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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — A 6-year-old girl has become the ninth person in Cambodia to die of bird flu this year.
Cambodia's health ministry said Tuesday there have been 13 confirmed cases of H5N1 avian influenza in the country this year, and 34 since 2005.
The ministry said the girl who died came from a village in southern Kampot province, where she was likely to have been exposed to infected poultry. She was treated for H5N1 but died Friday.
The H5N1 virus normally spreads between sick poultry, but can sometimes spread from poultry to humans.
Statistics released June 4 by the World Health Organization tallied 20 cases of the virus worldwide so far this year, 15 of them fatal.
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In the United States there is a 99 percent adult literacy rate. In India, however, the percentage hovers around 63 percent. And according to recent studies, literacy and numeracy skills for children in rural India are declining.
I can’t help but think how much technology could play a role in helping to reverse that decline. That’s why I’m excited about Qualcomm Wireless Reach’s Play ‘n’ Learn program, which helps children improve their literacy and numeracy skills with fun Android game apps.
By teaming up with Sesame Workshop India (the organization behind the Indian version of Sesame Street, Galli Galli Sim Sim) Qualcomm was able to use its mobile technology to help create 10 Hindi language games based on beloved Galli Galli Sim Sim characters. Since the program launched in May 2013, Play ‘n’ Learn has provided 3G tablets loaded with the games to more than 370 primary school children in the South Delhi Municipal Corporation area.
We just had a successful launch event in Delhi where several teachers and students came together to talk about their experience with the Play ‘n’ Learn program. For children who received the tablets, positive impacts have included:
- Greater gains in Hindi comprehension, word knowledge and imagination (for children in class 1 and 2)
- Significant gains in comprehension, word knowledge and imagination and over-all Hindi language scores (for children in class1)
- Ability to watch videos, operate the camera and make calls on the tablet
- Improved team and group dynamics
Teachers also reported that their own skills related to flexibility, collaborative learning, curriculum planning, child assessment, teaching method and pacing to students’ needs improved as well.
Due to the successful pilot program, Sesame Workshop India is working to provide content for 2,000 additional children in 25 government primary schools in the Vaishali district of Bihar, India.
The number of smartphone users in India is expected to exceed 104 million in 2014, and my hope is that as more children in India gain access to mobile technology, we’ll see further increases in critical learning skills moving forward. I am fortunate to work for a company that that uses their technology to make a real, positive impact on the lives of children.
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In 2013, the Heads of the Gambling Control Bill were published. The purpose of the proposed legislation is to replace the out-of-date and un-fit for purpose, Betting Act 1931 and the Gaming and Lotteries Act 1956. The proposed legislation seeks to regulate gambling in order to ensure:
All of these proposed measures would be welcomed by Problem Gambling Ireland, as the current vacuum in legislation only serves to create an environment where gambling-related harm can thrive. A dedicated Gambling Regulator with the power to press criminal charges against gambling licence-holders who breach the proposed laws would greatly reduce some of the sharp practices currently in evidence. Also, a Social Fund, into which gambling licence-holders would be compelled to contribute, would greatly increase the provision of dedicated gambling addiction services in the areas of treatment, prevention, education, research and evaluation.
However, the response from one of Ireland's Gambling Industry heavy-weights, Paddy Power, may be indicative of the general attitude to the proposed legislation within the industry. In their submission to government in relation to the Heads of the Bill, they stated "We are concerned however by the proposal to apply the contribution to the Social Fund based on turnover (Head 80) given the intense international competition for online gambling and the narrow margins which generally apply for gambling products. We would encourage the Department to explore models from other jurisdictions that have similar systems in place which are working effectively, for example the UK where operators contribute voluntarily to the Responsible Gambling Trust (RGT) on a flat rate based on scale". It is worth noting that only 63% of gambling licence-holders in the UK actually contributed to the fund in 2014/2015 and that they raised the paltry sum of £6.5 million from an industry which posted profits of of £1.42 billion in 2013 from Fixed Odds Betting Terminals alone. Paddy Power's pre-tax profits for 2014 were €166.6 million.
Surprisingly, Paddy Power, who are renowned for pushing the boundaries in their advertising campaigns, also took issue with the Department of Justice's proposals in relation to advertising and sponsorship. The gambling giant would prefer Codes of Practice and Codes of Conduct in gambling advertising (which already exist) rather than primary legislation. Paddy Power give the following example: "a failure to remove online promotional material within 12 hours could trigger a summary prosecution and sponsorship of an adult sports team which has one 17 year old player would infringe Head 74. We would respectfully query if such granular restrictions would be workable in practice.". I have no doubt that Paddy Power and other gambling industry members would have some difficulty with any restrictions, granular or otherwise, as it limits their ability to actively encourage problem gambling (which generates up to 75% of gambling industry profits in some jurisdictions) and to (inadvertently) promote gambling to children by advertising before the watershed and through sports sponsorship.
Some facts on gambling in Ireland and globally:
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Levi’s going green with Waste-Less collection
Levi’s are continuing in the battle against global warming. Starting with a campaign in 2009 explaining an eco-friendly way to wash jeans, and followed by the Water-less initiative where water usage during the manufacturing process was reduced, Levi’s is now introducing Waste-Less. The collection will be released in January and will be composed of men’s and women’s wear made from recycled plastics.
For Spring 2012, the American denim brand will release two types of jeans and the Trucker jacket for men and women in Europe and the United States can enjoy a pair of boyfriend-fit jeans as part of the Waste-Less collection. The manufacturing of the collection is to used approximately 3.5 million recycled bottles.
Across its 2,300 stores, Levi Strauss & Co (which includes the brands Levi’s, Dockers, Signature by Levi Strauss & Co and Denizen, achieved a turnover of 4.8 billion dollars in 2011.
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Following investigation of photos shot by US-dependent place company NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) satellite, alien lifetime lovers feel they have noticed a big UFO close to the Sunlight. What seems to be a solar anomaly close to the Sun’s floor is claimed by alien life conspiracy theorists to be a UFO of an nearly incomprehensible scale.
According to well known alien hunter Scott Waring, the supposed UFO is at the very least ‘ten times the dimensions of Earth’.
Earth’s radius is 3,958 miles (6,37km), building the UFO far more than 39,580 miles (63,370km km) very long.
Mr Waring also believes the UFO arrived from the Sun’s main, the place it is feeding off our host star’s immense electrical power.
The UFO fanatic reported on his etdtabase.com blog site: “In the impression, I added mild and emphasis and we can see that the crimson material is gathering close to its hull.
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Room researchers who have worked for NASA in the earlier have a significantly less complicated rationalization for all of the strange UFO sightings reported.
In accordance to previous NASA engineer James Oberg, most UFO sightings are practically nothing far more than “space dandruff” floating in front of cameras.
These specks of dandruff can be anything from bits of chipped paint drifting aimlessly in zero gravity, flakes of ice or spacecraft insulation that has damaged off.
He explained: “I’ve experienced adequate encounter with genuine spaceflight to realise that what is becoming seen in numerous videos is very little over and above the ‘norm’ from absolutely mundane phenomena taking place in unearthly configurations.”
Mr Oberg argued human brains are not wired to make sense of these little objects floating higher than the world.
SOHO is a joint mission of the European Area Agency (ESA) and NASA.
Launched in 1995, SOHO reports the Solar from its interior to its outer ambiance, with an uninterrupted check out from its vantage place concerning the Sunlight and our earth, about a million miles from Earth.
And over the earlier 25 many years, NASA’s SOHO has also turn into the biggest comet finder in human record.
The observatory’s comet-searching prowess comes from a mixture of its long lifespan, its delicate devices focused on the solar corona, and the citizen experts who frequently scour SOHO’s data for earlier-undiscovered comets.
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In a healthy of good information for British isles tourism, the staycation is raising in level of popularity once once more amongst Brits as domestic right away expending raises. There are a number of different reasons, from the enhanced price of international journey to the ease of a superior staycation – but the UK’s entire world-beating landmarks and attractions are an outstanding rationale to discover ‘home’. Here are five of the finest, and why you ought to make them your up coming spot.
Stonehenge’s name precedes alone. The artifical stone circle is a person of the pre-eminent prehistoric landmarks of the planet, placing out a unique outline in the Salisbury landscape. It is visited by a lot more than a million visitors a year on typical, who flock to the website out of historic and cultural fascination in equivalent evaluate. Regardless of whether a certainly sacred web page or merely a marvel of prehistoric engineering, Stonehenge is a must-check out United kingdom landmark.
Tower of London
For a whole and grotesque history of England’s good money, e-book a teach ticket to London and head straight in excess of to the Tower of London. Famously house to the Crown Jewels, the Tower is also an spot of excessive historical significance. Three of Henry VIII’s wives were executed on the Tower Green Guy Fawkes was interrogated there subsequent the failure of his Gunpowder Plot and most famously, Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned there. Study about all this and more, and even get a likelihood at a image with a beefeater guard! London is a must-stop by in the Uk.
A quick westerly excursion along the River Thames will choose you from the Tower of London to Westminster, an location of London chock-whole with landmarks and sights. The Westminster Bridge is an iconic river crossing, which presents an unparalleled line of sight to the Properties of Parliament and their clock tower Huge Ben. Outside of Huge Ben and throughout Abingdon Street, you’ll find Westminster Abbey, the marriage ceremony venue for Prince William and Princess Kate, and the country’s coronation site. Downing St, Whitehall, Buckingham Palace, the Imperial War Museums – it is all right here to be taken in, and all inside of five minutes of Westminster tube station.
An simple working day-trip from London, Cotswolds is 1 of the have to-visit destinations in the Uk. This is also one particular of the most instagrammable places in the British isles and a wonderful Uk spot to unwind and enjoy the picturesque landscape and quaint villages. Cotswolds is shut to Bath and Bristol and in the north side there’s yet another well-liked place in the Uk: Lake District National Park.
The Roman Baths
The Roman Baths are a 2,000-yr-old tourist attraction in the south-west, and the sole explanation for the title of its site: Bath. These baths are unbelievably very well-preserved for their age, and tell a impressive story of the Roman profession at the start of the millennium. Although the baths are for viewing only, a new spa natural environment was opened at the close of the 20th century, enabling guests to get a flavor of the Roman hot spring expertise. | <urn:uuid:d857b117-a9f7-42c5-b7d4-52e12f610954> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://umrohtourtravel.com/five-of-the-best-tourist-attractions-to-visit-in-the-uk-earths-attractions.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.933331 | 697 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a best-selling author whose new book is "Late Edition: A Love Story."
(CNN) -- Every Friday afternoon, the backpacks are placed carefully on the floors of the hallways in the elementary schools of Moberly, Missouri.
There are 106 of them: 106 backpacks, each of them with no child's name and with no individual owner.
The backpacks tell a story that can both break your heart and make your heart swell with admiration.
And if you ever had any doubt about what the financial mess in the United States is doing to families across the country ...
Well, those 106 backpacks in Moberly will erase those doubts pretty quickly.
"We're a rural community," said Mark Penny, the superintendent of the Moberly Public Schools. "We're pretty much in the middle of the state."
The backpacks are there because Penny and his staff know that without them, the children for whom they are intended might go hungry between the last bell of the day Friday and the first bell Monday morning.
The backpacks -- property of the school -- are filled with food.
The idea is that, when those 106 children leave class on Friday afternoons, they will pick up the backpacks, sling them over their shoulders and casually walk out of the school with their classmates.
The idea is that the children who need the food -- they range in age from kindergartners to fifth-graders -- will blend in with the hundreds of other boys and girls who get enough to eat at home and that the 106 children will feel no stigma.
"We serve breakfast at school, and we serve lunch," said Francine Nichols, the school staff member in charge of the backpack project. "But we began to realize that some of these children go home to houses where they literally may not eat over the weekend. And we couldn't just sit back and not do anything to help them."
So, three years ago, the backpack program started. When the school senses that a child is chronically hungry -- "A lot of times, they just tell their teacher," superintendent Penny said -- the parents are contacted. If the parents are willing to accept the help, the children are told privately that a backpack will be waiting in the hallway Friday afternoon.
"We'll fill each backpack with soup, with ravioli in a can, with canned fruit, with cereal bars, with juice," Francine Nichols said. "We make sure that the food is the kind that a young child can prepare himself or herself, if need be. Because some of these children live in single-parent homes, and when that parent works, not only does it mean that there may not be enough food in the house, but there may not be anyone to fix the meal for the boy or girl."
Moberly is far from the only school district in the country to have a program like this. Quietly, they exist all over the nation. The first one that is often cited was organized in the 1990s by a hunger-relief group known as the Arkansas Rice Depot.
The weekend-food programs are not run by the federal government but by local communities that simply can't stand the idea of children going without enough food.
And in Moberly, the need has increased in the past year, with the national recession and high unemployment.
"The economy has not exactly been a blessing to families lately," Nichols said. "Last November, we had 34 children for whom we prepared the backpacks every Friday. This November it is 106. So that tells you something."
There are some weeks, she said, when she goes to the school storeroom to fill the backpacks, "and I don't know how there will be enough food."
Much of it is provided by the Central Missouri Food Bank in Columbia, 30 miles away. That agency's executive director, Peggy Kirkpatrick, said that one year in one town -- not Moberly -- a 9-year-old boy took a backpack of food home each Friday but admitted to his teacher that he wasn't eating it all. When the teacher asked him why, the boy said:
"Because Christmas vacation is coming."
He was saving the food. He was hoarding it, because he wanted to make it last over the two weeks away from school.
Kirkpatrick said that in some cities, there have been cases where "the pride factor among some parents is so great that they would rather let the child go hungry than accept the backpack." She said, with a mixture of sadness and anger in her voice, that she is also aware, in some cities, of parents taking the food from their children and eating it themselves -- or selling it for drugs.
But in Moberly, Francine Nichols said, some parents whose children have been helped by the backpack program contact the school when they have found work again and say that because they are back on their feet, they no longer need the assistance. "And then they begin to provide food for the program; they bring food to school to help other children," Nichols said.
It's not difficult for a teacher to know when a child comes to school hungry, she said: "Sometimes a girl in kindergarten will take another child's lunchbox. Sometimes a child will go through the trash looking for food."
Superintendent Penny: "A third-grader can be bluntly honest and tell the teacher what is in the cupboard or icebox at home. And, more to the point, what's not there."
Central Missouri is in the breadbasket of the nation, part of a region that produces corn, wheat and soybeans -- seemingly a place of plenty. But there's a lesson in that, Penny said; he said that for anyone around the U.S. who is reading these words and is tempted to assume that this kind of hunger only happens somewhere else:
Nichols said: "If people think that children aren't hungry in their community, they're fooling themselves. You just want so badly for these children to go home for the weekend not worrying about whether there will be enough to eat, and to come to school on Monday morning ready to learn."
Meanwhile, with Thanksgiving coming up, next weekend will be a long one.
And so those 106 backpacks will be a little heavier this week.
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Our smartphones these days can do just about everything including HD movie playback, but wouldn’t it be awesome if we could share those HD movies with friends and family members without everyone crowding around you trying to catch a glimpse on your tiny 4.3″ display? Well it seems that Alps Electric is trying to come up with a solution that could potentially allow you to project movies and photos directly from your phone.
The problem with projectors is that they tend to take up a fair bit of power and its size and heat just don’t make it viable to be integrated into our smartphones, which is exactly what Alps Electric is attempting to solve as they have recently come up with a 1 mm x 1 mm aspherical glass lens which apparently makes it the world’s smallest. The lens is called the FLGS3 and not only is it incredibly small, but it has a high coupling efficiency (measure of light transmission efficiency) of 73% over the previous 68%. This means less light is required to gain the same level of brightness, which in turn means less heat will be produced.
The savings in power will also mean you can use the projector for longer on a single battery charge, and while this does not necessarily mean we will start seeing our smartphones come with built-in projectors in the future, it could mean smaller and more compact projectors which will be more mobile and portable. Alps Electric has already started production of the new glass lens and plans to ramp up production to 100,000 per month by the end of 2011.
Filed in projector and Smartphones.
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Browsing and enjoying lovely photos of famous and popular travel destinations is one of the best activity a person can do on the Internet, right? Well, this artist from Japan found the way to take this wonderful hobby one step further by using the watercolor technique in order to recreate photos of famous cities. This Japanese painter, better known as horiaki2, focuses on the architectural aspect of this cities. His stunning paintings are incredibly detailed which makes them even more beautiful. The talented artist says that he paints by watching the photos on the Internet and that one day he would like to actually travel the world and sketch along the way. Well, good luck on your journey, horiaki2!
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A few days ago, Vox published an interview that brings up an issue with the modern scientific community. It’s an issue I’ve brought up many times before.
It turns out that modern science, or at least those who control the purse strings that fund various studies, has not yet overcome its fear of the unknown. Certain topics are still considered “off-limits.”
I’m referring, of course, to the study of UFOs. The interview is with Alexander Wendt, who is (according to Vox) “one of the most influential political scientists alive.”
There are things going on in the sky that are strange and do not have an obvious explanation. These are UFOs, and like any other unidentified phenomenon, human beings are curious creatures and normally scientists will rush out to study whatever we find fascinating or puzzling. But in this case, scientists won’t touch it with a 10-foot pole. And that’s the taboo.
So even though the Navy is now saying, “Hey, we’ve got UFOs on film, here they are,” the scientists are still not going to study them. So there seems to be something blocking the scientific community from engaging this phenomenon, even though anything else even remotely this interesting would generate limitless research dollars…
I’ve received a lot of emails from individual scientists in response to my TEDx talk. And all of them said the same thing, which is, “Thank you, we wish we could study this, but we can’t because our lives depend on getting grants from the government and other research institutes, and if anybody gets worried that we’re interested in UFOs, boom, they won’t get a cent and their careers will be in the tank.”
I suspect that humans need some things to be taboo, along with various other cultural mores, in order to maintain social cohesion. This is probably ingrained in our DNA.
Most of us wouldn’t criticize Americans for refraining from dog meat, or the Japanese for “wasting” time on tea ceremonies and the like. But we should criticize scientists, or those who fund them, for clinging to such medieval concepts as “taboo.” When it comes to science, nothing should be taboo.
Long ago, back in the 1970s AD., my folks took me to Mono Rock, California. We visited an old friend of theirs, whose name I cannot recall. He was eccentric – and he believed that extraterrestrials would fly their spaceships overhead on most nights. We did go out to try to spot some. Indeed, mysterious points of light would suddenly appear in the sky, fly around at high speeds, and perform impossible maneuvers, such as making sudden 90 degree turns while flying very quickly. At least that’s how I remember it. Each time this would happen, air force jets would appear and pursue those points of light. Our friend told us this happens every time the aliens appear.
I mentioned that the man was eccentric. The main reason I say this is that he believed he could communicate with the aliens through quartz crystals. He had a collection of them in his house for that purpose. If memory serves me right, he claimed that certain colors of crystal were more suitable for such communication.
Many years later, I had a coworker who claimed he had been abducted by aliens when he was younger. I might have been inclined to dismiss such tales, except that this particular individual was quite normal, and extremely intelligent.
That’s the extent of my “contact” with extraterrestrials, and I’ll remain an agnostic – until I see them with my own eyes.
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In finance, complexity has been a highly effective cloak for deceit, but eventually you run out of captive ‘dumb’ money. China seems to be finally getting there. A block in the septic system there presents problems for the flow of capital sludge through the global financial system.
On paper, China’s latest effort to rid its banks of bad loans looks sensible. By packaging the debt into securities, lenders hope to unload them onto risk-hungry investors, a potential win-win solution that garnered praise from billionaire Wilbur Ross.
But if the first deals in this 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) program are any guide, the whole exercise may end up just shuffling bad debt between banks, doing little to improve the health of China’s financial system as a whole. Here is a direct video link. | <urn:uuid:b1177495-df04-4519-bf68-14ad5f6a5ca1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://jugglingdynamite.com/2016/06/03/china-toxic-debt-out-of-greater-fools/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00191-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934678 | 174 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Bothies and bunkhouses
We've got bothies and bunkhouses in spectacular locations. Choose a bunkhouse if you're more of a creature of comfort and you value simple, self-catering accommodation; choose a bothy if you really don't mind getting away from it all - there's usually no electricity and water comes from handpumps.
Bunk up with us
We have 31 bunkhouses that provide simple self-catering accommodation, primarily for groups of volunteers who take part in practical conservation work for us.
Bunkhouses are also available for use by recreational, educational, corporate and other groups who want to take a break within easy reach of national parks, beautiful countryside, unspoilt coastlines, or landscape parks in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
All bunkhouses have adequate cooking facilities, dormitories with bunk-beds, lounge area and modern sanitation. Most have fully equipped kitchens, showers, electricity and heating. Many also have a separate leaders' room, payphone, washing machine and adjacent parking. First aid and fire alert facilities are always provided.
We also have bothies, which offer basic accommodation - often in isolated locations - and are the perfect escape for those who really want to escape from modern life.
Bothies are only suitable if you find the idea of no electricity or heating, sleeping platforms without mattresses, water from hand-pumps, gas lighting and camp-fire cooking miles from anywhere.
How much does it cost to use a bunkhouse or bothy?
Charges vary according to the type of accommodation, the type of group and the time of year. Free accommodation is usually offered to groups undertaking full-time conservation work for us. | <urn:uuid:375c2c66-370b-4372-82cf-0263de04bf44> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/features/bothies-and-bunkhouses | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00476-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952292 | 350 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Most often than not, when consumers find themselves facing huge debts on their credit cards without a means to repay them, they feel closing the credit card is the only option. However, this is not the truth. It is important to understand that closing the credit cards does not imply your debts will be completely eliminated. Instead, closing a few credit cards can have a negative impact on your credit history. Let us take a look at a few credit cards that should not be closed.
The first step most individuals take when they have high debt on their credit card is to close it. This is definitely not a good idea. Here is the truth you need to know. When you close a credit card just because of a high balance, even if you have available credit limit, it will be reduced to $0. So, when it reaches the credit bureaus, they will assume you are closing the credit card because you have utilized the entire amount on it. This can tarnish your credit report. 30% of your credit score comprises of the debts you have incurred on your credit cards and cards with $0 balance and pull it down significantly.
If you have a credit card that you obtained years ago, never think of closing it. The terms and conditions governing credit cards issued a few years ago are more favorable compared to the ones being issued now. Closing such credit cards can be a foolish decision because, try as hard as you may, you cannot get such good deals on any of the current credit cards.
If you have just one credit card in your wallet and want to close it because of high debts, it is a totally unwise decision. Under the circumstances you are currently in, closing the credit card would imply you would be left without credit cards for a long time. Credit card lenders have tightened their belts and the eligibility criteria for availing the credit cards are extremely stringent. Closing your only credit card would mean you would not have any in case of emergencies.
Rather than closing credit cards, consider opting for various debt consolidation options that are offering special deals for customers in dire need. This will not only help ease your financial mess, it will also prevent you from pulling down your credit score further. | <urn:uuid:81638923-67a8-406c-9f1b-44aaf70eb9fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.credit-land.com/research/guides/cardholder-benefits/the-credit-cards-that-should-never-be-closed-531.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721141.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00417-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981391 | 444 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Are you ready for the arrival of cold weather?
If not, you’re probably not alone. After all, the winter months can make it difficult to stay warm. This is especially true when your HVAC unit isn’t working properly.
That’s why it’s so important to have your HVAC serviced at least once each year. Unfortunately, there are plenty of HVAC service myths that create misinformation about the HVAC industry.
This article takes a look at some of the most common myths you might have heard so that you can separate truth from fiction. Keep reading to learn more.
Having Your HVAC Serviced Is Unnecessary
Let’s start with the myth that you really never need to worry about having your HVAC unit professionally serviced. This is one of the most common misconceptions in the HVAC industry.
It’s important to keep in mind that your HVAC unit is an incredibly complicated piece of machinery. This means that when you have a small problem, it can quickly escalate to a much bigger problem if not addressed as soon as possible.
Having your HVAC unit serviced at least once a year is the best way to keep your heating/cooling system in optimum operating condition. This will also help to reduce the need for costly HVAC repairs.
There’s No Need to Change the Air Filter
Most people understand the importance of changing the HVAC air filter regularly. That’s because the air filter helps to prevent dust, dirt, and other types of debris from entering your home through the heating/cooling system.
But when your air filter is dirty, the HVAC won’t be able to operate efficiently. Why? A clogged filter will make it more difficult for fresh, clean air to pass through, thus causing your HVAC unit to work harder than necessary to heat or cool your home.
Wait Until Your HVAC Unit Is Broken
Never wait until your HVAC stops working to schedule a service appointment. The best strategy is to schedule service as soon as you notice a problem.
This will enable a heating/cooling professional to make any necessary repairs before they turn into expensive problems that strike at the most inconvenient moment.
Major DIY Repairs Are Easy
Do you consider yourself to be handy with tools and basic household repairs? If so, you should hesitate before attempting to repair a broken HVAC unit.
A smart homeowner knows the importance of getting the job done right. Thus, you should always leave this type of repair to the professional technicians who specialize in working on HVAC units.
A Guide to Common HVAC Service Myths
When you’re a smart homeowner, there’s nothing more important than making sure that you and your family remain comfortable regardless of what Mother Nature has to offer. Fortunately, this list of common HVAC service myths proves why you should have your HVAC serviced at least once a year.
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“He is very clever,” said Selina, with a kind smile
Mr. Drill turned pale, and then, somewhat emboldened by praise from such a quarter, dropped into a chair by her side and began to talk in low tones. The grateful Mr. Gunnill, more relieved than he cared to confess, thoughtfully closed his eyes.
“I didn’t think all along that you’d let Herbert outdo you,” said Selina.
“I want to outdo him,” said Mr. Drill, in a voice of much meaning.
Miss Gunnill cast down her eyes and Mr. Drill had just plucked up sufficient courage to take her hand when footsteps stopped at the house, the handle of the door was turned, and, for the second time that evening, the inflamed visage of Mr. Jenkins confronted the company.
“Don’t tell me it’s a failure,” said Mr. Gunnill, starting from his chair. “You must have been handling it roughly. It was as good as new when you took it away.”
Mr. Jenkins waved him away and fixed his eyes upon Drill.
“You think you’re mighty clever, I dare say,” he said, grimly; “but I can put two and two together. I’ve just heard of it.”
“Heard of two and two?” said Drill, looking puzzled.
“I don’t want any of your nonsense,” said Mr. Jenkins. “I’m not on duty now, but I warn you not to say anything that may be used against you.”
“I never do,” said Mr. Drill, piously.
“Somebody threw a handful o’ flour in poor Cooper’s face a couple of hours ago,” said Mr. Jenkins, watching him closely, “and while he was getting it out of his eyes they upset him and made off with his helmet and truncheon. I just met Brown and he says Cooper’s been going on like a madman.”
“By Jove! it’s a good job I mended your helmet for you,” said Mr. Drill, “or else they might have suspected you.”
Mr. Jenkins stared at him. “I know who did do it,” he said, significantly.
“Herbert Sims?” guessed Mr. Drill, in a stage whisper.
“You’ll be one o’ the first to know,” said Mr. Jenkins, darkly; “he’ll be arrested to-morrow. Fancy the impudence of it! It’s shocking.”
Mr. Drill whistled. “Nell, don’t let that little affair o’ yours with Sims be known,” he said, quietly. “Have that kept quiet—if you can.”
Mr. Jenkins started as though he had been stung. In the joy of a case he had overlooked one or two things. He turned and regarded the young man wistfully.
“Don’t call on me as a witness, that’s all,” continued Mr. Drill. “I never was a mischief-maker, and I shouldn’t like to have to tell how you lent your helmet to Sims so that he could pretend he had knocked Cooper down and taken it from him.”
[Illustration: “Don’t call on me as a witness, that’s all,” continued Mr. Drill.]
“Wouldn’t look at all well,” said Mr. Gunnill, nodding his head sagely.
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🗣 It’s been a while now since the world began discovering the benefits of augmented reality (AR) for more than just smartphone games. In the last couple of years, we’ve discovered the potential of augmented tools for everything from wayfinding and learning, to improving workplace productivity.
One of the biggest trends to emerge because of the AR revolution is the rise of the AR retail app. IKEA, one of the biggest names in affordable furniture, was among the first innovators to take advantage of environments like Google’s ARCore system to create its own AR app.
Launching in 2017, the app promised customers an easier way to shop for the products they wanted, and even see how those items would look in their homes. If you love IKEA, but you hate trying to find your way around the maze-like aisles every time you want to pick up a new stool, this could be the app for you!
What is the IKEA Place app?
🗣 IKEA Place was one of the first trailblazing apps to show the world what retailers could accomplish with augmented reality. The technology allows you to essentially place items from the IKEA catalog in your home, to see what they’re going to look like.
IKEA Place provides a constantly updating collection of items to explore, so you can place chairs, desks, and anything else you might want in your home, and plan your decorating strategy more effectively. According to the team, the Place app was conceived to give customers the opportunity to “try before they buy” in a virtual environment.
All the items in the catalog scale dynamically, so you can see exactly what an armchair is going to look like when placed in the nook at the side of your bed, or how well a wardrobe might fit into your new bedroom. The system claims to deliver around 98% accuracy in terms of scale.
The updated version of the app even includes “visual search”, which allows customers to take pictures of furniture they like, then upload those to the app to find similar products.
The company has been working for years in 3D catalogs behind the scenes and offers customers unique experiences with 3D visualization in-store when they want to build their own kitchen or fitted wardrobes.
The tech behind the app
🗣 IKEA already lets you preview furniture in your home via AR, but its latest AI-powered iOS app offers a big leap in capability. Called IKEA Kreativ, it can scan your rooms using LiDAR and build a complete 3D replica of them, then let you delete your existing furniture. From there, you can try out new IKEA couches, tables, etc., and get a much better idea of how they’ll look in your home.
The scanning is done via something IKEA calls the Kreativ Scene Scanner, which uses LiDAR if it’s available on your iPhone. It also works on iPhones or iPads without LiDAR, though having it allows the app to “pull in additional spatial detail,” IKEA told Engadget.
To use it on the web or a mobile device without LiDAR, you simply must input a series of photographs of a room. Those are then “automatically processed and assembled into a wide-angle, interactive replica of the space, with accurate dimensions and perspective,” IKEA said in a press release. From there, you can erase existing furniture and position new IKEA pieces, quickly try alternatives, and fully design the room. All your ideas can be saved for later or shared with others. Naturally, the app also lets you add preferred pieces to your shopping cart.
The app is the latest high-tech move by IKEA, which has launched a raft of connected speakers, smart home hubs, connected lights, charging pads, and more over the last few years. On top of that, IKEA joined a new group created by Microsoft, Meta, and others to create metaverse standards — so, you might be able to at least find furniture in virtual reality.
IKEA Place app: The Benefits
🗣 IKEA Place quickly earned a name for itself among app fans, becoming one of the most popular free apps built with Apple’s ARKit and Google’s ARCore during the first year of its release.
Over the years, IKEA has upgraded the AR experience for its customers, adding more immersive reality experiences, like the ability to search for product ideas using an initial item as inspiration. Overall, the biggest benefit of the app is it makes shopping with IKEA much easier. You can quickly and conveniently scan the floor of a room, browse a list of products available on an app, and see how that item will look in your home in seconds.
Other benefits include:
👉 Ease of use: Everything is extremely straightforward on the IKEA Place app. There’s an onboarding process when you load the app for the first time, to teach you how to use the technology correctly. You also get little messages and tips from the app as you work, helping you to take better pictures of your space, and upload more effective shots for inspiration.
👉 Comprehensive catalog: When you tap the plus button at the bottom of your smartphone screen, you’ll see the extensive IKEA catalog, where you can simply tap on an item to place it in your room. There’s a few “getting started” items available if you need help seeing how everything works. Plus, if you already know what you want to shop for, you can easily search for an item by tapping the search bar in the top right of the app. There aren’t as many filters as you’d get on the actual IKEA website, but it’s still a helpful touch.
👉 Accurate scanning: AR apps aren’t always as smooth and immersive as we’d like. However, IKEA Place seems to do very well in terms of item replication and placement. It can take a couple of minutes to scan your room correctly, but once you’ve done that, it’s relatively easy to place items around your space. The scale of the item also automatically changes as you move it, which is excellent for getting a more realistic look at what you can expect.
👉 Easier shopping experiences: With IKEA Place, you can place multiple items into a room with the same team and see how they all interact together. You’ll then be able to tap the menu in the top right of the screen and use “save place” to save the items you want to buy later. You can go back into your Saved places later, to check up on the details of the furniture you wanted or add different items into the mix.
👉 Find the products you really want: As mentioned above, you can now upload pictures of furniture to the IKEA Place app, and the tech will automatically scan for similar items in the catalog, to help you find the products you’re more likely to love. You can also hit the “like” button next to items and add them to your profile, so you can find your shopping list in a couple of taps next time you actually visit IKEA.
🗣 Ultimately, IKEA Place gives shoppers a straightforward and streamlined experience of shopping with the benefits of AR. This was one of the first retail apps provided by a company that offered an insight into the “try before you buy” mentality of digital shopping.
Since then, we’ve seen countless other furniture stores deliver apps like this one. If you’re a fan of shopping at IKEA and want to make it easier – it’s worth getting the IKEA Place app.
And, if you’re looking for further inspiration, IKEA also unveiled 50 new 3D showrooms. They let you browse the IKEA catalog virtually and try out products in 3D settings, “quickly swapping, moving, rotating, stacking and hanging IKEA products,” the company said.
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Denver Public Schools has released their 2013 School Performance Framework (SPF). The summary is mixed — the distribution of performance has stretched, so there are more kids in both the highest-quality and the lowest-quality schools. When aggregated, the gains are positive: more kids are in quality schools in Denver than at any point in the past five years.
However beyond the initial rays of light are two deeply troubling trends. First, the performance of the best district-operated schools continues to depend predominantly on the demographics of the kids they serve. Second, there appears to be no connection – particularly in the secondary grades — between the district’s efforts to improve its traditional schools and their subsequent performance.
The Sun and the Shadows
The big picture shows an undeniable increase in average quality across the city. The SPF has oddly irregular breakpoints: the district divides performance into bands which vary from a range of 33 percentage points to just 5 percentage points. That’s never made much sense to me, and for this analysis I am looking at the number of students in schools at each evenly distributed quintile of performance.
The percentage of students in schools in the top quintile has increased from 5.1% in 2009 to 11.7% in 2013. That’s a rising sun, however it casts shadows: the number of kids in the bottom quintile has also grown — from 0.3% to 2.3% of students. There were so few of these students in 2009, they are invisible on the chart, in the past two years they have quietly risen.
Indeed, while Denver has seen an increase at the top levels of performance, the bottom two quintiles still have the same percentage of kids (about 20%) that they did five years ago. Yet DPS has closed outright 10 of the schools that were in this group in 2009, which means that although the percentage of students has stayed the same, many of the schools are different. Fully 13 schools who were at an SPF level of 40% or better five years ago have since declined into these bottom two quintiles. A lot more schools are falling down the performance ladder than climbing up it.
So, after the shine of first light, far more interesting are two questions. First, what are the characteristics of Denver’s highest-performing public schools? And second, how effective is DPS – particularly where the need is most acute – at improving school performance?
Top Quintile Schools
To look at schools with high performance, we’ll focus on the 20 schools in the top quintile on the 2013 SPF, each of whom received between 80% and 100% of possible points (which matches DPS’s “distinguished” category).
The first characteristic is simple: certain charter schools dominate this list. Three top charter networks (DSST, STRIVE Prep, and KIPP) now account for nine of the highest-ranked 20 schools in the city. Their growth makes a difference: in 2009 there were two top-quintile charter schools serving 883 kids; in 2013 there are nine serving 2,622 kids. This performance is not an outlier – it continues previous trends. In addition to these nine charters, there are 11 DPS-operated schools. These two groups of top-quintile school serve very different students.
Poverty and Performance
The correlation between poverty and performance has characterized urban public schools for decades, however the difference between the best schools run by DPS compared to the best schools governed under a charter is extraordinary. All nine top-quintile charter schools have more than 40% low-income kids, and three of them have low-income populations in excess of 90%. In contrast, the 11 distinguished schools that DPS operates predominantly serve students at the other end of the economic spectrum. Eight house 36% or less low-income kids (half the DPS average), and of these four school have 10% or less.
Here are all 20 top-quintile schools graphed by both SPF performance and the percentage of low-income students they serve (click on the graph for additional detail):
For district-operated schools, higher income equates to higher achievement – this is a truism of public education which has persisted across generations. In the very best DPS-operated schools, demography is still likely to be the primary driver of academic destiny.
But the top-quintile charter schools invert this relationship: performance is not a function of income. The regression lines slope in different directions. This is a remarkable difference.
Top-quintile schools run by DPS or under a charter agreement have similar levels of SPF achievement, but they serve vastly different populations. The charter schools need to sustain this performance over time, and the different relationship between poverty and performance is less stark across all schools than it is in the top-quintile. But it persists.
Grade Level and Performance
Another unfortunate truism about public education is the decline in proficiency as students advance grade levels. In 2013 in Denver, average third grade proficiency was 53%, while in tenth grade it was 39%. The decline is similar (albeit from higher levels) across Colorado: more students fall behind grade level the older they get. To reverse this trend, Denver desperately needs strong secondary schools (grades 6-12).
Consider this: every single top-quintile charter is a secondary school (seven middle and two high schools). In contrast, the best DPS-operated schools overwhelmingly serve elementary school grades. Of the 11 top-quintile schools run by DPS, eight are exclusively elementary schools, and one more is a K-8. That leaves just two top-quintile secondary schools: McAuliffe (in their inaugural year with 22% low-income students) and East High (36% low-income). Overall, Denver averages 74% low-income students in middle school and 69% in high school; these two may be very good schools, but they do not look much like the rest of the district. Indeed, if one eliminates schools serving elementary grades, the overall performance of district-run schools plummets: just five schools (out of 35 total) are in the top two quintiles. And two of these are magnet schools who select their students based on academic proficiency or promise.
In fact, what filters through the initial sunlight of improved performance is a searing deficiency: in a district with 72% low-income students, there is not a single top-quintile secondary school operated by DPS that serves 40% or more low-income kids. Not one. Nor is this an aberration: over the past five years, there has been one DPS-run school, in one year, that met this standard. It was a new school, in their first year, serving just one grade. In their second year they fell to the third quintile.
Are Traditional DPS Schools Getting Better?
This deficiency begs an important question: are traditional DPS schools improving? Let’s look at the SPF rankings, over time, of the 21 district-run secondary schools that have at least 40% low-income students (excluding magnets and limited to schools for which there are 5 years of data):
This is the area in which it is critical for Denver to make progress. Are they? Not to my eye, for there is simply no pattern here at all. The median SPF score for this cohort in 2009 was 46%; in 2013 it was 44%. Almost all of these schools were languishing in the 30% – 60% range five years ago, and almost all of them remain there today, even if their order has shuffled. And, also critically, there are no instances in the past five years where DPS has been able to transform a secondary school serving low-income kids from any of the lowest three quintiles into either of the highest two quintiles. Not one.
Particularly depressing are the schools that have undergone significant transformations, often at great expense and with considerable turmoil. Anyone who follows the news will know the names: Manual High School, profiled in the New Yorker (50% of SPF points in 2009, 25% in 2013), Bruce Randolph, mentioned by President Obama in a State of the Union address (48%, 39%), Lake (23%, 28%), Lincoln (50%, 42%) and more. It is a big enough sample where there are bound to be individual schools with praiseworthy improvements — such as North High, which has moved from an SPF score of 23% to 44% — but these are balanced by other declines, and there is a hard and low ceiling of overall achievement. In a large district, DPS can always point to anecdote, but the aggregate numbers tell a story of traditional secondary schools completely immune to the district’s medicine. Indeed, there is no historical basis to believe that DPS can operate high-quality secondary schools that serve a significant proportion of low-income students.
So what do we learn from Denver’s 2013 School Performance Framework? There are indeed more kids getting a high-quality education, and it is perhaps a natural error for many people to want these gains to be the direct result of DPS’s attentions. The district has been both loud and forceful about its efforts, and no one prefers to be a witness to success if one can claim paternity.
But the data does not agree. More kids are getting a better education, but the schools closing the achievement gap are the ones where DPS has the least influence, and the traditional schools on whom DPS has spent the most time and attention in aggregate have not improved. The most effective strategy the district has pursued and where they should receive due credit — supporting the replication of top-quintile charter schools — is one of restraint, not action.
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Erbauluce di Caluso, Cieck
Erbaluce or Erbaluce bianca is a white Italian wine grape grown primarily in the Piedmont region around Caluso, in Canavese. In addition to dry table wines, it is used to make sweet wines with deep golden coloring, such as passito. The grape has a long history in the Piedmont region, with the first written record dating to 1606, and most likely originated in the alpine hills of northern Piedmont. Wines made from Erbaluce tend to be dry with noticeable acidity. While the grape's acidity makes it ideally suitable for sweet wine production, the dry wines need to have considerable amount of fruit in order to balance that acidity. Both the dry and sweet styles of Erbaluce tend to exhibit characteristic apple aromas and flavors.
Cieck's Erbaluce has a fresh bouquet, with characteristic notes of hawthorn and fruit, harmonizing delightfully with the vigorous structure of this wine. It is young, with a nicely acidic vigour and very pleasant and intensely fruity sensations.
The grapes are destemmed and pressed to obtain the must, which clears as it settles. Low-temperature fermentation preserves all the scents of the grapes and last for 21 days. The wine spends the next four months in steel to stabilize. | <urn:uuid:e91803d8-1d03-4fca-bc84-0928f80b9248> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vinrougewinebar.com/product/Erbauluce-di-Caluso--Cieck | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.941508 | 284 | 1.6875 | 2 |
State of the World's Midwifery 2014 - Sudan: Achieving MDG 5
Publication date: 2014
Sudan Achieving MDG 5 Maternal Mortality With a population of over 37 million in 2013i, Sudan is the 8th most populous country in Africa. It is also among the top ten countries in the world when it comes to maternal mortality. With an estimated 2,600 women dying in pregnancy or childbirth each year, Sudan accounts for 1% of the global maternal death burdenii. Sudan in the last two decades has made significant progress in reducing its maternal mortality ratio and is currently on track to reach the 75% reduction in the MMR required by the MDG5. According to the SHSHS 2010, it had a MMR of 216 per 100,000 live birthsiii. If the current trend continues, the country should be able to reach its MDG goal of an MMR of 154 (or about 1,800 annual deaths) by 2015. More than 70% of all maternal deaths in Sudan are due to just four conditions - hemorrhage, eclampsia, sepsis and abortion complicationsiv. An estimated 400 of maternal deaths are among adolescentsv. Family Planning and Maternal Health vi,vii,viii,ix In addition to a 75% reduction in the MMR, MDG5 also calls for universal access to reproductive health care by 2015. The following shows current coverage with key reproductive services in Sudan. Family Planning Only 7.8% of Sudan women use modern family planning methods, 28.9% have an expressed unmet need for family planning. Antenatal Care 47% of women have at least 4 antenatal care visits. Skilled Delivery Care As measured by the latest MICS survey, only 23% of the annual 6.6 million births in Sudan were assisted by a skilled attendant. Estimated Impact of Universal Access to Reproductive Health Family Planning Providing women with access to family planning and making it possible for them to decide how many children they want and when to have them, reduces the overall number of deaths by reducing the number of women dying due to pregnancies they never intended to have. Meeting only 25% of the unmet demand for family planning in Sudan, i.e., supplying 400,000 additional women with access to family planning would reduce the number of unintended pregnancies by 150,000 and maternal deaths by almost 400. In addition, it would significantly reduce the number of abortions that are particularly high among women with unintended pregnancies. Maternal Health Most maternal deaths are preventable, as the health-care solutions to prevent or manage complications are well known. The following interventions and drugs tackle the four top causes of maternal deaths in Sudan: Prevention and management of hemorrhage/treatment of postabortion complications - Oxytocin/Misoprostol: Prevention and management of eclampsia with Magnesium sulfate Prevention and treatment of sepsis with Clean delivery kits and antibiotics Number of Maternal Deaths that Could be Prevented Providing all women with the required maternal health medicines and supplies would prevent an additional 1,100 deaths, reducing the annual number of deaths to under 1,200 and the MMR to about 100, making it possible for Sudan to not only meet, but significantly exceed its MDG target of 154. In addition, these interventions would have a significant impact on child, and in particular, newborn mortality. Currently Sudan has about 34,000 neonatal deaths a year. About 13% of these, or 4,500, could be prevented by providing women with the above life-saving interventionsx. Essential Drug Requirements and Costs Maternal Health Drugs For Universal Coverage Drug and commodity requirements to provide the care detailed above would cost approximately $5 million, $1.6 for additional FP supplies and $3.4 million for maternal health (detailed calculations are available in Annex 1). Required health system investments Additional investments will be necessary to strengthen countries’ logistics systems and to ensure that health providers (both at facility and community level) know how to administer these drugs. Annex 1. Methodology The following describes the methodology used to arrive at the impact and cost estimates in the factsheet. Maternal Mortality The number of current annual maternal deaths was calculated using the 2013 MMR from the 2014 publication: Trends in Maternal Mortality: 1990-2013. UNFPA, WHO, World Bank, UNICEF http://www.who.int/reproductivehealth/publications/monitoring/maternal-mortality-2013/en/ applied to the estimated number of births in 2013 (based on population data from the UN Population Division). Deaths Prevented through Family Planning The number of unintended pregnancies averted was calculated by comparing the number of pregnancies that would have happened if the 400,000 (25% of the 1.6 million women with currently unmet need in Sudan) had not been able to access contraception to the number of pregnancies that would occur if these women used contraception (i.e. only experienced pregnancies due to failure of their chosen method). It was assumed that 40% of all women would have gotten pregnant if not using contraception. The average failure rate of contraceptives was estimated to be 3%. Based on regional data collected by the Guttmacher Institute for its 2014 update of “Adding It Up” it was estimated that only about 48% of unintended pregnancies would be carried to term, 39% would be aborted and 13% would end in a miscarriage. Note: Family planning reduces the absolute number of maternal deaths in a country but since it reduces both numerator AND denominator of the Maternal Mortality Ratio (defined as deaths per 100,000 live births) the reduction in maternal deaths caused by family planning is not reflected in the MMR. The estimated reduction in number of deaths required to achieve the country’s MMR goal differs therefore slightly depending on the assumption made about the number of births. The estimate in the first paragraph uses the current number of births, while the estimate in the Estimated Impact paragraph is based on a lower number of births (originally projected number of births minus unintended births averted through the provision of contraception to women with unmet need). Deaths Prevented through Maternal Health Interventions It was assumed that half of the women currently covered by skilled birth attendance, i.e. about 12%, had access to the three live-saving drugs. This coverage was then scaled up to 100%. The following effectiveness data were used in estimating the expected reduction in maternal deaths: Intervention Effectiveness Source 1. Hemorrhage Prevention - Oxytocin 62% Prendiville WJ, Elbourne D, McDonald S. Active versus expectant management in the third stage of labour. In: The Cochrane Library, Issue 1. 2. Hemorrhage Prevention - Misoprostol 43% 30% less effective than oxytocin Gulmezoglu AM, Villar J, Ngoc NTN, et al. WHO multicentre randomized trial of misoprostol in the management of the third stage of labour. Lancet. 2001; 358:689-695 3. Hemorrhage Treatment - Oxytocin 80% Pollard et al. Estimating the impact of interventions on cause- specific maternal mortality: a Delphi approach. BMC Public Health 2013, 13(Suppl 3):S12 4. Eclampsia Management - MgSulfate 43% Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2010 Nov 10 5. Sepsis Prevention - Facility Births 60% Pollard et al. Estimating the impact of interventions on cause- specific maternal mortality: a Delphi approach. BMC Public Health 2013, 13(Suppl 3):S12 6. Sepsis Prevention - Home Births 60% Pollard et al. Estimating the impact of interventions on cause- specific maternal mortality: a Delphi approach. BMC Public Health 2013, 13(Suppl 3):S12 7. Sepsis treatment - Antibiotics 80% Pollard et al. Estimating the impact of interventions on cause- specific maternal mortality: a Delphi approach. BMC Public Health 2013, 13(Suppl 3):S12 8. PAC management - Misoprostol 50% The final MMR was calculated by dividing the remaining number of maternal deaths by the number of births expected at the new contraceptive prevalence level (current 1.2 million births annually minus 150,000 averted through increased use of family planning). Cost Estimates Family Planning Unit costs for the different supply methods were taken from UNFPA’s RH Interchange database and multiplied by the amount required to provide one couple-year of protection (CYP). It was assumed that 15 cycles of the pill, 120 condoms or 4 injectables would provide one CYP. IUDs and Implant were assumed to provide 3.5 years of protection or CYPs. Their cost was thus divided by 3.5. The RHInterchange price for implants ($18.80) was replaced with a cost estimate per implant of $8.50 to reflect the recent price reduction seen, but not yet reflected in the database, due to the introduction of Sino- Implants. Drug and supply cost for male and female sterilization came from calculations carried out by the Guttmacher Institute for its Adding It Up 3 publication using UNFPA’s RHCT costing tool with updated 2013 prices. It was assumed that new users would adopt methods based on the current modern method mix. Cost Estimates Maternal Health Interventions Based on WHO treatment guidelines the following drugs and supplies were costed using drug prices from both the MH International Drug Price Indicator and the UNICEF Supply Catalogue. Hemorrhage Prevention and Treatment Sepsis Prevention and Treatment Pre-Eclampsia/Eclampsia Treatment i UN Population Division. World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision, data for 2013 ii Based on SHHS 2010 MMR of 216/100,000 live births. iii WHO. 2014. Maternal Mortality 1990-2013. iv WHO and UNICEF. 2012 Countdown, Country Profiles v Based on: Blanc et al. 2013. New Findings for Maternal Mortality Age Patterns: Aggregated Results for 38 Countries. PLoS ONE 8(4): e59864. vi UN Population Division. World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision vii UN Population Division. World Marriage Data 2012. viii UN Population Division. World Contraceptive Use 2012 ix UNICEF. State of the World Population 2013 x Futures Institute. Spectrum, LiST module.
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Claude Kataktovick was one of the most memorable people in Bob Bartlett’s life. The 19 year-old Inupiat man accompanied Bartlett on the 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition (CAE). The CAE turned out to be disastrous in many ways with significant loss of life following the sinking of the Karluk, skippered by Bartlett. Claude was one of the people that Bartlett depended on to keep the survivors alive. In 1914, his ice travel and hunting skills were critical on Bartlett’s 700 mile journey over Chukchi Sea ice-fields and snowy Siberia to effect a rescue of the Karluk survivors. Claude was from Port Barrow, Alaska and a committed Christian, once writing of his love for Jesus. Still a teenager, he was a widower and the father of a little girl, whose grandmother cared for her when Claude was with the CAE. His hometown was Port Barrow, Alaska, pictured below.
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A monumental work of art or a terribly misplaced reminder of cruel history? Conquistador Juan de Oñate is a hero to some in El Paso who feel the Spanish contributions to settling the West is often ignored. To others, he represents oppression and violence, an attempt to obliterate Native American culture.
When sculptor John Houser began creating a huge statue of de Oñate for the city of El Paso, he and his backers hadn’t a clue of the controversy it would create. The Last Conquistador eloquently tells this story. Today, Think’s Kris Boyd talked to John Valadez, the filmmaker. (Listen below).
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Following the opening of new eruptive fissures low on the east rift zone of Kilauea volcano, Kilauea’s summit underwent deflation, the lava lake began to recede, and on 17 May, an explosive event sent ash to a height of 9 km. As a result, Bulletin of Volcanology has opened access to four scientific papers that provide insight into past subsidence events and explosive activity at Kilauea caldera.
Delaney and McTigue examined the 1960 collapse of Kilauea’s caldera. Like today’s subsidence, this occurred during and after an effusive event on the lower east rift zone. Subsidence, to an eventual depth of 50 m, was continuous and was associated with seismic activity. Delaney and McTigue concluded that the volume of subsidence was closely related to the volume of magma withdrawn from the reservoir immediately below the caldera.
In their 1990 study, McPhie and colleagues examined the famous Keanakakoi ash deposit; it is famous because it is associated with an explosive eruption that killed a party of Hawaiian warriors travelling near the caldera in 1790. McPhie and colleagues demonstrated that the opening phase was phreatomagmatic—that is, an explosion caused by the interaction of magma and water. It is believed that activity continued for several months and occurred at a time when the caldera was very deep.
Dvorak, on the other hand, believed that a phreatic eruption caused Kilauea’s explosive eruption of May 1924. Phreatic eruptions are triggered by the interaction of water and hot rock. This eruption was preceded by rapid draining of a lava lake and transfer of a large volume of magma from the summit reservoir to the east rift zone, leaving the surface rocks at a raised temperature. Dvorak explains that,
“This lowered the magma column, which reduced hydrostatic pressure beneath Halemaumau and allowed groundwater to flow rapidly into areas of hot rock, producing a phreatic eruption”.
Instead, Orr and Rea examined the type of gas jetting activity that we had become more familiar with during Kilauea’s eruption that had been relatively stable since 1983. That is until the events in Puna earlier in May caused the situation to radically change (see the preceding Bulletin of Volcanology press release of 09 May 2018). Termed “gas pistoning”, this more benign type of (exceedingly mild) “explosive” activity involved the cyclic rise and fall of a lava surface within a volcanic vent or lava lake. This is associated with the accumulation of a layer of gas just below the lava surface to push the surface upwards, followed by release (as the jet) during which the surface falls and after which the cycle begins again.
Founded in 1922, Bulletin of Volcanology is the official journal of the International Association of Volcanology & Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI). The Bulletin publishes papers on volcanoes, their products, their eruptive behaviour, and their hazards (https://link.springer.com/journal/445).
Open access to the six papers released here can be found at:
Delaney PT and McTigue DF (1994)
Volume of magma accumulation or withdrawal estimated from surface uplift or subsidence, with application to the 1960 collapse of Kilauea Volcano
McPhie J, Walker GPL, and Christiansen RL (1990)
Phreatomagmatic and phreatic fall and surge deposits from explosions at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, 1790 A.D.: Keanakakoi Ash Member
Mechanism of explosive eruptions of Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii
Time-lapse camera observations of gas piston activity at Pu‘u ‘Ō‘ō, Kīlauea volcano, Hawai‘i
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On International Women’s Day 2021 we are publishing this excerpt from Take Back The Fight: Organizing Feminism for the Digital Age, by long-time feminist organizer and writer Nora Loreto (Fernwood Publishing, 2020). The book is available at your local bookstore or from the publisher’s webstore.
Corporate feminism dominates what passes for mainstream feminism in Canada today. Tinkering with corporate boards, getting more girls into science, technology and engineering disciplines and inclusion measures have become the work that most corporate players are proud to engage in.
On International Women’s Day each year, there is a corporate parade showing off all the neat things that businesses are doing for women. On IWD 2019, Air Canada had an all-women crew, from pushback and ground workers to cleaners, pilots and attendants. The Montreal to Brussels flight was made possible by a team of women. In their press release, Air Canada said, “there are no glass ceilings at Air Canada.”
Air Canada regularly wins awards for being one of Canada’s top diversity employers and there’s little question that they’re better than most. But they are still far from being representative. While both major hiring centres are in Toronto and Montreal, only 22 percent of their workforce are visible minorities, and the number of women they employ is under half of their workforce. Only 5.5 percent of their pilot workforce are women (in India, where there is the highest number of woman pilots of any country in the world, it’s 13 percent).
In 2006, the Supreme Court sided with the union representing flight attendants, saying that Air Canada was wrong: they should have considered flight attendants (where women are an overwhelming majority) and pilots as employees who should receive equal pay. Just five of the twenty-two members of Air Canada’s corporate board are women, including the VP of in-flight service and head of communications, both fields where women dominate.
Air Canada is better than most of the corporate world and even there, women aren’t represented in equal proportion to the population. That’s because corporate feminism cannot change the structures that help to perpetuate gender inequality. It also hides the real reason why we celebrate important commemorative days.
As writer Tannara Yelland wrote for The Huffington Post: “In stark contrast to the particular brand of peppy, individualized feminism that has been dominant for decades and is only recently beginning to show cracks, IWD was from its inception about recognizing radical politics led by women, and especially labour politics. It was, after all, first recognized by the Socialist Party of America in 1909 as a commemoration of the Ladies’ Garment Strike in New York.”
The radical roots of International Women’s Day have been sanitized on purpose. It’s safe to hold a brunch or breakfast, or to celebrate how many women are on your corporate board. IWD is a nice marketing moment for an oil company to brag that its new board chairman is a woman, or that a company has decided to reduce the price of pink pens in relation to the price of blue pens. But IWD was a day for feminists to remember that women paid with their lives for better working conditions, and that women’s oppression on the job or in the home both cause harm and underpin society’s patriarchal structures. In absence of these memories, we forget, and instead we laugh when we see that McDonalds — a corporation that relies on low-paid service employees who are more likely to be women as a way to boost their profits — put the Golden Arches upside down to honour women. Because nothing honours women like a giant W.
The power that corporate feminism has to sanitize and confuse what feminism should be, is immense. When feminists believe that we will dismantle the patriarchy when the local police chief is a woman or the premier is a woman, we ignore the fact that individuals holding specific positions cannot confront patriarchy on its own.
Patriarchy is woven into every aspect of Canadian life. With colonialism and racism, it creates a class segmentation that determines who is on top and who is not; it doles out different wages to different kinds of people based on their identity or the job that they’re working and it determines that some people in society hold value above other people. It imagines that the average woman is middle aged, white and middle class, and then sets out to fight for a better world for that woman in particular. When it ignores the diversity and range of womanhood, it also ignores the complex and various ways in which patriarchy, colonialism and racism cause harm to women and will continue to cause harm until we force things to change.
Because patriarchy underpins so much of life in Canada, seeking to undo patriarchy amounts to an attack on the foundations of this country. To do so effectively requires radical action. Anything less will lead to a minor victory at best, and actually perpetuate patriarchy at worst. When feminists celebrate small advances made for white women alone, the women who are left behind then also must confront those feminists for erasing or ignoring their experiences.
The radical roots of women’s liberation have always existed alongside a slower, elitist and unrepresentative brand of feminism, and the latter has depended on the radicalness of the former to make even the slightest advances. Women’s liberation has been radical because it had to be.
From early factory fires where hundreds of women workers were killed, to movements that have looked for ways to help women fleeing from abuse — patriarchy kills. When your life is on the line, action must be swift and it has to be radical.
In their manifesto, Feminism for the 99%, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Battacharya and Nancy Fraser argue, “that mainstream media ‘equates feminism, as such, with liberal feminism.’”
In a review of their book, Marina Manoukian elaborates their thesis: “Far from being a movement of solidarity, liberal feminism has worked to disseminate the values of neoliberal capitalism: at the expense of women, especially women of color and migrant women, while posturing as a feminism that empowers women to ‘lean in.’”
Transforming feminism away from its radical roots and towards the current incarnation today as corporate, individualized feminism has been the right’s most powerful weapon to spay the effectiveness of feminist movements. Corporate feminism is the antithesis to radical feminism. It co-opts the name so that feminism doesn’t go too far beyond minor reforms, while enabling corporations to continue to hoard record profits. Modern capitalism depends on patriarchy to function as well as it does, and so feminism poses a direct and existential threat to the corporate world.
There is a chasm between the corporate feminism of Lean In, the bureaucratic, posturing feminism of Liberal politicians like Maryam Monsef and the women who experience violence and death by the hands of someone they know. Monsef ’s gender-based violence strategy is heavy on awareness, including an awareness program that engages boys and men to learn how not to be violent. Without intense pressure from women’s groups, we probably couldn’t expect more than this.
Government policy has enormous influences on how women live: precarious housing, low-waged work, lack of supports for child care, lack of mental health supports, lack of easy access to abortion, lack of safe public transportation in rural areas of Canada and insufficient gun control all play a role in how violence against women continues to rage. A $20 million per year strategy, while government refuses to implement systemic changes to the status quo, will do little more than raise awareness. And, as the phenomenon behind #MeToo demonstrated, raising awareness has a limit too, as service agencies and shelters are already at their capacities.
Canada’s labour market is segmented by race and gender, and unless the federal government takes seriously the way that capitalism subjugates women workers, especially those who are racialized, there will never be enough change for all women to benefit. And if feminist policy can’t help the most marginalized women, then it’s the same kind of white feminism that mainstream feminists in Canada have been demanding for more than a century.
Nora Loreto was the NB Media Co-op’s 2020 annual keynote speaker.
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The Ukrainian Parliament (also known as Verkhovna Rada or Supreme Council of Ukraine) is carrying out a bill in which proposes to regulate the cryptocurrency market and classify them as financial assets. If approved, the proposal could be adopted at the end of 2018 or the beginning of 2019.
According to the information provided by a local media, Timur Khromaev, head of the National Commission of Securities and Stock Exchanges of Ukraine (NSSMC) has commented that the proposed law has taken as example the legislative framework model of countries such as Malta, Gibraltar and Switzerland, where it is stipulated that cryptocurrencies are assets, but can not be considered as payment methods because they constitute financial instruments similar to stocks, bonds and promissory notes.
Khromaev further noted that the intention of the proposal is to grant recognition to cryptocurrencies as financial assets in order to allow citizens and residents to use it as a decentralized tool for financial transactions, create favorable conditions for the digital assets market formation and increase the opportunities to carry out new projects.
According to studies, 13% of Ukrainian residents have some type of cryptocurrency like Bitcoin and Ether and the total estimated daily transactions is about $2 million. Such amounts can be attractive for governments like Ukraine given that once regulated, investors and users can perform operations in a framework protected by the law, ensuring a greater security and at the same time, proving a new source of income to the government thanks to the taxes associated with cryptocurrency activities.
The Ukrainian initiative marks just another chapter in this book, with other countries such as the United States, Spain and Malta that are also beginning to regulate the market of cryptocurrencies to create an environment of opportunities and security. Flexible regulatory positions such as the Ukrainian can help many fintech initiatives and startups (especially those financed by ICOs) to have a defined regulatory framework, allowing national and foreign companies to continue bringing technological advances and development in the financial environment. | <urn:uuid:12f8a79e-a3a2-4a9b-a0f3-02e4ba59b146> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cryptocoin.news/news/ukraine-proposes-bill-that-regulates-cryptocurrencies-as-financial-assets-2-19126/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.953862 | 388 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Roundworms, Ridicule and the Nobel Prize
If you doubt that the life of a molecular biologist and geneticist can make for delightful reading, then you have not yet seen “Sydney Brenner: a Biography” by Dr. Errol C. Friedberg from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Friedberg, of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, explains how Brenner, honored with the 2002 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, was born in 1927 into a South African Jewish family of Latvian/Lithuanian origin. Brenner’s small hometown, Germiston, once had a thriving Jewish community, now dispersed. As Brenner recalled his school days:
I suppose that my sense of humor came from the gestalt of being a member of a Jewish family. I’ve always thought that whereas most people’s lives consist of drama on one hand and comedy on the other, for Jews life consists primarily of melodrama and farce. Everything is exaggerated!
Equally extreme was Brenner’s attraction to science, which he shared with fellow South African Jewish students such as Seymour Papert, a future artificial intelligence pioneer alongside MIT’s Marvin Minsky. Another ally was Brenner’s future wife May Covitz, whose father’s name was truncated by a South African immigration official from Isaacovitz to “Isaac Covitz.”
When Brenner reached England for further studies at Oxford, his sense of humor continued in puns referring to Oxford colleagues and higher learning: “The first time that they mentioned Bessel functions, I thought they were talking about a Jewish wedding.” By contrast, Brenner is wholly serious when describing a 1953 encounter with the ground-breaking DNA research by James Dewey Watson and Francis Crick: “Standing there and looking at the DNA structure, I felt as if a curtain had been lifted in my mind.”
Inspired and erudite, Brenner eventually arrived at such fundamental concepts as messenger RNA, the first computer matrix analysis of nucleic acids, and the use of a specific roundworm for investigating neural development. Ardently pursuing scientific research, Brenner always maintained a sense of the ridiculous, and even wrote a parody script, “How the Quest was Won,” ridiculing a 1987 BBC film, “Life Story” starring Jeff Goldblum as the DNA-deciphering Watson.
Even so, Brenner could be argumentative vehemence incarnate; the French Jewish biologist François Jacob recalled one monumental tussle between Brenner and Crick: “[They] began to gesticulate. To argue at top speed in great agitation. A red-faced Francis. A Sydney with bristling eyebrows.” Even bristling, Brenner, as recounted in this new book, is a delight.
Watch Sydney Brenner in March 2010, offering advice for appreciating reality.
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Image: My Country
- School: Kareela Public School
- Artist: Collaborative
- Medium: Digital
Children developed their own symbols to retell traditional Creation stories in both representational and abstract style, viewed from the air, as in the style of Ginger Riley Munduwalaway.
- Jane Stanley
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Until recently, VMT had been rising steeply in the U.S.
Vehicle-Miles Traveled (VMT) is the total number of miles driven by all
residential vehicles within a given time period and geographic area.
We’re seeing more about VMT in the national media as rising gas prices cause people to drive less. Largely absent from the coverage — so far — is a discussion about intentionally reducing VMT through policy. Will that change soon? It should: A built environment where people don’t rely on a car for every trip is also one where expensive gas won’t put such a crimp in household budgets. Diana’s wiki entry highlights one avenue to explore in particular:
Land use — namely sprawl development — is the main culprit. Americans
are living farther from work, school, shopping and basic services. Even
in higher density areas, where amenities may be closer to home, the
road framework can be punishing for pedestrians. It is nearly
impossible to walk in areas that cater to cars instead of people.
Autocentric street design therefore forces even more cars onto
roadways, which further impedes walkers and bicyclists. The vicious
cycle continues and local governments turn to the only “quick fix” that
they seem to know: build bigger highways (at enormous taxpayer expense)
to accommodate the increased traffic.
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Our published stories about the fallout from the hacking scandals of Rupert Murdoch’s newspaper empire usually include a statement like “News Corp. owned the San Antonio Express-News between 1973 and 1993.” So, I wondered: did we trumpet that purchase back in 1973?
The answer: we didn’t. I found some references in our electronic archive to a purchase date of December 19, 1973, but I could find no coverage in the Express-News on the 20th or the days to follow.
The only clue I found was a change in the masthead. On December 25, we were still owned by the Express Publishing Company. On December 26, the masthead was missing, and then on December 27, we were now owned by The Express/News Corporation. I figured that meant the ownership change became official around this time, and decided to check the Light, which I thought would certainly report about its competitor.
I found this buried inside the Light’s A Section on December 27:
The above image is just the top of the story, but it goes on to describe how Harte-Hanks was going to use most of the proceeds of the sale to pay down debts. “The Express and News was the only one of a group of 17 newspapers owned by Harte-Hanks with direct competition.”
The story goes on to say that “Murdoch’s acquisition of the Express and News marks his entry into the local daily newspaper field in the United States.” He added the Star tabloid, which he owned, to the Sunday edition and introduced the bingo-like Wingo game.
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Photo Booth Glossary
Backdrop: Not to be confused with the wedding decoration, this is traditionally a coloured, painted or printed cloth which is hung in front of the camera and behind the wedding guests being photographed. Usually, a number of backdrops are available, and you can choose the one you’d like. However, modern technology allows the use of green screens which are versatile and allow you to have any pattern, design, picture, image or cartoon displayed behind the photographed guests, so you can have a lot of fun with your pictures.
Batteries: Here, chemical energy is converted into electrivcity and used as a source of power for the cameras (along with thousands of other household items). Ensure you have charged the batteries of any photographic equipment. If you use the item regularly, charge it the night before. If you rarely use it or have hired it especially for the event you can charge it sooner and leave it turned off to ensure it’s fully prepared for your big day. Rechargeable batteries are handy as you can bring along your charging unit along with your other chargers (See below).
Booth: This is the physical structure containing the camera, equipment, photography area and backdrop. Sometimes this may be a tent or a gazebo for outdoor weddings, or it may simply be an area of a room if you’re opting for an open air or DIY booth (see below). If you’re hiring a photo booth, this will usually be a large rectangular shape that is portable. Check with your venue before booking a booth, as they may not be able to accommodate you and your needs.
Many photo booth companies have provided big brands with the option to personalise their photo booths by adding their logo, brand or current advertising scheme on the sides. This has been so successful that many of these companies will provide the same service for your wedding photo booth, so your booth can be designed by you personally. Browse online and make comparisons to find the best deal for your budget.
Camera: This is the device used to record the photographs. Modern technology has made it possible to take high quality pictures on smartphones, cheap digital cameras, laptops, webcams and tablets – if you have a professional photography camera, that’s brilliant. You can rent them for your wedding day, though you may want to hire a professional photographer with the booth as they can utilise the technical aspects of such a camera. However, this is entirely up to you – there are plenty of options out there.
Charger(s): It is vital to bring any chargers for your laptop, camera tablet or smartphone for your DIY photo booth as and where required. Ideally, you will have already checked that your venue has conveniently placed plugs (or you’ve brought extension leads to compensate) so that such equipment doesn’t lose its battery at a vital moment.
Chemical photo booth: This is an increasingly rare form of photo booth, but they can still be hired from some vendors. The chemical photography process is much slower, the equipment is heavier and the wait for the photographs is longer than with a digital photo booth; this is why such booths are becoming rare. However, it is available for a reason, as many people enjoy the process and the pictures produced by the chemical booths (which lack the digital quality of modern photos, but offer a beautiful, nostalgic throwback). It could serve as a beautiful addition to for a retro fancy dress themed wedding, or a wonderful surprise for a groom who’s mad about old-fashioned photography techniques.
Chimping: This is a lovely piece of photography slang, which describes the crowds of guests you’ll inevitably have swarming around the camera. This term arose from the noise of photographers peering at the pictures on a digital camera and saying ‘ooh’ with delight, like a chimp! This is perfectly understandable, and your hired professional should accommodate. They may provide an extra screen just for viewing the images for this reason. If you’re creating your own photo booth, you may want to prepare for this yourself. You can either set up a viewing system, which can be as simple as a queue, but a much more fun idea is to use your computer or laptop to use as an alternate screen. You can even use computer software to create a slideshow of the images over the day so guests aren’t waiting around.
Costumes: A quick and easy way to provide a fun atmosphere in the photo booth, having a range of costumes available for your guests will liven up any picture and give your guests a laugh. Costumes could include Star Trek suits for sci-fi fans, a pirate hat, cowboy jackets, rainbow wigs, sailor outfits, a top hat or silly glasses, anything that’s bright and fun that you can think of! They can be bought and hired cheaply in advance. It’s a great idea because little details like this can really make your wedding day memorable.
Crazy Booth: This refers to open-air booths that allow room for tens of guests, and incorporates the equipment of a professional photography studio with the portability of a digital photo booth. Most of the photographic elements remain the same as with other digital booths, apart from the extra lighting equipment, high quality handheld camera and the large open space required. A backdrop, costumes and props may also be provided (see above and below for more details on each of these items). This type of photo booth is an ideal model for your DIY photo booth (see below).
Digital photo booth: The vast majority of modern photo booths are digital, allowing for high quality, quick print outs and high numbers of pictures being printed over your wedding day. Your guests can print out the pictures for themselves and receive them in an email after the reception, and you’ll get to have a copy of every single one too. They are immensely popular, portable and increasingly inventive in terms of matching your bridal needs and desires.
DIY photo booth: Brides can easily and affordably create their own photo booths with a few essentials. A backdrop (see above), a camera (see above for the various types of cameras available) and space are the main requirements. If you’re outdoors you may need a tent, if you’re indoors you’ll need extra room. Using the technology you probably already have in your home, you can create photographs that’ll you treasure forever without breaking the bank.
Gazebo: A structure, usually erected outside, to house your photo booth in. Ensure the entrance can be sealed in case of unfortunate weather.
Memory Booth: This is another name for a Crazy Booth (see above).
Open air photo booth: This is photo booth minus the actual booth: in other words, you have a sturdy structure in which the camera is placed. This essentially means that all you need is a stable, flat surface for it to stand on whether you’re indoors or outdoors, though you could always opt for additional backdrops. With these essentials, you can hire this handy, portable device nearly anywhere. You may also want to hire an instant printer with this booth if it isn’t provided; you can opt for an inventive printing option, such as one add-on which allows your recorded videos to be transformed and printed instantly into flipbooks! It can record pictures containing approximately 10 to 30 guests.
Props: Sometimes these will be provided with hired photo booths or they’ll be available as an add-on. If this isn’t for you, you could have fun choosing your own props for guests to use in their photographs, and will ideally match the clothes in your costume box, if you’re having one of those too.
Rechargable batteries: Also known as a 'storage battery' or 'accumulator'. Here, electrochemical reactions are chemically reversible, allowing the same battery to be charged and used multiple times over.
Rental time: This refers to the hourly cost of the photo booth. Sometimes you can hire one for a set rate over one or more days, but they are usually charged at hourly rates. Many companies offer the opportunity to have idle time (usually when the wedding party is in the ceremony or at dinner) before and during the wedding day, though you may have to pay more.
Set-up time: This is how long the company’s representatives will require to arrange all of the equipment, ready for you and your guests to enjoy. This will vary with every booth; discuss it with your company if you’re bringing in professionals. If you’re setting up your own photo booth you can do a dry run in the months beforehand to see how long it will take. You can always ask a trusted loved one to take on this job on the day of the wedding.
Slow motion photo booth:
These innovative new machines can not only record high quality images, but extremely high quality footage of you and your guests in slow motion. The camera can record at 50 frames per second, whereas the human eye can only see 24fps. This can create some beautiful footage, whether it’s your guests dancing with joy or you and your groom sharing a kiss. This is not a cheap option, but it is a simply fantastic way to record your special day.
Tripod: This is a three legged stand (hence the word 'tri') on which the camera rests stably. This is a standard piece of photography and cinematography equipment, as it is necessary for the camera to be balanced and held in place. If you’re creating a DIY photo booth you can use a table as long as you’re certain it’s stable and secure.
Video confessional booth: These are very similar to standard booths but they are usually designed in the style of the Big Brother diary room – a self-contained, often soundproof booth for one or more guests to use at a time. It’s designed so they can leave messages for the happy couple, and they can be used to replace or enhance your guestbook. You could even have one virtual and one physical guestbook to remember your day with. Video confessional booths are often available as an add-on to many wedding photo booths. This is possible because most modern cameras can cope with video and still footage alike (even personal gadgets such as smartphones and tablets, which can be used for DIY video confessional booths). | <urn:uuid:235dcbf0-3864-4da1-99da-851031afe797> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.brideonline.com.au/photo-booths/articles/photo-booth-glossary.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719286.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00498-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942946 | 2,285 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Correspondence, writings, reports, printed matter, and photographs, relating to Polish military operations during World War
II, especially at the Battle of Monte Cassino; and to the Soviet espionage organization Monarkhicheskaia Organizatsiia TSentral'noi
Rossii, known as the Trust. Includes the typescript of the book by W. Michniewicz on the latter subject, Wielki Bluff Sowiecki
Colonel, Polish army; chief of intelligence, 2 Korpus, during World War II.
2 manuscript boxes
(0.8 linear feet)
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Cell phones with radio function became a fever in the early 2000s. At the time, companies such as Vivo and Nextel offered the service on devices from brands such as BlackBerry, Motorola and Nokia. The differential of this type of device was the PTT technology – or Push To Talk – which turned it into a true walkie-talkie. Despite the practicality of the function, the phones made a memorable noise that could annoy people nearby. In addition, it was common to use the accessory on the speakerphone, breaking the silence in closed environments.
In the following lines, check out the list of 10 models from the past. It is worth remembering that Nextel ended its radio service in Brazil in 2018. A reference in the sector, the company was purchased by Claro in 2019 and is currently called Claro NXT.
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BlackBerry Curve 8350i was one of the PTT devices that was very successful in the 2000s (Photo: Publicity/BlackBerry) — Photo: Publicity/BlackBerry
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Radio communication worked attractively for the consumer. It was enough to hire a plan with a telephone operator that offered the service at the time — such as Vivo or Nextel itself. In this way, the customer could make calls for free even if he was not in his home city.
In the case of Nextel, for example, the company enabled a network called iDEN that allowed cell phones compatible with the technology to make calls. She was laid off four years ago.
With the arrival of 3G in the country and the lack of new cell phones enabled with the resource, PTT was losing ground. Apps like WhatsApp e FaceTime replaced the service. The importation of devices that would give continuity to the radio also faced a high cost, which ended up accelerating its national end. Check out some devices with the radio function below.
Blackberry Curve 8350i — Photo: Disclosure
One of the models sold in Brazil by Nextel was the BlackBerry Curve 8350i. The smartphone with analog keyboard, had its debut in tupiniquim territory 14 years ago, and had a 2-inch screen and a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. The BlackBerry’s storage capacity was one of its downsides, at just 128 MB.
The device’s 1,400 mAh battery resisted for four hours of call. Its highlight was the chat apps that came installed at a time when chatting online was starting to become a habit. In the specifications, the device had a 2 megapixel camera with flash and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity. Available in black and red, the BlackBerry Curve 8350i hit the market for R$1,279.
Blackberry Torch 9800 (Photo: Publicity) — Photo: TechTudo
Even having a physical QWERTY keyboard, the BlackBerry Torch 9800 drew attention for bringing a touch sensitive screen. The cell phone was considered one of the most modern and desired devices from the early 2010s, mainly because of the different design, which featured a slider keyboard. It hid the analog keys, using the up and down swipe motion.
The model had a 3.2-inch touch screen (360 x 480 pixels resolution) and a 5-megapixel rear camera with LED flash. Its processor was 624 MHz and it had 512 MB of RAM and 4 GB of internal space, expandable up to 32 GB with microSD. The BlackBerry Torch 9800 was launched in Brazil in November 2010 and reached the national market at a price of R$2,699.
BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 — Photo: Disclosure
A year after the launch of the 9800 model, BlackBerry brought the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 to the Brazilian market. The model had the same physical QWERTY keyboard, but without a sliding screen. The display was only 2.46 inches (320 x 240 pixels), but the cell phone had, among its highlights, 3G connectivity and media buttons on the top of the phone. They were divided into play, pause and play/back buttons. The play button still served as a shortcut to the media collection.
The Curve 9300 was equipped with 256 MB of RAM and 256 MB of storage, as well as a microSD slot. Shortly after it was released, a review by TechTudo pointed out that Among the negative points of the device were the 1,150 mAh battery and 2 megapixel camera. The model cost about R$ 1 thousand.
BlackBerry 7520 — Photo: Publicity/BlackBerry
To complete the BlackBerry trio, the 7520 model impressed with its wide screen, which gave a greater view of the applications installed on the device. As with the aforementioned brand models, the cell phone offered users e-mail, corporate data, internet, telephone and Push to Talk technology.
In its specifications, the BlackBerry 7520 did not have the screen size, but we know that it had a resolution of 160 x 240 pixels, 32 MB of internal memory and an operating system called Amora. The QWERTY keyboard, the famous keyboard that accompanies the brand’s models, was arranged in a V-shape. cost about $1,500.
Radio cell phones were popular five years ago — Photo: Disclosure/Motorola
The Motorola i550 Plus had a appearance reminiscent of classic 1990s appliances. Because it was an old model, it didn’t have cameras and its display didn’t even have colors. On the analog keyboard — which here came with more spaced keys — there was a specific button so the user could turn on the speakermimicking the functionality of landline phones.
It is worth mentioning that Motorola was one of the great partners of Nextel during the time of operation of the PTT in Brazil. The North American manufacturer was responsible for most of the models sold by the telephone operator that were compatible with radio technology. The launch value was R$ 949.
Motorola i867 (Photo: Publicity) — Photo: TechTudo
The Motorola i867 deserves to be highlighted. Launched in Brazil in 2012, it featured Push to Talk technology and the Android system (which was crawling, in version 2.1). The model had a 3.1-inch touch screen, 3 MP camera and two microphones with noise canceling technology.
The cell phone was sold at Nextel stores for R$899 in cash or R$499 when linked to a data package. The smartphone even won a themed version inspired by a famous car from the Italian automaker Ferrari — which made the device more expensive. The product for Formula 1 fans cost up to R$1,499.
Motorola i465 — Photo: Disclosure
Despite being considered a great value for money, the Motorola i465 had a outdated design even for the cell phone standard of the time. Square and with an analog keypad, the phone had a 1.8-inch screen with a resolution of 128×160 pixels and an internal antenna. Its storage capacity was only 64 MB and did not have memory card slots.
Another thing that did not please much was the presence of the VGA camera, quite outdated at the time of the smartphone’s launch. To get the consumer’s attention with this device, Motorola bet on battery life. If you used Nextel’s voice service, the cell phone supported about 3.4 hours of continuous talk time. The Motorola i465 was launched in Brazil in June 2009 for R$499.
Nokia E5 — Photo: Disclosure
Also called E5-00, the Nokia cell phone with PTT function, was another option that tried to reach the consumer through the pocket. Even being an analog keyboard model, the device surprised by its usability. The Finnish company’s model resembled those marketed by BlackBerry, but with some resources lesslike the trackball that served as a kind of mouse for the cursor on the screen.
The device came with a 2.36-inch screen with a resolution of 320 x 240 pixels, a 5 megapixel rear camera, digital zoom and a tool for panoramic photos. Its internal memory was 256 MB, expandable up to 32 GB.
The E5’s battery was also good, guaranteeing up to 5 hours and 15 minutes of talk time. The cell phone was sold in black, white, blue, brown and gray, with the launch price set at R$799.
Nokia Navigator 2710 — Photo: Reproduction/GSMarena
Compared to previous model, Nokia Navigator 2710 was, first of all, a simple cell phone. Its specifications included a 2.2-inch screen with 240 x 320 pixels, a 2 MP camera and 64 MB of internal memory, expandable up to 16 GB via microSD card.
Even though it was launched in 2010, the device did not have Wi-Fi. Its highlight was on account of the GPS, which worked through a Nokia application, in addition to compatibility with MP3 music. The cell phone worked both on the network enabled by Nextel, for conversations using PTT, and with the Vivo Direto radio service.
LG GU285 popcorn — Photo: Reproduction/GSMarena
With the slider keyboard, which appeared when the user swiped the device’s screen up, the LG GU285 Popcorn It wasn’t the most technological, but it was good for everyday use.. Launched in 2009, the mobile phone, bet on a 2-inch screen, with a resolution of 176 x 220 pixels, 1.3 MP camera and 900 mAh battery – which lasted 3 and a half hours of continuous conversation.
One of the strengths of the device was the extensive range of colors with which it was marketed. LG bet on variety with black, silver, white and red, white and pink and light silver. The model also had additional buttons so that the user could navigate more quickly through the small menu panel.
Check out in the video below 7 hidden functions on the cell phone
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Roman rings is traditional fitness equipment in play park. There are two rings hanging from a bar, the children had to hang in that hold the rings as base and push them upwards and hold on. This kind of exercises gives muscle power.
- Area required (l x b) : 5 ft x 10 ft
- Safe play area : 7 ft x 10 ft
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A plant in culture from
A wild plant in Peru by Dr. Corine F.
Closer in Peru by Dr. Corine F.
A look inside to the ants by Robbin Moran, Plantsystematics.org.
David Bruce Lellinger, 1977
Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia,
Minimum - Medium
No; Yellow Spores
The Potato Fern
Solanopteris brunei, Warren Herbert Wagner Jr.
Microgramma brunei, Lellinger, 1977.
This member of the Polypodiaceae family
was given this name by David Bruce Lellinger
in 1977. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama,
Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, growing as an epiphyte, but can be grown in
sphagnum/coconut fiver mix soil with lots of water and little sun. The each
little caudex can grow to
four centimetres in diameter, the entire plant
to 30 centimetres in height - or length. The spores are yellow.
The genera name from
Latin; Micro; 'small' and gramma; 'line'. The
species name sounds like it originate from the little independence
country of Brunei in Indonesia - but it don't. It does not explain it in
Konrad Hermann Heinrich Christ's original publication, but it does mean
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As Natural Resources are depleted, the need to find innovative ways of controlling energy costs whilst producing and transporting industrial materials to minimise environmental impact, reduce the carbon footprint, and comply with legislation will be familiar to processing companies across most sectors. RB Plant has a proven track record in helping clients achieve these goals.
Benefits of partnering with R B Plant:
- Successful completion of feasibility, FEED, Detailed Design and EPCM for numerous downstream fuel storage facilities throughout the UK up to £50m.
- Collaboration with WRAP (a government-funded organisation helping businesses and individuals reduce waste) to design and construct a prototype plant to process and recycle fibre from paper mill sludge.
- Detailed study on the recycling of glass wool for a leading UK glass client.
- Completed numerous energy from waste projects.
- Application of innovative solutions to several projects to improve and reduce emissions.
- Design of process plant for a leading metals refinery to significantly improve heat recovery and reduce fuel costs.
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- Preparing cases for capital justifications and sanctioning
- Obtaining approval from regulatory authorities such as the HSE, EA
- Site services, infrastructure and supervision of sub-contractors ensuring adhesion to programme.
Our expertise includes:
- Horizon scanning; evaluation of waste heat recovery technologies utilising concepts from a diverse range of sectors.
- Hot-duct design, both water-cooled and evaporatively-cooled with heat reclamation.
- Energy generation, transfer systems and heat transfer media including steam, high pressure hot water and heat transfer oils.
- Liquids or solids storage depots and tanker loading systems.
- Removal of contamination from furnace exhaust gases.
- Scrubbing and treatment of chemical fumes.
- Conversion of sludge to biomass fuel.
- Inspection of tank farms and tank farm control systems.
- Cleaning up of aqueous effluent for discharge to sewer or water-course. | <urn:uuid:f1a6f6e2-4938-4056-8092-5cd357dc303d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rbplant.com/sectors-energy-environment-and-transport/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.873667 | 507 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Acoustic and perceptual evaluation of category goodness of /t/ and /k/ in typical and misarticulated child speech
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The topic of the present investigation is the perceptual and acoustic nature of children’s successful and unsuccessful efforts at producing /t/ and /k/, with a specific aim at exploring perceptual sensitivity to phonetic detail, and the extent to which this sensitivity is reflected in the acoustic domain. Recordings were collected from children with a speech sound disorder (SSD), who misarticulated one of the target plosives. These recordings were compared to correct productions recorded from children with typical speech development (TD). Perceptual responses were registered with regards to a visual-analogue scale, ranging from “clear [t]” to “clear [k]”. Acoustic features were described by means of spectral moments and discrete cosine transformation analysis. The perceptual evaluation showed that “clear substitutions” of [t] for /k/, as well as of [k] for /t/, were rated as being less prototypical than correct productions. Hence, human listeners exhibit perceptual sensitivity to covert contrast. Moreover, even among target-appropriate productions of /t/ and /k/, items produced by children with SSD were rated as less prototypical than those produced by TD peers. Although both acoustic analysis methods discriminated between the gross categories /t/ and /k/, none of them exhibited the same sensitivity to phonetic detail as the human listeners.
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A Lake Tomahawk camp for Wisconsin veterans is hoping to expand. Camp American Legion is exploring plans for a new multi-million dollar building.
During the summer veterans and their families can stay for free at the camp to relax and recover from post-traumatic stress or other injuries. A proposed 19,000 square foot, state-of the art facility would provide common space, peer mentoring facilities and a dozen disability-accessible rooms. Camp Director Kevin Moshea says not only would the new center expand capacity, it would also dramatically increase the quality of care.
“It would basically be a defining moment for Camp American Legion. It would be a defining moment. All of our healing now would start to be done at a much higher level.”
Moshea says the facility gets built it could be a one-of-a-kind in the country. American Legion officials presented the plans to Secretary of Veterans Affairs John Scocos, who was on hand to award a $50,000 grant to Camp American Legion.
“This was an important grant to them to show the leadership of American Legion who have reached out to meet the needs of our veterans – not only our most recent veterans but all generations like you see here today from different eras.”
American Legion state adjutant David Kurtz says the camp offers support and an opportunity to retreat.
“It allows veterans to decompress and get away from the daily pressures of living. And being around other veterans – by being around other veterans those veterans are much more likely to share their experiences, and it’s a cathartic thing to talk about in a peer counseling group setting.”
Camp Director Kevin Moshea says attendance at the camp has increased more than 75 percent in the past two years. The current lodge at Camp American Legion dates back to 1935. American Legion officials say they’ll seek federal, state and private funding for the new building. | <urn:uuid:2056e017-61e7-4b49-a416-156082e9f350> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wxpr.org/post/vets-recovery-camp-seeks-expand | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00449-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961188 | 397 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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The number 27 is special because it is three times the sum of its digits27 = 3 (2 + 7).
Find some two digit numbers that are SEVEN times the sum of their digits (seven-up numbers)?
Are there any three digit 'seven-up' numbers. Is it possible to find a number K such that there is a three digit number that is K times the sum of its digits (a K-up number)? | <urn:uuid:9e1744e5-2bda-4d61-8385-43262be03a81> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://nrich.maths.org/687/index?nomenu=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00092-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919865 | 101 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Our approach to Equality and Diversity
The Governing Body is responsible for approving arrangements for meeting the public sector equality duty.
The Chief Nurse is the Governing Body Lead for Equality, Diversity and Inclusion.
Delivery of our Equality Objectives and action plan is monitored by the Quality and Clinical Governance Committee (QCGC) which is Chaired by the Lay Member for Patient and Public Engagement. reports. The Governing Body is updated annually on progress and by exception as required through a key messaged report from the Chair of the Committee.
Our leadership approach will ensure that there is fairness in our commissioning decisions and that business is planned and conducted to meet the equality duty.
Our Equality and Diversity Plan intends to make a clear statement how the CCG will fulfil its duties by outlining:
- How equality and diversity issues influence our commissioning function
- The mechanisms in place to ensure that issues are embedded in daily business
- Making sure that the way the CCG operated and the services we commission for North Yorkshire meet the needs of the minority and the most disadvantaged.
This plan highlights the national and local drivers that will shape and influence the CCGs approach to promoting equality in our commissioning decisions and valuing the diversity of service users and employees.
The CCG is determined that this plan and the delivery of its supporting actions will make a significant difference to the communities it serves – both in terms of the experience of accessing and using health services as well as achieving better health outcomes. The CCG is also committed to ensuring that its staff are empowered, engaged and well-supported at times of significant organisational change.
The following are objectives set by the CCG. Information about steps needed to achieve the objectives are included in the NHS North Yorkshire CCG Equality and Diversity Plan
- To ensure that all our communication activity is accessible, taking into account a wide range of communications needs, and seek assurance that our providers do the same.
- To ensure and provide evidence that equality is consciously considered in all commissioning activities.
- To embed equality and diversity principles in the work of the CCG through the support to all staff and Governing Body members.
- To continue to demonstrate strong leadership on equality so that it remains firmly on the agenda throughout any organisational change.
Quality and Equality Impact Analysis is a way of estimating the likely equality implications of either:
- The introduction of a new policy, project, or function; or,
- The implementation of an existing policy, project, or function within the organisation.
The CCG has developed and implemented a tool and guidance for use by staff to help identify the any potential impact and take action to remove discrimination. Specific training has been provided to our CCG members and staff and the relevant Committees will consider the results of this analysis during the decision-making process.
QCGC considers the results of all Quality and Equality Impact Assessments to monitor any cumulative impact of decisions made by the CCG.
Further information on our approach is highlighted in the NHS North Yorkshire CCG Equality and Diversity Plan. This includes how we ensure equality in planning and commission equitable services through partnership working; in patient Relations and engagement and in our role as an employer and a membership organisation. | <urn:uuid:29267ea5-b37e-4b81-b410-3f0ec0cee2c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://northyorkshireccg.nhs.uk/about/equality-and-diversity/our-approach-to-equality-and-diversity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.942651 | 656 | 1.773438 | 2 |
If you, like I, head straight for Urban Dictionary when confronted with an unknown term, you will find the definition of WWOOFing to be as follows:
When a young person throws caution to the wind, rejects their material possessions and travels the world working on organic farms for the World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms organization. They pay for the plane ticket, but then have free room and board in exchange for back breaking labour on an organic farm.
“Have you heard from Elisha lately?”
“No, I heard she was WWOOFing on a Costa Rican Pineapple plantation.”
Elisha’s got the right idea if you ask me.
For those who are familiar with the term, it’s quite likely that the first thing that springs to mind is FREE HOLIDAY(!!!) Whilst in some respects, WWOOFing does allow you to live in a different country for a period of time whilst being provided with free food and accommodation, the real meaning of the name (or at least one of the meanings) implies the reality of the scheme; ‘Willing Workers on Organic Farms’.
Essentially, WWOOFing involves working for 1 week, 2 weeks or even up to a few years on an organic farm. There are currently hosts in around 99 countries around the world, ranging from honey harvesting for Island Beehive on Kangaroo Island, coffee farms in Northern Thailand, and making cheese in the Alps. The opportunities are almost infinite, and the choice of countries and activities are equally diverse.
WWOOF aims to provide willing volunteers with first-hand experience within an organic environment, in order to allow volunteers to experience life in either a rural setting or a new country. Whilst many people try WWOOFing in order to experience a new country and its culture, it can also be an invaluable opportunity for those wanting to improve a language, or even to begin the process of learning a new language completely. After all, immersion is crucial for efficient language learning (take it from someone who has learnt the hard way…)
The host will often offer language assistance, or even free lessons, of course in return for assistance on their farm, or sometimes even around the house and with their children. The duration of the visit is negotiable, and whilst some people opt to stay for a few days or weeks, some chose to stay for anything up to a number of years. Work days average five or six hours, and the WWOOFERS tend to mix with people from a range of different countries. Whilst there is a range of different schemes available for anyone wanting to travel inexpensively, such as Au Pairing, WWOOFing seems to be becoming more and more popular due to its complete flexibility with regards to the period of time you are expected to stay, and the wealth of opportunity available when deciding where to go and what to do.
For those interested in working in France, head over to the French site. Weather permitting, the south of France is breathtakingly beautiful during the summer months (think mountains, wine, warm until November… you’ve got the idea) Equally charming is the Bordeaux region, particularly Aquitaine, for its beautiful Vineyards. The best time for grape-picking is, however, around May/June time.
Germany is also a great choice for WWOOFing, alongside an abundance of other countries such as Greece. For those feeling a little more adventurous, the opportunities available in Australia are, quite literally, endless. Producing Olive Leaf tea in Queensland, working at a Butterfly Retreat in the Northern Territory or working with Alpacas in New South Wales.
If you’re feeling a little apprehensive about the idea of up-rooting and moving to a new country, why not try out the scheme in England first?
I can promise that you’ll have one hell of an adventure, however I can’t promise that your friends won’t think that you’re BARKING mad… (geddit?!) | <urn:uuid:3c415a32-e268-4494-af1f-54c28748c7b3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.wessexscene.co.uk/travel/2015/04/06/wwoofing-what-is-the-hype-about-and-why-are-there-two-ws/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00040-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955673 | 840 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Orikhiv - Worth A Visit
If you travel to southern Ukraine, you will find the beautiful province of Zaporizhia (Zaporizhzhya). Known as the Zaporizhia Oblast (Zaporizhzhya Oblast), this province plays an important role in both industry and agriculture of Ukraine. It covers an area of approximately 27,200 square kilometers and is home to just under 2 million people. Within this oblast there are a lot of great towns, cities and villages that you might drive through while traveling to other attractions. It is usually worth spending a few hours at each one since there is always something interesting worth seeing. One such town is Orikhiv.
Orikhiv is a fairly large city with a population of approximately 18,000 people. It was originally founded in the 17th century as part of a winter camp for Zaporzhians. Then, sometime between 1775 and 1787, a large group of settlers from the Poltava oblast arrived and settled in the camp, making it into an official settlement and giving it the name of Horikhiv. Sometime later in 1801 the settlement officially gained town status and Orikhiv became the town we know it as today.
The town's flag and coat of arms is quite interesting to look at. It takes the form of a shield which is divided up into four sections by a cross. The cross is made up of a horizontal, pale blue stripe and a red vertical stripe. The shield itself is yellow in color. At the center of the shield you will see a yellow hazelnut complete with argent leaves. The town's gonfalon is similar, but has some differences. For one thing, it is square in shape and the four sides of the cross meet in the middle at a point. The hazelnut is red in color and is positioned in the top left corner of the gonfalon instead of in the middle as it is on the coat of arms. Orikhiv's official symbols are quite old and are carried proudly by the town's people. | <urn:uuid:7afb4095-9416-4673-97da-a7090c10c839> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ukraine.com/zaporizhia-oblast/orikhiv/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00286-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969713 | 431 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has prohibited all Mexican carriers operating flights to the US to add flights to the United States after it downgraded Mexico’s aviation safety rating.
Lately, Mexican carriers were in a rush to increase frequency to the United States. Around 21,000 flights are scheduled between the US and Mexico this month. In April, nearly 2.3 million passengers travelled on U.S. – Mexico flights. Mexico was the busiest foreign destination, with the Dominican Republic in the second position.
The FAA said that it identified several occasions of non-compliance, failing to meet minimum international safety standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
The FAA downgraded Mexico’s aviation safety rating from Level 1 to Level 2. This means that Mexican carriers can continue to operate existing services with this lower rating. This also means that Mexican carriers won’t be able to sell seats on each other’s flights in code-share arrangements.
In a statement, Delta Airlines, which has a code-sharing agreement with Aeromexico, said:
“For customers who have booked a flight with Delta that is operated by Aeromexico, Delta may reissue their reservation onto the corresponding Aeromexico-operated flight. Delta apologizes for any inconvenience this may cause our customers and will continue to coordinate with Aeromexico to minimize any disruptions.”
The FAA said that Mexico does not meet International Civil Aviation Organization safety standards as part of its safety assessment conducted FAA between October last year and February this year.
After the FAA announced its decision, all three Mexican carriers, Aeromexico, Volaris and VivaAerobus, operating flights to the US, said that it’s important to note that Mexico’s civil aviation authority rating was downgraded, not because of Mexican airlines.
“Aeromexico continues to maintain the highest international safety standards,” said an Aeromexico spokesperson.
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sherpa is a valid word in this word list. For a definition, see the external dictionary links below.
The word "sherpa" uses 6 letters: A E H P R S.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after sherpa (in bold), or to aehprs in any order:
c - eparchs parches d - phrased sharped e - reshape h - rhaphes i - harpies sharpie l - plasher spheral m - hampers n - sharpen p - perhaps r - harpers sharper s - phrases seraphs shapers sherpas t - tephras threaps w - prewash
Shorter words found within sherpa:
ae ah ape aper apers apes apres apse ar are ares ars arse as ash asp asper ear ears eh epha ephas er era eras ers es ha hae haes hap haps hare hares harp harps has hasp he heap heaps hear hears hep her hers hes pa pah par pare pares pars parse pas pase pash pe pea pear pears peas peh pehs per pes phase prase presa rah rap rape rapes raphe raps ras rase rash rasp re reap reaps rep reps res resh rhea rheas sae sap sea sear ser sera sh sha shape share sharp she shea shear spa spae spar spare spear
List shorter words within sherpa, sorted by length
All words formed from sherpa by changing one letter
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Pale Fritillary (frit-il-AR-ee-uh: pal-id-uh-FLOR-uh) Liliaceae:
This species of Fritillaria has charming flowers that are larger and more bell-shaped than F. meleagris. The flowers are cream-yellow colored with pale green veining. The foliage is a gray-green color. Plants grow 7 to 16 inches tall and may bloom some the first year; mature plants have 6 or more flowers per stem. Flowers late spring.
Zones (3) 5-9
Native to central Asia, China to E. Siberia.
Soak seeds in warm water for 24 hours; change the water after 12 hours. Sow and very thinly cover seeds with soil medium and keep at room temp for one week, move the below 38F with germination starting in 8 to 12 weeks. Cold germinator. Keep seed trays for 2 years. | <urn:uuid:a3bc6db4-25d2-4ac7-a25a-6e96dcdaebae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.hardyplants.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=FRPA-A1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.874543 | 196 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Master of Science (MS)
Dynamic programming algorithms such as Nussinov algorithm and Zuker algorithm define criteria to search the most stable RNA secondary structures. Stochastic Context-Free Grammar (SCFG) predicts the most possible RNA secondary structure using context-free grammar and a defined set of probabilities for each grammar rule. These algorithms form the base of using computer programs to predict RNA secondary structures without pseudoknots. In this report, we review these RNA secondary structure prediction algorithms and present our own software implementations of these algorithms. The Nussinov algorithm is easy to understand. But our results show that the Nussinov algorithm is overly simplified and can not produce the most accurate result. The SCFG algorithm may be powerful. But its result is also inaccurate because there are no accurate probabilities for each corresponding grammar rule. The Zuker’s minimum free energy method incorporated far more biological knowledge in its energy definitions. Thus, its predictions are much better than the other two algorithms. Our implementations use both recursive and non-recursive function calls. Recursion is easy to understand, but recursion introduces significant overhead. We are able to rearrange the function calls to effectively stop the recursion. The non-recursion feature allows us to parallelize the most computing intensive part of the calculation. By abstracting a secondary structure to a tree representation and a string representation, we compared our prediction results with the results from experiment measurement or non-conventional general purpose computational methods, and results from popular package such as MFOLD. Our results also illustrate the limitation of these algorithms. The limitations clearly demonstrate that more biological and chemical knowledge of RNA need to be incorporated into the RNA secondary structure prediction algorithms.
Yu, Lisa, "Study of RNA Secondary Structure Prediction Algorithms" (2006). Master's Projects. 23. | <urn:uuid:928ab4bf-0711-44ae-8fc7-8556ba165757> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/etd_projects/23/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00182-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873796 | 372 | 2.28125 | 2 |
School of Life
From the time that we are in kindergarten or maybe even preschool we are conditioned to keep score. We are introduced to scoreboards, on which we receive stars for doing good, or we lose them for doing bad or at least not good enough. The more stars we obtain, the closer we get to winning some type of prize.
We are ranked from childhood. We have report cards that indicate how well we are doing in our school subjects. By December, we even have Santa Clause to remind us if we’ve been naughty or nice. By the time we are deep into elementary school and junior high, we realize that not only do we have to do well because our grades depend upon them, but we learn the importance of conforming to social and family pressures of perfectionism. Read the rest of this entry » | <urn:uuid:a6fe0dce-3e27-48c7-a63f-2d44bdf42385> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lilpickmeup.com/tag/school-of-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.973378 | 169 | 2.15625 | 2 |
A new web-based app claims to treat Tinnitus -- the condition that causes ringing in the ears.
Tinnitus is mainly triggered by age-related hearing loss and prolonged exposure to excessively loud noise, but it originates in the brain.
The new app, called Tinnitracks, claims to treat the cause of the problem through filtered audio therapy, Engadget reported.
The premise of the app, from German start-up Sonormed, is neuroplasticity, or the brain's ability to adapt and constantly learn new things.
The app analyses individual tracks and filters the frequency that causes tinnitus for each user.
On playback, the listener's hearing adapts to the audible alteration and over time the hyperactivity in the brain is toned down.
Essentially, it takes three steps: select music files from personal collection, filter tinnitus frequency and upload a personalised track to an MP3 player to start therapy.
Tinnitracks was one of the nine winners at SXSW's Accelerator start-up competition held recently in Austin, Texas.
The therapy breaks ground by going a step beyond conventional methods of managing symptoms and effectively treats the condition that affects 50 million Americans.
The prescribed music listening experience is one to two hours a day for at least six months.
With consistent effort, the therapy could treat subjective, tonal and even chronic conditions. | <urn:uuid:b15310c6-1f72-43e8-bdde-4a885c48ce03> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gizbot.com/news/new-audio-app-claims-treat-hearing-disorder-023631.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00456-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940709 | 291 | 1.976563 | 2 |
A Plan of Amelia Harbour and Barr in East Florida: Detail, 1794
Puzzle Directions: Click on a puzzle piece and drag it where you want it. When you connect two pieces correctly, they will join together. This is an extra hard double-sided puzzle. The same map is printed on both sides the pieces. Some of the pieces are turned over to the wrong side. To flip a piece over, hold down the "T" key and click on the puzzle piece. Mix up the pieces again. View finished map in pop-up window.
Title: A Plan of Amelia Harbour and Barr in East Florida: Detail Projection: Unknown Source Bounding Coordinates: W: E: N: S:
Description: A detail portion of Blamey's map of the entrance to the St. Mary's River. References to the map include a plantation house and stores (A), sand hill on the northernmost is a beacon (C), and a cluster of trees in the offing appearing like a house (D). The ruins of Fort William on Cumerland Island are shown. Digitization provided by the USF Libraries Digitization Center. Rare Maps. This is a map of the Amelia Island area showing marshes, plantations, islands, water depths and more, circa 1794. Surveyed in 1775 by Jacob Blamey, Master of His Majesty's Schooner St. John. John Perceval, Second Earl of Egmont considered the Amelia River and her naturally deep harbor to be exceptional for water transportation. Measurements.Dimensions: 59 x 40 cmMeasurements.Resolution: Scale [ca. 1:38,000] Source: Jacob Blamey, (London, : Laurie & Whittle, 1794) Map Credit: Courtesy of the Special Collections Department, University of South Florida. | <urn:uuid:a8c75fde-e420-437e-b001-3503ef5742a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/maps/pages/4200/f4233/f4233p3.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00451-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.895438 | 375 | 3.015625 | 3 |
"Noi îi lăudăm pe părinții noștri."
Translation:We praise our parents.
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ok| so i'm not sure but i find that many times there is no difference between dative and accusative| for instance 'îţi iert' and 'te iert' means the same (the first is the dative)| so 'îi' is actually dative but appearently for some verbs they rather use dative and for other accusative| and 'a lăuda' is the dative kind of verb|
the translation is NOI LAUDAM PARINTII NOSTRI . if I see that sentence, I immediatelky know what it means. It is 90% pure Latin. BUT, with ii and pe, i dont see what it means.Could a native speaker please give me an explanation about the necessity of these 2 words? Many thanks in advance
Hello, Germain. It is more or less like in Spanish: Noi îi lăudăm pe părinții noștri = Nosotros los alabamos a los padres nuestros, even though in Spanish this sintaxis is only usual in Argentina and Uruguay; anywhere else it is normally Nosotros alabamos a los padres nuestros (without los). In Romanian pe is a marker of accusative, just like Spanish a is a marker of accusative too.
They mean the word 'laud' in English which is a cognate (having the same linguistic derivation from another word) of the Romanian 'a lauda'.
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‘Stadnicka’s fourth collection is inspired by the experiences of her siblings who lived in a Romanian children’s home during the time (1967-1989) when the Communist Party banned contraception and abortion. Around 12 million illegal abortions took place and over 250,000 children were placed in care homes and orphanages. The collection also draws on Stadnicka’s experiences as a teacher with HIV-positive children at a Romanian orphanage, and on interviews with women who performed illegal abortions. The book explores the effects of trauma and state oppression, as well as the realities of social, political and historical crises.
Stadnicka’s writing has a disquieting quality, which may be due in part to its difficult subject matter as well as the author’s own lived experience. The language is precise and austere, often relating shocking detail in a deadpan tone. ‘Radioactive milk’ relates how ‘One night / the curse shoots out of her womb / and starts walking. / For some reason / the newly born survives’. The book explores the tragic voices of both staff and abandoned children at the orphanages. One poem, written from the perspective of a child with AIDS, ends heartbreakingly, ‘I feel rather proud. / Someone has given me a name other than dog’. Forms include historical documents, short lyric poems, diary entries and textual experimentation. Keenly observed details add touches of surrealism: ‘The moon falls asleep / above your head’; an angel who ‘stops to light a cigarette’.
Maria Stadnicka is a Romano-British writer, editor and journalist based in Gloucestershire. Previous collections include Somnia and The Geometric Kingdom. Stadnicka is a PhD researcher at the University of the West of England, researching trauma and migration. Recognition for her Romanian work includes the Porni Luceafarul, Convorbiri Literare and T Arghezi awards.
A compelling collection from an independent press. Thee book is beautifully made and designed with haunting illustrations by Antonia Glückman, which enhance its atmosphere of darkness and tragedy.’
© Jennifer Lee Tsai, Mslexia Issue 89, March – May 2021.
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Must leave this here until the Busways custom main menu is turned into a block
Accessible Transport Action Plan
Accessible Public Transport
Busways is focused on providing accessible transport services for all sections of the community including people with a disability, older persons, children, students and commuters.
Moving toward an accessible fleet
A third of our fleet is made up of easy access (wheelchair accessible/low floor) buses designed with the various access needs of our passengers in mind. They include design features such as:
- an overall low-floor design to provide easy access, especially for seniors, people with disability, parents with prams and passengers carrying heavy or awkward loads.
- automatic ramps and kerbside “kneeling” to bring the floor closer to ground level, reducing the angle between floor and kerb to improve wheelchair and pram access.
- strategically located handrails, stop buttons and ticketing equipment to assist the mobility of frail passengers or those with a disability.
- colour contrasting within the bus to assist people with vision impairment to distinguish steps, aisles and the Priority Seating area.
- a larger, easier to reach button in the Priority Seating area to enable those with limited upper body strength to signal their stop. Busways buses that are accessible have a wheelchair accessible symbol on the side of the bus by the entry.
Easy access bus services
Busways is committed to meeting the NSW Government and Disability Discrimination Act targets for 'easy access' services. Since December 31 2012, at least 55% of Busways’ timetabled services are operated by a low floor easy access bus. To find out which bus services are wheelchair-accessible, check your timetable before you travel - accessible trips are marked with a wheelchair symbol in print, web and bus stop timetables.
Moving forward, timetabled easy access services will have increased to 80% of all services by the end of 2017, and in 2022 we will be proud to operate all of our services by low floor easy access buses.
Mobility Aids on Busways Services
Busways' accessible buses have been designed to comply with the national standards for mobility aids.
Mobility aids such as walkers, walking aids, wheelchairs and electronic wheelchairs are welcome on Busways services if they meet the following specifications:
Mobility aid dimensions
- fit within an allocated space of 1300mm by 800mm;
- be no more than 750mm wide; and
- weigh less than 300kg including the aid, occupant and assistant (if applicable) when using a ramp or other boarding devices.
- be able to move in the direction determined by the transport operator; and
- have effective braking systems to maintain stability.
To board our buses your mobility aid should be able to:
- turn 180 degrees within an area 2070mm by 1540mm;
- cross a horizontal gap up to 50mm wide;
- mount a vertical rise (bump) up to 15mm;
- cross grating gaps up to 13mm wide and 150mm long;
- negotiate a 1:14 grade ramp unassisted;
- negotiate up to a 1:8 grade where the ramp is less than 1520mm; and
- negotiate a 1:4 grade ramp with assistance.
Further detail of these specifications is provided in the DDA Disability Standards for Accessible Public Transport 2002.
Please be aware that some oversized wheelchairs and scooters may not be able to board due to ramp weight restrictions.
Requesting a Low Floor Service
If you have a regular requirement for a low floor bus please contact Busways Infoline to register your request. Please include your bus route, bus stop and preferred time of travel and Busways will take the information into consideration during our network planning.
Visually Impaired Passengers
Most Busways drivers have been trained by Guide Dogs Australia.
Guide Dogs Australia have trained our drivers on the best way to help vision impaired and disabled passengers and are ready, willing and able to help passengers when necessary.
Free travel for visually impaired passengers and their attendant is available; please ensure you show the driver your Vision Impaired Persons Pass.
Passengers who have a certified seeing or hearing guide dog, an assistance animal or a Police dog are permitted on our buses with their animals at all times.
To help our drivers to differentiate between your assistance animal and a pet please display your Assistance Animal Permit when boarding. Pets may travel if in animal containers and at the discretion of the driver.
People with assistance animals are encouraged to sit in the Priority Seating area near the front of the bus to help keep the aisles clear for the safety of both their animal and other passengers.
Assistance animals may travel for free, and their owners pay their normal fare (a full fare, concession fare or free travel, depending on their concession status).
Hearing and speech impaired callers
The 131 500 Transport Infoline offers a TTY response for hearing and speech impaired customers - please call 1800 637 500.
Non-English speaking callers
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In his epic autobiography, the great Nelson Mandela used the metaphor of the "long walk" to describe his decades-old struggle against apartheid and minority rule in South Africa. In Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela described, among other things, his labor of love trying to steer his nation away from racial and fratricidal war by using dialogue and negotiation to achieve national reconciliation and build a multiracial, multiparty system. His long, hard walk to freedom across the veldt, the cities and townships eventually led South Africans to trade in their fears and tears for hope and faith in a free South Africa. In the process, Mandela became a formidable moral force and an exemplary teacher in the fight for human rights and racial equality throughout the world.
In the annual "Great Ethiopian Run" that was held last week in Addis Abeba, one can see a fitting metaphor for a long and hard run for freedom in Ethiopia. The organizers and sponsors may have seen a clever money making gimmick in the event, but for the Ethiopian runners it was their one and only chance a year to collectively breathe the fresh air of freedom. It was their annual festival and gathering of peaceful mass protest for freedom and justice, and against tyranny and dictatorship in Ethiopia. On the day of the Great Run, Ethiopians who could afford to pay at least 50 birr got to say out loud what has been burdening their hearts, distressing their minds, agonizing their souls and searing every fiber in their bodies for the past year. The assembled crowd of 35,000 runners did not mind paying. Each one of them knew the fresh air of freedom, however fleeting and momentary, is priceless.
In the "Great Ethiopian Run", Ethiopians kept on running down the streets and up the boulevards of the capital. They ran for their own freedom, and the freedom of their countrymen and women. They ran for the true champion of Ethiopian freedom, Birtukan Midekssa. In a deafening crescendo of defiance and daring, they cried out: "Free Birtukan! Birtukan Mandela! Birtukan, the heroine!" Birtukan probably heard them chained in the bowels of Kality prison just on the outskirts of town. They called for the release of all political prisoners. The river of humanity that flash-flooded the city streets on the 10-kilometer stretch denounced the perpetrators of injustice. Thumping their way past the "Federal High Court", they proclaimed, "In this temple of justice, there is no justice." Rolling past the "Ministry of Justice", they charged, "There is no justice in the ministry of justice." Rumbling past the "Ministry of Defense", they scoffed: "There are no men of courage in this building to defend the people." The Great Ethiopian Run proved to be fundamentally an act of mass civil disobedience thinly disguised as a running event; and to the great credit and dignity of the runners, there was not a single incident of violence or breach of the peace.
The multitudes were not just running for freedom, they were also running away from tyranny and dictatorship, despair and hopelessness, and from their daily life of indignity and humiliation under a ruthless dictatorship. Sadly, they were all running in circles in the prison nation Ethiopia has become. But as we have learned from President Mandela, to achieve freedom one must take a long hard walk. For Ethiopians, it will require much more-- a long hard run; and there is much Ethiopians runners can learn from one South African walker. Mandela said, "You may succeed in delaying, but never in preventing the transition of South Africa to a democracy." The dictators in Ethiopia may temporarily thwart genuine multiparty democracy, but they can never, never prevent its ultimate triumph. Mandela defiantly told the masters of Apartheid: "Any man that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose." The dictators in Ethiopia may temporarily succeed in robbing us of our dignity and human rights, but as long as we remain truthful, principled, fair and irrevocably committed to the cause of freedom and democracy, we shall prevail; and they shall find their rightful place in the dustbin of history.
On his long walk to freedom, Mandela discovered the defining truth about tyrants and dictators: "A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred." The wardens of Prison Nation Ethiopia are prisoners of hatred that has churned and boiled in their hearts, minds and souls for their entire lives. They are consumed by it and driven to genocidal brutality. They deserve our pity for they can not help themselves. But we can help them, by showing them the truth about their evil ways and the path out of the misery of hatred to the ecstasy of brotherly and sisterly love. Mandela taught us that "The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity." If we keep on running for freedom, we can make the triumph of democracy in Ethiopia the common achievement of all of Africa. As Ghana has transitioned from a military dictatorship to a genuine multiparty democracy and South Africa succeeded in establishing a tolerant multiracial society, so can Ethiopia forge a real multiparty system, free of the poison of ethnic politics, and one day to become the envy of Africa.
The 10-kilometer run is just a down payment for a long and difficult Marathon for Freedom. That is why each one of us must develop the defining quality of the marathon runner: Endurance. As she pounds the pavement for miles, the distance runner knows the route to the finish line is long, grueling and hard. But she is prepared to give it her best and endure for the long haul. The marathon runner does not say, "It is too long, too difficult... I could never do it." He maintains a winner's state of mind and never gives into self-pity and defeatism. He does not use his energy in bursts of speed, but in sustained steps and calculated spurts. The marathon runner has a plan to win and paces his every step along the way to achieve his goal. The distance runner does not allow herself to be overwhelmed by the miles she has yet to cover. She is committed and focused on the next milestone, the next hill and the next bend in the road until she reaches the finish line. Some of us would much prefer the race to be a quick sprint to the 10-kilometer finish line. We are discouraged and dispirited by the very thought of a long distance run. We are tired and ready to give up before taking the first step. But the Marathon to Freedom does not have a finish line. As Mandela said, "After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
We can't sit idly by and expect freedom to run to us. As Dr. Martin Luther King said, "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent." It could also be said that a man can't ride your back if you keep on running and chase after your freedom.
Ethiopia's great distance runners -- Abebe Bikila, Mamo Wolde, Mirus Yifter, Haile Gebreselassie, Kenenisa Bekele, Elfnesh Alemu, Fatuma Roba, Derartu Tulu and Koreni Jelila and Tilahun Regassa and many others -- gave their very best for the glory of Ethiopia. We are so proud of them! It is now our turn to run and win the Great Ethiopian Run for Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights. Let us not be fooled by their 10-kilometer run. Our course will be much more challenging; we will have to climb the great hills and descend the treacherous canyons and gorges and crisscross the low deserts and the highlands. And those who can't or choose not to run with us should ready themselves to take a long walk... | <urn:uuid:a412ba14-3f95-4fa6-bcc4-3de2c327a464> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alemayehu-g-mariam/the-great-ethiopian-run-t_b_373336.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00556-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960007 | 1,661 | 2.34375 | 2 |
I’ve noticed an increase in interest around the topic of tiny house business opportunities. Things seemed to get jump started sometime after July 17, 2010 when Jay Shafer’s story was featured on the Yahoo homepage. The media seemed to really like the idea that tiny houses were thriving while McMansions continued to suffer. Variations on that theme were retold by many mainstream media channels for months following that initial story.
From what I hear from the larger community tiny house businesses are doing well, but not in the areas you might expect.
What People Want
The order of this list is based on my general impressions of our micro-segment.
- Books – Books seem to be the biggest money maker.
- Plans – House plans help folks visualize how to build a house.
- Free information – Blogs, and social media in general, is a wonderful way to help people connect and build communities. Blogs are commonly monetized through advertising and revenue increases with popularity.
- Workshops – Hands-on workshops are a great way to get a crash course in building and design.
- Finished Homes – Professionally finished turn-key homes.
How Tiny Houses Boom
I imagine the journalists reporting that tiny houses were growing in popularity compared to McMansions were assuming that tiny house sales were booming, but I don’t think that’s true. The sales of physical tiny houses actually seems to be soft compared to the sales of how-to information.
This makes perfect sense to me because tiny houses perfectly illustrate how living with less can buy back some of the freedoms lost by living in debt. So they naturally attract large numbers of hopeful do-it-yourselfers and people looking for a better way to live.
I suspect there are several business niches that have not been fully explored yet. Here are some ideas that may have potential.
- How to DVDs – I’ve not seen any high quality tiny house construction DVDs, and I suspect this would be a very popular item.
- Empty Shells – Imagine an empty tiny house with a ‘closet’ at one end; a closet big enough to be turned into a small bathroom. This simple shell could function as a home office/studio or be converted into a living space. Empty shells might appeal to do-it-yourselfers as well as those needing an extra room.
- Rentals – This might be a bit tricky legally speaking… but it might be a shoe-in for campground owners looking to expand their offerings.
- Cottage Industry – Some small businesses might find a tiny house an ideal place to do business.
Peering into the Future
It’s hard to say where tiny houses will go in the next few years; after all nobody can predict the future. But we all notice trends and can learn lessons from observing the results of cause and effect – so I’ll take a stab at peering into the future.
The future of abundant energy supplies seems to be the question on everyone’s mind – even if they’re not talking about it yet. I suspect this is due to the the uncertainty we all feel about the topic.
But I think there are some things we can be certain about. If we do begin to run out of gas we’re going to need to learn to live differently and our homes will need to change.
So from a business perspective I’d have to assume that anything that empowers people to live more sustainably will have a real future. How the economics will all work out in the end is anyone’s guess; but things that provide true value, like food and shelter, will continue to be in demand. Things with market-determined values will continue to be a gamble.
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The Death of Queen Victoria, 1901
She ascended to the British throne upon the death of her uncle in 1837 (see Victoria Becomes Queen, 1837). She was only a teenager of eighteen at a time when the Crown had become tarnished by the scandal of her predecessors. Her unwavering dedication to her role as Queen soon won the respect of her subjects. She reigned for the next sixty-three years, the longest royal reign in British history. During this time she and her subjects witnessed the global expansion of her empire and the elevation of Britain to super-power status among the nations of the world. She gave her name to an era and became the symbolic representation of the prestige and power of her kingdom.
Her reign and her life came to an end at her estate, Osborne House, on the Isle of Wight on January 22, 1901. Victoria was eighty-one years old and had served as Britain's Queen for almost sixty-four years. At her passing she was surrounded by her children and grandchildren including her son, who would succeed her as King Edward VII, and her grandson German Kaiser Wilhelm II, who, thirteen years later, would lead German forces against Britain in World War I.
"The day was one of glorious sunshine. . . "
The Countess of Denbigh was a witness to the beginning of Queen Victoria's final journey to her burial at Windsor Castle. in a letter to a friend, she describes the scene as the Queen's body leaves the Isle of Wight aboard a British Navy ship:
"I think you will like to hear of my going down to Southampton to see the passing of our dear Queen from Osborne to Portsmouth.
I went on the Scot, where both Houses were embarked. We steamed out, and took up our position between the last British ship and the first foreign ships of war, on the south side of the double line down which the procession was to pass. The day was one of glorious sunshine, with the smoothest and bluest of seas. After a while a black torpedo destroyer came dashing down the line signaling that the Alberta was leaving Osborne and from every ship, both British and foreign, boomed out the minute guns for close on an hour before the procession reached us. The sun was now (three p.m.) beginning to sink, and a wonderful golden pink appeared in the sky and as the smoke slowly rose from the guns it settled in one long festoon behind them, over Haslar, a purple festoon like the purple hangings ordered by the King.
Then slowly down the long line of battleships came eight torpedo destroyers, dark gliding forms, and after them the white Alberta looking very small and frail next the towering battleships. We could see the motionless figures standing round the white pall which, with the crown and orb and sceptre, lay upon the coffin. Solemnly and slowly, it glided over the calm blue water, followed by the other three vessels, giving one a strange choke, and a catch in one's heart as memory flew back to her triumphal passage down her fleet in the last Jubilee review. As slowly and as silently as it came the cortege passed away into the haze: with the solemn booming of the guns continuing every minute till Portsmouth was reached. A wonderful scene and marvelously impressive, leaving behind it a memory of peace and beauty and sadness which it is impossible to forget."
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His Grace! impossible! what dead!
Of old age, too, and in his bed!
And could that Mighty Warrior fall?
And so inglorious, after all!
Well, since he's gone, no matter how,
The last loud trump must wake him now:
And, trust me, as the noise grows stronger,
He'd wish to sleep a little longer.
And could he be indeed so old
As by the news-papers we're told?
Threescore, I think, is pretty high;
'Twas time in conscience he should die.
This world he cumber'd long enough;
He burnt his candle to the snuff;
And that's the reason, some folks think,
He left behind so great a stink.
Behold his funeral appears,
Nor widow's sighs, nor orphan's tears,
Wont at such times each heart to pierce,
Attend the progress of his hearse.
But what of that, his friends may say,
He had those honours in his day.
True to his profit and his pride,
He made them weep before he dy'd.
Come hither, all ye empty things,
Ye bubbles rais'd by breath of Kings;
Who float upon the tide of state,
Come hither, and behold your fate.
Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
How very mean a thing's a Duke;
From all his ill-got honours flung,
Turn'd to that dirt from whence he sprung.
The Farmer's Goose, who in the Stubble,
Has fed without Restraint, or Trouble;
Grown fat with Corn and Sitting still,
Can scarce get o'er the Barn-Door Sill:
And hardly waddles forth, to cool
Her Belly in the neighb'ring Pool:
Nor loudly cackles at the Door;
For Cackling shews the Goose is poor.
But when she must be turn'd to graze,
And round the barren Common strays,
Hard Exercise, and harder Fare
Soon make my Dame grow lank and spare:
Her Body light, she tries her Wings,
And scorns the Ground, and upward springs,
While all the Parish, as she flies,
Hear Sounds harmonious from the Skies.
Such is the Poet, fresh in Pay,
(The third Night's Profits of his Play;)
His Morning-Draughts 'till Noon can swill,
Among his Brethren of the Quill:
With good Roast Beef his Belly full,
Grown lazy, foggy, fat, and dull:
Deep sunk in Plenty, and Delight,
What Poet e'er could take his Flight?
Or stuff'd with Phlegm up to the Throat,
What Poet e'er could sing a Note?
Nor Pegasus could bear the Load,
Along the high celestial Road;
The Steed, oppress'd, would break his Girth,
To raise the Lumber from the Earth.
But, view him in another Scene,
When all his Drink is Hippocrene,
His Money spent, his Patrons fail,
His Credit out for Cheese and Ale;
His Two-Year's Coat so smooth and bare,
Through ev'ry Thread it lets in Air;
With hungry Meals his Body pin'd,
His Guts and Belly full of Wind;
And, like a Jockey for a Race,
His Flesh brought down to Flying-Case:
Now his exalted Spirit loaths
Incumbrances of Food and Cloaths;
And up he rises like a Vapour,
Supported high on Wings of Paper;
He singing flies, and flying sings,
While from below all Grub-street rings.
To the Priest, on Observing how most Men mistake their own
When beasts could speak (the learned say,
They still can do so ev'ry day),
It seems, they had religion then,
As much as now we find in men.
It happen'd, when a plague broke out
(Which therefore made them more devout),
The king of brutes (to make it plain,
Of quadrupeds I only mean)
By proclamation gave command,
That ev'ry subject in the land
Should to the priest confess their sins;
And thus the pious wolf begins:
"Good father, I must own with shame,
That often I have been to blame:
I must confess, on Friday last,
Wretch that I was! I broke my fast:
But I defy the basest tongue
To prove I did my neighbour wrong;
Or ever went to seek my food
By rapine, theft, or thirst of blood."
The ass, approaching next, confess'd
That in his heart he lov'd a jest:
A wag he was, he needs must own,
And could not let a dunce alone:
Sometimes his friend he would not spare,
And might perhaps be too severe:
But yet, the worst that could be said,
He was a wit both born and bred;
And, if it be a sin or shame,
Nature alone must bear the blame:
One fault he hath, is sorry for't,
His ears are half a foot too short;
Which could he to the standard bring,
He'd show his face before the King:
Then for his voice, there's none disputes
That he's the nightingale of brutes.
The swine with contrite heart allow'd,
His shape and beauty made him proud:
In diet was perhaps too nice,
But gluttony was ne'er his vice:
In ev'ry turn of life content,
And meekly took what fortune sent:
Inquire through all the parish round,
A better neighbour ne'er was found:
His vigilance might some displease;
'Tis true he hated sloth like peas.
The mimic ape began his chatter,
How evil tongues his life bespatter:
Much of the cens'ring world complain'd,
Who said, his gravity was feign'd:
Indeed, the strictness of his morals
Engag'd him in a hundred quarrels:
He saw, and he was griev'd to see't,
His zeal was sometimes indiscreet:
He found his virtues too severe
For our corrupted times to bear:
Yet, such a lewd licentious age
Might well excuse a Stoic's rage.
The goat advanc'd with decent pace;
And first excus'd his youthful face;
Forgiveness begg'd that he appear'd
('Twas nature's fault) without a beard.
'Tis true, he was not much inclin'd
To fondness for the female kind;
Not, as his enemies object,
From chance, or natural defect;
Not by his frigid constitution,
But through a pious resolution;
For he had made a holy vow
Of chastity as monks do now;
Which he resolv'd to keep for ever hence,
As strictly too, as doth his Reverence.
Apply the tale, and you shall find,
How just it suits with human kind.
Some faults we own: but, can you guess?
Why?--virtues carried to excess,
Wherewith our vanity endows us,
Though neither foe nor friend allows us.
The lawyer swears, you may rely on't,
He never squeez'd a needy client;
And this he makes his constant rule,
For which his brethren call him fool:
His conscience always was so nice,
He freely gave the poor advice;
By which he lost, he may affirm,
A hundred fees last Easter term.
While others of the learned robe
Would break the patience of a Job;
No pleader at the bar could match
His diligence and quick dispatch;
Ne'er kept a cause, he well may boast,
Above a term or two at most.
The cringing knave, who seeks a place
Without success, thus tells his case:
Why should he longer mince the matter?
He fail'd because he could not flatter;
He had not learn'd to turn his coat,
Nor for a party give his vote:
His crime he quickly understood;
Too zealous for the nation's good:
He found the ministers resent it,
Yet could not for his heart repent it.
The chaplain vows he cannot fawn,
Though it would raise him to the lawn:
He pass'd his hours among his books;
You find it in his meagre looks:
He might, if he were worldly wise,
Preferment get and spare his eyes:
But own'd he had a stubborn spirit,
That made him trust alone in merit:
Would rise by merit to promotion;
Alas! a mere chimeric notion.
The doctor, if you will believe him,
Confess'd a sin; and God forgive him!
Call'd up at midnight, ran to save
A blind old beggar from the grave:
But see how Satan spreads his snares;
He quite forgot to say his prayers.
He cannot help it for his heart
Sometimes to act the parson's part:
Quotes from the Bible many a sentence,
That moves his patients to repentance:
And, when his med'cines do no good,
Supports their minds with heav'nly food,
At which, however well intended,
He hears the clergy are offended;
And grown so bold behind his back,
To call him hypocrite and quack.
In his own church he keeps a seat;
Says grace before and after meat;
And calls, without affecting airs,
His household twice a day to prayers.
He shuns apothecaries' shops;
And hates to cram the sick with slops:
He scorns to make his art a trade;
Nor bribes my lady's fav'rite maid.
Old nurse-keepers would never hire
To recommend him to the squire;
Which others, whom he will not name,
Have often practis'd to their shame.
The statesman tells you with a sneer,
His fault is to be too sincere;
And, having no sinister ends,
Is apt to disoblige his friends.
The nation's good, his master's glory,
Without regard to Whig or Tory,
Were all the schemes he had in view;
Yet he was seconded by few:
Though some had spread a hundred lies,
'Twas he defeated the Excise.
'Twas known, though he had borne aspersion,
That standing troops were his aversion:
His practice was, in ev'ry station,
To serve the King, and please the nation.
Though hard to find in ev'ry case
The fittest man to fill a place:
His promises he ne'er forgot,
But took memorials on the spot:
His enemies, for want of charity,
Said he affected popularity:
'Tis true, the people understood,
That all he did was for their good;
Their kind affections he has tried;
No love is lost on either side.
He came to Court with fortune clear,
Which now he runs out ev'ry year:
Must, at the rate that he goes on,
Inevitably be undone:
Oh! if his Majesty would please
To give him but a writ of ease,
Would grant him licence to retire,
As it hath long been his desire,
By fair accounts it would be found,
He's poorer by ten thousand pound.
He owns, and hopes it is no sin,
He ne'er was partial to his kin;
He thought it base for men in stations
To crowd the Court with their relations;
His country was his dearest mother,
And ev'ry virtuous man his brother;
Through modesty or awkward shame
(For which he owns himself to blame),
He found the wisest man he could,
Without respect to friends or blood;
Nor ever acts on private views,
When he hath liberty to choose.
The sharper swore he hated play,
Except to pass an hour away:
And well he might; for, to his cost,
By want of skill he always lost;
He heard there was a club of cheats,
Who had contriv'd a thousand feats;
Could change the stock, or cog a die,
And thus deceive the sharpest eye:
Nor wonder how his fortune sunk,
His brothers fleece him when he's drunk.
I own the moral not exact;
Besides, the tale is false in fact;
And so absurd, that could I raise up
From fields Elysian fabling Aesop;
I would accuse him to his face
For libelling the four-foot race.
Creatures of ev'ry kind but ours
Well comprehend their natural pow'rs;
While we, whom reason ought to sway,
Mistake our talents ev'ry day.
The ass was never known so stupid
To act the part of Tray or Cupid;
Nor leaps upon his master's lap,
There to be strok'd, and fed with pap,
As Aesop would the world persuade;
He better understands his trade:
Nor comes, whene'er his lady whistles;
But carries loads, and feeds on thistles.
Our author's meaning, I presume, is
A creature bipes et implumis;
Wherein the moralist design'd
A compliment on human kind:
For here he owns, that now and then
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NEW DELHI The government on Wednesday offered a credit line to support millions of farmers who have been left short of cash to buy seeds and fertilisers for their winter crops after its decision to cancel 500 and 1,000 rupee bank notes.Prime Minister Narendra Modi dropped a bombshell on Nov. 8 by abolishing the bank notes as legal tender that accounted for 86 percent of cash in circulation. The move was aimed at cracking down on the shadow economy but has brought India's cash economy to a virtual standstill.It has also put in danger production of key commodities and hurt rural communities that were only just recovering after two years of drought.In the latest step, the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), a state-run lender, will provide 210 billion rupees ($3.07 billion) in farm credit to help the sowing of winter crops such as wheat, a top finance ministry official told reporters.New Delhi also announced measures to boost digital transactions.
Shaktikanta Das, economic affairs secretary, said the loan would be disbursed through farm cooperatives."This measure will ensure a smooth flow of credit to farmers," Das said. "As and when, additional (credit) limits are required, NABARD will sanction it."
The decision comes days after Modi's administration allowed farmers to purchase seeds with old 500 rupee banknotes from state-run outlets.More than 40 percent of small and marginal farmers get their credit from cooperative banks, Das said.
($1 = 68.4600 rupees) (Reporting by Manoj Kumar; Writing by Rajesh Kumar Singh; Editing by Douglas Busvine & Shri Navaratnam)
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Dwarf-women were few among the Dwarves, kept in secret, and were seldom seen by other races.
Role in society
Dwarves wanted their women to be protected from other races and they usually kept them concealed inside their mountain halls. They seldom traveled in the outside world, only in great need, and when they did, they were dressed as men; with similar voice and appearance as male dwarves, even when they are rarely seen they are usually mistaken for a male. All Dwarves had beards from the beginning of their lives.
Family and fertility
Women joined their husbands' families. Women were seldom named in genealogies but if a son is seen to be 110 years younger than his father, this usually indicates an elder daughter. Thorin's sister Dís was named simply because of the gallant death of her sons Fíli and Kíli.
Gimli stated that only approximately one-third of their population consisted of women, which was the reason for the slow increase in population of the race. Moreover, while Dwarf-men outnumbered Dwarf-women two to one, less than half of Dwarf-men actually married: many preferred to spend their time with their crafts instead. Meanwhile, many Dwarf-women never took a husband either: some desire none, or desired one who could not or would not marry them, in which case they would have no other.
Because of the scarcity of Dwarf-women, their secrecy and similarity in appearance to males, and their lack of mention, many Men failed to recognize their existence. They believed that the Dwarves' population was only of men, and a legend said therefore that they were 'born' by growing out of stone.
Portrayal in adaptationsThe Hobbit (comic book):
- During Thorin's and Gandalf's narration about Erebor and Smaug, a flashback panel shows the exodus of the Dwarves of Erebor. Among them, a woman can be seen, since she has no beard and is wearing woman's clothes.
- Dwarf women are mentioned in the Extended Edition only, during Gimli's rant to Éowyn concerning Dwarven culture. The dialogue actually reproduces some of the information seen in Appendix A: Durin's Folk. On his mention that Men believe that there are no female Dwarves, Aragorn whispers a tongue-in-cheek explanation "It's the beards!" causing Éowyn to laugh.
- Some Dwarf women can be seen briefly in the beginning of the film, when the story of the destruction of Erebor is told. Some women have beards, whilst some have sideburns of varying length.
- Did Dwarf women have beards? by Steuard Jensen
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Two. The Later Quenta Silmarillion: Concerning the Dwarves (Chapter 13)"; a similar statement was made in The_Making_of_Appendix_A#Durin's_Folk
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Cardiff residents have a final opportunity to donate their pre-loved clothes to an ambitious campaign which aims to prevent a mass of unnecessary waste.
Love Your Clothes Cardiff, organised by not-for-profit organisation Wrap, will close its collection points on Friday, October 28 after challenging the capital to donate five tonnes of clothing and make a dent in the huge number of reusable garments that end up in landfills each year.
A giant shipping container has been filling up at the main collection point in Plasnewydd Community Centre in Roath and will take donations until 7.30pm on Friday.
A smaller clothing-collection point at the Love Your Clothes pop-up shop in the Capitol Shopping Centre will be open until 4pm.
Jamie Perry of Love Your Clothes is calling on residents across the region one last time to help the campaign reach it's sky-high target.
He said: “We set out with an ambitious five-tonne target and we want a huge last push from the people of Cardiff.
“Lots of us have unwanted or unworn clothes at the back of the wardrobe, so it’s really easy to get involved.
“Just have a rummage, dig out all the clothes you have fallen out of love with, and donate them to us during Love Your Clothes week so YMCA Cardiff can find them a loving new home.”
Organisers of this week's campaign also held workshops and masterclasses to teach people how to repair their damaged garments and upcycle clothes they would have otherwise thrown away.
Watch WalesOnline reporter Tyler make a tote bag from an old pair of jeans
The last of its masterclasses takes place in Cardiff's Masonic Hall from 12pm Saturday, October 29.
Love Your Clothes held a similar event in Bangor earlier this year, where local residents completely smashed the original one-tonne target set by donating around two tonnes of pre-loved clothing.
Jamie added: "Two tonnes was an amazing achievement from our friends in North Wales and we want to build on that success here in Cardiff.”
“A little bit of effort really can make a big difference – and collectively it will all add up for our five tonne charity-clothing appeal.”
UK consumers buy around one million tonnes of clothing each year and get rid of roughly the same amount.
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Published 15 February 2018
Commenting on the mis-selling of LOBO loans, Rob Whiteman – CEO of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy – told Andrew Hosken for the BBC World Tonight, councils should now be considering legal action against the banks (from 43″00). LOBOs have been described by derivatives expert Abhishek Sachdev as a “lose-lose bet for councils“.
Commenting for Debt Resistance UK, campaigner Joel Benjamin said:
“It’s welcome news the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) are using their considerable influence to nudge councils to pursue legal action against the banks and advisors who mis-sold LOBO loans. We thank CEO Rob Whiteman for his intervention.
Ultimately, it should not take media exposure to force Council officials to act in the public interest, when Councils have a legal duty to protect and serve the public, and billions of pounds of taxpayer money is at stake.
We only have toxic LOBO loans and PFI because banks and advisors including CAPITA, ICAP and big 4 accountancy firms were able to game public procurement and value for money rules, while the City regulator refused to take action against conflicted advisory firms committing market abuse, taking kickbacks from banks on LOBO loans, mis-sold at local taxpayers expense.
The FSA/FCA failed to intervene, despite being explicitly instructed to regulate TMA firms, following the 2009 Iceland banking collapse inquiry by the CLG Committee [para 119] – leaving more ethical TMA companies to propose their own voluntary Code of Conduct in the vacuum of regulatory scrutiny.”
As Abhishek Sachdev MD of Vedanta Hedging explained to BBC Northamptonshire, blame cannot simply be laid by councillors and Audit Committees at councils for borrowing via LOBO loans, when the professional advice they were paying for under contract was fundamentally conflicted.
On BBC Question Time, RBS Chairman Sir Howard Davies labelled PFI a ‘Fraud Against The People‘ because in his expert opinion “it is always cheaper for Government to borrow than anybody else, and if you are going to hand over the total provision [of public services] to someone whose borrowing costs are higher than yours, what is the advantage of doing that?”
Campaigners now wonder how banks including Barclays and RBS came to be involved in more than £15 billion of LOBO loan lending to councils like Newham, Edinburgh, Kent, Cornwall and NCC to fund public services, with banks booking £2billion in up-front, day one profit, if it is always cheaper for councils to borrow via their usual source of funding, the Public Works Loan Board, which is the government.
Councils’ financial advisors known as Treasury Management Advisors such as CAPITA provide part of that answer. On LOBO loans, CAPITA have conceded they received facilitation payments – which they refer to as “commissions” – when local authority LOBO loan brokerage business was referred exclusively to preferred money brokers including Tullet Prebon and ICAP.
CAPITA were named in the July 2015 C4 Dispatches documentary “How Councils Blow Your Millions” on LOBO loans, and were also heavily implicated in the 2008 Icelandic banking crisis, having advised hundreds of local authorities to invest in failed Icelandic banks.
Debt Resistance UK questioned CAPITA CEO Andy Parker regarding kickback and commission payments at CAPITA’s 2015 AGM [listen here]. In addition, CAPITA submitted evidence to consultation by the Ministry of Justice on the introduction of the 2010 Bribery Act, suggesting CAPITA had concerns regarding the implementation of the Act on its existing business model.
An investigation by the Competition Commission in 2010 into the merger of Butlers (part of ICAP) and Sector (part of CAPITA) found that 50-100% of respective business unit profits were from commission/ facilitation payments from LOBO Loans, which averaged £25,000 payable by a local authority on an typical £10 million LOBO loan.
Debt Resistance UK have been warning for several years that the toxic combination of austerity cuts, lack of scrutiny and independent oversight of council finances following closure of the Audit Commission in 2015, conflicted financial advice from firms like CAPITA and ICAP and growing debt loading would soon lead to financial disaster in town halls.
Now, with the first Section 114 notice in almost two decades being registered at Northamptonshire, it is increasingly clear that local government finances, shredded by austerity, are beginning to unravel.
For press inquiries email: email@example.com or phone Joel Benjamin on 07833 212 240
Links to further information:
UK Local Authority Debt Audit website: http://lada.debtresistance.uk/
Interactive map of local authority debt: bit.ly/LADAmap
What is a LOBO loan? http://bit.ly/LOBOLoan
LOBO Loans are potentially illegal http://bit.ly/DebtTrap
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In response to Edelweiss
, the line has been moving steadily South since the Civil War
. Although Maryland town
s (and even some in Pennsylvania
) are built along the same lines as your average Southern
town, Maryland's bond to the South was forever shattered by its refusal to secede
. While Abraham Lincoln
declared martial law
in MD in order to keep the aristocrat
s in the state government
from seceding, most of the state had no interest in joining the Confederate States of America
Next to fall was Washington, DC. John F. Kennedy famously described Washington as having "Northern charm and Southern efficiency," but DC's last vestiges of Southernness were gone by the 1960s. Now, Northern Virginia is no longer part of the South. One joke outside NoVA is that it's really a separate state; Virginia, and hence The South, begins at Fredericksburg, which is backed up by the placement of the first Virginia Welcome Center on Interstate 95. So the line is currently between Richmond and Washington.
The scary part for this Richmonder, though, is that I can see the line crossing Richmond sometime in the next 20-30 years. I already know several people that commute to Washington or NoVA from Richmond, and the trend will only increase as commuter rail (Virginia Railway Express) extends service to Richmond as planned. My state senator, John B. Watkins, said it -- Richmond is becoming a bedroom city to Washington whether we like it or not. The faster we accept that fact, the better Richmond will be able to plan for and adapt to that role. | <urn:uuid:b2e292bb-4e7d-4d6a-acb7-2ac3d091ebd0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://everything2.com/title/Southerner | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00516-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973258 | 332 | 1.929688 | 2 |
International legal positivism has been crucial to the development of international law since the nineteenth century. It is often seen as the basis of mainstream or traditional international legal thought. The Project of Positivism in International Law addresses this theory in the long-standing tradition of critical intellectual histories of international law. It provides a nuanced analysis of the resilience of the economic-positivist theory, and shows howinfluential its role was in shaping the modern frameworks of international law. The book argues that the rise of positivist international law was inseparable from philosophical developments placing the notion of conflict of interests at the centre of collective life. Where previously international thought wasdominated by notions of the right, the just, and the good, increasingly international relations became viewed as interests in need of harmonisation. In this context, international law was re-founded as the universal law that could harmonise the interests of both public and private international entities. The book argues that these evolutions in philosophical thought were bound up with the consolidation of capitalism, and with the ideas about human existence and human nature which emerged in that process. It provides an innovative analysis of the selected biography of ideas which it presents, including a detailed focus on the work of Hans Kelsen, one of the leading positivist thinkers of the twentieth century. It also argues that the work of Lassa Oppenheim should be included within thisanalysis, as providing some of the key founding texts of positivism in international law. This book will be a fascinating read for scholars and students of international legal theory, historians of ideas, and legal philosophers.
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Plimoth Colony Re-Enactment
James Weiss, professor of church history, has served for some years as Consultant on Religion to Plimoth Plantation, the living museum with a replica of Mayflower and the early Pilgrim village. This summer 2012 he was featured in a special re-enactment of a crisis in the early Plymouth colony, taking the role of the Rev. John Lyford, an Oxford-educated Puritan priest of the Church of England, hired by the London investors to review and report on the Pilgrim colony.
Dialogue and Deliberation During Vatican II
Richard Gaillardetz, The Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology, recently published an article "Dialogue and deliberation during Vatican II." America magazine
2012 Yves Congar Award
Roberto Goizueta, Margaret O'Brien Flatley Professor of Catholic Theology was named winner of the 2012 Yves Congar Award for Theological Excellence. BC News | <urn:uuid:a6353879-0ec3-48e5-a81d-f6a7d0fa6cc8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/theology/news/2012.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00466-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.917797 | 194 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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Corn: Truly A-maize-ing
My family has always been avid gardeners. As a kid (and still true today) August was my favourite food month. The bounty of fresh-from-the-garden produce is abundant and one of the most delicious choices for me has always been sweet, young corn-on-the cob. At its peak ripeness, golden corn with a light brushing of butter or a sprinkle of fresh lime juice is another wonderful reminder that life is indeed good.
Eaten as one medium-sized fresh cob, corn provides about 160 calories, 32 grams of carbohydrate, 4 grams of protein and 3.5 grams of fat. It is low in sodium (unless way too much salt is added) and is a valuable source of vitamin B6 and thiamin. Corn is a significant source of fibre providing nearly 5 grams per cob.
When fresh corn is turned into frozen kernels or canned without excess sodium or added ingredients, it can be enjoyed as a side dish to a meal. About ½-¾ of a cup of kernel corn is an appropriate serving size. Corn is also a colourful and tasty addition to a Tex-Mex style salsa with fresh tomatoes and cilantro, or black bean salads.
Because corn is sweet and tasty, it can be tempting to eat too much of it. Like most foods, too large of a portion of corn will add up to too many calories. The carbohydrate count is also high when large portions are consumed. Although a great way to add variety to the diet especially when in season, corn is not considered as nutritious as the superstar vegetables in the cabbage family namely broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts and cabbage itself. Corn is not nearly as rich in disease-fighting antioxidants. But it doesn’t have to be avoided by any means. Simply enjoy moderately as part of your usual well-balanced meals and definitely take advantage of the fact that it is currently in season!
High fructose corn syrup (HFCS), widely used in the food industry for its affordability, is a sweetener made from corn. It is common in processed foods ranging from soft drinks and candy to baked goods and soups. As always, when selecting food for your family, read labels Fresh from the garden corn-on-the cob: a fantastic way to eat corn.
P.S. All this talk about corn has me craving one of my favourite snack foods – another corn product, popcorn. I think I’ll go make a bowl. It’s a good source of fibre and not so bad if you go easy on the butter, salt and portion size. How about you, how do you like your corn? | <urn:uuid:2cf03e2e-5c23-4a3d-9d17-2c1d5ae1210b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kraftcanada.com/healthy-living/healthy-living-articles/ideas-for-corn-recipes-and-information-on-corn-nutrition | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00188-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95739 | 548 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Studies consistently show that 25 percent of U.S. property owners are paying more property tax than what is required by law. It doesn’t always result in lower taxes, but there are situations where appeals are accepted by your county for reassessment.
What’s a Tax Appeal
The tax agency can sometimes make mistakes. Property taxes are based on assessed value, which means the agency will look into the value of the property, residential or commercial, location, and improvements before coming out with an assessment.
Unfortunately, this appeal process can take some time. Of course, you have to realize that every request for reassessment can turn the other way and the assessor may find reason to increase rather than decrease the tax.
Starting the Appeals Process
It always starts with going over your tax assessment letter. This is the letter you get in the mail from your local government. Property taxes are charged every year, and you have the option of paying annually or in partial payments.
When you receive your assessment letter, you must go over it carefully. Compare the previous year’s assessment with the current one to determine if there has been an increase. If your property size has not increased, the tax rate should be the same. That is, unless the government has passed a law regarding new property tax rates.
Property tax is computed by taking the assessed value and multiplying by the local rate. The tax rate of each city can vary.
It is best to submit a request for reassessment immediately. If you check the back page of your letter, you will find the procedure for challenging your assessment. If there is none, call or visit your local tax office, or you can consult with a tax lawyer.
However, before you take that step toward a tax appeal, consider the following:
- Check the data. There could be a mistake in the figures or numbers. If there is an error, an appeal would not be necessary. You could just show proof that there is a mistake in the computation.
- Determine if the savings on a long-term basis or year-over-year is worth the cost of an appeal.
- Talk to a local Realtor. He or she would know the value of properties similar to yours and give an honest assessment – for a minimal fee.
Finally, ask for clarification. Most assessors are willing to discuss tax rates. And if you are given an appointment for reassessment, be on time and bring all your supporting documents. | <urn:uuid:2d22316a-ec71-4c30-b129-17063c88526e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nyplaw.com/2015/04/30/how-to-lower-your-property-taxes-using-property-tax-appeals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.955233 | 507 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Tim Rogan has gotten good at dying. Now he’s working on life after death.
“He dies in like every play,” said St. Andrews senior Marisa Rheem. Rogan and Rheem play the lead roles of Billy Bigelow and Julie Jordan in the school’s upcoming production of the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical “Carousel.”
Written originally as a play by the Hungarian playwright Ferenc Molnar, the famed Broadway duo made their original adaptation in 1945. It is a little bit darker than the typical Rodgers & Hammerstein productions, said Ritchie Porter, the play’s director.
“A lot of people remember it as a sweet boy-meets-girl story,” said Porter. “The twist is that they don’t live happily ever after.”
Set in a New England mill town in the 1870s, the tale follows the love of Bigelow and Jordan, who marry shortly after they meet at the carousel where Bigelow works as a barker. Through a series of unfortunate events, both lose their jobs and fall on hard times that put a strain on their marriage. Bigelow falls in with a rough crowd and grows disenchanted with the life of a married man and his frustration takes the form in domestic violence, nearly all of which occurs offstage, said Porter.
“I think if it were written today [the domestic violence] would be confronted much more head-on,” said Porter.
Bigelow takes part in a robbery to gain some much-needed cash, but when the robbery goes bad Bigelow is surrounded by police and he takes his own life to avoid being caught. That scene involves a musical soliloquy that lasts nine minutes, Rogan said .
“The death scene… really opens up the flood gate for [Bigelow] to be able to change,” said Rogan.
BIGELOW’S DEATH is only the beginning. On his way to heaven he is given the chance to return to Earth to make things right. However, a minute in heaven is 15 years on Earth, and when Bigelow returns the daughter that was unborn when he died is now 15 years old. His daughter is friendless and sad, but ultimately Bigelow, who appears to her as a stranger, is able to help her find her way. He is also able to make his presence known to Jordan, whose evolution as a multi-faceted character, like that of Bigelow, is not complete until after Bigelow’s death.
“There are so many different sides to both of our characters,” said Rheem. “It’s one of the things that really brings the show to life.” Jordan goes from being a strong, independent woman when she meets Bigelow to being a subjugated, submissive wife once they are married, Rheem said. Bigelow’s death allows her to reestablish her independence and become a stronger person, said Rheem.
“Death adds a whole other element to [Bigelow’s] character,” said Rogan. A rough, selfish person before his death, Bigelow learns selflessness and the ability to truly love once he is dead, said Rogan.
“He learns how to love and how to tell others that he loves them,” said Porter.
THE CHOICE of “Carousel” follows what Rogan and Rheem described as Porter’s tendency to go back and forth between serious and light productions. “On the Town” and “Les Miserables” were the previous productions. Rogan and Rheem took part in both, with Rogan playing the ill-fated lead role in “Les Miserables.”
Porter chose the piece in part because it is the first Rodgers & Hammerstein production that he has directed in his seven years at the school, but also because of the wide variety of roles.
“It’s not just [the standard] two males and two females,” said Porter. “There are lots of different opportunities for the actors.” Porter said that there are five good leading female roles and three male leads, along with many strong supporting roles.
This performance also marks the first time in his seven years that the students have designed and built the set, Porter said. Juniors Sarah Danly and Thea Kline-Mayer designed the stage that undergoes a variety of changes during the course of the two-act performance.
While the performance itself may not be a typical love story with a happy ending, Porter said that the message is still one of hope.
“It’s true that the institution of marriage doesn’t necessarily do that well [in the play] … but love does triumph,” said Porter. “It’s the theme that true love transcends all of life’s problems.”
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Ten prize-winning authors each with a brand new story based on their own schooldays. Bernard Ashley, Malorie Blackman, Berlie Doherty, Paul Jennings, Margaret Mahy, Michael Morpurgo, Jenny Nimmo, Michael Rosen, Jeremy Strong and Robert Swindells.Brand new stories based on each author's own schooldays - sometimes funny, often poignant, always riveting. Written in each author's unique style and based on something that is common to every child in the country - SCHOOL. Authors as below:PAUL JENNINGSMICHAEL MORPURGOJEREMY STRONGBERNARD ASHLEYROBERT SWINDELLSMALORIE BLACKMANBERLIE DOHERTYJENNY NIMMOMARGARET MAHYMICHAEL ROSENStories of running away from school; getting the strap for punishments; vindictive teachers; boys who tell porky-pies; the shy girl who could only talk through her puppet; getting expelled [almost]; being an evacuee; original ways of getting out of being in the school play, as well as meeting one's own true love at school! Stories that contemporary schoolchildren will relate to in sharing the triumphs and disasters of their favourite authors' schooldays. | <urn:uuid:f5055067-47fc-4865-949b-da56638e9036> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/ten-of-the-best-school/9780007133390-item.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922411 | 269 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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1.1 This specification establishes testing requirements for the structural performance properties of Condition 3 bicycle frames.
1.2 The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.
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F2043 Classification for Bicycle Usage
F2711 Test Methods for Bicycle Frames
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Therapies at Glencairn House
A dermatologist can diagnose, investigate, treat and manage the conditions of children and adults with skin disease, as well as hair and nail complaints.
The root word for dermatology is derm, or dermis. This comes from the Greek word derma, which means skin or hide.
Dermatology is a special area of medicine that focuses on conditions that affect your skin. In addition to your skin, dermatology also includes conditions that affect your nails, hair, and the delicate lining of your eyelids, nose, and mouth.
Your skin is your body’s largest organ. It contains nerve endings, sweat glands, hair follicles, pores, blood vessels, and many other structures. Caring for it is important to your overall health.
While general practitioners and internal medicine doctors may be able to diagnose and treat these same conditions, a dermatologist has a deeper understanding and greater experience. In fact, many primary care doctors will refer their patients to dermatologists for specialised care.
Dr Jibu Varghese MBBS, DVD, DDSc, MSc, MRCP (derm), FRCP Consultant Dermatologist and Mohs surgeon.
Dr Varghese has acquired extensive experience and expertise in dermatology, having worked and trained in two countries, four large teaching hospitals, and several district general hospitals throughout the UK – all within dermatology departments. He completed his dermatology training in South West England, and underwent intensive training in skin cancer surgery, including Mohs micrographic surgery at the prestigious Welsh Institute of Dermatology in Cardiff. Throughout his training, he worked alongside leading dermatologists.
Dr Varghese has wide interests and skills in the diagnosis and management of HI skin cancers, undertaking laser treatments, Mohs micrographic surgery, cosmetic dermatology, dermoscopy, hair disorders, eczema, psoriasis, biological therapies, and general dermatology. Apart from various dermatological skills and techniques, such as laser treatments, wrinkle-smoothing injection, cryotherapy, curettage and cautery, Dr Varghese is fully competent in various aspects of dermatological surgery, including complex skin flaps, full thickness skin grafts, and advanced skin closure techniques.
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Freezing temperatures, snow, and ice can cause significant problems to our roofs. Even if we don’t experience these types of weather conditions as often as other regions, it’s still important to stay on top of your roof’s health before damage occurs. You never want to be caught unaware with any emergency roofing problems!
Initial Installation Problems
If your roof isn’t installed correctly, you’ll have major problems when winter weather hits. You need to catch the issues before the cold arrives. Some of the more common errors include:
When measurements aren’t correct, you’re left with gaps between your roof and home. These gaps can lead to leaks from the rain or as the ice and snow melts. Not having correct measurements can also result in getting the wrong materials or not enough of what you need.
Underlayment materials can also cause problems if they’re not up to code in your area. Once a roof is installed, you also want to ensure the flashing is installed correctly before the cold weather hits. You may face leaks and cracks where the joints meet your roof if it’s old or improperly installed.
Cracks in your shingles might not seem like a big deal, but when it’s raining or you’ve got snow melting on them, they can cause major problems. Get your roof inspected ahead of time for crumbling or curling shingles and get them replaced as soon as possible. As always, it’s best to hire a professional to take care of your roofing issues, especially in the winter.
Ice dams occur when water accumulates under shingles between thaws. Snow or ice melt and then refreeze as it flows down the roof. Water can then get trapped behind the ice and work its way through the roof joints. If that happens, you’re looking at the possibility of significant structural damage.
To avoid damages, you need to check your existing roof ventilation system. You also need to make sure any existing cracks are sealed to keep water from getting in. Also, remember to remove snow and ice regularly during the winter to prevent the chance for accumulation.
Proper Maintenance is Key
A couple of other things to remember have to do with making sure your gutters are clear and trimming any overhanging tree branches. Clogged gutters can keep water from going where it’s supposed to, and tree branches can fall on your home, causing damage to your roof.
Whatever you do, you want to prevent damage and major roofing problems as much as possible, whether it’s checking for shingle damage or pruning branches to keep them from falling. Being proactive can keep your roof in check and prevent roofing issues in the new year.
Roofing Problems to Watch Out for In the New Year in Vancouver WA - Olympia - Tri-Cities - Portland OR
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By Paul West
WASHINGTON – President Obama officially began his second term Sunday, taking the oath of office in a White House ceremony a day ahead of the traditional public event marked by pomp, pageantry and a parade.
The swearing-in, carried live on national television, was prompted by a quirk of the calendar. For the seventh time in 200 years, inauguration day falls on a Sunday. Since 1917, incoming or reelected presidents have chosen to take the oath in relative privacy, rather than hold public ceremonies on a Sunday.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. administered the oath, as he did, twice, four years ago. In 2009, Roberts and Obama mangled the wording of the oath during the inaugural ceremony. White House lawyers, out of an abundance of caution, summoned the chief justice to the White House the next evening to readminister the oath.
He did so, without a Bible or TV cameras present, but using the exact words of the constitutional oath.
The last president sworn in on a Sunday was Ronald Reagan, who began his second term in 1985 in the grand foyer at the White House. Obama chose the Blue Room, an oval-shaped salon on the main floor that was also the site of the only presidential wedding at the White House, Grover Cleveland’s in 1886.
Obama placed his hand on a family Bible. Four years ago, he took the oath on the same Bible that Abraham Lincoln had used in 1861.
Under the Constitution’s 20th amendment, Obama’s first term officially ends at noon Sunday and his second begins at the same time. Earlier Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden was sworn in at a separate ceremony at his official residence in northwest Washington.
Obama and Biden will reenact their oath-taking Monday at the inaugural ceremony on the West Front of the Capitol. At that time, the president will deliver his second inaugural address.
According to the presidential inaugural committee, the Bible that Obama used Sunday was given to Michelle Obama’s grandmother, LaVaughn Robinson, by her son, the first lady’s father, in 1958.
LaVaughn Robinson managed the bookstore at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and was the first African American woman to hold that job, according to the committee, which said she “used the Bible regularly.”
On Monday, the president will use two Bibles, stacked together, when Roberts swears him in — for the fourth time, counting 2009. One will be the Lincoln Bible that he used in 2009. The other will be a Bible that civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. carried before he was assassinated in 1968. The public inaugural ceremony falls on the federal holiday that marks King’s birthday, which is actually Jan. 15.
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Do you shop at your local grocery store for produce yet find that what you buy is lacking in flavor and tastes bland? Or maybe you don’t have the time or space for gardening but would like to enjoy the harvest of freshly picked produce that is organic and bursting with flavor. One way to enjoy in the fruits of someone else’s labor is through a CSA ( Community Supported Agriculture) farmer. With a CSA farmer, you can buy shares in that years vegetable or fruit crop and have weekly produce boxes delivered right to your door. Many of these CSA farmers also allow you to offset some of the costs by providing work-shares where you actually put in your own sweat-equity. Not only will you benefit by some weekly exercise by weeding and hoeing the rows of vegetables but you also can save money on your grocery bill.
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Peoples of Russia: The Mountain Jews. A Steelworker’s Day.
Peoples of Russia: The Mountain Jews (Times: 01.30; 09:30; 17:30)
For centuries, the Caucasus has harbored a multitude of people, languages and customs. Nalchik is the capital of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the Northern Caucasus and home town for the Mountain Jews. They are one of Russia’s most enigmatic peoples. Their culture is made from a mixture of Jewish and Caucasian elements and filled with rituals. You’ll figure out their life and ancient customs in the next installment of “Peoples of Russia” documentary series.
A Steelworker’s Day (Times: 05:30; 13:30; 21:30)
He has been working at a local foundry for 27 years now. Every day he comes to work at 7 in the morning, puts on his protective suit and then the magic starts. He’s melting metal and forming it. And almost everything he's doing by hand. This is his demanding, hazardous and creative everyday work. What is a usual day in a steelworker’s life? What are the peculiarities of the steeling process? You’ll find it out in the Steelworker’s Day documentary. | <urn:uuid:fb0bb26b-73cc-452e-9542-83a4e9f6368a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.rt.com/shows/documentary/peoples-of-russia-the-mountain-jews-a-steelworkers-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935742 | 278 | 2.640625 | 3 |
Lowriders are cars that express identities—social, cultural, aesthetic. With their extended bodies and low to the road roll, the cars have been a vehicle of choice for cruising, a popular pastime in many American communities since the mid-twentieth century. Lowriding puts both the cars and their riders on display.
In these essays, Roger White (National Museum of American History) describes how a car named “Dave’s Dream” and other personalized lowriders became automotive masterpieces and cultural statements in Mexican-American communities. Kevin Strait (National Museum of African American History and Culture) shares how in the 1990s, lowriders emerged as mobile props, and sometimes lead characters, in music videos of West Coast hip hop artists. For Emil Her Many Horses (National Museum of the American Indian), the lowrider’s association with parading and being seen reflects the role of automobiles at the annual Crow Fair and Rodeo where elaborately decorated cars have begun to replace horses on the parade route.
A Lowrider Named Dave's Dream
Roger White, Museum Curator, NMAH
“Lowrider” is the name used for cars transformed into cultural expressions and for the dedicated aficionados who make and drive them. Historically, lowriders were mostly Latino men from Texas, the Southwest, and southern California. Since the 1950s, car clubs and family members have converted older cars for cruising, shows, and competition at events, as they still do today.
The mobile masterpieces made by lowriders embrace art, family, and religion. The lacquered bodies of lowrider cars glow with brilliant colors, geometric patterns, religious symbols, and velvet trim. Unlike hot rods and other racing cars, lowriders were designed to parade slowly. Each car is lowered within inches of the pavement and driven as a rolling work of art.
Bajito y despacito; limpio y lindo -- Low and slow, clean and mean Lowrider Saying
David Jaramillo began converting a 1969 Ford LTD in the late 1970s. His lowrider, known as “Dave’s Dream,” became a community favorite in towns north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where it won many trophies. Tragically, David was killed in an accident in a different vehicle. In 1990, curators at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History visited Chimayó, New Mexico to acquire Dave’s Dream. Between 1990 and 1992, friends, family, and club members lovingly completed the conversion work that David had begun. They also installed the hydraulic hopping mechanism that adds dance to motion, animating the car and giving it life.
From a transportation curator’s perspective, Dave’s Dream exemplifies the striking social and multicultural dimensions of cars. Beyond cruising, lowriders infuse their cars with cultural identities. For them, cars are not merely transportation or recreation; they express who the owners are and how they would like to be perceived.
Lowriders and Hip Hop Culture
Kevin Strait, Museum Curator, NMAAHC
Even if they’ve never seen one in person, most fans of west coast hip hop are familiar with the distinctive look of specialized cars known as lowriders. The cars and lowriding culture resonated across regional and racial lines. Though lowriders were first crafted in barrios across the Southwest and southern California as unique symbols of personalized creativity and Latino cultural identity, African American car enthusiasts began developing lowriders of their own. The image of lowriders coasting down L.A.’s Crenshaw Boulevard and bouncing in rhythmic unison to the bass-driven music of gangsta rap would become synonymous with the stylized presentation of west coast, urban hip hop culture.
By the early 1990s, Los Angeles was the hub of hip hop music and culture. The media spotlight on the city, sharpened by coverage of the L.A. riots, MTV, and the mainstream success of John Singleton’s Boyz n the Hood transformed L.A. into hip hop’s most visible scene. Lowrider cars—with their dropped chassis and long, vintage frames—provided a dynamic visual backdrop for the exhibition of the “gangsta” aesthetic embedded in west coast hip hop culture. From Eazy-E rapping about “cruising down the street” in his modified “6-4” Chevy Impala to Dr. Dre “hitting switches” to activate his car’s pumping hydraulics, the lyrics and visual themes of L.A. based hip hop were illuminated with the aid of a lowrider car.
The lyrics and visual themes of L.A. based hip hop were illuminated with the aid of a lowrider car.
Musicians have a long history of using cars to tell their stories. Ike Turner and Jackie Brenston helped introduce rock ‘n’ roll while boasting about their “Rocket 88.” Funk pioneers War celebrated Long Beach Chicano culture with their laid-back anthem “Lowrider.” Chuck Berry’s Cadillac, featured in the NMAAHC’s Musical Crossroads exhibit, was a fixture of his music’s lyrics and his car also symbolizes the value of personal freedom routinely celebrated in his songs.
Following this history, lowriders were more than just accessories in videos and lyrical filler. Lowriders commandeered the distinctive look, sound, and landscape of hip hop culture in Los Angeles and provided a tool for rappers to give voice to their values and community.
Horse Power among the Crow People
Emil Her Many Horses, Associate Curator, NMAI
The traditions associated with lowrider cars make me recall the annual Crow Fair and Rodeo. Also known as “The Teepee Capital of the World,” the fair is held annually in August on the Crow (Apsaalooké) reservation in Montana. During the fair, riders dressed in traditional clothing and horses adorned with beaded gear parade through the camp grounds each morning.
Crow Fair is one of the main occasions when the Crow people bring out their finest beadwork, and coming from a rich horse culture, they bring out their finest horses too. As an associate curator at the National Museum of the American Indian who specializes in beadwork, I value the artistry displayed at the fair. Horses are dressed in intricately beaded bridles, martingales, cradleboards, cruppers, and saddle blankets (sometimes beaded or made of mountain lion hides). Other decorative items covering the horses include colorful Pendleton blankets and fringed shawls.
Since the introduction of the automobile, travel by horse has been replaced by cars and trucks. And at the annual Crow Fair, horses are still dressed in beadwork but so are cars and trucks. Cars and trucks are decorated with saddles, blankets, and other items traditionally found dressing a parade horse.
Crow Fair is one of the main occasions when the Crow people bring out their finest beadwork, and coming from a rich horse culture, they bring out their finest horses too.
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Below: The Cyber Safety Review Board releases a report on the log4j vulnerability, and a jury finds an ex-CIA employee guilty on charges surrounding WikiLeaks' publication of a trove of secret documents. First:
Ukraine to social media platforms: Do better
It’s been called the TikTok war. But six months into the bloodshed in Ukraine, the country’s tech officials say they have questions about how the platform is handling Russian misinformation and disinformation.
- “There [are] a lot of Russian propaganda narratives in TikTok,” a representative from the Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation told The Cybersecurity 202, speaking on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss the state of information warfare. It’s “the weakest and least efficient platform in terms of countering Russian disinformation.”
Ukrainian officials report they’ve seen a new wave of Russian bots and propaganda around the world. They’ve also had problems with the constant blocking of Ukrainian accounts and narratives across social media. TikTok did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Ukrainian officials say Big Tech hasn’t kept up with the spread of Russian disinformation.
Tech companies took aggressive steps to weed out misinformation and disinformation in the early days of the war, developing policies to limit Russian state media and supercharging their fact-checking teams. But as the Russians’ tactics are evolving, officials say the tech companies aren’t keeping pace.
There have been questions about TikTok's preparedness to address Russian propaganda since the start of the war. Unlike some of its counterparts, it didn't have a policy in place to label state media operations when Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine. But it quickly stood one up. In a tense email exchange in early March, Ukrainian officials, including Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo Fedorov, compared Russian state media efforts to Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, my colleagues and I reported at the time.
In March the company said it was funneling more resources to addressing the war. “We continue to respond to the war in Ukraine with increased safety and security resources to detect emerging threats and remove harmful misinformation and other violations of our Community Guidelines,” TikTok spokeswoman Jamie Favazza said at the time.
TikTok isn’t alone.
My colleague Will Oremus reports this morning on new research from a European nonprofit that shows Ukrainian officials have flagged thousands of tweets, YouTube videos and other social media posts as Russian propaganda or anti-Ukrainian speech. But major social platforms have grown less responsive to those requests. (The study did not cover TikTok).
- “When it was the first months of full-scale Russian aggression, [the U.S. tech companies] were very proactive, very interested to help,” said Mykola Balaban, deputy head of Ukraine’s Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security, a government agency told Will. “Now they are avoiding to make a call with us.”
The report, prepared by the Europe-based Disinformation Situation Center, said that more than 70 percent of posts flagged as anti-Ukrainian hate speech on YouTube and Twitter remained available as of late June, while more than 90 percent of the accounts responsible for such posts remained active. Meanwhile the researchers found that Facebook had removed all 98 of the posts the Ukrainian government and its partners flagged as containing anti-Ukrainian hate speech, though many of the accounts responsible remained active.
Balaban told Will that some of the companies, including Meta-owned Facebook and Microsoft’s LinkedIn, have continued to talk to the agency. But Google-owned YouTube has stopped returning its calls.
Tech giants’ guards are down as war headlines have faded in the United States.
Major tech companies have long faced criticism for only responding to problems on their platform when they face public pressure or media scrutiny. And generally they have far more resources dedicated to content moderation in the United States than the rest of the world.
- “I don’t think it’s bad will on the part of the tech companies,” said Felix Kartte, senior adviser for the global nonprofit advocacy group Reset Tech, which focuses on accountability for social media platforms, and a co-author of the report told Will. “It’s really just lack of resources, lack of investment, lack of preparedness,” and a shortage of staff with Russian and Ukrainian language skills and local expertise.
Some Ukrainian offices are having more luck than others. The Ministry of Digital Transformation, which has led the country’s outreach to Western companies to build a digital blockade, told the Cybersecurity 202 that it still has an open line with Meta, YouTube and Twitter. But the Ministry representative said there is a recent rise in Russian activity on YouTube and Twitter – and a corresponding wave of Ukrainian volunteers and media outlets being blocked on Facebook.
What they're saying
Tech companies say they continue to respond to Russian propaganda.
- YouTube spokeswoman Ivy Choi told Will the company has “stayed in regular contact with the Ukrainian government” and has removed more than 70,000 videos and 9,000 channels for violating its policies since the war began.
- Twitter spokeswoman Elizabeth Busby said the company works without outside organizations and looks for policy violations. Busby told Will the company’s efforts go beyond leaving posts up or removing them, and that the work includes elevating credible information about the war. Twitter spokeswoman Ann-Marie Lowry told The Cybersecurity 202 that the company is continuing to “proactively assess for inauthentic behavior, including identifying and disrupting attempts to amplify false and misleading information and to advance the speed and scale of our enforcement."
Hackers used log4j vulnerability less than expected, new review finds
Starting in December, cyber defenders scrambled to fix a bug in the ubiquitous Log4j software library. In the first report of the Cyber Safety Review Board, which included cybersecurity experts from the public and private sectors, the body focused on log4j.
- The board isn't aware of “any significant log4j-based attacks on critical infrastructure systems,” it wrote. It also found that generally, “exploitation of log4j occurred at lower levels than many experts predicted, given the severity of the vulnerability.” But that was a difficult conclusion to come to because of a lack of authoritative information about trends in hacks, it wrote.
- The board also offered a stark warning about log4j, writing that is an “endemic vulnerability.” Its ubiquity means that “vulnerable versions will remain in systems for the next decade, and we will see exploitation evolve to effectively take advantage of the weaknesses,” it wrote.
- It also called out “troubling elements” of Chinese government rules for disclosing information about software vulnerabilities to Beijing within two days of their discovery by researchers. (The log4j bug was disclosed by an engineer at Chinese firm Alibaba; the company was reportedly punished for reporting the vulnerability too late to Chinese regulators.) The possibility that the Chinese government could get “a window in which to exploit vulnerabilities before network defenders can patch them” is “a disturbing prospect,” the board wrote.
The board also offered more than a dozen recommendations to help protect against similar vulnerabilities in the future. Here are a few:
- Ingredients lists: The U.S. government “should be a driver of change in the marketplace around requirements for software transparency,” the board said. It called for the “use of procurement requirements, federal standards and guidelines, and investments in automation and tooling, to create clear and achievable expectations for baseline” information about software bills of materials.
- Regulatory backup: The board praised the Federal Trade Commission’s “leadership” in pointing firms to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's guidance about the vulnerability in January. At the time, the FTC said that it “intends to use its full legal authority to pursue companies that fail to take reasonable steps to protect consumer data” from log4j-related exposure. That seemed to drive fearful companies to fix the bug, the board said. CISA should work with regulators to drive cybersecurity fixes, the board said, and regulators “should identify opportunities to direct or encourage their regulated communities to implement CISA guidance, advisories, and best practices,” it said.
- New reporting system: The U.S. government should explore creating a Cyber Safety Reporting System built on voluntary reporting like NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System, the board said. That could “contribute to a systemwide view of the cyber ecosystem and expand and
centralize the existing external reporting and coordination of cyber safety issues,” it wrote in the report.
- Boosting the open source community: The open source software community, which is largely staffed by volunteers, “is not adequately resourced to ensure that code is developed pursuant to industry recognized secure coding practices and audited by experts,” the board said, arguing that the public and private sectors need to “create centralized resourcing and security assistance structures that can support the open source community going forward.”
Jury convicts ex-CIA employee of leaking secret hacking files
Joshua Schulte was found guilty on all nine charges relating to WikiLeaks’ 2017 publication of a trove of files relating to the Central Intelligence Agency’s hacking arsenal, the Associated Press’s Larry Neumeister and Tom Hays report.
Prosecutors argued that Schulte, a former CIA coder, sent WikiLeaks the files after his work complaints weren’t taken seriously; Schulte, who chose to represent himself in the trial, argued that the CIA blamed him because the intelligence community needed a scapegoat.
Jurors had deadlocked in a 2020 trial of Schulte, and a judge declared a mistrial. Schulte awaits trial on separate charges; he's accused of possessing and transporting child sexual abuse materials.
National security watch
- The House Judiciary Committee holds a hearing on government access to personal data on Tuesday at 10 a.m.
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Chronic venous disease is a long-term condition involving diseased or damaged veins. This type of leg vein disease is common, especially in older adults. Chronic venous disease can cause discomfort and complications. Fortunately, vein doctors offer vein treatment and promote vein health.
About Veins and Leg Vein Disease
Veins are part of the circulatory system. Veins work with other blood vessels, such as arteries, to circulate blood around the body. Arteries deliver oxygen-rich blood from the heart to cells in the rest of the body. The cells use the oxygen and other nutrients in blood to function. As they work, cells create carbon monoxide and other toxins. Veins carry this oxygen-poor blood back up to the heart.
Gravity helps arteries move blood down towards the feet. Gravity works against veins trying to carry blood back up towards the heart. Tiny valves inside the veins open and close at just the right time to trap blood in small segments of the vein. These valves prevent the blood from flowing backward or refluxing, down towards the feet.
Chronic venous disease can occur when these valves fail, and the oxygen-poor, toxin-rich blood refluxes into the lower legs and accumulate there. The accumulating blood presses against the inside of the veins, which causes the vein to bloat and twist. When this happens to veins lying near the surface of the skin, a varicose vein can become visible. Bloated and twisted varicose veins can occur deeper in the body too, so a person may not always know that he or she has a chronic venous disease.
Chronic venous disease can cause several conditions affecting the veins. These conditions can include:
- •Varicose veins
- •Spider veins, which are tiny swollen veins that may appear on the face and elsewhere
- •Leg swelling
- •Leg pain
- •Chronic venous insufficiency, a condition where the veins function poorly
- •Changes in the appearance of skin on the leg
- •Leg ulcers, which are painful sores appearing on the ankles and lower legs
- •Phlebitis, which is inflammation of a vein
- •Vascular malformations, or malformed veins
Symptoms of the chronic venous disease can include aching pain, legs that seem to tire out easily, leg heaviness, leg swelling, numbness of the legs, and an itching or irritated rash on the legs. In severe cases, darkening skin in the affected area may occur.
Many of these symptoms are the result of oxygen-poor and toxin-rich blood accumulating in the lower legs. The skin and tissue cells of the lower legs, ankles and feet require a steady supply of oxygen and nutrients to function correctly. Constant exposure to toxins, combined with lack of oxygen and nutrients, causes these cells to break down.
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Patna and Lucknow are the only cities of India which are having only adults. Female population in Patna grows by 50% to 60,000, but maintaining the same male to female ratio as previous year. Population in Lucknow increased by 12.5% to 90,000, but the ratio of male to female changed by 1:1 to 4:5. Male population in Patna was 10% more than the male population in Lucknow in the previous year.
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by Michael Krepon
There are no more illusions in U.S.-Pakistan relations. Pakistan feels bitter about Washington’s embrace of India and the blowback from U.S. counter-terrorism policies. Washington feels embittered by Pakistan’s decisions and seeming incapability of changing course.
In retrospect, the last stand of wishful thinking in the United States was the 2010 Kerry-Lugar-Berman legislation. Washington’s strategy back then was to put more money on the table to incentivize a reconsideration of Pakistan’s policies toward internal threats, Afghanistan, ties with India, and its nuclear posture.
From Washington’s perspective, the timing of KLB seemed right. A new civilian government was in place and in need of reinforcement. A thaw with India – a necessary condition to spur Pakistan’s economic growth – seemed possible. Perhaps Pakistan could be persuaded to not veto negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty, since it was harming Pakistan’s standing without constraining India. And maybe both countries could collaborate on finding a workable political settlement in Afghanistan.
KLB did not fare very well. Well meaning but tone deaf Members of Congress included a provision supporting civilian control of the military, prompting a backlash and antagonizing those capable of changing Pakistan’s national security policies. Pakistan took the money and didn’t change most of its policies. The big exception was that Pakistan’s military took on the Pakistan Taliban.
Six years after KLB, relations have reached another low point. Messages to move past the “blame game” will be again be heard, but this talking point has lost its powers of persuasion, as has the theme of betrayal. On Capitol Hill, Members of Congress are losing sympathy with Pakistan on Capitol Hill. Afghan Taliban leaders still find refuge on Pakistan’s soil where they are periodically targeted by drone strikes that damage the standing of both Pakistan and the United States. Hope has waned on negotiations over Afghanistan’s future and Afghan-Pakistan relations. The Indian Prime Minister makes a surprise visit to Lahore to jump-start improved relations, only to be stymied by the usual blocking action – an attack on a sensitive Indian target by cadres from an extremist group that finds safe haven in Pakistan. Meanwhile, Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal continues to grow faster than India’s even though Pakistan’s economy is nine times smaller.
The end of illusions helps to explain Capitol Hill’s behavior toward the F-16 sale. The only choices Congress seriously considered were to block the sale or to require payment in full. Yes, Washington appreciates the sacrifices made by Pakistan’s military in dealing with the Pakistan Taliban – a campaign that relies partly on F-16 sorties. But Members of Congress also recognize that money is fungible; helping Pakistan to finance the purchase of F-16s will free up money for choices that are contrary to U.S. foreign policy and national security interests.
The Obama administration has lost leverage it previously had on Capitol Hill in support of Pakistan. Its talking points are no more persuasive than Pakistan’s when it comes to the Haqqani network. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker fought back efforts to kill the sale, while insisting that Pakistan prioritize between its desire for more F-16s and outlays for other military initiatives. This outcome is likely to become the template followed by the next administration, as well.
A realistic appraisal of trend lines, stripped of illusion, leads to the following, inescapable conclusions. The United States will grow closer to India. Pakistan’s equities in Washington have shrunk with the declining U.S. troop presence in Afghanistan and with Pakistan’s perceived need to hedge its bets with the Afghan Taliban. U.S. defense assistance to India will continue to expand, while U.S. coalition support funding to Pakistan will diminish. The pro-India caucus on Capitol Hill will gain strength, and the pro-Pakistan caucus will shrink.
The United States will, however, continue to offer Pakistan assistance because of residual common interests — especially on counter-terrorism. Because perceptions of common U.S.-Pakistan interests have narrowed, Pakistan’s ties with China will become stronger, as they must. In time, Pakistan will find reason to be displeased with Chinese support, just as it found reason to grumble about U.S. assistance. Even the most artful diplomacy cannot alter these trends.
Pakistan will continue to chart its own course toward internal threats, Afghanistan, the Afghan Taliban, India, and nuclear issues – regardless of what Washington says or does or offers in terms of assistance. If Pakistan changes its national security policies, it will be because change is perceived by Pakistan to be in its interests, not because of Washington’s prodding, incentives, or penalties.
U.S.-Pakistan relations have been transactional, but both sides now have good reasons to be unhappy with transactionalism. From Washington’s perspective, Pakistan’s compensation has been generous. From Pakistan’s perspective, the compensation seems insufficient. Washington’s transactional calculus has now changed. It’s no longer about the sum total of U.S. assistance; it’s about Pakistan’s choices.
Michael Krepon is the Co-founder of the Stimson Center. His latest edited book is The Lure and Pitfalls of MIRVs: From the First to the Second Nuclear Age. | <urn:uuid:953dfe07-777d-4dbe-9334-801eee6da4bb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://alaiwah.wordpress.com/2016/06/21/us-pakistan-relations-the-end-of-illusions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942876 | 1,136 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The Distant Mountains
Chinese Painting of the Late Ming Dynasty, 1570-1644
By James Cabill. 8.5" x 12", 310 pages, hardcover. This survey of Chinese painting from 1570 to 1644 details the lives and work of 42 leading artists. There are over 150 plates, including 19 in color, both of familiar masterworks and seldom seen pieces, culled from leading collections in Asia and the West. This wealth of visual delight and instruction ably reinforces a text that is written with a great felicity of style. | <urn:uuid:c81faee8-abd0-4a70-b946-9107734ced36> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.qi-journal.com/store.asp?-token.M=B&-token.S=Chinese&-KeyValue=1928 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00129-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.916559 | 113 | 1.960938 | 2 |
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Subchapter 7. General Industry Safety Orders
Group 8. Points of Operation and Other Hazardous Parts of Machinery
Article 59. Woodworking Machines and Equipment
§4309. Horizontal Pull Saws (Radial Arm Saw).
(a) The saw blade shall be encased on both sides in such a way that at least the upper half of the blade and the arbor ends will be completely covered.
(1) The upper hood shall be constructed in such a manner and of such material that it will protect the operator from flying splinters, broken saw teeth, etc., and will deflect sawdust away from the operator.
(2) The sides of the lower exposed portion of the blade shall be guarded to the full diameter of the blade by a device that provides a physical barrier and visual warning, such as a leaf guard or chain, that will automatically adjust itself to the thickness of the stock and remain in contact with stock being cut to give the maximum protection possible for the operation being performed.
(b) Limit chains or other positive means shall be used to prevent the saw blade from moving beyond the front edge of the table. Such limiting devices shall be so designed and located that they can be easily inspected and they shall be maintained in good condition.
(c) Where saw is used for ripping purposes, there shall be an anti-kickback device installed. Such a device shall be designed to be effective for any thickness and width of the stock to be cut. Where automatic feeding devices are used they shall be guarded.
(d) There shall be an effective device which will return the saw automatically to the back of the table when released at any point of its travel; such a device shall prevent the saw from rebounding. As an alternative, the front of the table shall be raised to a height that will cause the saw to return to the rear of the table without rebounding.
(e) When a saw is designed for ripping or ploughing, such operations shall be against the direction in which the saw blade turns, and the direction of the saw rotation shall be conspicuously marked on the hood. In addition, a permanent label not less than 1-1/2 inches by 3/4-inch shall be affixed to both sides of the rear of the guard at approximately the level of the arbor, reading as follows: DO NOT RIP FROM THIS END, or equivalent wording.
Note: Authority cited: Section 142.3, Labor Code. Reference: Section 142.3, Labor Code.
1. Repealer and new section filed 10-25-74; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 74, No. 43).
2. Editorial correction of subsection (d) (Register 76, No. 9).
3. Amendment of subsection (e) filed 10-5-77; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 77, No. 41).
4. Amendment of subsection (a) and repealer of subsection (f) filed 4-27-79; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 79, No. 17).
5. Amendment of subsection (d) filed 7-6-79; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 79, No. 27).
6. Amendment of subsection (e) filed 7-8-85; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 85, No. 28).
7. Amendment of subsections (b) and (e) filed 8-15-86; effective thirtieth day thereafter (Register 86, No. 41).
8. Editorial correction of subsection (c) printing error (Register 86, No. 51).
9. New subsections (a)(1)-(2) filed 2-28-2013; operative 4-1-2013 (Register 2013, No. 9).
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8.A.65 The Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)-Plasma Membrane (PM) Junctional Competence Regulator (TMEM110) Family
The stromal interaction molecule (STIM)-ORAI calcium release-activated calcium modulator (ORAI) pathway (TC# 1.A.52) controls store-dependent calcium entry, a major mechanism of physiological calcium signaling in mammalian cells. The core elements of the pathway are the regulatory protein STIM1, located in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) membrane, the calcium channel ORAI1 in the plasma membrane (PM), and sites of close contact between the ER and the plasma membrane that permit the two proteins to interact. Research on calcium signaling has centered on STIM1, ORAI1, and a few proteins that directly modulate STIM-ORAI function. Proteins that organize ER-PM junctions for STIM-ORAI-dependent calcium signaling include an ER-resident membrane protein, transmembrane protein 110 (TMEM110). It regulates the long-term maintenance of ER-plasma membrane junctions and the short-term physiological remodeling of the junctions during store-dependent calcium signaling (Quintana et al. 2015). | <urn:uuid:6ca2c9b1-fa3b-4479-acd6-f1902bd8681d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tcdb.org/search/result.php?tc=8.A.65 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.809172 | 263 | 1.890625 | 2 |
The city of Berkeley held a public hearing Wednesday evening at the South Berkeley Senior Center, during which Berkeley community services specialist Rhianna Babka presented initiatives aimed at alleviating Berkeley’s housing crisis and heard community members’ concerns regarding homelessness, among other issues.
The approximately 15 attendees at the hearing had opportunities to raise their concerns, which focused on the housing crisis and other issues, including health care and traffic safety. These concerns will be synthesized into a letter that will be passed on to City Council.
“(The public hearing) was a possibility to hear grievances and concerns,” said East Bay resident Beverly Dove. “It should be a space where things are really heard and dealt with effectively and so things can be addressed from a new perspective.”
Attendees voiced their concerns about housing and being forced out of their homes, including one woman who said she could not sleep at night out of fear of becoming homeless. Others complained about traffic safety, health care and landlords pressuring tenants with increased prices.
Yesica Prado, a UC Berkeley alumna who attended the event, said those living in RVs are now being ticketed in West Berkeley. She added that most of those people cannot afford to pay these tickets, and that the Berkeley community has been complacent about improving the situation.
“I see chronic homelessness,” Prado said. “I’ve never seen the city come to address the problems. … We’re not really doing anything.”
Despite these concerns, Babka presented updates on Berkeley’s community needs and progress, which she said reinforced the hearing’s goals to “report on use of federal and state funds” and “hear from Berkeley residents what services and housing are needed for low-income people.”
Babka’s presentation summarized the city’s allocation of 2018 state and federal funds, which she said were primarily used to preserve affordable housing, rehabilitate public facilities, provide social services, provide the homeless with financial assistance and promote health care.
Babka said in her presentation that in the 2018 fiscal year, nine public facilities renovations were completed, benefitting more than 3,000 Berkeley residents.
According to Babka, the city is using a five-year plan to meet these goals, with 2018 marking the third year. She said that in the past three years, developers supported in part by the city of Berkeley have completed the construction of housing complex Harper Crossing — providing 42 units of affordable housing for seniors — and have begun construction of the Grayson Street Apartments to provide 23 additional units of affordable housing. By the end of five years, the city hopes to have constructed 80 units of rental housing.
Some event attendees called for public hearings to be better publicized in order to allow for more people — especially those of lower socioeconomic backgrounds — to attend and share their input.
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Faculty: ANDREW STROMINGER
Gwill E. York Professor of Physics
17 Oxford Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature
Administrative Assistant: Nicole D'Aleo
Jefferson 463 • (617) 495-2807 • email@example.com
The fundamental laws of nature, as we currently understand them, are both incomplete and self-contradictory. Unsolved problems include the unification of forces and particles, the origin of the universe and the quantum structure of black holes and event horizons. Professor Strominger’s research, almost always undertaken with collaborators, has endeavored to shed light on these problems using a variety of approaches. The emergence of string theory as a potential unified theory of nature began with his discovery of Calabi-Yau compactifications1. This construction demonstrated that string theory not only reconciles quantum mechanics and gravity, but can also contain within it electrons, protons, photons and all the other observed particles and forces, and hence is a viable candidate for a complete unified theory of nature. Strominger discovered the brane solutions of string theory2, and subsequently used them to unravel the intricate and beautiful duality symmetries of the theory. He used these branes to give a microscopic demonstration that black holes are able to holographically store information3; resolving a deep paradox uncovered by Hawking and Bekenstein a quarter century earlier. He further used the branes to derive new relations in algebraic geometry, equating the moduli space of a brane in a Calabi-Yau space to the mirror Calabi-Yau4, and relating the Donaldson-Thomas to the Gromov-Witten invariants5. Strominger found a mathematically precise mathematical relation between the Navier-Stokes and Einstein equation7, demonstrating that horizons evolve as incompressible fluids and providing a bridge between fluid dynamics and general relativity.
The discovery of holographic information storage by black holes was extended beyond its stringy origins to astrophysical black holes with large spins (such as GRS1915+105) by the discovery of a near-horizon conformal symmetry of the Einstein equation6. Observational signals of this conformal symmetry for gravity wave detectors, accretion disk Fe lines and the Event Horizon Telescope are being studied7.
Recently Strominger8 has discovered an exact mathematical equivalence between three disparate phenomena which have been separately studied for the last half-century: quantum field theory soft theorems, asymptotic symmetries and the memory effect. This has deep implications for the infrared structure of all gauge and gravitational theories ranging from collider physics to the black hole information paradox9.
- “Vacuum Configurations for Superstrings,“ P. Candelas, G. Horowitz, A. Strominger, E. Witten, Nucl. Phys. B 258:46-74, 1985.
- "Black strings and P-branes," G. Horowitz, A. Strominger, Nucl. Phys. B 360:197-209, 1991.
- “Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy,“ A. Strominger, C. Vafa, Phys. Lett. B 379:99-104, 1996. hep-th/9601029.
- “Mirror symmetry is T duality,“ A. Strominger, S.T. Yau, E. Zaslow, Nucl. Phys. B 479:243-259, 1996. hep-th/9606040.
- "Black hole attractors and the topological string," H. Ooguri, A. Strominger and C. Vafa, Phys. Rev. D 70:106007, 2004. hep-th/0405146.
- “The Kerr/CFT Correspondence,“ M. Guica, T. Hartman, W. Song, and A. Strominger, Phys. Rev. D 80:124008, 2009. hep-th/0809.4266.
- http://okc.albanova.se/okmemorial/lecturers/2014.php; video: http://video.physto.se/ALBANOVA20141120/video.mp4
- “On BMS Invariance of Gravitational Scattering,” A. Strominger, JHEP,152 (2014), hep-th/1312.2229.
- “Soft Hair on Black Holes,” S. W. Hawking, M. J. Perry, and A. Strominger, hep-th/1601.00921.
- Quantum Gravity and String Theory: The Past, the Present and the Future, Princeton, Strings 2014.
- The Edges of the Universe: Black Holes, Horizons and Strings, The Royal Society, May, 2012.
- Black Holes: the Harmonic Oscillators of the 21rst Century, Harvard Physics Video Archive, September, 2010.
- String Theory, Black Holes and the Fundamental Laws of Nature, Harvard@Home, April, 2007.
Prizes & Medals:
- Leonard Eisenbud Prize, American Mathematical Society, 2008
- Physics Frontiers Breakthrough Prize, Milner Foundation, 2014
- Dirac Medal, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, 2014
- Oskar Klein Medal, Swedish Royal Academy, 2014
- Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics, American Physical Society, 2016
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On 9 March 1984, early in the morning, I was awoken by a journalist for Le Monde. He told me of the assassination of Gérard Lebovici and asked me to write a story right away. Still in shock, I whipped something up that appeared in the newspaper on the 10th, under the titled “Children of Chaos.” Along with other texts, it would be reprinted in Tout sur le personnage. My article began this way:
“The history of the Champ Libre, even if the journalists do not know this, was the work of several of us with Gérard Lebovici. First Gérard Guégan, then Alain le Saux, Jean-Yves Guiomar and myself. I last saw Lebovici on Monday, 4 November 1974. Wearing a Keatonesque masque and a [Humphrey] Bogart-style raincoat, he met us at La Coupole. He immediately asked Guégan to resign. He refused. Each of us took his side. A half-hour later, we left Lebovici, leaving him with Champ Libre, a collection [of books], projects, an image and a legend.”
And [Guy] Debord, long waiting in ambush, more Tartuffe than Machiavelli, the pains [in his ass] set aside, found an steadfast patron who, thanks to him, took himself for another, [and] ended up believing himself to be irremediably transformed.
Divided between irritation and laughter, I desire to bring to the fore the “true” history of this publishing house since an exhibition at the Bibliothèque nationale de France [BNF], accompanied by a catalogue co-published by Gallimard, is perpetuating a crude lie that accompanies several twistings of the truth. So far, the exhibition, Guy Debord – An Art of War, has not been contested. It was been welcomed by well-worn banalities, served up each time that one has again spoken of the Situationist International and the unique hero of that paper tiger, Debord. The two people in charge at the BNF, Emmanuel Guy and Laurence Le Bras, have acted as if one must rely [solely] upon the history that was tailor-made for the glory of the “figurehead” of situationism. And they have (innocently?) done so, without neglecting a single detail. This doesn’t lack interest because here one celebrates an expert in the denunciation of fakers (“masperizers”). An example: in the “selective” bibliography that indicates the books published on the subject, “one” has omitted two books that tell the history of Champ Libre with great care, both published by Grasset: Cité Champagne, Esc.i, appt.289, 95-Argenteuil and Montagne Sainte-Geneviève, côté cour. It is true that they were written by Gérard Guégan, the true and only founder of Champ Libre with Lebovici, and that they carefully describe the circumstances of his departure and ours. In the [exhibition] catalogue, a chapter increases – at least for me – the suspicions of a complete rewriting (to order?) of one of the glorious moments in the career of the astute strategist [Guy Debord]. In his way, Emmanuel Guy summarizes the appearance of Champ Libre and, without returning to the method of effacement and revisions of an already-known adventure (see the biographies of Debord and Lebovici), I quite simply want to point out the degree to which his work is maladroit and harmful.
The moment has come to return to the circumstances that have permitted the BNF and its director, Bruno Racine, to put on such a farce. First of all, there was a mix-up between three booksellers. The library at Yale University, which already had a situ archive, was disposed to buy the archives of Guy Debord, even “selections.” It had to kiss them goodbye on 29 January 2009, when the Minister of Culture, Frédéric Mitterrand, classified them as a “national treasure.” With the aid of several zealots, such as Philippe Sollers, the BNF had to struggle to raise the tidy sum required. The cheers that greeted this operation did not prevent the snickers of several evil spirits. Useless to ask the opinion of an expert, René Riesel, one of the Enragés in Nanterre in ’68, rejected by Debord one day under a calumnious pretext. He expressed it in advance on 4 February 2001, in Libération, in response to Alain Léauthier: “I’ll leave to the sophisticated and university-based Debordists their endless glosses of Debord (…) Debord enclosed himself in an obsessive and sterile conspiracy theory for at least half of the Comments and, obviously, this manner of reducing everything to the lure fascinated the professionals of the lie. The people in the media and power recognized themselves in it and found in it their unsurpassable horizon.”
Sollers stands out from the confirmed Debordists. In a thrown-together report that aired on Télérama on 23 March (“Guy Debord occupies the BNF”), he recited the following couplet: “He has been thought of as a sociologist or a political ideologue, but he is a great metaphysical writer, that’s the great misunderstanding . . . Debord has been accused of being a conspiracist, of being paranoid. But of course there is a conspiracy: the commodity against intelligence.” What was Debord’s opinion of this sanctimonious person? He gave it in This Bad Reputation (Gallimard, 1993): “In the 5 November 1992 issue of Humanité, a disgusting newspaper that is as covered with blood and lies as the files of Dr Garetta, there were several praises of me. But they are insignificant, since they were signed [by] Philippe Sollers.” Very touchy about what was written about him, Debord took badly a novel by Bertrand Delcour, Blocus solus, published by Série Noire (Issue 2430). In it, the author depicted “Guy Bordeux, charismatic leader of the Simulationist International, cult author of The Society of the Spectral.” Debord took this as a pretext to go further. Even light ridicule was intolerable. One understands why Lebovici, after reading Guégan’s second novel, Les irréguliers (which I, working at Flammarion in 1999, reprinted with Les Irrégulières), believed that he was obligated to take action. The author had included a scene in which a character resembled Debord and spoke like [Raoul] Vaneigem! This was the pretext for his elimination. This, and our voluntary departure, was greeted by cries of joy (see the correspondence published by Fayard).
“Everything about the person.” This book has not yet been translated into English.
The publishing house that Lebovici (a very successful impresario in French cinema) founded with his own money in 1969 with Gérard Guégan.
A facial expression like that of Buster Keaton.
More of an impostor than a strategist.
In point of fact, Lebovici’s “patronage” had begun three years earlier, in 1971, when Champ Libre reprinted Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle.
In point of fact, it had been “contested” several times before the publication of this piece: on 23 March 2013 by Antonio Casilli; on 31 March 2013 by Olivier Beuvelet; on 4 April 2013 by Pascal Holenweg, et. al.
Contrast this assertion with what Guy and Le Bras themselves said in this interview with Laurent Wolf.
Derived from Edition Maspero, which, according to the situationists, specialized in publications that had been falsified by deletions and abridgments.
I do not know what the author is referring to here: Il y eut d’abord une embrouille entre trois libraires. Three booksellers?!
Cf. the letter from Debord to Riesel dated 7 September 1971. Though Debord’s letter doesn’t allude to this fact, Riesel had spent almost two years trying (and failing) to put together issue #13 of Internationale Situationniste.
As the reader will see from consulting the interview itself, these comments were made in response to the following, rather specific question: “In 1988, in his Comments on The Society of the Spectacle, Guy Debord wrote: ‘There is no longer any opposition.’ For many this signified the annihilation of the idea of radical revolution. Do you share this finding?” Only someone like Raphaël Sorin could pretend these comments have some relevance to an exhibition of Guy Debord’s works at the BNF more than 10 years later.
“I can finally transmit to you definite news: all of the little fakers – Guégan, Sorin, Guiomar, Le Saux – were emptied into a single trashcan at the first meeting that followed the complete demonstration of all that they are (that is to say, around the time of my departure to Italy). The sky of their fuckery having fallen on their heads, they have not even tried to resist. This aspect of the problem is thus settled for the best” (letter to Juvenal Quillet and Bernard Schumacher dated 9 December 1974). “[Lebovici] demanded the immediate resignation of the four bureaucratic directors of Champ Libre, as I had urgently advised him. At the first meeting, the four declared that ‘it would not be a question’ of them giving their resignations. Lebovici soon thereafter responded, ‘Well then, you are fired!’ Thus, forgetting all of their requirements and glorious demands, they ‘crossed him out’ as their patron and boss. Since the death of Alexander, one has not seen such a sudden collapse of an empire! Thus, they are now unemployed workers. All of the Parisian intelligentsia is talking about it. As you might think, it is to me that one generally attributes this kind of ‘coup de Sinigaglia,’ to which ‘their naivety’ led them” (letter to Gianfranco Sanguinetti dated 10 December 1974. And Debord never mentioned any of them again.
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When you commit a sin, this is an example of a time when you transgress.
- to overstep or break (a law, commandment, etc.)
- to go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.)
Origin of transgressFrench transgresser ; from Classical Latin transgressus, past participle of transgredi, to step over, pass over ; from trans-, trans- + gradi, to step, walk: see grade
verbtrans·gressed, trans·gress·ing, trans·gress·es
- To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep: “to make sure that her characters didn't transgress the parameters of ordinariness” (Ron Rosenbaum).
- To act in violation of (the law, for example).
- To commit an offense by violating a law, principle, or duty.
- To spread over land, especially over the land along a subsiding shoreline. Used of the sea.
Origin of transgressMiddle English transgressen, from Old French transgresser, from Latin transgred&imacron;, transgress-, to step across : trans-, trans- + grad&imacron;, to go; see ghredh- in Indo-European roots.
(third-person singular simple present transgresses, present participle transgressing, simple past and past participle transgressed)
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Friends, last post, I already started talking about the wonderful city of Lopburi and the caudate residents. Now I want to show the main attraction of this extraordinary place - the temple of the monkeys, populated by more privileged bunch of monkeys.
Before leaving for Chiang Mai, we are very eager to see the Khmer temple Wat Sam Yot, who for several years was chosen by a monkey. Remember banderlogov who caught Mowgli and carried him in his temple the jungle? So, the Khmer shrine in Lopburi are so similar in housing banderlogov that unconsciously expect to see a wise Kaa, creeping out from under a stone statue of Buddha.
But, fortunately, there are no snakes in the temple there. On the marvelous decorative relief of the temple can be seen only ancient watchmen - stone Nagas.
General view of the church:
The ancient caretaker:
The temple itself was created in the 12-13 centuries as a Hindu. Three towers stood for the Hindu gods: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva. The height of the middle tower, by the way, about fifteen meters. Following the restructuring of the 17th century by King Narai the instructions, the church acquired the traits inherent in the architecture of Thailand. True, the legacy of the Khmer hide still failed.
Now, in this temple is dominated by followers do not "Ramayana", and the new owners - a monkey.
When we went to the temple was a terrible midday heat, so many monkeys preferred to hide in the shadows.
Some actively expressed frustration that their pictures.
Some were surprised the tourists.
But basically, all the monkeys were engaged in ordinary commonplace things, not paying any attention to us.
Warriors Army of Hanuman protect his patron, and to this day.
In order to see the monkeys, they do not, but you have to climb into the cells. So think, who then chief?
Inside you can enter in order to safely feed the monkeys. In the street make it very risky. Despite the fact that the territory of the rangers go to stick distilled particularly brazen monkeys get a treat from the bag is not recommended. Otherwise, you immediately stick round on all sides.
We knew nothing about it. Therefore, we have befallen an amusing and instructive story. As you might guess, monkeys strongly susceptible to food. Especially young calves. We tested this claim on their own experience, walking through the temple possessions.
While the kids, as it turned out, served a red herring, arrogant and far-sighted male ran up behind me and snatched from the hands of a package with a bottle of mineral water.
I have no idea about his evil plans
I understand, brother, heat tortured. But then on further actions strategically IQ is not enough. Frenzy seen through the bottle, the boy was hoping to enjoy a life-giving moisture. However, he apparently skipped school physics. Because the law of gravity does not know. As a result, all the water dried watered soil, and macaques remained in razgryzennogo trough.
So my advice to you: the monkeys to be very careful. We were lucky - just hit the water. But I have heard many stories like monkeys pulled out cameras and glasses, pulls off the cap and baseball caps. In general, grabbing everything that is bad. True, they are still very cute and funny! Bunch of positive emotions guaranteed!
Life of temple monkeys differ from their everyday existence of urban counterparts: the constant feeding, the food and attention to ensure their constant and high satiety fattened Teles.
Therefore, the "urban" trying hard to get into the temple, and wormed his way among the inhabitants. And do not trivial way. This, for instance, decided pereporhnut temple on the high wire fence.
And this by clicking the fence:
Thailand is certainly an extraordinary country. And just in Lopburi can fulfill the dream of many children 90 years: to get to the Planet of the Apes.
In addition to the monkeys in the city there are some more interesting attractions that are worth paying attention. On them I will next time.
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National Cheeseball Day is April 17th. It is a perfect day for you to celebrate the cheesy party classic. There are many ways to celebrate Cheeseball Day, but you can also celebrate with two cheeseballs. Maybe you want to make one of each type? Plan your party and serve both! Cheeseballs are often brought to parties, but what do you really know about them? Here’s your chance to learn more. Cheeseballs are common during the holidays, and they can be found in the supermarket. Although they may seem delicious, they can be very confusing. However, there are many interesting facts about these tasty treats! There are many reasons for people to eat cheese. Cheeseballs and cheese puffs are just a few examples of the wonderful variety of ways that people enjoy their favorite varieties of cheese. Don't forget that no matter what you're celebrating, whether it's just a quiet night in or a big party, we want to be sure it's delicious. With our huge selection of cheeses, we're confident you'll find the perfect one!
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Name: Rhinoceros Iguana
Scientific Name: Cyclura cornuta
Iguana was photographed at
L ion Country Safari in an exhibit.
This native of Hispaniola is an Endangered Species.
They can also be found locally in Haiti
and Dominican Republic.
They live in arid and rocky environments.
Many found in Florida are imported pets.
It gets its name from the raised scales in front
of the eyes which look like "horns" of a rhinoceros.
Males, like the one pictured,
have swollen jowls on the neck and
two enlarged areas at the back of the skull.
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If you and your spouse argue about money, learn how to sit down and talk about money together. If that doesn’t work, consider having separate finances. It might be the best way to keep your relationship intact.
Normally, I recommend that couples keep their finances together. It’s easier to track spending and savings. It’s also easier to work together to plot a course for the future. But sometimes this is terrible advice. My experience tells me that one in 10 couples should keep their finances separate.
You’ll know if you are that one in 10 if you and your spouse fight about money and/or just don’t seem to make any headway toward your ultimate financial goals. Believe it or not, keeping the money separate can sometimes do wonders to help you increase savings, maintain a high credit score, track your budget and advance toward your financial dreams. It can also significantly reduce the conflict at home.
The trick to separating finances is to set up strict monthly goals without micromanaging your partner’s spending. The reason I focus on spending is because it’s typically budgeting and spending tracking that causes couples to fight. They argue over what’s necessary and what isn’t.
By separating your money, you don’t have to worry about that anymore. Even if you make most of the money and your husband does most of the spending, you can still find a way to split the finances rather than the marriage.
Each of you gets an allowance. But you also get an area of responsibility. Let’s say you bring home $7,000 a month and your husband brings home $2,000. That’s a total of $9,000. Let’s say he’s responsible to pay the mortgage and to buy food. You are responsible (in this example) for everything else – including saving for the future.
Let’s assume that it will cost $3,000 a month to cover his responsibilities and it will cost you $3,000 to cover yours. You have $3,000 extra.
You might decide, as a couple, to bump up the savings another $2,000 each month and split the spare $1,000. So each of you would get an additional $500 a month for extras. You each make your own decisions about that money. You can either save it for unexpected emergencies or future goodies. On the other hand, you can spend that money too. It’s up to each of you. The rule is nobody is allowed to scrutinize what the other decides to do with that extra $500 a month.
(On the other hand, if one spouse wants more money than is budgeted, he can always look for a second job.)
This works great if everyone sticks to the agreement. But how do you make sure your husband is actually paying the bills? This may seem like a dumb question but I ran into a case last year where a couple encountered this exact issue. He was in charge of paying the bills but didn’t do it.
He thought it would be better to play the ponies instead. By the time my friend found out about her husband’s irresponsibility, they were facing bankruptcy and foreclosure. She was angry and started talking about divorce, and I couldn’t really blame her. But thankfully, this couple worked it out by separating their finances, making allowances and (most important) having accountability.
In their case, the wife took over paying the bills, and she showed her husband the receipts each month.
In my opinion, if you’re going to separate your finances and assign different areas of responsibility, it makes sense that each partner show the other that they have fulfilled their responsibilities each month. Set up a time and stick to it. Have your monthly meeting and be accountable to each other.
3. Be Flexible
Over time, your needs, goals and financial resources will change. You have to make allowances for these changes too. The problem of course is that some people use this as an excuse. They point to some “special circumstance” and try to leverage that into the reason they spent too much or otherwise didn’t live up to their responsibilities. In my opinion, the only way around this issue is to have a third-party accountability judge. This person is going to have the hard job of deciding just how “special” the “special circumstance” is. Does the situation require or justify a new spending pattern, or not?
If you are a couple which has decided to split the finances, chances are high that you won’t be able to make this determination yourselves. If you can’t find a friend who is willing to be your accountability judge, hire a financial advisor for an hour and get his opinion as these items come up. You likely won’t have to see the advisor more than once or twice a year and, believe me, it’s going to be a lot cheaper than a divorce.
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Forging a New Trail
by Jon Brouchoud
I made it to the top of the observatory tower at Woodland Dunes Nature with my 360 camera just in time for sunrise. My Dad, Bernie Brouchoud, who founded this amazing place 44 years earlier, was in the ICU and I wanted to use VR to help him transcend the dizzying hospital interior. I had hoped that immersing him in nature at the place he spent so much his life protecting could make him feel better.
There was poetic irony in attempting to use VR to help my Dad transcend a healthcare situation, when only a few weeks earlier, I was using VR to immerse people into healthcare situations at our booth at IMSH where I witnessed firsthand the potential of this technology to improve healthcare and medical training.
When he was rushed to the ICU in an ambulance 2 weeks earlier, we were afraid he wouldn’t survive the trip. But an incredible team of highly trained professionals provided heroic care, and after inserting a central line and an array of new medications, he was stabilized. This experience changed my life, and I remain forever humbled and deeply inspired by the heroic skill those doctors and nurses exhibited that night. It was clear that life depends on the training and experience of the staff in a place where every second counts.
I soon learned about the critical shortage of physicians, nurses and other healthcare professionals already impacting the care received in situations like this. In fact, there’s projected to be a shortage of over 27,000 nurses in Wisconsin alone in the next 20 years, compounded by a shortage of qualified trainers – a situation that’s also projected to get much worse.
In fact, at around the same time we were in the ICU, a U.S. Senate committee in Washington D.C. held hearings on how to address the growing shortage of nurses and health care professionals especially in rural areas. Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) said, “Compared to the scope of the challenge, we’re fighting fires with a squirt gun.”
While my Dad was lucky to be enjoying comparatively elite care with regional adjacency to multi million dollar state-of-the-art training facilities and some of the best schools in the country, the situation isn’t as positive in remote areas that don’t enjoy similar training access.
Overworked, poorly trained staff could soon become a widespread crisis in healthcare, and it’s likely to get substantially worse in the years ahead, especially in rural and remote areas. It will require training innovation of epic proportions to address this challenge, and it seemed clear to me that VR training could play a major roll in expanding access and increasing efficacy of VR training.
The Oculus GO VR headset was charged, the 360 video of Woodland Dunes was ready, and I could finally share it with my Dad to get his mind out of the hospital and into the Nature he so desperately missed. However, his health deteriorated rapidly and he passed away before having a chance to see the 360 experience of Woodland Dunes.
As we left the hospital that night, empty and heartbroken, I looked back to see another ‘comfort cart’ being rolled in as ICU staff scrambling to assist newly admitted patients. As shocked family members looked on, I remembered that feeling.
The realization that this was one of many thousands of hospitals, and this is the day-to-day experience of tens of millions, I was filled with a sense of urgency and obligation to do anything in my power to contribute to this industry in any way I can. I was all in.
We Need to Find a Better Way
I was excited to learn of fresh research from the University of Maryland that found substantially higher retention from virtual reality learning. Other studies reported students remember what they learn in VR as much as 250% longer. These exciting results underscored my commitment to prioritize healthcare and medical training as a central focus for Arch Virtual.
However, if we’re going to make a difference with VR in healthcare, our current approach to VR development would need an overhaul. It was expensive, complex and time consuming – involving specialists across the entire spectrum of VR development. The result of many months of effort is a single ‘on rails’ app that could teach learners to perform a procedure one way. Every school and hospital does things differently, and best practices are constantly changing.
Taken together, the expensive, complex, time consuming and inflexible development methods we’re using now have already fallen far short of meeting the demand for VR medical and healthcare training. It can be effective and appropriate for some uses, but accommodates only a microscopic slice of a massive, multi-faceted industry with training needs that span a vast array of procedures and skills that are constantly evolving.
If we’re going to make an impact, we’re going to have to find a more faster, cheaper, and more equitable method of creating VR training.
Back to the Drawing Board
The beauty of May in Wisconsin is truly ineffable. I was pacing in a gorgeous outdoor courtyard during a lunch break at the International Forum on Consciousness in Madison after hearing a fascinating talk by Thupten Jinpa. The topic shared marvelous synchronicity with the call I was now on with our VR development team. We were kicking off an extremely ambitious undertaking that would redefine the future of our company.
We had recently finished an overhaul of our Immerse Creator VR collaboration product, and were excited by early feedback we had gathered around a skunkworks branch of it we codenamed ‘Phantom Scalpel,’ applying the same scene editing tools to medical simulation.
Earlier in the month, we began prototyping a method for capturing 3D recordings in VR that could then be saved to a library and played later. The effect would be somewhat similar to a replay in a video game, or motion capture data, but would also include voice data, realtime object interactions, and networked multiplayer functionality. It would be among the most technically complex challenge we’ve attempted, but the results could be quite powerful.
If we could pull this off and combine it with all of the scene creating and editing features we already had in place, it would allow end users to effectively create their own training and simulation content using easily accessible, off-the-shelf consumer VR hardware.
This combination of features held the promise of affordable, accessible, flexible, scalable, VR training creation, created by experts, that’s easy to update over time. A training procedure that would have taken several months and tens of thousands of dollars to produce through traditional VR development methods could now be done in a few hours at a fraction of the cost. This could be the path we were looking for toward meaningful innovation in VR medical and healthcare training.
I was convinced we could demonstrate far greater learning efficacy and development speed with this method, while turning the keys of VR development over to the instructors, giving them complete control over the entire simulation.
Welcome to Acadicus
After a heroic effort by our development team, and months of encouraging feedback from pilot testers, we’re preparing to launch this new VR training system, formerly known as Project Phantom Scalpel.
We now call it Acadicus, for the latin name of the tiny Saw Whet Owl, the bird my Dad spent his career studying. Ironically, the first case we were asked to develop is Central Line training through a partnership with UW Health Clinical Simulation Program, the same procedure that yielded the result that inspired this new path from the ICU earlier this year. We’re raising investment capital and building partnerships and collaboration with schools to develop a variety of new procedures and equipment training, while gathering data we can use to build an evidence-based case for the efficacy of VR training with Acadicus.
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This school has been amazing for my children! The administration and teachers are caring, welcoming, and supportive. Students are challenged academically and supported when they need the support. I pulled my kids from a private school so they could attend EHMS.
It is our first year here but was worried about 5th graders going to school with 8th graders. It is a non-issue. The school handles it great. 5th graders report to the cafeteria before school so they're not roaming the halls with the older students. My son is not confident socially but has not had any issues. His teacher is AMAZING!
While I agree with the other reviewer on the dismal state of school lunches, I must say that after having two children go through this school it is an excellent school. Middle school is when the kids begin to distinguish themselves if they excel in certain areas, and the school and district provide opportunities for those children. The staff is both dedicated and caring, and I have personally found teacher and administrator communications extremely easy. On the occasations when we had issues, they were addressed immediately and effectively. The counselling staff has been a great resourcs, and everyone from the office staff to the teachers are open, helpful and approachable. This school like many others is challenged with the diverse student population. I see that as a positive, because it reflects real life. My child has benefitted from having peers with learning disabilities, physical challenges, and different ethnic, social, and economic backgrounds.
Right now, I have to say that I am not very impressed. Let me start with some trivial issues. Upon escorting my daughter into school, I learned that the students have the option of having freshed baked chocolate chip cookies for breakfast. Chili cheese fries are offered everyday of the week as are icecream bars and soda. At what point does common sense override profit? On a more important note, my fifth grader hardly has homework. There has been no real emphasis on the importance of hard work or studying. Teacher/parent communications, in my particular situation, are at best poor. I would like to know when my kid is having a test, even if it is an open book test (which seems to me opting out of teaching) or notice of a project before the week that its due.
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ANN ARBOR — Two University of Michigan population ecologists have been awarded a $1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Health for a five-year study that will try to explain the changing patterns of whooping cough outbreaks, using records from several countries spanning more than 70 years.
Thanks to widespread childhood vaccination, whooping cough (pertussis) once seemed to be under control. But the bacterial illness, which in infants causes violent, gasping coughing spells, has made a comeback in the United States and some other developed countries since the 1980s. In addition, there’s been a shift in who’s getting sick, with fewer cases seen in preschool children and more in teenagers.READ MORE: Ribs RnB Music Festival Kicks Off This Weekend In Downtown Detroit
Unlike a conventional epidemiological investigation of a disease outbreak, the new UM study will rely heavily on the use of long-term incidence reports, mathematical models of pertussis transmission and statistical methods for extracting information from data. Records from recent and historical outbreaks in several countries — including England, Wales, Sweden, Denmark, Senegal and the United States — will be analyzed.
“I think pertussis research has, until now, been piecemeal. Researchers have used different methods on different data sets and arrived at diverse conclusions,” said UM population ecologist Pejman Rohani, co-leader of the new NIH-funded study.
“What we have proposed to do would, we believe, represent the most comprehensive stab at a systematic examination of pertussis,” said Rohani, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, a professor of complex systems and a professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health.
The co-principal investigator on the pertussis study is Aaron King, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and an associate professor of mathematics.
Some researchers say the reason for the observed changes in pertussis outbreak patterns since the 1980s is clear: The childhood vaccine for whooping cough wears off quicker than experts had previously believed. But Rohani and King say the explanation may not be that simple.READ MORE: Judge Says Michigan Gov. Whitmer Won't Have To Testify In Abortion Lawsuit
“That’s probably the easiest hypothesis to understand because it’s fairly straightforward, but infectious disease systems are usually much more complicated,” King said.
“We’re trying to understand why we see these patterns of pertussis, both the resurgence in the total number of cases and the change in the age distribution of those cases,” he said. “We don’t really understand either of those things, and we see it happening across the United States.”
The new UM study will use archival data from outbreaks that occurred in the pre-vaccination era to pin down some of the fundamental biology of pertussis: the duration of infection-derived immunity and the epidemiological impact of repeat infections, as well as the respective contributions of population demography, age-specific contacts and seasonality. A second phase of the research will address the vaccine-specific aspects of the problem by focusing on countries with known vaccine usage and immunization schedules.
“The ultimate test of whether our understanding of pertussis has significantly advanced will be to explain an enigmatic body of data, namely the changing patterns of pertussis incidence in the United States over the past 30 years,” Rohani said.
New insights provided by the study could, for example, lead to recommendations about revising the pertussis immunization schedule for children or the design of optimal adult/adolescent boosters, Rohani and King said.
Currently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that infants and children receive the diphtheria-tetanus-acellular pertussis (DTaP) vaccine at 2 months, 4 months, 6 months and 15 to 18 months of age. A booster of DTaP is given at 4 through 6 years of age and another dose of whooping cough vaccine, known as Tdap, is recommended for adolescents.MORE NEWS: MDHHS Lifts No-Contact Recommendation In Huron River Chemical Spill
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Dementia is not a disease; instead, it is a syndrome — a set of symptoms — that occurs when neurons (nerve cells) in the brain stop working, lose connections with other brain cells, and die.
Eventually this leads to a loss of cognitive ability that is significant enough to disrupt a person’s daily life.
Dementia ranges in severity from mild to severe. People who are in the final stages become completely incapable of caring for themselves and require around-the-clock help with the most basic aspects of daily living.
Up to half of all men and women who are 85 and older (sometimes called the oldest old) have some form of dementia, yet experts do not consider it a normal part of aging. Many people live into their nineties with their cognitive abilities intact.
The National Institute on Aging defines dementia in two parts:
- Having two or more core functions that are impaired. These functions include memory, language skills, visual perception, and the ability to focus and pay attention. Also included are cognitive skills such as the ability to reason and solve problems.
- A loss of brain function severe enough that a person cannot do normal everyday tasks.
Some people with dementia may be unable to control their emotions, or they may exhibit personality changes.
They may grapple with hallucinations (seeing or experiencing things that don’t exist) and delusions (convictions not grounded in reality). (1)
Are Dementia and Alzheimer’s the Same?
Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease are not the same thing.
Alzheimer’s accounts for 60 to 80 percent of all dementia cases. It is a slowly progressive brain disease marked by the accumulation of fragments of the protein beta-amyloid (plaques) outside neurons in the brain and twisted strands of the protein tau (tangles) inside neurons.
Early in the course of the disease, people with Alzheimer’s may have difficulty remembering recent conversations, names, or events, and they may experience apathy and depression.
While Alzheimer’s is the most common dementia, it is not the only kind.
The second most prevalent form of dementia, for instance, is vascular dementia, which occurs when blocked arteries stop blood flow to the brain, depriving brain cells of the oxygen and nutrients they need to function.
While memory loss is one of the first signs of Alzheimer’s, people with vascular dementia may initially have impaired judgment or unusual difficulty with planning, organizing, and making decisions.
In the past, physicians used a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s to rule out vascular dementia and vice versa. But now experts believe that the two dementias often coexist, an example of a condition called mixed dementia.
Autopsy studies of people with Alzheimer’s reveal that about half also had other forms of dementia, most commonly vascular dementia. (2)
A Tell-Tale Sign of Dementia: Proteins in the Brain
Dementia is caused by damage to brain cells. Researchers are working to better understand why and how this happens. Their hope is that their efforts will lead to a cure — none exists yet — or a treatment that does more than relieve symptoms for a short time.
Scientists have observed an association between certain kinds of dementia and high levels of proteins in the brain, as with Alzheimer’s disease.
Lewy body dementia, the third most common form of dementia, is associated with abnormal deposits of a protein called alpha-synuclein.
In a healthy brain, alpha-synuclein helps neurons communicate. But when alpha-synuclein begins to clump inside neurons, forming so-called Lewy bodies, brain function is impaired, impacting thinking, movement, behavior, and mood. (3)
A Syndrome With Many Causes — Some Preventable
Genes, which are passed down from parents to their offspring, are believed to play a role in almost every type of dementia.
Yet except in rare cases of a single-gene mutation, people don’t inherit dementia directly. Instead, their odds depend on some combination of genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors.
According to the United Kingdom group the Alzheimer’s Society, most people can significantly lower their dementia risk by staying physically active, eating a healthy diet, drinking alcohol in moderation (if at all), and not smoking.
Certain kinds of dementia, however, appear to be more seriously affected by genetics. About 10 to 15 percent of people with a form of dementia called frontotemporal disorders (also known as frontotemporal dementia) have a strong family history. (4)
How Many People Suffer From Dementia?
An estimated 14 percent of people age 71 and older live with dementia. Of these, more women are affected than men — 16 percent versus 11 percent.
Unfortunately, dementia often goes unreported and undiagnosed, with only about half of people with dementia identified by physicians.
The number of people living with dementia is expected to increase significantly due to the aging of the baby boomers and advances in medicine. By 2030, an estimated 20 percent of people in the United States will be age 65 and older, up from 14 percent in 2012.
Dementia’s toll — personal, medical, and societal — is already high, and with these changing demographics, it is expected to go much higher.
For 2017, the total cost of healthcare and long-term care for people with dementia was estimated at $259 billion. That amount is projected to shoot up to $1.1 trillion in 2050 (in 2017 dollars). (2)
Medication Can Stabilize the Symptoms, Not Cure Dementia
When it comes to the progressive diseases that cause dementia, there is currently no cure and no way to significantly slow or reverse damage to the brain.
However, certain medications can lessen or stabilize some of the symptoms of dementia at least for a while. Many have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat Alzheimer’s disease, with clinical evidence that they can also help people with other forms of dementia.
Patients with Lewy body dementia, for instance, may find some relief from using cholinesterase inhibitors, currently used to treat symptoms of Alzheimer’s such as memory loss, confusion, and problems with thinking and reasoning. (5)
There are currently more than 250 clinical trials in the United States examining dementia. Investigators working with people online and at centers around the country are studying both pharmaceutical and nonpharmaceutical interventions.
Participants in these clinical trials, including those with dementia and those at risk, can gain access to potential treatments before they are in widespread use while also helping find a cure for future generations. (6)
Dementia Causes and Risk Factors
Dementia occurs when neurons (nerve cells) in the brain stop working, lose connections with other brain cells, and die. Researchers are still working to understand why this happens and are investigating the role that genetics, lifestyle, and environment all play.
Vascular dementia has been linked to damaged arteries that block the flow of blood to the brain, depriving brain cells of the oxygen and nutrients they need to function. The severity of the blockage and its location in the brain will determine the impact on thinking and reasoning. Risk factors include atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries), high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and diabetes, among others; smoking also raises risk.
For Lewy body dementia, in which abnormal clumps of protein called Lewy bodies impede normal brain function, other diseases such as Parkinson’s appear to raise risk. Scientists believe that a family history of this dementia may also be a factor.
At this point in time, the main risk factor that scientists have been able to identify for frontotemporal disorders (also called frontotemporal dementia) is family history. However, researchers have found molecular and genetic similarities between the underlying brain condition, frontotemporal degeneration, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Exploring those similarities may help scientists better understand and treat both illnesses.
Can You Prevent Dementia?
People who have a parent or sibling with dementia may feel doomed by their genetics. However, while researchers believe that genetics matter, they also hold that (with the exception of rare diseases caused by specific mutations) other variables come into play. Researchers are actively investigating lifestyle and environmental factors that may increase or decrease one’s risk of developing dementia.
To prevent vascular dementia, for instance, the best way to protect the brain appears to be to protect the heart. This includes not smoking; exercising (with a doctor’s approval); keeping blood pressure, cholesterol, and sugar levels within recommended limits; and following a healthy diet that’s low in red meat and high in fruits and vegetables.
Scientists are actively investigating other lifestyle factors that can affect dementia risk. There is ongoing research on social engagement that analyzes factors like marital status and emotional connectedness. Some evidence supports an association between high levels of social engagement and decreased dementia risk.
Among other areas of study is the link between sleep and dementia, with one small study associating every minute of lost REM sleep with a 9 percent increase in dementia risk.
What Are the Signs and Symptoms of Dementia?
Dementia is an impairment in core functions (such as memory, language skills, visual perception, the ability to focus and pay attention, and cognitive skills such the ability to reason and solve problems) that is severe enough to affect a person’s ability to do normal everyday tasks.
While short-term memory loss is an early sign of dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s, different types of dementia may have different symptoms.
When vascular dementia develops after multiple small strokes, for instance, people may have difficulty with judgment and planning or may become increasingly unable to focus mentally.
With Lewy body dementia, people may experience visual hallucinations — imagining they see things that aren’t there, for instance. Or they may alternate (day to day or even hour to hour) between periods of alertness and confusion.
Some people with frontotemporal dementia exhibit extreme changes in behavior and personality. They may begin making wildly inappropriate comments in social situations, for instance, or show a startling lack of inhibition.
Finding a physician who can correctly identify the type of dementia is the first step to getting the right kind of treatment and support.
Diagnosing Dementia: How Is It Done?
Diagnosing dementia isn’t difficult; identifying the underlying brain disorder can be. The challenge is that symptoms of different types of dementia may overlap, or people can have multiple types of dementia at the same time (a condition called mixed dementia).
Getting the right diagnosis, however, is critical to getting the best treatment. Usually, a specialist like a neurologist is best equipped to do the job, although other specialists like a geriatric psychiatrist, a neuropsychologist, or a geriatrician may play a part.
The first task is ruling out treatable or reversible conditions with symptoms that can mimic dementia, such as depression or a thyroid problem. Physicians take a detailed medical history, conduct a physical exam and a neuropsychological assessment, and order lab tests.
Neuropsychological assessments help doctors see cognitive patterns that indicate the presence of a particular brain disorder. Difficulty creating a strategy to solve a hypothetical problem, for instance, is a sign of vascular dementia.
Physicians may also examine the brain for visible abnormalities by using scans such as MRI, CT, and PET.
What Are the Stages of Dementia?
People with dementia will always see their symptoms worsen over time, but not every person with the same type of dementia will decline at the same rate or experience the same symptoms at the same stage. Certain symptoms may never appear; stages may overlap; symptoms may appear, then disappear — each person is unique.
Outlining the stages of dementia, however, can be useful for people considering their future caregiving needs, hoping to enlist in clinical trials, or otherwise planning ahead.
Understanding the earliest stages of dementia can also help people make sense of puzzling brain glitches. In fact, researchers now identify a condition called mild cognitive impairment as a precursor to dementia for some people. This condition — which involves lapses in memory, language, thinking, and judgment that are noticeable to the person affected but not severe enough to impact everyday functioning — affects 15 to 20 percent of people age 65 and over.
Each of the four main types of dementia — Alzheimer’s, vascular dementia, Lewy body dementia, and frontotemporal disorders — has early symptoms that can be telling. Unlike the short-term memory loss of Alzheimer’s, for instance, vascular dementia may reveal itself as difficulty making plans or decisions.
In their advanced stages, however, symptoms of different dementias all tend to become more like Alzheimer’s, with short-term memory loss, agitation, and aggression becoming more common.
Are There Treatments for Dementia?
Currently, there is no cure for dementia, but people can find relief from symptoms through different medications or nondrug methods.
Nonpharmaceutical approaches are generally the best place to start. These might include individual sessions with a mental health counselor to deal with feelings of stress or grief. Support group meetings with other people coping with dementia can also boost mental health, which may improve physical health.
When medications are in order, the type of dementia will dictate the drug. Doctors may prescribe blood pressure medication to people with vascular dementia, for instance, to prevent additional damage to blood vessels and keep as much oxygen going to the brain as possible.
People with Lewy body dementia may receive cholinesterase inhibitors, a category of drugs the FDA has approved for people with Alzheimer’s that can also relieve the cognitive symptoms of Lewy body dementia.
People with frontotemporal disorders are particularly difficult to treat with drugs because they can have adverse and even dangerous reactions to medications. Certain antidepressants, however, may help curb social disinhibitions or impulsivity.
Life With Dementia
Even while researchers search for better treatments, people with dementia can improve their quality of life by focusing on their overall well-being and taking steps to reduce stress.
People with dementia can protect their physical health by exercising (with a doctor’s okay), eating well, and taking part in activities that stimulate the brain.
To boost psychological health, relationships are key. Having close friends who can provide emotional support and staying active in a larger social group can lift a person's feelings of well-being and self-worth.
People with dementia can nourish their spiritual health by taking part in meaningful activities, whether that means outings with family and friends or quiet, meditative moments alone pursuing a hobby like yoga.
Caregivers can improve quality of life for people with dementia by knowing the best ways to communicate and having strategies to overcome cognitive or behavioral challenges. For instance, presenting complex tasks a step at a time will lead to a greater chance of success and foster feelings of confidence.
The well-being of caregivers is also a concern, given the enormous amount of stress they may experience. To prevent burnout, caregivers need to make their own physical and mental health a priority. A number of dementia organizations can connect caregivers with face-to-face and online support groups that can help lighten the emotional load.
Lewy Body Dementia in Detail
When media mogul Ted Turner announced during a TV interview in late September 2018 that he had Lewy body dementia, it was likely the first time that many viewers heard of this disease. Turner himself was a little hazy on the details of his diagnosis.
“It’s a mild case of what people have as Alzheimer’s. It’s similar to that but not nearly as bad,” Turner told the journalist Ted Koppel.
In fact, similar to Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia, Lewy body dementia causes a severe loss of cognitive ability that interferes with a person’s everyday activities.
Risk factors for Lewy body dementia include older age, having Parkinson’s disease, and having a condition called REM (rapid eye movement) sleep behavior disorder, which causes people to physically act out vivid, sometimes violent, dreams in their sleep.
Unlike in Alzheimer’s disease, memory loss may not be among the first symptoms of Lewy body dementia, although it may develop as the disease progresses. Common symptoms of Lewy body dementia include hallucinations, alternating periods of alertness and confusion, and movement disorders that affect walking.
Many of the medications used for Alzheimer’s disease can also be used to treat Lewy body dementia, but there is no cure for this potentially life-shortening disease.
The Right Resources Can Help You Live Better With Dementia
Dementia is often misunderstood and stigmatized, isolating people with the syndrome and caregivers at a time when they are in vital need of support.
Numerous nonprofit groups are committed to raising dementia awareness, sharing information about brain disorders and the best treatments for each kind, and advocating for better medical care, more research, and more empathy. There are groups that help with the specific demands of life with dementia, offering assistance to people who need help accessing support services, for instance, or paying for prescription drugs.
Federally funded organizations like the National Institute on Aging and initiatives like are important resources. They can connect people with dementia and their caregivers to medical and social services and clinical trials that offer cutting-edge treatments not yet widely available.
Those struggling to cope with the emotional challenges of dementia can also connect with peers both in person and online. Bloggers who share their daily struggles and triumphs with dementia are another source of invaluable emotional support.
Editorial Sources and Fact-Checking
- What Is Dementia? National Institute on Aging. May 17, 2017.
- 2017 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures. Alzheimer’s Association.
- What Is Lewy Body Dementia? National Institute on Aging. May 17, 2017.
- Genetics of Dementia. Alzheimer’s Society.
- Treatment Options. Lewy Body Dementia Association.
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Humans have long imagined what it would be like to see the world through different eyes. In Greek and Roman mythology, for example, the giant Argus Panoptes used his dozens of eyes to keep watch. The poet Ovid reported that they acted in independent pairs, with two at a time going to sleep while the rest remained alert.
A smaller many-eyed mystery fascinates scientists today: members of the family Salticidae, or jumping spiders, with their front pair of large, round eyes and three smaller peepers on each side of their head. A new study explores how these arachnids see—and, more specifically, what they care about seeing. Understanding how their eyes work together may inform future technologies, and offer a glimpse into a very different being’s perception.
“The results are indicative of cognitive processes that are sifting the world into categories of what is interesting—what is worth turning toward and investigating further, and what is not—what can be dismissed or ignored or kept in the corner of one’s eye,” says Nathan Morehouse, a University of Cincinnati biologist, who studies jumping spider vision and was not involved in the study. “These are really questions about alien minds.”
The “Cats of the Invertebrate World”
When Ximena Nelson teaches about these spiders at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, she likes to do an experiment with her students. She warns them that she is about to project a vivid close-up of a jumping spider’s face on a large screen at the front of the room and then watches as even the self-described arachnophobes coo with delight, as if they were seeing a seal pup.
The spiders “are so relatable to us because they’ve got big eyes, and they look at you,” says Nelson, an animal behavior researcher. She reviewed the new study but was not involved in the work.
Beyond their endearing aspect, however, it is these spiders’ unusual behavior that makes them rewarding research subjects—especially when studying perception. Unlike many arachnids, jumping spiders do not build webs or stay in one place. They scan their environment for prey, stalk it and then pounce to capture it. Ron Hoy, a Cornell University professor emeritus, who studies jumping spider neurology and was not involved with the research, says they act more like predatory felines. In fact, he says, the late influential neurologist Michael Land liked to call jumping spiders the “cats of the invertebrate world.”
The spiders’ near-360-degree eyesight helps them spot prey and hunt. But while their two large front eyes, called anterior medial eyes, have high acuity, those eyes’ field of vision is small. The lenses of the spiders’ eyes cannot swivel like those of humans, so when the arachnids want to shift their gaze, they simply reorient their entire body in the time it takes us to glance sideways. They pivot to face objects of interest (including potential prey, threats or mates) that they first spot with two of their less acute side-facing pairs of eyes, called the anterior and posterior lateral eyes.
This behavior led many scientists to think of these side eyes as mere motion detectors. But Massimo de Agró, now a researcher at the University of Regensburg in Germany, suspected they did more: the spiders seemed to use their lateral eyes to pick and choose what they turned toward. De Agró is the first author of the new study, which was published on Thursday in PLOS Biology and was based on experiments he conducted as a fellow at Harvard University.
Miniature Treadmills and a Light Show
Studying a jumping spider’s image processing is not as straightforward as implanting electrodes in its brain, as scientists might do with a larger animal. Not only is the spiders’ brain the size of a poppy seed, but these animals use hydrostatic pressure to extend their legs—this makes their whole body a bit like a “walking water balloon” that could pop from any invasive procedure, Morehouse says.
To track where jumping spiders were looking, de Agró and his co-authors used a popular technique for studying bumblebees and other small invertebrates. They floated a tiny, patterned ball on a cushion of upward-blowing air. Spiders were placed atop the ball and held in place from above. When they tried to turn their body by moving their legs, they would stay in place, but the ball would rotate, acting a little like a treadmill. A video camera recorded the ball’s movement and thus the spiders’ intended motion.
The researchers then simultaneously displayed two images in each spider’s periphery and noted which one it tried to turn toward in order to gauge which image it was more interested in investigating. One of the images tested was a series of moving dots that represented the “biological motion” of a spider walking from a side view—which the researchers were excited to find the arachnids could distinguish from randomly moving dots.
Hoy compares this abstraction to the “green screen” suits and white dots worn by actors when creating special effects for movies and TV shows: human brains will recognize a series of dots moving a certain way as human motion even before movie magic turns the dots into a superhero or zombie. “It’s very well known for humans, of course, that they can capture motion by abstract dots,” he says. “But the fact that they’re showing that this is also true for jumping spiders is pretty remarkable.”
De Agró, a psychologist by training, says this phenomenon was first described in humans in the 1970s—but that nobody had imagined invertebrates might be able to process the same abstraction. In addition to showing his spiders biological motion, he also created a dot display with a scrambled version of that same motion (which other animals have been shown to interpret as living movement, despite the scrambling) and another with random motion. All were shown to the arachnids’ anterior lateral eyes.
The spiders showed no preference between the biological and scrambled motion—yet they strongly preferred the random motion to either. De Agró says this result initially dismayed him because the random dots had been meant as a control that the spiders would not care to investigate.
“I was so sad when I saw the results of that first condition,” he says. “I was thinking, ‘What’s happening here? It’s clear there’s nothing happening.’” But then the spiders’ preferences stayed consistent across the other conditions.
De Agró concluded that the spiders may turn toward a moving image when they want more information about it—implying that the anterior lateral eyes not only detect motion but also give a jumping spider enough data to classify the motion into categories of living (spider dots and scrambled spider dots) and unknown (random dots).
Nelson says this study had an elegant design and surprising results. She also wonders whether male and female spiders might show different responses to these stimuli because females are much more focused on finding food, whereas males are singularly obsessed with finding a mate.
De Agró adds that he hopes the study will help arachnophobes see these spiders in a new light, especially given the invertebrates’ capability to engage in the kind of visual processing once presumed available only to humans and other mammals.
Learning how animals’ eyes function differently from ours may also widen the perspectives of programmers and robotics designers. Researchers have already created depth sensors—which can be used in video games, cars and phones—that were inspired by the way jumping spiders’ eyes work. Hoy says future iterations of these designs may benefit robots’ visual sensors on unfamiliar terrain, whether flying through a rain forest or exploring the surface of an extraterrestrial planet.
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According to a study in Canadian Medical Association Journal, frailer older patients are at higher risk of readmission to hospital or death within 30 days after discharge from a general internal medicine ward.
Readmission within thirty days after discharge is fairly common and result in significant costs for the healthcare system. The costs can be reduced by identifying patients that are at risk of readmission but it is difficult to do so because of a lack of adequate tools to predict this risk accurately.
During the study, the researchers assessed whether the Clinical Frailty Scale, an easy-to-use tool that can be used at the bedside by physicians and healthcare professions, could help identify patients who are at risk of readmission or death within 30 days after discharge. The study included 495 patients, half of which were women, with a median age of 64 years. Frailty was measured in terms of mild frailty (score of 5) corresponding to difficulty with 1 or more complicated daily living activities; moderate frailty (score of 6) corresponding to difficulty in bathing, dressing or climbing stairs; and severe frailty (score of 7) corresponding to physical or mental dependence on someone for 3 or more daily living activities.
The results showed that approximately one-third of the patients were frail with a score of 5 or higher on the Clinical Frailty Scale in the week before admission to hospital. 85 percent of the patients were readmitted or had died within 30 days after discharge. Frail patients were at 24 percent risk of readmission or death within 30 days as compared to 14 percent for nonfrail patients. Patients with moderate or severe frailty were at 31 percent risk of readmission or death within 30 days. The study showed that frailty assessments improved the prediction of post-discharge outcomes and thus should be included in discharge planning procedures.
"Although frailty or vulnerability before becoming ill may affect outcomes after discharge, patients in hospital may also experience an acquired, transient period of risk for adverse events that is harmful in addition to the stress of the acute illness," writes Dr. Finlay McAlister, University of Alberta, with coauthors. "This 'post-hospital syndrome' is a multidimensional construct that incorporates sleep deprivation, cognitive stress, poor nutrition and physical pain. Patients who are already frail before hospital admission may be more sensitive to the stresses of this syndrome and at higher risk of readmission and poor outcomes."
Source: Canadian Medical Association Journal
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Olds (1976) Helping your child learn right from wrong: a guide to values clarification
In an effort to avoid the criticisms aimed at values clarification
while maintaining a relatively secular approach, school-based character education began focusing on identifying and directly promoting ethical values and virtues thought to be widely shared and even "universal.
More attention needs to be given to the role of values in people's belief systems and the application of both planful and intuitive decision making, in the context of values clarification
, to facilitate clients' choices across multiple and changing career-life roles.
is a key component of individual attitudes in the area of career development and ought to be strongly considered when making career decisions (MacKay-Lassonde, 1996).
A teacher's guide put out by the National Education Association favors values clarification
over character inculcation.
Banned in Boston 2003" is a benefit for Urban Improv, a violence prevention program for young people that uses structured theater improvisation to teach decision making, impulse control and values clarification
The remaining four are formal theories of moral education: moral transmission, cognitive development, values clarification
, and emotional formation.
Examples include completing self-assessments, values clarification
, as well as role playing, observations, job analysis, and job accommodation evaluation.
allows inmates to explore their own values systems in a structured environment without institutional pressure to change.
Teaching topics include background on opposition to sexuality education, the sexuality of the sexual educator, learning strategies (including case studies, gaming, values clarification
, and resource speakers), age-appropriate lessons, sexual counseling, and evaluation of sexuality education.
Of additional interest is the training-of-trainers course which included values clarification
and making trainers comfortable and confident in discussing sex and sexuality, the development of the curriculum and the selection of topics based on perceived needs of adolescents, and the responses of teachers and young people.
Through several sessions devoted to values clarification
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As you turn the narrow and steep road towards the sea at Hartland Quay in Devon it is the dramatic cliff scenery that grabs your attention. These are the tallest cliffs in England and look very unforgiving. Leave the car and the wind is the next thing to notice, along with the roar of the sea. Waves continually crash against the shore here and the breeze blows off the Atlantic. It is a dramatically beautiful place and inspirational. Nearby the Hartland Quay Hotel offers shelter from the weather and has been converted from what was the old harbour master's offices when Hartland had a quay. That got destroyed by the sea in the 1920's. In the bar there is a good pub style menu with local food. it is a great place to stop after a walk along the South West Coastal Footpath that runs past the door. There's also a small museum and a beach for the brave. Hartland Quay is a beautiful and unique location and something a lot of visitors to Devon miss. Once you see it- you'll want to return (in god weather). | <urn:uuid:8d78c6ed-7f67-45d6-befe-eaeaf487d08c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.afar.com/places/hartland-quay-hotel-hartland-quay | 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 | 0.965967 | 217 | 1.734375 | 2 |
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