigines, or between Aborigines and Europeans. This is clearly not the case. Aborigines think, understand and act differently.
Aborigines find any contact with the white man’s law confusing. In their culture, punishment is immediate, physical and mandatory. There is no room for a plea in mitigation. The rituals of our law are largely meaningless charades to them. The approach of our law to offenders is constantly changing. Law enforcement in 2000 is different from what it was in 1950. It is even more different from what it was in the 1890’s. It is vastly different from what it was in 1788. Is it reasonable to apply the latest fashion of such variable standards to people whose idea of law was set in stone thousands of years ago? It makes great business for the Aboriginal Industry, but it does nothing for the Aborigines.
The present day situation of real Aborigines is worse than it ever was previously. Most of the damage that has been inflicted on Aborigines was done with the best of motives, but in ignorance of the reality. The activities of good-hearted but ignorant do-gooders have hastened the passing of the Aborigines more rapidly in the last half Century than ever before. The cynical Aboriginal Industry is still hard at work. It is time for a rethink.
The primary cause of the disastrously mistaken policies that are applied to Aborigines is the failure to recognize how different they are, with the consequent projection of Western attitudes and concepts onto them. The Aboriginal mind-set is fundamentally different from ours. Western man is oriented towards the future. Aboriginal man is oriented to the present and the past.
As we have seen, Aborigines think, understand and act differently from other Australians. In scientific studies de Lemos found an absence of the ability to form logical concepts, which affected the level of logical thinking in all areas. Margaret S. Bain concluded that Aborigines are only capable of first-degree abstractions, abstractions that retain a direct link with empirical reality. Bain also found that Aborigines only ever utilize first-degree abstractions, those that have a direct link to concrete reality, even in their social transactions. These studies confirmed earlier, less rigorous observations, which had concluded that Aborigines were unreflective and averse to abstract reasoning.
Western thought is essentially abstract. There is a premium on clarity of thought, and on the making of distinctions, which comprise the essence of clear thought. However clear thinking can be impeded by faulty basic assumptions, lack of knowledge or by the `thought control` of political correctness. All of these factors are affecting and have affected Aboriginal policy. Aborigines have suffered and still suffer from mistaken policies.
The most basic distinction is the one that should be made between Aborigines and part-Aborigines. This distinction is based on the distinctiveness of Aboriginal thought patterns, which does not apply to part-Aborigines. Real Aborigines are in need of specifically tailored policies, which take account of their cultural base. Their cultural base is essentially Paleolithic in both material and mental terms.
That is not to say that there should not be appropriate policies for disadvantaged part-Aborigines, but because the circumstances of Aborigines and part-Aborigines are quite different, the policies should be different. There is no reason for any difference between the policies that should be applied to disadvantaged part-Aborigines and those applied to any other disadvantaged Australians. There are compelling reasons for quite different policies to be applied to real Aborigines. Such policies must take into account the real differences between Aborigines and other Australians. | <urn:uuid:57ec13a0-28b6-40df-b259-227cb2e0b6ff> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.users.on.net/~anthonykelly/Understanding%20Aboriginal%20Culture.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00339-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975969 | 4,322 | 3.03125 | 3 |
What does a broken scaphoid feel like?
A broken scaphoid feels like a sharp pain in your wrist. It may hurt when you are trying to do something or even just standing still. There are different types of fractures and each one has its own feeling. Some feel like a punch in the stomach while others have a burning sensation at times.
What are the symptoms of a scaphoid fracture? Symptoms of a scaphoid fracture include pain in the wrist at the time of injury and rapid swelling at the back of the wrist. Pain may settle down soon after the fall but the patient will have difficulty gripping things. There will be tenderness when pressing in on the wrist compared with the noninjured wrist.
Can a broken wrist be the same as a scaphoid fracture? Most people with a scaphoid fracture (which is the same as a broken wrist) will have pain and/or swelling along the thumb side of the wrist within days following a fall. Because there is no visible deformity and no difficulty with motion, many people with this injury assume that it is a wrist sprain.
When to wear a splint after a scaphoid fracture? If you are tender directly over the bone after a scaphoid fracture, you may be asked to wear a splint. The scaphoid can be injured when a significant load is placed on the extended wrist, such as a fall onto an outstretched hand.
What happens to the radius of the scaphoid bone? The angle of your wrist when it hits the ground affects where a fracture happens. The farther your wrist is bent back, the more likely it is that your scaphoid bone will break. When your wrist is less extended, the radius bone takes the force of impact resulting in a distal radius fracture ( Colles’ or Smith fracture).
What you should know about scaphoid fractures?
What you should know about scaphoid fractures? Scaphoid Fracture Causes. Scaphoid fractures are most commonly caused by a fall onto an outstretched hand. Symptoms. Many patients are erroneously diagnosed with a wrist sprain, when in actuality they have a broken scaphoid bone. Diagnosis. Treatment. A Word From Verywell.
What’s the risk if a scaphoid fracture didn’t heal? Risk if a scaphoid fracture didn’t heal If the fracture doesn’t heal properly, the bone can collapse, and the patient can develop degenerative changes in the wrist. If a scaphoid nonunion is seen on x-rays, the surgeon might fix the fracture surgically and add bone graft to help the bone heal.
Does a scaphoid fracture need a surgery? If you receive proper treatment and restrict activity with your hand, a scaphoid fracture may heal without surgery . Your doctor will likely recommend casting if it appears that the bones may heal on their own. The cast immobilizes your wrist, so the pieces of bone to fuse back together.
What are the signs and symptoms of a simple fracture?
Frequent signs and symptoms
- Pain and swelling at the fracture site.
- Tenderness close to the fracture.
- Paleness and deformity (sometimes).
- Loss of pulse below the fracture, usually in an extremity (this is an emergency).
- Numbness, tingling or paralysis below the fracture (rare; this is an emergency).
- Bleeding or bruising at the site.
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The Turtles of the High Country
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With Spring transitioning into Summer in the High Country region of western North Carolina, our native wildlife is out and about, and encounters with animals become more frequent on our roads, trails, parks, greenways, farms, and forests. While snakes are the reptiles that receive the most attention via random encounters, jump scares, and social media posts, there are a number of turtle species that are also common in the mountains and often seen in our roadways, woods, and waterways.
The eastern box turtle is the only terrestrial turtle found in the state. In 1979, it was chosen to be the North Carolina State Reptile. Yep, that’s actually a thing. They’re black and brown with radiating yellow-orange markings appearing on each scute or ‘scale’ on the turtle’s shell or carapace. Box turtles actually have a hinge on the front bottom part of their shell that allows them to retract their head into the shell, giving them protection from predators and the curious hands of the kids. Here in the mountains (and anywhere in the state, really), you can find them during the spring or summer wandering the woods after a rain shower when they’re out looking for food.
They eat everything from earthworms to berries and other vegetation. In the fall, they bury themselves underground in a shallow burrow to survive the winter. While box turtles are long-lived species—they can live up to 100 years—most live for 30 to 40 years in the wild. The biggest threat to this turtle is death by auto. So, if you see a box turtle on the road and it’s safe to pull over, give it a lift across the road in the direction it’s traveling. Box turtles tend to do well in captivity, but while the kids may enjoy playing with them, it’s the best idea to let them be. Keep our wild animals wild.
Another species you might see along the rights of way here on our roads or around our ponds is the common snapping turtle. It has a brown or black upper shell and a lighter colored lower shell with a big head and a neck that can extend. These turtles also have a long tail and webbed feet. While you may see them on the edge of ponds or near still water, they will move across roadways trying to get from one water source to another. Female snappers often get caught on the roadways in the spring and summer as they move onto drier land like pastures and forest edges to lay their eggs. While not as popular as in the past, snapping turtles are still harvested for human consumption—a main species used in turtle soup. Snapping turtles can get pretty large…40-60 pounds…and are not very ‘pleasant’ when handled. That long neck can get that snappy head close to fingers, and they will bite and urinate on you when handled. Not the best pets. If you DO decide to pull over to move one across the road, handle these from the back part of their shell.
Other turtles you might see in ponds or other water bodies in the mountains are painted turtles, musk turtles or stinkpots (that look like miniature snapping turtles). There’s also the very rare bog turtle. Bog turtles, which are the smallest species of turtle in the US, only measure around 4 inches when fully grown and spend most of their time buried in the mud in higher elevation wetlands of the mountain counties. Habitat destruction and collection for the ‘under the counter’ pet trade has reduced their numbers over the years.
Turtles, like our other reptile and amphibian species, are an important part of our mountain ecosystem and as with many of these animals, WE are their biggest threat. So, if you see that turtle crossing the road, give it a hand if you can, SAFELY. For a turtle found in its natural environment…”if you care, leave it there.” | <urn:uuid:58d575ea-d24b-427b-b009-a43459a37a7c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://watauga.ces.ncsu.edu/2021/06/the-turtles-of-the-high-country/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.836367 | 1,146 | 2.640625 | 3 |
4 Things You Can Do To Help A Chemo PatientRose Heichelbech
When a loved one goes through chemotherapy it can be hard to know how to help. She may have unexpected side effects or reactions and she will probably need support. Here are some starting points that may help you to help her.
1) Reach Out to Her
Offer your support. It is possible that she may be feeling drained or may not want to impose on you. She may not ask for help even if she needs it. Making the first move lets her know that you are there for her and that she does not need to feel uncomfortable asking for your assistance.
2) Be Realistic
Offer practical support as well as emotional support. Running errands, bringing groceries, or offering to clean for her may be good places to start. She may have energy for some things and not others. She may have no energy at all. Ask her what she needs help with.
3) Ask Her What She is Experiencing
The possible side effects from chemo are many and many parts of the body can be affected. Researching the varied responses to chemo can help you to understand what she is going through. It may also help someone who has never been through the treatment to research which symptoms are possible. Keep in mind that the side effects may keep her from doing the basic tasks that she enjoys. Walking, reading, looking at a screen, and eating can be become problematic instead of enjoyable. Ask her what she is experiencing and if there is anything you can do to help her cope with the side effects. Sometimes even just having a someone to talk to can make her feel better.
4) Help Her Caregiver
Do not forget that her caregiver may also need help during and after treatment. Helping a caregiver helps the patient too. Someone who is living with her or is helping out often may need a break or some support themselves. They may need to talk or need some specific help, so offer to be there for them as well.
The most important way you can help is to make yourself available to her. Letting her know that you are there may mean the world to her and may help her at a time when her energy is drained and some of her favorite things in life may be problematic. | <urn:uuid:f958c090-267c-4abe-806e-bbb9e6925c16> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.thebreastcancersite.com/4-ways-chemo-help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00483-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981601 | 472 | 1.929688 | 2 |
By: Christian Benjamin,
www.keeperstop.com Founder and MA Goalkeeper Coach.
There have been some questions posed in goalkeeper forums and verbally to me in regards to what many refer to as the “set” or “ready” position. Calling it a “set position” may be misleading to some since “set” implies a static position rather than being balanced, light on the balls of the feet, and ready to react to any shot, cross, or through ball.
The ready position is the action taken to load the muscles and to establish a strong, balanced, and agile base just before a shot. This is done by having your feet shoulder width apart, weight on the balls of your feet, slight bend in the knees and back, hands positioned out in front comfortably in the hip area. This stance will help a goalkeeper maintain proper balance and keep their weight forward. The shape of the keeper will appear concave.
One important aspect to remember is that this is a temporary position taken before an action from an attacker; before the shooter’s leg is swinging through the ball. If the keeper is moving into the ready position during the shot the keeper is not ready. Moving forward during the shot makes it is much more difficult to react laterally. When a keeper is leaning back or on their heels it not only exposes more of the goal but also hinders their ability to load the leg muscles to generate explosive momentum forward to the ball.
Establishing the proper ready position will take practice time. You have to develop an understanding or be able to read when an attacker is going to commit to some kind of service, shot or pass. I watch English Premiere League keepers hop to load their muscles into the ready position. And yes they get beat sometimes because their timing is off but 9.8 times out of 10 this works for them.
Remember these are professionals that have developed a ready position that works for them. Professional keepers over many years of training develop an understanding of a shooters rhythm and the visual cues as well. More time should be spent training these types of techniques rather than extension saves. Every time a goalkeeper reacts in an outdoor or indoor match to a through ball, pass back, cross, or a shot it comes from this balanced ready position.
Another important fundamental is that when the ball is under control and near an attacker a service or shot can happen at any moment. Because of this a goalkeeper’s movement should be quick small steps when adjusting to the appropriate angle in relation to the ball. Some refer to it as skimming or gliding into position. Within a blink of an eye the goalkeeper should be in a balanced ready position on the balls of the feet ready to react.
With every pass or touch a keeper will be required to adjust his or her position slightly. Within inches a keeper must know where they are in relation to the post and goal line.
This footwork will need to be executed quickly to ensure the keeper is ready before the attacker. The shot will more than likely find the keeper if they have taken up the appropriate angle, weight is balanced in the ready position, and they stay on their feet as long as possible.
For more information on goalkeeper equipment and education please visit www.keeperstop.com. A website dedicated to goalkeepers by keepers that know the products and training needed to be game ready.
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(Greek nous; Latin mens, German Geist, Seele; French ame esprit).
The word mind has been used in a variety of meanings in English, and we find a similar want of fixity in the connotation of the corresponding terms in other languages. Aristotle tells us that Anaxagoras, as compared with other early Greek philosophers, appeared like one sober among drunken men in that he introduced nous, mind, as efficient cause of the general order in the universe. In treating of the soul, Aristotle himself identifies nous with the intellectual faculty, which he conceives as partly active, partly passive (see INTELLECT). It is the thinking principle the highest and most spiritual energy of the soul, separable from the body, and immortal. The Latin word, mens, was employed in much the same sense. - St. Thomas, who represents the general scholastic usage, derives mens from metior (to measure). He identifies mens with the human soul viewed as intellectual and abstracting from lower organic faculties. Angels, or pure spirits, may thus be called minds (De Veritate, X, a. 1). For Descartes the human soul is simply mens, res cogitans, mind. It stands in complete opposition to the body and to matter in general. The vegetative faculties allotted to the soul by Aristotle and the Schoolmen are rejected by him, and those vital functions are explained by him mechanically. The lower animals do not possess minds in any sense; they are for him mere machines. An early usage in English connects the word mind closely with memory, as in the sentence "to bear in mind". Again it has been associated with the volitional side of our nature, as in the phrases "to mind" and "to have a mind to effect something". Still when restricted to a particular faculty the general tendency has been to identify mind with the cognitive and more especially with the intellectual powers. In this usage it more closely corresponds to the primary meaning of the Latin mens, understood as the thinking or judging principle. Mind is also conceived as a substantial being, equivalent to the scholastic mens, partly identified with, partly distinguished from the soul. If we define the soul as the principle within me, by which I feel, think, will, and by which my body is animated, we may provide a definition of mind of fairly wide acceptance by merely omitting the last clause. That is, in this usage mind designates the soul as the source of conscious life, feeling, thought, and volition, abstraction being made from the vegetative functions. On the other hand the term soul emphasizes the note of substantiality and the property of animating principle.
In the English psychological literature of the last century there has indeed been exhibited a most remarkable timidity in regard to the use of the term "soul". Whilst in German at all events the word seele has been in general acceptance among psychologists, the great majority of English writers on mental life completely shun the use of the corresponding English word, as seemingly perilous to their philosophical reputation. Even the most orthodox representatives of the Scotch school rigorously boycotted the word, so that "the nature and attributes of the Human Mind", came to be recognized as the proper designation of the subject matter of psychology, even amongst those who believed in the reality of an immaterial principle, as the source of man's conscious life. However, the spread of the positivist or phenomenalist view of the science of psychology has resulted in a very widely adopted identification of mind merely with the conscious states, ignoring any principle or subject to which these states belong. The mind in this sense is only the sum of the conscious processes or activities of the individual with their special modes of operating. This, however, is a quite inadequate conception of the mind. It may, of course, be convenient and quite legitimate for some purposes to investigate certain activities or operations of this mind or soul, without raising the ultimate question of the metaphysical nature of the principle or substance which is the basis and source of these phenomena; and it may also serve as a useful economy of language to employ the term mind, merely to designate mental life as a stream of consciousness. But the adoption of this phraseology must not cause us to lose sight of the fact that along with the action there is the agent, that underlying the forms of mental behaviour there is the being which behaves. The connection of our abiding personal identity, nay the simplest exercise of self-conscious memory, compels us to acknowledge the reality of a permanent principle, the subject and connecting bond of the transitory states. Mind adequately conceived must thus be held to include the subject or agent along with states or activities, and it should be the business of a complete science of mind to investigate both.
All our rational knowledge of the nature of the mind must be derived from the study of its operations. Consequently metaphysical or rational psychology logically follows empirical or phenomenal psychology. The careful observation, description, and analysis of the activities of the mind lead up to our philosophical conclusions as to the inner nature of the subject and the source of those activities. The chief propositions in regard to the human mind viewed as a substantial principle which Catholic philosophers claim to establish by the light of reason are, its abiding unity, its individuality, its freedom, its simplicity, and its spirituality (see CONSCIOUSNESS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTELLECT; SOUL).
In connection with the investigation of our mental operations there arises the question, whether these are to be deemed coextensive with consciousness. Are there unconscious mental processes? The problem under different forms has occupied the attention of philosophers from Leibniz to J. S. Mill, whilst in recent years the phenomena of hypnotism, "multiple personality", and abnormal forms of mental life have brought the question of the relation between the unconscious and the conscious processes in the human organism into greater prominence. That all forms of mental life, perception thought, feeling, and volition are profoundly affected in character by nervous processes and by vital activities, which do not emerge into the strata of conscious life, seems to be indisputably established. Whether however, unconscious processes which affect conclusions of the intellect and resolutions of the will, but are in themselves quite unconscious, should be called mental states, or conceived as acts of the mind, has been keenly disputed. In favour of the doctrine of unconscious mental processes have been urged the fact that many of our ordinary sensations arise out of an aggregate of impressions individually too faint to be separately perceivable, the fact that attention may reveal to us experiences previously unnoticed, the fact that unobserved trains of thought may result in sudden reminiscences, and that in abnormal mental conditions hypnotized, somnambulistic, and hysterical patients often accomplish difficult intellectual feats whilst remaining utterly unaware of the rational intermediate steps leading up to the final results. On the other side it is urged that most of those phenomena can be accounted for by merely subconscious processes which escape attention and are forgotten; or, at all events, by unconscious cerebration, the working out of purely physical nervous processes without any concomitant mental state till the final cerebral situation is reached, when the corresponding mental act is evoked. The dispute is probably, at least in part, grounded on differences of definition. If, however, the mind be identified with the soul, and if the latter be allowed to be the principle of vegetative life, there can be no valid reason for denying that the principle of our mental life may be also the subject of unconscious activities. But if we confine the term mind to the soul, viewed as conscious, or as the subject of intellectual operations, then by definition we exclude unconscious states from the sphere of mind. Still whatever terminology we may find it convenient to adopt, the fact remains, that our most purely intellectual operations are profoundly influenced by changes which take place below the surface of consciousness.
A related question is that of the simple or composite character of consciousness. Is mind, or conscious life, an amalgam or product of units which are not conscious? One response is offered in the "mind-stuff" or "mind-dust" theory. This is a necessary deduction from the extreme materialistic evolutionist hypothesis when it seeks to explain the origin of human minds in this universe. According to W. K. Clifford, who invented the term "mind-stuff", those who accept evolution must, for the sake of consistency, assume that there is attached to every particle of matter in the universe a bit of rudimentary feeling or intelligence, and "when the material molecules are so combined as to form the film on the under-side of a jelly fish, the elements of mind-stuff which go along with them are so combined as to form the faint beginnings of sentience. When the matter takes the complex form of the living human brain, the corresponding mind-stuff takes the form of human consciousness, having intelligence and volition" (Lectures and Essays, 284). Spencer and other thorough-going evolutionists are driven to a similar conclusion. But the true inference is rather, that the incredibility of the conclusion proves the untenableness of the materialistic form of evolution which these writers adopt. There is no evidence whatever of this universal mind-stuff which they postulate. It is of an inconceivable character. As Professor James says, to call it "nascent" consciousness is merely a verbal quibble which explains nothing. No multiplicity and no grouping or fusing of unconscious elements can be conceived as constituting an act of conscious intelligence. The unity and simplicity which characterize the simplest acts of the mind are incompatible with such a theory.
The opposition of mind and matter brings us face to face with the great controversy of Dualism and Monism. Are there two forms of being in the universe ultimately and radically distinct? or are they merely diverse phases or aspects of one common underlying substratum? Our experience at all events appears to reveal to us two fundamentally contrasted forms of reality. On the one side, there is facing us matter occupying space, subject to motion, possessed of inertia and resistance permanent indestructible, and seemingly independent of our observation. On the other, there is our own mind, immediately revealing itself to us in simple unextended acts of consciousness, which seem to be born and then annihilated. Through these conscious acts we apprehend the material world. All our knowledge of it is dependent on them, and in the last resort limited by them. By analogy we ascribe to other human organisms minds like our own. A craving to find unity in the seeming multiplicity of experience has led many thinkers to accept a monistic explanation, in which the apparent duality of mind and matter is reduced to a single underlying principle or substratum. Materialism considers matter itself, body material substance, as this principle. For the materialist, mind, feelings, thoughts, and volitions are but "functions" or "aspects" of matter; mental life is an epiphenomenon, a by-product in the working of the Universe, which can in no way interfere with the course of physical changes or modify the movement of any particle of matter in the world; indeed, in strict consistency it should be held that successive mental acts do not influence or condition each other, but that thoughts and volitions are mere incidental appendages of certain nerve processes in the brain; and these latter are determined exclusively and completely by antecedent material processes. In other words, the materialistic theory, when consistently thought out, leads invariably to the startling conclusion that the human mind has had no real influence on the history of the human race.
On the other hand, the idealistic monist denies altogether the existence of any extra-mental, independent material world. So far from mind being a mere aspect or epiphenomenon attached to matter, the material universe is a creation of the mind and entirely dependent on it. Its esse is percipi. It exists only in and for the mind. Our ideas are the only things of which we can be truly certain. And, indeed, if we were compelled to embrace monism, it seems to us there can be little doubt as to the logical superiority of the idealistic position. But there is no philosophical compulsion to adopt either a materialistic or an idealistic monism. The conviction of the common sense of mankind, and the assumption of physical science that there are two orders of being in the universe, mind and matter, distinct from each other yet interacting and influencing each other, and the assurance that the human mind can obtain a limited yet true knowledge of the material world which really exists outside and independently of it occupying a space of three dimensions, this view, which is the common teaching of the Scholastic philosophy and Catholic thinkers, can be abundantly justified (see DUALISM; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY).
Mind is also contrasted with mechanical theories as cause or explanation of the order of the world. The affirmation of mind in this connection is equivalent to teleologism, or idealism in the sense of there being intelligence and purpose governing the working of the universe. This is the meaning of the word in Bacon's well-known statement: "I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend and the Alcoran than that this universal frame is without a mind" (Essays: Of Atheism). It is, in fact, the doctrine of theism. The world as given demands a rational account of its present character. The proximate explanations of much, especially in the inorganic and non-living portion of it, can be furnished by material energies acting according to known laws. But reason demands an account of all the contents of the universe-living and conscious beings as well as lifeless matter- and, moreover, it insists on carrying the inquiry back until it reaches an ultimate explanation. For this, Mind, an Intelligent Cause, is necessary. Even if the present universe could be traced back to a collection of material atoms, the particular collocation of these atoms from which the present cosmos resulted, would have to be accounted for- because in the mechanical or materialistic theory of evolution, that original collocation contained this universe and no other, and that particular collocation clamours for a sufficient reason just as inevitably as does the present complex result. If we are told that the explanation of a page of a newspaper is to be found in the contact of the paper with a plate of set types, we are still compelled to ask how the particular arrangement of the types came about, and we are certain that the sufficient explanation ultimately rests in the action of mind or intelligent being.
APA citation. (1911). Mind. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10321a.htm
MLA citation. "Mind." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 10. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1911. <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10321a.htm>.
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Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1911. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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complex project 3
In chapter 2 of Terry Cooke-Davies’ book Aspects of Complexity Stephen Hayes and Daniel Bennett write about managing projects with high complexity. They highlight key issues that the ICCPM roundtables participants believed have significant impact on the success of complex projects (Cooke-Davies 2011, p.18-19).
In contrast the song by the Young Adults “It’s a Complex World” (YouTube video) argues that life and the world is inherently complex.
Now that you’ve had opportunity to learn a little about complex projects, who do you think is right?
1. Are there key issues that significantly impact on complexity, as Stephen Hayes and Daniel Bennett write?
2. Or, is the world inherently complex as the Young Adults sing?
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Sexy and shocking, Jacqueline Susann's 1966 novel Valley of the Dolls burst into the New York literary scene—and American pop culture—with a pink-hued vengeance. The book capitalized on the drugs, sex, and glamour of the '60s: It had tremblingly beautiful protagonists, wormholes of drug use, and a Pucci-clad author with a penchant for PR. The pages were filled with mink coats and steamy love affairs; characters zigzagged between physical perfection and personal ruin.
Fifty years later, the wildly successful novel (31 million copies sold to date, by the way) remains as iconic and shocking as ever. We talked to authors Jennifer Weiner, Candace Bushnell, Ramona Ausubel, and Megan Abbott about Jacqueline Susann's legacy, Valley of the Dolls' seminal status, and the book's impact on their own work.
Jennifer Weiner, author of 'In Her Shoes' and 'Best Friends Forever'
Like many readers, Jennifer Weiner grabbed Dolls off her mother's bookshelf and could barely put it down. The classic came back into her life when Weiner was invited to appear at an event with Kurt Vonnegut. She reread Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, in which Valley of the Dolls is the sole human book an alien species owns. The reference prompted Weiner to revisit Susann's novel from an adult perspective, delighting in the "guess who, don't sue" characters and noting the Susann-esque elements of her own writing, most notably a tendency of "amping up the drama."
Jacqueline Susann was somebody who insisted that she had something to say
A bestselling author of popular fiction herself, Weiner knows what it's like to battle critical assumptions: "I think that back then and even now, there is sort of an entrenched resistance to the idea that popular fiction has anything meaningful to say to readers and to women, and that the people who write it don't deserve a place in the conversation about art and morals and ethics, and how we live and what it all means. There's an idea that you're just sort of writing disposable trash—whereas a guy who's writing a book about...relationships and marriage and addiction and tragedy, that's important." Weiner admires Susann's tenacity: "Jacqueline Susann was somebody who insisted that she had something to say—and she was going to say it. I think in that respect she is an inspiration to me."
Candace Bushnell, author of 'Sex and the City' and 'Killing Monica'
Bushnell, the creator of another great story of female friendship, sex, and a city (Sex and the City, obviously) first read Valley of the Dolls as a teenager, bundled together with other books girls were discouraged from reading and inevitably read: Grace Metalious's Peyton Place and Mary McCarthy's The Group. It was just the right time for her to encounter the book, with its classic growing-up themes: "It's almost a coming-of-age story of young girls becoming adult women and seeing that their girlish dreams were just girlish dreams."
It's not sugar-coated and it doesn't have a happy ending
Still, Valley of the Dolls stood out as unique: "I have read it so many times asking myself that question—what is it about this book? The writing is very simple, yet somehow it's vivid and also sad." But Dolls' appeal also comes from its grasp on the realities of life: "It also feels real. It's not sugar-coated and it doesn't have a happy ending, as these kinds of stories and lives never do. It's the journey of youthful sex and enthusiasm into adult realities about romance, relationships, and aging."
Ramona Ausubel, author of 'Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty' and 'No One Is Here Except All of Us'
Ausubel read Dolls in high school, "that part of life where beauty and self-worth are most closely connected." She related strongly to how the book portrayed "the search for youth and beauty" and the dismay that accompanied their decline. It's only natural that reading the book affected Ausubel's writing. Her latest novel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, is set in the '60s and '70s and wrestles with questions of gender expectations—classic Dolls fare.
However, that doesn't mean the book's statements about beauty ring as true for her, or us, today. "One of the things I love about the book is the detail and atmosphere of the '60s, but some of the cultural specifics do (happily) feel dated. There is an essential truth [there] that stands about beauty and value, but I also think we are growing out of our faithfulness to that," Ausubel said. "We'll never not care about image and youth and sex, which is fine and good, but I do think our definition of those things is getting wider and more interesting than it looks in the novel."
We'll never not care about image and youth and sex
Megan Abbott, author of 'You Will Know Me' and 'The Fever'
Abbott, whose introduction to the book came through the wonderfully campy (and widely panned) 1967 Valley of the Dolls movie, describes her experience of the book as "peering into the world of this kind of glamorous womanhood that was both wonderful and terrifying." She even invoked one of the book's characters in a Halloween costume in her early twenties, donning the long wig and fishnets of showgirl Jennifer North.
"I think there's something in there that feels very eternally alive," Abbott said of the book's undying popularity. Its emotional intelligence is also a key aspect that has stayed with her: "I also think it values female emotional experience in a way that's not conditional, separate...It takes all the emotions very seriously—sort of a permission to be hysterical, which I always love." | <urn:uuid:407686cc-eed9-48c4-bae3-7f7aeef23e7c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.elle.com/culture/books/a37440/valley-of-the-dolls-50th-anniversary/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00158-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971074 | 1,257 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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April 14, 2015
My Little Pony is a show many people obsess over both grown men and young children. The focus of Bronies normally revolves around males, often older who inexplicably love the show with an intense passion. Is it unhealthy to be a Brony? I'm not sure, but from what I've seen of My Little Pony, it appears harmless.
My Little Pony could actually be healthy for Bronies, it's a positive cartoon that teaches positive lessons according to fanboys and regular viewers of MLP alike, so? | <urn:uuid:26431a1a-c3f6-4add-a5bf-ac6e7cb3964a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://youtube.wikia.com/wiki/File:Why_Do_Bronies_Exist%3F_(My_Little_Pony_Fanboys) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949926 | 154 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA) and Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA) have officially started night-time Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) operations across the South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) region.
HIOWAA’s Airbus H135 helicopter is flown by highly-trained and experienced Bond pilots operating with the latest-generation of night-vision goggles. The aircraft is fully equipped and optimised for night operations, meaning the Charity’s specialist doctor and paramedic HEMS crews can bring their life-saving care to the most seriously ill or injured people by night as well as by day, saving more lives. Bond operates an identical helicopter on behalf of TVAA.
The two air ambulances, in partnership with SCAS, will work together to provide an additional seven hours of coverage every night until 2am across the counties of Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire.
Both helicopters will remain operational in their respective counties for 12 hours every day and then take it in turn for a period of 16 consecutive nights to cover the seven hour night-service for the whole of the South Central region and the Isle of Wight.
Alex Lochrane, HIOWAA CEO, commented: “Thanks to our unique partnership with TVAA, there is now a dedicated HEMS crew operational until 2am, an additional seven hours every night, covering the whole of the South Central region.
“Working in close partnership with SCAS to crew and deploy the service, our Doctor Paramedic teams can be at the scene of an incident within minutes, ready to deliver an advanced level of critical care to the patient and give them the very best chances of survival and recovery”
HIOWAA, alongside TVAA and SCAS, is committed to developing and enhancing its helicopter emergency medical service in the region to provide the highest level of emergency care outside of a hospital environment. A full range of life-saving equipment is carried on board, including two state of the art ultrasound devices, a blood transfusion kit and an immediate blood analyser, helping to save valuable seconds in the vital golden hour.
The ‘Paramedic Physician partnership’ of doctors and paramedics found on board is essential for a truly gold standard delivery of pre-hospital emergency medicine, all of which is made possible through the Charity’s close working partnership with South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.
HIOWAA and TVAA’s aviation partner Bond Air Services Ltd and their highly skilled Helimed pilots are central to the service, ensuring the most effective coverage for the entire region with the newest version of the Airbus helicopter, as well as the safety and precision and speed of the operation.
Alex Lochrane concludes: “Since the start of flying operations in 2007, HIOWAA has been steadily expanding its service to the community. Introducing night HEMS operations adds another dimension to our service, helping us to save lives and provide emergency medical support and transfer where and when it is most needed.
“I am immensely proud of our teams, who work tirelessly each day and night; not only to deliver a unique life-saving service, but to develop their knowledge and training to ensure we continue to advance on-scene patient care.
“We would not have been able to take this important step forward without the on going support that we receive from the people, companies and organisations that support us, to whom we are and will always be very grateful”. | <urn:uuid:04e03712-f338-480a-91a0-dabf6cbae99c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://uknip.co.uk/Breaking/News/test-valley/air-ambulances-now-provide-24-hour-emergency-service/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.946743 | 731 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Post updated July 2020
On the 1st. July, 2019 Japan announced it was beginning commercial whaling again causing worldwide outrage and accusations of illegality. But tragically they had every right to do so as they had formally withdrawn from the international agreement not to hunt. The so called moratorium was only ever a gentleman’s agreement and a trade bargain. In June 2020 the whaling fleet returned from its first hunt with the frozen meat of 237 whales and plans to increase hunting in the future. So how is this possible?
Agreement only intended to preserve stock for future hunting
Most large species of whale were nearly hunted to extinction during the first half of the 20th. Century which resulted in 1946 with the signing of the Convention for the Regulation of Whaling by the major whaling nations, not for the rights of the whales but to “provide for the proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry“. Whaling has continued since the ban under a quota system “confined to those species best able to sustain exploitation to give an interval for recovery”. Their ideal has always been to properly regulate whale stocks to maintain enough to capture without endangering them as a natural resource.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) was set up under the Convention and the members meet every two years to decide which species can be hunted, how many and by who and various other policy issues. Any country can join regardless of whether they want to hunt whales or not and each member has voting rights.
This system did not work very well and countries continued to whale pretty much unhindered which resulted in organisations like Greenpeace literally putting themselves between the whales and whaling ships while hundreds of campaigners devoted years during the 1970’s and early 80’s attempting to bring whaling to a complete halt by lobbying and pressuring various countries to vote for a total halt on commercial whaling.
This was extremely difficult because the whaling nations were not agreeable to interference in their traditional and lucrative industry, but finally a vote taken in 1986 placed a moratorium on commercial whaling of vulnerable species like Humpback, but still allowed hunting of smaller species. Iceland and Norway objected to the moratorium and Norway withdrew in 1993, while Japan and Iceland continue hunting whales under the guise of “scientific research”, and many nations still try to over turn the ban.
The ban was greeted as a great victory by campaigners which it was, as instead of tens of thousands being killed each year the number is now a few thousand per year. Unfortunately the moratorium was never a complete ban as hidden in the Convention is a “get out” clause which states that any country could begin commercial whaling by just withdrawing from the IWC Convention. And this is exactly what Japan did.
Any member country of the Convention can just opt out
Article XI of the Convention allows any member Government to withdraw from the agreement on the 30th. June of any year by giving notice before the 1st. January of the same year. Although not morally responsible it is legal. There was a worry that other countries would follow Japan’s lead and pull out, but this does not appear to be happening.
Astrid Fuchs of Whale and Dolphin Conservation (WDC) stated that Japan’s action may “encourage other countries to quit IWC”. There were rumours that South Korea had an increasing taste for whale meat and officials were worried they will soon follow.
Many countries claim an exemption and receive a quota for their “aboriginal” inhabitants to hunt small numbers of small whales for their own needs, but many of these now want to increase their hunting to sell the by-products. Countries which presently hunt whales in one form or another are Japan, Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Russia, USA, St. Vincent and Grenadines, South Korea and Greenland.
Japan has never agreed with the moratorium
Why has Japan done it? Well they have tried every trick in the book to continue whaling since the moratorium came into force including using the loophole all countries have of catching whales for “scientific purposes”. Japan has also allegedly been catching more than its allowed quota of Minke whales for years and trying to persuade member countries to support a vote on their proposal of “small type commercial whaling” (STCW) using small whaling ships in territorial waters.
At one point they were involved in a scandal when they were accused of allegedly bribing countries (mainly African and other poor countries none of which whale hunt) with aid and resources if they joined the IWC and voted with them to overturn the ban on commercial whaling permanently. They almost succeeded in doing so. The decision to leave the IWC wass no doubt a result of their frustration at all their efforts being thwarted.
I have been lucky enough to have had many close encounters with whales in many parts of the world and they truly justify being described by the overused term awesome. If you have never been whale watching make it the top of your bucket list and I defy anyone not to be emotionally affected by the experience. We need these unassuming, helpless and magnificent creatures in our world and they still need our support.
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Another great article from our friends at L'Atelier. One that is really in season when you see all other social medias this explosion of young adults selling their apartments (or refusing to own one to start with) and taking the road in a van.
Vanlife not just a hashtag now. It's a full on societal signal. But what does it signal when this image of frugality and digital nomadism is based on $300,000 van conversions?
Should we be critical and think that "#Vanlife also demonstrates how the web can amplify distorted narratives that gloss over real challenges and inequalities, where people are led to believe in the feasibility of a lifestyle actually reserved for a few"? Or should we read differently into it and believe that it's the preview of a new freedom made accessible for the rest of us with cheap 5G and solar panels?
Another question to ask about the phenomenon regards its demography. Will we see an entire generation shift focus from real estate and 9 to 5 jobs to other forms of life-long commitments?
In the context of both a recession where mortgages are bound to become less accessible, and an unprecedented job shortage, following up on this signal will be probably very telling. | <urn:uuid:16153651-92f3-4040-ae16-5f7c3bc833aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.icopilots.com/vanlife/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.958333 | 248 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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What do B1, B2, fingers and Curious George all have in common? Bananas of course.
Bananas are one of the earliest known cultivated fruits, dating back some 10,000 years to New Guinea. Not surprisingly the fruit eaten then would be almost unrecognisable compared with the modern-day fruit we see and enjoy eating today.
Bananas have been grown at the Dunedin Botanic Garden’s Winter Garden glasshouses for over 100 years where they were showcased as one of the earliest exotic plants.
Today, the Winter Garden is home to a variety of bananas from the Musa acuminata cultivar ‘Dwarf Cavendish’ to the colourful Musa velutina with its pink fruit skins and the wild Indian banana Musa mannii. The ideal tropical climate of the Winter Garden results in banana plants growing with such vigour that they tower over the other plants.
Every year bananas are celebrated around the world on the third Wednesday in April, which is National Banana Day. Although the celebration has passed for this year, you can enjoy the different varieties of bananas at the Winter Garden glasshouse
Garden Life is produced by the Dunedin Botanic Garden.
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Conservation & Environment in South Africa by Alice Garside
I was so excited to start my experience in Botswana. I chose the Conservation project because I am very interested and passionate about wildlife and conserving what is left in the environment. Every day I looked forward to starting my first activity. The staff in Botswana were very knowledgeable about the animals and the habitats. I learnt so much and loved bird watching, which I never thought I would say!
I arrived early evening, just in time for super. All the volunteers and the staff sat together. The people in the camp were very welcoming. I met people from all over the world - France, Germany, England many more. I felt comfortable asking them questions about how the camp worked and what the project involved.
My Conservation project
Each evening on a white board our activities would be written out for all the camp to see and we would have time to prepare for the following days’ work. I had two activities each day which varied. My tasks included identifying animal spoor, animal census, rubbish removal and many more. The first activity would be in the morning, then the other activity later in the afternoon after lunch time.
One of the days I had the opportunity to visit the local village (2.5 hours a way) to make bracelets with other volunteers. On the way we stopped off at a massive kjope (mountain of rocks). From here we sat and observed the most breath taking, beautiful view in front of us and enjoyed a picnic. The Tsatsileeta Basket Group kindly helped us create incredible patterned bracelets. They were so welcoming and the children were so happy to see us dancing and smiling for the camera.
My accommodation in Botswana
I soon got comfortable with my accommodation which was a six-person tent. In the camp there were six tents with bunk beds. It was a great way to feel part of nature; you hear all variety of noises. In my experience Hyenas came through our camp at night which was exciting!
Projects Abroad staff
The staff were absolutely amazing! They were so friendly and I could talk to them at any point and ask them anything. They were very knowledgeable, and enthusiastic. The cooks are fantastic; they filled me up every day without fail. They made me feel very comfortable while I was in Botswana; I wish I could have stayed longer! I loved every minute of my project; Botswana is definitely a place I will visit again in the future.
Final thoughts on my experience
I really enjoyed meeting everyone on the trip; I will never forget them. Every evening after dinner we would all gather around the fire to keep ourselves warm, grab sticks from trees to put our marshmallows on the end and melt over the fire. Card games were very popular, and we spent so much time in the evenings getting to know one another, laughing and chatting until we were too tired.
My best moment was the first sighting of an elephant! It was only metres away and so incredible to see. That was definitely something I will never forget. Also, just outside the ladies toilets at the camp, there was an elephant so close, I was so excited and blown away! Another amazing moment was when I saw a leopard! It was laying peacefully until we were too loud and full of excitement… It noticed us and strolled away. I thought I would never see one, and seeing one made my trip!
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How Many Calories Do I Need?
Determining precise caloric need can be quite scientific and complex, but estimating a reasonable calorie level is often simple.
Caloric need is affected by age, gender, body size, body composition, fitness level, environment, food intake, daily activity level, exercise, hormonal status and health status. Energy requirement calculations usually examine basal metabolic rate (BMR) which is the amount of calories required to sustain the body when asleep for a 24 hour period. Resting metabolic rate (RMR) looks at the same 24 hour period, but is increased slightly, because the individual is awake, but not active. Daily activity not including programmed exercise is assessed, and an activity factor of 1.1-1.7 is assigned; the RMR is multiplied by this factor. Then, calories expended per week on programmed exercise, such as weight lifting, running, aerobics classes are totaled and an average calculated per day. In more extensive calculations, the thermic effect of food (TEF) may also be calculated. It should be noted that not all professionals are in agreement regarding the best formulas to estimate caloric need. Often, experience of the assessor is an important factor in the accuracy of the assessment.
A calorie need assessment might look like this:
+ 75-200 = RMR
X Activity Factor (1.1-1.7)
+ daily average expenditure on exercise
= total daily caloric need
If possible, having access to both body composition and a Resting Energy Expenditure test is very helpful for the nutrition professional trying to determine calorie need. A body composition provides information regarding the amount of metabolically active tissue. The amount of metabolically active tissue is used to calculate potential BMR, taking into account, height, age, weight and gender. A resting energy expenditure (REE) test is also very helpful. REE measures oxygen utilized and carbon dioxide exhaled which provides an indirect measure of calories burned. For a de-conditioned individual, REE may actually indicate that they are burning fewer calories than their potential according to their lean body mass (LBM). The fitter the individual, the more calories they burn.
On the other hand, it doesn’t have to be that complicated. We all eat; and we are gaining weight, losing or staying the same.
One of the best strategies for the untrained individual trying to assess their own calorie need is to first keep an accurate food journal. Then, enter the information into a good on-line food analysis program. If eating habits and weight has been stable for a while – then, this is a maintenance calorie level. If looking for weight loss, first try a modest caloric deficit of 300-500 calories per day. Many people try to cut calories too much; it causes lack of energy, feelings of deprivation and makes it harder to stick with a healthy plan for any length of time.
A word of warning: many sources advise that women attempting to lose weight go on a 1200 calorie plan, and men use a 1500 calorie plan. Our experience is that, except for small, sedentary people, those calories levels are too low. It is far better to focus on good quality nutrition choices, increased physical activity and forming positive long range health patterns than to attempt these too low calorie level diets. | <urn:uuid:1d969559-2fb1-4f5c-ae6b-f917c7fc7fd4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.redmountainresort.com/blog-wellness/426-how-many-calories-do-i-need | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00389-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939573 | 675 | 3.3125 | 3 |
Qualitative Findings from the Men of African American Legacy Empowering Self (MAALES) Project: Sex, Sexual Identity and Substance Abuse among African American MSM. John K. Williams, M.D. Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
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Qualitative Findings from the Men of African American Legacy Empowering Self (MAALES) Project: Sex, Sexual Identity and Substance Abuse among African American MSM
John K. Williams, M.D.
Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Mattison, Ross, Wolfson, Franklin & San Diego HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center, 2001
We analyzed data from 7 focus group discussion with NGI and bisexual African American MSM/W in order to explore the role that drugs and alcohol play in same-sex sexuality.
The question specific to the use of drugs and its
relation to the men’s sexual lives was framed as:
What is the role that drugs and alcohol play in
the lives of sexually active African American
Probes were used when necessary to solicit
additional or more detailed responses.
Sex, Sexual Identity, & Substance Abuse
I only messed around [with men] because I am such a stone-cold crack head that I had to have it … whatever it took to get it. You know what I’m saying? When it came to crack cocaine, you know and then I discovered crystal meth. (shelter, HIV-negative group).
I think, uh, that drug use and alcohol abuse is the major reason why HIV is out of control today. Because even straight men know that they can go and make money with having a guy suck them… so they can get that next hit…when people are on drugs and intoxicated, they tend to be less careless about, they're not thinking about no condom.… if you want that hit bad enough… I don't care how many wives and how many kids you got, you want that next hit. (HIV-positive group).
Yeah, you know, I’ve had that experience myself. You know, at the time when I used to do cocaine… cocaine gave me a feeling like I could sort of let my guard down, and not be effeminate… like, I never had the desire to be like a drag queen or dress drag or anything like that. But, if I wanted to be like [with] a guy, I felt more sexually aroused and I felt more comfortable in approaching a guy if that’s what I wanted to do... Yeah. . . .So, in other words, the drug actually gave me permission to let out what I was feeling when I wasn’t using the drug. Or, what I was thinking. (HIV-negative group)
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As running season is now in full swing, in the clinic we are seeing the different injury presentations walk…or sometimes hobble through the door. One of least known injuries we see is a presentation called Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (MTSS). In this blog post I will run through the basics of medial tibial stress syndrome and more importantly some of the risk factors and symptoms to look out for during your training.
MTSS is characterised as an overuse injury, meaning that there is no acute injury but symptoms that develop because of over-training. Recreational runners are the most common group of people that develop this condition. The exact physiological cause of pain is unknown, but the leading theories describe either an inflammatory or muscle traction mechanism that affects the outer most layer of the shin bone. Those runners who experience MTSS will describe a general soreness along the inside border of the shin bone brought on by exercise.
Overall we have some a good idea of what MTSS looks like but what about preventing the onset of symptoms in the first place? As with all injuries, unfortunately there is no way to completely prevent injures but identification of risk factors decreases the likelihood of developing symptoms. With MTSS the risk factors and hence subsequent treatments relate to offloading the injured tissue in some way. Some of the modifiable risk factors that have been described with MTSS are:
- Increased weekly running distance.
As MTSS is an overuse injury, training load and progression of your weekly running program is key to preventing injury. A recent study showed that those expanding their runs more than 30% had a higher prevalence of injury. This highlights the importance of running planning and a gradual increase in running training.
- Hip and knee posture with running.
Increase in pelvic drop can shift your centre of balance further into the centre of the body. In doing this it can increase the force on the medial shin bone while running. A similar process occurs with an inward twisting of the knee when running. Using strength training and gait re-training methods can help in correcting these behaviours and assist in unloading the injured tissue.
- Increase foot drop (Low arch control).
Having a low foot arch can be a normal posture of the foot, however sometimes it can also increase the load through the inner shin bone. Treatment for this posture can include a short-term use of foot orthose to help offload tissue while strength is being built in other structures.
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Between the two World Wars, the US contributed significantly to the development of the tank, a weapon invented by the British and the French seeking a way to break through the lines of German trenches. From the employment of the French Renault FT and British Mark V during their involvement in World War I, the US branched out with their own indigenous designs including the M1 Cavalry Car and the M2 Light and Medium tanks, the precursors to the Stuart and Grant tanks of World War II. Tank designers in this period faced unique challenges and so the story of early American armour is littered with failures amongst the successes.
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PETALING JAYA: Discussions are ongoing as to whether Malaysia will take part in the third phase of the Covid-19 vaccine trials, says the Health Ministry.
Health director-general Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the country is still waiting for more data to evaluate the effectiveness of the vaccines being tested.
“Malaysia has not been selected as a hub for the phase three clinical trials. At the moment, we have more questions than answers - until we see more data in terms of safety, side effects and other criteria, we cannot make a conclusion.
“We encourage the vaccine research to carry on, but we are waiting for the data to look into the efficacy of the vaccine, ” he said.
He said that Malaysia has had discussions with three companies involved in the trials, namely Sinovac, Sinopharm and CanSino.
“Our cases are limited now, our positive cases (on Aug 10) are only 166. The volume is not there.
Nonetheless the discussion is ongoing with the respective companies and countries, ” he said.
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Tebufenozide is a new insect growth regulator which interferes with the activity of ecdysone, thereby adversely affecting insects during moulting. Tebufenozide belongs to a group of insecticides called insect growth regulators (IGRs). IGRs mimic insect hormones and therefore interupt normal biological processes. In particular, tebufenozide mimics the natural insect hormone known as ecdysone. As an insect grows through its immature stages, it must periodically shed its rather inflexible skin (cuticle); this process is called molting or ecdysis. Ecdysone (which is also called molting hormone) is responsible for initiating the molting process; when a given immature stage has reached its maximum size, the insect's body produces and releases into the blood a critical concentration of ecdysone, at which time a series of events is initiated that results in a molt. If the concentration of ecdysone is artificially raised prematurely, the molting process starts too early and the insect dies in the attempt. Although tebufenozide is not chemically identical to ecdysone, it has the same result.
Tebufenozide works best if ingested by the insect larva while it is feeding on plant tissue (such as foliage or fruit). It does not immediately kill the insect; indeed, death may take 3-5 days. But because much of the insect's digestive system is lined by cuticle that is identical to that on the outside of the body, the insect stops feeding within a few hours of ingesting a lethal dose of the insecticide, and damage ceases at that point.
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Drone aerial surveys and drone inspections are adapted to any service that requires high resolution (millimetric to centimetric) for digital monitoring of the morphology of the terrain or the geometry of an infrastructure. The steadily increasing agility and performance of drones make them especially useful for zones that are hard to reach by plane, helicopter or microlight aircraft.
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- 360° aerial panoramas of remarkable sites or projects under construction,
- 3D modeling (volumetry),
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Cleveland Cultural Gardens; Dru McKeown; Mark Williams; Daniel Bernard Roumain
Cleveland Cultural Gardens
Cleveland officials have brought a bit of culture back to the city. Martin Luther King Boulevard, the home of the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, recently received a much needed makeover. Now, the two-mile route between University Circle and the Shoreway is a much more welcoming showcase for the 29 Gardens that represent the heritage and contributions of the many ethnic groups who call northeast Ohio home.
Designer Dru McKeown
Running through the cultural gardens is a small stream called Doan Creek, which has also been receiving a much needed facelift thanks to the efforts of the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. While work on that project continues, you may have heard that the agency's storm water control program has hit a snag. The courts put a halt on collecting customer fees to fund the program. Not to worry, though, because a local designer thinks that he may have a solution to the county's drainage problem. The fellow's name is Dru McKeown, and for his work in design, he's received a Creative Work Force Fellowship Grant, sponsored by The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture. Dru's story comes to us from filmmaker Paul Sobota.
The Cleveland Orchestra's Mark Williams
It's a given that the Cleveland Orchestra makes great music, but realistically, it also has to be great at filling seats, and selling subscriptions, so someone will hear that music. Accomplishing that doesn't happen in a vacuum. It all requires artistic insight, a great deal of knowledge about the music, and a good working relationship with the musicians. The person recently hired to demonstrate those qualities while working side-by-side with Music Director Franz Welser-Most, is Mark Williams, the Director of Artistic Planning.
Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain
While it can be beautiful and inspirational, European classical music doesn't appeal to everyone. Composer Daniel Bernard Roumain sees that as his opening to present another sound, and another rhythm that may speak to everyone from the guy hanging out on the corner, to the one hanging out in the corner office. His approach merges the language of Eastern-European classical music with the rhythms of his ancestral home of Haiti.
Paul Burik, Cleveland Cultural Gardens Federation
Mark Williams, Director of Artistic Planning,
The Cleveland Orchestra
Daniel Bernard Roumain, Composer
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Last month, I briefly visited the town of Sutherland with two other colleagues.
It is a town located about 350km from Cape Town. Its altitude, relative isolation and arid conditions make it a perfect spot for optical observations and hence is the pride of South African Astronomy. The town itself is a semi-rural settlement that faces several developmental challenges and economic hardships. Any visitor cannot help but notice the contrast between life in the Astronomical observatory (a few miles outside town) and in the town. Over the years, the South African Astronomical Observatory in partnership with the government and local stakeholders has undertaken initiatives to bridge this gap.
Sutherland is one of three major towns in the Karoo Hoogland Municipality in the Northern Cape province. It has a population of ~5000. Around 72% of households fall under the low income bracket and the standard of living is not high. Problems associated with any economically weaker community are evident here.
A lack of avenues and modern infrastructure has stunted growth in the region. Government statistics indicate low education levels, lack of skilled labour, a high unemployment rate¹ (23% in 2012). and a negative economic growth (-5% in 2008-09).
For societal benefit
When the South African Large Telescope (SALT) began to be constructed a decade ago, it created more jobs for the community. It also spurred the establishment of guest houses targeted at the fledgling astro-tourism market. In order to actively pursue a strategy for development, a program was established to channel the benefits derived from the Astronomy knowledge and technology of these telescopes for the betterment of the nearby communities. The SALT Collateral benefits Program (SCBP) swung into action “to facilitate education enhancement, science communication, socio-economic development and public engagement and thereby contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of all people within reach.”
As part of the program, the Sutherland Community Development Center was opened. It provides a space for the community to get together and a platform to run programs aimed at addressing challenges in the community. The center has computers that are free to use and share a portion of the observatory’s internet. For many, this internet connection is the only link to the outside world. There are also provisions for a study space and a small library. The community center is at the heart of activities run by the SCBP local team. Various outreach activities, star gazing sessions, talks by international visitors and even movie screenings are hosted at the center.
Most people in the community consider the center as a blessing, especially for their kids. It takes the children out of the streets and the computers are a source of life skills. For students, it is their only way of doing research and for many adults, it provides a way of developing new skills.
There is no question that SALT and the Sutherland observatory have had an effect on the community. Perhaps it is not the optimistic, fast transformation many might have hoped for in the beginning. But there is still time to go.
Astronomy and Science are catalysts of inspiration. But it is up to us to use them as drivers of development. For me, more than anything else, this experience drove home the point. Technological applications can really make a difference, not just in saving or enhancing lives but in moulding them.
As for the SCBP project in Sutherland, by no means is it complete, but the seeds have been sown.
¹ All statistics from source: Karoo Hoogland Municipality Integrated Development Plan 2015-16
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FALMOUTH, Maine — The Falmouth-based organic milk processor Maine’s Own Organic Milk announced Friday morning that it will shutter its operations because of obsolete equipment and the steep cost of building a new packaging facility in central Maine.
“While we have worked tirelessly to find an alternative solution, including the possibility of building a new facility in central Maine, we realize these options are not possible in the short time frame needed to keep the retail brand viable,” said CEO Bill Eldridge in a letter announcing the closure. “Therefore it is with deep regret that we announce the end of MOO Milk as we know it.”
Eldridge said in a telephone interview that Stonyfield’s yogurt-making facility in Londonderry, New Hampshire, has agreed to buy all of the milk from his company’s 12 member farms for the next three months, while MOO Milk arranges long-term contracts for member farmers with Stonyfield, Organic Valley, Oakhurst and others. He said the company also is focused on finding longer-term contracts elsewhere for its member farmers.
Wednesday was MOO Milk’s last production day.
The decision to close came after studying what it would take to upgrade MOO Milk’s production facilities. Eldridge said an engineering feasibility study showed the company could be profitable with construction of new processing equipment, costing tens of millions of dollars. But he said donated equipment it has used to process about 8,000 gallons of milk weekly was “on its last legs,” and the risk was too large to take on a massive investment while MOO Milk’s existing facilities were shaky.
“It became more and more obvious that we could not continue processing and not be concerned with some sort of catastrophic failure,” Eldridge said. “If we started to build a plant costing tens of millions and we had a catastrophic failure, it would have left us high and dry.”
And that’s the dire situation that gave the company its start, by a group of 10 farmers in Washington and Aroostook counties who lost contracts with H.P. Hood Inc. in 2009. They were left searching for a market for their organic milk and decided to form MOO Milk as an L3C, allowing the company to receive grants and endowments like a nonprofit or a co-op.
The farmers who supplied the company most recently are in the northern, Down East and central parts of the state.
Since it started production in 2010, MOO Milk has processed all of its milk at Smiling Hill Farm in Westbrook, using a carton filling machine decommissioned by Oakhurst and donated to MOO Milk. Smiling Hill uses separate equipment for its milk packaged in glass bottles and is not affected by the shutdown.
Eldridge said he doesn’t think the shutdown speaks to broader problems for the organic milk industry or for the experiment MOO Milk pursued of trying to build a regional brand supplied by a host of independent farmers.
“We were done in not by the marketplace but by the fact that when we got started, we couldn’t afford anything and had to put together a virtual company with whatever we could get for equipment,” Eldridge said. “And, eventually, old equipment just dies.”
In his letter, he said that the company has enough money to pay its creditors.
“We have adequate cash on hand to honor all of our current financial commitments,” said Eldridge, “and while demand for our milk has been stronger than ever, we simply lost the ability to process our milk, which effectively puts an end to the MOO brand.”
Almost a year ago, the company announced a $3 million anonymous donation through the group Slow Money Maine that its leaders expected would keep it operational for the foreseeable future. With that donation, MOO Milk also repurchased equity stakes it had given to its original members, eight of whom had left and split around $100,000 for their shares of the company.
Eleanor Kinney, a member of Slow Money Maine and investor in MOO Milk said at the time that the money would be used to boost the company’s marketing budget.
The company had struggled in the past, and in 2011, it nearly closed because of high organic milk prices and a shortage of cash on hand.
As of last year, it was purchasing around 11,000 gallons of milk per week from its members.
The company’s effort to provide processing for organic dairy farmers received attention and praise from beyond Slow Money as well. In 2012, the farm was the subject of a documentary titled “ Betting the Farm.”
In its four years of operation, Eldridge said he thinks the company achieved something unique to Maine, and he will continue to stay involved with the agriculture sector, which he thinks could be a more substantial driver of the state’s economy.
“Maine is where there is available agricultural land for production,” he said.
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Interview Sonny Vaccaro
A former sports marketing executive for Nike, Adidas and Reebok, Vaccaro helped bring hundreds of millions in corporate endorsements to college sports. Prior to that, he was known as the godfather of youth basketball because of his relationships with the country's best young players who attended his summer camps and all-star games. This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Nov. 18, 2011.
Nike. You became their shoe man, right?
They didn't have any marketing for me, so I was the shoe man. ... The irony of that story is I don't know a damn thing about selling a shoe. I don't know the different models. I had an idea of one concept of shoes that I presented to [Nike co-founder] Phil [Knight] in 1976 or '77.
... But I honestly had this mind that could think of things that were never done before, and Phil was smart enough to allow me to run with it.
... Everyone in the world knows I signed all those colleges and universities to Nike, but the commercialization started with Michael Jordan.
Prior to that, all we did was sign coaches and universities and colleges for their kids to wear shoes. That was Marketing 101: Put the shoes on the kids and the T-shirts on the kids, and the public will buy.
That was never done before. ... I didn't take a class in that, but being around kids, they were always the driving force.
I used to say that [former University of Maryland and NBA player] Albert King at Fort Hamilton High School in New York City could sell more shoes in a day in the Fort Hamilton area than some NBA guy could sell playing the Celtics against the Knicks, because no one gave a damn about the Celtics and Knicks, but they cared about Fort Hamilton playing [some] major school in New York City. That was what the rivalries wore.
... High school and kids, product sold. That was the key to those colleges wearing it. It was a good business deal for Nike that no one knew. I said, "Let's do it." There was no track record.
What exactly did you do?
I said, "We ought to give the shoes away to the high school teams, and we ought to pay the college coaches." Phil [Knight] and Rob Strasser, [Nike's first head of marketing,] said, "Are you crazy?" And I said, "No."
I used the analogy, they'll be no different than the college coaches getting Dodges, Chryslers or Pontiacs as part of their deal at the local dealership. And then the people in the community would buy a Dodge or a Chrysler or Pontiac. You remember those days?. I used to go to camps. They all had their little car deal.
Well, we had to get shoes. And the games would be on the television. ... So put the shoes on so the public knows you have them. No one was buying commercials then. There wasn't a halftime at the Super Bowl; nobody went to the Super Bowl in the '70s.
Do we understand that the only way you can connect was to get your [athlete's] picture on Sports Illustrated and get that guy to wear your shoe? Ten million people did that. That's how it started.
And it was Michael Jordan who took you over the top?
Michael Jordan was the greatest marketing icon in the history of marketing icons. ... All the kids to come, there will never be a Jordan, because Jordan started at zero.
Jordan and [filmmaker] Spike Lee. When Nike did the commercial with Jordan and Spike, two African American young people selling a product of this beginning company, it was just now starting to make headway, make some serious money, that was great; that was unbelievable. ...
As hard as it has been in the past for the American public to understand this, the African American athlete was the greatest of all the kids in athletics to come through, at least in the sport I was involved with. ... We were the first to understand that, and Michael was the first to do it. High school first, college second, pro third. Marketing 102, 103, 104.
As I understand, you started out also going around and paying college coaches.
You're right. I would run to my car and sign my friends to a contract. I basically gave them my check, which Nike later reimbursed me. ...
You were writing personal checks --
Who was the first person you paid?
I think [former UNLV coach] Jerry Tarkanian. ...
How much did you pay?
I think $10,000.
Ecstatic. And we gave him free shoes. We gave the school 120 free shoes, 60 sweat suits, that nature. This is the '70s now, so you have to understand, there was no number. This is the first time they ever got anything, and they weren't making a lot of money.
Now, what happened was we had all these coaches. We were signing all these personal-service things to the coach.
Ten thousand dollars here, $15,000 there?
That number then went from $10,000 to $25,000 to some of the coaches got stock in Nike. ...
You're paying coaches. You're starting out $2,000, $10,000? Over the next 10 years, how much?
Quarter of a million to $500,000, half a million dollars. It went bonkers. ... We created a competitive thing, so all the companies got involved. Our coaches went up. Major six-figure deal was done in the '80s. It was the precursor to major million-dollar deals done in the '90s and 2000s obviously. ...
As those numbers were going up, did anybody at a university, a coach or somebody, say, "Look, you're corrupting the game"?
No one ever stopped us from doing it. In fact, we were paying some of the coaches -- has been duly recorded in the major newspapers across America in the '80s -- more than the schools were. ... They all thanked me. I was the guest of everybody in the '80s -- all the games, all the tournaments, all the media banquets.
Then, in 1985, the greatest thing in the history of marketing happened: The Final Four in Lexington, Ky., was St. John's, Memphis State, Villanova and Georgetown, all four of them Nike schools.
We owned America during Final Four week. You couldn't pay enough money for the exposure that Nike got. ...
Then we signed Jordan -- ''we'' being Nike -- to an endorsement contract. ...
When he was still an amateur?
No, he went pro. He went to [University of] North Carolina. It was his junior year. The Olympic Games were starting in Los Angeles. I met him at Tony Roma's, and he agreed to come aboard with Nike. ...
But you're paying the coaches.
We're paying the coaches, or later, as fate would have it, the universities. We owned the whole university later.
... They sold the whole university. It wasn't us signing a coach to ask his players to wear [our product]. It was the university, from the president on down, that said: "Come on in, Mr. Nike, Mr. Adidas, Mr. Converse," whoever it was. "You have our school. And for that, we're going to put your logos everywhere: in the gyms, in the swimming pools, on the flagpole."
It befuddles me to sit here this late 2010-2011 basketball season arguing this moot point of the commercialism of sport when they themselves bartered out every student-athlete on their teams to wear the product of the companies that they sold to.
They did it --
The NCAA [National Collegiate Athletic Association] did it. ...
I don't think there's a major school -- and you can do your research on this -- today, a major school, the top 10 BCS [Bowl Championship Series] schools, I bet you they all have our school deal. ...
Just so you understand what I mean, that means that there are individuals and athletes on the tennis team that are getting free shoes. ... Some of these kids aren't even scholarship athletes, but they sold the rights for them to wear that product.
They sold the rights; I didn't sell the rights. I sold the rights to the NCAA, to the universities, "I" being the shoe companies. They accepted it.
I don't get this. When they sit down and they'll arbitrarily throw out people's names and say, "The bastardization of sports," or whatever, and "They did this or did that," all we did was make a business deal that the other side accepted.
When you were paying the coaches or paying the university, they could force the students to wear certain shoes or certain logos?
... You had to wear X percent of the total number of those shoes. There's no question about that.
But in my opinion, the kids would never go against what the school wanted. They're getting free shoes, and you became then a Nike school, an Adidas school, and that was part of your property rights to the athlete.
I always argue that Kobe Bryant, if he would have gone to X school, my argument's always been, why couldn't Kobe sign his own endorsement deal when he went to X school?
That's when they came in with all that goody-two-shoes crap and said, "Well, that violates the amateurism code," when, in fact, they violated their own amateurism code by making a deal with the companies. ...
You're not going to give them money and then the students can say: "I don't want to wear that. I'll take some Converse."
... If they don't sign this, they probably wouldn't be playing for that school. Or if they refused to, they'll probably lose their scholarship. It's a one-sided contract forced on an individual that's forced to remain what they deem amateurism. The question I'm going to ask this program is, why doesn't this make them a professional, since the employer is the school? ...
There's been certain times in my evolution [as] this marketing person that I've felt great. Obviously Michael Jordan was the most euphoric time of my life. But ... the greatest thing that ever happened to a shoe company or any commercial entity was 1985 in the Final Four in Kentucky, where Georgetown, Villanova, Memphis State, and St. John's played in the Final Four. Nike had all four schools, which meant that we had every newscast, every sportscast across America and the world for a week. That generated ... multimillions of dollars' worth of hits. You cannot describe that feeling.
It was also the end of amateur sports.
Yeah, it was over. It was no more, because there's no more defense for amateurism. ...
We owned the product. What was the product? Those kids playing ball on the courts those two nights before the whole world. That was the product: the kids, the games, everybody -- coaches, cheerleaders, band members.
... You're the guy who supplied the money. You're the guy who knew the coaches, had the network of people, had the talent and contacts to get close to the kids. You made it possible, this commercialization.
Yes, I'm proud. I'm honored. I did a good job for my employer, Phil Knight, at that time. Absolutely. We did nothing wrong. ...
Everybody's making money. Nike's making money. ... You're making money off of them and getting paid.
Yes, sir, I'm not saying you're wrong. ... But you have to understand, the rules of the kids' own protectors, the NCAA, allow this to happen. In a free-enterprise system, those kids would have had the right to wear whatever they wanted to and even to sell their feet or their T-shirt. That's my point.
Where does the NCAA get off of saying it's not a commercial entity? It's a business. And good for them, it's an unbelievable business.
Somebody out there might say you're like the drug dealer who's saying: "It's your fault. You're using my drugs. I can't help it. I'm going to make money off of it. It's not my fault."
Bad analogy. Drugs are illegal. There's nothing illegal.
I did a business deal with the universities. Protecting those kids was their job -- not mine, not Phil's. They had the obligation not to sell their souls -- not me. I went there like any businessperson, and I represented the people I work for with all the good intentions. At every point it could have been stopped. ...
You were part of a system that encouraged these kids to believe that if they went through university, wore these uniforms, they had a good chance of making it to the pros, right?
Not at all. The numbers are too small. There's 150, 200 schools. There's only 455 guys playing the NBA right now. ...
You've said yourself that the objective effect of this on institutions of higher learning is to turn them into sports machines; that it has nothing really to do with education. In fact, in many cases, these kids who you're close to didn't get an education while they were there.
... What I basically said was, these kids should be a free enterprise unto themselves. What they did with their education was not the obligation of the shoe company.
But you couldn't have made a contract with, let's say, the University of Miami. You couldn't have helped them to sell their soul completely unless they had the kids in line, they had them sign these agreements.
No, I never knew they signed those agreements. Until you presented it to me, I don't know if I ever saw one. ...
What we did at the shoe companies and other entities, whether it's Gatorade or any other people, was made a deal with the university. ... The other party said to me, when they took the money from the shoe companies I represented, that we are delivering our athletes. It wasn't my job to go talk to 90 football players or 15 basketball players. The universities had the obligation. ...
You would agree that the situation today, right here, University of California -- there's Berkeley.edu, and then there's -- it's the sports side of the school that exists almost as a separate entity from the educational side. And that was only possible by this commercialization of college sports, and that [had a] very good effect on the educational side.
... We're not in the business of educating. You are, Mr. University. The public got it wrong here. The corporate entity sells this product to the university to use, whether it's drinking the juices or wearing the apparel. It's their job to educate, to put these kids in classes where they get good degrees.
Give me an example in your life when you became aware that these kids who you're close to were getting not just not paid, but not an education going through the system?
I think I became aware of it more than anything when I did a Nightline show in 1996 or something with Ted Koppel at Howard University. ... On that night, I sat there with this brilliant group of people and the president of the NCAA at that time, and they couldn't get off the fact that I supported kids being able to commercialize themselves or sell their own product.
[University of Michigan star] Chris Webber was on the show, and [he] said ... something that resonated: Why did his parents have to go up to the Michigan bookstore and buy his jersey for $175, and they were selling 1,000, and he couldn't --?
Had to buy the T-shirt because they couldn't get it for free?
No, they couldn't get it. ... And Nike was making the jerseys. We were selling them up there in a bookstore. And it hit me. ...
What hit you?
It hit me that these kids get blamed for everything. They're penalized and really demonized throughout their life as being a guy who took money from a booster who represented the university; a guy that cheated to get in the school, which he was allowed to do by the faculty that admitted him in the first place.
They made up the scores or looked the other way.
The universities have always looked the other way. They never get penalized. The individual does. ...
Every case I've ever seen in my life, there's been two parties: the buyer and the seller. And the buyer, even in the case of commercialism, the buyer is always the university, and we give them a free pass. ...
From the day Miami took everything until the day we live in, the business is booming, and it's so spread out now that some of these companies are multibillion-dollar marketing companies. Do you know that there are companies out there that represent all the schools in the NCAA? They do all their marketing for them. They go around, and they sell the brand of the NCAA.
But you had to have seen and to have talked with players that you knew from the time that they were in junior high school or high school, who finally made it to college to play and didn't get an education.
Yes, sir, and then give them a shoe deal. They didn't get an education because their coach lied, because they were put in classes that were not the right classes. And because they weren't good enough to play on that team, they got kicked out. They force you out.
It can't possibly be any good for a kid to play a game at 12:00 at night anywhere. It's impossible. One team last year, Arkansas Pine Bluff I believe, had 16 away games in a row to start their season. Sixteen. Where are the academics?
And you know the other thing that's a crock? All these big schools have [academic] advisers. They travel with them on airplanes. "Oh, we're going to study. We've got our advisers. We made arrangements with the professor."
Arrangements with the professor? What is this? Huxley University with the Marx Brothers [from the movie Horse Feathers]? Am I nuts? This is stupid. ... Spring practice, fall practice, morning practice, afternoon practice, weight practice. Are we nuts here? Practice, practice, practice. Games, games, games. When do they study?
So you became an advocate of players opting out of the system, not going to college.
Between 1993 and 2000, or whatever year that was -- '05 -- the NCAA allowed high school players to go into the pros. ... They had a choice that they could make there, and then they forced them to go to school. ...
So you couldn't play in the NBA unless you went to college for a year?
Yes. ... The rule is still in existence. ... That's legal in the sense that the Players Association and the NBA agreed upon this. On the merits of the thing, it's wrong and everything, but I can't contest that.
What I'm going to contest, though, is the NCAA. The NCAA by their own admission tells you that they'd like to see them stay two years. ... They keep them in because it's good for television. These great players play one year, and they're done.
Dwight Howard was one [who] was a high school guy. Kobe was a high school guy. LeBron [James] was the high school guy. Had nothing to do with college.
But your critics say that forcing kids, in this case kids out of high school, often from poor or disadvantaged backgrounds, at least exposing them to college is an experience for them to mature through. It gives them an opportunity to see a part of the world they may never see again. What's wrong with that?
Experience the college experience? They leave when the season's over. They only are there for a year. It defies the very tenet and basic rule of the NCAA: ... education. It's student first, athlete second. Interesting to me, because "student" has nothing to do with the athlete who leaves after one year. ...
What you're saying is it should be like baseball.
Baseball is the ideal system. How can it be good for one athlete attending a university and not the other ones? Because they don't give a damn about baseball. Baseball don't generate money.
Why isn't the baseball system put in there? Then you would have the kids who would get drafted, would stay and be NBA players like they want to be, and the kids that weren't good enough to get drafted go to college. I never disagreed with that. I've always said, "Give me an opportunity." Then whatever it is, you do. But I should have the opportunity.
So in 1996, you basically get this realization.
The epiphany of Sonny. I said, "I have to speak up." ...
You know something's wrong in the business that you helped create.
I know that the kids aren't treated fairly. There's nothing wrong with the business deal, nothing except one of those pieces of paper you showed me should have a kid's name on it and say, "Mr. Vaccaro, your new company you're working with, I'd like to be employed by, and I will wear the product while I'm playing for, you know, State University." And you should have the right to do it.
I'll play off what you've said. Tobacco industry, that's legal. Use it the way they tell you to use it, and it will kill you.
... No one's killing anybody. ...
The tobacco industry, legislatures wrote their own rules; Nike didn't. We are playing by the NCAA rules; that's the difference here. They give you the contract. You signed it. We put in what we wanted; they put in what they wanted. It was a business deal without representation by the kid.
The kid signed the deal, too, because if he didn't sign that piece of paper, they wouldn't be able to deliver --
Nike didn't handle it, or Adidas or Reebok. That's the point. The NCAA, that piece of paper was NCAA paper. They're the ones that don't want them out there bartering their own deals.
So you retired.
I never retired. I walked away from it.
You decided to go on a college tour. Why?
So the next time I talked to individuals like you, you couldn't look me in the eye and say, "Well, you're still working for Nike, Adidas or Reebok." I had to get rid of that, so I walked away from a very good job from Reebok, two years of personal employment and two years of personal endorsing of all the events I did, which come into a lot of money. And I toured America.
I spoke at the Harvards, the Yales. I never spoke to a basketball team or a football team. No one wants to admit that. I went to the law schools, the business schools, the journalist schools. I went to schools that the kids didn't know who I was, or they had an opinion of me, but they certainly never met me. ...
I pray that one of those kids would have enough guts one day to represent and go after the complete fraud of amateurism within amateur sports in America. ...
You severed your connections with the industry. People think you're nuts?
No one believed me but my wife, Pam. But I had to do it. ... I owed those kids. ... They allowed me to travel the world to do these things that I did. They allowed me to do this. I knew it was wrong, and I had to take a stand. ...
I'm trying to plead so it doesn't happen for the next generation of kids. I don't believe in my deepest of hearts that a group such as the NCAA should control my body and my mind after I'm no longer with them. They don't have the right to own me into infinity. ...
That the American public, only because of the love of sport, would allow this to happen is beyond my comprehension. The only chance we have is in courts, and you pray that the courts will see the right thing to do would be to free these kids and allow them to voice their hereafter life, when they're no longer in college, and share in the bounty that they reaped. That's all I'm asking.
... How did you come up with the idea of suing?
... I knew that the only way that we could win, that these kids could win, would be in court. You can't win it by public opinion, and half the media is lackeys for the NCAA. They just bend. They make the tour; they want to go to the games.
I'm not saying stop the games. I'm saying stop the way these kids are treated once they quit playing the games.
To me, a perfect world would be that we get to a court, it finds an end result, whatever it is they want to abide by, and somebody finds deep inside of them that this commercial entity, the NCAA, and this noncommercial entity, the individuals, 17-, 18- and 19-year-old kids, by your own admission, are struggling, didn't have the proper education, may not have got the right grades.
Now we're finding out about injuries. [They] have a long life ahead of them that they may not be able to cope with financially and physically. ...
[I'm] looking for the motivation. Did someone call you, someone advise you, "It's time to file a lawsuit"?
I swear to God almighty, no. I honestly thought it would be one of those kids I talked to. ...
I made a point over my lifetime of 71 years to understand that if there's an injustice, you feel someone's got to make a step. This was my step. But it wasn't me. It's going to be these lawyers and these kids who stand up.
... It's getting huge as I sit here. There's going to be thousands of kids going to sign up. We only need a few plaintiffs to start the case. I get calls every day from kids who are household names who didn't get their degree, don't have a good job, big this Player of the Year, big that Player of the Year, all-tournament team, Final Four, the guys on the covers of these magazines. It didn't always turn out right. ...
You've got to get a decision here. It's amateurism or it isn't. It's a very clear definition here. Say yes or say no.
If it's yes, then take care of the kids. If it's no, then the kids should be free to do what they want. Shouldn't have to sign scholarship papers. Why would you want me to sign a scholarship paper if it's all in your favor? There's not an equal there.
... The critics say, "Here's Sonny Vaccaro, smart businessman; he doesn't do things for free." What's in it for you?
Obviously there's nothing for me now. Maybe someone watching this program will offer me a job. I haven't worked in three years. I've got to take care of my wife.
I'm being honest. ... This is payback. I had to do it. I had to do it. I owed those kids.
The [O'Bannon v. NCAA] case where you're suing ESPN, the NCAA and Electronic Arts [Inc. (EA Sports)], you're not a plaintiff?
I'm an unpaid consultant, not a plaintiff. I get no money. And every place I've gone, I've paid my own way. ...
... As of now, just as part of the lawsuit that involved Electronic Arts, ... the list of people signing up on both sides, you've got the whole media industry and beyond that involved.
We definitely created a battlefield, haven't we? We have the people working for the workers, and we have the people that are defending the First Amendment rights, and somewhere in between here, we've got to get past both of those statements and defend these kids.
I don't disagree with the First Amendment. I understand what the media's saying, and I understand what the labor unions are saying also. ...
The only problem with the law, until we have a rendering in this case, is the law as it's written, the First Amendment and the workers' rights should not allow an entity to control me without representation, without guarantee of scholarship, without guarantee of insurance, without guarantee of education. ...
Do they have the right to use me forever? It's not a First Amendment thing. They're using me forever. I didn't sign that. My scholarship paper never signed, "You own me in perpetuity."
What I'm saying is, these kids deserve a piece of the pie when they're no longer there.
As I understand, the argument is when you sign that paper, you're also not allowed to talk to an attorney about it. You're not allowed to have any representation.
And NCAA claims that they own your rights in perpetuity.
Yes, and the rest of your existence, I guess, into cyberspace, right? ... Because they're texting things now. They're selling them on iPhones. There's 100 more ways to make money off of these kids. Why should this group of individuals control all this? Why should individuals profit by the games?
I'm not saying they shouldn't profit. I'm not against bowl games or NCAA tournaments. I'm a fan. ... Why can't everyone come to an understanding here that the kids deserve something after they're done playing? That's all I want. ...
But the NCAA, in their own unrealistic way, they say to you: "The presidents run everything. We abide by the presidents of the universities." Really? Then I want you to go to the president of these so-called great academic universities that happen to have good football or basketball teams, and I want them to tell me, with their educated minds, ... that these kids don't deserve anything. ...
Everybody makes money here except the kids. When the game's over and they have the bad legs and the bad heads and some of them die, what do they have? Nothing but the school. ...
Now, when you testified before the Nike Commission, you talked about a student. ... Tell us the story.
It was at my ABCD [Academic Betterment and Career Development] Camp. That was the camp that I invited, under Nike's banner when we first started, the best basketball players in America to spend a week -- at that time it was at Princeton University -- to come in.
We brought them in, "we" being Nike, and gave them uniforms and practice, and we had academics for them. We had academics in the morning, and they played afternoon and night.
These are high schools?
All high school kids. The oldest you could be was a senior; you couldn't be graduated. So we brought these kids in, and arguably one of the top 10 kids in America that year was a kid that I knew very well. ... He was in the locker room, so I go down to the locker room. As God is my judge, I looked at him, and he was crying, a big hunk of a young man. I said, "What is wrong?"
He said to me, "Mr. Vaccaro," he said, "'Mr. Dubois,'" who was our academic adviser at the time, "just told me I had a third-grade reading level. I'm going to be a senior next year. How could I only be reading at third grade?" And he was accepted into these universities already. He was mad because it was a trick. It was a fraud; it was a farce. He understood it, this kid who was misled academically all the way through high school, this fraud about the high schools getting you ready.
... Unfortunately, there's been many of those kids, but never one so poignant and so articulate. And the kid went to a major school and played and eventually quit and went pro. I think it was two years.
But he said: "How could they have let me be this? How could I only be reading [at] the third grade?" True story.
Is that why you say you owe them?
That and the other stories.
One time -- many times, but one time in particular -- I had a great player call me. High school. ... I knew the daddy; I knew the kid. Good people. Didn't have anything. Dad calls me on the phone. ... He said: "Sonny, Mr. Vaccaro, can you help me? ... We're coming down to two schools, and they both offered us a lot of money." ...
One offered him X thousands of dollars, and the other one X thousand, but not thousands, but the one that offered the less amount was closer to where he lived, and the other one was away. They were both national schools, both highly recommended, and both coaches were on the board of directors of the Coaches Association staff. ...
When this man told me about his son, what was I supposed to tell him when I knew that the numbers that this guy quoted me was the kind of money I was being paid from Nike that year? It was serious.
Serious money. From a college?
There's no question. And those two coaches were reputable.
I called a major coach that I was friends with. I've never done this before or after, because I quit doing it. That's why they always say, "Well, Vaccaro knows where the bodies are buried," and all that crap. And I do, but I would never go.
I called this coach, and I asked this coach for advice. ... He said, "Don't tell me the names, and do what you think is best." I never forgot that. That's the logic of the protection of the clan, I call it.
Protection of the clan?
The coaching clan. No one talks about each other, because maybe the majority of them could be that other guy. I have no idea.
I'm not going to say who or what, but I never forgot that either. Here's a guy who I believed at that time was powerful enough to put a stop to it. A very call by people like him, in even today's world, could change the landscape of everything.
But have you ever noticed very few coaches ever stand up and defend the kids? Even in the [Ed] O'Bannon case, no one stood up and said, "He's right."
What you're saying is, everybody in the coaching profession in major schools knows what's going on?
... I'm saying everyone in the coaching profession, a major school, has an idea what's going on, not "knows." ... That doesn't infer [sic] that all of them do it; that infers that some of them do it. But the ones that could stop the one from doing it don't stop them. This could be stopped. ...
They don't do it because --
It's the code. I don't know. I have no idea why.
You won't do it?
... Let me tell you why I can't do it and I won't do it: because if I do that, then I've also violated the kid.
I didn't have the right to make the decision for that parent, but these coaches have a right to decide whether these kids, or these schools who offer these kids this kind of money, should be allowed to practice their games. I can't. ...
Who am I to say you shouldn't take the money? I'm not going to tell on you either. That's why they trust me. ...
... Coaches at public universities are paying money under the table to players?
I say that the people representing these universities are paying. I don't think any head coach worth his salt ever makes the payment, but I would not say that.
Boosters, payers. ...
You have to go back to the main commodity here. It's the individual, the player. When the things hit the fan, who gets hit? The kid. ... But I'm saying to you, it wasn't my decision to make. It was his decision to make and that school's decision to make. They asked me for advice; I gave them advice.
What did you tell them?
I'll tell you exactly what I told them: You'd better make sure that whatever one you do, [whichever] you do it with, you get the money up front -- that's exactly what I told them -- because once you sign, you're their property. ... There will be a lot of amnesia cases once you're there. You're only a valuable commodity when they want you. When they've got you, you're not valuable anymore. | <urn:uuid:55ddbad0-cca6-48db-9954-b26aacb99230> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/money-and-march-madness/interviews/sonny-vaccaro.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719079.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00033-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989015 | 7,815 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Angren(ən-gryĕn`), city (1989 pop. 131,970), in the Tashkent region, Uzbekistan. The largest lignite-mining center in Central Asia, it was developed during and after World War II.
city in the Tashkent Oblast of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic. Located on the left bank of the Angren Valley, consists of several separate sections. Railroad terminal on the branch from Tashkent. The main highway from Tashkent to Kokand passes through Angren. In 1969 the population of Angren was 94,000. The city was formed in 1946 on the basis of settlements which had grown up in connection with the coal processing in the Angren coal basin. It is the center of the coal industry in Uzbekistan. An underground coal-gas plant, a large state district power plant, building-materials enterprises (reinforced-concrete structural-element, cement, and asphalt-cement plants, a combine for manufacturing ceramic products, and others), and food industry enterprises are located in Angren. The city has a pedagogical institute, a general technical department of the Tashkent Polytechnical Institute, a mining-geological technicum, a medical school, and a historical and regional studies museum.
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By Tetsushi Kajimoto and Daniel Leussink
TOKYO (Reuters) - Ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Japanese city of Kamo spent 70 million yen ($640,000) on horizontal bars, gymnastic mats and other upgrades to training facilities for 42 Russian gymnasts and coaches who now won't be coming.
The team scrapped plans for pre-Olympics training in Japan because of the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic, local officials said. Officials in the northwestern city of 25,000 say they regret the lost opportunity to host the team, even more than the money spent.
The Games, now less than eight weeks away after being delayed by a year, have been upended by COVID-19. Foreign spectators will not be allowed, and more than 100 municipalities have cancelled plans to host overseas teams.
"Local kids who could be future star gymnasts were disappointed to miss the opportunity to meet the Russian gymnasts," Kamo official Hirokazu Suzuki told Reuters.
Although there is little Olympic buzz in host city Tokyo, which is under a state of emergency because of the pandemic, in smaller places like Kamo, which had been planning the camp since 2019, the disappointment is perhaps more palpable.
Most of the cancellations so far have been in the 500 or so municipalities involved in the Olympics "host town" programme, in which foreign teams base their pre-Games training in Japanese facilities.
In some cases, such as Australia's judo team, the teams pulled out over safety concerns. In others, such as a delegation from Cuba set to stay in Higashimatsuyama city north of Tokyo, the municipalities decided not to host.
Organisers say the Games will be held safely. Several opinion polls have shown most Japanese people want the event to be cancelled or postponed again.
The national government earmarked 13 billion yen for municipalities to host training camps while imposing coronavirus measures, officials said.
Municipalities apart from Tokyo were expected to see a boost of about $110 billion through 2030 from the Games, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government said in a March 2017 estimate.
"Training camps will give a huge impulse to the economies of towns and cities where they are held, but that is being lost," said Katsuhiro Miyamoto, an emeritus professor of economics at Kansai University who studies the economic impact of the Olympics.
Officials in Narita, east of Tokyo, were caught by surprise when the United States' track and field team informed them it had decided to pull out of planned a training camp.
About 120 athletes and staff, including star sprinter Justin Gatlin, were set to come for the camp, said Kentaro Abe, a municipal official in charge of host town projects.
Narita's sports relationship with the United States started in 2015, when it hosted the U.S. training camp before the world athletics championships in Beijing.
"It doesn't mean that our efforts to promote sport exchange between Japan and the United States came to nothing," Abe told Reuters, adding that city would look to continue the relationship.
In the central city of Toyota, home to the carmaker and Olympic sponsor Toyota Motor Corp, Canadian swimmers and coaches pulled out of pre-Olympics training scheduled to be held over about three weeks in July.
Such cancellations could add to the pain for towns and regions that are already smarting from a drop-off in tourism.
At her hotel in western Izumisano city, Eriko Tsujino worries she could lose about 60 bookings from Mongolian and Ugandan national teams if the athletes ditch plans to train in Japan.
"If they were to cancel at the last minute, it would cause a huge loss," she told Reuters, saying the bookings had still not been confirmed because of the state of emergency.
After the Russians cancelled their camp in Kamo, officials there decided at the last minute to host a much smaller Portuguese delegation of one female artistic gymnast and two accompanying staff, Suzuki said.
But the city also sought to keep friendly relations with the Russian gymnasts, asking kids and other locals to show them support with making video messages and letters.
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How Big is Amazon’s Cloud Computing Business?
It goes without saying that with its array of web services, Amazon has transformed the computing landscape and nurtured what is generically known as the cloud computing industry. By turning expensive storage and computing hardware into a billable service, it has opened up new vistas for entrepreneurs and made corporations rethink how they build and use their computing and storage resources. The question often people ask: How much money is Amazon making from these web services? I’ve heard some wild estimates.
Today, UBS Investment Research analysts Brian Pitz and Brian Fitzgerald released a report which projects revenue numbers against Amazon’s web services. The duo estimate that in 2010, AWS will generate about $500 million in revenues and will grow this number to $750 million by 2011. By 2014, it would bring in close to $2.54 billion in revenues.
UBS analysts believe that the total market for AWS-type services will be between $5-to-$6 billion in 2010 and will eventually grow to $15-to-$20 billion in 2014. How they arrive at these numbers:
- IDC says the total global cloud market in 2010 will be $22 billion and $55 billion in 2014.
- IDC says the total servers and storage account for $5 billion-to-$6 billion in 2010 and $15-to-$20 billion in 2015.
Of the twelve AWS product lines, only two (EC2 and S3) compete in this subcategory. AWS essentially ‘rents out’ IT infrastructure to companies that seek to outsource IT needs such as Application Hosting, Web Hosting, High Performance Computing, Storage, E-Commerce, and more. Amazon was one of the first entrants (3Q06), and is a top player in the rapidly growing market. (UBS Research Report)
(Amazon Web Services: Revenue Model)
They argue that while so far the AWS revenue has been small and immaterial when compared to the overall Amazon revenues (roughly $25 billion), that will change soon and AWS will contribute about 10 cents a share in earnings during 2010, and grow it to 22 cents in 2011. The UBS analysts value the AWS business at between $3.4 billion to $3.8 billion. According to their estimates, AWS business had a net income of $58.2 million in 2010 and will make $100.7 million in 2011. By 2014, that number will jump to $393 million, or 83 cents a share. The analysts estimate that gross margins of the web business will be around 50 percent versus Amazon’s gross margins of around 22 to 23 percent.
These are astounding numbers and, if accurate, will prove that Amazon was smart to bet early and bet big on the cloud computing opportunity. Perhaps one thing I should note (and caution) — so far, Amazon has not publicly broken down its revenues along various product categories.
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The Colyar Cemetery index lists individuals interred at the Colyar Cemetery, located in Sprague, Whitman County, Washington. Index information about an individual may include name, birth date, birth place, death date, and names of family members. Index data was compiled by Bud Engelhardt and Rick Engelhardt.
Colyar Cemetery is located 13 miles SE of Sprague, Washington on Hwy 23 in Section 13 Twp 19N R39EWM.
There are 38 individuals listed in this index.
This index is in English.
This index is open for research.
Transcribed by Bud Engelhardt and Rick Engelhardt.
“According to a deed registered at Davenport, Washington ( Lincoln County), this cemetery was established on 3 May 1909. However, this cemetery was discontinued prior to 1973, when it was copied by Lorraine Cook White and Margie Freiser Robertson. No new graves were found when visited in 1999 by Bud and Rick Engelhardt.”
Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], Colyar Cemetery, Office of Secretary of State, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed].
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(CNN) -- Are we in the age of internet revolutions -- where Facebook, Twitter and text messages are essential ingredients in democratic change?
Or, as the ongoing protests in Egypt perhaps show, is the internet only one tool in this process -- nothing more than the modern version of the telephone?
As violent demonstrations continue on the streets of Egypt -- where many are upset with the results of Hosni Mubarak's 30 years in power -- tech pundits and bloggers are trying to sort out the internet's role in the situation.
Some say Egypt is violating modern human rights by cutting access to the internet and to mobile phone networks. Others say the fact that protests have continued despite these digital barricades reveals a massive hole in the argument that social media spawns modern revolutions.
"Where activists were once defined by their causes, they are now defined by their tools," Malcolm Gladwell writes in The New Yorker.
To help make sense of these complicated arguments, here's a wrap-up of what people are saying about the internet's role in Egypt, where unrest continues, and in Tunisia, where protests earlier this month toppled the government and set off a wave of unrest in other Middle Eastern countries:
U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley told Al-Jazeera that internet access is a modern human right:
"We want to make sure that Egypt is not interfering with the use of social media. That's a fundamental right as clear as walking into a town square. We're making these points clear to Egypt, publicly and privately."
Dave Pell, writing on the blog Tweetage Wasteland, says the internet isn't essential for revolution -- but it sure helps:
"Yes, folks. The Civil Rights movement took place at a time before Twitter. For those scoring at home, the same is true for every notable historical movement from the Big Bang through the release of Destiny Child's Bootlylicious video. The realtime, social web is clearly not a required element to organize and execute a high impact revolution. Neither is a megaphone, but it sure makes it easier for the folks in the back to hear you."
"A dictator toppled by Twitter or ousted through the efforts of a Facebook group? It's an enticing idea, particularly for those who are in the business of social media and have a personal stake of sorts in tallying each instance of social media's global value making headlines. Twitter punditry this week has been peppered with speculation about whether upheaval in Tunisia or the subsequent anti-government protests in Egypt might amount to the 'first' true revolution spawned by social media. But this just isn't the right way to measure things: the occurrence of a 'social media revolution,' at this point, should be neither noteworthy nor remarkable. If a dictator is overthrown or a government ousted, it would be notable if Facebook or Twitter weren't used."
Wired's David Kravets reports that Egyptians are publicizing protests with good-old-fashioned leaflets, in the absence of the internet:
"... Don't confuse tools with root causes, or means with ends. The protests in Tunisia, Egypt and Yemen are against dictators who've held power -- and clamped down on their people -- for decades. That's the fuel for the engine of dissent. The dozen or more protesters that self-immolated in Egypt didn't do it for the tweets. 'It's about years of repression and dictatorship. Revolutions existed before Twitter and Facebook,' Issandr el-Amrani, a Cairo writer and activist, said in a telephone interview from Tunisia. 'It's really not much more complicated than this.' Only about a quarter of the Egyptian populace is online, el-Amrani estimated. So street protests have grown the old-fashioned way: by leaflets and spontaneous amalgamation."
At the blog TechCrunch, Alexia Tsotsis writes that Twitter is turning people into individual news networks:
"Humans are functioning as defacto news aggregators using the publication tools already available. This, while not a novel idea, really hit home in the past two weeks with the two subsequent revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt. What I and you probably noticed was that interested people we followed took it upon themselves to become individual nodes of information, using the tools they had to serve as their own news networks."
In The New Yorker,Nicholas Thompson, a social media expert, writes that the internet can benefit both sides of a conflict:
"Governments control the pipes through which all that information flows. This means they can block sites or, as Egypt has just apparently done, shut down the entire Internet and thus confuse everyone who has come to rely on it. In Iran, the government clearly had some success using the Internet to disrupt and slow the green revolution. In Tunisia, the government hacked the password of nearly every Facebook user in the country. Had Ben Ali not fallen so quickly, that information would have been extremely useful. Technological tools can be used quite effectively by the masses, or by the man."
On the Foreign Policy blog "The Net Effect," internet scholar Evgeny Morozov writes that the internet and mobile phones make it easier for authoritarian regimes to track protestors:
" ... technology -- not just the Internet but also mobile phones -- make (sic) it easier to trace protesters and dissidents. It would be very hard, for example, to trace the names of everyone who gathered on Minsk's central square to oppose the results of the recent elections in Belarus before mobile phones became ubiquitous."
Speaking on CNN, journalism professor Jeff Jarvis said the internet is a human right -- and that it enables people 'to take charge' of government :
"I think the right to connect now becomes a fundamental human right. And the problem here is we see that government is the single point of failure for the internet. Whether that's the kill switch, as Egypt has used it, or whether it's the fact that they control the structure for the internet. And so our future -- the means by which we're going to build the next society -- is vulnerable here, and that worries me. At the same time, I celebrate the fact that the people in a nation can use these tools to take charge."
Harvard's Jillian York writes the Tunisia protests would have happened with or without Twitter and Facebook -- but we might not have heard about it:
"Would the State Department have gotten involved early on (remember, their first public comment was in respect to Tunisian Net freedom)? Would Al Jazeera --without offices on the ground -- have been able to report on the unfolding story as they did? Most importantly, would any of that have mattered?"
Internet access is "fundamental" to the protests in Egypt, writes Khadija Sharife on the Huffington Post:
"More than ever, the internet remains a crucial vehicle of sustaining and transmitting resistance by allowing for Egyptians to 'network the world' about the machinery of Mubarak's brutal regime. While it is not technology that has given life to the revolution but Egyptians themselves, catalyzed in part by their Tunisian neighbors, access is fundamental."
In The New Yorker, Malcolm Gladwell points out that protests -- and revolutions -- occurred long before the internet. Take the Civil Rights movement:
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Unrelenting noise still in their future, Greendale neighbors of The Rock fear
GREENDALE — Some neighbors of The Rock Sports Complex are afraid that noise, like a vacuum cleaner running for hours inside the house, is the best they can look forward to. The worst is being blown up in a methane explosion brought on by proposed development on the landfill.
That was the biggest concern Greendale residents had when interviewed about a major development happening nearby in Franklin.
Recently, Milwaukee County agreed to give an option to buy county-owned land next to The Rock to developer Michael Zimmerman who already owns The Rock.
Zimmerman would like the additional land to add a stadium where the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team and perhaps a minor league team could play. Also envisioned are a multi-story commercial building with restaurant space and offices above, a building with stores and restaurant downstairs and apartments on the upper floors, an indoor sports facility with attached store and restaurant space, an indoor/outdoor golf center, and retail and restaurant buildings on out lots near the other buildings.
The new development would be known as Ballpark Commons and still needs to go through the Franklin and state approval process.
In giving the option to buy the county land, the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors added restrictions to reduce noise from summer concerts at the Umbrella Bar and the glare from the existing baseball field lights.
Supervisor Tony Staskunas, who represents both part of Franklin and all of Greendale, said those provisions should have been written into the original 2011 agreement allowing The Rock to be built on the landfill.
However, despite the recent effort to protect them, some neighbors doubt the new noise and light provisions will be effective. They feel somewhat abandoned by elected officials, eager for development.
Staskunas, who was anxious that the board keep their needs in mind, disagreed: "We're trying to protect our citizens."
However, some neighbors say that the new requirement that noise be capped at 79 decibels is too lenient. That's about the same amount of noise a vacuum cleaner makes, they said.
"Try having a vacuum cleaner follow you four hours straight," said Stephanie Leranth, who lives about a half mile north of the complex on 76th Street. "Try having guests come over and having a vacuum cleaner follow you around."
But what bothers neighbors more is that the building the developer has in mind for Ballpark Commons could revive problems with explosive methane gas.
Some of The Rock Complex was built on a landfill. Landfills produce methane. A two-story home on the edge of the landfill filled with methane to potentially explosive levels, before the fire department ventilated the building in 1996 or 1997, homeowner Robert Knoll said.
He and other neighbors worry the sheer weight of all the proposed Ballpark Commons buildings could push the methane gas past the underground collection system and into neighborhoods where it could enter homes again.
The Rock Sports Complex at 7900 Crystal Ridge Road is on the west side of 76th Street, north of Rawson Avenue and south of Grange Avenue. The Ballpark Commons would be between the existing ski hill and baseball diamonds and Rawson Avenue.
The six baseball fields and Umbrella Bar were opened in 2013 when The Rock opened. The Umbrella Bar only started holding Saturday night summer concerts in 2015. The Rock also consists of a BMX track and a gravity bike trail.
Homes surround Rock
The H-section of Greendale, (where street names begin with that letter in the planned community) across 76th Street and Overlook Farms, another Greendale subdivision, is north of the site. The subdivision where the Knoll home is located is west of The Rock.
Staskunas said the state Department of Natural Resources, that oversees landfills, will look into the possibility of methane migration.
And as to the noise and lights, Staskunas said he is satisfied that the measures the developer has agreed to take will improve the situation or eliminate problems. That's the only reason he supported giving the developer the option to buy the adjoining land, he said.
"I voted for it mainly because it was a unique opportunity to fix the noise and light concerns for Greendale and because the city of Franklin felt it is important to their community," Staskunas said.
Some in Franklin have even spoken of the complex as fulfilling a long-standing desire for a city center, essentially a downtown area, which is something Franklin lacks.
To reduce noise, the developer has agreed to turn the speakers away from homes and to abide by the 79 decibel level maximum, under Franklin's noise ordinance.
Some Greendale neighbors are not as sure as Staskunas that the noise and light problems will be reduced.
Not only is 79 decibels too loud, but the developer's plan to install three decibel meters on the three sides facing homes is flawed, said neighbor Joy Draginis-Zingales.
"The noise is horrific," she said. "We can't sit in our backyards."
Meters won't help?
And the decibel meters won't help because they will be at street level, which is many feet below where the bands perform, she said. The sound will sail right over the meters, she said. The concerts are held at the Umbrella Bar, which overlooks the ball fields.
Leranth, whose family lives a half mile north of the Umbrella Bar, described the first time she heard a concert there.
"We thought somebody was in the neighbor's driveway with the bass cranked up," she said. "We heard every word, very clearly for every song."
The windows rattle from the pounding bass and the family keeps the windows closed on Saturday nights all summer and turns on fans to try to get away from the sound, Leranth said.
Perhaps most disturbing is that a Franklin police officer measured the relentless noise in a bedroom at 75 decibels with the windows closed, she said.
The summer concerts are finished, now but The Hill Has Eyes haunted hill has taken their place with screaming and horns, she said.
"Seventy-nine is too high. It should be under 70, at least. Until they change the decibel level, I don't think anything will happen," Leranth said.
The county settled on 79 decibels because that's the limit Franklin has, Staskunas said.
That has been the max for many years, said Franklin Police Chief Rick Oliva, who added, "Noise level is a matter of opinion."
As far as changing the location of decibel measurements, he said, "We enforce the city ordinance that dictates the level of sound is measured at the property line."
As to turning the speakers, Leranth said, "It didn't help much last time."
Neighbors hold out a bit more hope for reducing the glare from ballfield lights.
"It lights up our two bedrooms and our living room," said Draginis-Zingales.
Quality of life
The interference with quality of life of neighbors is significant, said Staskunas.
"During games, their back yards are lit up like daytime," he said.
With the new shields and lights, the glare should be gone, he said. "I feel real confident, having seen what they're putting in."
Draginis-Zingales, too, is somewhat hopeful.
"It'll probably work to a certain degree," she said.
Doubts about DNR
But she is most worried about the methane issue, and she isn't sure the DNR is up to policing the site, she said. When a minor problem cropped up at The Rock, it took citizens bringing photographs to the DNR for the problem to be corrected, she said.
Knoll, too, is worried about a recurrence of the potentially lethal methane buildup that could have killed his daughter in the 1990s when their home filled with the gas. His teenage daughter who was home sick that day ran out of the house when the methane alarm the county supplied went off, he said.
Firefighters from two departments and the Milwaukee County Office of Emergency Government didn't enter the home until enough methane could be released so the concentration was no longer explosive, Knoll said.
His neighbor on Hawthorne Lane in Franklin had an explosive fire from methane in his basement as the Knolls were building their home in 1973, he said. Methane also had been reported in homes in the early 1990s and a more effective collection system for collecting and dealing with the gas was installed in the 1990s, shortly after the explosive build-up in his home, Knoll said.
Now with all the Ballpark Commons construction proposed, Knoll said he hopes someone will make sure the collection system remains effective.
"I'm concerned that the system not be compromised," Knoll said.
He worried about the effect of the additional weight of the buildings on gas production. Would it accelerate gas production, or would it introduce contaminants to wells? he asked.
Methane is an ongoing concern, as he and his neighbors have had probes in their yards since the 1990s that Milwaukee County checks monthly, he said. Also, the county checks wells every year for contaminants from the landfill, he said.
But beyond the danger methane poses, Knoll said he isn't looking forward to a stadium next door with games and concerts and all the traffic that goes with them or a golf building.
"We moved here to live in a quiet residential neighborhood," he said. "But there is so much enthusiasm in the city of Franklin" for the Ballpark Commons project, he said. For their parts, Milwaukee County and the DNR want to be able to redevelop a liability, which is the landfill, into something useful, Knoll said.
"Nobody's concerned about the danger side, the health risk," he said, referring to the methane and possible toxic gases from the flame that is supposed to safely burn it off. Neighbors say they have reason to wonder whether the flame is actually releasing toxic fumes into the air because it isn't burning hot enough. | <urn:uuid:69247554-1755-46ec-9ab1-763db59729bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jsonline.com/story/communities/southwest/news/greendale/2017/10/19/unrelenting-noise-still-their-future-greendale-neighbors-rock-fear/754642001/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.970287 | 2,111 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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Keep asking questions
This principle goes by many names: research, reporting, homework, etc. The more important you consider a topic, the more essential it becomes to follow up on media reports about it.
The more important you consider a topic, the more essential it becomes to follow up on media reports about it.
The internet sparked a revolution in commerce, as potential buyers of products and services discovered relatively easy ways to learn more before purchasing. No one with common sense buys a car today based solely on advertising; we do research online, making comparisons and arming ourselves for the ultimate confrontation with the dealer. And online recommendations by customers, such as Yelp and Amazon reviews, have outsized influence despite their iffy trustworthiness.
Indeed, we need to recognize that a “buyer beware” attitude has its limits. Even though we generally recognize we need to consult multiple sources of information to help make major decisions about our lives. But do we also recognize why we need to dig deeply to get the right answers about life and citizenship issues that are important to us? We need to keep investigating, sometimes in major ways but more often in small ones, to ensure that we routinely make good choices.
The rise of the Internet has given us a relatively easy way to dig deeper into the topics we care about the most. We can ask questions, and we can often get intelligent answers to these questions.
But as we’ve discussed elsewhere, intelligent answers may not be what we see at first glance in a search. Our investigation may turn up bogus information. A YouTube video that claims to educate us on a political or social topic may well be emotion-stirring propaganda designed to make you believe things that are not true.
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What are personal, social and emotional life skills?
Personal, social and emotional life skills are three “soft skills”. Personal skills refer broadly to how we interact with those around us, social skills refer to how we communicate with others, verbally and non-verbally, and emotional skills refers to our ability to recognize and regulate our emotions and recognize the emotions of others (1). It is critical for students to develop their personal, social, and emotional life skills in school to help enhance their learning, build positive relationships, and gain necessary employability skills for the future, as employers are increasingly placing value on transferrable “soft” skills (1). Developing these skills also improves the overall well-being of children and young people and is a key aspect of their personal development (1).
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Promoting the development of personal, social, and emotional skills directly aligns with Ormiston Trust’s core values of caring for people, empowering each other, and focusing on outcomes and sustained success. Enhancing these three skills empowers children to communicate and work effectively with others, understand their emotions to care for themselves, and builds marketable skill sets for sustained professional success. OT is committed to providing their students with tools that extend beyond the classroom to lead fulfilling lives and funding projects that cultivate personal, social and emotional life skills is a part of this.
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Bulk mail is often mistaken for spam and is starting to become a larger problem for organizations. EOP is not very aggressive out of the box when it comes to bulk mail because this type of mail falls into a grey area. Some organizations will want to receive this type of mail, whereas others will not.
Over the last few months we have greatly increased EOPs ability to detect bulk mail which you can take advantage of starting today. This new system is based on a scale which gives customers the ability to set the aggressiveness of bulk mail detection to meet their specific needs.
X-Microsoft-Antispam is a new header that is stamped on all messages traversing Exchange Online and only started appearing in messages few months ago. This new header currently contains two published values to help better detect bulk and phishing emails.
BCL – Bulk Complaint Level
PCL – Phishing Confidence Level
The beauty of this header is that it is stamped on incoming messages BEFOREthe EOP transport rules are evaluated. This means EOP transport rules can be written to trigger based on what’s in this header.
One of the goals behind the new X-Microsoft-Antispam header is to allow customers to decide how sensitive they want EOP to be when it comes to bulk mail detection. Currently in the EOP Content Filter there is a bulk mail detection switch that can only be set to either On or Off.
The problem with this switch only being on or off is that bulk mail is a very grey area. What one user considers as bulk another will not. This is why EOP (with no additional configuration added) typically does not block this type of mail. This is also why we are moving beyond the On or Off switch to a multi-value type classification system where customers will be able to set the level that they are comfortable with.
With this new header, you can decide on a scale how sensitive you want the service to be with bulk mail detection. Eventually this will be rolled in to the Advanced Spam Filter options and replace the current bulk On or Off switch, but for now you can write EOP Transport Rules to start taking advantage of this today! You can choose the bulk mail detection level that makes sense for your organization.
At MEC this year there was a great presentation with the title “So how does Microsoft handle my spam?” In this presentation, bulk mail detection is discussed between 22:30 to 28:50 and the speakers provide great insight into this topic. The entire session is great, but I would recommend at least listening to the six minutes where they discuss bulk mail.
What can I do today?
If you are receiving unwanted bulk mail today, the following suggestions can help.
1. Take advantage of the new x-Microsoft-Antispam header by creating an EOP transport rule. The following is an example of a rule that will mark messages as spam if the stamped Bulk Complaint Level is 6 or higher.
For detected messages this rule will set the SCL to 6 which will cause the message to take the spam action you have configured in the content filter. The additional header that this rule adds will make it easy to identify messages that were marked as spam by this rule. For more information on rules that will increase the bulk sensitivity of EOP see Use transport rules to aggressively filter bulk email messages. This page describes three separate rules, the first of which walks through the creation of the above rule. I would recommend starting only with the first rule that looks at x-Microsoft-Antispam, and if you need even more aggressive filtering, create the subsequent two rules.
3. Educate your users. If a user recognizes the sender of the bulk message and does not want to receive further mail, they can click the unsubscribe link on the email. If the user does not recognize the sender, they can block the sender or domain in Outlook or OWA by adding the sender to their Blocked Senders list.
Note: EOP will always stamp this new header on messages regardless if it already exists or not. This prevents a spammer from manually adding this header themselves and setting a BCL of 0.
In the near future it will be easier to take advantage of this new BCL system. We plan to roll this functionality into a slider that will be configurable in the Office 365 portal. Until this happens, creating the transport rule described above will allow you to take advantage of this functionality immediately.
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Mobile is becoming increasingly important in the digital arena. No two ways about it. No wonder then that Google launched its SMS or Short Messaging Service from Gmail in India today.
This is how it works. Gmail chat allows you to choose between call and SMS option. If you choose SMS, it asks you to enter the recipient’s name (mandatory) and mobile number of course. Once you do that, the chat window opens. Then, all you need to do is enter your text message.
You get 50 SMS credits in the beginning, which get added to with more usage. So if the recipient replies to you via SMS, you receive the reply in your chat window and your credits get added up.
So what do I like about it?
a. It allows me to connect with people who may not be online all the time.
b. I don’t need to spend anything for sending the SMS via Gmail.
c. I can receive the SMS in my chat window like I would via a messenger.
d. Supports multiple countries and a number of operators.
What could improve?
a. Each SMS ends with a ‘You may reply’. Seems redundant for every message.
b. The platform does not seem to be integrated with Google Talk on mobile. Had it been, it would have given competition to applications like Whatsapp. However, this seems intentional to help partnering mobile operators, as the recipient spends money for every SMS based on network charges.
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Jim Crow lynchings were more common than thought with new report adding 700 more murdered African Americans to total of nearly 4,000
The lynching of African Americans in the Jim Crow-era South was much more widespread than initially thought.
A new report found that white mobs murdered a total of 3,959 black persons in 12 southern states between 1877 and 1950, which is a shocking 700 more than previously reported.
The Montgomery, Alabama based nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) spent five years researching newspaper articles, historical archives, and court records on these attacks and revealed the new total in a report published Tuesday.
Dark history: A new report has added 700 more African American deaths to a list of lynchings during the Jim Crow era of the South. Above, a crow of white Texans watch as a black man named Henry Smith is hanged. Smith was accused of killing a white girl named Myrtle Vance
WORST SOUTHERN STATES AND COUNTIES FOR LYNCHING, 1877 - 1950
1. Georgia - 586
2. Mississippi - 576
3. Louisiana - 540
4. Arkansas - 503
5. Florida - 331
6. Texas - 376
7. Alabama - 326
8. Tennessee - 225
9. South Carolina - 164
10. Kentucky - 154
11. North Carolina - 102
12. Virginia - 76
1. Phillips, Arkansas - 243
2. Caddo, Louisiana - 54
3. Lafourche, Louisiana - 50
4. Tensas, Louisiana - 40
5. Ouachita, Louisiana - 35
6. Orange, Florida - 34
7. Bossier, Louisiana - 32
8. Marion, Florida - 30
9. Jefferson, Alabama - 29
10. Dallas, Alabama - 25
11. Early, Georgia - 24
12. Iberia, Louisiana - 23
The organization now plans to use this data to push for the construction of war memorial-style effigies in the communities where these senseless race crimes were committed.
EJI Director Bryan Stevenson admits building these memorials will be met with stiff resistance in the South, where many still proudly hang Confederate flags.
LYNCHING RATES BY STATE, 1880-1940
Florida - 0.594
Mississippi - 0.556
Arkansas - 0.545
Louisiana - 0.475
Georgia - 0.378
Alabama - 0.256
South Carolina - 0.180
Tennessee - 0.165
Texas - 0.154
Kentucky - 0.111
Virginia - 0.072
North Carolina - 0.068
(Lynching rate calculated per 100,000 residents)
'We want to change the visual landscape of this country so that when people move through these communities and live in these communities, that they’re mindful of this history,' Stevenson told The Guardian. 'We don’t think you should be able to come to these places without facing their histories.'
Many of the attacks, the report says, were carried out for minor transgressions from the black community like touching a white woman or wearing an Army uniform, as opposed to actual crimes.
Also revealed in the report are the Southern counties where these lynchings happened the most.
Black people during this period were most in danger living in Florida where the rate of lynchings was the highest. Georgia had the most overall lynchings at 586. Lynchings were also broken down by county, with Philips County, Arkansas proving to be the bloodiest with a total of 243. That's much more than the second place county, Louisiana's Caddo, which reported 50.
Phillips County ranked so high on the list for a series of violence in September 1919 known as the Elaine massacre.
On September 30 of that year, 100 black farmers met a church to discuss getting better payments for their cotton crops from the white sharecroppers in the area.
Two white men attended the meeting, and one of them was shot. That led to widespread violence against African Americans in the town and county, ending in the death of 15 white persons and hundreds of blacks.
The only men prosecuted though were 115 African Americans, 12 of whom were sentenced to death for murder. The U.S. Supreme Court eventually overturned this conviction on appeal.
It was attacks like these that Stevenson said led African Americans on a mass migration to the more tolerant North.
Single act: Phillips County, Arkansas was named the worst county for lynchings during the period with a total of 243. A single series of violence called the Elaine Massacre in 1919 is responsible for the high number. Hundreds of black residents in the town of Elaine were killed after they met to discuss getting more money for the cotton they sold to white plantation owners. Above, then Governor of Arkansas Charles Hillman Brough addresses a crowd after the massacre
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Recalling the “black night” of Emergency imposed on this day 39 years back, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today asserted that democracy is the country’s strength and said this commitment needs to be taken further.
He said the “shining example of democratic powers of a common citizen” was seen during Emergency and “it should keep reminding the nation again and again.
Modi spoke about the Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on this day in 1975 as he addressed the nation through his monthly radio programme ‘Mann Ki Baat’.
“Sometimes some people mock at my ‘Mann Ki Baat’ programme and even criticise it. This is possible because we are committed to democracy,” he said.
“.. today when I am talking to you on June 26, we should not forget that our strength is democracy, our strength is people’s strength and our strength is every citizen. We have to take this commitment further and strengthen it,” he added.
He said that the democracy, which empowers every citizen, had been suppressed on this day in 1975.
“The morning of June 26, 1975, was such a black night when Emergency was imposed on the country. All rights of the citizens were taken away. The country was turned into a prison. Along with Jaiprakash Narain, lakhs of people and thousands of politicians were sent to jails,” he recalled.
The Prime Minister said it is the strength of the countrymen that they have lived this democracy.
“When the newspaper offices are sealed and radio speaks only voice, people on the other hand make you realise the power of democratic forces. This is a big strength for any nation,” he said in apparent reference to the Emergency days.
He said there should be an attitude that people continue to realise their strengths.
“I keep saying that democracy does not mean that you vote and give contract of five years for running the country.
Voting is a crucial part of democracy, but there are several other aspects too. The biggest aspect is people’s participation — the pulse of the people, the thinking of the people. The more governments associate with the people, the more is the country strengthened,” he said.
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The Justice Department was able to create or continue at least 8,000 jobs by spending $2.5 billion under the federal recovery act enacted last year, Jim Burch, acting director of the Bureau of Justice Assistance, said yesterday. Burch said the estimate was preliminary and is sure to increase once the final totals are in. Speaking at the annual forum of the National Criminal Justice Association, which ended yesterday in Fort Myers, Fla., Burch said applications for the funds were “extremely competitive,” totalling about $4.6 billion, nearly twice the total available.
The police department in one jurisdiction Burch did not identify was able to start a 4-member homicide unit with money under the law that is investigating nine cases. In a panel discussion, Bill Scollon of the Tennessee Office of Criminal Justice Programs said the biggest challenge in spending money under the recovery law will be what to do when the funds run out within two years. Although the main purpose of the federal law is to encourage job creation, some jurisdictions didn’t spread the money among wa wide variety of uses. Virginia used 96 percent of its $24 million allocation for criminal justice to pay about 600 county sheriff’s employees whose jobs had been eliminated in a state budget crisis; the state has since restored the funds. | <urn:uuid:0cc5038d-767c-466b-bc40-eae3a0e9f092> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://thecrimereport.org/2010/08/04/recovery-act-created-or-continued-8000-criminal-justice-jobs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720475.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00355-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966876 | 264 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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KIEV, Ukraine (AP) -- Ukraine's presidency said Friday that it has negotiated an international deal intended to end battles between police and protesters that have killed scores and injured hundreds. It was unclear whether the deal would appease protesters, and shots rang out Friday morning in central Kiev.
President Viktor Yanukovych's office said that the government and the opposition had agreed to initial the deal, reached after all-night negotiations with EU diplomats, at noon local time (1000 GMT). That deadline passed without a deal, but an opposition spokeswoman said that opposition leaders will go to the president's office in the afternoon.
European officials cautioned that it's too early to declare a breakthrough in a standoff that has plunged this country into the deadliest violence it has seen since winning independence from the Soviet Union.
The conflict is a battle over the identity of Ukraine, a nation of 46 million that has divided loyalties between Russia and the West. Several regions in the west of the country are in open revolt against the central government, while many in eastern Ukraine back the president and favor strong ties with Russia, their former Soviet ruler.
The preliminary deal struck overnight would see Ukraine's president would lose some of his powers, and a caretaker government created in 48 hours that would include representatives of the opposition, Slovakia's Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak said.
"Of course, the participants of the talks, my colleagues, warned it is still premature to say the crisis is over," Lajcak said.
Oleksander Yefremov, the head of Yanukovich's party in parliament, said the deal includes early presidential elections in December instead of March 2015, and a constitutional vote in September, according to the Interfax news agency.
The demonstrators, who have camped for three months on Kiev's Independence Square, known as the Maidan, are demanding Yanukovych's immediate resignation and early elections now -- not nine months away. The president, who triggered the protests by aborting a pact with the European Union in favor of close ties with Russia, has made some concessions, but has refused to step down.
Shots were fired near the square Friday morning, though it was unclear where they were coming from or whom they are targeting. The Interior Ministry accuses the opposition of breaking a truce and firing at law enforcement officers.
In a sign of the high tensions, armed law enforcement officers tried to enter parliament Friday morning during a debate over measures to end the crisis. Shouting lawmakers pushed them out.
The report of a deal followed the worst violence yet in the confrontation between the government and protesters.
Protesters advanced on police lines in the heart of the Ukrainian capital on Thursday, prompting government snipers to shoot back and kill scores of people in the country's deadliest day since the breakup of the Soviet Union a quarter-century ago.
Dr. Oleh Musiy, the medical coordinator for the protesters, said at least 70 protesters were killed Thursday and over 500 were wounded. The Interior Ministry said three policemen were killed and 28 suffered gunshot wounds.
A statement on the website of the Health Ministry said 77 people had been killed between Tuesday morning, when the violence began, and Friday morning. The statement said 577 people had been wounded and 369 hospitalized.
There was no way to immediately verify any of the death tolls.
Protesters across the country are upset over corruption in Ukraine, the lack of democratic rights and the country's ailing economy, which just barely avoided bankruptcy with the first disbursement of a $15 billion bailout promised by Russia.
The violence is making Ukraine's economic troubles worse. Ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded Ukraine's debt rating Friday, saying the country will likely default if there are no significant improvements in the political crisis, which it does not expect.
In the midst of Thursday's intense violence, protesters led policemen, their hands held high, around the sprawling protest camp in central Kiev. The Interior Ministry said 67 police were captured in all. They were released peacefully just before midnight.
Support for the president appeared to be weakening, as reports said the army's deputy chief of staff, Yury Dumansky, was resigning in "disagreement with the politics of pulling the armed forces into an internal civil conflict."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke with Russia's President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Barack Obama about the crisis Thursday evening. All three leaders agreed that a political solution needs to be found as soon as possible to prevent further bloodshed.
Saying the U.S. was outraged by the violence, Obama urged Yanukovych in a statement to withdraw his forces from downtown Kiev immediately.
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The Sensual World
Summer is the time of lived experience, rather than reflection. In the Summer's heat, we tend our gardens, we travel, we play, we party. The long days of light and the beautiful evenings encourage us to go out, to extend ourselves, to flirt, to drum and dance around campfires. We blaze like the Sun, with the ecstasy of living and experiencing this beautiful World. Our senses reel – the air is perfumed with flowers and filled with the songs of birds and insects. The Sun can be brutal on our skin, and the shock of cold water when we dive in can sting with delight. We revel in the taste of juicy peaches and sweet corn. In the Summer we come into a sharp awareness of the sensual World: our living planet as we experience it through our senses. It feels almost redundant to analyze any of this. What Summer teaches us is to live fully in the moment, to be present here and now. This is where we find joy, where our bodies and spirits are made whole in the healing caress of pleasure and play.
An unexpected death in my family at the beginning of the season added the trauma of grief and loss to a time of growth and excitement, but ironically it served to underline the in-your-face immediacy of Summer. Along with all the sensory pleasures was the sharp bite of grieving and sorrow. The demands of the garden and its labors balanced the sudden tasks and burdens that come with a loved one passing. And all of it brought home the fact that all we truly have is this moment, and this moment is fleeting. It will never come back, and once gone is gone forever.
At Lughnasadh (August 1), we hit the tipping point of the season. Although the Summer itself is at its halfway point, it has now hit its peak and the harvest begins. We have to name our harvest in order to claim it, but despite our hard work, our rewards are not yet certain. And despite the fact the growing season is not over, we must begin to reflect and assess on what we have sown. What is our harvest, is it ready? Does it need a little more time to fully ripen, or did it fail to come to fruition at all? Does it need to be plowed under? How much space do we need to clear out in our lives, to bring this harvest in? Part of Lughnasadh's ritual work for me is to re-read the dedications and intentions I made six months earlier, at Imbolc. In looking over those goals, I have to evaluate what I managed to accomplish, what still has to be done, and what no longer seems possible or necessary. There's always satisfaction in seeing what you have accomplished, but even the so-called “failures” can be instructive. They make us consider what we need, what quality of will or execution, in order to fulfill what we set out at the year's beginning. They reveal to us whether or not these goals were realistic, whether we bit off more than we could chew, and sometimes they reveal even deeper needs or desires hiding underneath what we told ourselves we wanted.
But no matter what, taking the time to savor the moment, to find pleasure, beauty and joy in living our lives, is what makes all the work and worry worthwhile. Regardless of what our harvest is, the Earth radiates abundance and love, and we have access to that abundance in every moment of our lives, we when we open ourselves to receive the many blessings of this sensual World.
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Looking over some recent articles on contracts and supply chain, a connection occurred to me. It’s not necessarily a unique observation, but an important one: how many supply chain “risks” can be dealt with via better contract management?
A recent post on the sponsored website www.ebn.com (about supply chain management) featured a short interview on the topic of supply chain risk “resilience.” The short interview was with Gene Long, a supply chain analyst, and he discussed the need for organizations to think beyond disaster recovery in supply chains – or, rather, to think of the real solution behind the problem.
“The problem is they’re still recovering when, in fact, what we want them to do is to avoid and mitigate risk. The market is basically saying and the investors are basically saying: You shouldn’t be recovering. You should not have the problem in the first place (emphasis added).”
On a related note, contract-drafting expert Ken Adams has a pithy, humorous observation on his blog about the connection between the musical The Music Man and drafting contracts.
In the musical, the con man (successfully) sells the naïve small-town residents the equipment and uniforms for a town marching band and promises to teach them how to play. The con man has no intention of teaching them (naturally) and assures them they don’t even need to know how to play music.
Adam draws the connection to writing contracts – that all too often junior legal staff are given only the most superficial of directions on drafting contracts while handed a contract to copy and tweak “as needed” (without having to know “all those notes” or the contract-drafting skills, needed for each contract).
And here’s the connection between these ideas and contract management. How many times could a supply problem be solved “in the first place” by a well-written contract? By one that was tailored specifically to the reality that disaster and supply chain problems happen, so why not draft contracts that eliminate these at the root? That means a well-drafted contract … and one that benefits from an organization’s familiarity with practicing good contract management.
Companies that use contract management solutions have a leg up on this end result. That’s because organizations that have a contract management solution are:
* Accustomed to ensuring contracts are recorded accurately for further administrative “care and feeding.”
* Familiar with easy ways to ensure contract performance is being monitored by using the tools of contract management solutions (such as setting alarms on key dates).
* Perhaps are better at learning from problems that arise mid-term in contracts (due to active monitoring and reporting) and so become more adept at finding solutions.
No doubt, solving supply-chain risks is a hugely tall order. But the point is that organizations that already place a premium on contract management may be better at solving supply chain problems because they’ve already made a commitment that contracts matter.
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This morning’s New York Times points to an intriguing study ostensibly showing that some small percentage of people with autism can “outgrow” their symptoms. The Times story was oddly unsatisfying, claiming in one paragraph that the study, published in The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, will alter the way parents “think and talk about autism” but also cautioning against false hope. The Times writer seems only dimly aware how this half-hearted message will set off a bomb in the world where Jenny McCarthy lives—that she will turn on that wicked grin and brandish this study to launch another 40 years of vicious debate over whether autism is caused by environmental factors, namely vaccines, and thus can be cured by brave and dedicated parents like her, or whether it’s just a condition people are born with.
Thankfully, science writer Emily Willingham has parsed through the study in Forbes to show us what it really finds, which is not much that's new and certainly nothing that will change our thinking about the progress of autism or believe in the McCarthy miracle cure. As Willingham points out, the people who seem to have “grown out” of their autism had higher cognitive functioning and milder symptoms in the first place, and “many of them had behavioral interventions in childhood.” One measure the researchers used to evaluate progress was “typically developing friends,” which people with autism sometimes have anyway. Seven of the 34 had some impairment in “non verbal social interactions” which the researchers decided, somewhat arbitrarily, was due to other factors such as anxiety or depression.
Anyone who has read a single memoir by someone with Asperger’s or known someone well with the condition can intuit what’s going on. At the moment, I happen to be reading Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger’s, by John Elder Robison. Over the course of his life, Robison learns to compensate for his social limitations. As a child he teaches himself to say appropriate things to children and not just foist on them his own obsessive interests. As an adult he learns that blurting out the truth—“you look fatter”—is not always the right thing to do. He doesn’t “outgrow” his autism, he just learns to work around it. Even later in his life he writes that he wishes his disability were more obvious; when we see someone in a wheelchair we know they can’t walk, so we help them across the street. There is no way to “see” Asperger’s so people just assume he’s a jerk.
Willingham makes the comparison to diabetes, which I have. I have learned how to control my blood sugar pretty well, but I still have diabetes. Autism for high-functioning kids works something like that, even more so these days. When Robison was a kid, no one understood him at all. They just thought he was odd and would grow up to be a failure. But now there is a well-developed understanding of Asperger’s and its symptoms, and many behavioral therapies that can help people, especially if they are smart enough to absorb them. So it stands to reason that as time goes on, more people with Asperger’s or autism will, look, to all the world, as if they are “cured” without actually being so. | <urn:uuid:69d79309-4078-44dc-94e3-e5e0ff15b762> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2013/01/17/autism_cure_new_study_unconvincing.html?wpisrc=obinsite | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00167-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979694 | 716 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Canaan, New Hampshire
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Canaan is a town in Grafton county, New Hampshire. It was formed in 1761. For more information, contact the county at Box 38, Church Rd., Canaan 03741. On the attached map, Canaan is shown as 34 in Grafton.
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"Nothing brings a military establishment into such disrepute as the inability to win on the battlefield or on the high seas."
--Claude C. Sturgill
- Not a single man was killed during the famous four hour long duel between the ironclads USS Monitor and CSS Virginia on March 9, 1862,.
- When an imperial army stormed Mantua in 1640, the loot was estimated at 18 million scudi, more than the entire annual revenue of the Holy Roman Emperor.
- It is estimated that during the late 1940s, American occupation troops in Japan spent an annual average of $200,000,000 on prostitutes.
- Criticized because, to avoid a collision, one of his men had accidentally rammed a tank into the miniscule city hall of Belt Buckle, Tennessee, during maneuvers in May of 1941, Maj. Gen. George S. Patton explained the incident by observing " . . . Belt Buckle isn't even on the map."
- The royal crown of Romania, first used in 1881 at the coronation of Carol I (1839-1914), is made of metal taken from Turkish cannon captured at the siege of Plevna in 1877.
- During the Afghan War (1979-1989), the Soviets lost 11,321 army and 548 KGB troops in combat, and a further 1,719 to other causes, most notably an explosion in a tunnel which killed hundreds of men.
- It was not uncommon during the eighteenth century for nobles to be the beneficiaries of excessive rewards for very limited military service, but surely some heads must have been turned when the youthful Duc de Crillon was awarded the Cross of St. Louis, one of France's highest decorations, for having smashed his finger with a pick during the siege of Pizzighettone in 1733.
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why do dogs throw up?
Dogs throw up for a lot of different reasons. Sometimes it’s because they are sick, sometimes it’s because of food poisoning, but more often than not, it’s because they have something else up their system that’s affecting their ability to stay hydrated. Dogs often get very sick when there’s a problem with their digestion, and vomit is one of the common symptom’s, so you must try to make sure they get the proper care. If they’re not getting proper nutrition, they’ll get sicker, which can easily lead to throwing up all the time.
Common Reasons for why dogs vomit?
Let’s go over the most popular causes of vomiting in dogs:
- The use of painkillers or antibiotics: When your pet is on any medication, contact your veterinarian to determine whether the medicine is the cause of your dog’s upset stomach.
- Parasites: Worms found within the intestinal tract, such as hookworms and roundworms. Giardia or coccidia.
- Obstruction is caused by eating something unable to be passed through the stomach or intestines, such as chewing toys or toys for children, socks, tennis balls, string, and many more.
- Diet Change includes human food and new snacks rawhide, changing dogs diet-based treats, and more in your dog food could cause vomit.
- Motion sickness If you notice that your dog is vomiting when driving, it could be because of motion sickness. Most puppies will get rid of it; however, certain dogs suffer when they go in the car for a ride.
- Food allergy and intolerance.
- Fast eating: If your pet is eating too fast, you can feed smaller portions more frequently. If you have multiple dogs, they may be eating too fast because of the competition.
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Some main reasons of dogs throw up.
So, let’s take a look at a few of the main reasons dogs throw up. Puppies regurgitate because of teething, as they do after they eat. Often puppies will regurgitate if they haven’t been getting enough calories or nutrients. Also, puppies will regurgitate if they have intestinal blockages, which is common in pregnant dogs. These things will often clear up independently, so don’t worry too much about it if your pup throws up a few times a month.
Another reason for dogs to throw up is because of repeated vomiting. Many dogs suffer from chronic stomach problems and can throw up simply because they have no way to empty dogs stomachs. This can be caused by a bad diet, a disease, or just because they have a very sensitive stomach. However, it can be triggered by some things, so seeing your vet is important.
Another reason for your dog’s frequent throwing up could be because he’s suffering from another disorder. One example of this would be a problem with the gastrointestinal system, such as inflammatory bowel disease or Crohn’s disease. Your dog might throw up simply because he’s having an attack. If you notice blood in his stool or if he has large amounts of excess gas, then he may have an ulcerative colitis attack.
Some dogs don’t process food properly, and their digestive system is affected when they do. Because of this, they can over-eat, cause vomiting, diarrhea, or constipation, and have little to no energy at all. This is why many dogs will eat something before eating something else – because their stomach is confused and will try to process whatever is in there instead.
What nutritional deficiency causes?
Finally, your dog could have a severe nutritional deficiency. Malnutrition can lead to a host of different disorders, including fatigue, vomiting, weakness, and even pancreatic cancer in dogs. This is why it’s so important to feed your pet a proper, balanced, healthy diet. Just as with human diets, a bland diet is best for dogs.
Some other reasons:
In most cases, dogs are vomiting simply because they are sick. Regurgitation is not necessarily the fault of sick dogs – many times, it is caused by eating too much at one time or by diarrhea. If your puppy throws up after eating, it’s a good symptom that he needs to be taken for a walk to clear out his intestines. If your dog has diarrhea for several days in a row but then starts to throw up after eating, then he probably has another disorder – such as congenital heart disease, hypoglycemia, or an adrenal gland tumor.
Infectious dog health.
Like all young children, puppies are vulnerable to various types of ailments, particularly in the period in which they’re not yet immune to vaccines. Diseases like parvovirus and intestinal parasites such as hookworms, roundworms, giardia, and coccidia are extremely common in young puppies and may cause vomiting and diarrhea. If your pup is having trouble with vomiting, your veterinarian could recommend the fecal test and, in most cases, more specific tests for giardia or parvovirus.
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Diseases That May Cause Vomiting.
- Food allergies or intolerance
- Side effects
- Exposure to a toxic substance
- Some cancers
- Kidney disease
- Head trauma
- Obstructions in the intestinal (foreign material, organs, tumors)
Foreign Body Ingestion.
The tendency of puppies (and other canines) to put all kinds of objects into their mouths may result in more serious problems such as obstructions to the foreign body. Items like sticks, toys, food, stuffing, and even hard chews can become stuck in their digestive tract, which typically results in vomiting as a sign. If your puppy is vomiting and has eaten food-based items, seek an expert vet to assist you in determining what next steps to take.
How puppies take in non-digestible food items as well, young dogs are more at danger of eating foods that could be harmful to them, such as mushrooms, medicines toads, certain species of plants, and food items like onions, grapes, and garlic. Based on the food item consumed, various signs can be observed, from kidney failure that can cause vomiting, grapes, and the toxin found in specific species of toads that cause severe nausea.
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How to stop dog throw up?
Do not give your dog food with bone. Bones are susceptible to split and break into sharp fragments.
Do not give your dog toys that are consumed, chewed, and broken. The swallowing of these toys can block digestion.
Do not change your dog’s diet suddenly. Making gradual changes to the diet of your dog food is more secure.
Do not allow your dog to take in the garbage. The search for food in a trash can eats toxic or foreign objects.
Reduce scraps. Many foods that are great for us can be harmful to our pets. If your dog is sensitive to the stomach, even dog-safe food scraps can trigger vomiting.
Also, if you’re experiencing any issues with vomiting in your dog, do not hesitate to call your veterinarian, and remember that throwing up occasionally isn’t an issue, it’s not the end of the world, but veterinary care could be a good decision in a case your pet still vomit.
What causes my dog to make bile sludge?
Bile vs. Stomach Acid.
Bile is a digestive fluid that is produced from the liver. It is usually found within the small intestinal. Bile aids in breaking down fats, so they are absorbable. Stomach acid acts as fluid in the digestive system produced inside the stomach lining. It assists in the processing of proteins.
If your dog vomits, but there’s no food in the stomach to make it up, the bile pumped out of the small intestine flows to the stomach leading to an accumulation of yellow slime. It’s unnecessary to distinguish between acid and bile when your dog spits out the yellow bile substance since similar reasons and treatments cause both.
The most common reason for vomiting bile is that it takes too long between meals, particularly for adult dog’s. The condition is commonly referred to as Bilious Vomiting Syndrome (BVS). It is easy to identify if this is the cause of your dog’s vomiting since it occurs at about the same time throughout the day. This vomit usually occurs in the morning because when your dog’s stomach is empty, all the acids in his stomach, without food or liquid to digest, may cause inflammation.
Do you need to bring your pet to the vet?
If the vomiting of your dog persists longer than 48 hours, seek out the help of a veterinarian. In addition, if your dog refuses to eat the bland diet or vomit when eating the bland diet, take him to the veterinarian, as this could indicate a more serious issue
Yellow vomit can be very common in dogs with empty stomachs. Bile secretions are responsible for the yellowish color. This happens most often in the middle of the night or early morning. This can be due to acid buildup, acid reflux, and any other systemic condition that causes nausea with an empty stomach.
Nausea can be caused by blood, so it is frequently vomited up if it pools at the upper gastrointestinal tract (GI). The pink tint is not necessarily a symptom that there is an emergency. These signs could indicate bleeding in the stomach or upper small intestine.
Clear liquid vomiting.
There is no reason to panic if your dog vomits only once. Watch your dog for lethargy, diarrhea, loss of appetite, weakness, and other signs of illness. You can look around your house for signs of foreign body ingestion or exposure to toxins.
Keep an eye out for vomiting in your dog if they seem otherwise healthy. You can skip the next scheduled meal if your dog vomits once more and keep an eye on them. After missing the previous meal, offer the next one. Continue to monitor for signs of illness and vomiting. Contact your veterinarian for advice if your dog vomits again.
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Dogs Vomiting vs. Regurgitation.
Vomiting is a reflex. It could be triggered through anything from simple food intake to more serious medical problems. The vomiting of dogs is usually caused by self-limiting, mild illnesses that can be treated with only testing and treatment. However, it is also associated with debilitating illnesses, serious consequences.
Vomiting is the ejecting forcefully by the stomach’s upper and gastrointestinal contents via the mouth. However, regurgitation is generally a passive process. Dogs can regurgitate their food right after eating, but there aren’t any active abdominal contractions in this process. The regurgitated food is typically not digested and doesn’t have the bile. As a result, your dog will most likely attempt to eat the food being reabsorbed. Because vomit originates from the stomach and the intestinal tract, it’s already partially digested and typically includes bile.
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There is the need to properly demarcate the boundary between La and Teshie to forestall any misunderstandings between the two municipalities, Ms. Rita Odoley Sowah, Municipal Chief Executive of La Dadekotopon, has stressed.
Ms. Sowah explained that revenue collection and several other development projects at these places had been halted because of that problem, as the right authorities had not been established.
She said this during a Town Hall meeting organised by the assembly to offer residents the opportunity to interact with the authorities and discuss social, economic and other program-mes.
The MCE said though a committee had been set up to investigate the land dispute between the two communities and come out with the appropriate demarcations, its work had delayed.
The MCE said authorities at LaDMA and LEKMA cannot collect tax or undertake any massive development around the boundary area, and business owners and individuals are enjoying tax holidays because ownership of the area has not been established,” she stated.
Mrs. Sowah suggested that the appropriate administrative boundary between La and Teshie should start from the Bush or Rasta road just after the Lagoon as had been the case and called for expedited action on the issue.
Touching on the assembly’s performance, she said though it was barely three years old and had limited resources, a lot of effort had put in place to improve the socio-economic lives of the people by providing the basic social amenities.
During these few years, a lot has been done in terms of education, health, roads, agriculture, sanitation, economic empowerment, maintenance of peace and security among others to better the lives of residents,” she said.
The MCE said transparency and the effective use of resources had been the assembly’s hall- mark, stressing that “what is generated in terms of tax and other incentives are used properly for the benefit of the people”.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Reports of Algae in the St. Johns River didn't stop people from swimming and kayaking in it for a good cause.
Nearly a dozen swimmers and even more kayakers took part in Saturday's third annual "Up the River Downtown," a 10K swim to raise awareness for a healthier river.
The sun was out as people took off swimming in the St. Johns River as a part of Up the River Downtown.
Joni Roberts said reports of algae wouldn't keep her away.
"Well that's connected to the heat right now," Roberts said. "That's why the algae is in the river. 33 and 35, I am honestly not concerned about it."
Earlier in the week, researchers tested the algae in the river and found a bacteria called micro-cystis which carries toxins.
It was up to each swimmer to decide if they wanted to continue in the 10K swim and they all decided to take the plunge.
"All the swimmers want to swim," Executive Director of Jumping Fish Jim Alabis said. "Our captain Grace Sutton did some observations through Exchange Island, all the way up the river and we see some speckles in the water but we think we'll be fine."
Ten swimmers and several kayakers started at Jacksonville University.Escorted by the St. Johns Riverkeeper and Jacksonville Fire Dragons, they made their way South along the river, under the Matthews, Hart then Main Bridges.
Algae was so bad in 2005, people were urged to stay out for their own safety. Researchers say the same type of algae is here now, but levels not nearly as high.
In 2005 when the so-called Green Monster invaded the river, the toxin levels were 7.5 through 1,400 parts per billion.
Now in 2013 the toxin levels are 2.2 through 5.5 parts per billion.
The swimmers at the event said their focus was on enjoying the river and encouraging others to do the same.
"It's just real exciting," Roberts said. "It's adventurous to swim in the river."
"This hopefully will move us in the right direction and keep this thing clean and start building an economy around it," Alabiso said.
Swimmers said they are moving in the right direction, while helping others.
Proceeds will go to the Special Olympics Duval County Swim team.'Up the River Downtown' takes place
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The deadly attack on an aid convoy in Syria has been condemned by the international community.
Around twenty civilians and one Syrian Arab Red Crescent staff member have been killed in rural Aleppo, as they were unloading trucks carrying vital humanitarian aid. Much of the aid was destroyed. The attack deprives thousands of civilians of much-needed food and medical assistance.
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One of the biggest myths about professional women and success is that it's easier to get ahead in the workplace if you exhibit traditionally "masculine" qualities. Often these perceived traits include being assertive, confident, solution-focused, and ambitious. If it were true that men always behaved this way, and women never did, "think like a man" would be great career advice. But, there's one glaring flaw in that wisdom.
Along with strategic advice on getting paid what you deserve, PayScale's Salary Negotiation Guide offers insight into why you're not already commanding a salary that's commensurate with your skills and experience. For example, if you're like many people, you might be too scared to ask. Of the 57 percent of respondents to PayScale's survey who said that they had never negotiated salary, more than half refrained for reasons that boiled down to fear. Twenty-eight percent of non-negotiators said they were afraid to negotiate salary, while 19 percent didn't want to be perceived as pushy, and 8 percent were afraid of losing their jobs.
What do entry-level workers and executives have in common? To get the salary they deserve, they both need to negotiate. That's bad news if salary negotiation makes you uncomfortable, but the good news is this: by negotiating pay, you're almost certain to earn more over the course of your career. However, timing is everything, so let's talk a little bit about when to ask for the salary you deserve.
When negotiating a job offer, it's best to avoid giving your salary history to your prospective employer. Revealing your previous earnings could get in the way of landing that big pay bump you're hoping for. Also, there is another reason to consider not giving your salary history – the gender wage gap. For women, revealing previous salaries might reinforce future low earnings. Here are a few important things for women to keep in mind when navigating salary negotiations.
Jennifer Lawrence is known for being a badass, whether she's on the big screen fighting a dystopian civil war or railing against body shaming to Barbara Walters. Cripes, she's won an Oscar and been nominated for two more, PLUS she's the lead in a billion-dollar grossing movie trilogy (and a half) and she just turned 25! With a no-nonsense head on her shoulders, she's made waves a few times in Hollywood for speaking her mind, but she hasn't spoken out about the gender pay gap, until now.
Negotiating salary does more than just net you more money in the short-term; in the long-term, it leads to important financial advances that are hard to come by any other way. You won't just feel the impact of the extra income during your first year of employment; it will continue to be a factor in increases going forward, as many raises and bonuses are calculated based on a percentage of salary. | <urn:uuid:e549df3d-7c93-4981-9114-aa89e6926dc7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.payscale.com/career-news/tag/negotiating-salary | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00540-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977105 | 594 | 1.921875 | 2 |
How do we incentivise innovators of all disciplines to solve our biggest social problems? From life-saving drones to mapping rainforests to AI fighting dementia, challenge prizes can enable major breakthroughs.
Recent criticism of ESG investing claims it’s harmful because it stops us making real changes. Are those of us in social enterprise and tech for good just as guilty of inadvertently tinkering around the edges?
Amsterdam Impact wants to make impact entrepreneurship the default way to do business – which means getting investors on board. Find out how the city is betting on collaboration over competition to spark more deals.
First-time deal means tech for good VC can increase financial firepower up to ten-fold and hold its own among mainstream competitors – while ensuring no “watering down” of focus on impact, according to CEO.
Founder Alex Stephany hopes to disrupt conventional ways of tackling homelessness by combining technology with community goodwill. But even ambitions for global domination need to unfold at the right pace, the former JustPark CEO tells us.
STARS OF SEWF2020: Makesense co-founder Christian Vanizette on growing its weekly volunteer base from 50 to 1,000 under Covid – and why the Social Enterprise World Forum is a chance to ‘recharge each other’s batteries of hope’.
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Anyone who survived middle school knows the power of the crowd, which can be bad but also work for your good. Like last summer when my then-8-year-old son conquered his rock-climbing fears during a father-son group camping trip. When asked what enabled him to get past the scary stuff, he answered with two words: peer pressure.
Peer pressure is a powerful force when it comes to fitness, too. For evidence, check out the American Fitness Index (AFI) report by the American College of Sports Medicine. It ranks the U.S.’s fittest metro areas and attests to the importance of “the tribe”: If the people around you are fit, you’re more likely to be fit, too.
For example, if most of your coworkers walk or bike to work—as a higher percentage of commuters do in Washington, D.C., the nation’s fittest city—you might feel a touch of shame when you pull into the parking lot in your gas-guzzling SUV. Or if the people in your circle spend their weekends hiking or stand-up paddleboarding, you might be tempted to ditch the couch and join them. Conversely, if most of your tribe is overweight or sedentary, chances are you are, too.
That leaves you with two options:
- Assemble a new tribe. Surround yourself with active people. Bonus points if they eat more fruits and veggies than doughnuts and fries.
- Be the example. To echo your mother, just because everyone is jumping off the proverbial cliff doesn’t mean you have to do it, too. Break from the crowd and plan something active for this weekend. Pack healthy snacks for it—and invite a few friends to join you. At the very least, you’ll be doing your part to boost your own metro area up a notch in the American Fitness Index—and show that maybe you learned something from middle school after all.
To see where your city currently stands in the AFI rankings, visit the AFI website.
Kellee Katagi is one of those strange souls who actually enjoys working out for the sake of working out. She’s spent most of her 20-plus-year writing and editing career covering fitness, nutrition and travel, as well as outdoor sports ranging from skiing to spelunking to street luge (yes, that’s a thing). | <urn:uuid:eebd9e20-b0ca-4730-8a63-e7f77edd8d7a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://livenaturallymagazine.com/blog/power-fitness-tribe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.950155 | 505 | 1.585938 | 2 |
During her conversation with Sharon Salzberg and Robert Thurman in “Embracing Our Enemies and Our Suffering,” Krista Tippett said something about halfway in that caught my attention:
“We instinctively recoil from the reality of feeling vulnerable or afraid, right? And so, anger gets layered on top of that because it feels like a more powerful response. But then we stop being able to tell the difference ourselves, right? You stop knowing ‘I’m scared’; you say ‘I’m angry.’
And this sense of deep sadness, of loss and longing, washed over me. I remembered all the moments I said “I’m angry” instead of “I’m scared,” moments I chose anger over vulnerability. And how even when anger shielded me from pain, it did not stay and sit with me in the ashes. It left me, cold and alone and more afraid, more disconnected than before. There is a saying of the Buddha’s in Love Your Enemies:
“Anger, like forest fire, burns up its own support.”
Anger is masterful at painting the illusion of separateness, the tunnel vision that severs and frays the bonds of relationship and distorts our memory for joy. Perhaps this is why the command “love your enemies” is so magnetic — because I know that anger reduces my world to a single color, and I long for the many-hued brilliance of the full picture.
That moment, when I chose anger over love, I lost something deeply precious, something magical and inexplicable and nearly impossible to describe.
I am reminded of a remarkable interview of Jack Leroy Tueller, a decorated World War II veteran. His story says more about the power of loving your enemies than I could ever put into words:
“This is two weeks after D-Day. It was dark, raining, muddy. And I’m stressed so I get my trumpet out. And the commander said, ‘Jack, don’t play tonight because there’s one sniper left.’ I thought to myself that German sniper is as scared and lonely as I am. So I thought, I’ll play his love song.”
And just this little act of grace, this message of love played out across the expanse of darkness is so wonderful. If the story ends here, it is still a beautiful story of human kindness. It seems almost unreal what happens next: the military police approach Tueller the following morning and tell him they have a German prisoner on the beach who keeps asking, “Who played that trumpet last night?”
“I grabbed my trumpet and went down to the beach. There was a 19-year-old German, scared and lonesome. He was dressed like a French peasant to cloak his role as a sniper. And, crying, he said, ‘I couldn’t fire because I thought of my fiancé. I thought of my mother and father,’ and he says, ‘My role is finished.’
And he stuck out his hand and I shook the hand of the enemy. He was no enemy, he was scared and lonely like me.”
And, in this powerful choice to be vulnerable or stay masked rests the heart of our intentions, our deep caring for each other, and our will to see and speak love in the world. Where anger and hatred isolate, love and forgiveness embrace. This is a melancholy kind of love. A love that sees separation and the space between us that inspires so much pain. A love that knows the sting of suffering but chooses to see the fullness, light and darkness, joy and sorrow, entwined in one magnificent reality.
I hear echoes of the tune’s melody, and I wonder what act of love, as simple as a few notes played on a trumpet, might lift me out of anger, out of hatred, and into the fullness and grace of love.
If you’re wondering what song he’s playing in the video, it’s “Lili Marleen,” a popular German love song during World War II. This achingly beautiful rendition from Katie Holley was written for a film inspired by Tueller’s story. It captures the sweet sorrow of one scared and lonely man reaching out to another. | <urn:uuid:4f50b24a-7c38-4e2e-967f-bbe88853ad60> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onbeing.org/blog/grieving-the-space-between-us-video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571758.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812200804-20220812230804-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.956564 | 923 | 1.953125 | 2 |
I cut out the logos from the Styrofoam cups and cover them with see through plastic. I then glue them to a sheet (e.g.) a poem I made up and give as gifts. Or use as a scrapbook page.
Jewelry can be made out of #6 Styrofoam too. Shapes can be cut out for children to color and paste. Patterns can also be traced on #6 and cut out. The original pattern can be saved because you traced it on to the #6 sheet of Styrofoam.
Small tear in clothes: Cover with foil covered Styrofoam and jazz up your outfit. Sew this on with clear nylon thread. Beautiful!
Use empty egg containers to grow beginning seeds or have kids cover empty/clean coffee cups (#6) with construction paper. Have them color it and paste on to the coffee cup. They can grow a small plant and give as a gift.
Small shapes can be cut out of #6 Styrofoam to be used as knitting markers when hand or machine knitting. Book markers can also be made out of #6 sheet Styrofoam. Letters can be cut out of #6 white Styrofoam and colored, glued, different color glitter! Makes great artwork for a project.
Jewelry/earrings can be made out of #6 Styrofoam and you can add beads to jazz up the jewelry. You can embroider on top of the Styrofoam for embellishment. You can cut out shapes with the #6 non recyclable coffee lids too!
The non-recyclable Styrofoam #6 actually becomes recyclable.
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NEWARK, N.J. – A New Jersey library that covered up a drawing of a black female slave having sex with a white man after workers found it inappropriate is displaying it again.
The drawing was created by black artist Kara Walker. It shows the horrors many blacks faced after the Civil War and during reconstruction and includes a depiction of a slave performing oral sex.
It initially was hung during Thanksgiving in the Newark Public Library's second-floor reference room. But officials reluctantly covered it with a cloth after one day because some workers complained it was insensitive.
The Star-Ledger newspaper (http://bit.ly/Yho437) reported Sunday library officials and staffers have since met to discuss the drawing and decided it could be uncovered.
The library plans to invite Walker to speak about the work, artistic freedom and the role of black artists in society.
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Clue: They often accompany ejections
We have 1 answer for the clue They often accompany ejections. See the results below.
- Speeders' penalties
- Civil punishments
- Capital punishments?
- Pecuniary penalties
- Parking penalties
- Civil penalties
- Excessive ones can't be imposed, according to the Eighth Amendment
- Penalties for speeding
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- New York Times - February 22, 1998
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A succubus is a demon who takes on the form of a human female to have sex with a human male, usually in his dreams while he sleeps. Succubi, being mythological creatures, don't get pregnant and give birth, but they do collect human sperm and give it to incubi who deposit it in human females for some diabolical reason.
The name succubus derives from the Latin succubare, to lie under. In medieval times, witches and sorcerers were thought to have acquired some of the devil's powers as a result of being the offspring of demonic unions.
According to Carl Sagan, accounts of demonic intercourse are common cultural phenomena:
Parallels to incubi include Arabian djinn [jinn], Greek satyrs, Hindu bhuts, Samoan hotua poro, Celtic dusii... (Sagan 1995, 124).
Today, there are still those who believe in demons, but we hear few stories of incubi and succubi. The closest thing we have to such stories are alien abduction accounts and star children. Today's alien abduction victims complain of being sexually abused by beings from another world, as did their medieval counterparts who alleged visitations from demons. Fortunately, there is no equivalent to the medieval Church to persecute, torture, or exterminate them as the modern equivalent of witches. Instead, those with tales of being sexually abused by aliens are likely to have an agent who will get them a book deal and a spot on Oprah.
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The FHA 203(K) mortgage loan is quite different from other home loans in scope, objective and structure. The most prevalent and common mortgage financing programs offered by mortgage lenders and banks are based on the guidelines of government sponsored agencies such as Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and Ginne Mae. These conventional mortgage lending programs mostly offer permanent real estate financing only. This basically means that a home lender will not close a loan and disburse the mortgage settlement funds unless the subject residential property is in good and habitable condition. They simply don’t consider a property for financing if it needs any rehabilitation, renovation or repairs. The home lender expects these deficiencies to be cured and any necessary improvements be made before the borrower proceeds to seek a long-term mortgage on the residential property.
There are great deals on residential properties among the nation’s foreclosure and bank REO listings. If a new homebuyer would like to purchase one of these houses that very likely will need repairs to bring to good condition, he/she needs to first obtain financing to acquire the property, and then they need to get another loan to finance the repair work. After all the rehab work is completed, they need to seek a permanent mortgage loan from a traditional lender. The first two steps involve acquisition and renovation which are usually financed only by hard money rehab lenders. These private investors are primarily asset based lenders who charge excessive interest rates and have loan terms that are very restrictive.
With a FHA 203(K) loan, the homebuyer can conveniently handle all the three steps outlined above with one single loan. The borrower will get the funds for both buying and renovation at a attractive interest rate. In most cases this interest rate is just .5% more than the interest rate on section 203(B) FHA loans. The necessary funds for rehab repairs are provided as the 203(K) guidelines allow the project value after repairs to be used as the basis to determine the LTV(loan-to-value).
As soon as the loan closing occurs, the funds for the purchase or refinance are disbursed. An interest bearing escrow account is set up to handle the funds related to renovation work. The FHA approved lender immediately seeks the endorsement of HUD, which gives them a fully insured 203(K) loan for the mortgage amount approved. All these unique factors make a 203(K) loan much different from all the conventional mortgage loans offered on residential properties. | <urn:uuid:b3b0e481-90b3-42f1-84f8-9ed8026e3409> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bankreoguide.com/faqs/differences-between-203k-and-other-home-loans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.955628 | 496 | 1.710938 | 2 |
For short packs, such as are prescribed in all inflammatory and feverish diseases, water at from 59 degrees to 64 degrees is used.
A piece of linen cloth is folded from 4 to 8 times, wrung out, but not too much, and then covered with moderately thick folds of woollen cloth. The stronger the patient and the higher the fever, the thicker should be the pack.
For infants a double linen strip is sufficient.
The faster the fever and inflammation recede, the longer may the pack last, up to three hours. The convalescent will enjoy the moist warmth, under the influence of which still existing diseased material is thoroughly dissolved and completely excreted. The dissolving effect of packs of long duration is most noticeable in chronic diseases.
Through the penetrating effect of the moist warmth on the body or parts thereof, deposited diseased matter is dissolved, and dislodged, existing excoriations are disintegrated, and withdrawn into the circulating blood, and thus excreted.
The dissolving packs of long duration must be applied somewhat thinner than the cooling ones (from 1 to 3 folds); they must be wrung out more vigorously, and covered more closely.
If a pack should be applied for the sake of prevention of disease, it may be put on in the evening and remain all night. In the beginning of fever, while it remains moderate, the patient can endure the pack for from 2 to 2-1/2 hours.
Biological hygienic therapy rejects the external application of ice, for it causes severe congestion of the blood. Extensive application of the ice pouch causes more or less paralysis of the nerves, which in many cases prevents recovery and even causes chronic disease or fatal results. The biological hygienic treatment desires to moderate inflammation only, to the degree that it should lose its dangerous character, but it leaves to the body its power to remove, through the process of inflammation, alien and diseased matter, and to absorb and gradually carry away the products of inflammation through the blood current.
Paralysis of the vocal cords, of the muscles of the eye, of the nerves of hearing, the exudations from the nose and eyes after diphteria, meningitis and scarlet fever, adhesions, suppurations after pneumonia and other forms of inflammatory disease, are often the consequences of the use of ice, because the products of inflammation are not absorbed, and the ice paralyzes the neighbouring nerves.
Inflammations, which are suppressed by medicine or ice, must renew themselves; since the causes, the alien matter (auto toxins), as well as the products of inflammation remain in the body and are not thoroughly excreted.
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Affiliation: University of Houston
- Antecedents and consequences of customer-company identification: expanding the role of relationship marketingMichael Ahearne
Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Bauer School of Business, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204, USA
J Appl Psychol 90:574-85. 2005..Second, the study found that the organization's characteristics as well as the salesperson's characteristics contributed to the development of C-C identification...
- To empower or not to empower your sales force? An empirical examination of the influence of leadership empowerment behavior on customer satisfaction and performanceMichael Ahearne
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J Appl Psychol 90:945-55. 2005..The authors conclude with directions for future research and application...
- A longitudinal cross-level model of leader and salesperson influences on sales force technology use and performanceJohn Mathieu
Management Department, School of Business, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 1041, USA
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The following are a mix of information guides to various plays, ideas for classroom activities, and short articles to introduce interesting topics for discussion, which we are freely offering to encourage and facilitate the teaching of Miller's works at all levels. Just click on the links to get to the materials described. If anyone has any further lesson plans, activities, topics etc. they would like to share with other teachers by adding to this site, please contact the webmaster, Sue Abbotson. To further help, below these resources you will also find synopses of most of Miller's major works.
After the Fall
All My Sons
The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944) The play depicts a young man, David Beeves, who has a hard time dealing with his good luck, especially when he sees his no less deserving brother have no luck at all. Beeves becomes a successful businessman, while his brother Amos loses his chance to pitch in the baseball big leagues and turns on the father he feels misled him in such a dream. Thinking that at any moment his luck must run out and disaster will strike, Beeves begins to live his life in constant fear, at one point even contemplating suicide. He expects his garage to fail, his son to be born dead, his mink farm to be devasted, but he is repeatedly rewarded with a healthy son and successful businesses, even when his fellow businessmen go broke. By the close he seems to at last accept that this is in part by his own diligence, which allows him to finally enjoy the fruits of his work (in an earlier novelisation of this story Miller had Beeves commit suicide at the close, but in the play he just has Beeves consider the possibility, but decide against it).
All My Sons (1947) Joe Keller, is an apparently successful businessman who made his fortune by selling airplane parts to the army during World War Two. Not wanting to slow business he sent out a batch that he knew to be defective, and twenty-one pilots died as a result. Keller was arrested and tried, but lied, saying that the parts went out without his knowledge and his partner, Steve Deever, was the one who had covered it up. Deever is sent to jail and Keller is exonerated. One of his sons, Larry, is missing in action, but the mother, Kate, insists that their son is still alive, though we later learn that he committed suicide on learning of his father's arrest. When their other son, Chris, asks Larry's old girlfriend (who happens to be Deever's daughter, Ann) to marry him, it causes tension, which results in Keller's deceit coming out. Chris fought during the war and watched many of his peers die, so on discovering his father's guilt he totally rejects him. On discovering why Larry died, Keller finally accepts his responsibility for the crime and kills himself.
Death of a Salesman (1949) Death of a Salesman relates the story of Willy Loman, a down-on-his-luck traveling salesman. In order to cope with his failures in life, he retreats to the past in his mind and seems to be losing touch with reality. He tries to relive the good times, but keeps coming up against things that went wrong. His family try to help him by lying about their prospects, but when Loman loses his job, after a lifetime with the same company, he becomes desperate. His depression is exacerbated by the guilt he feels from a past infidelity which has estranged him from his older son, Biff. Rather than accept that his life has been a failure, and that Biff is not interested in big business, Loman decides to commit suicide in hopes that the insurance money will help Biff become successful. The play ends with his family and only friend, Charley, grieving by his graveside.
An Enemy of the People (1950) An adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play of the same title, Miller's version remains very faithful to the original as he worked from a literal translation of the original Norwegian. The play depicts a respected, resort-town doctor who finds himself shunned by his community. Dr. Stockmann counters the town's decision to conceal information that would put the health of many tourists at considerable risk, but ensure the great revenue the tourists would bring to the area. By standing up to his peers, Stockmann is embracing his responsibility to others, but finds himself branded "an enemy of the people."
The Crucible (1953) The Crucible is an allegorical re-telling of the McCarthy era red scare that occurred in the United States after World War II. Based on historical accounts, the play is set during the 1692 Salem Witchcraft Trials when several young girls accuse innocent town members of witchcraft to avoid getting into trouble for entertaining ideas of witchery themselves. The husbands of some of the women involved try to convince the judges as to the girls' deceit, but find them unshakeable. Eventually even the most prominent members of the community find themselves indicted, and the tension mounts as the central protagonist, John Proctor, must confess an earlier adultery in order to save his own wife from being hanged based upon charges brought by his former lover. However, because his wife lies about the adultery to save his name, the judges fail to believe his charges. Proctor is given the chance to save his own life by confessing to witchery and naming names, but chooses to die rather than betray his friends and neighbors.
A Memory of Two Mondays (1955) A one-act play which glances back upon the Depression, Miller's A Memory of Two Mondays is based largely upon his experiences in an automobile parts warehouse in Brooklyn, where he worked to save money for college. The play takes a look at his co-workers and the various people he met who stumbled through life in a haze of hopelessness and despondency, and portrays the compassion the lead character has for others less fortunate than himself.
A View from the Bridge (1956) The
lawyer, Alfieri, tells the story of Eddie Carbone, a head-strong
who has helped raise his wife's niece, Catherine, but has developed an
unwitting sexual attraction towards her. When his wife's two cousins
the country illegally looking for work, the Carbones take them in, but
when Catherine begins dating the younger of the cousins, Rodolpho,
gets jealous. Finding his insinuations of Rodolpho's homosexuality and
his warning to Catherine that Rodolpho is only after an American
are ignored, in an act of desperation to split them up before they can
marry, Eddie breaks an unwritten rule within his community by betraying
both cousins to the Immigration authorities. The older brother, Marco,
vows revenge, exacerbated by Eddie's refusal to admit his "crime." Out
on bail Marco comes to Eddie, who challenges him to a fight to try and
redeem his blackened , but when Eddie draws a knife Marco kills him
it. Eddie dies declaring his love for his wife, never having fully come
to with his actions or how they led to his downfall.
production of A View from the Bridge (1987)
The Misfits (1961) Written as a gift to his then wife Marilyn Monroe, Miller's screenplay relates the story of three modern day cowboys who refuse to settle down in a society which no longer respects the traditions and values of the past. In order to mask their frustration with their lives, Gay, Perce, and Guido drown themselves with drink, sex, and other reckless behavior. They begin to re-evaluate their lives, however, after a wild mustang chase. One of the cowboys meets a beautiful divorcee, Roslyn (played by Monroe) who teaches him to change his ways and attitudes and together, they take a chance on an uncertain future.
After the Fall (1964) Often viewed as highly autobiographical, this play received much criticism from reviewers who thought he was tarnishing the memory of American icon Marilyn Monroe, who had recently committed suicide. After the Fall examines the parallels between private and public acts of betrayal by drawing connections between the central character's self-assessment and the atrocities committed during the Holocaust. In an extended confession, Quentin relates the story of his life, describing what he sees as his formative relationships with women, most notably his mother, and his first two wives, Louise and Maggie. We also learn of his experiences living through the Depression, HUAC, and of his eventual acceptance of the possibility of future happiness with his new wife, Holga.
Incident at Vichy (1964) Written as a companion piece to After the Fall, Incident at Vichy illustrates the anti-Semitic ideas which fed the Holocaust. Set in Vichy France during the German occupation in 1942, the action focuses on a group of detainees representing all walks of life-from a beggar to a prince-who wait to be interrogated by the Nazis who are searching for Jews to send to the death camps. As the men anxiously wait, a number of discussions arise among the prisoners concerning their attitudes on the occupation, the resistance, and the anti-Semitic environment rampant in Europe at the time. Despite confrontations with the Nazi captors and their fear of what awaits them, the prisoners discover the possibility of meaning in their adversity through non-Jewish Prince Von Berg's gift of his own pass to freedom to the Jew, Leduc.
The Price (1968) Upon the death of their father, two brothers meet in order to go through their father's belongings. The two men occupy decidedly different ends of the spectrum-Walter is a highly successful surgeon, Victor a poorly paid policeman. Both resent each other for different reasons, one for his family attachments, the other for his financial achievements. Tempers rise until a confrontation between the brothers occurs and each must decide whether or not to accept or forsake his past mistakes and accomplishments. Witnessing their inability to understand the value of each other's decisions and achievements, is a wise old furniture dealer, Gregory Solomon, whose final response to whole sad situation is laughter.
The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972) Miller pretty much follows the early events of The Bible, only with a comedic twist, beginning with the creation, the story of Adam and Eve and their temptation, and culminating with the slaying of Able by his brother Cain. Miller portrays Lucifer as the voice of wisdom, with God being depicted as a bumbling, good-natured idiot, despite his powers. Lucifer plots to introduce evil to the world as he feels that evil must be present for good to have any real meaning. The play was turned into a musical called Up From Paradise two years after its Broadway production.
Fame (1978) This screenplay is based on an earlier short story written by Miller of the same name. A prosperous playwright has trouble coming to terms with his fame. His self-consciousness leads him to feel alienated from those around him, but his situation takes a turn for the better when he meets a female jockey who teaches him to look for the things that really matter in life and helps him to accept his success.
The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977)An American writer, Adrian, pays a visit to some old friends, Maya and Marcus, behind the Iron Curtain and gets a taste of what life is like under a corrupt communist government. Adrian's current girlfriend Ruth, is back in America, but he has a desire to see Maya once more, with whom he has had an affair in the past, and about whom he has been trying, unsuccessfully, to write a book. Marcus joins them with Irina, a decorative blonde, in tow. Though rebels in the past, it is unclear whether or not Maya and Marcus are now working for the government; however, they join Adrian in trying to help Sigmund, a writer who is still a rebel, get his newly completed manuscript returned after it has been confiscated by the authorities.
Playing For Time (1980) Miller developed Playing For Time from the autobiography of the real Fania Fenelon. It relates Fania's experiences at Auschwitz during World War Two; how she survived not only as a human being, but also as a Jew. The notorious Dr. Mengele is the camp physician, and though not a major character in the play, is clearly depicted as an apparently cultured man who, nevertheless, has no compunction engaging in unethical medical experiments. He and other Nazi officials have decided they needed a prisoner orchestra and Fania, with her musical background, is swiftly recruited, along with young Marianne, a girl whom Fania met on the train which brought them to the camp. The orchestra is led by former concert violinist, Alma Rosè, and it is made up of both Jewish prisoners, such as Esther, Hèlène, Liesle, Lotte, Paulette and Etalina, and non-Jewish Poles, such as Elzvieta. Though most of the prisoners have been cowed into submission by the Nazi supervisors and chiefs, like Frau Schmidt and Mandel, we do hear about the exploits of one subversive, Mala, and we occasionally meet Shmuel, an electrician, who gives Fania advice about how to survive.
The American Clock (1980) In The American Clock Miller tells the story of America in the 1930s through the conflated stories of a vast array of characters. We meet businessmen like Jesse Livermore and William Durant who lose everything, and more successful entrepreneurs like Arthur A. Robertson and Theodore K. Quinn. We learn the plight of farmers, like Henry Taylor, young intellectuals, like Joe and Edie, and an assortment of people from all walks of life. At the center, Miller places the Baum family, who are partly autobiographical. Through the Baums he explores, even more deeply, the concerns and demands of such a time. The father, Moe, loses a prosperous business but keeps on going, even as his wife, Rose begins to fall apart under the strain. Their son Lee goes from childhood to adulthood as he travels through the nation, and finally comes to terms with the demands of living in America.
Two-Way Mirror(1982-1984)Two-Way Mirror consists of "Elegy for a Lady" and "Some Kind of Love Story." In "Elegy" a Man enters a boutique and discusses with the Proprietess what might be an appropriate gift to buy for his ailing lover. Their discussion forces the Man to face some home truths about his relationship and realize that he needs to take a greater responsibility for his life. In "Some Kind" a private detective, Tom O'Toole, comes to interview a possible witness in a case he is investigating. The witness, Angela, suffers from multiple-personality-disorder and appears reluctant to give him the information he needs. They maintain a connection by playing a cat and mouse game in which neither will tell the other everything they need to hear, and so their meetings may continue ad infinitum.
Danger: Memory (1987) Danger: Memory! consists of "I Can't Remember Anything" and "Clara." In "I Can't" Leonora pays one of her regular visits to her old friend Leo. The two of them discuss the state of their current lives and recall what it was like before Leonora's husband, Frederick, died. Unable to reconcile their own different outlooks on life, they quarrel and Leonora leaves. The title character from "Clara" has just been brutally killed and we witness Detective Lew Fine questioning Clara's father, Kroll, to try and find out who might have have committed the murder. This questionning, however, tells us far more about the father than the daughter.
The Last Yankee (1991-1993) The Last Yankee begins with the meeting of Leroy Hamilton, a freelance carpenter and descendent of Alexander Hamilton, and John Frick, a conservative businessman, in the visiting room of the state mental hospital. Both have wives who are currently staying in this establishment, and as they make small talk, we discover that this appears to be about the only thing that they have in common. Next we meet the wives, and discover that their mental problems are closely tied to their marriages. Patricia Hamilton seems well on the road to recovery as she is beginning to realize that she must tone down her high expectations of life, but Karen Frick still suffers from a crippling lack of self-esteem. As the two couples interact we see Patricia and Leroy reach a compromise that will allow Patricia to go home, but the Fricks remain unable to communicate with each other, and Karen shows little sign of recovery.
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991) The Ride Down Mt. Morgan purportedly takes place in the hospital room of a bedridden Lyman Felt who is recovering from a bad car accident. Lyman, we soon discover, is a bigamist, and both of his wives, Theo and Leah, turn up, each unaware, until now, that the other existed. Refusing to accept that he has done anything really wrong, Lyman tries to salvage the situation and keep both of his wives happy. He largely fails in this attempt as it is clearly too selfishly motivated, something his daughter, Bessie, tries to teach him. He ends the play alone; even his admiring friend Tom cannot continue to support his actions.
Broken Glass (1994) In Broken Glass Miller tells the story of Sylvia and Phillip Gellburg, who after years of marriage come to realize that they hardly know each other at all. Phillip is the only Jew working at a very traditional Wall Street bank where he mainly works on foreclosings. Obsessed with work, and his own desire to assimilate, Phillip has little time for his wife until she demands his attention by suddenly falling prey to a mysterious paralysis after seeing the events of Kristallnacht in the newspaper. Up until now Sylvia has been a quiet little housewife, but she needs to express her buried fears and longings. Dr. Harry Hyman is called in to help, and though no specialist, he decides the case is a psychiatric one, and proceeds to try and treat Sylvia. Hyman, however, has problems of his own, which become apparent during his interaction with the Gellburgs.
Mr. Peter's Connections (1998) Mr. Harry Peter is an elderly man who comes to a run-down night-club run by his brother for some ambiguous reason. There we meet various people from his family and past, as Peter tries to make sense of who he is and what he has achieved. The play ends with a plea from his daughter for him not to die which seems to give him the strength to continue.
Resurrection Blues (2002) A satiric piece in which the local dictator on a fictional island plans to televise the crucifixion of a local rebel whom people believe to be Jesus. Even the mainland television crew become antagonistic to such brutality, and the play culminates in an uncertain apotheosis of the figure in question.
Finishing the Picture (2004) A distinguished director is about to lose his picture due to the unstable behavior of a famously fragile movie star. She is recognized all over the world, loved by millions, but unable to believe in herself. The studio owners are threatening to pull the plug, and a temperamental acting teacher is flown in to coax the actress out of bed and onto the set.
Focus (1945) His only novel to date, Focus tells the story of Lawrence Newman, an anti-Semite, whose life is transformed with the addition of a pair of eyeglasses. Newman has spent his entire life discriminating against minorities, but after wearing a pair of eyeglasses which alter his physical appearance, he is mistaken for a Jew. Friends who once treated him with respect now treat him with hostility as he becomes the target of discriminatory behavior he once judiciously dealt to others. By the close of the novel, however, Newman has accepted his connection with the Jews and earnestly accepts his responsibility to his fellow men.
Homely Girl: A Life and Other Stories (1992) Published in England in 1995 as Plain Girl. The title story tells the life of Janice Sessions, a woman who lives through the tumultous 1950s to find her socialist convictions challenged and her marriage a sham. She eventually finds happiness with a blind man who accepts her for who she is. The other two stories in the collection are reprints of "Fame" and Fitter's Night."
I Don't Need You Anymore(1967) There is a short introduction in which Miller explains how he sees the following short stories as unintentionally interrelating, and what he sees as the difference between short stories and plays. The title story is about a five year old Jewish boy who expresses a desire to see the wider world, and begins his growth away from maternal cushioning, to his mother's displeasure and father approval. "Fitter's Night" is set in the Brooklyn Naval Yard during WW2 and is the only previously unpublished story in the collection; it follows a night's work in the life of Tony Calabrese, an Italian-American with a dubious past, who had married for a non-existent dowry, but finds some dignity in completing a dangerous task and winning the respect of the ship's captain. "Monte Sant Angelo" introduces us to Bernstein, an American Jew who accompanies his friend's search in an Italian village for relatives. Knowing his relatives to be dead in the Holocaust, Bernstein is surprised to recognize someone, however, it is not someone he knows but a fellow Jew (although this man is unaware of his Jewishness but follows the Shabbat rituals). This encounter gives Berstein a renewed sense of connection and self-esteem. "Please Don't Kill Anything," based on a similar event in Miller's time with Marilyn Monroe, shows a couple walking on the beach watching the fishermen, who involve themselves in saving the "useless" fish by throwing them back into the sea. "Glimpse at a Jockey" is mostly conversation as a New York jockey chats to a stranger in a bar, expressing his distaste with all the pressure to win, and telling how he found his long lost father and bought him a lawnmower. "The Prophecy" tells of the complicated relations between couples who threaten infidelity and live their lives in petty dispute. Cleota tries to seduce neighbor Joe, who turns her down, but then tries it on when she apologizes, flattering her ego, but now finding her resistant. Various prophecies (some false) regarding death, and couples splitting up give a sense of how it is personal resolve rather than fate which keeps people together or splits them apart. In "A Search for a Future" a son learns from his elderly father how to appreciate life by being involved in it and having goals, rather than hiding behind a facade of acting all the time and pretending things don't matter. "The Misfits," is the story from which the movie evolved, and it is a simpler tale in which Roslyn plays only a minor role. Three drifters go mustanging; Gay has left his unfaithful wife, but misses his children. He is seeing Roslyn, but suspects she prefers his partner Perce, a minor rodeo star. Their pilot is suicidal from losing his wife during childbirth. They catch five horses and head into town. Their lives are minor, but they are content. "Fame" (also made into a movie) tells of a rich and famous playwright, Meyer Berkowitz, who is sick of insincere adulation, and wants for people to see the real him over the media image and treat him more naturally. He meets an old friend at a bar who at first does not connect him with his fame, but whenhe does becomes less chummy and leaves, evidence of Meyer's complaint.
Jane's Blanket (1963) This children's book, dedicated to Miller's first daughter, Jane, tells the tale of young girl who carries a blanket around with her for security when she is very young. As she grows older she becomes less and less reliant on the blanket, though it is a release which she at times finds difficult. The blanket eventually disintegrates with age and the last few threads are taken by a bird to line its nest, and Jane is led to an acceptance of this development by the gentle guidance of her father.
(2008) This collection brings together six pieces that appeared in
magazines toward the end of Miller's life; all, in their ways,
celebrate redemption through love. The blocked, aging writer of "The
Bare Manuscript" hires a flesh-and-muscle six-foot-tall model, hoping
to tap into the sexual vigor of his early genius by inscribing new work
directly onto her body; what unspools are the sad story of his marriage
and tender memories of courtship. In "Beavers," a country homeowner is
mesmerized by the astounding energy of the beavers that appear one day
in his pond, and whose redundant work seems to parallel the futility of
human effort, yet also to bravely mimic human emotion. "The
Performance" finds the Jewish head of an American tap-dancing troupe,
in Berlin just before WWII, invited to perform in front of Hitler
himself. “The Turpentine Still” presents a portrait of a man examining
his legacy. A 13-year-old boy's life is transformed by getting a new
puppy, or rather, by his sexual initiation with the woman who gives him
the dog in the opening "Bulldog," while in the closing title story,
"Presence," an older man discovers a couple making love on the beach,
triggering a flood of recollection.
Situation Normal. . . (1944) Based on his experiences researching the war correspondence of Ernie Pyle, Miller relates Stateside interviews he made with various soldiers, warts and all.
In Russia (1969) The first of three books created with his photographer and wife Inge Morath. This one offers insights regarding Miller's impressions of Russian writers, culture, politics and society.
In the Country (1977) A mix of photographs by Inge Morath and text by Miller, here we get a great insight into how Miller spent his time in Roxbury, Connecticut and learn about his various neighbors.
Chinese Encounters (1979) Chinese Encounters takes the form of a travel journal liberally illustrated with photographs provided by Miller's wife, Inge Morath. Chinese Encounters depicts the Chinese society in the state of flux which followed the end of the Cultural Revolution. Miller discusses the hardships of many writers, professors, and artists as they try to regain the sense of freedom and place ripped from them under Mao's rule.
"Salesman" in Beijing (1984) Written about the production of Death of a Salesman at the Beijing People's Theatre in 1983, Miller describes the idiosyncrasies, misunderstandings, and insights of directing a Chinese cast in his decidedly American play. Miller-and his readers-- realize that the play's themes transcend cultural borders. The book includes several photographs which document dramatic scenes from the production as well as Miller's experiences.
The Theater Essays of Arthur Miller (1978, updated 1996) Contains a variety of essays outlining Miller's views about his own plays, the state of professional theater in America, and playwriting in general. Includes such famous pieces as his "Tragedy and the Common Man" which offers a modern take on how tragedy should be judged.
Timebends: A Life (1987) Incredibly insightful to those fascinated with Miller's creative genius, his autobiography relates the intimate details of his boyhood in Harlem, his college years at the University of Michigan, and the finer points of his three marriages-including his infamous union with Marilyn Monroe. Perhaps of greatest interest are Miller's descriptions of his meetings and connections with the likes of Elia Kazan, Tennessee Williams, Saul Bellow, and many political figures such as Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy, and Mikhail Gorbachev. Miller's confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee is described in vivid detail, as is his involvement as President of the International PEN organization. The book includes thirty-two pages of photographs and a helpful index. For those who wish to really know the man behind the work, this is a must read.
Echoes Down the Corridors: Collected Essays 1944-2000
This collection deals more with Miller's political and social musings over the years, although there are inevitably many essays that also deal with his plays in relation to these issues. A good companion to the earlier Theater Essays collection.
Politics and the Art of Acting (2001)
The expanded version of Miller's 2001 Jefferson Lecture. While pointing out humorous connections between American presidents and actors, Miller ultimately calls for the public to question the authenticity of its political leaders, and demand a more substantive theater as a corrective to the distorted politics of the time.
Selected non-dramatic articles/publications by Miller 2000-2005
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Sydney, Australia, Nov 18 – A swimmer died after a rare suspected stingray attack off an Australian beach while another two people were mauled in separate shark encounters this weekend.
The 42-year-old’s death came more than a decade after world-renowned “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin was killed when a stingray barb punctured his chest while he was filming on the famed Great Barrier Reef.
The man was in waters off Lauderdale Beach some 23 kilometres (14 miles) from Hobart in the southern island state of Tasmania Saturday when he “sustained a puncture wound to his lower abdomen… possibly inflicted by a marine animal”, police said.
He was brought onto the beach by friends but suffered a heart attack and was unable to be resuscitated, police added.
“It’s consistent with (a stingray injury) but further investigation and examination of the deceased may be able to give a bit more of a concrete fact on that,” Tasmania Police Senior Constable Brett Bowering told the Sunday Tasmanian.
“It’s a pretty traumatic incident to see.”
Commonly found in tropical waters, stingrays rarely attack humans but their barbs, at the end of their tails, are coated in toxic venom which they use to defend themselves when threatened.
– Two attacks –
In the first shark attack of the weekend, a man taking part in a surf lesson off the east coast suffered serious cuts after an encounter on Saturday.
The 24-year-old was wading waist-deep in waters off Seven Mile Beach some 130 kilometres (81 miles) south of Sydney when he “felt a forceful lashing motion against his legs”, New South Wales Ambulance said.
He had “significant cuts and haemorrhage as well as several puncture wounds to his wetsuit and right leg… and cuts to his hand”, NSW Ambulance duty operations manager Inspector Jordan Emery told reporters Saturday.
The beach was closed and authorities sought to identify the shark species involved.
That attack was followed by another on Sunday off the north coast, when a teenage boy was bitten on his arm and leg while spearfishing, police said.
The 17-year-old was spearfishing from a vessel off the coast of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory when he sustained “significant injuries” to his arm, St John Ambulance told national broadcaster ABC.
“Obviously there’s quite a large amount of bleeding that’s occurred,” St John Ambulance’s Craig Garraway said.
He said shark encounters in the NT were unusual, adding: “I’ve been around a long time and I’ll be honest, I can’t remember a shark attack.”
The two attacks are the sixth and seventh off Australian beaches in two months, amid public debate about how to reduce the risk of encounters between sharks and the growing number of people using the ocean for leisure.
Australia has one of the world’s highest incidences of shark attacks, but fatalities remain rare.
There have been 13 “unprovoked” shark attacks off the vast continent’s coast this year, including one death after a swimmer was mauled by a shark in the Whitsunday Islands in early November, according to data from Sydney’s Taronga Zoo.
There were 15 attacks — one fatal — last year, and 17 encounters and two deaths in 2016, the data showed.
New South Wales hosted an international conference with marine experts in 2015 after a sharp increase in attacks across Australia that year to 22, including the death of a Japanese surfer after his legs were torn off by a shark.
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Information & Facts
The climate in Antwerp is distinctly maritime, with the weather
conditions generally being quite mild. There is a chance of sunny,
grey or rainy days year-round in Antwerp, regardless of season.
July and August are usually the warmest months in Antwerp but are
also the wettest. The most pleasant time to visit Antwerp is
probably in April or May.
The Flemish, in the north, speak Dutch (60% of the
population); the Walloons in the south speak French (40%). Brussels
is bilingual, the majority of citizens speaking French. In the east
there is a small German-speaking community. English is also
Euro (EUR) divided into 100 cents. Most credit cards are
accepted (Visa, American Express, Diners Club and Eurcard) as are
travellers cheques (though it is best to carry them in Euros, US
dollars or Pounds Sterling to avoid additional charges when
exchanging). ATMs are available in all major cities. Banks are open
Monday to Friday, 9am to 4pm, and are closed on Saturdays, Sundays
and holidays. Some banks close for an hour during lunch. There are
however some foreign exchange offices that trade on Sundays.
Local time in Belgium is GMT +1 (GMT +2 from the last Sunday
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ECONOMYNEXT – The International Monetary Fund is calling on young people between the ages of 20 and 32 around the world to participate in its annual Youth Fellowship Program for Annual Meetings.
It is open to young professionals working or leading civil society organizations, entrepreneurs, content creators (bloggers / vloggers), students and journalists.
“The 2021 IMF Youth Fellowship Program offers young participants the opportunity to be part of the global effort to progress better and to join the IMF at the forefront of crisis response,” said the agency.
“Program participants will experience first-hand the IMF’s virtual annual meetings from October 11 to 17.
Selected fellows will have the opportunity to participate in a 2-day virtual workshop on October 11-12 to meet IMF management and senior officials and discuss current global economic issues including inclusive growth, inequality, economy digital technology and climate change.
Selected participants will receive a certificate of completion from the IMF Youth Fellowship Program.
What: Share your ideas on how to tackle today’s most pressing economic challenges, including inclusive growth, inequality, the digital economy, and climate change.
When: Interested participants must apply before September 24, 2021
How? ‘Or’ What:
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The U.S. Constitution: Proslavery or Antislavery?
Axia College of University of Phoenix
The Constitution was written “to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.” Slavery is a prominent part of the United States history and I believe, as many famous historians did, that the Constitution was written proslavery. The constitution is made up of seven articles several sections (in many of the articles), and 27 different amendments. Rodriguez (2008) says that four passages were used in the constitution to help those who supported slavery to uphold their political power and try to keep slavery alive. The words “slave” or “slavery” never appear in the text of the constitution so in all actuality the meaning of those four passages can be interpreted in many ways. Article one section two of the Constitution speaks of slaves counting as only three fifths of a person. Clause one of article one section nine, discusses not having the power to ban slavery until the year 1808 and it was written in 1787. Section two of article four addresses the issue of Free states protecting slaves. Article five reinforces the first clause of article one section nine. The thirteenth amendment is the only amendment that directly addresses slavery. The thirteenth amendment indicates that slavery is acceptable as long as it is only used as a form of punishment.
This is a picture of Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey later became known as Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass was born on February 14, 1818 as a slave in Talbot County, Maryland. Douglass escaped Slavery on September 3, 1838 and became known as “The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia," Douglass became an editor, author, statesman, reformer, and an American abolitionist. Root (2006) says that after Douglass escaped from slavery, he sent his... | <urn:uuid:359cb032-a67c-40f0-ac74-91a06d43222c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.brainia.com/essays/The-Constitution-Final-Project/26164.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00136-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974247 | 418 | 3.734375 | 4 |
The RHIhub recently released a new collection of Rural Health Information Technology Workforce Curriculum Resources. From 2013-2016, 15 Federal Office of Rural Health Policy (FORHP) Rural Health Information Technology Workforce Program grantees developed formal health IT training programs serving rural areas, along with training materials other rural-serving community colleges could build on. This section of the RHIhub website provides a complete inventory of these curriculum resources, including detailed course descriptions and training materials. In addition to course development, some grantees also included information on related programs.
The programs used the ONC Health IT Curriculum Focus Areas in their course development. The six focus areas include:
- Practice Workflow and Information Management Redesign Specialist
- Clinical/Practitioner Consultants
- Technical/Software Support
- Implementation Manager
- Implementation Support Specialists
Many of the courses may serve as preparation for one or more health IT certifications. Relevant certifications are also identified in this section of the website.
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“Men and women are equal in dignity, complementary in mission.”—Pope Saint John XXIII
Contraception as a Harmful Ideology
One of the unintended side-effects of the widespread acceptance of contraception is the rejection of complementarity. Contraception furthers inequality, in that it symbolizes the attempt to make the woman function as a man, which is to say, to reject pregnancy. This abnegation stems from our contraceptive climate. Unfortunately, today’s cultural norms are highly skeptical of such beneficial complementarity.
With the rejection of nature, ideology prevails. The secular world wales men and women are equal in mission, when common sense tells us they are not. If they were, men would bear children. They would multitask and be nurturing. And they would be speaking up in the #metoo movement, instead of the other way around. Men and women’s biology is not identical; scientific studies increasingly confirm differences, just as we have known since time eternal. But having men and women equal but different is really God’s plan.
“We tell our daughters,” writes one particular mother, “that they can be anything they want—that they can do anything a boy can.” On the other hand, one never hears of a father saying to his son, “You can do anything a girl can do.” Ironically, the movement to secure a strict equality between the sexes is limiting, not freeing. Girls will not grow up to be star NFL quarterbacks or renowned basso profondi; nor will boys grow up to be mothers or wet nurses. But this is okay. G.K. Chesterton wrote, ““A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.” Studies long after he died support this as a finding. Does that mean women have no intelligence? Obviously not, or there would have been no Madame Curie. Female instinct is a treasure which sometimes gives special insight where the man’s more “logical” inclination does not. Our destiny as men or women equal but different is open to broad vistas. But remember that biology is destiny, nature cannot be ignored.
Women are built to be mothers, whether they have children or not. This affects them corporally and psychologically. Gloria Steinem’s dangerous phrase, “A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” is an aggressive rejection of men and, of course, her exceedingly complex nature. It is also a rejection of Christ, who was Man and God. God intended two sexes and their balance is enshrined in the marriage bond between husband and wife. Complementarity does not compromise equality: It gives it a higher dimension; it extends one the possibility of completeness.
Church Values “Feminine Genius” and Not Inequality
“It is universally admitted – even by people with a critical attitude towards the Christian message – that in the eyes of his contemporaries Christ became a promotor of women’s true dignity and of the vocation corresponding to this dignity.”
– John Paul II, Mulieris Dignitatem
Many buy into the argument that difference between the sexes will inevitably lead to male domination. Instead Catholic teaching actually improved the lot of women throughout history, while rejecting a woman’s fertility denies part of her. Pope Saint John Paul II spoke of feminine genius and asserted female stature without denying but rather upholding her true self, stating they, “together with men, [have] a common responsibility for the destiny of humanity” (Mulieris Dignitatem). And for Ms. Steinems of the world, he praised all women, mothers to virgins. A person’s value is rooted in his/her image and likeness to God.
Sex Without Responsibility Leads to Inequality
In 1971, three years after Humanae Vitae, Norman Mailer warned of the dangers that contraception would bring about as a result of the rejection of complementarity. “Heterosexual sex with contraception,” he wrote in The Prisoner of Sex, is “a form of sexual currency closer to the homosexual than the heterosexual, a clearing house for power [emphasis mine], a market for psychic power in which the stronger will use the weaker.” One who lives the single, chaste life does not risk what women do who seek sexual relationships without the entanglements such behavior involves. A lady who is chaste holds the cards, but a woman who is not and contracepts is harming her own psyche. She asks, “Should I have done this? Should I have waited? What will he think of me? Am I just a sexual object who will dropped after the ‘end goal’ has been reached?” Instinctively, men know this. A true story: a woman once walking down the street was being “cat called.” As soon as she asked the way to nearby church, the men in question totally altered their behavior and were respectful, giving directions.
Neither are men to be seen as playthings – respect for the human person is mirrored by marriage as the sacramental commitment takes all this guesswork away by deferring to the Sacrament and yes, complementarity.
In vitro fertilization, too, is being used to separate the sexes. If women can do it all, says the culture, why does she need to wait for a man to have a child? Because nature demands that the ovum and sperm unite. She may not know the man, but biology demands a man, and no person can change this. All they can do is put up further barriers to natural conception, and all of them are harmful.
Contraception is part of a series of separations, beginning with the separation of sex from conception. Complementarity is contraception’s innocent victim, one that we should all mourn.
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These hammer unions are best suited for medium pressure ranges involving air, water, oil & gas service for cold working pressure up to 2,000 PSI. Up to 4″ no O-ring is used on the male sub. Beyond 4″ size, an O-Ring is used on the male sub for sealing. The Figure 200 is a compact and economical hammer union, available with Threaded and ButtWeld ends.
These hammer unions have an additional ‘O’ ring on the spherical surface of the male sub providing a leak proof seal. All dimensions of Fig200 & Fig206 are identical.
Fig207 Blanking Caps and hammer unions are fully interchangeable with Fig200 and 206 hammer unions. For use where the blanking off at the end of a line is desirable. The cap is fitted with an ‘O’ ring to ensure a leakproof seal.
These hammer unions are rigid in design and have all the three parts made of steel forgings. These hammer unions are best suited for manifold and line connections. Hammer unions from 3 inch through 8 inch sizes have O- rings for primary sealing. From 5″ to 8″ sizes C.W.P. is 2,500 PSI.
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These hammer unions protect against electrolytic action. There is no metal – to – metal contact between the subs. A resilent seal ring in the female sub provide additional sealing and protection from corrosion. Suitable for 2000 PSI CWP.
These hammer unions are widely used in cementing, manifold and other services where extra high pressure of 15,000 PSI CWP are encountered. There hammer unions are provided with replaceable seal ring.
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The bell rings, a middle age women get's up with black hair stands in front of the podium and looks at the class "Class today I am going to give you a challenge. I want you to write about your favorite sea animal or fish. The two key things that is required. First, you can describe the animal but you can not tell it‘s name. Second, the story has to be one thousand words in length."
A red head girl in the second row raised her hand, "Miss Parks."
“Yes Betsy,” said Miss Parks.
Betsy‘s smile on her face turned into a frown, “I don’t know how I am going to be able to write one thousand words worth.”
After Betsy asked her question, Miss Parks turned her head and looked at the rest of the class. “This is a creative writing class and this story is suppose to be a challenge. You can tell me what color it is, or what foods it eats. What part of the ocean can you find this fish or animal? Again you can describe it, but you can’t name it.”
A brown haired boy put his hand up.
“Harry, what is you question?” asked the teacher.
Harry Lowered his hand and said, “Does it haft to be the ocean?”
Miss parks smiled and gave a quick laugh, “It does not haft to be, it can be a lake or river or any other body of water.”
A blond girl raised her hand and waved it back and forth, “Miss Parks.”
Miss Parks turned her head quickly and looked at Dianne. “Oh boy, Dianne you seem enthusiastic today what is your question?”
Dianne laughed for a second, “Thank you miss Parks, Can we write a fictional story?”
Miss parks looked into Dianne eye‘s “You can, but you must give a description of the animal in the piece.”
Then Miss Parks paused for a second, “Is there any more questions”
No one raised there hand as the teacher looked around the classroom. “Ok you will have the rest of the period to work on it. Your stories will be due next Friday.”
Next Friday came and Miss Parks got up in front of the class again at the end of the period. “Well class, I have briefly looked through you assignments. I want to be the first to tell you that you did a good job. Isn’t it is amazing to see God’s handy work.”
The bell rang, “Class dismissed, I will grade you papers and get them back to you next time.” Everyone walked out of class that day with a smile.
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If you're looking to Forbes' newly published 100 Richest People In Tech list as evidence of diversity and evolution in business, you're bound to be disappointed.
The top 10 out of Forbes' newest tabulation of the 100 most lucrative people in tech looks a whole lot like ... the top 10 of the 2014 list, which reads like a who's who of well-established, and terribly familiar, tech giants.
Unsurprisingly, Bill Gates remains No. 1 with $79.6 billion at his command (and at No. 8, Steve Ballmer with $22.7 billion). But everyone below him is equally familiar: Larry Ellison, at No. 2, wields $50 billion. Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page & Sergey Brin, and Michael Dell all round out the list.
Founders of tech startups as a whole are still a long way from the top 10. Tesla's Elon Musk clocks in impressively enough at No. 15 ($13.9 billion). But below that, Jan Koum of WhatsApp appears at No. 27 with a comparatively paltry $7.9 billion to his name. Jack Dorsey of Twitter ranks No. 92 with $2.3 billion, and Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel with $2.1 billion (the youngest on the list at 25) shows up in second-to-last place.
What remains both surprising and dismaying is how the list at the top end continues to tilt white and male, despite technology's international reach and allegedly field-leveling power. Jack Ma (No. 7, $23.2 billion) was the only nonwhite entry in the top 10, although Asians and Indians figure prominently throughout the rest of the running. The rest of the list is more fruitful, though: aside from China, another Asian country that repeatedly cracks the list is South Korea, with five people on the list to Japan and India's two each. (Taiwan has two; Singapore has one.)
But women barely make the list, with a total of seven in the entire running of 100. The only one to crack to the top ten is Laurene Powell Jobs (No. 9, $20.1 billion), widow of Steve Jobs. Next highest is at No. 30 ($7.5 billion) -- Zhou Qunfei, the self-made founder and chairwoman of Hong Kong display-glass creator Lens Technology, and the only nonwhite woman on the list.
Though none of the women are involved with a name-brand startup, the roster of outfits they are associated with is impressive. Epic Systems, the electronic health records outfit, was founded and is currently headed by Judy Faulkner (No. 80, $2.6 billion). Meg Whitman of eBay, Eva Maria Bucher-Haefner of Computer Associates, Dagmar Dolby of Dolby Laboratories, and online gambling magnate Denise Coates also made the list.
The short lesson is that those that tend to make the top of the list of 100 tend to stay there. Most of the changes in the top 10 from last year involved little more than a rejiggering of those already at the high end. The only two new names in the top 10 are Jack Ma and Jobs. (Dish Network's Charles Ergen, formerly at No. 9 with $17.2 billion, is nowhere to be seen in this year's running at all.) For all of the disruption said to be taking place in the tech world, this is one status quo that's yet to be shaken up. | <urn:uuid:88c78b5a-9760-4313-bcf7-6f4fd11f2637> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.infoworld.com/article/2956798/technology-business/usual-suspects-crowd-forbes-list-of-richest-people-in-tech.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00309-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952643 | 723 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Targeted Killing & Due Process
After Anwar al Awlaki, an American citizen, was specifically targeted and killed by a drone strike, serious questions arose regarding the legality and morality of this killing. From a legal standpoint, this sort of targeted killing seems to violate the 5th amendment of the constitution:
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
As might be imagined, people have generally taken “due process of law” as requiring the proper involvement of the legal system. One likely reason for this is that the amendment seems to be focused on the judicial rather than the executive aspects of the state. In regards to targeted killings, there is also the concern that such killings involve making a person “answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime”. If so, a targeted killing without such an indictment or presentment would violate the constitutional rights of the target.
In response to this sort of reasoning, Eric Holder replied as follows:
Some have argued that the President is required to get permission from a federal court before taking action against a United States citizen who is a senior operational leader of al Qaeda or associated forces. This is simply not accurate. “Due process” and “judicial process” are not one and the same, particularly when it comes to national security. The Constitution guarantees due process, not judicial process.
While I am not a scholar of constitutional law, the context of the 5th amendment seems to make it rather clear that the due process is, in fact,supposed to be a judicial process. Of course, since it is not worded as “judicial process”, this does open a legal door for interpreting what is meant by “due process.” As Holder sees it, in addition to following due process the killing of an American citizen must meet four principles in order to be legal:
The principle of necessity requires that the target have definite military value. The principle of distinction requires that only lawful targets – such as combatants, civilians directly participating in hostilities, and military objectives – may be targeted intentionally. Under the principle of proportionality, the anticipated collateral damage must not be excessive in relation to the anticipated military advantage. Finally, the principle of humanity requires us to use weapons that will not inflict unnecessary suffering.
On the face of it, these principles seem rather reasonable in regards to justifying intentional targeting. After all, they boil down to saying that it is okay to target a lawful target that has military value provided that doing so does not cause excessive collateral damage and undue suffering is not inflicted. However, the most important issue of concern here is the matter of due process.
In terms of the legality, that is a matter that must be decided by the courts. As noted above, my view is that due process requires legal proceedings in the context of the judicial branch and that ordering such executions does not fall within the powers of the executive branch. Of course, I am not a legal scholar and hence my view has no weight beyond the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of my argument.
My view does not, I contend, infringe on the president’s role as the commander and chief of the armed forces. If an American citizen is killed in the course of combat because s/he took up arms against American forces, then the citizen was a legitimate target for the armed forces.
However, singling out an American citizen to be targeted and killed is another matter since that seems to be more properly an act of law and not of war. From both a moral and a legal standpoint, there does seem to be a rather important distinction here, namely that between the criminal and the enemy combatant. The mere fact that someone is engaged in activity harmful to the United States (including killing Americans) does not make that person an enemy combatant. Otherwise almost all criminals would be enemy combatants, which would be absurd.
As might be imagined, the stock reply to this view is that we are at war with terror and hence a targeted killing of an American citizen who is involved in terrorism is thus an act of war. By this reasoning, the targeted killing would be an act of war, on par with having a sniper take out a turncoat among the enemy on the field of battle.
While this does have a certain appeal, there is the rather obvious concern that the war on terror is a rather vague sort of war. After all, terrorism tends to blend all too smoothly into the criminal world (and vice versa). This raises legitimate concerns about the standards used to distinguish between those citizens who are enemy combatants and those who are merely criminals. As noted above, just because someone is actively harming America or even killing Americans does not automatically make that person an enemy combatant and thus outside of the normal judicial process. After all, Americans murder each other everyday, yet they are not enemy combatants. Also, having foreign ties to violent groups and engaging in violence because of this does not seem to suffice to make a citizen an enemy combatant. After all, there are and have been American citizens with ties to foreign groups (such as the Mafia and Mexican drug dealers) who have engaged in violence against Americans without being considered enemy combatants.
The stock reply to this sort of reasoning is that terrorists can be distinguished by their goals. Crudely put, while terrorists do often engage in traditionally criminal enterprises (such as the drug trade), they are not in it for the money but for some political or religious goal. In contrast, criminals are in it for the money or for some other non-political or religious goal (like revenge).
While this also has a certain appeal, there are obviously criminals who commit their crimes (such as killing abortion doctors or attacking political figures) based on political or religious motivations. These people can even have ties to foreign groups (such as transnational religious groups) and yet they are not enemy combatants.
The standard reply to this is to bring in that the person must be on foreign soil. While this does have some appeal, this would seem to allow the targeted killing of an American criminal who has fled to another country, such as Mexico, to hang out with his drug dealer allies. As such, it seems rather difficult to make a clear distinction between a criminal and a terrorist that would clearly protect American citizens from being executed by the executive branch. While I will not call for an exact line to be drawn, I will call for more definite standards. I am, not surprisingly, in favor of erring on the side of considering citizens criminals rather than enemy combatants in cases in which the matter is not quite clear.
As I hope is evident, my main concern with Holder’s justification is that it makes it far too easy for the president to order the execution of American citizens without due judicial process. This, I contend, extends the president’s powers in a legally unwarranted and morally dubious manner. As such, the targeted killings of Americans without due judicial process should be regarded as both morally wrong and as a violation of the constitution. | <urn:uuid:2872a699-ab71-46c7-bfea-e675926ca391> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://aphilosopher.wordpress.com/2012/03/12/targeted-killing-due-process/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00530-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966324 | 1,537 | 1.632813 | 2 |
|Title||Accurately Measuring Health Over the Life Course|
|Year of Publication||2010|
|Authors||Lange, F, McKee, D|
|Series Title||Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Working Papers|
|Institution||Center for Retirement Research at Boston College|
|Keywords||Health Conditions and Status, Meta-analyses, Mortality, Older Adults|
This paper develops a new method of estimating rich, dynamic models of health based on multiple health measures available in the HRS. We apply these methods to investigate what generates the large socioeconomic gradient in health. Preliminary results suggest a large role for initial differences in health at age 50 that persist into old age. | <urn:uuid:80dc9a37-0631-42fa-a36c-ec5e5e2a9ad2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hrs.isr.umich.edu/publications/biblio/8769 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.799156 | 224 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Advances and Applications in Electrochemical AFM
This video features a presentation by Bruker that discusses the recent advances and applications of the electrochemical atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques.
The electrochemical processes such as corrosion, bioelectrochemical reactions, electroplating and charging and discharging of batteries can be monitored in situ in real time using this AFM. Imaging the samples in stringent and liquid environmental conditions can be done easily with the latest advances in AFM technology.
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Have you ever practiced meditation at home? If not, then it’s time you start practicing it and experience the magical difference it leaves behind every time.
StyleCraze offers you assorted and the best information on the various types of meditation along with the different ways to practice it and its benefits.
It is most important however to keep in mind that meditation is nothing but concentration. It doesn’t matter what kind of meditation you do, concentration is what will get you results. It can be done anytime and anywhere. All it takes is a quiet place and time.
Check out these top 10 how to meditate videos from youtube.com and experience the difference yourself.
Youtube Meditation Videos
1. This meditation video is among the most popular ones on the youtube.com and has over 50,000 views. The video explains each and every aspect and the basic requirements of performing mediation. It begins with describing the importance of a good posture in mediation. It should be very comfortable and stable. Any physical activity or chattering is the activities which should be stopped, to relax our mind and soul.
2. This particular video of meditation has over 1lakh views and hundreds of likes, talks about the spiritual reality. It is a program on meditation and meditational experiences. While watching this video, the narrator asks us to relax and just go with its flow, without analyzing the video. The various phases of meditation are well explained and also state that “mediation is the journey of consciousness towards our inner self”.
3. This video is the first part of the deep relaxation mediation- stepping inwards by “Brahma Kumaris” With over 1lakh 30thousand views. This is indeed on e of the most popular videos on youtube.com. It starts with explaining the importance of relaxing our body, mind and stepping into inner self and disconnect yourself from the things around us, before we start with the meditation. With a soothing background tune and description, this video is ideal if you want to relax our mind and body for some time.
4. The video is particularly known as t he “brain massage video”, which is not typically a mediation video. It aims to soothe and relax your brain with the soothing frequencies that the video produces and will help our mind to reach a relaxed state. It is enriched with the “binaural beats”, which claims to deepen our relaxation process. This video is quite helpful to reduce and eliminate stress and headaches.
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5. The video is known as the guided meditation, which clearly explains the importance, benefits and very intricate details about meditation. This provides a deep blissful relaxation for your body and mind. It focuses specially on the various breathing techniques to calm our mind. With a soothing background tune (sound of the waves) and description, this video is ideal if you want to relax our mind and body for some time.
6. A very quirky yet realistic mediation video which has gained around 7 lakh views, making it undoubtedly one of the most popular mediation video. This is an animated video which explains the various reasons due to which person may not be able to mediate, even if he wishes to do so. It introduces us to the technique of one moment mediation. It firstly explains you the 1- minute mediation and with practice, you can reduce the time and finally reach the one moment meditation.
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7. The video provides you with a deep mediation experience with its enchanting and extremely soothing music. It creates a relaxing and pious atmosphere around you, calms your nerves and soothes your mind, which will help in your mediation. However it does not provide you with any information regarding the procedure of the meditation.
8. This video has been put u by the famous “Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu” and explains how to practice meditation peacefully and effectively, without the requirement of any religious code of belief. This informative video explains the meaning of mediation and also the origin and foundation the mediation practice.
9. A continuation of the 6 art mediation series by “Yuttadhammo Bhikkhu”, this video focuses on the technique of “walking mediation”. This is a unique technique has the same benefits as the sitting mediation and also helps us to indulge in the physical activity along with mediation at the same time. Walking mediation is slowly gaining popularity all over the world.
10. The last video is a 4-minute mediation focusing specially on the students. This video is quite helpful for the beginners in mediation as it provides some quick and useful tips. With regular practice, it helps in sharpening the memory, keeping clam and increase the concentration power amongst the students.
Hope you’ve enjoyed these top 10 videos from youtube.com. We will be back with some more meditation practices. Do keep visiting.
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by Michael Laux
Why do people do what they do?
That’s the question that drives consumer research. And it’s the question that drives our never-ending quest for insights – insights that can help us unravel the cryptic threads of human emotion, perception and behavior to reveal something groundbreaking – something that can transform the way a business approaches consumers.
For example, what exactly turns a window shopper into a “real” shopper? It’s a simple question we wanted to answer for a global retailer of toys and games. Shoppers may say they like a window display and they may have positive feelings toward a window display but how do we know if and how these thoughts and feelings actually translate into purchase behavior?
The good news is that today’s researchers are better equipped than ever to untangle this web of complexity. Thanks to new methodologies and expanding data sources, we can dig deeper to uncover the layers and study the variables independently to reveal a more complete vision of consumer behavior. We can triangulate, or examine multiple angles to a question, to get to a more holistic picture.
Vast mound of data
Traditionally, researchers ask questions through well-crafted surveys, observe behavior and probe in qualitative settings, use advanced analytics to derive insight and at times link to external data about what people do. Today, we can complement those techniques with tools that measure non-conscious aspects of what people do, ask questions in the moment of experience and leverage their willingness to share parts of their multimedia kaleidoscope lives in the form of video, picture and online interactions. A myriad of information is available on what people do by virtue of connected devices, adding to an already vast mound of data.
The graphic above is an attempt to catalog the tools available for marketing research today based on the key areas they illuminate. Each tool provides different perspectives about what people think, feel and do. While not a perfect or exhaustive classification, the point is we have a plethora of tools to help us untangle the messy process of decision-making. And that toolkit keeps expanding. It’s important to clarify that several of these tools and information sources are new and some are still being studied to ensure they meet their intended goals. The study of human behavior is, after all, an ever-expanding exercise.
So the real question then becomes: Which tools do we leverage to view different angles of the story to find more complete insights? To answer that question, we need to clearly define and determine the specific research goals:
- Which behaviors do we seek to understand?
- Is observation critical to learning?
- Is it important to capture insights close to the moment of experience?
- Are unarticulated insights on behaviors, motivations and emotions vital to the research?
- Can we triangulate multiple inputs to build holistic insights?
- What is the best way to organize the plan for learning?
The responses to these questions help guide the selection of the best tools to achieve the research goals. More and more, the most comprehensive answer lies in the triangulation of several pieces of the puzzle. Leveraging additional tools to gain more insight into consumer behavior provides more holistic answers for the researcher, ultimately helping them make better, more strategic business decisions – which is exactly what happened with our retailer client.
Untangling the various aspects
So, how do we learn about what exactly turns a window shopper into a real shopper, one willing to pay for toys and games in our client’s stores? The challenge centered on untangling the various aspects of how, why and if window displays influenced shoppers’ purchase behavior.
Incurring a substantial cost each year on domestic and international window displays, the retailer sought to better understand which specific display elements were – and weren’t – connecting with consumers. The window displays rotated popular themes and each execution of the display differed in style, elements and creative enhancement. The displays changed frequently, requiring concept and design teams, builders, manpower before and after hours and the coordination of multiple different departments. If the retailer knew which display and which elements of the display were the most successful in drawing shoppers into its stores, the company could implement a consistent global strategy for its retail outlets and, in turn, save a substantial amount of time and money. The end goal for our client was to centralize, streamline and economize its global display strategy for all retail outlets.
We sought to understand the impact of three different window displays. Key questions included: How much influence and stopping power does a retail window display have on potential shoppers? What elements are the most successful in generating more foot traffic? Does viewing another shopper engaging with the product create stopping power? Ultimately, does an eye-catching window translate into higher store sales?
After discussing our client’s needs to define the research learning plan and objectives, we determined there were strong behavioral components behind what people think, feel and do that were important to study and triangulate to find a more complete answer to their question. It was also critical to measure reactions in the moment of experience and to observe behaviors in front of these windows. Many times researchers attempt to answer these questions using the most familiar tools available – the survey, some form(s) of qualitative and … well, we may have stopped there. Today, we know that asking questions and observing people provides quality information but that information doesn’t necessarily tell us the full story. Shoppers who say they like a window display may not necessarily go into the store and buy toys. Shoppers who buy may or may not say the windows had an influence but they may have stood in front of it the longest.
Quite a tangle, indeed.
That is why we created a learning plan that offered a 360-degree view of consumer behavior to create a more holistic perspective. The learning plan included:
- A quantitative survey evaluation. The survey was a critical first step in understanding what shoppers say about the influence of window displays.
- Intercept interviews. Qualitative interviews with shoppers at the storefront let us probe and gain more insight into how people say they feel about window displays in the moment of the experience.
- In-the-moment “foot-tracking”data. This data allowed us to analyze what people do in front of window displays (whether or not they stop, how long they linger) and, more importantly, whether they actually go into the store.
- Point-of-sale purchase data. Provided by the retailer, this was the key behavioral outcome variable and was studied in parallel to the other inputs.
Each piece was examined, in detail, to identify and synthesize key, unique learnings in three areas: what people think, what they feel and what they do. Much of our learning took place at the moment of experience in front of the windows, which provided us with the opportunity to observe real time and capture nuances that may have been lost with time and not recollected as accurately. This “think, feel, do” triangulation quickly revealed that what shoppers think about a window does not necessarily translate to behavior. For example, in our quantitative survey, Window A could have significantly higher ratings than Window B on “coolness,” uniqueness and preference. Further, in qualitative, Window A may even receive plaudits for its “wit” or “creativity” – but the behavioral angle told another story.
While Window A was praised for many reasons – and its novelty was not unmissed by shoppers – shopper behavior did not change based on the “cool” elements of Window A. That’s right: There was no greater foot traffic in the store when Window A was displayed and sales remained the same regardless of which window was tested.
While the story was clear, the answer was surprising. We knew window displays were important to the extent that they entertain shoppers and positively support the brand. They also give passersby gift ideas and shopping inspiration during the holidays. But do windows correlate with changing behavior? Do they directly impact the bottom line?
Not for this retailer, according to our research.
We concluded that the retailer did not need to spend extensive amounts of money or time on window displays and the company definitely did not need to continuously update these displays. Our research taught the firm how to optimize and simplify its strategy (both in terms of dollars and execution) while not negatively impacting its shopper base.
Create a truer picture
In behavioral sciences, it is common knowledge that consumers are not entirely rational beings – they don’t always do what they say or say what they think. Therefore it is up to us, as researchers, to insist on a comprehensive, multifaceted approach to learning and the application of different tools to learn about different angles of behavior to create a truer picture of consumer motivation. At the end of the day, it was this philosophy of triangulation that helped us untangle this particular case so neatly. Without multiple inputs, this retailer would have made a decision on its window display strategy based solely on the angle of what consumers say. By adding in angles focused on how consumers feel and what consumers do, our picture of them was deeply enhanced, allowing the client to make a more informed decision on its global strategy.
Consumers are complex, fickle, impressionable and – all too often – unsure of their own motivations. And that’s on a good day. But now, researchers have more tools and resources than ever before to assist in the search for answers, for meaning, for understanding. After all, that is what “research” is – a search. And, rest assured, with an open mind we will always look for new approaches and innovations that help us formulate more holistic answers and make our lives … a little less tangled.
This article was originally published in the July 2016 issue of Quirk’s magazine.
With over 20 years of experience, Michael Laux is passionate about crafting creative solutions that help clients build strong, healthy, profitable brands.
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San Juan is in an irrigated valley of the Rio Grande on the Missouri & Pacific
Railroad. Organized in 1909, the name derived from a Spanish name given town
organizer John Closner. One of the South's largest plants for the manufacture of
concrete irrigation pipe is here. Colorful banks of scarlet bougainvillea edge the
highway. On special days, San Juan invites visitors to "pick grapefruit "
Bed and Breakfast accommodations offered in historic buildings.
Shrine of La Virgen de San Juan del Valle -
An elaborate Catholic Church, completed in 1954, included many imported objects
of art. The church was destroyed by fire after an airplane crash (apparently
deliberate) in 1970. A wooden statue of Our Lady Of San Juan was, however,
undamaged. Ten years later the small statue was placed in a new shrine built mostly
from small contributions.
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Conventional printing technologies, whether low-scale or high-scale, are very harmful for our natural environment – conventional printers consume huge amounts of electricity, they emit ozone, the ink used by the machines generate huge amounts of hazardous waste and paper-manufacturing processes are very energy-intensive. While traditional printing techniques put a huge burden on the environment ––, today, there are lots of great ecological printing solutions available. According to large format printing Denver professionals, here are a few factors to pay attention while choosing your printing machine and accessories:
- Recycled paper – modern manufacturing technologies allow for producing high-quality paper products from recycled materials. To make sure your paper is eco-friendly, look for paper made using sustainable resources and chlorine-free manufacturing;
- Replace conventional, petroleum-based ink with vegetal-based ink – look for soil-based ink or for ink made from other plants. These modern ink products are suitable for creating prints of the highest quality without harming nature;
- Buy eco-friendly printers – whether you need a printer for your office or a large machine for your printing business, many leading manufacturers today offer eco-friendly solutions. Most of these machines eliminate cartridges and replace them with refillable tanks, which makes the usage of the printer not only greener, but much more affordable as well. | <urn:uuid:6a9681df-fc96-4c98-af0a-210a5b64b275> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://thevisualedgesigns.com/blog/how-to-choose-environmentally-friendly-printers-and-accessories | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.937392 | 268 | 2.53125 | 3 |
When Lwazi Mchunu was sixteen years old and visiting his mother in Durban, South Africa for the Christmas holidays, he came across a book without a cover. It had been given to his mother by his uncle, who was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). His mother, who had to work every day, had never read it, but Lwazi was intrigued. As he read, he discovered it was a copy of the Book of Mormon.
It had an immediate impact upon him. He said, “I have always been interested in religion and attended the Catholic church as a child, but when I read that book, I didn’t know what I felt, only that I had a special feeling.” He later identified it accurately: “I felt the Spirit.”
When he returned to his father’s home after the holidays, he took the book with him and completed it in four months. He knew that the message within it was true. He didn’t know what to do with that knowledge, so he contacted his LDS uncle, who was thrilled for him. His uncle encouraged him to continue reading it, which Lwazi did. He waited for the household to fall asleep, and then he would read it quietly. He read the book three times.
In 2007 his uncle moved to Pietermaritzburg, and Lwazi was finally able to attend an LDS chapel for the first time. Lwazi says, “I would go to my uncle’s house for the weekend, and that is where I met the missionaries. Lwazi was baptized on March 18, 2007, two years after he first read the coverless Book of Mormon.
Lwazi finished his matric at the top of his class in 2007, and his parents expected him to enter college. As the oldest child in the family, he was expected to set an example. He wanted to serve a mission, but his family thought going on a mission would be an “opportunity wasted.” After struggling with his family’s disapproval, Lwazi capitulated and went to college. In 2009 he accepted a teaching position at the school where he graduated. He later worked in sales at two large corporate companies where he worked his way up to manager. 'The company had a vision to promote young black Africans and I was identified as one of those men,' said Lwazi, “They wouldn't understand that I wanted to quit because of a mission.'
During this difficult time he was only able to go to Church once or twice a month because of his work schedule, and it took three taxis just to get to his ward. He was surrounded by other temptations because of the type of people that he was living with in Durban. Worse, Lwazi was approaching age 24 and was running out of time. He said, 'I knew the Church cut-off date for missionaries was 25 years old and I needed to do something, but I had many responsibilities. If I resigned, I would disappoint a lot of people.”
However, shortly afterwards, the company started to take a different direction. Lwazi remembers, 'I think it was God that was preparing a way for me to quit. It was a good time for me to say that I didn’t think the company was going in the direction that would fit me. I quit my job in 2013 and began to spend my time preparing for my mission.”
All the same, he didn’t want to go to Church alone all the time. He approached his mother and expressed his feelings. She said that she had been thinking about going to Church herself. The next Sunday they all went as a family. Since then, his mother and four siblings have been baptized.
Elder Mchunu is now twenty-four years old, and left for his mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints January 9th, 2014, to serve in Kenya. When asked how he felt about serving a mission he said, 'I have two feelings: first, I am very excited because I always wanted to go… I believe this will be the foundation for the rest of my life; and second, I am emotional that I'm able and worthy to pay my Heavenly Father back for His kindness to me.'
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The National Audubon Society is recommending a $1.7 billion investment in the Gulf Coast through restoration and conservation efforts, including $2.5 million worth of projects in Mississippi.
Tuesday’s report, Restoring the Gulf of Mexico for Birds and People, highlights the challenges that birds and their habitats have faced since the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which resulted in a $20.8 billion global settlement. Researchers say the damage has been compounded by challenges such as loss of habitat, reduced water quality, erosion, predation, and human disturbance.
Of the settlement money, BP agreed to pay $750 million to Mississippi for economic development. Legislators decided to dedicate about 75 percent of the funds to the Gulf Coast in last year’s special session. The settlement also distributed billions in funds to agencies including the National Resource Damage Assessment, the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation, as well as through the RESTORE Act; of that money, Mississippi is likely to receive at least $1.3 billion for restoration, according to an Audubon spokesperson.
Audubon hopes to mobilize some of those funds for these projects, but will also seek support from different resource agencies and communities.
“Birds are a strong indicator of the overall health of our ecosystem here in Mississippi and across the Gulf,” said Sarah Pacyna, program manager for Audubon Mississippi’s Coastal Bird Stewardship program. “If we address the needs of birds in Mississippi, we will also benefit people by providing restored beaches for storm surge protection, clean water for drinking, and a healthy environment to boost tourism and recreational opportunities.”
The recommended $2.5 million investment in Mississippi covers two projects:
- A three-year, $1.8 million plan to restore habitats for Black Skimmers. The oil spill injured thousands of Black Skimmers, and impaired over a 1,000 miles of the species’ habitat on the beach.
- A two-year, $750,000 initiative to bring together local government and law enforcement, especially in Jackson and Harrison counties, to establish protected areas for migrant and wintering shorebirds, such as Black Skimmers and Piping Plovers. The plan would call for reduced raking on beaches as well as more signage public awareness.
“The challenges are huge, but we have an enormous opportunity to save much of the Gulf Coast for both birds and people. We can’t afford to blow this.” said David Yarnold, President and CEO of National Audubon Society.
In total, the report recommends 16 state-based, 10 region-wide and four open ocean projects, which together would restore over 136,000 acres of habitat for bird and human communities.
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Four students from the University of La Verne College of Law will be putting their law school educations to work this summer on important issues that affect society.
Noelia Barajas, Amanda Dearmin, Marcella Lucente, and Amir Zahedi all received grants that will assist them while they work at public interest law firms. Such jobs typically are unpaid, so the grants help pay for transportation and other costs.
“The whole concept behind it is to help fund students with summer positions in public interest law,” said Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Career Services August Farnsworth. “It brings awareness and helps fund these summer grants.”
The awards totaling about $6,000 were made at the 4th annual La Verne Law PILF Silent Auction and Reception on April 20. The event is sponsored by the Public Interest Law Foundation and the Criminal Law Society. Dean Philip A Hawkey and Professor Diane K. Uchimiya, Director of the Justice and Immigration Clinic, announced the winners.
About 50 people raised about $3,000 by bidding on everything from bungee jumping to a ukulele. Attendees also bought raffle tickets for movie theater gift cards and other items. Auction items were donated by faculty members, administrators, alumni and local businesses.
Entertainment included a magic show from Daniel Escalante, 14, son of Law School Director of Admissions & Financial Aid Stephanie Stovall. He donated all proceeds from the magic show to PILF.
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For many bakers, cream of tartar is a rather mysterious ingredient. It adds no discernible flavor, has no aroma and its appearance -- a generic white powder -- gives no clues about its purpose. Yet many recipes call for it, especially in treats such as macaroons that are made largely from egg whites. This is because cream of tartar helps turn egg whites into stable, long-lasting foams.
A Tipsy Origin
At first glance, cream of tartar appears to be a quintessential example of an artificial additive. It's visibly a powdered chemical, and looks like it was formulated in a giant laboratory somewhere. The reality is more interesting. Cream of tartar is actually made from crystals of tartaric acid, which settle out of grape juice as it ferments into wine. Winemakers filter the crystals from the leftover sediment after the wine is made, and it's these crystals -- suitably purified and finely ground -- that are sold as cream of tartar.
Foaming at the Mouth
Turning sticky, slithery egg whites into fluffy, snow-white meringue is a more complex project than it appears. The proteins in the egg ordinarily huddle up in relatively tight molecules, held together by powerful chemical bonds. The wires of your whisk, or the beater of your electric mixer, physically shear the bonds keeping the protein molecules coiled together. As the strands of protein unwind and stretch out, they form new elongated bonds that trap the air left by the whisk's passage. That stretching out process, called denaturing, is accelerated by acidity. Adding cream of tartar to the egg whites helps them whip more quickly and create a longer-lasting foam.
Macaroons rely on the meringue for their shape and structure. If your meringue isn't whipped thoroughly enough, or if its foam only forms weak bonds, it can deflate badly while you're folding in ingredients such as nuts or coconut. The slow-baking cookies can also deflate in the oven before the heat cooks and sets the egg whites into their final form. By helping the egg proteins denature, cream of tartar gives the foam more and better molecular bonds. That means they'll retain their shape and texture more reliably.
A Few Options
Cream of tartar is a good choice for macaroon-making because of its neutral flavor, but you can use other acidic ingredients if necessary. Lemon juice works just as well, and its flavor is subtle enough to be unobtrusive in the finished cookies. The crystals sold at your supermarket to keep fruit from browning are made of ascorbic or citric acid, and those are a suitable substitute if you have some on hand. Warming the egg whites to room temperature before whipping them is also helpful, speeding the denaturing of the proteins.
- On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen; Harold McGee
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Star International, a worldwide supplier to the offshore and marine industries, has launched a new Unmanned Surface Vessel (USV) that has been designed for use by shipping operators to identify piracy threats.
The Narwhal Star USV is a highly effective, ocean-going Rigid Inflatable Boat (RIB) that improves safety for passengers and crew, whilst safeguarding vessels, cargo and other valuable assets on-board ship.
The USV is a highly versatile surveillance platform that can be piloted via a remote Ground Control System (GCS), or used as a conventional, manually piloted vessel. The USV has been designed for rapid deployment from a parent vessel and can be launched using a standard davit or cargo crane.
Jeff Antley, Managing Director at Star International said:
“We are very excited to announce the launch of the Narwhal Star USV. The vessel meets a growing demand for ocean-going unmanned surveillance solutions that can identify piracy threats without endangering the crew.
“Our USV solution uses technologies that have been proven in military settings and offers a highly reliable, effective option for shipping operators who are looking for a cost-efficient alternative to fully autonomous or AI-driven drone vessels.”
The technology behind the USV is the product of a long-term research and development project between RIB manufacturer Narwhal and UTEK, a specialist in unmanned control systems. Star International has then brought its knowledge of shipping to bear in the development of the Narwhal Star USV, a high-performance vessel that includes a payload specifically developed for surveillance and reconnaissance purposes.
Capabilities include an operational range of up to 300 nautical miles, a top speed in excess of 50 knots and marine-grade day and night vision cameras with a range of up to 35km. Defensive capabilities on-board also include flare and smoke cannons, laser dazzlers and decoy buoys, meaning the USV is well equipped to evade any hostile vessels it may encounter.
Despite a global drop in piracy over recent years, the past 12 months has seen a resurgence in attacks on commercial shipping. In the first three months of 2020 alone, the IMB Piracy Reporting Centre recorded a 24% rise in piracy attacks worldwide.
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Inventory Optimization Supply Chain. The supply chain is a connected process, with each link in the chain impacting the others. Leverage machine learning tools to augment performance, automate planning and more!
While there’s no such thing as a perfect forecast, a lack of insight into the inventory control of your supply chain makes it nearly impossible to align product supply and demand. Organizations must consider a myriad of factors that add complexity to supply chain planning, including supply and demand volatility, fulfillment across multiple channels, product life cycles, raw material availability, disruptions from natural. In a nutshell, inventory optimization software seeks to do three primary things:
This Position Will Report Directly To The Director Of Inventory And Reverse Logistics.
Get your product concepts, features, and ideas validated by your target market. But before businesses can reap those benefits, they often. An inventory optimization associate be willing and committed to learning, working hard, implementing positive change, and being part of a dynamic company culture.
Inventory Optimization Is, In Essence, A Practical Exercise In Balancing Capital Constraints With Meeting Target Service Levels.
Manage cashflow and improve working capital with infosys bpm inventory optimisation. The first part provides an introduction to supply chain, inventory management, and inventory optimization. Optimizing across the supply chain achieves the supply chain frontier.
Monitoring The Suppliers’ Reliability Is Crucial For Effective Supply Chain Operations And Inventory Optimization, Which Can Be Addressed By Automation.
Common challenges for inventory optimization in supply chains. Generally, inventory optimization has received substantial attention, but supply chain segmentation has received far less attention, even though for most companies they will receive more attainable benefits from supply chain segmentation versus inventory optimization. The solution applies segmentation rules and services level parameters to determine the.
Here Is A Closer Look At Those Core Components Of Industry Optimization:
The challenges of traditional inventory optimization. However, without any changes to its operating policies, the same company could move to another point along the ad hoc frontier. Stay connected and access valuable data with microsoft dynamics 365.
Collaborate In Optimization Oriented Projects.
The complexity of the problem increases when more distribution centers and agents were involved. Inventory optimization will make you more competitive the world is going through several revolutions simultaneously; When done correctly, inventory optimization is powered by some of the latest emerging technologies, including machine learning, data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing, and by using proven inventory management processes, supply chain design and planning helps with inventory optimization. | <urn:uuid:f07dc834-2242-49ee-854b-13d1e0b49ea1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kleshko.info/2022/04/22/inventory-optimization-supply-chain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.905089 | 523 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Boost Electric Vehicle Charging Access (BEVCA)
Electrifying transportation is particularly challenging in highly urbanized and lower-income communities, where many residents live in apartment buildings and other multi-unit dwellings (MUDs), because of financial and logistical barriers to the development of electric vehicle charging infrastructure. Our project will improve charging access for MUD residents, including ride-hail drivers, thereby reducing a major barrier to electrification. We will use data-driven methods to identify concentrations of drivers and property managers in Queens and Buffalo and provide them with mobile and stationary charging. We will offer tailored training modules to educate 2,000 MUD property owners and residents with the latest information about EVs and charging equipment installation. By focusing on ride-hail drivers, our program will facilitate the electrification of the high-mileage vehicles used in ride-hail service, resulting in significant emissions reductions.
One of the foremost barriers to EV charging access in disadvantaged communities is the need for multi-unit dwelling (MUD) property owners to cover and recoup costs involved with installing EVSE. We resolve this issue by removing the need for hard-wired equipment and dedicated space. Through SprakCharge's subscription model, costs of participation are carried by the participants alone. At the same time, exposure to the simplicity of the model increases the likelihood of EV adoption by other residents of the MUD.
This project is designed to build upon the existing opportunity with ride-hailing drivers who live in MUDs in disadvantaged communities. In partnership with Uber, these pilot projects in Queens and Buffalo will educate MUD property owners about EVs, review data indicating demand, and coordinate mobile EV charging to address immediate needs. Additionally, we will educate drivers about the financial and environmental benefits of EVs while providing options for upgrading their vehicles.
The SparkCharge solution provides convenient, affordable mobile charging to MUD residents and drivers who use the Uber application. And property owners can install up to two dual-port stationary chargers at one MUD property.
Program success is measured by the enthusiastic engagement of participants, installing 30 Level 2 chargers at MUDs and achieving 40 annual subscriptions to the mobile charging program. The immediate impact will be creating access to EVs, thereby paving the way for cost savings and emissions reductions. If needed, we will reconfigure our approach by integrating community feedback. We will prove a pathway to EV access for disadvantaged communities. | <urn:uuid:142c542a-0aae-4dca-8669-95c8f01d2287> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cleanneighborhoodschallenge.org/search-entries/electrification-coalition-foundation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.927227 | 490 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Denial of Visa: Explaining the I-601 Waiver of Inadmissibility
The first step to being allowed to enter the United States legally is usually obtaining a visa.
A visa is a document (or stamp in a passport) that grants legal permission to enter the United States. There are many different types of visas, but they are typically separated into 4 broad categories: tourist, work, student, and permanent immigrant. A tourist visa, for example, is usually good for 1 visit to the United States. The visit can be made during a 10 year period, and the visit can last up to 6 months depending on what country the alien is visiting from.
Under some circumstances, a person is ineligible for a visa, making them "inadmissible" to the United States.
The most common reason for ineligibility / inadmissibility is illegal presence. Entering the US without a visa or "overstaying" a visa results in illegal presence. More than 180 days of illegal presence results in a 3 year ban from re-entering the United States. More than 1 year of illegal presence results in a 10 year ban. Illegal presence only starts to accrue, however, if you are over the age of 18.
In addition to illegal presence, a person can be found ineligible for a visa / inadmissible to the United States if they:
- Have been determined to have a dangerous physical or mental disorder;
- Have been determined to be a drug or alcohol abuser;
- Have committed serious criminal acts, including crimes involving moral turpitude, drug trafficking, and prostitution;
- Are likely to become a public charge;
- Have used fraud or other illegal means to enter the United States; or
- Have a two foreign residency requirement (for former exchange visitors).
If you (or someone you know) are inadmissible to enter the USA for one of the reasons listed above, you may be able file an I-601 form that requests a waiver of your grounds of inadmissibility pursuant to Section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. If granted, it will allow a visa to be given, even though you technically ineligible.
Getting an I-601 Waiver granted is NOT easy. It requires a lot of work and preparation and gathering of proof. If you do need to seek one, then I strongly encourage you to consult with an immigration attorney. Advice regarding YOUR particular situation can help save you costs and delays.
In general, though, the law requires you to show that you have a “qualifying relative” who will suffer “extreme hardship” if your waiver is not granted.
A "qualifying relative" can be a US Citizen (USC) or a Legal Permanent Resident (LPR). If seeking a waiver of inadmissibility due to previous criminal history, the “qualifying relative” can be a spouse, parent, son or daughter (above 21) or a fiance. If seeking a waiver for illegal presence, then the qualifying relative must be a spouse, fiance or parent.
“Extreme hardship” is measured from your relative’s point of view. The central question for the Immigration authorities is what kind of “extreme hardship” the USC or LPR would suffer if the waiver is denied and your visa is not ultimately approved.
"Extreme hardship" is vaguely defined. It is more than the ordinary loss or sadness of being apart. It is described as “greater than the normal hardship the qualifying relative can be expected to experience if the Alien is denied admission.” It is a judgment call that is made by the Immigration official in charge of your case. This can be a USCIS official in the US or an officer at the US consulate in your home country or sometimes the Judge in an Immigration Court.
If seeking a waiver, you will typically need to prepare a "waiver packet." This consists of a “Hardship Letter,” or letter setting forth and explaining the extreme hardship present in your case. Two main questions that need to be answered for the USCIS are:
1) Why is the alien is NEEDED in the US? and
2) Why can’t the USC / LPR move abroad to the alien’s country and live there?
You also need to submit PROOF of your hardship in the form of independent documentation to support your claims for hardship. If your proof of explaining extreme hardship is not plausible then the waiver would be denied. If your waiver is denied, then you could have a very long wait, often years, before able to come to United States.
Factors to be considered when evaluating hardship include:
Medical: Do the USC or LPR relative(s) have any medical conditions making the alien vital to care-taking of them or making relocation exceptionally hard and making it necessary for the waiver to be given?
Financial: Do the USC or LPR relative(s) have a dire need for the alien to be admitted for financial reasons such as a mortgage payment or bills or business?
Education: Is the USC or LPR relative(s) in school that would make relocation to another country an extreme hardship?
Family / Community Ties: Are there strong ties for the USC or LPR relative(s) that would make relocation an extreme hardship?
Obstacles to Relocation: Is the country the alien from one that is unstable?
Whether a waiver is granted is usually a combination of these factors. If you are planning to file an I-601 Waiver of Inadmissibility, I strongly encourage you to consult with a lawyer who can help you draft the best Hardship Letter based on your circumstances and help you assemble proof to adequately support it. | <urn:uuid:5ef67dbe-b9d9-49a4-82e2-2ced215367db> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.usimmigrationlawyers.com/resources/immigration-law/us-visa/waiver-inadmissibility.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00136-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943366 | 1,186 | 1.890625 | 2 |
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|Title: ||Researchers’ green Open Access practice: a cross-disciplinary analysis|
|Authors: ||Spezi, Valerie|
|Issue Date: ||2013|
|Publisher: ||© Emerald Group Publishing Limited|
|Citation: ||SPEZI, V ... et al, 2013. Researchers’ green Open Access practice: a cross-disciplinary analysis. Journal of Documentation, 69 (3), pp.334-359.|
|Abstract: ||The EC-funded Publishing and the Ecology of European Research (PEER) project (http://www.peerproject.eu/) is an unprecedented collaboration between stakeholders involved in scholarly research and scholarly publishing, looking into specific aspects of the complex relationship between Open Access (OA) and scholarly communication. The project includes publishers and representatives, libraries, open access repositories (OARs) and researchers themselves, both as authors of journal articles and as readers (or consumers) of journal literature.
The behavioural research is one of three strands that form the PEER Observatory, which was set up to investigate the effects of the large scale deposit of stage-two manuscripts (also known as authors’ final peer-reviewed and accepted manuscripts) on reader access, journal visibility and viability, and the broader ecology of European research (Shepherd & Wallace, 2009). The PEER behavioural research project was carried out in two phases, between April and September 2009, and from September 2010 to August 2011. Researchers at Loughborough University examined the behavioural aspects affecting self-archiving of stage-two manuscripts in OARs as well as the use of these manuscripts by fellow researchers.
Most discussion of Open Access recognises the two main mechanisms to achieving open access. The gold route, often referred to as the ‘author pays’ route, involves payment of an article processing charge to publishers enabling the article to be made available to all without subscription or charge barriers. The alternative green route, often referred to as the ‘self archiving’ route, entails authors submitting manuscripts to traditional journals but maintaining the right to mount a version of their work on an open access repository. Much debate has focussed on the most effective way to achieve Open Access. There are many advocates of the green self archiving route to OA; subject-based repositories containing both stage-two manuscripts and preprints of research articles are a widely accepted development in certain disciplines such as physics and economics. Alongside this, many institutions are developing their own open access repositories and some are mandating deposit into these respositories. ROARMAP (http://roarmap.eprints.org/) and OpenDOAR (http://www.opendoar.org/) outline the extent of these developments worldwide. On the other hand, the recent report by the Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, chaired by Professor Dame Janet Finch (Working Group on Expanding Access to Published Research Findings, 2012) recommended developing clear policies in support of publication in Open Access journals. In recommending gold OA, the Finch report requests that repositories carefully consider the balance between the aims of open access and possible risks ‘to the sustainability of subscription-based journals during what is likely to be a lengthy transition to open access’, however the report does recommend the continual development of the infrastructure surrounding subject and institutional repositories, though primarily for the purposes of research data and grey literature. In the lights of current policy developments in favour of the different routes to Open Access, a cross disciplinary analysis of researcher’s views and attitudes towards green (self archiving) OA practice is timely.
Based on Phase 2 of the project, this article extends the preliminary results from phase 1 reported in Creaser et al (2010), and further develops understanding of researchers’ green OA experience both as authors and readers of peer-reviewed journal articles by looking in greater detail at their reported use of OARs and the context of that use. The article identifies disciplinary patterns of behaviour at the level of the Medical sciences, Life sciences, Physical sciences & mathematics, and Social sciences, humanities & arts in order to better understand the role of OARs in the scholarly communication landscape.|
|Description: ||This article is © Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear here. Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.|
|Sponsor: ||The authors would like to thank the PEER Executives for funding this research.|
|Version: ||Accepted for publication|
|Publisher Link: ||http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JD-01-2012-0008|
|Appears in Collections:||Published Articles (Information Science)|
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Cyberthieves, Cybercops and You
By Misha Glenny
Knopf, Hardcover, 9780307592934, 304pp.
Publication Date: October 4, 2011
"This extraordinarily powerful book demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight cybercrime. Essential reading." --Roberto Saviano, author of Gommorah
The benefits of living in a digital, globalized society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer’s nightmare and every criminal’s dream. We bank online; shop online; date, learn, work and live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us in the burgeoning digital world? Have we become complacent about our personal security—sharing our thoughts, beliefs and the details of our daily lives with anyone who might care to relieve us of them?
In this fascinating and compelling book, Misha Glenny, author of the international best seller McMafia, explores the three fundamental threats facing us in the twenty-first century: cybercrime, cyberwarfare and cyberindustrial espionage. Governments and the private sector are losing billions of dollars each year fighting an ever-morphing, often invisible and often supersmart new breed of criminal: the hacker.
Glenny has traveled and trawled the world. By exploring the rise and fall of the criminal website DarkMarket he has uncovered the most vivid, alarming and illuminating stories. Whether JiLsi or Matrix, Iceman, Master Splynter or Lord Cyric; whether Detective Sergeant Chris Dawson in Scunthorpe, England, or Agent Keith Mularski in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Glenny has tracked down and interviewed all the players—the criminals, the geeks, the police, the security experts and the victims—and he places everyone and everything in a rich brew of politics, economics and history.
The result is simply unputdownable. DarkMarket is authoritative and completely engrossing. It’s a must-read for everyone who uses a computer: the essential crime book for our times.
“DarkMarket tells you things your mind will have difficulty believing. Twenty-first-century crime is utterly different from anything you've heard about from the media or anyone else. In DarkMarket, Misha Glenny explains the world of cybercrime. You'll think you're inside a hallucinatory science-fiction novel—but it's all true! Over the last two years Misha Glenny met the criminals of the Internet and the people who try to catch them. Everywhere—from the U.S. to Ukraine, via France, Germany and Turkey. This extraordinarily powerful book tells the story of how modern crime knows no borders, how shadowy it is, how impossible to combat. You will realize how these crimes touch your life and your children's lives without your ever noticing it. And this study of Internet crime, like Glenny's book on the international mafia, demonstrates how utterly we lack the shared supranational tools needed to fight it. Like McMafia, DarkMarket is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the world we live in. And you'd better go in with your eyes open.” –Roberto Saviano, author of Gomorra
“A complex, eye-opening account of cybercrime…Scary reading.” –Kirkus
“Glenny’s got an outstanding cast to work with: Before the story is over, Turkish military intelligence agents, the Tamil Tigers, members of the Saudi royal family, and the brother of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer all make appearances. Stieg Larsson and his tales of sleepy Scandinavian hackers start to look vapid in comparison…an eminently readable, witty narrative that sustains suspense until the very last pages.” –Wall Street Journal
“Glenny accomplishes the herculean task of converting cryptic and tangled information into short, gripping chapters that often read like a high-tech thriller (complete with a surprise ending).” –Publishers Weekly
“America and its western allies are spending billions to perfect future cyber war capability, but Misha Glenny tells us that cyber crime is right here and has been for years—hiding in plain sight. Glenny's account of the international police hunt for a hacker known as Cha0, one of the most successful cyber criminals of our time, should be required reading for the world's cyber war generals.” –Seymour Hersh, The New Yorker
“The interlocking series of websites, organizations and individuals that [Glenny’s] industry has uncovered make for a truly remarkable story…he has succeeded in illuminating much that was hidden. This is an early, at times magnificent pass at a new world, which will grow greatly as our lives become ever more entangled with the web.” –Financial Times
“About 50 pages into DarkMarket I walked to my laptop to make sure my antivirus software had done its overnight checks. It was a tribute, of sorts, to Glenny, a British specialist in organized crime, who I think has written the most engaging tale of cops and robbers in cyberspace since The Cuckoo's Egg, Cliff Stoll's engaging account of a computer break-in…[Glenny] has brought the threats home with the force of an approaching typhoon.” –San Francisco Chronicle | <urn:uuid:510a9357-1dbd-4b30-9baf-d0283d924041> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780307592934 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00038-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919108 | 1,122 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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