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SAO PAULO.- The Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, an institution of the State Secretary of Culture, is holding the exhibition Guillermo Kuitca: Filosofia para princesas [Guillermo Kuitca: Philosophy for Princesses]. With about 50 works, including paintings, drawings and an installation, the show features works produced throughout his artistic career, spanning from the 1980s until 2013. Kuitca (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1961) is considered one of the most important Latin American painters and his work deals with themes such as displacement, isolation, loneliness and abstract representations of space, such as maps, theater floor plans and architectural blueprints.
Curated by Giancarlo Hannud, a curator with a Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the works in the show belong to public and private collections in Europe, the United States, Argentina and Brazil. One of the highlights of the show is the installation Le sacre, 1992, which will occupy the Octógono, the Pinacoteca's central space. Made up of 54 beds, on which maps of different parts of the world have been painted, Le sacre belongs to the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, and has been shown in museums such as IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia, in 1993, Fondation Cartier, Paris, in 2000, and Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, in 2003. "Le sacre is obviously a development of my work with mattresses, revisiting the first work that I did with this object, a series of three mattresses shown at the 1989 Bienal de São Paulo. The beds of Le sacre are smaller than real beds, and can thus be referred to in Spanish as 'camitas.' I wanted to play with the perspective and size of the things; we are not as close to them as we think. I wanted an enlarged view of something, like the bed, an object as close as our own body, to then visualize it within the house, the house within the city, and the city within the map. A zoom that becomes increasingly distant, or closer."
Guillermo Kuitca, a leading Argentine artist, began his artistic studies in the 1970s, at the studio of Ahuva Szlimowicz. A resident of Buenos Aires, he is widely recognized internationally, having represented Argentina at the 2007 Biennale di Venezia. He also participated in Documenta IX, in 1992, and, more recently, in 2010, his work was the theme of a retrospective entitled Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008, a traveling show held in the following North American institutions: Miami Art Museum, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, in Buffalo, Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis, and the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Guillermo Kuitca's work has been establishing itself over the last 35 years as one of the most singular and striking voices in contemporary painting. Based in a home-studio in Belgrano R, a green and quiet neighborhood of Buenos Aires, thousands of miles from where the tradition of painting and western art was created and its narrative written, this artist has known how to combine the limitations inherent to his pictorial virtuosity with a remarkable power of invention which engages a hybrid and opaque visual universe. A prodigy, Kuitca began studying painting at age 9 and had his first solo exhibition at 13. In the beginning, his work was closely linked to the return of painting that marked the early 1980s, as well as the interest that emerged, within the international artistic community at the time, in the work of artists located outside the United States-Europe axis.
Despite considering painting to be a dead end, Kuitca was able to employ it to serve his entirely intimate and subjective discussions and, in a solitary exercise characteristic of the medium, mastered its techniques through a slow and silent process, becoming one of its contemporary masters. His pictorial investigations descend directly from the great tradition of Western painting and its traditional supports, celebrating and confronting its remarkable resilience. The present show emerges from the desire to present in the broadest possible manner to the Brazilian public the production of the last 35 years of this artist, and brings together a set of 50 fundamental works from private and public collections located in Argentina, Brazil, United States and Europe.
The title, Philosophy for princesses, comes from a recent painting in which recurring elements of his visual universe - like the crown of thorns, architectural blueprints, and cubistoid brushstrokes - overlap, forming an entirely particular iconographic counterpoint. What might be the philosophy to which the title refers? or Who are princesses to whom it is addressed? are questions that do not necessarily need concrete answers. It seems to me sufficient to conjure them, in the same manner in which imagination and suggestion are issues present in the body of work of this artist who creates spaces of absence, suggests presences, and drafts maps of loneliness and estrangement. The recurring elements mentioned above, little visual motifs that recur constantly, make up the pictorial vocabulary with which Kuitca builds his work: the bed, the woman seen from behind, the baggage carrousel, theater seating charts, the blueprint of an apartment, maps, etc.
The bed, the central element in the installation titled Le sacre, presented in the Pinacoteca's Octagon, is one of the many recurring elements in his work and, assuming multiple meanings over the last three decades, has served as a platform upon which Kuitca develops his images. It is interesting to think that the 54 small beds - the camitas - are small not because they are for children, but because they are being seen from very far, since, in the artist's words, "we are not as close to them [...] as we think." They are beds seen from the sky, distant and exiled from our contact, on which we see the lines of roads and place names - with all their imaginative and poetic resonances - creating an isolated space of sleep and loss, tragically separating us from the idea of rest that these objects usually hold. | <urn:uuid:ac7d8aca-091e-4566-b062-775378b08e34> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://artdaily.com/news/71866/-Guillermo-Kuitca--Philosophy-for-Princesses--on-view-at-Pinacoteca-do-Estado-de-Sao-Paulo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00554-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962062 | 1,296 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Learning how to install indoor pool lighting can light up that old dark and dreary indoor pool. Installing indoor pool lighting can be easy to install with a little patience and time. Before we take a look at what you’ll need to accomplish your task, remember that you’re dealing with two elements that don’t mix: water and electricity. You should be extremely careful when trying to install lighting in an indoor pool due to the safety risks. If you’re confident enough in yourself, you can easily install indoor pool lighting, just be careful!
To install your indoor pool lighting, you’ll need the following:
- Water sealer
- Electrical knife
- Indoor pool
- Drain your pool. The first step to installing lighting in your indoor pool will be completely draining your pool. As we discussed in the beginning of this article, water and electricity don’t mix! You don’t want to risk dealing with a live wire while dangling it over your water. In fact, you should also turn off any electricity that leads to your indoor pool while working on this project. Following these two steps will help to ensure that you and the loved ones using your pool will remain safe during this project.
- Drill your holes. The second step to installing lights in your indoor pool will first involve deciding where you’d like your lights to be. Once you’ve made these decisions, use your drill to drill through these locations. Don’t make a hole that’s too big, just big enough to run your wires through. After you’ve drilled all your holes, make sure to clean any excess messes you’ve made while drilling through your pool so they don’t get mixed in with your water!
- Install your lights. The final step to installing pool lights in your pool will be placing the light fixtures in place. Make sure that your light fixtures will adequately cover your holes to prevent any leaks. Splice your wires with an electrical knife and connect them to your lights. Use a popular water sealer, such as one you’d use on bathroom tiles, around your light fixtures to prevent any possibility of leaks. Make sure that you let your sealer dry for at least forty-eight hours before attempting to refill your indoor pool. Connect your wires to a cord than plug in your cord. At this point, it’s safe to turn your power back on to make sure that each of your lights work.
If after turning your power back on that you find that one or more of your lights don’t work, it may be possible that you nicked one of your wires. Sometimes the areas where you drilled through may remain sharp around the edges and nick one of your wires. To fix this problem, begin by turning your power source off. Go through your wires and replace all of the wires that lead from your power source to your faulty light(s). Make sure to follow the steps of using sealer around your light fixtures and giving it adequate time to dry after re-doing your wires. After you’re done with this project, you’ll have your very own lighted indoor pool, enjoy it!
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Al Noor Hospital – Al Ain Campus launches a community outreach program to shed light on various health and wellness related topics
Al Noor Hospital, Al Ain Campus earlier this year launched its community outreach program aimed at promoting preventive care and wellness to the Al Ain residence. Part of this program is in collaboration with Al Ain Mall.
Every alternate Thursday, from 5:00 pm until 10:00 pm, Al Ain mall visitors will have the opportunity to learn about a different health and wellness topics and will have access to a number of free medical assessments, free consultations with medical experts and will also receive various educational material pertaining to the topic highlighted on the day.
“Changing nutritional habits, reliance on fast food and decreasing habitual physical activity have resulted in the emergence of non-communicable diseases as the dominant feature of poor health in the community,” said Dr. Amina El Saleh, Hospital Director at the Al Ain Campus.
“In recognition of this and in alignment with the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi (HAAD) disease prevention programs, we have introduced outreach activities aimed at drawing attention to the lifestyle diseases and other preventable health problems.”
A variety of health topics including diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or heart health, eating disorder, nutrition and cervical and colorectal cancer have already been covered and there are a many more lined up within the course of the asthma, harmful effects of tobacco and men’s health, to name a few.
Al Noor Hospital – Al Ain Campus is committed to engage in programs that are specifically designed to provide the community with the knowledge and support they need to adopt a healthy lifestyle and to make better choices. The program will run until the end of 2014. | <urn:uuid:f36379ed-91bd-4ff0-a1f2-84207c004672> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ameinfo.com/money/economy/al-noor-hospital-al-ain-campus-launches-community-outreach-program-shed-light-various-health-wellness-related-topics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00552-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949062 | 348 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Most large enterprises run remarkably secure WLANs. They minimize open-authentication access points – and those use captive portals – and implement WPA2-enterprise authentication and encryption protocols, which are very difficult to crack.
However, well-configured access points inhibit the growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) over Wi-Fi. The emerging IoT model (from the residential world) connects headless sensors over wireless connections to a cloud service that manages them and collects traffic. This service then offers a portal for analytics and smartphone-based user-control.
Enterprise lighting, energy management and other sensors are moving to this architecture where the device hitches a ride on the Wi-Fi network, but only to connect to its service in the cloud: the WLAN is essentially transparent in the architecture. The sensor later needs to authenticate to its cloud service, but only after it has a path through the WLAN.
While Wi-Fi is a uniform standard, security is implemented per-network. An IoT sensor must be configured to connect to the WLAN using three parameters: network discovery, authentication credentials and device identity.
Wi-Fi networks are discovered by their SSID. The sensor needs to know, out of the many SSIDs it scans, which one it should connect to. Connecting to random networks carries a risk that the sensor or its cloud service could be compromised.
Credentials – usually passwords – are also specific to the network. They must be configured whether the network uses a pre-shared key (PSK) or proper WPA2-enterprise authentication.
Meanwhile, the WLAN should be protected against intruders impersonating IoT sensors, and real sensors infected with malware: this means sensors should follow the same security regime as enterprise smartphones and PCs. Especially where PSKs are used, the sensor’s identity should be established so the WLAN knows what it is, where it needs to connect, and permitted traffic patterns. Identity can be a user id, MAC address or X.509 certificate.
But hooking each sensor in turn up to a PC, for instance, and configuring it with SSID, credentials and identity is incredibly time-consuming. IoT vendors are applying their creativity to the problem, and we are beginning to see proprietary solutions; but we would prefer vendor-independent standards.
Garage door openers, home thermostats and the like are often configured by making a point-to-point Wi-Fi connection from a smartphone and entering information on the screen. This model is also applicable to enterprise deployments where an employee is able to stand next to each sensor and configure it. But if credentials are entered on the smartphone screen, they are visible to the employee and prone to error.
The Wi-Fi Alliance is working to improve this method. The Device Provisioning Protocol (DPP) will allow an already-authenticated user’s smartphone to bring a new device onto the network, similar to a visitor given guest access by a sponsoring employee. The key feature is to maintain security, keeping the new device’s unique credentials hidden from the sponsor and encrypted over the air.
DPP promises a standard, vendor-independent method to configure IoT sensors when the sponsor is nearby, but is not appropriate for all situations. Sometimes we would prefer an out-of-box solution where a sensor will discover the appropriate network, then identify and authenticate itself. The Wi-Fi Alliance Passpoint certification enables these functions: it is currently being fine-tuned for IoT use.
Passpoint offers network discovery and federated authentication features. Instead of identifying itself by SSID, an access point publishes a list of service providers which it represents. This list is available pre-authentication, so a scanning IoT sensor could match “joes-iot” with a pre-configured service set, and know this was a good access point to connect to. Then an X.509 certificate could be used for identification and to authenticate to a designated remote authentication server, maintained by the sensor vendor.
This system is nearly zero-touch: if the sensor vendor could burn a service-provider list and an X.509 certificate in the factory, and WLAN managers configured Passpoint on their APs with a RADIUS (or RadSec) connection to the vendor’s authentication server, the enterprise would retain control over network access while avoiding reconfiguration of the sensors.
But DPP is not yet a certification, and Passpoint is not widely deployed: The obstacles to connecting IoT sensors via Wi-Fi networks remain.
This contrasts with the other wireless enabler of IoT, the cellular network. The information on a SIM card neatly provides all necessary configuration information: network selection, device identity and passwords. For this aspect of IoT, the Wi-Fi industry needs to unite around a standard and catch up with the cellular networks.
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Heart Disease and Exercise
Statistics on exercise and heart disease indicate that the condition is twice as likely to develop in inactive people as it is in those who are physically active. Regular exercise also reduces the effects of other risk factors. It only takes 30 minutes a day to minimize your chances for heart disease -- anything from brisk walking to gardening to playing sports can be considered exercise.
Coronary heart disease is the major cause of heart disease and heart attack in America. It develops when fatty deposits (called plaque) build up on the inner walls of the blood vessels feeding the heart, called coronary arteries. Eventually, one or more of the major coronary arteries may become blocked -- either by the buildup of deposits or by a blood clot forming in the artery's narrowed passageway. The result is a heart attack.
Various studies have shown that physical inactivity is one of the six independent risk factors for heart disease that a person can control (the others being high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity, and smoking). Overall, the results show that heart disease is almost twice as likely to develop in inactive people as in those who are more active.
While regular physical activity (even mild to moderate) can directly help reduce your risk for heart disease, exercise can also help reduce the impact of other heart disease risk factors. Consider the following facts about the benefits of exercise:
- Burning calories through exercise may help you lose weight or stay at your desirable weight -- which also helps lower your risk of heart disease (click BMI Calculator to find your ideal weight)
- Cholesterol research has shown that not only can exercise lower LDL cholesterol ("bad" cholesterol), it can also raise HDL cholesterol ("good" cholesterol)
- Hypertension research has shown that exercise can lower both systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure
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29 September 2012 Speakers representing a trio of Southeast Asian countries called for reform of United Nations bodies today, with Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Singapore’s Foreign Affairs Minister framing their arguments for change mainly around development and economic urgencies, and Malaysia’s Foreign Affairs Minister focusing more on what he characterized as failures of the UN Security Council.
The significance of the Group of 20 (G20) major economies featured in the speeches of both Singaporean Foreign Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam and Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong to the 67th General Assembly’s high-level debate, at UN Headquarters in New York.
Mr. Shanmugam cited the G-20 as being one of the “smaller and exclusive groups,” beyond the United Nations, to which countries had turned because of a “growing frustration” over the inability of existing multilateral institutions to deal with various global challenges, among them rising income disparities, climate change and worries about food security.
But, he said, the world body ultimately had the advantage of being able to come up with global solutions because of its universal membership. “We should therefore support ongoing and new efforts aimed at strengthening the UN, instead of denigrating it,” Mr. Shanmugam said.
In outlining his country’s vision for a reformed UN, the Foreign Minister said Singapore wanted to see an “effective system of international law and resilient mechanisms for peaceful dispute settlement.”
He stated that this would “provide a platform for states under threat to bring their problems before these mechanisms with confidence, rather than trying to resolve them by force.”
Mr. Shanmugam also emphasized the importance of the rule of law at the international level, saying it was “particularly important” for the survival of small states such as Singapore for a “predicable and stable rule-based system” to exist.
For his part, the Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister said the G-20 had a “crucial role” to play in meeting a series of global challenges, among them rising oil and food prices, while noting that a more empowered General Assembly could play a “leading role” in addressing the world’s problems.
“The reform of the UN will no doubt render it more effective in preserving international peace, security and stability, as well as in realizing justice in the international economic system,” said Deputy Prime Minister Hor, who also serves as his country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
In addition to empowering the Assembly and calling for an expansion of the 15-member Security Council, Mr. Hor said the 54-member UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) should be “strengthened to effectively coordinate international cooperation and efforts to tackle social and economic challenges.”
In his General Assembly address, Malaysia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Anifah Aman, addressed the topics of UN reform and the rule of law while, while also commenting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the question of Palestinian membership of the UN.
“This is just one of a host of reasons… why the United Nations, especially the Security Council, needs to be reformed,” he said. Citing in particular the Council, Mr. Aman added that there were “so many instances (where) it has failed to take action when action is needed the most.” He ascribed the inaction on the “veto power conferred to the five permanent members.”
Mr. Aman also shared Malaysia’s position on what he called the “distasteful and insulting” anti-Islam video, made by a US citizen, which recently sparked protests in a number of predominantly Muslim countries around the world.
“While we condemn the irresponsible actions of those who intentionally incite hatred, we are equally saddened by the violent reactions that ensured,” he said, mentioning the deaths of the US Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens, and others, in the eastern Libya city of Benghazi, during demonstrations believed to be linked to the video.
He called for the events to spark a deeper questioning of the relationship between freedom of expression and social responsibilities. “A line should be drawn when the prejudicial effect outweighs everything else,” Mr. Aman said.
Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Hor also expressed his country’s “regrets” over the deaths of Ambassador Stevens and others, but added that Cambodia also understood the “legitimate anger” linked to “disregarding… the Muslim religion.”
The Southeast Asian officials are among scores of heads of state and government, and other high-level officials, who are presenting their views and comments on issues of individual national and international relevance at the Assembly’s General Debate, which ends on 1 October.
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DESCRIPTION: This course will explore how to write for both network and cable television, with an emphasis on 30-minute sitcoms and 60-minute dramas. The dramatic elements of each genre will be analyzed, with each student completing a "spec" script for a current sit-com and drama. Additionally, we will develop an original TV pilot as a class, from the original "franchise" premise through a completed story-outline for the pilot episode.
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Application sharing is a business tool that makes it possible for individuals located at a number of different sites to simultaneously collaborate on a single document. Remote access sharing of this type normally involves the use of some type of web-based conferencing tool that allows one individual to have ultimate control of the session, but with the ability to grant privileges to each attendee to work on the document in question. Depending on the type of platform used, all conference attendees may need to download some type of collaborative software in order to participate. More often, the application sharing function is managed through software that resides on the provider’s server, with the document and the changes made during the meeting saved on the hard drive of the individual serving as the moderator for the meeting.
One of the chief benefits of application sharing is that there is no need to gather key individuals from a number of different locations to a single site in order to work on a common document. This means that if there is a need for salespeople or others within the company to work together on preparing a proposal for a prospective client, initiating a web-based conference and using the application sharing tool makes it easy for everyone to contribute to the creation of the document at the same time. The moderator of the conference allows each attendee access to the document, making it easy to upload and insert photos, sections of text, or even to edit the existing text. All the changes and updates are saved to the original document that resides on the hard drive of the computer used by the moderator to access and initiate the conference session.
From this perspective, application sharing can save a great deal of time and money. There is no need for travel expenses to be incurred when working on a document. In addition, there is no time lost when it comes to creating, refining, and ultimately completing the document. This can be especially important when there is the need to prepare a document with very little notice, when that document must be reviewed, edited, and approved by personnel located at a number of different locations.
Application sharing is an extremely easy tool to use. Typically, anyone who has worked with any type of spreadsheet or word processing document will have no problem participating in this type of group collaboration. In addition to using this tool during a web conferencing session that is initiated on a provider platform, there are also application sharing tools that can be loaded onto a company’s internal system, allowing anyone with access rights to the project to participate without the need to leave their individual workstations. | <urn:uuid:d0985dac-f81c-4f91-8272-9152c642980f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wise-geek.com/what-is-application-sharing.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.944602 | 508 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Double drapery carrier
A drapery hanger is provided for the detachable support in parallel, spaced relationship of first and second panels, such as a drapery material and a liner material. Thus, either the liner material or the drapery material may be easily and conveniently removed and subsequently replaced without disturbing the other thereof. In a preferred embodiment this is accomplished by providing snap means independently along the upper edges of each of the liner material and the drapery material and providing hangers with cooperating means for said snap means positioned to face oppositely with respect to each other and located symmetrically on opposite sides of, and close to, a central plane passing through the center of support of the drapery hanger.
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This invention relates to draperies and drapery support means whereby a pair of draperies, or a drapery and a liner for use therewith, may be independently and separately supported on such hanger.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
It has been conventional for a long time to apply a liner to drapery material, such as when such drapery material is retractably mounted for window treatment. Such liner material may be utilized for the sake of appearance from the opposite side of the window, for the protection of the drapery material from the sun or the protection of the drapery material from dust and/or other contamination originating on one side of the drapery material. Conventionally, however, such liner material is sewed to the drapery material and thereby presents a problem when same is to be changed for any reason such as for laundering, replacement due to excessive exposure to the sun or replacement for any other reason such as changing the external appearance of a building when the draperies are drawn.
While it is already known to support draperies on the hangers by snap-in means, such as that shown in the patent to Ford, U.S. Pat. No. 3,522,621, and assigned to the same assignee as the present application, this relates to only a single panel, namely the drapery (or the drapery with a liner sewed thereto) and makes no suggestion for the independent handling of a separate panel.
Other devices such as illustrated in the patent to Ford, U.S. Pat. No. 3,348,603, have utilized other quick connecting and/or detaching means for affixing draperies to hangers but, again, there was in many cases no consideration given to the separate suspending of two different but closely associated panels, such as a principal drapery and a liner therefor, and hence no suggestion was made in such cases for solving of the above-outlined problem. In other cases, such attempts resulted in a total width of a given hangers-and-drapery arrangement greater than that desirable for smooth traversing operation.
Accordingly the objects of the invention include:
1. To provide a drapery hanger and suspended panel arrangement whereby a pair of suspended panels, such as a principal drapery and a liner therefor, may be suspended from hangers by separate and quick detaching means in order that either of said panels may be removed and replaced quickly and conveniently without disturbing the other of said panels.
2. To provide a drapery hanger and suspended panel arrangement, as aforesaid, which will be of minimum lateral dimension in order both to improve stability and to assure a smooth traversing operation.
3. To provide a drapery hanger and suspended panel arrangement, as aforesaid, in which the points of suspension for both panels are all between vertical planes through the points of suspension of the hanger on the traverse rod.
4. To provide a hanger and panel arrangement, as aforesaid, which is sufficiently similar to presently known hanger and panel arrangements that same can be put into practice by the usual users thereof without at most other than casual or brief instruction.
5. To provide a drapery hanger and panel arrangement, as aforesaid, which is closely similar to present drapery hangers and can utilize presently known hanger spacing means therewith.
6. To provide a drapery hanger and panel arrangement, as aforesaid, which will be of maximum simplicity and wherein the hanger can be molded from plastics materials by relatively simple high production molds.
Other objects and purposes of the invention will be apparent to persons acquainted with devices of this general type upon reading the following specification and inspection of the accompanying drawings.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
In the drawings:
FIG. 1 is a front view of a hanger made according to the invention.
FIG. 2 is a section taken on the line II--II of FIG. 1 and showing also in corresponding section the drapery track and the drapery panels with which said hanger is used.SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention comprises a hanger having symmetrically arranged, oppositely directed, equally offset, snap receiving means depending from said hanger and symmetrically arranged around a plane through the center of support of such hanger. The suspended panels are then snapped into said snap receiving means and are thereby supported symmetrically on either side of the center of support of said hanger. Said hanger will thus hang substantially straight downwardly from the supporting track and there will be little or no tendency for unbalancing thereof.DETAILED DESCRIPTION
Referring now to the drawings in more detail, there is shown a hanger which is basically similar to the hanger of Ford U.S. Pat. No. 3,522,621 excepting for the modification therein comprising the present invention. Thus, attention is directed to said patent for a primary disclosure of such hanger but same will be briefly described herein for purposes of convenient reference.
In FIG. 1 there is shown the hanger having a slide head S and a hanger portion H. Said slide head comprises a generally circular upper part 2 having a rounded bottom 3 connected by a neck 4 to a generally circular bottom flange 6. Said rounded bottom 3 of the upper part 2 bears against the opposed edges of the bottom flanges 7 of the traverse rod 8 as shown in FIG. 2 and further detailed in said U.S. Pat. No. 3,522,621 . The lower flange 6 inhibits rocking of said hanger either from side to side or endwise in a direction parallel to the slot 9 within which the hanger operates.
As further described in detail in said patent, the upper side of said head 2 is provided with an undercut opening 11 for receiving a button 12 through which extends a string 13 preferably molded therein. Said string functions to keep a series of said hangers properly spaced as described and claimed in said patent.
All of the foregoing is the same as is set forth and claimed in said patent and further detailing thereof is therefore unnecessary.
Turning now to the hanger portion H within which is embodied the present invention, there is provided a depending plate 16 depending centrally from the flange 6. For stiffening purposes, said plate 16 is provided with reinforcing flanges, two of which appear at 17 and 18 in FIG. 1 and at 18 and 18A in FIG. 2. Positioned immediately below said plate 16 is an upper offset plate 21 whose outer surface 22 is flush with the corresponding surface 23 of the adjacent flange 18A. An annular reinforcing flange 24 is provided around the upper offset plate 21 for stiffening purposes and an opening 26 is provided through said plate for the reception of a snap button such as the snap button 27. The edge surface 25 of the flange 24 is flush with the surface 33 of the flange 18. Said snap button 27 is fixed in any convenient manner, such as through conventional fixing to a stiffening strip 28 which is in turn fastened as by sewing to a drapery 29.
Immediately below the upper offset plate 21 is positioned the lower offset plate 31, same being offset in the opposite direction with respect to the upper offset plate and its outer surface 32 is flush with edge surface 25 of flange 24 and with the surface 33 of the flange 18 associated with the hanger plate 16. An annular flange 34 extends around the lower offset plate 31 and its edge surface 30 is flush with the corresponding side of the upper offset plate 21. An opening 35 is provided through said lower offset plate for the reception of the snap button 36. Said snap button is affixed in any conventional manner to a reinforcing strip 37 which latter is then fixed as by sewing to the second drapery 38.
Both sides of said hanger thus present a smooth surface for the contact thereagainst of the respective drapery heads, or the respective reinforcing strips (sometimes "Velcro" strips) associated therewith and the weight of said drapery is equally positioned on either side of a central plane of said hanger so that said hanger will ride vertically within the slot 9 of the traverse rod 8. Further, by positioning the openings 26 and 35 vertically with respect to each other, sufficient depth is obtained to accommodate each opening and the snap button used therewith without requiring excessive width in the hanger and resultant excessive offsetting of each drapery from the central plane through said hanger. In fact, the amount of such offset will usually be about one-half of the axial length of the button 27 or 36.
It is, of course, recognized that where one drapery, as the first drapery or panel 29, is a heavy piece of drapery material and the other drapery, as the second drapery or panel 38, is a piece of relatively light lining material, there will necessarily be some unbalance in the load applied to the hanger. However, even in such case, the point at which such load is applied to the hanger is sufficently close to the central plane thereof that the torque so applied to the hanger will be relatively slight and can be adequately absorbed within the curved surface 3 of the hanger head.
Further, it will be observed from inspection of FIG. 2 of the drawings that the point of support 26A provided for snap button 27 in the opening 26 is between the central plane P and a first point of support 41 for the head S on the traverse rod 8 and the point of support 35A provided for the snap button 36 in the opening 35 lies between said central plane P and a second point of support 42 provided for the head S on the other side of the central slot 9. The central plane P is an imaginary vertical plane through the center of the slot 9 and likewise through the center of the hanger of the invention. As will be seen in FIG. 2, said hanger is symmetrical on either side of said plane P. Such locating of the points of support 26A and 35A, respectively, between said plane P and the support points 41 and 42 further stabilize said hanger even though the draperies 29 and 38 are of unequal weight, such as when one thereof is a drapery made from relatively heavy material and the other thereof is in effect a liner made from lighter weight material.
Although a particular preferred embodiment of the invention has been disclosed in detail for illustrative purposes, it will be recognized that variations or modifications of the disclosed apparatus, including the rearrangement of parts, lie within the scope of the present invention.
1. In a rigid hanger for slidably supporting a drapery on a traverse rod having an elongate bottom slot, said hanger including a head portion slidably supported on said rod and projecting downwardly through said slot, said head portion having groove means into which projects said rod, said head portion being attached to an elongate flexible element which has a plurality of said head portions connected thereto at predetermined intervals, and a pendant portion integral with and projecting downwardly from said head portion for releasable attachment with the drapery, the improvement wherein said pendant portion comprises:
- a depending plate portion fixed centrally to said head portion and projecting downwardly therefrom, said depending plate portion defining a central vertical plane which contains the central axis of the head portion and is aligned with the lengthwise extent of the slot;
- an upper plate portion fixed to the lower edge of said depending plate portion and projecting downwardly therefrom, said upper plate portion being parallel with and horizontally offset a selected distance to one side of said central plane;
- a lower plate portion fixed to the lower edge of said upper plate portion and projecting downwardly therefrom, said lower plate portion being parallel with and horizontally offset said selected distance to the other side of said central plane;
- first means associated with said upper plate portion for permitting attachment thereto of a first drapery which is positioned on said one side of said central plane adjacent the outer side of said upper plate portion, said first means including a first opening positioned centrally of said upper plate portion and extending horizontally therethrough for reception of a first snap button associated with said first drapery;
- second means associated with said lower plate portion for permitting attachment thereto of a second drapery which is disposed on said other side of said central plane adjacent the outer side of said lower plate portion, said second means including a second opening positioned centrally of said lower plate portion and extending horizontally therethrough for reception of a snap button associated with said second drapery;
- an upper annular reinforcing flange fixed to the inner side of said upper plate portion in surrounding relationship to said first opening, said annular flange being of substantially larger diameter than said first opening and terminating in a free edge located substantially in a vertical plane defined by the outer side of said lower plate portion; and
- a lower annular reinforcing flange fixed to the inner side of said lower plate portion in surrounding relationship to said second opening, said lower annular flange being of substantially larger diameter than said second opening and terminating in a free edge disposed substantially within a second vertical plane defined by the outer side of said upper plate portion.
2. A hanger according to claim 1, wherein said head portion is supported at first and second spaced points on said traverse rod on either side of said slot, said first and second points being substantially uniformly spaced on opposite sides of said central plane, the upper and lower plate portions defining points of support for the respective button associated with the respective drapery, the point of support for said upper plate portion being horizontally located between said central plane and said first point, and the point of support for said lower plate portion being located horizontally between said central plane and said second point, said first and second points of support being substantially uniformly spaced on opposite sides of said central plane.
|3522621||August 1970||Ford et al.|
|3616486||November 1971||Ford et al.|
|3951196||April 20, 1976||Salzmann|
Filed: Oct 17, 1977
Date of Patent: Sep 26, 1978
Assignee: Kirsch Company (Sturgis, MI)
Inventor: James A. Ford (Sherman Township, St. Joseph County, MI)
Primary Examiner: Ronald Feldbaum
Law Firm: Blanchard, Flynn, Thiel, Boutell & Tanis
Application Number: 5/842,554
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Japan’s foreign minister is in Beijing this weekend meeting with his Chinese counterpart in an effort to reduce tensions between the two Asian powers. The Japan Times:
The foreign ministers of Japan and China agreed Saturday to step up efforts to accelerate the pace of improvement in political relations between Asia’s two biggest economies.The Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, which announced the agreement, said Fumio Kishida and his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, confirmed in their meeting in Beijing that the two countries are “partners for cooperation” and will not be “a threat for each other.”Kishida stressed the need of stronger mutual trust by promoting cooperation in various nonpolitical fields, such as economics, the environment and youth exchanges, according to the ministry.As part of steps to increase interaction among the citizens of the two countries, Kishida told Wang that Japan will further relax multiple entry visa rules for Chinese visitors.Kishida’s trip marks the first visit of a Japanese foreign minister to China in about 4½ years at a time when the two countries are weighing up when and how to realize more frequent high-level political meetings.
Whatever went on behind closed doors, there was certainly plenty to discuss. According to official accounts, Kishida and Yi discussed the South China Sea, Taiwan, and North Korea in a four hour-long meeting Saturday.But to get anything done on such a broad set of issues, they will almost certainly need more time than that they took. On North Korea, Japan has been pushing China to be tougher on its misbehaving ally. Although Beijing did sign on to UN sanctions (whether it is enforcing them is another matter), it has resisted pressure to do any more. With Pyongyang expected to conduct another nuclear test and more missile tests in the coming months, it’s likely that North Korea will make Japan-China relations more difficult in the near future.Meanwhile, in the South China Sea, China has shown no signs of backing off its island fortification efforts. From installing missile systems to landing military aircraft on advanced landing strips, Beijing clearly has no intention of scaling back its plans.Japan, of course, is more concerned with the East China Sea, where Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has gone toe-to-toe with President Xi Jinping. Japan turned on a radar system in March, and has sailed numerous ships near the islands while stationing fighter jets at the nearby Okinawa base. China responded by sailing its own destroyers through the straits.So though it’s quite good all told that China and Japan are talking, both sides have taken positions that don’t allow for much give. | <urn:uuid:38e2b98d-5127-4d57-9c11-c02cb254b1a6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/05/01/will-japan-and-china-really-ease-tensions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00216-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968109 | 540 | 1.898438 | 2 |
MOSCOW: Experts have noted that the Delta coronavirus strain is more contagious.
However, it is too early to say how dangerous it is, Deputy Director for Clinical and Analytical Work at the Central Scientific Research Institute of Epidemiology Natalya Pshenichnaya told TASS.
“It is difficult to say so far how difficult the Indian strain is. Currently, we only know that it is more contagious. One infected person in India could infect six others, for example,” she said.
According to Pshenichnaya, the sharp increase in Covid-19 in Russia could happen due non-adherence to preventive measures.
“So we can’t relax now, and we need to get vaccinated against the novel coronavirus as soon as possible,” she said.
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A total of 198,725 orders and licences came to an end in 2010/11, but only 150,632 were completed successfully, said the National Offender Management Service (Noms).
Officials, who described the reoffending rate as "unacceptably high", said the Government was reviewing the probation service and aiming to toughen up community sentences, a key element in Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke's "rehabilitation revolution".
It comes as one probation chief warned that people could "fall through the system" and the role of the probation service could disappear if more and more of its work was transferred to the private sector.
Heather Munro, vice-chairwoman of the Probation Chiefs' Association, said: "If you've got one set of people delivering people on community payback, somebody else delivering tagging services, somebody else delivering programmes that offenders go on, and you've got somebody else trying to hold the whole thing together - there is a real worry about fragmentation and that's when people fall through the system."
The figures, published in the addendum to the Noms annual report, also showed that more than 22,000 criminals failed to complete their unpaid work successfully after being given a community order or suspended sentence.
Only 67,611 of the 89,875 community payback orders which ended last year were completed successfully. Some 18,330 days of unpaid work by offenders - the equivalent of more than 50 years - were also lost because of operational difficulties, such as a lack of supervisors, transport or work, despite the offender being ready and willing, the report said.
But this was less than 1% of all the community payback days planned and continued a downward trend.
A Ministry of Justice spokeswoman said: "We are currently reviewing the future shape of probation services and reviewing community sentences to make them tougher and will set out our approach in due course. Where an offender breaches the conditions of their licence they face the prospect of being returned to prison."
Juliet Lyon, director of the Prison Reform Trust campaign group, said: "As things stand, almost half of all those released from prison, rising to three quarters of young offenders, are re-convicted within a year. For crime to fall in 2012 Government must cut re-offending rates following a custodial or a community sentence and use public health measures to break addictions to drugs and drink."
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Poverty Inc. is a documentary about the organizations created to address poverty and the extent to which they succeed in doing so. Haiti features prominently in this documentary and offers cautionary lessons about how sometimes those who claim to be helping Haiti and other countries like it are in reality helping themselves.
Adoption can be controversial. In the case of Haiti, many orphanges are poorly managed and with little oversight. Major challenges are a lack of livelihoods and access to family planning information and commodities. Many children in orphanages are not really orphans as they have parents - albeit parents that could not afford them. Trention Daniel notes Haiti is in the process of updating its adoption laws for the first time in 40 years. This would being Haiti's adoption practices closer to international standards.
Below is a guest blog from Nina Persi, an art student who visited Haiti to document the lives of orphans living in Saint Joseph facilities in/around Port au Prince and Jacmel. Having returned to Pennsylvania, she is using her photos to raise awareness about vulnerable children in Haiti (of which there are many) and to raise funds for the Saint Joseph Family, an organization doing exceptional work caring for them. More information on her trip, the Saint Joseph Family, and how you can get involved follows.
The Service to Serve Haiti Committee is a group of individuals from the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC committed to supporting recovery efforts in Haiti. Its members have organized a screening of "Lift Up", a documentary about two Haitian brothers who return to Haiti in order to memorialize the grandfather they lost after the earthquake. The screening will benefit Fonkoze, the Haiti Micah Project, and the Saint Vincent's School for the Handicapped, each of which the Committee's members have worked with and know first hand the impact these groups are making for women and children in Haiti. Below is the official press release.
Each year, the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor is mandated to release country specific human rights reports that address individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. As this report pertains strictly to 2009, it does not address human rights issues in post earthquake Haiti. Still, it is highly relevant as long term recovery and reconstruction will depend in part upon creating a culture that respects human rights and a government that can enforce them.
The Haiti Micah Project (HMP) is a non profit organization which is providing one meal per day for 150 vulnerable children in the town of Mirebalais, plus uniforms and tuition for their education and medical care. Recently, HMP rented a two-building compound to house up to 25 of the most vulnerable, most of whom are street children. The opening of this facility is scheduled for mid to late April 2009. In order to expand the program, HMP recently announced the creation of a Child Sponsorship Initiative.
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(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - The National Retail Federation (NRF) welcomed the introduction of legislation that would help preserve Main Street jobs by requiring Internet retailers to collect sales tax the same as local brick-and-mortar stores.
“We believe there should be a level playing field where all retailers follow the same rules regardless of whether they sell their merchandise in a brick-and-mortar store, through the mail or online,” NRF Senior Vice President for Government Relations David French said. “This bill would end a situation where Internet sellers have held an unfair price advantage over local stores for far too long. Tax policy should be channel neutral and not favor one segment of an industry over another.”
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1992’s Quill v. North Dakota that retailers are required to collect sales tax from out-of-state customers only if they have a physical presence such as a store, warehouse or office in the customer’s state. The court held that the 45 state and 7,600 local sales tax systems across the nation were too complicated for a retailer to otherwise know how much tax to collect.
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill., introduced the Main Street Fairness Act. The bill would allow states that have adopted the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement – which was developed to simplify sales tax laws in response to the Supreme Court ruling – to require out-of-state sellers to collect sales tax whether they have a physical presence or not. The bill would cover all “remote sellers,” which include online retailers, catalog merchants and “1-800” offers on radio and television.
“This is a constitutional snafu that requires a congressional fix,” French said. “The framers of the Constitution never envisioned Internet sales and probably didn’t envision catalog sales, so they said interstate commerce should be the purview of Congress. But all trends in retail show that the Internet is growing faster than any other channel of retail, so the longer Congress leaves this unfixed the larger the consequences become and the greater the pressure is to act.”
In the United States, NRF represents an industry that includes more than 3.6 million establishments and which directly and indirectly accounts for 42 million jobs – one in four U.S. jobs. The total U.S. GDP impact of retail is $2.5 trillion annually, and retail is a daily barometer of the health of the nation’s economy. Visit www.nrf.com for more information. | <urn:uuid:a5c1f4a2-2a27-4b4e-94ee-d7f7bb40fa58> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.southernjewelrynews.com/latest-news/whats-new/1269-new-from-inox-jewelry-the-raceway-collection | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00283-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946594 | 533 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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Ecological Futures: A Conversation on Sustainability for Earth Week
April 22, 2021 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Join faculty from across the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS), along with CAHSS Dean Chuck Rybak, for a virtual Earth Week discussion of the Common CAHSS 2020 theme, “Beyond Sustainability: Imagining an Ecological Future.” Together, they will consider how the events of the past year, including Common CAHSS, have shaped their understandings of the problems of unsustainability and possible responses to these issues.
Thomas Campbell, Associate Professor (Theatre & Dance)
Alise Coen, Associate Professor (Political Science and Public & Environmental Affairs)
Chuck Rybak, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Lois Stevens, Assistant Professor (First Nations Studies and Education)
Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges, Professor (Psychology)
Moderator: David Voelker, Professor (Humanities & History) and Co-Chair of Common CAHSS | <urn:uuid:9930786f-0d44-4946-8874-0c1b760bb9f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cahsseffect.org/event/ecological-futures-a-conversation-on-sustainability-for-earth-week/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.911041 | 240 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Cybersecurity is top of mind for IT professionals. Protecting corporate data and other assets requires a robust strategy, and one key component is endpoint security.
But what is endpoint security?
Think of your network as a wheel. The hub represents your core infrastructure – servers, systems, data storage, etc. Radiating out from that hub are spokes, and at the ends of each spoke are the laptops, tablets, smartphones, and other interfaces that allow your users to connect into the central resources in the hub. Those access devices are endpoints.
An effective security posture relies on a number of tools and software platforms designed to protect and monitor the hub of your network wheel, where your most valuable assets often reside. But enterprises also need to ensure that every endpoint that connects to the network is also properly defended. It may sound simple to secure a device like a smartphone, but the state of endpoint security is always changing in response to emerging and evolving threats. Hackers are quick to leverage any vulnerabilities they find inside endpoint devices, and the variety of interfaces able to connect into a business network is always expanding.
Endpoints are typically on the front lines when it comes to cybersecurity. Not only do they offer an array of potential openings for anyone looking to access your network, many endpoint users don’t understand the myriad security threats targeting their computers, smartphones, and tablets. E-mail phishing scams, for instance, often wiggle their way into the network when an employee innocently clicks on a malicious link in a message from an untrusted source. That simple action then launches a malware-laden website or downloads a corrupted file to their device. The result? Their endpoint is compromised and it took only a moment for it to happen.
Making the elements behind endpoint security even more vital is the realization that it isn’t just a single device that’s at risk. Companies need to put the right security measures in place to prevent any one device from being jeopardized by malware, ransomware, or some other intrusion. Then they must also ensure their endpoint security strategy is robust enough to prevent attack vectors from traveling up the wheel spoke from that device to the heart of the infrastructure. If the endpoint doesn’t have sufficient protection, the entire network is at risk of becoming compromised. Stored data and even entire systems may be rendered inoperable and unrecoverable.
Endpoint security considerations in a changing business environment
Along with protecting the usual array of corporate-owned endpoints, many companies have expanded their network perimeter to allow connections from personally-owned devices – those belonging to employees, customers, and visitors – alongside the traditional endpoints distributed and managed by the organization. This bring your own device (BYOD) flexibility can be tricky to oversee, requiring your enterprise to be aware of what’s connecting to the network and what methods of control are available to ensure those endpoints are secure and trusted.
Elements around remote access, including increased business travel and the large-scale shift of employees into work-from-home (WFH) arrangements, are also adding a new layer of complexity to endpoint security efforts. More users now expect to connect to corporate networks not only through their personal smartphone or tablet while onsite, but also offsite via their home network or public Wi-Fi access points. In enterprises where remote access is prevalent, the need to protect against endpoint vulnerabilities is greater than ever.
In addition, the sheer number and type of endpoint devices has grown exponentially in recent years. Alongside more traditional computers and mobile devices, the rise of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has also created new challenges in endpoint security. IoT devices range from building air temperature sensors to smart speakers to intelligent room lighting systems to equipment monitoring devices. Their operating systems are sometimes rudimentary, with little room for defensive applications or other measures. In spite of these potential vulnerabilities, IT teams must develop an endpoint security strategy that enables every endpoint to operate securely within the environment.
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Setting up a college fund for a friend's child
A good friend of mine recently passed away, leaving behind a 3-year-old son. We would like to set up some sort of college savings fund in order to offset the cost of his university education, but we're uncertain about how to proceed. What would you suggest?
One approach would be to hire an attorney to help you in establishing a trust that names the child as beneficiary. The terms of the trust would control the use of funds -- in this case to pay for the beneficiary's college expenses. You could name yourself as trustee, or look to a bank, trust company or other professional fiduciary to fill that role. The trustee would be responsible for investing the trust's assets, filing the trust's tax returns and making the appropriate distributions.
The effort and expense of establishing and maintaining the trust can be substantial, and I'm guessing the amount you are contemplating is not enough to justify that expense. A 529 plan may be a better alternative. With a 529 plan, an account could be set up for your friend's child, and contributions to the account could be made by you and others who wish to help fund it. The 529 account would grow tax-deferred and be distributed tax-free for the beneficiary's qualified college costs, thereby avoiding income taxes.
An important consideration, should you decide to use a 529 plan, is naming someone as "account owner." The account owner in a 529 plan retains unrestricted access to the funds. Most likely you will not name yourself as owner, since maintaining ownership is not your goal, and other potential contributors may feel the funds are not being adequately protected. Instead, you might name the child's surviving parent or guardian as account owner, trusting that he or she will use the account as you intended.
Alternatively, you could establish the account under your state's Uniform Transfers to Minors Act, or UTMA, which mandates that you or any other named custodian ensure the funds are used only for the benefit of the child. The custodianship will terminate when the child reaches the age of 18 or 21 and the direct ownership of the account, along with its remaining assets, will pass to that beneficiary.
I'm aware of other instances of family members, friends and neighbors coming together to establish and fund 529 accounts for children who have lost parents. In fact, not too long ago I received the following letter from Lynne Ward, Director of the Utah Educational Savings Plan, or UESP, Utah's 529 savings plan, in response to another article I had written on this topic:
"We (UESP) had a similar account set up about a year ago. We had a new account set up for a non-Utah 2-year-old. We received numerous contributions for relatively small amounts and couldn't figure out what was going on. It didn't seem like they would have been birthday gifts as there were so many. The quarterly statement had to be manually intercepted and mailed in a large envelope as it was pages and pages long.
Months later, we received a 1099 from a major corporation. Upon following up with the company on why we had received it, we found out that it was for a contribution made by the company for the above account. The father was an employee and had died. The UESP account was set up by an aunt or other trustee for this little boy. Every time I think about this, it brings tears to my eyes. What a loving thing to do for this little boy who lost his father at such a young age. It reinforces the value of 529 plans as a vehicle to help children."
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Established in 1876, the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) certification is one of America’s oldest and most respected accounting certifications. Yet, its heyday may have come and gone, because the CPA candidate cohort size is not what it used to be.
While no one can predict the future, we can investigate reasons for the current state of candidate numbers. With this information, we can speculate if the certification’s glory days are indeed behind us or if the CPA’s influence in accounting can make a resurgence.
In the first article of this series, I will examine the CPA cohort’s reduced size and three factors affecting it.
The Overall Decline in CPA Cohort Numbers
NASBA has been gathering CPA Exam candidate data since 1982 and publishing performance reports since 1985.
From 1983-1993, the number of candidates averaged 140,479. In 1994, when the exam experienced its first major restructure, the population dropped from 140,232 to 130,801.
Then, in 1996, the exam became non-disclosed. Initially, candidate numbers experienced a minor dip, dropping from 126,433 in 1995 to 121,933 in 1996. However, they fell regularly for the next six years, only rising twice until they plummeted in 2004.
In 2003, the candidate population was 109,872. The next year, it was 44,513. The cause of this unprecedented landslide? The launch of the computerized CPA Exam.
Since then, candidate numbers have been modest at best. Over six years, they slowly climbed back to six digits, peaking at 103,609 in 2010. Then, they fell again, though less severely: The population averaged 92,543 until 2016, when it bumped up to 102,323. But after major exam changes in 2017, the total slipped to 95,654.
Factors Affecting the Reduced Popularity of the CPA
Clearly, exam changes bring candidate numbers down. However, even these don’t explain the non-existent recovery to the averages of the 80s and 90s. So, for further insight into this phenomenon, we must consider other developments in the CPA certification industry to see if they account for the loss of candidates.
In the last 20 years, the following events have occurred:
1.The state boards implemented stricter education requirements
In 1983, Florida became the first state to require 150 credit hours of higher education for the CPA license. Then, in 1989, the AICPA recommended other states follow suit. Many did in the late 90s, and by 2015, 54 of the 55 jurisdictions had adopted the 150-hour rule.
The 150-hour rule seems to increase pass rates: For example, Florida’s doubled after implementation. However, the number of first-time candidates sitting in the Sunshine State also fell to almost nothing before creeping back to a fraction of past highs.
The number of Florida candidates has rebounded, but as the 150-hour rule became the standard, the candidate population of many states suffered the same fate. Specifically, studies show that the CPA candidate population has decreased by 15 percent as a result of the rule. The numbers of the late 2000s demonstrate this regulation had a permanent impact.
The switch from the paper-based to the computer-based test improved pass rates while thinning out the candidate population. The demand for more education came at the same cost.
2. The state boards have also enforced more stringent experience requirements.
The CPA experience requirement has changed in the last decade. Thanks to the Uniform Accountancy Act (UAA), most state boards no longer require two years of public accounting experience. Instead, they accept just one year of any work involving accounting or business skills. As a result, in some ways, fulfilling the experience requirement is a bit easier.
In other ways, though, it is now harder. In the last five years, most state boards have specified that an active CPA must verify a candidate’s work experience. While a few jurisdictions allow a “CPA equivalent,” most require a fully certified professional accountant. Some even stipulate the verifier must be a direct supervisor.
For international candidates and those who didn’t work in public accounting, securing a CPA supervisor is a challenge. So, in 2016, NASBA launched its CPA Verification Service, which allows candidates to meet the requirement more easily. However, only 11 jurisdictions currently offer this service, and the cost is steep: $500 for domestic experience verification and $700 for international.
Therefore, the demand for a CPA verifier overshadows the reduced length of the experience requirement and still leaves many individuals out of the candidate cohort.
3. Exam fees have increased
When the CPA Exam was paper-based, the state boards charged candidates $200 to sit for all four sections the first time. Then, depending on how many sections you failed, you paid less for retakes.
However, from 1998-2001, the AICPA was operating at a deficit, so fees rose. In 2001, candidates applying to a state board using NASBA’s CPA Exam Services (CPAES) had to start paying a fixed fee for each section no matter the number of retakes. Initially, the fee varied based on section length. But eventually, the length and cost of each were the same. Consequently, the exam fee increased over the last two decades in the following way:
Now, candidates must pay over four times more to sit for each exam section the first time than they did in 2000 and before. As $200 in 2000 is $292.73 today with inflation, the CPA Exam price spike seems high enough to keep candidates away.
First Impressions and Additional Factors
The appearance of harsher requirements and higher fees corresponds with decreases in the CPA candidate population. And while reverting back to more lenient requirements and lower fees is theoretically possible, it is highly unlikely.
What’s more, some of the other factors affecting the numbers are not adjustable. We will discuss these other factors in this series’s second article and get a better sense of just how long term these lowered CPA candidate numbers are.
Stephanie Ng is the author of How to Pass The CPA Exam (published by Wiley) and publisher of several websites containing helpful information about accounting certification exams. As a licensed CPA (not in public practice), Stephanie recalls her own experience as an accounting... | <urn:uuid:db93248d-ed7a-491d-8882-c239e1812fd8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.accountingweb.com/practice/growth/why-cpa-candidate-numbers-have-decreased-part-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.946113 | 1,343 | 1.875 | 2 |
Red Cedar Stump
8920 Queen Mary Boulevard, Surrey, British Columbia, V3V, Canada
Red Cedar Stump
Western Red Cedar Stump, Surrey
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Listed on the Canadian Register:
Statement of Significance
Description of Historic Place
The Red Cedar Stump is a highly visible landmark, on a City lot that extends into the front yard of a single family lot in a mature urban residential area, consisting of thirty to forty year old single family houses. The stump is approximately nine metres in circumference and about four metres high.
The heritage value of this Western Red Cedar stump lies in the fact that it is a remnant of the first growth trees in North Surrey, representing the landscape of pre-European settlement. This stump reveals the maturity and scale of the natural landscape in the area, prior to European settlement.
Forestry played a crucial role in Surrey's settlement and development and the Red Cedar Stump is evidence of the extent of the local logging industry in the early 1900s. It was the high quality of Surrey's forests which attracted many people and a number of logging and milling firms, to the district. It is estimated that the tree was over 500 years old at the time it was cut. This stump provides some context of the size of the trees cleared by the early loggers. It has springboard markings that were notches cut into trees allowing loggers to insert a board and stand higher up off the ground to cut the tree.
With its designation, the Red Cedar Stump illustrates the City of Surrey's commitment to recognizing and preserving its natural heritage.
Source: Heritage Planning Files, City of Surrey
Key elements that define the heritage character of the Red Cedar Stump include its:
- original location;
- prominence and visibility along Queen Mary Boulevard; and
- size, girth and springboard markings.
Local Governments (BC)
Local Government Act, s.967
Theme - Category and Type
Function - Category and Type
- Nature Element
Architect / Designer
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Heritage Planning Files, City of Surrey
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 23 – German and African insurance bodies have formalised an agreement to strengthen trade ties, just weeks following a visit by Chancellor Angela Merkel to the Continent.
The African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI), German-based trade credit insurer Euler Hermes Kreditversicherungs-AG (Euler Hermes) and PricewatehouseCoopers-AG(PwC), on Tuesday, embarked on a partnership that will enable German exporters sell to their African counterparts on credit terms.
A key feature under the agreement will be risk sharing on joint transactions and exchange of credit information on international buyers, which ATI CEO George Otieno said is lacking in Africa and further hindering open account trading in the Continent.
“Without credit information on international buyers it is virtually impossible for companies like ATI to provide insurance. This partnership will help ATI access information on German companies and enable African exporters to increase access to German markets,” he said.
Germany is the second largest export destination for Kenyan goods particularly in coffee and horticultural products.
Managing Director of Euler Hermes Andreas Klasen said the partnership exemplifies German exporters’ strategy to intensify engagement with Africa on multiple levels.
“Global interest in Africa has risen significantly over the past years. There is a visible shift of focus from aid to trade. Germany has much to offer to spur progress and development in African countries,” he said.
While total German exports have grown by seven percent since 2006, Mr Klasen said exports to sub-Saharan Africa have increased by more than twice that amount.
“A substantial part (6.3 percent) of these export transactions are protected under Hermes Cover against bad debt losses. During the first six months of 2011 the German government granted cover for exports to sub-Saharan Africa worth almost $650 million.”
Kenya imports an estimated $13 billion annually of German oil and other goods.
However, with China posing stiff competition in the African market trade volumes between Germany and Kenya have diminished.
According to the Economic Survey 2011, Kenya’s imports from China quadrupled to Sh120.6 billion last year from Sh29.7 billion in 2006.
“The Chinese have come and taken a big slice of trade volumes. Euler Hermes has taken the initiative to sign this partnership because they believe Africa is a growth area for them. They want to regain whatever they’ve lost to the Chinese companies,” Mr Otieno said.
He further added that the agreement is also to transition African countries from being aid dependent to becoming trade enabled.
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Painting to Commemorate Doolittle Raid of WWII
March 24, 2009
McDermott Library’s Special Collections will hold a public unveiling of a work by painter William S. Phillips titled “Rising to the Storm,” 1:30-3 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25.
Attending the Event
The 4-by-6-foot painting donated by William Caswell Ward features a dynamic rendering of the James H. “Jimmy” Doolittle Raid in 1942.
The painting will be displayed in a space overlooking the desk, chair, bookshelves, awards and other personal effects of the late Gen. Doolittle, whose archives were donated to the library in 1993.
The event will include a briefing by C.V. Glines (Col. USAF, Ret.), historian for the Doolittle Raiders and a reception.
Ward has donated other miscellaneous aircraft items to the History of Aviation Collection in Special Collections.
“While the strength of our aviation collection is found in our extensive research documents, impressive visual items such as “Rising to the Storm” provide an added emphasis to the importance of this history,” said Paul Oelkrug, C.A., coordinator of Special Collections. “We are most grateful to William Ward for his donation of original art that fits perfectly in the Doolittle corner of aviation history.”
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One sign particularly struck my fancy. It read: “I am not from the Brotherhood but they are my brothers.” It was carried by a young woman at a 200-strong protest rally in Auckland’s Aotea Square yesterday.
The young woman’s message was along the same lines as my speech to the rally, attended mainly by Egyptian New Zealanders, and others from Middle Eastern countries.
It is no longer a question of whether or not we agree with the Moslem Brotherhood. When people are being massacred by a military regime for exercising their democratic right to protest, then we must speak out. We must stand with them.
The brutal military crackdown is sliding Egypt back to the dark days of the Mubarak regime.
Unfortunately, many liberal-minded Egyptians were hoodwinked into thinking that the 3 July military coup would put Egypt on a better path to democracy. They had criticized the Morsi government for being intolerant and exclusive in the way it ruled. However to choose a military regime over a flawed, democratically elected government was a fatal error.
Democracy in all its aspects is fast disappearing in Egypt as the military shoots down Brotherhood supporters outside mosques, manipulates the media, and talks about banning the Brotherhood altogether.
Driving the Brotherhood back underground again (as it was in Mubarak’s time) would be a disaster. In 1992 the Algerian military deposed an elected Islamist government, and thousands were killed in the armed conflict which followed.
There has been an alarming reluctance among Western nations to call the military takeover by its right name, a “coup”. Until this week Western criticism of the coup leaders has been muted. Last Thursday (six weeks after the coup) our Foreign Minister Murray McCully finally put out a media statement expressing his “strong condemnation” of “the use of military force against civilians.” Other Western governments have now done likewise, and the United States has cancelled Bright Star, a joint US/Egyptian military exercise. However, if the US was seriously opposed to the military massacres it would halt its aid to the Egyptian armed forces, presently running at $US1.3 billion a year.
We read in an Israeli media outlet, Ynetnews that “The US is in no hurry to stop its aid to Egypt, which would severely damage its relations with the Egyptian army. The Egyptians allow the Americans to move their military forces, quickly and almost without warning, over Egyptian skies and the Suez Canal, which is a necessity for its activities in the war on terror in the Horn of Africa, the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and the area of Israel and the Gaza Strip.” For the Obama administration, its own military interests come before the lives of the innocent people being gunned down in the streets of Cairo and other Egyptian cities. | <urn:uuid:c0e2194a-1220-4e5c-ab09-9c80f597101e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2013/08/19/dont-harbour-any-illusions-about-egypts-military-regime/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.975502 | 578 | 1.71875 | 2 |
When you start a new job, you may find it difficult to get to know your coworkers. While it may be difficult at first, it is in your best interest to get along with the other employees at the office. If you can get along with others and work well in a team environment, it can improve your chances of keeping your job over the long-term.
Listen to Others
If you want to get along with others in the workplace, one of the most important things that you will need to do is listen when they talk. Many arguments and conflicts have been started by individuals who are unwilling to listen to the other person. When someone approaches you about a problem or issue, do not be quick to interrupt. Stop and listen to what that person is saying first before responding.
Do not be afraid to ask questions in the workplace. If you are unclear about your responsibilities or assignments, ask your supervisor exactly what you are supposed to do. By clarifying your responsibilities, you can avoid confusion and problems in the future. If you make mistakes in your job, it will inevitably affect someone else in the workplace. Making sure that you do your job correctly should be one of your top priorities.
One of the problems that many people have in the office is gossiping about other coworkers. If you are regularly engaged in this practice, stop immediately. When you talk about other people behind their backs, it can lead to negative emotions between employees and eventually fighting. Make it a priority to avoid talking negatively about other people, especially when they are not present.
Be a Team Player
You should always strive to be a team player in your workplace. Always be willing to chip in and do your part to help the team be successful. When someone does not do their share, it negatively affects other people and other employees start to resent that individual. If you are always willing to do your share and even more than your share, you will usually get along well with others.
Take Interest in Others
Make an effort to take an interest in other people. According to FabJob.com, learning about others' home life and families, even their challenges, builds mutual confidence among coworkers. "Gaining the confidence of fellow workers is made much easier when you demonstrate that you have a caring attitude," FabJob.com reports. Be interested in what other people are doing and how their personal life is going. Stay in touch with your coworkers and try to develop personal relationships with everyone you can, but avoid being invasive.
- Wate.com; Handling Workplace Conflicts -- 7 Tips for Getting Along on the Job; Gregg Newby; June 4, 2010
- Fabjob; 10 Tips for Getting Along with People at Work; George M. Akerley
- North Carolina State University; Adjusting to Work -- Getting Along With Others; Karen Debord
- Law Crossing; Office Etiquette -- Getting Along with Your Coworkers; Douglas May
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Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused
Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused by Garth Fowden
English | ISBN: 0691158533 | 2013 | EPUB | 248 pages | 2,9 MB
Islam emerged amid flourishing Christian and Jewish cultures, yet students of Antiquity and the Middle Ages mostly ignore it. Despite intensive study of late Antiquity over the last fifty years, even generous definitions of this period have reached only the eighth century, whereas Islam did not mature sufficiently to compare with Christianity or rabbinic Judaism until the tenth century. Before and After Muhammad suggests a new way of thinking about the historical relationship between the scrural monotheisms, integrating Islam into European and West Asian history.
Garth Fowden identifies the whole of the First Millennium-from Augustus and Christ to the formation of a recognizably Islamic worldview by the time of the philosopher Avicenna-as the proper chronological unit of analysis for understanding the emergence and maturation of the three monotheistic faiths across Eurasia. Fowden proposes not just a chronological expansion of late Antiquity but also an eastward shift in the geographical frame to embrace Iran.
In Before and After Muhammad, Fowden looks at Judaism, Christianity, and Islam alongside other important developments in Greek philosophy and Roman law, to reveal how the First Millennium was bound together by diverse exegetical traditions that nurtured communities and often stimulated each other.
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Bats & the philosophers
Thomas Nagel’s latest work must have some merit: it has created a stir in the belfries. The book is, Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False. The author is the celebrated, John Rawls-trained, atheist and empiricist perfesser of philosophy and law at New York University.
I last checked in with Nagel some decades ago, in the days of “What is it like to be a bat?” — his bald philosophical paper of the ‘seventies, which argued that the question is deeply interesting. For after we have learnt every empirical thing that can be known about a bat, we still don’t know what it feels like. His paper was an attack on scientific reductionism, and must have been an early anticipation of his current large essay, in which he extends his attack to what we call “materialism” or “naturalism” at large. This invariably bestews an author in frankly Aristotelian pots of teleology (i.e. reasoning to final cause). For a universe consisting only of bona-fide stuff, evolving by bona-fide chance, and thus limiting itself strictly to efficient causes, would surely not bother with something so scandalously “inefficient” as consciousness.
The academic reviews of Nagel, from what I have seen in the electronic aether, are appropriately scandalized. The Neo-Darwinist Inquisition would hardly be worth its pay, if it did not promptly wax hysterical whenever a credentialled person drifts towards the shoals of Intelligent Design. This review in the Nation provides judge, jury, and summary conviction. These two in the Thrupenny Review provide some amusing sneers from the humanities gallery.
Nagel’s attack is dismissed as vague and amateur, since he has refused to buy into reductionist premisses to attack reductionism, and into naturalist premisses to attack naturalism. He stands further accused, by the Nation reviewer, of failing to abase himself in the presence of the high priests of empirical science. Can he not see that science gets results? Where is his Faith in Science? How dare he employ philosophical reasoning to an enterprise innocent of such dark things!
Now here is what we understand to be the Nagelian critique. A materialist or naturalist science should explain how things got the way they are, in terms that are ultimately plausible and likely. All the most obviously important results of the evolutionary process should be present and accounted for at the end of the day. And therefore, something as huge as consciousness needs explaining. Something so shriekingly volitional should not be presented as a kind of add-on or spin-off or side-effect or by-product of “sparks and drips at the synapses” (some Berkeley neuroscientist’s happy phrase).
Moreover, the “grey jelly” has an uncanny way, even in mere animals, of apprehending truths outside of itself. In the case of humans, 3 plus 5 equals 8 is astonishing: because it checks out with the universe; it emerges as an inescapable consequence of the “law of non-contradiction.” Math and logic are spooky like that, and so, as Nagel will apparently argue, are certain moral axioms. We may say that they “evolved” to assist us in survival; are “by-products of evolution”; but that doesn’t begin to explain e.g. “do as you would be done by.” This steps radically beyond what we required to deal with sabre-toothed tigers, into a realm of tautology (in the highest sense) that precedes (in the logical) any evolutionary explanation. If science means “knowledge,” as it formerly did, we will just have to deal with that bit, too.
This empirically-demonstrable fact of self-awareness, on the part of the universe in this location at least, is what lies under and behind the anthropic cosmological principle, towards which empirical science itself may be moving, on the strength of its unlikely discoveries. For we have a universe which, in no location, can ever be shown to neglect purpose. It does not merely spark and drip; it lays eggs.
Aristotle was not ahead of modern science in empirical research (how could he be, since that is cumulative?) but well ahead in his grasp that efficient cause does not complete the scientific transaction. Final cause may dance beyond our reach, but there it dances. Cheap parodies of teleological reasoning do not put it to rest: for if human beings had never asked “Why?” there would be no science. The Neo-Darwinians may try to arrest us at the boundary of efficient causation, but in the end their Berlin Wall will fall: for we have seen bright lights on the other side, and we want to go there. | <urn:uuid:fada6d88-865d-4b35-b3d6-e444950a5a56> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/2012/10/15/bats-the-philosophers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00391-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958619 | 1,053 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Waves of refugees arrive daily to Kenya, some having walked weeks through unforgiving desert with virtually no possessions, and yet local relief workers report optimism among the millions threatened by the historic famine and drought spreading through the Horn of Africa.
"Everyone looks hungry and wiped out," said Bruce White, a Catholic Relief Services adviser who returned earlier this month from Kenya. "But there is a sense of hope because there is help. I asked one man what he wanted here and he said 'peace.'"
Jonathan Ernst, a Baltimore freelance photojournalist, reached the refugee camps in eastern Kenya last week and is reporting to Lutheran World Relief. He has seen a "huge crush" of refugees arriving daily. "The refugees vary from clearly emaciated in need of immediate attention to others who are only a little less desperate," he said.
Then, he added: "But I don't see total despair. Those coming here seem to feel lucky."
The growing numbers of starving refugees from Somalia, a war-torn nation suffering the worst of the famine, are straining the agrarian population in neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia. Camps in Dadaab, a city in eastern Kenya near the Somali border, were built to accommodate 90,000 but have seen the arrival of more than four times that number. The United Nations reports "high levels of acute malnutrition" throughout the east African region, with the numbers needing humanitarian aid increasing daily.
The mounting crisis that threatens an estimated 12 million people in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia has prompted the Baltimore-based agencies — and other relief organizations in Maryland — to increase staffing and resources there. Many of the organizations have been in the region for decades, working to help build an economic future for the third-world populace. Now they are switching their focus to simply rescuing them from starvation.
Lutheran World Relief had worked with farmers in East Africa, teaching them modern agricultural practices while helping them reap plentiful harvests and increase their herds. The organization is channeling donations to aid those in the camps and help local residents maintain what economic progress they have made.
In an effort to assist the indigenous population, Catholic Relief Services will soon launch a five-year effort to build another camp, also in Dadaab to house 25,000 people and will use local labor to build the water and sanitation facilities. The organization will train area residents to be solid-waste managers, latrine attendants, community mobilizers, and water and sanitation service providers.
IMA World Health is channeling famine relief donations to its partners on the ground in East Africa, said Chris Glass, spokesman for the organization based in the Carroll County town of New Windsor. He and Richard L. Santos, president of the nonprofit, left Friday for a health project in Tanzania but will also check into the situation in neighboring Kenya.
The White House announced earlier this month a $105 million grant for humanitarian aid to East Africa. The United Nations estimates that nearly $3 billion is needed to combat what it terms the region's worst food crisis in 60 years. Private contributions to relief efforts have raised about one third of that amount, said Timothy McCully, Lutheran World Relief's vice president for international programs.
"We continue to advise the U.S. government to continue to play a strong role," McCully said. "We are called to step up and help once again. We must show the world what our values are and extend our hands to these people."
Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley issued a plea for donations last week. He said he had given to USAID and urged residents to contribute whatever they could.
Catholic Relief Services says the camps in eastern Kenya are recording as many as 1,500 arrivals daily, and the organization's on-site workers predict that those numbers will increase as long as the drought persists.
Many refugees are farmers who have lost their livestock and have seen their land turned to dust. Nearly 70 percent of the new arrivals are women and children, relief workers said.
"While Somali refugees are bearing the worst of the crisis, the local population is equally at risk," said McCully. "There is a shortage of food, livestock and water. There is not enough aid, and more has to be delivered immediately."
A lack of rain triggered the crisis, but the area suffers from a long history of failed infrastructure and policies, he said.
"Short-term aid is vital and long-term is equally vital to avoid crises in the future," McCully said. "We need to rehabilitate the irrigation systems to expand the acreage that can be farmed. Then farmers can plant more in the next cycle."
Drought, which has persisted for nearly three years, also has pushed the cost of food and fuel far beyond the means of many. Programs that helped farmers increase staple and cash crops are at risk, as many are forced to sell off assets, particularly livestock, at reduced prices to buy food, McCully said. Without the animals, families fall from subsistence to poverty, he said.
Lutheran World Relief plans to continue to push for "long-term investment in the region's agricultural base" to alleviate this crisis and prevent more famine in the future. Its workers will still focus on small farms, bolstering the role those rural operations play in farmers' households and in the national economy. Rather than ship tons of food, seed and farm tools, the agency will use its funds to support local economies.
Still, relief workers say they must now address the immediate catastrophe, providing food, water, shelter and safety for famine victims. The next few months are critical because the lack of rain will likely mean another meager harvest, experts say.
Relief organizations also are trying to keep Americans focused on the more pressing needs. Lutheran World Relief sent Ernst, the Baltimore photographer, to Dadaab to provide accounts of the work there.
As Ernst toured the camps, he saw "people who are trying to make a life for themselves." The tents are arranged in blocks, each with about 80 families, and the blocks organize into a kind of community, he said. They elect a representative, a security officer, even a first-aid officer.
He said the children are making do, organizing spontaneous soccer games, often with a ball made of anything available.
"Most of these people cannot go home," he said. "I think they are trying to find a new sense of normal, or as much of normal as they can make of the situation."
White, from Catholic Relief Services, was at the same camp. He said that when refugees arrive, they are interviewed and given an ID bracelet, as well as food, hygiene kits and tarps to make a shelter. "You get a square piece of desert, and that's your home," White said. "It's a city of people living in tents or in huts made from sticks and tarps."
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We live in an era increasingly defined by grand challenges: a global pandemic, an unsettling new geopolitical order, and an economy shaped by complex issues such as climate change, rising inequality, and demographic shifts. These challenges require us to think about public policy differently, with a bolder vision.
More than ever, Canada’s economic success relies on our ability to innovate and harness our human intellectual capital to solve big problems and be more productive. Innovation is critically important to a country’s economic prospects because it plays such a crucial role in productivity growth. In turn, higher productivity means a better standard of living. This is not an abstract academic debate: our collective economic prosperity depends on it.
More than ever, Canada’s economic success relies on our ability to innovate and harness our human intellectual capital to solve big problems and be more productive.
Canada invests heavily in innovation. The Jenkins Panel, for instance, reviewed 60 federal programs delivered by 17 departments and agencies totaling more than $5 billion in annual expenditures targeting research and development alone. Those investments rely mainly on supply-side economics (ie tax credits) to incentivize innovation. But how effective has that approach been?
Take for example our largest funding mechanism for private sector research, the Scientific Research & Experimental Tax Credit (SR&ED). Funding from SR&ED will cover Research and Development (R&D), but not the costs associated with patenting that research. There is little evidence that SR&ED is driving private investment in R&D. As a whole, Canada’s R&D spending as a function of GDP is declining and is below average compared to other OECD countries.
Put simply, Canada’s approach to innovation policy over the last decades has not delivered the goods. In fact, a 2018 Brookings report concluded that our advanced industries – the high value innovation and technology application industries that disproportionally drive regional and national prosperity – lag significantly compared to the U.S. Our relative productivity is at its worst at a time when it matters most.
We need to address the structural weaknesses of our innovation ecosystem. We perform relatively well at the beginning of the innovation chain – in basic research and the start-up stage – but poorly in later stages such as scaling small- and medium-sized enterprises, growing global firms in non-protected and regulated sectors, and late-stage capital financing. This results in many companies leaving the country, particularly in certain sectors such as high-tech and medical innovation.
We need to address the structural weaknesses of our innovation ecosystem.
Further, publicly-funded R&D is not well linked to industry, resulting in poor technology transfers or commercialization for Canadian companies. We undervalue our Intellectual Property as a source of economic wealth and give it away to foreign firms too easily. Canada’s public R&D spending should be a long-term investment in our ability to become more innovative and productive and to grow the economy. It should support a broader innovation ecosystem and close the gap between public benefits and private costs. That case is weakened, however, if investments are directed exclusively to foreign firms and the spillovers are mostly realized outside of Canada
We need to focus less on the supply side and more on the demand side of the equation so that we can harness the tremendous advantage Canada maintains over its competitors, that is, a highly skilled and educated workforce. Canada has one the highest levels of post secondary graduates in the OECD, and our immigration system is one of the best in the world when it comes to economic mobility. But our innovation outcomes are marginal compared to international standards.
So, how do we improve those outcomes? We can look to the DARPA model for some tried and true solutions. Established in 1958 in response to the Soviet Union’s launch of Sputnik, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) was created by President Eisenhower out of a sense of urgency. The Americans wanted to be the first to send a satellite to space, but the Russians got there before them — and it was not because the United States lacked the science. The American government simply did not move fast enough. DARPA was the answer to that problem. In a historic speech at Rice University in 1962, President Kennedy would pledge to put a man on the Moon by the end of the 1960s.
Over the years, DARPA-funded projects created the building blocks for the GPS, the first computer mouse and the protocols that underpin the modern Internet. It pioneered stealth technology that made American fighter jets all but invisible to enemy radar. DARPA is now at the forefront of the vaccine race for COVID-19.
Similarly, the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) funds high-risk, high-reward research in clean, affordable and reliable energy. By bringing together experts from all walks of science, technology, and business, ARPA-E brought down silos and produced more than 340 patents while breaking ground in renewable energy, biofuel and fuel cell technology markets.
Another key U.S. mission and challenge-driven organization, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) just announced a few days ago it will be buying lunar soil from commercial providers. Think about this for a few seconds. It will pay private firms to go to the moon and bring back soil. In doing so, NASA will be creating a whole new market in the capability to go to the moon.
Demand-side policies will be a necessary part of a new, “homegrown advantage” to help firms build scale and enable them to compete in global markets.
We can learn from these success stories. Our conventional policy toolkit requires updating if Canada is to cultivate innovative domestic firms that can compete globally. More and more, the economy is being driven by intangible assets such as intellectual property, software, and data. It is transforming where economic value is derived and who participates in it. A shift to a greater focus on demand-side policies is consistent with a broader recognition of the evolving policy environment caused by the rise of the intangibles economy and changing geopolitics.
Demand-side policies will be a necessary part of a new, “homegrown advantage” to help firms build scale and enable them to compete in global markets. This will not happen if we cannot transfer our knowledge and intellectual capital into commercial products and services. It is time to see more return on our substantial investment in innovation. Canada needs to adopt a DARPA challenge-driven approach that will enable technology transfers to the private sector and help grow Canadian global champions.
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If things go as expected on Thursday, British voters will reject the option of leaving the European Union. Likewise, if things go as expected come November, American voters will reject the option of electing a President Trump. Both outcomes would be reassuring, but they wouldn't mean the end of right-wing populism on either side of the Atlantic—they may merely represent new high-water marks.
When the Brexit referendum is done, tens of millions of Britons will likely have registered a vote against the liberal vision of European unity and assimilation. In this country, even after the disastrous past few weeks Donald Trump has had, a new opinion poll, from Quinnipiac University, indicates that in crucial states like Ohio and Pennsylvania he remains statistically tied with Hillary Clinton.
Why is this happening? Trump and his counterpart in Britain, the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP) leader Nigel Farage, didn't emerge from nowhere. Both are wealthy men who affect an affinity with the common people, and who have skillfully exploited a deep well of resentment among working-class and middle-class voters, some of whom have traditionally supported left-of-center parties. Certainly, a parallel factor in both men’s rise is racism, or, more specifically, nativism. Trump has presented a nightmarish vision of America overrun by Mexican felons and Muslim terrorists. UKIP printed up campaign posters that showed thousands of dark-colored refugees lining up to enter Slovenia, which is part of the E.U., next to the words "BREAKING POINT: The EU has failed us all." But racism and nationalism have both been around for a long time, as have demagogues who try to exploit them. In healthy democracies, these troublemakers are confined to the fringes.
Historically, transforming radical parties of the right (or left) into mass movements has required some sort of disaster, such as a major war or an economic depression. Europe in the early twentieth century witnessed both, with cataclysmic results. After the First World War, the introduction of social democracy, the socioeconomic system that most Western countries settled on, delivered steadily rising living standards, which helped to keep the extremists at bay. If prosperity wasn't shared equally—and it wasn't—egalitarian social norms and redistributive tax systems blunted some of the inequities that go along with free-market capitalism.
But in the past few decades Western countries have been subjected to a triad of forces that, while not as visible or dramatic as wars and depressions, have proved equally destabilizing: globalization, technical progress, and a political philosophy that embraces both. In the United States, it is no coincidence that Trump is doing well in the Rust Belt and other deindustrialized areas. A one-two punch of automation and offshoring has battered these regions, leaving many of their residents ill-equipped to prosper in today's economy. Trump is exploiting the same economic anxieties and resentments that helped Bernie Sanders, another critic of globalization and free trade, carry the Michigan Democratic primary.
"There is no excuse for supporting a racist, sexist, xenophobic buffoon like Donald Trump," Dean Baker, an economist and blogger at the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research, in Washington, noted recently. "But we should be clear; the workers who turn to him do have real grievances. The system has been rigged against them."
Similarly, it is not an accident that UKIP is popular in the former mill towns of northern England, in the engineering belt of the West Midlands, and in working-class exurbs of London. "Children emerging from the primary school next door, almost all from ethnic minorities, are just a visible reminder for anyone seeking easy answers to genuine grievance," the Guardian's Polly Toynbee wrote, last week, after a visit to Barking, in Essex, which is close to a big car factory owned by Ford. "As high-status Ford jobs are swapped for low-paid warehouse work, indignation is diverted daily against migrants by the Mail, Sun, Sunday Times and the rest. . . . This is the sound of Britain breaking."
For the past half century, the major political parties, on both sides of the Atlantic, have promulgated the idea that free trade and globalization are the keys to prosperity. If you pressed the mainstream economists who advise these parties, they might concede that trade creates losers as well as winners, and that the argument for ever more global integration implicitly assumes that the winners will compensate the losers. But the fact that such a sharing of the gains has been sorely lacking was regarded as a relatively minor detail, and certainly not as a justification for calling a halt to the entire process.
If you are reading this post, the likelihood is that you, like me, are one of the winners. Highly educated, professional people tend to work in sectors of the economy that have benefitted from the changes in the international division of labor (e.g., finance, consulting, media, tech) or have been largely spared the rigors of global competition (e.g., law, medicine, academia). From a secure perch on the economic ladder, it is easy to celebrate the gains that technology and globalization have brought, such as a cornucopia of cheap goods in rich countries and rising prosperity in poor ones. It's also tempting to dismiss the arguments of people who ignore the benefits of this process, or who can't see that it is irreversible.
But, as Baker points out, "it is a bit hypocritical of those who have benefited" from this economic transformation to be “mocking the poor judgment of its victims”—especially now that the forces of global competition and technological progress are reaching into areas that were previously protected. In a world of self-driving cars and trucks, what is the future for truck drivers, cab and limo drivers, and delivery men? Not a very prosperous one, surely. And the creative destruction that the Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter celebrated won't stop there. With software that can transfer money at zero cost, medical robots that can carry out the most delicate of operations, and smart algorithms that can diagnose diseases or dispense legal advice, what is the future for bankers, surgeons, doctors, lawyers, and other professionals?
There is no straightforward answer to this question, just as there is no easy answer to the question of what can be done to help those who have already lost out. One option is to strengthen the social safety net and, perhaps, to move toward some sort of universal basic income, which would guarantee a minimum standard of living to everybody, regardless of employment prospects. The political enactment of such solutions, however, is contingent on the existence of social solidarity, which the very process of economic and technological change, by heightening inequalities and eroding communal institutions, undermines.
Lacking grounds for optimism, and feeling remote from the levers of power, the disappointed nurse their grievances—until along come politicians who tell them that they are right to be angry, that their resentments are justified, and that they should be mad not just at the winners but at immigrants, too. Trump and Farage are the latest and most successful of these political opportunists. Sadly, they are unlikely to be the last. | <urn:uuid:b15d42f5-d30b-4f46-84f1-73be7b7ffb46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.newyorker.com/news/john-cassidy/what-do-the-brexit-movement-and-donald-trump-have-in-common | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.964816 | 1,473 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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MORGADO, Fabiane Frota da Rocha and FERREIRA, Maria Elisa Caputo. Exploratory analysis of two dimensional and three dimensional silhouette scales for persons with blindness. Rev. bras. educ. espec. [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.1, pp.47-64. ISSN 1413-6538. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S1413-65382010000100005.
The aim of the study was to conduct an exploratory analysis of the two dimensional and three dimensional Silhouette Scales (2SS and 3SS) so as to determine which one is most suitable and meaningful for persons that are congenitally blind. This is a qualitative and exploratory study. The sample was composed of 20 adult congenitally blind subjects. Ten men and 10 women aged between 21 and 50 years of age from the Benjamin Constant Institute, in Rio de Janeiro and from the Association for the Blind of Juiz de Fora, MG, were interviewed. The tools for the collection of data were: 2SS, 3SS and semi-structured interview guideline. The strategy adopted for data construction was the Content Analysis of Bardin. Three large categories were formed: 1) Main information pathways about the body, subdivided into: touch; information about weight and height; information about the people they live with; cultural information; clothes size, and physical activity as a reference. 2) Two dimensional Silhouette Scale, subdivided into: Non recognition of the 2SS; difficulties; functions. 3) Three dimensional Silhouette Scale: subdivided into: recognition of the Scale; relationship with oneself or with others, ease and preferences of the 3SS. It was found that 90% of the participants did not recognize the 2SS while all of the participants recognized the 3SS. The 3SS is the more adequate and meaningful scale for the congenitally blind. Further studies aiming to assess the psychometric qualities of the 3SS are needed.
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For the delicts of the same classification practised 28/03/2007 after, he prevails, for the time being, Law 11464/07, that he determines> direct consequncia of the practised delict – he is reduced so only to the letter of the Law. Our Legislative one, and in result our Judiciary one, legislates in the direction to reduce the jail population in detriment of its victims. In recent years the action of the activists of human rights of infractors took advantage incontinenti on the same rights of the citizen who does not transgress and lives in compliance with the Current law. The social behavior of the people, companies and institutions, does not leave doubts. In this Country if it never spent in such a way with security! Today the families plan its lives in function of a pretense inalcanvel security.
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April 1965 | Volume 16, Issue 3
To become a successful local hero, get a good biographer and outlive your detractors
The good citizens of Fulton County, New York, have a historical hero all their own, one Major Nicholas Stoner. Although the country at large has never heard of him, in his own territory Nick Stoner is still revered, more than a century after his death. His name has been given to a lake, an island, another lake, an inn, and a golf course, which boasts a bronze statue of him near the first tee. State highway No. 10 is known locally as the “Nick Stoner Trail.” What is perhaps most touching of all, the students of Gloversville High School have adopted Nick as a sort of familiar spirit and carol him lustily in a song of which all of the music and most of the words have been lifted from Amherst College’s “Lord Jeffery Amherst.”
There follows a refrain and then another verse in which the Gloversvillians tell the students of nearby Schenectady, Amsterdam, and Johnstown high schools to prepare to see the Gloversville High football teams do to their teams what Nick did to the poor red men.
Who was this Nick Stoner? Just what did he do to the Indians?
The author once put these questions to a number of Gloversville High School students. The answers he received were vague at best and contained no more information than there is in the verse quoted above, apparently the sole source of student information.
Fortunately for the curious there exists a biography of Stoner that gives his life in considerable detail: yet anyone who reads it will find himself wondering how Nick ever attained the status of hero, even locally. The biography is included in a rambling volume called Trappers of New York, by Jeptha R. Simms. The lives of several other trappers are also given in it, but Stoner is obviously Simms’ greatest hero, and more than half of the book is devoted to him.
Simms writes in a stilted and florid style strongly reminiscent of another upstate New Yorker, James Fenimore Cooper. The patient reader will be rewarded with a fairly authentic account of the life of Major Stoner. It may be called authentic because Simms, unlike those who wrote “true” lives of Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, and other western dreadfuls, is considered a reputable historian. Moreover, he wrote it in Stoner’s lifetime, read it to his subject, and got his imprimatur. (Reading it to him was necessary; while Nick had been to school for a few terms, reading was not his forte.)
It is true that Simms is at times overcredulous of the exploits of his woodland heroes, most especially their prowess in marksmanship. He takes Nick at face value when the latter says of a fellow trapper: “Foster would have shot the Indian’s eye out had he desired to! The truth is, either of us could send a bullet just about where we chose it.” Apparently Simms’ Leatherstockings had been shown in competition to be something less than infallible, so he goes on to say, “At an inanimate and fixed target they were not so remarkably celebrated as marksmen, but give them game moving sufficiently to excite their anxiety, and these two modern Nimrods may be said to have been a dead shot." At a reasonable distance they would have driven an apple every time from the head of some young Tell, and scarcely displaced a hair, provided the head was moving.” But if Simms could swallow a lot, he has painted Nick with all the warts of his personality clearly visible, and even seems to find them pretty.
Nick Stoner was born in Maryland, about 1762. His family moved while he was still a boy to what was then the frontier at Fonda’s Bush, now part of Broadalbin, New York, about ten miles from Johnstown. In 1777, though merely in his middle teens, he enlisted in the Continental Army as a fifer and served to the end of the war as a fifer-soldier. His father and younger brother also enlisted, and for the first part of the war all three were in the same regiment.
Nick saw action with General Benedict Arnold at the relief of Fort Stanwix in August, 1777, and at the battles of Saratoga a few weeks later. In the Bemis Heights section of the latter, Nick was a member of the small band of Americans whom Arnold led into the Hessian camp. It was there that Arnold received the leg wound that left him with a limp and Nick Stoner was severely wounded in the head. The hearing in his right ear was permanently impaired, and he was invalided home to Johnstown for the winter.
The next summer found him serving in Rhode Island. One night when his company was on a patrol they were surprised by a larger British force and, after a skirmish, captured. They were held captive several months, but were finally exchanged. As the war drew to a close, Nick was present at the siege of Yorktown and witnessed the surrender. After that he was in Colonel Marinas Willett’s regiment as it marched into New York City after the British evacuation. And he was a member of the band that played Washington off on his barge when he left the Army at New York. By this time Nick was playing the clarinet instead of the fife.
Nick also played on a grimmer occasion. He was a fifer of the guard that conducted the spy Major John André to the gallows, which may or may not have eased that unhappy gentleman’s departure from this world. The grisliness of the occasion does not seem to have dampened Nick’s appetite, for he tells of buying a pic from a lady who was selling them nearby, paying for it one hundred dollars—Continental money, of course.
Military life was not without its lighter side. Simms wishes us to know that Nick was a waggish lad, always ready for a romp. But the samples he gives us of Nick’s humor make one wonder just how recent an invention the “sick” joke is. Example: It seems that at one point there was a one-eyed boy who used to hang around the camp. Nick got hold of an eye from a slaughtered beef and roguishly offered it to the boy. When the boy’s mother complained to the captain about Nick’s impertinence, Nick was sentenced to a whipping. Outraged, not at the captain but at the boy’s mother, Nick filled a hollow beef bone with gunpowder and set it off as close as he could to the offending lady. The explosion tore her dress and injured her arm. Result: Another whipping for Nick. Simms concedes that Nick deserved to be punished, but he just can’t bring himself to get angry with Nick because he was so comical.
Other people’s troubles were a steady source of merriment to many of Nick’s contemporaries. For example, there was a Negro soldier in his camp who had lost several toes through frostbite while doing winter duty with the Army. The injury gave him, as Simms says, “such difficulty in walking that few could observe his peculiar gait, without having their risible faculties get the mastery.” But it remained for Nick to josh the unfortunate fellow and call him a “stool pigeon.” This almost earned Nick another whipping, but his colonel was so amused by the affair that he let him off with a reprimand. There was no meanness about Nick, you understand—he was just a fun-loving lad bubbling over with mischief.
Nick served in the Army until the end of the war and then returned home. But let Simms tell it: “When the war of the Revolution dosed and the dove took the place of the eagle—when the prattling infant could nestle in its mother’s bosom secure from midnight assassins—when the warrior once more laid aside his sword and musket to grasp the hoe and spade of thrift—when commerce again spread her white wings without fear of the foeman’s fire—when art and science smiled o’er hill and dale, enriched by the blood of freemen slain—when LIBERTY, with a home of her own, invited the oppressed of the earth to her embrace, extending to the penury-stricken the horn which needed only his industry to become one of plenty—then and not until then did our hero, grown to man’s estate, return again to reside in the vicinity of Johnstown.”
Nick had another brief period of military life during the War of 1812. Though he was then past fifty, he enlisted again as a fifer. He was promoted to fife major, whence came the title of “Major” which he bore the rest of his life. He took part in the fighting around Plattsburg when the British invasion was repulsed there, but aside from that interlude, he spent his post-Revolutionary life in the Johnstown area.
Soon after returning home from the Revolutionary War, Nick took himself a wife. The lady, one Anna Mason, had been an early sweetheart of Nick’s. Simms tells us that she “was a maiden very fair to look upon. Nature had given her charming proportions; a stature seemly, gracefully jutting out where swellings were most becoming, and bewitchingly tapering where diminution is sought in female form. Her skin was clear and fair, and her hair and eyes black, the latter shaded by raven lashes under control of muscle, that gave the organs of love a most melting expression.” With allurements such as these it is not surprising that she was so much sought after that while Nick was away at the war she married another man. But the young husband was killed in the war and Anna was again free when Nick returned. He courted her, and “although her affection had been chastened by the blight of sorrow, her young heart was still susceptible of an ardent offering to one who had inspired the first budding of love there.” Their marriage lasted more than forty years and produced four sons and two daughters.
When Nick settled down in Johnstown, he was for three years a deputy sheriff, from time to time held various town offices, and for a while was a captain of militia. But the bulk of his productive life he spent as a farmer and trapper. These occupations are compatible since they take place in alternate seasons. There was, of course, nothing unique or even unusual about that; thousands of others living on or near the frontier did exactly the same thing. Stoner’s prominence depended not so much on his skill in woodcraft as on his contentious nature.
Nick’s natural hunting grounds were the Adirondack Mountains, the traditional domain of the Iroquois Indians. Allied with England in the Revolution, the Iroquois afterward had to abandon their ancestral home in the Mohawk Valley and establish themselves in Canada. But Iroquois still hunted and trapped in the Adirondacks, and this often brought them into conflict with Nick and other Mohawk Valley whites. In fact, Nick may be pardoned a certain animosity toward them, for his father had been killed and scalped in an Indian raid during the war. Many other whites had lost relatives in the same bloody way, and the antipathy between the races smouldered for a long time. But as the memory of the war faded, a spirit of tolerance grew up, and whites, including Nick Stoner, often hunted with Indian partners. But these were good Indians—a good Indian apparently being defined as one whose interest was the same as one’s own.
If an Indian’s interest crossed that of Nick’s—if a red man poached on what Nick considered his territory, above all, if Nick so much as suspected one of molesting his traps—he gave him short shrift. Simms recounts no fewer than three occasions on which Stoner shot and killed Indians while on trapping expeditions. Even by Simms’ account, which is essentially Stoner’s at second hand, on only one of these occasions was he in any personal danger. Mostly they were just altercations in which Stoner was the first to run out of words and reach for his gun.
It is futile at this distance in time, and with so little evidence, to search for hidden motives. Yet a modern reader finds himself wondering what connection there may have been between the fact that Stoner was very free with accusations that his traps had been robbed, and the fact that stories often circulated that Stoner’s own great success as a trapper was not entirely due to his woodcraft. When such stories came to his own ears, he cheerfully denied them.
Nick’s most notable bit of Indian fighting took place not in the Adirondacks but in the wilds of a Johnstown tavern. In this scene he makes a strong bid for a place in the very front rank of all-time tavern hooligans. His work has such style, persistence, and bounce that one wonders how Hollywood has come to overlook such an inspiring example for the young. Here is a synopsis of Simms’ preliminary script.
One fine day Nick, in his capacity as deputy sheriff, drops in at De Fonclaiere’s Tavern, making his rounds like the hero of any western. A party of seven Canadian Indians who are in Johnstown trading happen to be drinking in the tavern kitchen. Nick joins them and adds some of their booze to a load he has taken on previously. Thus stimulated, he addresses an Indian of light complexion and twits him about the color of his skin and what this implies about his parentage. The Indian addressed does not object, but another Indian takes vigorous exception. Stoner, “who never would take an insult from an Indian with impunity,” feels obliged to clout the offending redskin.
At this point things become confused. There is enough scuffling, shoving, and roughhouse to turn the kitchen into a shambles. Finally Stoner picks up the Indian and attempts to throw him into the blazing fireplace. His aim is bad and the Indian falls short of the primary target and into a kettle of scalding hot gravy.
During the melee, however, M. de Fonclaiere, the proprietor, has done what all lovers of law and order have long been hoping to see someone do in one of these affairs—he rushes off to a justice of the peace to get a writ. The writ is denied on the grounds that “Captain Stoner is apt to be deranged with the changes of the moon.” Poor M. de Fonclaiere cries, “O! le diable, vat shall I does then? me ruined sartain!” (All of Simms’ dialect characters, whether French, German, Negro, or Indian, sound very much alike, and are usually treated humorously, no matter what their predicaments.)
Meanwhile, back at the tavern, Nick has completed the wrecking of the kitchen and, presumably after some reinforcing shots of firewater, starts for the barroom. To get there he must pass through a hall, and in the hall he stumbles over an Indian called Captain John, lying there “in a state of beastly drunkenness.” Captain John is wearing, as many in those days do, an earring. Grasping the ornament in his hand and placing a foot on the Indian’s neck for leverage, Nick rips off the earring.
Staggering on to the barroom, Nick enters just in time to hear (by his account) an Indian boasting that he is the one who scalped Nick’s father. Overcome with grief, rage, and firewater, Nick rushes again to the fray. Perhaps not wishing to soil his hands by touching his father’s supposed murderer, and having no weapon with him, he grasps the first instrument of destruction he can find—an andiron from the roaring fireplace. This he hurls at the offending redskin, catching him in the neck with the hottest part of it.
At that point, cooler and more sober heads intervene and the Indians are induced to take their wounded companions away. A doctor examines the one burned with the andiron and gives it as his opinion that it is very doubtful whether he will live.
In the next reel, after Nick sobers up he is put in jail. This is not, as Simms makes clear, through any animosity toward him, but because the townspeople feel that if nothing is done about the affair the Indians may return and take revenge indiscriminately upon the community. But after a few days the town regains its collective nerve and takes a more manly if less legal course. A crowd of local freedom buffs rallies round and springs Nick from jail—a sort of reverse lynching. After jollifying a good bit and thwarting the efforts of the jailer to reclaim his prisoner, they send Nick home to the bosom of his family. After this happy fade-out, Simms tells us, “the prowess and fearless acts of the Johnstown warrior gave him no little celebrity along the water-courses of Canada; and many a red papoose was taught in swaddles to lisp with dread the name of Stoner.”
The answer to the first question, unfortunate though it may be, is apparently yes. The frontier was never a place for niminy-piminy folk. Frontiersmen had to be tough to survive. Tough people tend to be crude. And that is the picture of them we get from Simms—a people whose “risible faculties” are stimulated by other people’s misfortunes, who fight off boredom with the bottle, who quickly resort to violence to accomplish their ends; a people not greatly more civilized than the aborigines they supplanted. They think no lofty thoughts about subduing a wilderness but are concerned primarily with making a living the best way they can. It is not surprising to find Nick Stoner a prominent citizen among such as these.
They were practical folk. When his first wife died, the aging Nick entered into what Simms calls a “voluntary marriage” with Mrs. Polly Phye. It seems that Mr. Phye had decamped some years previously and no one knew whether he was alive or dead. Fearing to be charged with bigamy should her husband return and find her married to another, Mrs. Phye preferred the informal arrangement. This rather bothers Simms, but he says, “Let the stickler for a rigid adherence at all times to established laws without reference to their operation, imagine this case wholly their [sic] own, before they [sic] feel prepared to condemn the course of this couple, or brand their conduct with the title of crime.” That seems fair enough. Finally, after the death of Mrs. Phye-Stoner, Nick married a third time, another widow, some thirty years his junior. She survived him.
The answer to the second question—how a brawler like Nick entered into local hagiography—is a bit more complicated, but perfectly comprehensible upon deliberation. In his early years Nick was but one of numerous prominent woodsmen; such fame as he had was perhaps tinged with notoriety on account of his excessive homicidal tendency. But he did not die early. He did not die until 1853. In the meantime his compeers had passed on and his notoriety had dimmed, and Nick, past ninety, survived, an ambulatory anachronism, a relic from another world. The Revolution had ended seventy years before; yet there was Nick, a soldier who had served honorably, if without distinction, in that contest. Likewise, though men still hunted for sport, the day of the professional hunter and trapper was long gone in the Mohawk Valley; long before 1850 an Indian in those parts would have been as rare as an Indian there today. Nick, still wandering about in his coonskin cap, was the last leaf upon the dead tree of the frontier. The contemporaries of his last years saw in him the archetype of the noble frontiersman and made him into a living legend, a legend his compatriots have kept alive to this day.
But what are we to make of him, we who have a concern for getting history straight? Shall we pull him from his pedestal and cast him, debunked, into darkness? Not at all. For, to begin with, he is not ours to dethrone; he belongs to Fulton County, and no amount of setting the record straight will dim his luster there.
And then we must be mindful of a signal service which Nick Stoner has unwittingly performed. His longevity, so vital to his apotheosis, is undoubtedly what invited the Simms biography. And the biography, for all its sometimes silly faults, gives us, even though unconsciously, a very good picture of a hardy breed of man. Nick’s warts are large, but his kind subdued a continent. | <urn:uuid:8b95f075-6ca4-4b4f-9d42-4f0cca1281ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.americanheritage.com/print/51911?page=5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00322-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98389 | 4,469 | 2.109375 | 2 |
What is stress? Why do some ethnic groups have higher stress levels than others? How do individuals manage stress?
Q1. Think of negative emotions that we experience in life are called stress. Stress has effects on physiology, behaviors and on cognition. e.g. stress of being stopped by your boss for something you did.
Q2. My understanding is that cultural values influence our way of thinking and evaluating the self, others and ...
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In the News
Breakthrough in Plastic Electronics Materials
EVANSTON, ILL. - A Northwestern University team of materials chemists are reporting a breakthrough in finding the right materials to produce cost-effective, high-performance plastic electronics such as electronic books, radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, electronics for cell phones, PDAs, and laptop computers.
The team is led by Tobin J. Marks, a professor of chemistry, materials science, and engineering at Northwestern. Collaboratively, they have designed organic molecules that self-assemble into a <6-nm-thick, ultra-thin layer for use in the dielectric component of a transistor. Their molecular components reduce both operating voltage and power consumption in organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) structures, giving truth to low-power consumption OTFTs.
“This means having plastic electronics the size of a pen battery, rather than an automobile battery, power your cell phone,” says Marks. “Instead of being carved out of silicon, transistor structures would be printed in a fashion similar to that of newspapers, but with organic molecules as the ink and plastic as the paper. Much as the New York Times prints a different edition of the newspaper every day, we could flexibly print a wide variety of electronic devices quickly, easily, and cheaply.”
Marks and Antonio Facchetti, research professor of chemistry, and Myung-Han Yoon, a graduate student in chemistry, demonstrated that their new nanodielectric multilayers have high capacitances and insulating properties and show compatibility with various organic semiconductors and substrate materials.
Binghamton’s ‘CAMM’ is Expected to Speed Microelectronics Manufacturing R&D
BINGHAMTON, N.Y. - Earlier this year, Binghamton University was awarded a contract from the U.S. Display Consortium (USDC) to establish and operate the Center for Advanced Microelectronics Manufacturing (CAMM). It’s located at Endicott Interconnect Technologies in Endicott, N.Y. The new center is expected to speed microelectronics manufacturing research and development in a roll-to-roll (R2R) format, meaning that components can be produced more efficiently, at higher yields, and at a lower cost through reduced material handling and increased throughput with a continuous web process. Directed by Dr. Bahgat Sammakia, professor of mechanical engineering and director of Binghamton’s Integrated Electronics Engineering Center and Small Scale Systems Packaging Center, the CAMM is evaluating equipment and materials developed with the support of the USDC, the industry, and its own R&D program.
“Binghamton’s Small Scale Systems Packaging Center, established in 2004, focuses on cutting-edge research into the nature of materials and products at small scales, with the goal of developing and evaluating new materials, products, and processes for a variety of micro- and nano-electronics applications,” explains Sammakia. “The partnership with the USDC, Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Cornell University, and others to form the CAMM is an exciting opportunity for the Small Scale Systems Packaging Center. The CAMM represents the nation’s premier R2R electronics prototype manufacturing line, and holds the potential for significant advances in electronics R&D for the near future.”
The CAMM is working with the U.S. Army-funded Flexible Display Center (FDC) at Arizona State University (Tempe, Ariz.) on display-related R&D to focus on process development and pilot production of flexible backplanes and displays for the Army’s platforms and commercial applications. Development of higher-efficiency manufacturing platforms and manufacturing processes and materials necessary to meet the needs of electronic devices in flexible end products are also being addressed.
“USDC is working closely with Binghamton University as it develops the full technical and business plans for the CAMM,” says Michael Ciesinski, USDC president. “The technical plan will underpin the University’s R&D efforts to enable microelectronics manufacturing on a web process. USDC expects an initial tool delivery to the CAMM this summer, and we are helping the center identify future equipment requirements. Needed funding and industry recruitment will be key elements of the business plan. Consequently, USDC intends to be very active in supporting the University with its industry outreach.” | <urn:uuid:33f4a668-a311-4c2b-985c-91a2a9e4890d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://electroiq.com/issue/?id=22311&url=%2Farticles%2Fap%2Fprint%2Fvolume-14%2Fissue-5%2Fdepartments%2Fnews%2Fin-the-news.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00021-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924015 | 926 | 2.65625 | 3 |
The Absolute is not a far-away Being directing our affairs at long range—not an absentee Deity—but an Immanent Life in and about us all—manifesting in us and creating us into individual centers of consciousness, in pursuance with some great law of being.
And, more than this, the Absolute instead of being an indifferent and unmoved spectator to its own creation, is a thriving, longing, active, suffering, rejoicing, feeling Spirit, partaking of the feelings of its manifestations, rather than callously witnessing them. It lives in us—with us—through us. Back of all the pain in the world may be found a great feeling and suffering love. The pain of the world is not punishment or evidence of divine wrath, but the incidents of the working out of some cosmic plan, in which the Absolute is the Actor, through the forms of Its manifestations.
The message of the Absolute to some of the Illumined has been, “All is being done in the best and only possible way—I am doing the best I can—all is well—and in the end will so appear.”
The Absolute is no personal Deity—yet in itself it contains all that goes to make up all personality and all human relations. Father, Mother, Child, Friend, is in It. All forms of human love and craving for sympathy, understanding and companionship may find refuge in loving the Absolute.
The Absolute is constantly in evidence in our lives, and yet we have been seeking it here and there in the outer world, asking it to show itself and prove Its existence. Well may it say to us: “Hast thou been so long time with me, and hast thou not known me?” This is the great tragedy of Life, that the Spirit comes to us—Its own—and we know It not. We fail to hear Its words: “Oh, ye who mourn, I suffer with you and through you. Yea, it is I who grieve in you. Your pain is mine—to the last pang. I suffer all pain through you—and yet I rejoice beyond you, for I know that through you, and with you, I shall conquer.”
And this is a faint idea of what we believe the Absolute to be. In the following lessons we shall see it in operation in all forms of life, and in ourselves. We shall get close to the workings of Its mighty Will—close to Its Heart of Love.
Carry with you the Central Thought of the Lesson: CENTRAL THOUGHT. There is but One Life in the Universe. And underlying that One Life—Its Real Self—Its Essence—Its Spirit—is The Absolute, living, feeling, suffering, rejoicing, longing, striving, in and through us. The Absolute is all that really Is, and all the visible Universe and forms of Life is Its expression, through Its Will. We lack words adequate to describe the nature of the Absolute, but we will use two words describing its inmost nature as best we see it. These two words are LIFE and LOVE, the one describing the outer, the other the inner nature. Let us manifest both Life and Love as a token of our origin and inner nature. Peace be with you. | <urn:uuid:6b775ace-3116-4522-9334-b57ea3fee8e5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bookrags.com/ebooks/13408/12.html | 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 | 0.949792 | 675 | 1.71875 | 2 |
About the Indianapolis JCRC
Pursuing a Just Society & Secure Jewish Future
Since 1942 our mission has been to safeguard the rights of Jews here, in Israel, and around the world. JCRC works to protect and promote a just American society, one that is democratic and pluralistic. JCRC combats antisemitism through relationship-building and education.
Established by the Indiana Jewish community while the Holocaust was unfolding in Europe, the core of JCRC’s mission is to safeguard Jews here in the U.S., in Israel, and around the world, by combatting antisemitism through relationship-building and education. Since 1942, the JCRC has been the public affairs, interfaith, intergroup. and media relations arm of the organized Jewish community. JCRC works to protect and promote an American society that is just, democratic, and pluralistic.
JCRC convenes the Jewish community’s “Common Table” around which representatives from every Jewish agency, synagogue, and organization are welcome and encouraged to sit together to find consensus on issues concerning the Jewish community. We then translate these positions into action with the broader community, public officials, civic leaders, educators, the media, and other faith & ethnic communities by building partnerships. As the interfaith and intergroup relations arm of the Jewish community, we look to build bridges wherever possible, acting in coalition with groups that fight discrimination and advocate for human & civil rights and social & economic justice.
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Jacob Markey comes to Indianapolis from the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, where he was the Assistant Director of its Jewish Community Relations Council. He previously worked for the Union for Reform Judaism as Marketing and Communications Coordinator for its high school in Israel program and with the Hillel at Brandeis as its Coordinator for Israel Engagement. Jacob is a native of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a dual Master of Arts in Jewish Professional Leadership and Master of Public Policy from Brandeis University.
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“ … we infer that oysters came originally from Britain. The word is unquestionably primitive. The broad open vowelly sound is, beyond a doubt, the primal, spontaneous thought that found utterance when the soft, seductive mollusc first exposed its white bosom in its pearly shell to the enraptured gaze of aboriginal man! Is there a question about it? Does not everyone know, when he sees an oyster, that that is its name? And hence we reason that it originated in Britain, was latinized by the Romans, replevined by the Saxons, corrupted by the Teutons and finally barbecued by the French. Oh, philological ladder by which we mount upward, until we emerge beneath the clear vertical light of Truth ! ! Methinks I see the FIRST OYSTER-EATER! A brawny, naked savage, with his wild hair matted over his wild eyes, a zodiac of fiery stars tattooed across his muscular breast — unclad, unsandaled, hirsute and hungry — he breaks through the underwoods that margin the beach, and stands alone upon the sea-shore, with nothing in one hand but his unsuccessful boar-spear, and nothing in the other but his fist. There he beholds a splendid panorama! The west all aglow; the conscious waves blushing as the warm sun sinks to their embraces; the blue sea on his left; the interminable forest on his right; and the creamy sea-sand curving in delicate tracery between. A Picture and a Child of Nature! Delightedly he plunges in the foam, and swims to the bald crown of a rock that uplifts itself above the waves. Seating himself he gazes upon the calm expanse beyond, and swings his legs against the moss that spins its filmy tendrils in the brine. Suddenly he utters a cry; springs up; the blood streams from his foot. With barbarous fury he tears up masses of sea moss, and with it clustering families of testacea. Dashing them down upon the rock, he perceives a liquor exuding from the fragments; he sees the white pulpy delicate morsel half hidden in the cracked shell, and instinctively reaching upward, his hand finds his mouth, and amidst a savage, triumphant deglutition, he murmurs — OYSTER ! ! Champing in his uncouth fashion bits of shell and sea-weed, with uncontrollable pleasure he masters this mystery of a new sensation, and not until the gray veil of night is drawn over the distant waters, does he leave the rock, covered with the trophies of his victory.
We date from this epoch the maritime history of England. Ere long, the reedy cabins of her aborigines clustered upon the banks of beautiful inlets, and overspread her long lines of level beaches; or penciled with delicate wreaths of smoke the savage aspect of her rocky coasts. The sword was beaten into the oyster-knife, and the spear into oyster rakes. Commerce spread her white wings along the shores of happy Albion, and man emerged at once into civilization from a nomadic state. From this people arose the mighty nation of Ostrogoths, from the Ostraphagi of Ancient Britain came the custom of Ostracism — that is, sending political delinquents to that place where they can get no more oysters.
There is a strange fatality attending all discoverers. Our Briton saw a mighty change come over his country — a change beyond the reach of memory or speculation. — Neighboring tribes, formerly hostile, were now linked together in bonds of amity. A sylvan, warlike people had become a peaceful, piscivorous community; and he himself, once the lowest of his race, was now elevated above the dreams of his ambition. He stood alone upon the sea-shore, looking toward the rock, which, years ago, had been his stepping-stone to power, and a desire to revisit it came over him. He stands now upon it. The season, the hour, the westerly sky, remind him of former times. He sits and meditates. Suddenly a flush of pleasure overspreads his countenance; for there just below the flood, he sees a gigantic bivalve — alone — with mouth agape, as if yawning with very weariness at the solitude in which it found itself. What I am about to describe may be untrue. But I believe it. I have heard of the waggish propensities of oysters. I have known them, from mere humor, to clap suddenly upon a rat’s tail at night; and, what with the squeaking and the clatter, we verily thought the devil had broken loose in the cellar. Moreover, I am told upon another occasion, when a demijohn of brandy had burst, a large “Blue-pointer” was found, lying in a little pool of liquor, just drunk enough to be careless of consequences — opening and shutting his shells with a “devil-may-care” air, as if he didn’t value anybody a brass farthing, but was going to be as noisy as he possibly could.
But to return. When our Briton saw the oyster in this defenseless attitude, he knelt down, and gradually reaching his arm toward it, he suddenly thrust his fingers in the aperture, and the oyster closed upon them with a spasmodic snap! In vain the Briton tugged and roared; he might as well have tried to uproot the solid rock as to move that oyster! In vain he called upon his heathen gods — Gog and Magog — older than Woden and Thor; and with huge, uncouth, druidical oaths consigned all shell-fish to Nidhogg, Hela, and the submarines. Bivalve held on with “a will.” It was nuts for him certainly. Here was a great, lubberly, chuckle-headed fellow, the destroyer of his tribe, with his fingers in chancery, and the tide rising! A fellow who had thought, like ancient Pistol, to make the world his oyster, and here was the oyster making a world of him. Strange mutation! The poor Briton raised his eyes: there were the huts of his people; he could even distinguish his own, with its slender spiral of smoke; they were probably preparing a roast for him; how he detested a roast! Then a thought of his wife, his little ones awaiting him, tugged at his heart. The waters rose around him. He struggled, screamed in his anguish; but the remorseless winds dispersed the sounds, and ere the evening moon arose and flung her white radiance upon the placid waves, the last billow had rolled over the FIRST OYSTER-EATER!”
Most of the oyster aficionados that I know will not countenance anything other than the ultra-fresh, live, naked, raw beast, straight from the shell – the only accompaniment being a glass of chilled champagne. Such purists eschew any form of cooking, however brief. The following recipe is for the less-than pure, who hanker for the days when oysters were food for the poor, and a cheap filler for pies and stews.
Take ½ lb lean mutton, ¾ lb beef suet, ½ lb oysters, scalded and with their beards taken off. Chop all up together, add the yolks of 2 eggs, season with salt and pepper, and make up in the form of sausages, frying lightly in the usual way.
The Food Journal Vol. 11 (London, 1872)
Quotation for the Day.
An oyster, sir, is one of the elements of social existence, a delicacy of no age, sex, or condition, but patent to the universal family of man. Good in a scallop, better in a stew, best of all in the shell; good in pickle, in curry, in sauce, good at luncheon, before dinner, at supper; good to entertain a friend, good to eat by yourself; good when you are hungry’ good, moreover, when you are not.
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Last updated on July 20th, 2022
This is a section from Chapter 15 of 'Anorexia and other eating disorders – how to help your child eat well and be well'
You can also hear many of the main tools in my Bitesize audio collection. Here's one and a half minutes from my Bitesize audio collection, on 'The best psychological tools for these extraordinary times':
This chapter is all about your wellbeing, your resilience, your strengths, so that you can cope right now and even flourish in the longer term. Whether you’re getting ready to serve a meal or trying to cope with emotional exhaustion, you will find resources here, and nourishment for your soul.
This is the chapter that too many parents skip. Our wellbeing seems like a ridiculous luxury when our children are suffering! We bristle when people tell us to take care of ourself. ‘A manicure?!’ we fume, ‘what the #$%# would I do with a #$%#-ing manicure! It’s a #$%#-ing break I need!’ We feel alone and misunderstood. Outsiders don’t appreciate that our situation is too serious to be solved with a bubble bath, and that in any case, we don’t have a minute to ourselves.
And at the same time, we often feel at the very edge of what we can bear. Coping tools that used to serve us well are not up to the job any more. We say, ‘I don’t know how much more I can take.’ Our heads are barely above water, we want everything to get back to normal now, yet we’ve learned that caring for our child is a marathon, not a sprint. Besides, life doesn’t stop just because our child is ill. The boiler stops working. An aged parent breaks a hip. A pandemic happens.
What we need is stamina and endurance in order to keep going, and resilience so we can recover from knocks and move onwards and upwards with confidence. Besides, we are role models for our children: it’s useful to show them how we manage emotions and how life can be good. It’s what we want for them, isn’t it, to live life to the full? It must be a relief for them to see they have not destroyed us and that we continue to provide the wisdom and stability they need.
In this chapter I will share the psychological tools I found most wonderful. Many take neither time nor money. And although what follows is self-help, please appreciate that humans need others, and this is very much a time to reach out to kind friends or professionals. As suffering is really not much fun, I hope that what follows will speed up your emotional journey.
[Jumping to another section of the chapter…]
Tool number two is distraction. Sometimes we are too distraught to self-connect, to go inwards. It can feel risky to be with our emotions, because we’re alone and could get overwhelmed, or because we might cry at a most inconvenient time. Maybe we’ve tried some introspection or mindfulness and it’s only making our ruminating worse. This is where distraction is precious. It interrupts the flow of catastrophising or critical thoughts. Our nervous system stops perceiving threats and allows our state to move away from fight, flight or freeze. A few minutes of distraction and the world can feel like a better place.
Soak in the good
The next tool in my ‘favourites’ list is appreciating good things, big or small. This tip is especially useful when you have no time (or money) for what used to give you a boost. As you go about your demanding day, look for things that will delight your senses, that will feed your soul. Notice the beauty of a flower, the smell of fresh coffee, the warmth of the water as you wash your hands, the fluffiness of your slippers. Appreciate the smoothness of your cat. Laugh out loud at your dog’s antics. Pause at the window as you notice a sunset. Breathe in the wonder. If for a moment, you feel at one with the world, stretch out the moment. If a sense of gratitude or joy bubbles up, magnify it. Play music that energises rather than depresses. Listen to podcasts of inspiring people. On the internet, steer away from negativity, and instead seek out images and stories that make you feel good. There’s a picture of Snoopy hugging his little bird friend, Woodstock, that thrills me every time I see it.
Perhaps this morning your child gave you a rare smile, and suddenly you had hope that your kid was back. Let your heart soar. Do you tend to minimise these joys? (‘Mustn’t get my hopes up! Mustn’t tempt fate! It will all be a big disappointment!’) Actually, anticipatory grief doesn’t offer any protection. If your hopes are dashed, you will suffer… and you will be more ready to bounce back if in the meantime, you have nourished yourself. Athletes build up their bodies. Parents build up their wellbeing.
Every time you notice something good, pause for a second and amplify the feeling in your body. Our brains evolved with a negativity bias to ensure our survival, not our happiness. We naturally dwell on what has or could go wrong. The stress of it keeps us awash with some very tiring chemicals like adrenaline and cortisol. As you allow yourself to enjoy positives, your body switches over to the production of feel-good hormones. Notice the feeling and amplify it.
I used to feel like nothing short of a ten-year holiday on a tropical island could possibly fill up my tank. It was humbling to find that one hour of companionship, one minute of laughter, one kind gesture from a loving person, could top up my wellbeing. My external circumstances were just as hard, but the shot of feel-good chemicals had moved me to a better state, making me more resilient.
[Jumping to another section of the chapter…]
Coping moment by moment
Feelings are in-the-moment things. In Chapter 13 I described them as waves that rise and subside. They pass. They transform into something else. Your emotions may be at rock bottom now but there is no way of predicting how they will be in ten minutes or in ten days. These days, the only certainty I have about my emotions is that they come and go, and the less I get them tangled up with my thoughts, the more likely they are to move on.
When I realised that I was stressing out about the next year, the next week, or even the next hour, I decided to notice how, moment by moment, I was coping. The moment might need to be subdivided into units of milliseconds, so that I could tell myself, ‘Right now, this instant, I’m actually fine.’
You could notice that the only reality is the present moment. This instant. This instant in which you are living and breathing and in which the ground is under your feet. The past is gone; the future doesn’t yet exist.
I decided that if I could be fine in the present, even when things were horribly tough, I could trust I would most likely also be fine in future, present moments.
I wonder if you’ve ever done this with physical pain. You’ve bitten through a chunk of your tongue and it’s hurting like hell, but just now, this second, it’s bearable. And this next second is OK too. And so on. You might even start noticing that the pain subsides because it’s not aggravated by catastrophic thoughts.
Noticing that we are coping in the moment allows us to deal with our fears one step at a time. I love this sentence from the excellent book Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance by Christopher McCurry:
“Sometimes all we need is just a glimpse of where to go and what to do, and we can take the next step – and then the next and then the next.”
[Jumping to another section of the chapter…]
Post-traumatic stress or post-traumatic growth?
It is not uncommon for parents of kids with an eating-disorder to suffer from some kind of backlash, possibly as serious as post-traumatic stress disorder, after their child’s condition improves. It’s by no means a general rule, but it happens. I was lucky: I did a lot of falling apart while my daughter was ill, and then felt increasingly well. But some parents end up more traumatised than their kids, something that has been observed in families where a child has recovered from cancer.
“After my husband and I finally got our daughter to a safe stage in recovery, our bodies decided to sort of collapse on us. I kept catching bugs/viruses that went on for ages. I think our bodies know when the ED emergency is over, and then they crash! Anyway, now I'm well again.”
It can be scary for us parents to notice how anxious or depressed we feel and to think that this may stay with us for ever.
“It does get better, in fact it was surprising to me that I had to think hard to remember some of the things that happened, although at the time it felt like we would never get through them or forget them.”
It may help you to know that PTSD is by no means inevitable and is not linked to the severity of the trauma. Martin Seligman, in his book Flourish, discusses survivors of traumas, in particular war veterans. In spite of what the media would have us believe, he points out that PTSD is relatively uncommon. Most people return to their previous level of functioning after a brief period of depression and anxiety.
More excitingly, there is such a thing as post-traumatic growth. Seligman notes that after events producing intense depression and anxiety, a substantial number of people become not only resilient, but better than ever. Seligman gave questionnaires to 1,700 people who had suffered torture, grave illness, death of a child, rape, imprisonment and other awful events. These people had more strengths and greater wellbeing than people who had not experienced major stressors.
I can relate to that. I had months of feeling like I was cracking up while my daughter was in hospital. I carried dark glasses everywhere because I never knew when I might burst into tears. I frequently fantasised about smashing the car into a wall and feared that one day I might do so involuntarily. But I also knew that I had good reason to be distressed.
[End of extracts from the chapter]
In this chapter:
- My search for new ways to deal with adversity
- Get to know what sustains you
- Soak in the good
- Use your body to trick your mind
- Good-enough Zen, or five percent better
- Coping moment by moment
- Being in the moment
- Choose where you put your attention
- Deep questions
- Imagery to help you get grounded and peaceful
- Acceptance: work with reality, not against it
- Trust that you have resources
- What to do with fear
- Post-traumatic stress or post-traumatic growth?
- Mistakes, blame and self-acceptance
- Sadness, grief and … joy
- Writing a diary: self-help or rumination?
- Helper's high
- An attitude of gratitude
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From the Jamaica Gleaner:
The village of Konkonuru in Ghana has been suffering from water problems for years. The small community has an estimated population of 3,000 persons, many of who do not have access to potable water.
Now the Rita Marley Foundation (RMF) and Water for Humanity (WFH) have decided to help the villagers.
According to a release sent to The Gleaner, Konkonuru has approximately 300 households, each with an average of 10 persons. In 2000, the community benefited from three boreholes that were installed by the RMF. These were the main source of water for the community, but with the population expanding each year, the demand for more water sources has grown.
Currently, only 20 per cent of homes in the community have pipe-borne water, and according to Rosemary Duncan, manager at the RMF, the deficiency needs to be addressed.
“To remedy these dire water problems that overwhelm the Konkonuru community, the Rita Marley Foundation (Jamaica) acquired grant funding from Water for Humanity for construction of three additional boreholes,” she explained in the press release before going on to express gratitude to WFH for their assistance.
In addition to constructing the well-needed boreholes, the RMF also provided training on water conservation for community residents, as well as lessons on how to treat water and keep it clean.
The Rita Marley Foundation is a registered non-profit organisation in Jamaica and Ghana. Its mission is to promote education, good health and welfare among the youth and socially and economically disadvantaged communities through educational and empowerment projects.
The foundation has various educational projects in Jamaica, including an annual back-to-school treat that provides school supplies for inner-city youth and scholarships for financially challenged students, runs public speaking and essay competitions for high schools and does reading skills programmes for basic schools.
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Last week the sale of some high-profile memorabilia attracted our attention, and no, we’re not talking about the $2.1M price tag for a Honus Wagner baseball card.
It was the sale of two sets of items once owned by Francis Crick, who with James Watson discovered the structure of DNA back in 1953.
Auctioneers sold off Crick’s Nobel prize — along with a few other items like his lab coat and a sailing journal — last Thursday for about $2 million. But also auctioned off last week was a handwritten letter Crick sent to his then 12 year-old son describing his and Watson’s discovery and the DNA model of the double helix structure they created.
It’s the letter — grabbed by an anonymous bidder for $6 million — that attracted the attention of many of us here.
In March of 1953 just before Crick and Watson had their findings published in Nature, Crick sent off this simple note to his son.
By now the double helix is so iconic that we forget how brilliant it is in its simplicity. As Crick said in the letter to his son, the “structure is very beautiful.”
His letter accomplishes the difficult task of explaining this scientific breakthrough in terms that even a 12 year-old could understand. In describing the quality of DNA that allows our cells to divide and make copies of themselves, he wrote:
“It is like a code. If you are given one set of letters you can write down the others.”
He went on, “Now we believe that the DNA is a code. That is, the order of the bases (the letters) makes a gene different from another gene (just as one page of print is different from another.) You can now see how Nature makes copies of the genes. Because if the two chains unwind into two separate chains, and if each chain then makes another chain come together on it, then because A always goes with T, and G with C, we shall get two copies where we had one before.” | <urn:uuid:31fdc551-269e-450c-92d6-1bf311d26dc3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blog.23andme.com/recommended-reading/a-letter-about-the-letters-of-life/comment-page-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719465.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00097-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967743 | 434 | 3.296875 | 3 |
A brand-new scheme to bring free Level 1 Functional Skills courses to local people is being launched by The Bedford College Group in partnership with The Open University (OU).
People can develop basic skills in English and Maths by studying online on the OU’s OpenLearn platform, and then get additional support and a Functional Skills qualification via the College.
The pilot project is funded by the Department for Education’s Flexible Learning Fund, and this is the first time the OU has collaborated closely with FE colleges to support learners at this level.
People can access course materials on OpenLearn at their leisure and study at a time and pace that suits them. The college will support local learners and facilitate exams so that people can go on to get their Functional Skills qualifications if they wish – all for free.
Helping with basic skills
The Open University, this year celebrating its 50th anniversary, was founded on the principle of opening up access to education to all.
Andrew Law, Head of Business Propositions at The Open University said:
This is a flexible, low-risk way for people to develop their basic skills, gaining confidence and even a qualification. It could transform their career prospects. Bringing our digital learning expertise together with practical, local support from the College is a great offer for anyone that wants to gain functional skills.
Two courses will initially be on offer, Everyday Maths and Everyday English, with 48 hours of study to complete. There is an Open Licence on the materials, which means that anyone can copy and re-use the course content for their own teaching and learning.
The scheme will also involve collaborations with organisations and community groups including Local Enterprise Partnerships, WEA, Unison, Leonard Cheshire Disability and other union and business groups.
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Many performance problems can be identified on a VW Passat by connecting the vehicle to a computer using a special cable. The codes read from the vehicle's internal computer can provide insight into many vehicle issues, and speed the repair process.
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Things you need
- VCDS cable or OBD-II scanner
Choose either a VCDS cable or a standard OBD-II scanner. OBD-II scanners, which are readily available from auto parts stores, will read codes, though the results will not be as detailed as using the VCDS system. If you choose OBD-II, skip to Step 4.
Determine the appropriate VCDS cable. If the model year is between 1995 and 2005, you will need either a HEX-USB+CAN, HEX-COM+CAN, KII-USB or KEY-COM cable. After 2005, only HEX-USB+CAN, HEX-COM+CAN and Micro-CAN will work.
Purchase a VCDS cable from Ross Tech, a company that specialises in scanning software for VWs (see Resources). You will also need a computer: a laptop is recommended.
Find the car's interface port. In newer vehicles, this is located on the left side of the driver's side footwell. In older models, typically before 2005, it is usually located in the centre console by the cigarette lighter. It will be labelled in most cases.
Turn your vehicle's ignition to the "accessory" setting and follow the instructions for your specific reader. When the scan is complete, note the codes that the reader will display.
Perform any maintenance needed to remedy the problem. If you do not have the needed skills or experience, take the car to a mechanic. After the work is complete, test drive the car and rescan to ensure that the issue has been fixed.
Tips and warnings
- A VCDS system is strongly recommended. OBD-II only gives general fault codes and has been known to give inaccurate diagnoses.
- If the check engine light is on, it can be turned off after the scan. If whatever issue is causing the light to illuminate is reoccurring, the light will likely come back on in a short period.
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Memorial to Katrina victims taking shape
Many believed the fatigued city would have no place to inter the 85 bodies. The city coroner, already grappling with one of the nation's worst murder rates, was placed in charge of the $1.2 million effort last year and progress was slow. The inactivity was seen as another example of the sluggish climate that has characterized the city's rebuilding from the 2005 storm that killed 1,600 people.
Now Coroner Frank Minyard says at least seven of the dead will be marched to the site during a traditional New Orleans jazz funeral. The memorial itself, bucolic and shaped like the eye of a hurricane, may or may not be fully complete when they arrive.
"We're playing everything by ear. We'll sit down with a big sigh of relief, whenever and however it's completed," said Minyard. He said obstacles as slight as a day of rain could cause the deadline to be missed.
Mayor Ray Nagin allotted $1 million in federal aid money to the effort during second-anniversary ceremonies, and although about $200,000 in private donations also came in, the project was largely forgotten.
But in the past several weeks, construction permits have been issued and topsoil cleared. Human bone fragments have been recovered and meticulously documented, according to state regulations, from the old Charity Hospital site that formerly was a paupers' graveyard.
New Orleans jazz trumpeter Irvin Mayfield Jr., whose father drowned in the storm, said the city's decision to honor the forgotten victims of Katrina shows its spirit.
"These folks get to be mourned, get to be remembered, and get to be honored," he said. "It speaks volumes."
Fifty-four of the 85 bodies have been identified. Some have gone unclaimed because family members have been lost in the massive relocation Katrina triggered. Or they have decided to leave burial to the coroner because they were either too poor, or were too estranged from the deceased, to do so themselves.
Plaques with the names of the storm victims were supposed to be part of the memorial. But Minyard is unsure if that will still be built. Defining a Katrina-related fatality carries legal ramifications, affects life insurance policies and public aid. Some drowned, some died from exposure, and others died weeks later from apparent physical stress during the evacuation.
Ted George, a New Orleans lawyer who has worked pro bono on the project, said he is confident plaques will come after project coordinators look more closely at records. George said whether the memorial is completed Friday, or later, Minyard and others should be given credit for getting this far.
Not only were there the physical barriers to construction, but the city had to prove to Louisiana State University, which owned and donated the grounds, there would be perpetual care at the site. About $250,000 was placed in an investment fund for the care, George said. The project also has about $150,000 in reserves should unexpected construction costs, or added features to the design surface later.
He said New Orleans has honored its fallen well over the years.
"There's no doubt we have a real sense of history and depth," he said. "What's been really satisfying is so many people believe in this project. They will push it through."
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“Gee, that little animal sure LOOKED tame,” I once heard someone say after getting bit.
But to something way less dramatic… A couple Sunday afternoons ago Gail and I were up hiking in the mountains, to be exact, attaining Carpenter Peak in Roxborough State Park. We were high enough to overlook from the west the exact same terrain we see so often from our house, unobstructed, just eight miles or so east from where we stood. But, for the life of me, I could hardly make out a single landmark, which should have been familiar as I surveyed them from the opposite viewpoint. It reminded me how wildly different things can look from different angles, from altered perspectives. I have experienced this so many times before while hiking, of course, particularly if I am without a compass or topo to give me some bearings. And no, I am not yet a GPS guy when I hike -- that still seems like cheating to me!
Anyway, that experience has gotten me to thinking these last several days about perspective. Perspective is curious, is it not? I think of the proverbial fable of the five blind men and the elephant, a proverb befuddlingly true. But I am still astonished how quickly and easily one’s assumptions can become one’s reality, however faulty those assumptions might be. This is perfectly the case as I study nature, even if I haven’t gotten bit. I make all kinds of postulations and assumptions based on my observations and my reading, the latter of which of course is nothing but another’s postulations and assumptions based on their observations. Yet nature is full of so many surprises that I usually find my conclusions about ‘the way things are’ frequently off base, if not sometimes completely off the mark. Just when I think something should happen, something else happens. Just when I think I understand, I find my perspective has as much sometimes muddied my understanding as clarified it. Or as my dear son-in-law Phil pointed out to me recently, just when we think we have things figured out, circumstances change. We find things aren’t always as they have seemed.
It’s no wonder people in the Middle Ages had such a hard time accepting the fact that the earth was round and not flat. (Am not sure WHAT informs the assumptions of flat-earthers today…)
So let’s think about our good, round earth for a moment and gather a little cosmic perspective about assumptions. I’ve understood that our planet is about four times the mass of our moon. For purposes of picturing it, let’s just say that if the earth were the size of a basketball, the moon would be the size of, oh, to keep the sports theme, a Chicago-style sixteen-inch softball. OK, so maybe you had heard of Chicago-style pizza but not Chicago-style softballs, and are among the uninitiated about them; let’s ignore the sports theme and instead liken the moon then to a large grapefruit. Got it? So if the moon and the earth were these rough, relative sizes, a basketball and a large grapefruit, how far away would the grapefruit have to be from the basketball in order to reflect real nature? Let’s start by imagining that it’s about a cubit. You remember a cubit from your ark-building class, right, the span from an average man’s elbow to his fingertips? Sure you do, it was the first ruler we had, and it was even built in with the original equipment. This is about how the illustrations in our old science books depicted it. But that was just because they had to print it in that perspective in order to fit it on a page. But no, that’s not it, how about a whole arm’s length? Or two arms’ lengths, maybe a span from fingertip to fingertip? This is what I would have thought. But no. 235,000 miles is a long, long way. In order to get the relative distance as accurate as nature you’d have to haul that grapefruit nearly thirty feet away from the basketball. Only then would it approximate reality, earth to moon, the moon measuring for us about ½ degree of sky at its distance.
Or take another example. You may have heard that the earth’s surface is covered more than seventy percent by ocean, and less than thirty percent by landmass. Some of those ocean depths are over a mile deeper than Mt. Everest is high. That’s a lot of water, you know, that ‘the ocean’s so wide and my bark so small’ kind of thing? And I don’t think that even includes inland lakes, rivers, streams, ponds or the puddles in my driveway. So let’s again imagine the earth a basketball. If we were to gather up all the water on earth into one mass, salt water and fresh, and reflect that also as a sphere next to our basketball-sized globe, all the earth’s water would be smaller than a ping-pong ball by comparison. That’s hard to imagine while standing at the edge of Acadia National Park in Maine as a nor’easter crashes ashore. A watery planet? Apparently just barely. It sure gives an appreciated perspective on the preciousness of the stuff, and our responsibility to protect the resource as well as we can.
Perspective is one of the reasons
why we need each other so…
It’s all about perspective. Nearly everything is about perspective. Perspective is one of the reasons why we need each other so, in order that alternative views of reality can be weighed and measured together until a consensus is reached, or at least a truce.
For my part on that mountain two weekends ago, I was glad I had Gail with me. Together we were able to better discern reality from our shared perspectives than I could have ever come up with at the time on my own.
Sometimes there is a way that seems to be right, but in the end it is the way to death. (Proverbs 16:25)
Two people are better than one, for they can help each other succeed. (Ecclesiastes 4:9)
~~RGM, From a January 2013
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Updated on 14 February 2013
There is immense scope for Japanese products in India and vice versa
Singapore: Japanese companies are keen to collaborate with pharmaceutical companies in India. A delegation of pharmaceutical firms from Japan's Toyama prefecture was in New Delhi on June 13 for a meeting with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) in India. Toyama prefecture is an industrial cluster on Honshu Island of Japan.
Mr Yasuhiko Shioi, president, Kokando leader of the Japanese pharmaceutical delegation to India indicated that Japanese companies were keen to collaborate in trade and technology development.
Addressing the FICCI meeting, he said Indian and Japanese companies could also undertake joint market research and product development for world market as also jointly develop new technologies.
Dr Shoichiro Hamano, president, Hamano International, gave a presentation on ‘Pharmaceutical Business in Toyama'. Toyama is recognized as the ‘Cluster City of Pharmaceutical Industry' in Japan. "We are looking for long term partnerships with Indian companies. There is immense scope of exporting Japanese products to Indian market and similarly Indian products can be traded in the Japanese market," he said.
There are 89 pharmaceutical manufacturers with approximately 9,000 employees in Japan. Their annual pharmaceutical output is $ 76 billion.
While making a presentation on ‘Overview of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry', Mr Daara Patel, secretary general, Indian Drug Manufacturers' Association (IDMA), said pharmaceutical is a knowledge-based industry and India is one of the world's largest and most developed in this sector. He highlighted that India's growing respect and legal or regulatory framework for IPR, favorable economic policies and availability of huge talent pool for sustaining and growing operations are making India an attractive choice for global pharma companies for investment, tie-ups, mergers and acquisitions. | <urn:uuid:d9965203-9056-448f-83a1-dc7c65d5579b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biospectrumasia.com/biospectrum/news/174574/japan-firms-keen-collaborate-indian-pharma/page/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00551-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938997 | 376 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Why Sell Online?
People are more connected than ever before thanks to the Internet. It eliminates all physical trade obstacles and makes selling easier than ever before. You only need to create an account, set up an online store just with the help of an ecommerce web development company for your business, and start selling on sites like eBay, Etsy, Shopify, and Alibaba .com.
You put your firm in a position to access worldwide customers with your online store. Online selling platforms are also available on social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube. These websites enable you to reach out to your target audience on the apps and websites where they spend their time online, as well as new demographics.
Places to Sell
You must choose which platform you want to market your items as a business owner wanting to bring your firm online. Marketplaces, social media, and personal websites are the three major platforms that are currently pushing e-commerce.
What are online marketplaces?
A marketplace is a platform that allows a company to sell its items (goods or services) to customers. The unique feature of online marketplaces is that they enable buyers to make purchases from a variety of vendors. A marketplace operator does not own any merchandise and acts as a go-between for sellers and buyers. The marketplace will provide order fulfilment services and ensure secure financial transactions as a third party in the business.
Everything is sold on a worldwide marketplace. Amazon and Alibaba .com are two instances of well-known internet marketplaces.
A vertical marketplace is a platform that allows you to sell products from a variety of different vendors. They differ from horizontal markets, however, in that the products they promote are usually of the same sort or genre, rather than the wide range of products available on horizontal marketplaces.
A horizontal marketplace is a platform that allows you to offer a variety of products with comparable attributes. This type of platform provides buyers with a community, as well as the infrastructure and data they require to follow their interests while also buying and selling from one another.
You may even create your personal e-commerce website, with products and services that are primarily yours. It makes no difference whether you make the things yourself or not. You’ll sell them under your own brand, and you’ll have complete control over the design and feel of your e-commerce site. However, keep in mind that you will be responsible for your fulfilment services as well.
When sellers utilize social media to locate and engage with new prospects, this is referred to as social selling or social media marketing. A vendor can generate leads from user-generated content and communicate directly with prospects on their preferred social media platforms via social media marketing.
According to statistics, social sellers sell 78 percent more than their non-social media counterparts. B2B sellers aren’t left out, with 39% claiming that using social selling tools reduced their research and promotion time.
You can watch your competitors and know what your customers are doing and saying using the tools that social media marketing provides.
When you sell your things on a marketplace, what do you stand to gain? Some of the advantages of selling on a marketplace are listed below, as knowing all sides of an issue will help you make better judgments.
You benefit from enhanced online visibility because these marketplaces are highly ranked by search engines, in addition to the platforms that bring buyers to you. When searchers type in relevant questions, they will frequently see them at the top of the answer page. As a result, your product’s SEO receives a significant boost.
They’re simple to use, especially since they come with tools and information to help you explore them.
Some marketplaces offer buyer and seller protection through trade assurance and other services.
You don’t need to spend as much time and money on advertising.
They assist you in safely processing payments.
Established markets often assist with shipping, particularly exporting, so you don’t have to deal with logistics.
You have the ability to increase your business both locally and internationally.
Users trust established marketplaces, and you may take advantage of this to start selling online.
Because the marketplace operator will bring buyers straight to you, you will benefit from some SEO.
You’ll get access to a big number of interested buyers.
You have access to tools and information that will aid you in your selling efforts.
E-commerce, or online selling, is transforming the way people shop throughout the world. It has given merchants and buyers new options and converted the world into a global community.
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Currently, the weather here in Seoul, Korea has been a gloomy gray with rain, followed by snow, followed by freezing wind chills. I came home from watching Disney’s, CoCo, and feel an even bigger determination to get my music going. Now, with a cup of tea that I got from a recent trip to Vietnam (Cozy’s Tra Huong Dau), my eyes are squinting closely at the screen watching Youtube tutorials, trying to make sense of programming knobs.
That brings me to ‘oscillators.’ Huh.
I’ve noticed that there is an OSC or oscillator function in synth mixing channels and synth keyboards and always wondered what they were. If you’re new to mixing or own a synth but don’t really know how to work your way around the knobs, I hope these videos will help you navigate as you record and play synth.
So far, this is what I learned: you can shape the tone of your synth here through different wave form types: the sawtooth, triangle, square and sine. Depending on the type of synth or DAW (digital audio workstation aka recording software you are using), it might show the visual (like the photo below) or the actual name for it. This is how the wave shapes look…if you could put an image to the sound waves traveling that you hear.
I haven’t haven’t mastered the art of producing, I’m just here to take you with me in my process of exploring and learning the craft of it. So, if this is of interest, I hope the videos below will help you as you navigate your way through your synth modules.
Oscillators – Tone Generator
After this video finishes, it should take you to the ‘amp‘ section of the synth. You can also click HERE to watch the second part of the video right away.
AMP – Output of your Sounds
A = attack, D = decay, S= sustain and R = release. Got it.
Attack = how long it takes for the sound to enter/fade in (like turning the volume knob slowly up or down)
Decay = think of it as an acoustic piano; sound will naturally fade out when your finger(s) stay on a key
Sustain = how long the sound will carry out for (like the sustain pedal of a piano; for as long as your foot is on the pedal, the sound carries)
Release = how long it takes for the sound to finish/end
To move onto the next part of the video, you can click HERE.
The filter is taking the sound you have shaped and enhancing how its final sound is released.
Here are two other videos I watched by different guys on the function of oscillators. Hope it helps! And happy recording~ Click the links below.
Synth Basics = Oscillator
How to use a Synth: The Ultimate Guide to Oscillators
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Cleaning an AC is easier than it looks, and the best part is that you won’t need the help of air condition services. Here in RoyTecTips, we’ll teach you step-by-step how to clean your air conditioner properly.
Dry your AC
If your AC has been running for a while, you should turn it off and wait a couple of hours before cleaning it. By drying your AC, you avoid dealing with moisture and bad odor.
Remember to turn off your AC and unplug it directly from the source, as you might cause an electrical accident while cleaning the AC.
Clean the air filters
Remove the air filters from the AC and clean them with warm water, be sure to remove all the dust and any outside element of the filter and let it dry completely before putting them back on the AC.
Use an air blower
Instead of water, we highly suggest using an air blower to remove any dust from your AC. Blow carefully and through every part of the AC.
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There are many reasons why people emigrate to another country. Some are transferred abroad by their employer, others follow their partner, and some are simply looking for a job that brings them more money.
Are you looking for opportunities to work abroad? To help you find out what these places are, we’ve created this list. Introducing the top 10 countries with the highest salaries in the world. You will find out in which country you can find a decent income and where it is worth staying to live.
10. Iceland, $ 2700
Iceland ranks tenth in the list of countries with the highest wages. It is one of the countries with the highest income equality and also the country with the lowest risk of poverty in Europe.
Iceland is one of the largest energy producers in the world (per capita). The point is that the previous economic policy based on the fish market has been rather successfully replaced by the recent diversification in the software, financial and manufacturing sectors.
In addition, this country has one of the highest indicators of the level of medical services and other social guarantees. Also Iceland has a very low crime rate.
9. the US $ 2800
In ninth place in this ranking is the United States , which is one of the largest economies in the world. This country has a large amount of natural resources, a well-developed infrastructure, many industries, and is also the cradle of the largest technology companies. However, in this vast country, salaries can vary greatly depending on where you work.
Despite a developed economy and vast geopolitics, the United States, with its administrative structure, has states in which the level of poverty, unemployment and crime is approaching alarming levels. But overall, this is one of the countries with the highest average wages in the world.
8. Denmark, 3000 $
This Scandinavian country ranks eighth in the ranking of states, with the highest average salary. Denmark is a country with one of the most comfortable living standards in the world.
The stable economy of this country stems from foreign trade, agriculture and natural resources.
There is also a developed system for protecting the rights of hired workers, so Denmark has a very comfortable labor market for both employers and labor emigrants.
In addition to objectively high salaries (even in comparison with the average European indicator), it is worth noting the high standard of living of the Danes, which is also available to people who came to work in this country under an employment contract.
First of all, this concerns the enviable economic stability, comfortable social environment, low crime rate, observance of basic human rights, as well as the great attention of the authorities and the population to the protection of the environment.
7. Singapore, $ 3100
Wages in Singapore , the land of the accomplished economic miracle, are extremely high. The vast majority of economic expats in Singapore claim to earn more than at home, with 25 percent of them even claiming that their family’s current income exceeds $ 100,000 a year.
The bad news is that life in Singapore is so expensive – especially rentals – that high salaries are needed to cover basic expenses.
6. Norway, $ 3100
Norway is also among the countries with the highest average wages in the world. The economy of this country is largely dependent on natural resources, which include oil production as well as hydropower.
Oil-rich Norway attracts well-trained ex-pats. 33 percent even claim to earn much more than at home. In addition, the work-life balance is quite attractive here – for every working citizen, there are 42.9 hours of working time per week. This figure is much lower than the world average.
However, life here is also more expensive than, for example, in Germany. 71 percent of respondents say they also have to spend much more than in their home country.
5. the United Arab Emirates, $ 3100
If you have a lot of oil and little technical know-how in the country, you will have to buy it from abroad, including in the form of labor. 72 percent of labor emigrants in the UAE claim to earn more than in their home country. 16 percent even report family income in excess of $ 150,000 a year.
However, life is very expensive here. 67 percent say that rents in this country are extremely high, 27 percent of those surveyed say that their salaries are barely enough for a more or less decent life.
4. Australia, $ 3300
Australia has the fourth-highest salary in the world. Who wouldn’t want to spend a season in Australia or perhaps stay here for permanent residence? This is one of the most comfortable countries in the world. Australia offers a unique lifestyle with one of the most enviable economies in the world.
In addition to the fact that the level of education in Australia is considered one of the highest in the world, specialists from other countries are in great demand in this country, especially if their profession concerns innovative technologies.
3. Kuwait, $ 3300
The fact that so many Gulf states figure on this list is, of course, related to the rich oil and gas reserves. This allows these countries to pay high salaries, which they also need to attract foreign specialists.
However, Kuwait is a special case of its high average wages due to the fact that large numbers of workers come here from poor countries in India and the Philippines. Overall, 62 percent of respondents say they earn less than $ 50,000 a year in Kuwait.
2. Luxembourg, $ 4800
In second place on this list is the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg . Many major insurers reside in the richest country in the European Union and one of the richest in the world.
Not surprisingly, wages in Luxembourg are very high, with 76 percent of labor migrants claiming that they earn much more here than in their home country.
Luxembourg is one of the so-called dwarf countries in Europe, and the rent is therefore very high here. But thanks to the Schengen agreements, many Europeans living near Luxembourg can live near the border and travel there every day to work.
1. Switzerland, 5400 $
The Swiss really by far the highest average salaries in the world, however, and the cost of living is quite high.
It is a country with one of the most stable economies in the world and is also home to huge fortunes, world institutions and organizations such as the International Red Cross, CERN, the World Economic Forum or FIFA.
More than 50 percent of labor emigrants report household incomes in excess of $ 100,000 a year, 14 percent – even more than $ 200,000.
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Greece's Economy Predicted To Shrink In 2014
LINDA WERTHEIMER, HOST:
NPR's business news begins with more gloom for Greece.
(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)
WERTHEIMER: A new report predicts the Greek economy will shrink for the seventh straight year. This is adding fuel to a debate over austerity measures imposed on the country by foreign lenders.
Joanna Kakissis reports.
JOANNA KAKISSIS, BYLINE: The forecast came out yesterday by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. It contrasts with that of the Greek government - which says the economy will grow in 2014.
OECD head Angel Gurria told a Greek TV station that a slowing global economy will also hurt Greece.
ANGEL GURRIA: The growth of Greece will depend to a very great extent on its own reforms but also on the behavior of all the other countries.
KAKISSIS: Gurria says the country's lenders - which include the European Union and the International Monetary Fund - must lighten Greece's debt load.
GURRIA: Our recommendation, the sooner the better.
KAKISSIS: But Germany - which has contributed most of the eurozone bailout money - opposes cutting the country any slack on its loan payments. And the Germans say the Greeks should stay on a course of deregulation and privatization.
The OECD report also predicts deflation will continue. For regular Greeks that could mean lower prices.
That is welcome by Nikos Aivatzidis, a father of three whose shipyard job hasn't paid him in almost two years.
NIKOS AIVATZIDIS: (Foreign language spoken)
KAKISSIS: Prices must come down, he says, so people can survive.
But as the OECD noted, deflation means Greece will have less money to pay back its loans.
For NPR News, I'm Joanna Kakissis in Athens.
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Title loan is very famous among the residents of the UK as a loan for a short-term. Add to this the instantaneous approval that borrowers can have, and title loans form the best available option.
A title loan is actually a secured loan using the title to the automobile becoming the collateral. The use of automobile as collateral is not really restricted to title loans itself. Many lenders accept the automobile as collateral to back the loan repayment. However, home reigns supreme in the preferred list of collateral. Vehicle or automobile, which can be considered a secondary asset in secured loans, can be used specifically to back title loan repayments.
The borrowed funds provider retains the title to the vehicle and not the car itself. The borrower thus has got the freedom to use the vehicle in the manner he chooses, provided attempts are made continuously to keep the automobile in good condition. A fundamental prerequisite for the loan is the fact that borrower should have a clear title to the loan. The borrower will be required to provide documents proving the ownership in the automobile during approval of loans.
In regular loans, borrowers need to wait for several days for your loan to get approved. Title loans will vary. Within 30 to 45 minutes in the application, you can find your title application for the loan fully processed. Thus, title loans are also used as instant loans.
Borrowers who definitely are wearied in the multitude of refusals will see title loans different. No credit check is needed for the approval of
Title Loans. Poor credit individuals will find these loans especially helpful because it is only in this particular loan that they can not really treated on dissimilar terms. Less-than-perfect credit scores owing to County Court Judgments, Individual Voluntary Arrangement, etc. do not count much inside the approval process. Title loans have a sizable positive effect on the credit status in the borrower.
For approval of title loans, a borrower needs to present his/her pay stub, four personal references, along with a verifiable address proof. Once these documents are presented, the loan can be sanctioned to be used.
As stated before, title loan is a short-term loan. The term of repayment may be about a month. Similar to other short-term loans, the rate of interest chargeable is extremely high. The annual rate percentage counts up to 300% – 900%. This is an expensively high rate of interest.
Inability to spend the money for title loan inside the month it really is due, will need payment together with interest. Inside the subsequent month, the borrower will have to pay double the amount which had been actually due, plus the interest for the first month. The reason being interest in the second month costs comparable to the particular amount.
There is a fear of being held in title loans due to this kind of expensive rate of interest. For instance, in the event the borrower fails to cover the title loan within the specified repayment period and also the following months repayment bsyrcf doubles, the borrower will elect to repay merely the interest. Which means that the primary is again carried over to another month. Yet again, the borrower will accrue an interest comparable to the primary. This becomes a vicious cycle, making it challenging for borrower to extricate him/her out of the quagmire.
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The Baptism Of The Holy Spirit (4 Of 6) by Jesse Hendley
This content is part of a series.The Baptism of the Holy Spirit (4 of 6)
The Holy Spirit
Jesse M. Hendley
Matthew 3:11, Acts 19:2-6
October 11, 1907---November 30, 1994
There is much misunderstanding on this subject, and it
behooves each of us to settle our minds on this
Dr. R. A. Torrey tells of how he was sitting in his
study, thinking about his message for the evening. In
the morning he had another pastor who was speaking for
him, and he was to speak himself that night. As he sat
there he began to think and pray, and the Holy Spirit
began to speak to his heart, bringing to mind Matt.
"I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but
he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose
shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you
with the HOLY GHOST AND FIRE."
And the Lord gave other passages on the baptism of the
Holy Spirit and fire. That evening Dr. Torrey went to
the church, brought a message on the "Baptism of the
Holy Spirit," and at the conclusion of the message he
said, "All of you people who want the Holy Spirit's
baptism, saved and unsaved, follow me."
They went downstairs, and this group was separated,
and he had one of his assistants go in a room with the
unsaved, and he stayed with the Christians. He said
that night WAS unforgettable, because of the blessing
received because the people were baptized with the
Holy Spirit. Now, that is Dr. Torrey's experience.
Is there a BAPTISM 0F THE HOLY SPIRIT? This is a word
that has largely gone out of the Christian vocabulary
today, but the only question to a real child of God
is, "Is it still in the Book?" John said that he
baptized with water, but "HE SHALL BAPTIZE YOU WITH
THE HOLY SPIRIT AND FIRE" (Matt. 3:11). The word
"baptism" means, "immersion". Baptism in the water in
the Greek means, "to dip" in the water. When a person
is baptized (immersed) he is "in" it! The water
surrounds him. There is an experience God says for the
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⏺️ Meaning: A small white circle designed with the background of a faded-blue square. The ⏺️ Record Button indicates the act of recording or being recorded. It can be from an evidential POV or an innocent one, like vocal practice, sending an audio note, or making a hilarious video.
How and When to Use the ⏺️ Record Button Emoji
- Pressing the record button has many preludes to it; one such occasion maybe proof or evidence of facts. Hence, if you’re sharing a post about a verified incident or texting someone about something you recorded/heard first hand, you can use ⏺️.
- Speaking of facts, you could also use ⏺️ while posting or reposting fact-based content. Like, “12 facts about your hair ⏺️” or “Here are some facts that I’d like to get straight before we go out ⏺️”.
- A fact, in a sense, is concrete, unchangeable. Even while referring to something that’s unchangeable/unchanging, you could bring in ⏺️.
- ⏺️ refers to both audio and video recording. Recorded videos are visuals of the past, mostly, beautiful memories. So, if you’re textually reminiscing something or sharing a social media post/repost/story of the same, you can use ⏺️.
- Many times, ⏺️ is used decoratively. Although it’s not completely right, it’s mighty wrong. It strips this poor little thing ⏺️ of its purpose!
- ⏺️ Recording
- ⏺️ Voice Recording
- ⏺️ Video Recording
- ⏺️ Record Button Symbol
- ⏺️ Record Symbol
- ⏺️ Record
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By BizLED Bureau
October 20, 2015: Usually, it is found that an LED bulb lasts lesser period of time than claimed on the package of the bulb. That is, the longevity of LED bulb is shorter than that claimed by the manufacturer on the package. But let?s find out how we can make the LED bulb last longer.
The life span of an LED is longer than that of an incandescent, CFL or HID lamp, which last for 50,000 hours or longer. Although LEDs never really burn out, product life span is measured by lumen depreciation. LED life is rated where it has reached 30% lumen depreciation. At 100,000 hours an LED would still be operating, but at a decreased lumen output.
Life span depends on these factors
The life span of an LED lamp depends on the operating temperature, mechanical shock and vibrations, operating voltage, exposure to voltage spikes, and manufacturing defects. However, unlike incandescent and CFL, which fail faster when switched on and off often, LED bulbs stay unaffected by any number of times it is switched on and off.
Usually, the LED, which is a semiconductor, does not fail. Failures in LED tend to start from a breakdown of the components inside the bulb, particularly due to the failure of the heat sink.
It is seen that in places where voltage fluctuation is high, a silicon diode cap can be attached over the base of the bulb to control the voltage that passes through it. By lowering the voltage, the heat that is generated can also be lowered. This helps to increase the life of the bulb.
It is always advisable that LED bulbs should be bought from reliable companies, which follow stricter quality control and give warranty. Compared to CFLs and incandescent bulbs, LED light bulbs have much longer life span and consume the lowest energy?they generally have a life span of about 25,000 and 50,000 hours.
LED bulbs are less sensitive to shocks and vibrations, and they operate perfectly in cold ambient temperature and lights up instantly. These factors increase its life span.
However, despite operating at the lowest temperature as compared to incandescent bulbs and CFLs, LED bulbs do suffer from problem due to the electronics in them. So, the best way to make LED bulbs last longer is to take care of their orientation, and going in for high quality bulbs with improved quality heat sinks and electronics. If they are operated in the right environment and can get cooled easily, LED bulbs will last longer.
Usually, LED lamp manufacturers do not have any temperature data which is important for the life span of an LED bulb. Also, no standards are available to test or provide this information. The latest LED lamps run electronics hotter than their predecessors and drivers can fail quickly from de-soldering or thermal breakdown of components.
It is also important to go for Energy Star-certified LED bulbs, which indicate reliability and better performance, because LED bulbs vary enormously in quality.
Opinions expressed by BizLED contributors are their own. None of the facts and figures mentioned in the story have been created by BizLED.co.in. BizLED is not responsible for any factual errors.
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Winter Language Camps
In a superb Rila mountain, the children enjoy a well-balanced, happy and safe holiday experience which introduces them to a variety of winter sports and exciting outdoor activities. From winter arts & crafts and indoor climbing to snow tubing and sled building competitions, there’s never a dull moment! Campers go on snow shoes hikes, cross-country ski, build snowmen, sledge and even compete own winter olympics.
ALS winter camp offer Ski & Snowboard lessons from beginner to advanced. Our ski and snowboard instructors teach all ability levels, from complete beginners, who have never seen snow before in their lives to very advanced skiers. Expert skiers and snowboarders will have the opportunity to learn and to develop their skills in racing, freestyle and free-ride.
Our winter camp is a ski and snowboard camp and combines the discovery and practice of skiing and snowboarding with optional language lessons. Children who attend language classes are also encouraged to develop their vocabulary and to use the new language skills they learn.
In addition, we offer daily changing exciting after-ski and evening activities.
Our staff training program emphasizes the need for close supervision, safety and awareness of the needs of each individual child.
You will experience being at your best at ALS Camp. Get ready to smile –
winter camp at ASL is a rush!
Summer language camps
ALS is offering summer programs taking place in beautifully Bulgarian mountains Rila, Rodopi and Balkan. We predispose our campers to demonstrate their achievements and capabilities and pave the way for them to go further into development of intelligence, creativities, and self-confidence encouraging them to build new and long lasting friendships.
The summer camp makes communication barriers to fall down by learning and practicing English language. Studying a foreign language is a challenging task but we turn it to a pleasure to our campers with intriguing and brainstorming games and programs, enriching their vocabulary and practical knowledge.
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Understanding Water Rights and Conflicts
The following is the Introduction to my book entitled Understanding Water Rights and Conflicts, Second Edition, (ISBN: 1-893478-05-x, Price $19.95, 320 pages, softcover, call or email me for information or to order).
“We used to think that energy and water would be critical issues for the next century. Now we think that water will be the critical issue.” Mostafa Tolba of Egypt, Former head of the United Nations Environmental Program
The use of water can be separated into three basic areas: physical supply, legal availability and multiple use. Physical supply is the amount of fresh water provided physically in the form of rainfall and snowpack (precipitation) and, as such, is available for use in the rivers and lakes. One recent estimate from the World Resources Institute (WRI) is that the total amount of precipitation falling on the land surface is approximately 45 billion gallons, or 140,000 acre-feet (a-f) per year. Robert Jackson, et.al., in a report named Water in a Changing World (www.esa.org) estimates that 170,000 Acre-Feet per year is available for terrestrial, freshwater and estuarine ecosystems. Legal availability is that amount of water that an entity is entitled by law to use (take or divert) out of the existing physical supply. Multiple use is the concept of using water for many and often conflicting purposes such as domestic (drinking, bathing, cooking, landscaping), agriculture, recreation, and industrial.
Water Use on a Global Scale
These three concepts apply on a global basis. Water must be available to support life, and water can be denied to the end user based on the lack of physical supply, lack of legal right to use, or having too many conflicting uses for the existing resource. Conflict over water involves at least one, but often more, of these three areas. Rivers provide the majority of the world’s constant water supply. Two or more countries share river systems that drain slightly less than one-half of the world’s land area. At least ten major rivers flow through six or more countries.
One example of an area of conflict is the Euphrates River flowing from Turkey into Syria and Iraq is an area of conflict in several ways. Turkey has built major dams upstream which withhold water from flowing into Syria and Iraq. Both countries are deprived of otherwise available water in the river (physical supply). The legal compacts negotiated between the countries are in constant dispute (legal availability). Each of the three countries needs ever increasing water supplies for cities and agriculture (multiple use) because of increasing populations.
On the other side of the world, the Colorado River serves seven states and one foreign country (Republic of Mexico). This river is governed by a series of federal and state agreements and one international treaty between the two nations. This one river system currently provides water to over 25 million people and several million acres of farmland. Uses include recreation, industry, agriculture and municipal water supply. There is demand for more and more water annually because of population growth and increasing use.
Even in wet regions, where water is seemingly not an issue, disputes arise. Georgia, Alabama and Florida are disputing the flows in the Apalachicola River. One issue relates to the amount of water needed to remain in the river to preserve the Apalachicola Bay oyster beds. Growth in Georgia and Alabama has caused more and more water to be removed from the river (diverted) for municipal and agricultural use, leaving less for the ecosystem downstream. This impacts both the ecology of the bay and the livelihood of the fishing industry using the bay.
In local regions, water disputes are often complex. In Florida, the majority of fresh water comes from groundwater (wells). Pumping from groundwater for an increasing municipal use may be responsible for the decline in surface water and wetlands, affecting ecosystems and recreation. At one time wetlands in Florida comprised 54% of the state’s surface area; now they comprise only 30%. News stories about sinkholes affecting roads and buildings are becoming more and more common. Sinkholes are caused by the erosion and collapse of the limestone, dolomite or gypsum formations when underground water moves. Groundwater pumping not only moves the water upward but also downward and horizontally in the formations.
The majority of the water on Earth’s surface is saline and unusable for human consumption or for agriculture. Some is not in a usable form (i.e. trapped in the pores of solid rock). Conflicts arise because only about one percent of Earth’s total water supply is fresh water and the fresh water supply is not increasing, but the population is. Even more problematic, neither the water supply nor the population is evenly distributed, and often they are not located in the same place.
The World Bank estimates that eighty nations have water shortages that severely retard agricultural production.
Much of the world still lacks water for basic needs such as drinking and sanitation. In many cases this is due to poor water management or lack of infrastructure resources. A recent World Resources Institute (WRI - http: //www.wri.org) estimate of the percent of people worldwide with chronic water scarcity (lack of water for basic needs) is as follows.
Estimated Percent of World Population with Chronic Water Scarcity
Water Quality Magazine noted the following in a recent article, “Shortages in nations everywhere are frequently combined with pollution problems.” A 1997 United Nations (UN) report entitled Comprehensive Assessment of the Fresh Water Resources of the World concluded that increasing water stress” is largely a result of “poor water allocation, wasteful use of the resource, and lack of adequate management action.”
Water use per person per day in 1995 was estimated (USGS) to be 260 gallons globally. The United States in 1995 used an estimated 1,250 gallons per person per day (on a per capita basis). Water use is often expressed on a per capita basis which is the total water consumption divided by the total population. Water use can also be expressed by specific type such as residential, municipal, agricultural or industrial.
Water Use in the United States
The map from the U.S. Department of the Census shows the projected population increase in the United States between 1995 and 2025. There was a 1,400 % increase in homeowner’s associations across the country between 1970 and 1992 (from 10,000 to 150,000) according to the USGS.
The average statewide precipitation for the Western United States is shown on the following table. These statewide averages are obtained as follows: each state is divided into climate divisions and an average precipitation value is calculated for each division. These division averages are then weighted by the amount of area within each division.
Average Statewide Precipitation For Western U.S.
Annual Precipitation (inches)
The following table shows the per capita water use by state in the 1995 USGS Water Use report.
Per Capita Water Use by State
State - Population (thousands) - Per Capita Consumption Use in gal/d (fresh water)
Alabama - 4,253 - 1,670
Alaska - 604 - 350
Arizona - 4,218 - 1,620
Arkansas - 2,484 - 3,530
California - 32,063 - 1,130
Colorado - 3,747 - 3,690
Connecticut - 3,275 - 389
Delaware - 717 - 1,050
D.C. - 554 - 18
Florida - 14,166 - 509
Georgia - 7,201 - 799
Hawaii - 1,187 - 53
Idaho - 1,163 - 13,000
Illinois - 11,830 - 1,680
Indiana - 5,803 - 1,570
Iowa - 2,842 - 1,070
Kansas - 2,565 - 2,040
Kentucky - 3,860 - 1,150
Louisiana - 4,342 - 2,270
Maine - 1,241 - 178
Maryland - 5,042 - 289
Massachusetts - 6,074 - 189
Michigan - 9,549 - 1,260
Minnesota - 4,610 - 736
Mississippi - 2,697 - 1,140
Missouri - 5,324 - 1,320
Montana - 870 - 10,200
Nebraska - 1,637 - 6,440
Nevada - 1,530 - 1,480
New Hampshire - 1,148 - 388
New Jersey - 7,945 - 269
New Mexico - 1,686 - 2,080
New York - 18,136 - 567
North Carolina - 7,195 - 1,070
North Dakota - 641 - 1,750
Ohio - 11,151 - 944
Oklahoma - 1,278 - 543
Oregon - 3,140 - 2,520
Pennsylvania - 12,072 - 802
Rhode Island - 990 - 138
South Carolina - 3,673 - 1,690
South Dakota - 729 - 631
Tennessee - 5,256 - 1,920
Texas - 18,724 - 1,300
Utah - 1,951 - 2,200
Vermont - 585 - 967
Virginia - 6,618 - 826
Washington - 5,431 - 1,620
West Virginia -1,828 - 2,530
Wisconsin - 5,102 - 1,420
Wyoming - 480 - 14,700
Puerto Rico - 3,755 - 154
Virgin Islands - 103 - 113
Total - 267,068 - 1,280
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) publishes a report entitled Water Use in the United States every 5 years. The last one was published in 1995, and the new 2000 report is being published in 2003. These reports can be downloaded at http://water.usgs.gov/ watuse/.
The variation in per capita consumption, in many cases, depends on economic and climatic factors, as well as the population of the area in question. Since per capita use generally includes industrial and agricultural applications, areas with mostly agricultural use and lower population will have a higher per capita consumption.
Typical of any arid and semi-arid region of the world, population increases in the Western United States have made it imperative that water be made available to the areas where the population is located. Along with the Denver metropolitan area, the metropolitan areas of Las Vegas, San Diego, and Los Angeles are experiencing water supply problems. Logic dictates that either people move to where the physical supply of water is located, or the physical supply of water is to be delivered to where the people reside.
Many areas of the world, similar to the Western United States where water is limited, have growing populations. Because these areas are not populated, they are attractive to an increasing population. Because of the population growth and the finite amount of water, the entire world needs to better manage water.
Water Use in Colorado
The State of Colorado (Figure 1) is divided into two distinctly separate regions: the “East Slope” or eastern 1/3 of Colorado and the “West Slope” or western 2/3 of Colorado. The Continental Divide (a line from Montana to Arizona) is the high point where all water either flows to the Pacific Ocean (West Slope) or to the Mississippi River System (East Slope). Mean sea level (MSL) elevations in Colorado vary from above 3,500 feet along the eastern Colorado-Kansas border to 14,000 feet along the Continental Divide. Denver, the state capitol, averages 5,200 feet. In fact, the second step of the state capitol building is exactly 5,280 feet (one mile) above mean sea level.
The precipitation in the state varies from about eight inches annually in the more arid regions to more than fifty inches in the higher mountain ranges. Shown on the following table is the Colorado average statewide precipitation.
Colorado - Average Statewide Precipitation
Month - Precipitation
Jan - 0.72
Feb - 0.72
Mar - 1.2
Apr - 1.27
May - 1.8
Jun - 1.51
Jul - 2.03
Aug - 1.87
Sep - 1.42
Oct - 1.13
Nov - 0.93
Dec - 0.87
Annual - 15.47
Western Water web site, http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/htmlfiles/ avgstate.ppt.html
The statewide average is obtained as follows: the state is divided into climate divisions, and an average precipitation value is calculated for each division. The division averages are then weighted by the amount of area within each division.
Most water problems are directly related to the variability of precipitation, its location and the resulting run-off and stream flow. The climatology of the state has a direct impact on the amount and placement of precipitation. The temperature can range from over 100° F to -30° F, with the lowest recorded temperature of -50° F in Fraser, Colorado. The mean date of the last spring frost in the metro Denver area is May 2nd or 3rd, but above 9,000 feet frost can occur any month of the year. The mean date of the first frost in the fall in the Denver metro area is October 16. The annual mean humidity is 20 to 30%. Even during winter storms, when much of Colorado is covered by clouds, the metro area typically is only partly cloudy. The winds along the Front Range and in the Denver metro area are generally south, averaging 16 miles per hour. While, in the mountains and western part of the state they are generally westerly.
During the period between 1990 and 2001, Colorado experienced a period of abundant water supply. The reservoirs were typically filled, with storage at 100% of capacity. This was one of the wettest periods in the last one hundred years.
The economy was also very strong, and the population grew, almost doubling in both the state and along the Front Range of the Rockies. As a result, water suppliers, even with abundant water supplies, struggled to meet the demand on the existing water infrastructure.
Just from personal experience, living west of the Denver metropolitan area, in the “foothills”, I have seen dramatic growth. People wanting to “get out” of the city have built large homes in areas often difficult to serve with water. Building sites were chosen based primarily on the beautiful location. In times of abundant water, the major concern was extending water lines, and increasing treatment capacity, not the actual physical or legal supply. Many large and small communities have experienced major physical and legal water supply problems in the drought of 2002, as the available water supply dwindled.
As a board member of a local water district, one of the most frequently asked questions I heard during the summer and fall of 2002 was, “Do we have enough water?” The reservoir, which has a capacity of over 100 acre-feet, contains just 20 acre-feet in the photo.
Colorado’s Increasing Population
As with many areas of the world, the location of the population of the state bears no relationship to the available surface water supply. The South Platte River Basin contains more than 65% of the state’s population and produces only 9% of the annual available surface water supply. However, the Colorado River Basin contains about 9% of the state’s population and produces approximately 70% of the average annual surface supply.
Colorado’s population increased nearly 25% during the 1960’s, growing from approximately 1,750,000 to 2,207,000, with recent projections of about 5,085,467 by the year 2015. The largest growth was in the South Platte River Basin, however, in recent years the population in the mountain areas is increasing significantly.
State of Colorado Population
Year - Population - Percent change
1870 - 39,864
1880 - 194,327 - 79.5
1890 - 413,249 - 52.9
1900 - 539,700 - 32.5
1910 - 799,024 - 14.9
1920 - 939,629 - 9.3
1930 - 1,035,791 - 7.8
1940 - 1,123,296 - 15.2
1950 - 1,325,089 - 24.5
1960 - 1,753,947* - 20.6
1970 - 2,209,596 - 26.0*
1980 - 2,889,964 - 31
1990 - 3,294,473 - 14
2000 - 4,301,261 - 49
2005 - 4,250,110** - 47
2015 - 5,085,467** - 76
*U.S. Dept. of Commerce Bureau of Census, 1980 ** From DRCOG, Local Population Estimates.
During the period of 1980 to 2000, the population in the state increased dramatically. In the First Edition of this book (July, 1990), the population estimate for 2000 was 3,800,000. This was underestimated by about 12%.
Colorado’s 63 counties are generally divided into five regions. These are the Front Range, Western Slope, Eastern Plains, San Luis Valley and the Southern Mountains. As of 2000, the ten largest Colorado counties were all in the Front Range area: Denver, Jefferson, El Paso, Arapahoe, Adams, Boulder, Larimer, Weld, Douglas, and Pueblo.
When the Denver Water Board made application for a large storage project on the East Slope (the Two Forks Project) in the late 1980’s, a demand area was identified in the Environmental Impact Study (EIS -December 1986). This demand area identified the areas that could potentially be served by existing facilities (owned by Denver and others) in the Platte River basin. Two Forks was a regional project, proposed to benefit many of the water suppliers and users in the demand area. This demand area approximates the Front Range Area defined above. It is still an appropriate model and is generally still used in many studies.
This demand area includes all or parts of Denver, Adams, Arapahoe, Douglas, Jefferson, Boulder, and Weld Counties. It extends from Erie, Colorado on the North, to Evergreen on the West, to Castle Rock on the South, and to Parker and Brighton on the East. It comprises the Denver Metropolitan Area, and encompasses the majority of the South Platte River Basin, where 65% of the entire state’s population is centered.
Water and Politics
One very common expression in the “water world” is that “water flows toward money,” i.e. where the most political clout, power and water users are located. This is a very common problem between the municipal suppliers and recreational users. Many times recreational areas are in the least populated regions of a state (like the Colorado mountains and West Slope), and have the least political clout. The cities and municipal suppliers have an obligation to provide water for their residents, thus they have substantial political clout (including resources and money). However, the paradox is that many of the municipal residents live where they live because they can easily travel to the recreational activities they enjoy and use.
Another good example of “water flowing toward money” is the conflict between municipal users (the cities) and agricultural users (the farmers). In Eastern Colorado disputes between an increasing requirement for municipal water supplies (for a growing population) and irrigation water for agriculture are common. Pumping from groundwater may lessen the stream flows, thereby creating conflicts with users that divert from the stream.
Pumping from groundwater can also decrease the water table, making it necessary to drill even deeper wells. In many areas, where there is no alternative water supply, wells can go dry, leaving water users no way to get water at all.
Because we are all water users and generally choose where we live, the way to make better use of the existing water supply is to become more informed.
The physical supply of water available for use is discussed in Chapter One.
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Have you seen presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain's education plan? McCain presented his plan in a speech to the NAACP last week. What's most interesting to me about the plan is that it combines federal and very local oversight of schools--and in so doing presents a number of conundrums and possibilities.
As presented to the NAACP, McCain's plan centers on getting more kids into safe K-12 schools staffed with savvy principals and competent teachers. To achieve this goal, McCain proposes school vouchers, school choice, local oversight, and alternative methods of teacher certification.
School vouchers shift government funding to private schools--even religious schools. I find that problematic. If nonprofit organizations want to fund scholarships for students to attend private schools, that's fine with me. But I'm not convinced the government should be funding these nonprofits. The problem with every voucher program I've seen is that these programs don't provide enough money for parents to cover private school tuition and fees. For example, the Washington (D.C.) Scholarship Fund McCain held up as a model provides only $7,500 per student per year--and a family must be quite poor in order to qualify. Under this program, a family of four must have an adjusted gross income of $39,220 per year or less. (The federal poverty guidelines peg a D.C. family of four below the poverty line if the family brings in more than $21,200 per year--a ridiculously low number.) How can a family of four living in DC on less than $40,000 per year scrape together the additional money to pay for private school tuition--especially when the best private schools in the area (the ones that best meet the standards McCain champions) cost more than $25,000 per year? Financial aid from the schools themselves can only stretch so far.
In addition, there's only so much government money for education, and every bit of money funneled to private institutions means fewer dollars for the public schools. In most states, teachers are terribly underpaid (I was raised by schoolteacher parents in California, and I can tell you that keeping up with the neighbors was difficult) and pupils underfunded. I'm not saying the solution is to throw a bunch of money randomly at the public schools--but we need to infuse many of our schools with sufficient funds to, say, provide each student with her own book for each class. In the 1990s, I assisted in public high school classrooms where there weren't even class sets of literature books--which meant students had to spend class time reading instead of learning from their teachers and from one another. This remains the case in many public school classrooms today.
School choice is controversial, even when it means simply allowing parents to transfer their students from lower- to higher-performing public schools. EdWeek (free registration required) provides a nice round-up of the issues surrounding school choice. As EdWeek reports, school choice benefits some low-income and special-education students, but it does not necessarily benefit the majority of low- or lower-middle-income students, who are more likely to live in neighborhoods with failing schools. An excerpt from the EdWeek overview:
While promoters of school choice herald the autonomy it affords parents, and the potential it has to increase parents' involvement in their children's education, opponents question which families will be in the position to make informed decisions about their children’s educations. Some researchers are concerned that certain types of parents are more likely to exercise choice and leave their neighborhood schools, reinforcing social-class inequality (Fuller, Elmore, and Orfield, 1996).
While proponents tout increased school accountability as a byproduct of school choice reform, opponents find the economic-based free-market theory to be problematic in the public education realm (Henig, 1997). Essentially, they do not believe that allowing schools to fail will help the system overall.
As one critic of school choice argues, choice will cause the system to fail the children who are not lucky enough to remove themselves from a low-performing school and will therefore “pit student against student and family against family in the struggle for educational survival” (Cookson, 1992).
McCain supports the standards enforced by the high-stakes testing environment of No Child Left Behind, but wants to place more control in the hands of school principals. McCain told the NAACP,
Under my reforms, we will entrust both the funds and the responsibilities where they belong in the office of the school principal. One reason that charter schools are so successful, and so sought-after by parents, is that principals have spending discretion. And I intend to give that same discretion to public school principals. No longer will money be spent in service to rigid and often meaningless formulas. Relying on the good judgment and first-hand knowledge of school principals, education money will be spent in service to public school students.
In some aspects, this is terrific. I do think that principals need more autonomy in helping their schools to succeed. That said, not all principals are created equal, so I'd like to see a series of checks and balances put in place that keep principals responsible for student learning at their schools without letting principals completely rule the roost, constraining teachers' creativity and achievement. A colleague of mine wrote her Ed.D. dissertation on "star teachers" who achieved high levels of student learning without necessarily being "highly qualified" under NCLB regulations. These teachers, who had particular success with low-income students and students of color in urban Southern California, succeeded in large part because they had the support of principals who sometimes looked the other way when it came to NCLB rules and requirements. Principals must be thoughtful and flexible; they must be willing to let teachers cater to the students in each classroom, rather than succumbing to an all-encompassing bureaucratic standardization of education.
McCain also proposes creating alternative methods of teacher certification:
We should also offer more choices to those who wish to become teachers. Many thousands of highly qualified men and women have great knowledge, wisdom, and experience to offer public school students. But a monopoly on teacher certification prevents them from getting that chance. You can be a Nobel Laureate and not qualify to teach in most public schools today. They don't have all the proper credits in educational "theory" or "methodology" -- all they have is learning and the desire and ability to share it. If we're putting the interests of students first, then those qualifications should be enough.
I wish McCain had clarified a bit what he means by "ability" to teach. I do believe that many teachers have a calling to teach--and have some natural talent for it. That said, these talents are best honed through the master teacher and mentoring programs in place in teacher certification programs across the country. You can't throw a Nobel Laureate into a high school context--where she might be teaching 180 or 200 students a day--and expert her to succeed just because she's bright. There is a skill set that comes with teaching, and it needs to be learned from experts--otherwise these new teachers will burn out, and harm student learning in the process.
Does this mean I think all current teacher certification programs are successful? No. Some of them need reforming. But that doesn't mean veering toward the other extreme and letting anyone who is has some body of knowledge and interest in teaching into the classroom. There is something to the "theory" and "methodology" that McCain seems to be dismissing by putting quotation marks around them. These aren't fictional constructions--they're real concepts that teachers need to understand in order to succeed in today's challenging public school contexts.
Obviously, higher teacher salaries would attract those with a commitment to education to K-12 teaching. I have known many college and university professors, for example, who would excel at middle school or high school teaching, but the starting salaries are too low for people with their years of educational training. A Ph.D. who has classroom experience shouldn't have to start at the average beginning teacher salary of $31,753. Double that amount and you might attract more highly educated people who have honed their classroom skills thanks to graduate school training or years spent as adjunct or assistant professors.
McCain also proposed expanding federal funding of "virtual learning."
We can also help more children and young adults to study outside of school by expanding support for virtual learning. So I propose to direct 500 million dollars in current federal funds to build new virtual schools, and to support the development of online courses for students. Through competitive grants, we will allocate another 250 million dollars to support state programs expanding online education opportunities, including the creation of new public virtual charter schools. States can use these funds to build virtual math and science academies to help expand the availability of Advanced Placement math, science, and computer science courses, online tutoring, and foreign language courses.
Hoo boy. I'm not even sure where to begin. Obviously, all presidential candidates (and presidents!) have educational advisers who help them construct their policies. But by McCain's own admission he is digitally "illiterate" and does not use the Internet himself. It troubles me that someone who lacks experience online would be recommending virtual schools and tutors. I'm a huge champion of carefully crafted digital learning initiatives as a supplements to K-16 curricula, but I'm not sure virtual schools are the way to go. There's something to be said for face-to-face learning across the disciplines, and I worry that we'll be further diminishing teacher-student interaction if we don't implement virtual learning with extraordinary thoughtfulness. (For one view on virtual learning in high schools, check out this report from Education Sector. Also worth a look: the link round-ups at Virtual High School Meanderings.)
In the blogosphere
Bloggers, of course, have been weighing in on the educational plans of both Democratic and Republican campaigns.
Alyson Klein of the Education Week blog appreciates that advisers of both campaigns are talking about pre-K education. Her fellow Education Week blogger Michele McNeil also noted a particular focus on special education in both campaigns.
The National School Boards Association blog points out that McCain hasn't said much about higher education.
Dana Goldstein provides a brief overview of and response to McCain's NAACP speech, pointing out that
D.C. boasts some of the most successful public charter schools in the nation, and school choice here has generally been a good thing for parents and kids failed by the system. But I've said it before and I'll say it again: There is no evidence that low-income and minority students' academic performance is improved by sending them to urban parochial schools, which tend to be the schools that participate in private voucher programs. No evidence in Milwaukee. No evidence in D.C. Supporting school choice does not require support for this sort of privatization, especially when there has been so much innovation and growth in the public charter sector.
In a larger post on McCain's sexism against women, Kate Sheppard of AlterNet highlights McCain's policies on sex ed.
Mike Petrilli points out that despite McCain's focus on poor students in his NAACP speech, the campaigns are subtly shifting their focus toward what Petrilli terms "middle-class suburban" concerns.
For more coverage of the educational issues being raised (or not raised) in the 2008 presidential campaign, visit Ed in '08.
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The report predicts that by 2100, coastal sea levels may rise by 8m, swamping sea-side communities.
Gold Coast mayor Tom Tate said the findings would be crucial to protecting the coastal city.
“We’ve commissioned a report together with Gold Coast waterway authority and with that in mind we have to plan to protect the coastline,” he said.
Cr Tate said some processes were already underway to help combat rising sea levels, such as artificial reefs off the coast.
If the report’s predictions are correct, large parts of the Gold Coast, including Sea World, will be under water in 80 years. The ocean would surround Brisbane Airport.
Griffith University researcher Aysin Dedekorkut-Howes said rising sea levels would trigger a major crisis along Australia’s coast.
Several coastal suburbs will be uninhabitable.
“There are going to be places that are completely beyond unliveable,” Dr Dedekorkut-Howes said.
Rising sea levels are triggered by the melting of polar ice caps, causing excess water to enter the ocean, due to climate change.
Graeme Kernich, CEO of FrontierSI said while the findings were devastating, predictions were preventable.
“All the major centres of Queensland along the coast show inundation under the worst scenario, which we’ve modelled,” Mr Kernich said.
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Social media challenges for businesses are not the same as other challenges for businesses. It can be difficult to remove offensive content and to avoid conversations that diverge from topic to topic. This creates an environment that encourages misinformation. The posts might be deemed to be fake by many people, but they’re in reality misinformation that is detrimental to the company and its employees. The end goal of a company are often affected by the use of social media. How can businesses utilize social media?
It is crucial to develop and maintain a strategy for social media. It is crucial to keep in mind that social media marketing is a time-intensive management. You’ll have to post content frequently and engage with other users, and keep an active presence on social media. Therefore, it is better to concentrate on one or two social media platforms to maximize your time. This will allow you to manage your time efficiently. Choose a few channels if you want social media to grow your company.
Line – A well-known Chinese microblogging platform that combines Twitter and Facebook features. LINE is an international messaging platform that lets users share photos videos, photos, and other media. It also supports video conferencing via Google Hangouts. Businesses can also advertise their products or brands through a WeChat business page. These platforms are rapidly becoming popular in China. Your company will soon be embracing social media once you get started.
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Anzac Day is a significant national remembrance day in Australia and New Zealand, but there is a special link to one Cambridgeshire city. In 1916 a wounded soldier was brought to Peterborough from the Battle of the Somme, where he was serving in the Australian Army.
Sadly, he succumbed to his injuries and died in the cathedral city. He is thought to be the first Anzac to die on British soil, but he was not forgotten as the city still talks of the story of 'The Lonely Anzac'.
Today (April 25) marks Anzac Day which means 'Australian and New Zealand Army Corps' - a day in Australia and New Zealand where they commemorate and remember all those from the islands who fought in all wars and conflicts. For those who lost lives and those who suffered, including one individual who came to the city of Peterborough.
Thought to be the first Anzac to die on British soil, Thomas Hunter arrived in Peterborough after being wounded in the trenches of France and Belgium during the Battle of the Somme in 1916. His story remains significant in the city as he was treated at the Peterborough museum which used to be a hospital. A memorial remains of him today and his ghost is said to haunt the museum.
What is Anzac Day?
Anzac Day is celebrated every year and was officially named the Anzac Day in 1916. The day was originally to honour members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who served in the Gallipoli Campaign during the First World War, 1914 - 1918.
On the morning of April 25 in 1915, the ANZACs landed on the Gallipoli peninsula in Ottoman, Turkey in an attempt to knock Turkey out of the war. This was known as the Gallipoli campaign which was endured for eight long months.
At the end of 1915, allied forces were evacuated and both sides were left with severe casualties along with great suffering. It is reported that over 8,000 Australians were killed during this time.
From this April 25 soon became a significant date of importance for Australia and New Zealand, remembering those whose lives were lost during the Gallipoli campaign during the First World War. Anzac Day is also served to commemorate the lives lost during the Second World War too.
'The Lonely ANZAC' in Peterborough
Thomas Hunter was born in County Durham in 1880 but is better known by his nickname 'The Lonely ANZAC' as he emigrated to Australia as a young man. Prior to emigrating, he had worked as a coal miner from the age of 13, and later went on to serve 10 years with the Durham Artillery. He migrated to Australia in 1910, initially living with his aunt, and working as a miner.
When the First World War broke out in 1914 he was one of more that 50 men that travelled from Broken Hill in New South Wales to Adelaide to enlist. It was here that he enlisted with the Australian Army and served with the 10th battalion of the 10th division ANZAC forces.
As part of his time, Hunter fought in the trenches of France and Belgium, and it was here during the Somme offensive in 1916 that Sergeant Hunter was seriously wounded after reportedly receiving a 'severe gunshot wound to the back' which left him 'partially paralysed', according to the Virtual War Memorial Australia.
Hunter was taken to a field hospital but they believed his condition to be in need of more advanced medical facilities than they had on hand. So Thomas Hunter was sent back to England for the necessary surgery. During his journey up to Halifax on the train, Sergeant Hunter's condition deteriorated.
Speaking to CambridgeshireLive previously, Laura Hancock, who was cultural development officer for Peterborough Museum at the time, said: "It's said that the medical personnel he was travelling with smelt a horrible smell of almond, and when they lifted the covering that was over Thomas they could tell that the almond smell was gangrene. So they knew that he needed treatment faster than they could give it to him, so he was offloaded at the nearest station that had a hospital, and that just happened to be Peterborough.
"The story goes that Thomas came here to the Peterborough Infirmary and would have been treated in the operating theatre in the hope to save his life." Sadly it was too late. Sergeant Thomas Hunter died in the building on July 31 1916.
Touched by the story of this young man far from home, the people of Peterborough held a public funeral and his grave can still be seen at Broadway Cemetery today. Laura said: "Peterborough as a city really took Thomas to their hearts when he had a funeral it was attended by many people who saw in him their young men off fighting in the First World War."
A funeral service took place, with several thousand people in attendance, and Thomas Hunter's coffin being led on a horse drawn hearse as the cathedral bell tolled in the background. The funeral service was held with full military honours and on August 2 of 1916 all shops closed during the event. Even to this day, over a century later, Thomas Hunter is still honoured by the people of Peterborough on April 25, ANZAC Day.
However, Thomas Hunter's spirit was thought to be restless, and it is said that he is the man in grey that haunts the museum's staircase to this day. Visitors have reported seeing a man, who looks around the age of 30, in a grey or green suit gliding up the staircase before vanishing through closed doors.
Laura said: "There are stories of workmen who have come and they know there couldn't be other people in the building, but they see a figure glide up the stairs as though on a cloud of ash, and then just disappear. He's probably one of our most regularly seen ghosts in a building which is quite haunted."
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Foster children are some of the most medicated children in the nation. Need to Know provides an update to our investigation into the use of powerful antipsychotics in our foster care systems.
What makes us feel safe, and what makes us feel sexy? Photographer Sarah Hughes has spent 10 years traveling the globe in search of answers as part of her “Persona Project.”
One of the poorest, most violent cities in our nation recently lost half of its police force. Need to Know goes to Camden, N. J., to see first hand the challenges on the ground and explore possible solutions for the city.
As health care is attached in Congress and the courts, Dr. Atul Gawande discusses the quiet removal of one controversial provision: funding for end-of-life counseling, the so-called ‘death panels.’
Foster children are some of the most heavily medicated children in the nation. Need to Know investigates the use and potential overuse of powerful anti psychotics in our foster care systems, focusing on Texas, which has done much to reform its practices.
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Syracuse, N.Y. -- If you don’t succeed, keep trying.
That’s the philosophy of crossbow hunting advocates who want to see use of this hunting instrument continued and regulated by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
A late session veto by Gov. Andrew Cuomo killed a crossbow bill authored by Assemblyman Robert Sweeney, D-Lindenhurst. Sweeney’s bill would have continued crossbow regulations that expired Dec. 31 for another two years.
The Sweeney bill, supported by New York Bowhunters, a bow-hunting advocacy group, would have again only allowed use of crossbows to hunt big game (deer and bear) during the regular firearms and late muzzleloading seasons – not during the regular bowhunting season. It would have also eliminated the Columbus Day weekend youth firearms hunt for deer, which occurred this past fall for the first time.
As it stands now, the use of crossbows to hunt game is not allowed at all and the Columbus Day weekend youth firearms hunt, which occurs during the regular bow hunting season, is still a go.
A new crossbow bill, A00283, has been recently submitted by Assemblyman Sean Ryan, D-Buffalo, and would give the DEC authority to regulate where, when and how they should be used. A similar companion bill will be submitted soon by Sen. Patrick Gallivan, R-Elma, in the state Senate, according to aide from his office.
Meanwhile, Sweeney will not be submitting another crossbow bill this year, said Denise Kretz, his chief of staff.
“I’m not happy we don’t have anything,” said Rick McDermott, of Pulaski, president of the 740-member, New York Crossbow Coalition. “I’m also not going to support undermining the DEC’s authority.”
The state Department of Environmental Conservation has not taken a position on the issue.
“The DEC does not comment on legislation,” said Lisa King, a DEC spokesperson.
Gordon Batcheller, the DEC’s wildlife bureau chief, attended a town meeting in Brewerton last spring hosted by the New York Crossbow Coalition in Brewerton. He said the DEC’s position “comes down to getting people outdoors.
“If we don’t have people out there hunting, bird watching, looking for snakes and reptiles, fishing ... we will not have a future generation of dedicated conservationists,” he said.
The DEC’s hands are tied, though, until legislation is passed giving them the power to set the regulations.
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On her show, Oprah Winfrey was talking to Dr. Oz about high fiber foods for healthy eating and natural weight loss. One of the more fascinating elements of the program was when the Doctor described an experiment where a group of people ate 11 pounds of fiber rich foods in the form of raw fruits and vegetables for 12 days. The results surprised everyone, including the doctor, as cholesterol levels were reduced 25%, blood pressure fell 10%, and each participant lost about 10 pounds.
Dr. Oz, as seen on Oprah, says the positive effects of getting enough high fiber foods happen "almost immediately." The fiber moves things through your system faster. He adds, "Bile, when it gets absorbed through the bowel, turns into cholesterol. So when you take a lot of fiber in your diet, you suck the bile out of you, and your cholesterol drops automatically. It also gets rid of sugar, which helps the diabetics. And it's a great tool if you want to lose weight because it makes you feel full." That is why weight control and natural weight loss are almost always easier with plenty of fiber in your diet.
Personally, I experienced the power of high fiber foods for natural weight loss when I lost 30 pounds in one month simply by changing to more of a plant based diet. I made that change easily with help from specially made, concentratedfiber rich foods.
Also, by adding some natural health drinks to wash down those high fiber foods, I received even more benefits. Fats and toxins were flushed out a rapid pace with no discomfort or loss of energy. In fact, I developed more energy and better digestion than ever before.
What are some good high fiber foods for natural weight loss and weight control?
Apples - Fuji, Gala, Golden Delicious Pink Lady, Granny Smith and McIntosh apples each provide 5 grams of fiber.
Beans - Black beans are fiber rich foods with as much as 7g of fiber per 1/4 cup of dry beans. 1/4 cup of Pinto Beans rings up a hefty 12g of fiber per serving and Garbanzo Beans are the tops with 9g of fiber per 1/4 cup serving. Beans are a great tool for natural weight loss and easy weight control.
Whole grains - A bowl of shredded wheat, a piece of toast with multi grain bread, or an all bran muffin are wholesome high fiber foods. Each one can give you 3-5g of fiber or more, and they are easy to prepare.
Natural Fiber Drinks - Get 3g of soluble fiber in a creamy, cold, delicious chocolate or strawberry shake. This is healthy fast food that makes it easy to prepare and consume soluble fiber.
Natural High Fiber Food Bars - A snack bar should give you fiber. If it doesn't, then it isn't worth the calories. Also, be careful to get a fiber rich food bar that is easy to digest. Some of the meal replacement bars have too much protein and others have too many ingredients that are hard to digest. That is why I prefer specially formulated, concentrated whole food fiber bars that you can't find in stores.
"When you eat this kind of (healthy) food, you're sending a very clear message to your brain," Dr. Oz says. "You're taking calories and nutrients. What we normally do in America is we give calories to people without nutrition. … The natural colors are gone, and so your brain sits back there and says, 'Am I still hungry or not?'"
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This is an experimental script for Pali, the ecclesiastical language of Buddhism. Pali is normally written in the Sinhala, Khmer, Burmese, Devanagari, Lao or Thai scripts, or with the Latin alphabet using diacritics. This script has a Classical serif font style, with shapes based on those of ancient Brahmi and Pallava, which were the ancestors of the Indic scripts just mentioned. It aims at a unified, linear effect, without complicated vowel placement or diacritics. The name means Letters of the Sage.
Most letters are quite easily recognizable from their counterparts in other Indic scripts. As with almost all Indic scripts, and different from Ariyaka, consonants have an inherent short /a/ if no vowel letter is written.
The glottal plosive acts as a prefix for initial vowels, as is found in many Indic scripts. The two extra /s/ glyphs are for Sanskrit words. The dotted /m/ suffix is a vowel nasalizer, being a common Pali morpheme. It may be noted the retroflex laterals are not encoded; they are considered allophones of the retroflex plosives, emerging in speech when between vowels.
The written vowels follow their consonants in all cases, in a linear, single-channel manner; this is unlike most Indic scripts, whose vowels end up all over the place. The /ai/ and /au/ glyphs are for Sanskrit words. A “no vowel” mark may be used to cancel the inherent short /a/, as is required for consonants which close a syllable.
The “no vowel between” mark is for non-final, cluster or sandhi situations where the consonants run together. Where a consonant is doubled, a colon-shape is used in place of the second component. Note that where an aspirated consonant is doubled, an unaspirated form arises as the first component of the gemination; in Akkhara Muni, only the aspirated consonant is written, and any loss of aspiration due to doubling is ignored in writing.
Please note that Akkhara Muni seeks to capture the phonetics of the language, and not duplicate existing systems of spelling. Even so, some further work may be required to deal with all phonological conditions adequately, and/or simplify common morphological situations.
These are based on my own poor reading of the Romanized Pali, and so may not perfectly reflect the classical pronunciation. Ideally, we will want to read and hear something close to what the Buddha himself might have said.
1. This is the first verse of the Dhammapada.
“Mind precedes all mental states, mind is their chief, they are all mind-wrought.
If a person speaks or acts with an impure mind,
Suffering follows him like the wheel follows the foot of the ox.”
2. This is the 154th verse of the Dhammapada.
“Oh house-builder! You are seen, you shall build no house (for me) again.
All your rafters are broken, your roof-tree is destroyed.
My mind has reached the unconditioned; the end of craving has been attained.”
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|Dominions||Doriath, the Falas, Nan Elmoth, much of Beleriand|
|Hair color||Usually dark, sometimes silver|
|Distinctions||Good singers, woodsmen, and shipbuilders|
|Members||Elu Thingol, Lúthien, Daeron, Mablung, Círdan, Beleg, Oropher, Legolas, Thranduil, Celeborn|
Sindar (meaning "Grey People"[note 1]) or Grey Elves were Elves of Telerin descent who inhabited Beleriand. They were united under the King of Doriath Elu Thingol, and later his grandson Dior Eluchíl.
They belonged to the Teleri who did accept the invitation and set out on the Great Journey and were Eldar, although Moriquendi, never having actually set foot in Valinor, with the Calaquendi. However they still became the fairest and most wise and skillful of the elves of Middle-earth under the rule of Thingol and Melian in Doriath, and they are therefore sometimes referred to as "Elves of the Twilight".
The Teleri were the largest of the three hosts of the Eldar. They had two kings, the brothers Elwë (known as Elu Thingol in the Sindarin tongue) and Olwë. When the Teleri reached Beleriand during the Great Journey from Cuiviénen, Thingol went wandering in the forests as was his wont. In the forest of Nan Elmoth he encountered Melian, one of the Maiar. They fell in love, and with Melian, Thingol stood spellbound in Nan Elmoth for several years.
In the meantime, Olwë and many of the Teleri could not delay longer, and departed for Aman without Elwë and his following. Elwë's followers stayed in Beleriand, to search for their king. They later became known as the Eglath (the "Forsaken"). At long last he awoke from the spell and set up a kingdom in the midst of Beleriand: Eglador ("Land of the Forsaken" or "Land of the Elves"). The Dwarves of Nogrod and Belegost in the Blue Mountains were contracted to aid in the building of the city of Menegroth.
Just before the arrival of the Noldorin Exiles, the Dark Lord Morgoth returned to his old stronghold of Angband, and his activities increased. Thingol had Melian use her magic to create a girdle of bewilderment around Eglador, so that nobody could enter without the king's permission. Ever after it was known as Doriath ("Land of the Fence"). Thingol remained High King of the Sindar and nominal Overlord of Beleriand, although especially the Noldor following of the sons of Fëanor usually ignored his commands.
Other than the Eglath, other Teleri also stayed behind: these were the friends of Ossë the Maia, who had fallen in love with the shores of Middle-earth, and did not wish to depart. Their leader was Círdan, and they established cities at Eglarest and Brithombar. They were known as the Falathrim, or "Elves of the Falas". They were not part of the realm of Eglador, but still took Thingol as their High King.
A last group of Teleri in Beleriand were the Laiquendi or "Green Elves". They were descended from the Nandor, which had split from the Great Journey before the Misty Mountains, and gone south along the Great River. A part of them, under Denethor son of Lenwë, crossed the Blue Mountains eventually, and settled in Ossiriand, or as it was later known Lindon ("Land of the Singers"). They remained a people apart for long, although many of them removed to Thingol's realm after Denethor was killed.
The Teleri of Eglador, the northlands, and the Falas were collectively known as the Sindar in later days, because they developed a civilisation all its own, which almost equalled that of the Calaquendi or Light Elves of Valinor.
Later history
In the early Second Age, after the War of Wrath, some of the Sindar who had no desire to leave Middle-earth (or to be merged with the other Sindar dominated by the Noldor) came to the forest realm east of Misty Mountains. They became the rulers of the Silvan Elves living there and established the Wooldland Realms of Greenwood the Great (S "Eryn Galen") and Lórinand (or Laurelindórenan). The Silvan Elves shared common heritage with the Sindar as both the Silvan Elves (originally known as the Nandor) and the Sindar were of the Teleri clan. Sindar soon merged with the Silvan Elves and embraced and adopted their culture, wishing to experience a more "rustic" and "natural" way of life as was the case after their awakening in Cuiviénen. Other Sindar had founded the haven of Edhellond in the south, and they were also joined by Silvan Elves who migrated there.
- Main article: Sindarin
The language of the Sindar evolved from common Telerin over the long ages they were sundered from their kin. Among themselves, their own language had no name, as it was the the only one that they ever heard, and didn't need any but in Quenya, the language was designated as Sindarin. During the First Age there were several dialects that fell under the umbrella of Sindarin: Doriathrin, Mithrimin and Falathrin. By the time the Noldor arrived in Beleriand, the languages between the two continents had become mutually unintelligible, but the Noldor were quick to learn it. Sindarin eventually replaced Quenya as the language used by the Noldor in Beleriand, even in predominantly Noldorin settlements such as Gondolin, although Quenya survived as a language of knowledge.
In the later Ages, Sindarin was the Elvish tongue used in daily speech throughout Middle-earth. It was also adopted for daily use by the Men of the House of Beor and later the Númenóreans, and remained somewhat in use in the realms-in-exile of Gondor and Arnor.
When the Sindar came to the East to rule over the Silvan Elves, their language was adopted by them who spoke a language of Nandorin origin. Sindarin soon influenced by Silvan language and this new dialect became known as Silvan Elvish (or "woodland tongue"). Names such as Lothlórien, Caras Galadhon, Amroth, Nimrodel are possibly of Silvan origin, adapted to Sindarin.
The term Sindar ("the Grey" or "the Grey-elves") is not Sindarin: it is the Quenya name devised by the Noldorin exiles, derived from PQ thindi. A less common Quenya name for this people was Sindeldi (sing. Sindel).
The name that the Sindar used for themselves was simply Edhil ("Elves", singular Edhel).
Why the Sindar had been called the "grey" yielded a discussion among the loremasters. One theory suggested that it referred to Elu Thingol's, and those near akin to him, hair of silver hue (although most Sindar were dark-haired). Another theory suggested that the name was derived from the meaning of Thingol (Q. Sindikollo), "Grey-cloak" (the Northern Sindar were also said to have been clad much in grey).
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar": Sindar
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The Silmarillion, "Quenta Silmarillion: Of Thingol and Melian"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Appendix B: The Sindarin Princes of the Silvan Elves"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), Unfinished Tales, "The History of Galadriel and Celeborn", "Amroth and Nimrodel", p. 247
- ↑ p.376
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, Appendix F, "The Languages and Peoples of the Third Age", "Of the Elves"
- ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, "Words, Phrases and Passages in Various Tongues in The Lord of the Rings", in Parma Eldalamberon XVII (edited by Christopher Gilson), p. 117
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 J.R.R. Tolkien, Christopher Tolkien (ed.), The War of the Jewels, "Part Four. Quendi and Eldar": Sindar" [also, Author's Note 11]
(Quendi · People of the Stars · Firstborn · Elder Kindred)
(Eldar · Eldalië · Edhil)
|Vanyar (Fair-elves · Minyar) · Noldor (Deep-elves · Tatyar) · Teleri (Lindar · Nelyar)|
(High-elves · Amanyar)
|Vanyar · Noldor · Falmari|
|Úmanyar:||Sindar (Grey-elves · Eglath) · Nandor (Green-elves · Silvan Elves)|
|Moriquendi:||Úmanyar · Avari (Dark Elves · The Unwilling)|
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Budget 2016: PM vows 'historic investments' for First Nations
Josh Dehaas, CTVNews.ca
Published Monday, March 21, 2016 1:09PM EDT
Last Updated Monday, March 21, 2016 11:04PM EDT
On the eve of the federal budget, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will make “historic investments in First Nations and indigenous communities.”
Trudeau made the comments in question period in response to a question from NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.
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Mulcair said First Nations children “are living in crisis because the government doesn’t provide them with the same resources other children get.” He pointed to children in northern Ontario’s Kashechewan First Nation who he said “are suffering from horrible sores because they don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water.”
Mulcair demanded to know whether the Liberals will commit to “full-equivalent funding to end the gap on health, water and education for First Nations children.”
The prime minister promised that “historic investments” will “begin to make right (what) we have not done for so many decades in this place, in this building.”
Trudeau said the Liberals have prioritized “building strong infrastructure and support in communities across the country, particularly in those most vulnerable communities for indigenous children.”
In addition to infrastructure funding, the Liberals’ budget is expected to include:
Billions to cover Canada Child Benefit cheques that will provide as much as $6,400 tax free for middle-income families, starting this summer
Funding for green technology, including a somewhat symbolic plan to replace government limousines with electric vehicles
An expansion of Employment Insurance benefits for laid-off workers
Paying for those promises at a time when oil prices have hit the government coffers will mean a budget deficit at least three times larger than the $10-billion Trudeau promised during the election campaign.
In a speech to the Economic Club of Canada in Ottawa, interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose said she believes the Liberals' should not be pushing the country further into debt.
“Economists are now saying the Liberals will wrack up $150 billion in new debt over the next four years,” Ambrose said. “Canadians gave them an inch but I’d suggest to you they’ve taken a mile.”
Ambrose spoke to Assembly of First Nations chief Perry Bellegarde before the speech, in which she argued that too much debt will hurt job prospects for all Canadians, including indigenous people.
After the address, Bellegarde said he thinks the government would save money in the long run by bringing standards for indigenous education, water, housing and infrastructure in line with the rest of Canada.
“Invest in human capital; it makes a good business case,” said the chief. “Once you started dealing with the indigenous peoples in a fair strategic ways, it’s really good for Canada.”
Bellgarde said the Liberals have made many promises to indigenous people and he plans to “hold leaders to what they promised.”
The Liberals pledged during the election to implement all 94 recommendations from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, including ending boil water advisories on reserves within five years.
But groups like the Canadian Taxpayers Federation pointed out during the election campaign that the Liberals refused to say how much these promises would cost.
One 2011 study estimated the price tag for upgrading on-reserve water systems at $4.7 billion, plus operating costs of more than $400 million per year.
A study last year found that $2 billion was spent by the federal government between 2001 and 2013 to try to improve water systems on First Nation reserves but “little progress” was made.
The Conservatives dedicated much of their time in question period Monday to criticizing the government for the expected size of the budget deficit.
“Polls show that Canadians concerns are economic in nature,” said Ontario MP Lisa Raitt. “First jobs and second taxes and that’s what members on this side of the house have heard in the run-up to the budget that’s being presented tomorrow.”
Raitt demanded to know when Finance Minister Bill Morneau “will he actually admit that in their campaign they misled Canadians and they said the deficits are going to be moderate and indeed they are not.”
“Canadians are very concerned about massive deficits because of course they lead to increased taxes,” Raitt added.
Morneau was not in question period to respond.
In addition to Mulcair, other NDP MPs also used their time in question period to focus on the crisis declared in northern Ontario last month.
“Many children have major infections all over their bodies,” said Quebec MP Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet. “The photos of these children are troubling and socking. How can we leave our children in such a situation?”
Health Minister Jane Philpott said that she is “fully aware of the concerns” and said “a number of children have already been transported out of the community to get the medical help they need,” adding that teams are going door-to-door to look for other cases.
“There will be further steps taken to prevent further infections,” she said. “We will address the public health needs in the community as well as the social determinants of health.”
Earlier in the day, Philpott said water had been tested in Kashechewan and it was "her understanding" that the sores children are experiencing are not water related.
Northern Ontario NDP MP Charlie Angus thanked the indigenous affairs minister and the health minister for working on an emergency plan for the most severe cases.
“But they know the crisis is systemic,” he added. “The mould, the lack of clean water, the need for a proper medical system...”
Angus asked whether the minister will “commit to a timeline and a plan so we can end this state of emergency and reassure these children they can grow up in their communities healthy and hopeful and safe?”
Philpott said her government is “absolutely determined to address these gaps.”
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DECENTRALIZATION IN DIGITAL SOCIETIES.A DESIGN PARADOX
Strategic decisions and risk management, 2020
Digital societies come with a design paradox: On the one hand, technologies, such as Internet of Things, pervasive and ubiquitous systems, allow a distributed local intelligence in interconnected devices of our everyday life such as smart phones, smart thermostats, self-driving cars, etc. On the other hand, Big Data collection and storage is managed in a highly centralized fashion, resulting in privacy-intrusion, surveillance actions, discriminatory and segregation social phenomena. What is the difference between a distributed and a decentralized system design? How “decentralized†is the processing of our data nowadays? Does centralized design undermine autonomy? Can the level of decentralization in the implemented technologies influence ethical and social dimensions, such as social justice? Can decentralization convey sustainability? Are there parallelisms between the decentralization of digital technology and the decentralization of urban development?
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Drug Replaces Aspirin for Stroke Prevention?
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- There's a new way to prevent stroke, and it may be more effective than aspirin, according to new research.
Investigators presenting at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference found the drug apixaban, a new anti-clotting agent, worked better than aspirin at preventing stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) who were unable to take stronger drugs. AF is a heartbeat abnormality that can cause blood clots, which can raise the risk of stroke.Researchers studied 5,600 patients with AF who had a moderate to high risk of stroke and were not willing or able to take oral drugs like warfarin. Up to 50 percent of all patients with AF with moderate or high risk of stroke are unsuitable for treatment with therapies like warfarin. Investigators found oral doses of apixaban were superior to aspirin in preventing stroke in these patients.
"If validated by future studies, I think this is the end of aspirin as a drug to prevent stroke in patients with AF," Hans-Christoph Diener, M.D., professor and chairman, Department of Neurology and Stroke Center, University Hospital Essen in Germany, was quoted as saying.
Specifically, the investigators found 51 strokes or systemic embolism events in the 2,808 patients taking apixaban compared to 113 strokes and systemic embolic events in the 2,791 patients taking aspirin.
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THE former home of the Freemasons is to be transformed into a Quaker Meeting House – with a centuries old front door making the journey.
The Masonic Hall and Temple in Gosforth, Newcastle, was the home of the Freemasons for over a century.
But with dwindling numbers the building, which played host to the secret society’s mysterious rituals and ancient codes of conduct, was put up for sale last year.
Now the Quakers have snapped up the building and will be moving from their current meeting house in Archbold Terrace, Jesmond, in the summer when construction is complete.
The group moved to Jesmond in 1961 from their Pilgrim Street base, bringing their front door with them.
And for sentimental reasons, the door will once again follow them.
John Eversley, of the Newcastle Quakers, said: “We are not certain how old the door is but we believe it is over 100 years.
“It moved to Jesmond from Pilgrim Street so we thought it should come with us again.” Mr Eversley said the group were moving because their current building, where they attract up to 90 people to a meeting, was too big for them.
He said: “The building has become too big for our uses. We don’t need all the space.
“The old Masonic Hall came on the market and suits our needs.”
Construction on the two-storey £750,000 building on West Avenue, next to Gosforth Youth Court, started this month.
The company carrying out the refurbishment, Koru Property Services, are recycling much of the old building and demolishing two extensions.
The Freemason building did have a bar, large snooker room, cloakrooms built to store the Freemason’s apron uniforms and there are the remnants of a chapel-like room where ceremonies took place.
The staircase, said to be the discerning feature of the new Quaker meeting house, will be installed against a backdrop of a glazed wall which will stretch from the floor to the roof of the building’s two floors, giving worshippers and building users a fantastic view of its garden of raised bedding with soft planting.
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The South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony with state and local officials last month to celebrate the Scott Water Farm. The farm is a public-private partnership with Evans Properties, Inc. in Indian River and Okeechobee counties. Its purpose is to store water and improve water quality.
The farm will store more than 9 billion gallons of local storm water runoff and was designed to reduce harmful estuary discharges. The project will retain onsite rainfall. It will also pump water from the C-25 Canal and store it on approximately 7,500 acres of privately owned land. The project has the capability to reduce more than 3 metric tons of total phosphorus and more than 13 metric tons of total nitrogen per year.
Scott Water Farm is a joint effort between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, SFWMD, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and Evans Properties, Inc.
According to SFWMD, the project was designed to reduce harmful estuary discharges and can store more than 29,000 acre-feet of water per year. SFWMD also stated that Gov. Ron DeSantis prioritized public-private partnerships like this one as part of his effort to do more for Florida’s environment and improve water quality around the state. The project is funded by the Florida Legislature.
SFWMD continues to advance important Everglades restoration projects that will send more water south, reduce harmful discharges and improve water quality in South Florida.
“Florida’s future water supply lies in the agricultural areas of the state, and private-public partnerships will help provide abundant quality water for its growing population,” said Indian River Citrus League Executive Vice President Doug Bournique. He is a member of the St. Johns River Water Management District.
Learn more about the project, including its role in improving the health of the St. Lucie Estuary, from Audubon Florida.
Source: Indian River Citrus League
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What would be really interesting is to see where this trait maps across the phylogeny. Is it a conserved trait that was selected for in some ancestor? That would point to the fact that maybe it has nothing to do with running. The authors are mute about phylogeny, but eCB's could alternatively be the ancestral character state, and really the interesting question is why did ferrets evolve the loss of this state? On the other hand maybe the trait evolved multiple times, and that also is really interesting to ask how that happened. But either phylogenetic scenario undermine the central thesis of Raichlen.
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Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
By Sen Yang
|Jan 23, 2008|
President Clinton, Governor Huckabee, Senator Isakson, Mayer Franklin, and all honorable guests:
In 1992, I started my graduate study at Georgia Tech. I landed in Atlanta, a great city best known as the home of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I am honored to call this great city my second home in honor of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And "Georgia is on my mind".
But when I first arrived, I knew little about Dr. King. I very much wanted to return to China. Everything was so unfamiliar to me. But then I noticed something I had never before experienced.
I noticed that people in this country could say what they think without being arrested by the thought police. I noticed that people went to church on Sundays and that all people were free to practice their religion. I never saw people being arrested for bible study or for trying to be good and kind citizens of this country.
There was only one word that could describe my feeling: Freedom.
At first, I thoughts these freedoms were easily achieved in the United States. But then as I studied U.S. history, I learned about Martin Luther King Jr., one of the main leaders of the American civil rights movement. I read Dr. King's "I Have a Dream Speech," and started to have my own dream.
I talked with a friend in China. He asked me what greatest thing was in US. I told him it was "freedom" I enjoy the most. He replied: "You are rich and we are poor. We will chase after 'freedom' when we get more money." I told my friend: "You don't need to be rich to fight for the right to be free." I told him that Dr. King fought for the freedom not because he was rich, but because he had the heart.
I lived in China for 31 years and now in this country for 15 years. I love China and I love the people in China. I want them to be respected and live like human beings. I want them to enjoy the same inalienable rights that God has given to all his people, not only in the United States, but everywhere.
Inspired by Dr. King's "I Have a Dream Speech," I thank him for the sacrifices he endured to help all people in the United States become free. His life is an example for all people everywhere who have a dream of freedom, even me – a humble physicist happy to live as a free man in this country. I too have a dream.
I dream that all people in China will have freedom of thoughts and that they won't have to endure persecution (torture, illegal arrests and interrogation) because of their most deeply held thoughts and ideals.
I dream that all people in China will have freedom of religion and that they won't be persecuted because of what they believe; and that they won't be sentenced to illegal prison terms or subjected to extra judicial killing.
I dream that Falun Gong practitioners in China can one day, walk to the public park and start to do the morning exercise without being beaten by the police.
I have a dream that my daughter can return to China and will not be judged by her belief in Falun Gong, but by her character. And, as Martin Luther King Jr. said:
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!" | <urn:uuid:fd40703f-98d5-459f-966c-4733e3d82841> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ahdu88.blogspot.com/2008/01/i-too-have-dream.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00442-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979084 | 799 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Patrick White was a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the author of more than a dozen novels and many other books, and a spokesman for (and against) an Australia he both hated and loved. In preparing this biography, David Marr secured White's co-operation in tracking down sources and using private documentary material, but retained the right to write what he wished. Marr evokes the wealthy back-country ranching society out of which White sprang, the grand houses in Sydney and the sheep "stations" the size of Belgium; the jackarooing days that laid the groundwork for his first fiction; London before the war and the North African desert where he served as an unlikely intelligence officer; the travels and love affairs in Europe and America; the inevitable return to Australia and the political and aesthetic battles that engaged him during his last years. At the same time, the book focuses on the shape of White's emotional life as a homosexual, especially its central relationship, the companionship of Manoly Lascaris, his close friend of nearly 50 years. David Marr also wrote "The Ivanov Trial" and "Barwick", which won the New South Wales Premier's Prize.
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David Marr is a journalist and critic. He lives in Sydney and is the author of two previous books. He is prepraring an edition of Patrick White's letters.
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When you see a heart specialist, you may be prescribed certain medications, such as beta blockers. It is important that you understand your medication thoroughly to ensure you have the right information to make the best possible health decisions. Brookhaven Heart always aims to provide our patients with comprehensive information about all heart-health prescriptions. Here is a basic overview of what beta blockers can do for your heart.
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By Katharine Derderian, EU Foreign Policy Officer at Amnesty International’s European Institutions Office
Imagine a man thinking and discussing about development in his country — many people know him, a regular person like you and me.
Imagine he organises civil society meetings which are transparent and non-controversial, open to everyone – including his own government.
Imagine that he is stopped one night ten months ago at a police post and never reappears.
Imagine that the last images of him getting out of his car are caught on closed circuit TV and shown to his family – but that this original footage is never released for analysis.
Imagine European parliamentarians and others in the EU openly and repeatedly calling for this man’s return—but receiving no answer.
Imagine how other human rights activists in his country feel when they see this happening.
And imagine that this country will apply for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council in the near future.
The country is Laos, and the man is Sombath Somphone.
Sombath’s enforced disappearance on 15 December 2012 has focused international attention on the disturbing situation of freedom of expression, association and peaceful assembly in Laos.
It has sent a chilling, intimidating message to the country’s already fragile civil society.
In the country demonstrating the fastest growth in Southeast Asia in 2012, the work of civil society, including individuals like Sombath, is critical in ensuring human rights are not sidelined during Laos’ rapid development.
Today, the Lao government is being challenged to make space for human rights defenders and development activists such as Sombath.
The Lao government recently expressed ambitions to join the UN Human Rights Council in the near future. How Laos responds to Sombath’s enforced disappearance will be a key test of its commitment to promoting and protecting human rights.
Yesterday, European parliamentarians left on a visit to Laos. After the EU has repeatedly called for Sombath’s return, this visit is another key opportunity to use the EU’s leverage to answer the many outstanding questions around Sombath’s disappearance.
Until Sombath Somphone is back safely with his family, his case will not be forgotten and calls for his return will persist.
People like my colleagues and me – some of us working everyday to promote human rights in our own, often non-controversial ways – hope to see Sombath’s disappearance investigated and prosecuted.
And imagine we see him back soon and safely.
Read Amnesty International’s report into Sombath’s disappearance last December.
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Photo essays vary from purely photographic works to images with captions or small notes to full-text essays with a few or many accompanying pictures. Photo essays could be sequential in nature, meant to be considered in a specific orderâor they might encompass non-ordered photographs seen suddenly or in an order that the viewer chooses. All photograph essays are collections of pictures, however not all collections of pictures are picture essays. Photo essays usually address a sure concern or attempt to capture the character of places and occasions. | <urn:uuid:d9767b6b-9b56-481b-a204-87c233529077> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.printablecrosswordpuzzles.co/examine-and-contrast-essay-outline-example-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.950806 | 881 | 1.625 | 2 |
With the controversy surrounding the treatment of TMDs, Treatment of TMDs: Bridging the Gap Between Advances in Research and Clinical Patient Management is a welcome addition to the dental literature. Instead of advocating for a specific treatment based on clinical experience, as so many books on this subject do, Drs Greene and Laskin apply the latest scientific research to the clinical management of TMDs. By focusing on a single question—what is happening in various research areas that will be clinically applicable to the mangement of TMDs?—the authors discuss the anatomy, biochemistry, neurophysiology, and psychology of common disorders before explaining how this knowledge may apply to the diagnosis and treatment of TMD patients.
Although much of the information discovered about musculoskeletal disorders through new research tools and innovative experimental designs can be directly or indirectly applied to TMJs, many dental clinicians are unaware of this type of information because it is presented mainly in medical publications or nonclinical scientific journals. This book therefore brings the research to the reader, going one step further to explain the potential of new research for changing future patient care. Covering such clinically relevant topics as the relation of abnormal joint function to joint pathology, the prediction of treatment responsiveness, how sleep disorders affect TMJs and facial pain, the role of comorbid conditions in pain response and management, and the evolving field of pharmacotherapeutics, this book is sure to transform the way clinicians think about TMDs and how they approach TMD treatment. Click here for a preview of the book and order here. | <urn:uuid:5e2dacb8-671b-48b9-89db-b9ef7852d824> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.quintpub.net/news/2013/02/new-evidence-based-book-on-tmds-available-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00035-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922529 | 318 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The Obama Administration is expected to release a detailed report outlining how sequestration would affect spending on defense and non-defense programs this week. The report is required under the terms of the Sequestration Transparency Act, which Congress passed with near-unanimous support in late July.
Although most of the public focus on sequestration has centered around the potential $500 billion in defense spending cuts, relatively little attention has been paid to how an equal level of cuts will affect spending on non-defense programs such as healthcare and social services. So far, only limited information has been available as to how these “non-defense discretionary” programs might be cut. The Department of Health and Human Services has estimated that sequestration could result in a 7.8% cut to all its programs across the board. Meanwhile, Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA), Chairman of the Labor-HHS Appropriations Subcommittee, released a report showing the state-by-state impact of sequestration on education, health, and labor programs. Notably, the report estimates that sequestration would result in 169,375 fewer admissions to substance abuse treatment by cutting over $131 million from the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant.
It is widely expected that Congress will not take action on the sequester until after the November 6 elections. While lawmakers are in their home districts campaigning this fall, the Coalition for Health Funding has created a toolkit for advocates to urge their legislators to oppose drastic cuts to healthcare programs. The toolkit includes an FAQ on sequestration, tips for engaging with lawmakers at town hall meetings, tips for letters to the editor and speaking up on social media, and template documents that you can use to make your voice heard. The more Congress hears from you about the importance of preserving health and social service programs, the more support we will have for protecting these programs when lawmakers return to debate the terms of a deal. | <urn:uuid:6e4c3e06-a1e5-4954-906f-b8b6633f6c8b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mentalhealthcarereform.org/obama-administration-to-release-report-on-effects-of-sequestration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00147-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963394 | 382 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Can one observe an increasing level of individual lack of orientation because of rapid social change in modern societies? This question is examined using data from a representative longitudinal survey in Germany conducted in 2002–04. The study examines the role of education, age, sex, region (east/west), and political orientation for the explanation of anomia (micro level) and its development. First we present the different sources of anomie in modern societies, based on the theoretical foundations of Durkheim and Merton, and introduce the different definitions of anomia, including our own cognitive version. Then we deduce several hypotheses from the theory, which we test by means of longitudinal data for the period 2002–04 in Germany using the latent growth curve model as our statistical method. The empirical findings show that all the sociodemographic variables, including political orientation, are strong predictors of the initial level of anomia. Regarding the development of anomia (macro level) over time (2002–04), only the region (west) has a significant impact. In particular, the results of a multi-group analysis show that people from West-Germany with a right-wing political orientation become more anomic over this period. The article concludes with some theoretical implications.
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U.S. Congressman Jay Inslee paid a visit to Bothell’s North Creek Events Center May 31 to give area youths the scoop on math and science jobs during a career-exploration fair.
Attendees sampled treats from Maltby-based “green” business Snoqualmie Ice Cream while visiting with representatives from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Washington State Police, the Department of Ecology and other related organizations.
“This event is based on optimism,” Inslee said. “It’s based on the idea that the Americans coming up behind us are going to do things just like we did with the space race. It’s my belief that some of the people in this room are going to be a part of the clean-air revolution, and the revolution of how we’re going to treat cancer, and how we’re going to deal with some of our social problems.”
Inslee, a Democratic congressman, has been a long-time advocate of the environment.
“This is very important for my job,” he said. “My job is to get America to develop a new energy system that doesn’t destroy the planet Earth through global warming.”
King 5 meteorologist Shannon O’Donnell was also present at the event to talk about her career and conduct experiments that demonstrated key principles of weather.
“I’ve found something that I really like to do,” she told the audience. “It’s not work. It’s just love, just about every day.”
O’Donnell encouraged youngsters to get active in pursuing their career interests by taking advantage of job-shadow opportunities.
“Think about what you could be doing this early to be attaining that goal early in life,” she said.
“It helps you get there much more easily.”
O’Donnell was one of several people at the event representing women in the traditionally male-dominated fields of math and science.
Inslee told the Reporter after the event: “We have a huge missing talent pool of women and girls in math and science. Getting them to see a role model for themselves can pay great dividends.”
Also representing women was Congressman Inslee’s daughter-in-law, Megan Inslee, who works as a forensic scientist with the Washington State Crime Lab.
“When I saw her coming up, I saw the spark in her eye of really believing in science,” Inslee said. “Now seeing what she’s doing in her professional life, it’s very exciting. We hope that spark will catch with some of the folks that are here today.”
Kenmore resident Pamela Herbert brought her daughters, Madi and Molly, to the fair.
“I thought it would be a good opportunity for my girls to see what’s available,” she said.
Inslee told the Reporter that he wants to make it easier for people to afford college so they can pursue their interests.
“This year, we passed a bill that will reduce the interest rate on student loans,” he said. “It’s a big, big deal for young people struggling to pay for college.”
Inslee also said he would like to repair some of the “broken parts” of the No Child Left Behind Act, specifically through funding and new approaches to special education.
When asked whether he would sign a pledge to run a carbon-neutral campaign like his Republican opponent Larry Ishmael, Inslee said:
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This paper treats network data visualization using Parallel Coordinates version of Time-tunnel (PCTT) for intrusion detection. Originally, Time-tunnel is a multidimensional data visualization tool and its Parallel Coordinates version provides the functionality of Parallel Coordinates visualization. It can be used for the visualization of network data because IP packet data have many attributes and such multiple attribute data can be visualized using Parallel Coordinates. In this paper, the authors propose the combinatorial use of PCTT and 2Dto2D visualization functionality for the intrusion detection. 2Dto2D visualization functionality, whose concept is originally derived from nicter Cube, displays multiple lines those represent four dimensional (four attributes) data drawn from one (2D of two attributes) plane to the other (2D of the other two attributes) plane in a 3D space. This 2Dto2D visualization functionality was introduced to PCTT. Network attacks have a certain access pattern strongly related to the four attributes of IP packet data, i.e., source IP, destination IP, source Port, and destination Port. So, 2Dto2D visualization is useful for detecting such access patterns. In this paper, the authors show several network attack patterns visualized using PCTT with 2Dto2D visualization as examples for the intrusion detection. | <urn:uuid:77c9fa15-d577-4394-9327-d52bb11a07e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kyushu-u.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/network-data-visualization-using-parallel-coordinates-version-of- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.838567 | 271 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Rejection can be defined as the act of pushing someone or something away. One may experience rejection from one's family of origin, a friend, or a romantic partner, and the resulting emotions can often be painful. Rejection might be experienced on a large scale or in small ways in everyday life. While rejection is typically a part of life, some types of rejection may be more difficult to cope with than others.
A therapist or other mental health professional may often be able to help an individual work through and cope with instances of rejection and the distress that can result.
Rejection can occur in a variety of circumstances. Typically, rejection describes an instance of a person or entity pushing something away or out. A person may reject, or refuse to accept, a gift, for example. In medicine, rejection occurs when the body refuses to accept transplanted organs or tissue and attempts to get rid of them with an immune reaction.
In the field of mental health care, rejection most frequently refers to the feelings of shame, sadness, or grief that people feel when they are not accepted by others. A person might feel rejected after a significant other ends a relationship. A child who has few or no friends may feel rejected by peers. An individual who was given up for adoption may also experience feelings of rejection.
Rejection can also result from life events not involving relationships, such as being turned down for a desired position. While any rejection can be painful, some instances of rejection may be more affecting than others. Because most humans desire social contact, and many people crave acceptance from society, being rejected can incite negative feelings and emotions.
The feeling of rejection is believed to have developed as an evolutionary tool to alert early humans who were at risk of being ostracized from the tribe they belonged to. A painful rejection from others in the tribe was likely to encourage an individual to modify any problematic behavior in order to avoid further rejection, or ostracism, from the tribe. Those who were able to avoid further rejection were more likely to survive, while those who did not find rejection to be particularly painful may not have corrected the offending behavior, making them less likely to survive. Humans have therefore evolved to experience rejection as painful.
Rejection from one's family of origin, typically parental rejection, may consist of abuse, abandonment, neglect, or the withholding of love and affection. This form of rejection is likely to affect an individual throughout life, and it may have serious consequences: One study found that, in the male members of the study, the perpetration of abuse in intimate relationships was associated with the experience of higher levels of parental rejection in childhood. Symptoms of posttraumatic stress and deficits in social information processing were also linked.
A person might also experience rejection while dating or from a romantic partner. While rejection can occur when a person asks for a date and is denied or when an individual decides to end a relationship, it might also happen within the relationship. For example, an individual may refuse to share an event or experience with a partner, withhold affection, or treat a partner as if that person were no more than a casual acquaintance. These behaviors are all likely to be hurtful and lead the recipient to feel rejected. Because there may be reason for concern if one's romantic partner is acting in this manner, therapy may be recommended. Individual or couples therapy can provide a space for intimate partners to address any issues that may have arisen in the relationship or on a personal level.
In recent years, the concept of the "friend zone" has been popularized. A person who describes themselves as being "put in the friend zone" is typically saying that romantic advances made toward the object of that person's affection were refused. This generally occurs in one of two circumstances: One, a person has developed romantic feelings for a friend over time; or two, one attempts to date or otherwise seek intimacy with an individual who does not wish to pursue anything other than friendship.
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The concept of the friend zone is considered by many to be problematic, because it is often used to uphold ideas that many find troubling. Although anyone may use the term "being friend zoned" to describe an instance of being rejected, the term is most often applied to and by men who have been turned down by women. While many individuals may be able to readily accept that the person they are attracted to does not have the same feelings, others may feel disgruntled or angry. Some may believe that because they have been nice to an individual, they deserve a chance to date and win the affection of that person. Some may also believe that remaining friends with a person one is sexually attracted to will give that person the chance to realize romantic feelings toward the other individual and develop the desire to pursue a romantic relationship with them. These ideas can perpetuate the notions that romantic love is superior to friendship, that individuals (typically men and women) cannot remain friends without desiring sexual contact, and that all individuals desire sexual contact (eliminating the experiences of those who are aromantic or aseuxal).
This concept is not always used in reference to a man and a woman. When it is used in such a manner, it can have the effect of furthering the belief that when a woman turns a man down, she may not really mean it or may give a different answer in the future, thus implying that women, or any individual who rejects another, cannot be responsible for their own attractions or dating preferences and may not know what they want. The "friend zone" can also be said to contribute to heterosexist beliefs, as another basis for the concept is the assumption that individuals are heterosexual unless they state otherwise, or that heterosexuality is the "normal" sexual orientation.
Using the term friend zone is not necessarily harmful. A person who jokingly states, "I was put in the friend zone again," may be able to accept this and move on easily. However, the concept is considered by many to be grounded in ideas that can be harmful. Thus, it may be helpful to find a different way to describe a situation where one has been rejected, and those who experience difficulty coping with rejection may find help and support in therapy.
Rejection can be extremely painful because it may have the effect of making people feel as if they are not wanted, valued, or accepted. Most individuals will experience rejection at some point in their lives. A child may feel rejected temporarily by a busy parent, or a student may feel rejected by a professor who is brusque or rude. These types of rejection may resolve quickly and are less likely to have long-lasting effects.
However, long-term rejection or rejection that results in extreme feelings and contributes to trauma can lead to serious psychological consequences. Children who feel consistently rejected by their parents may find it difficult to succeed at school and in relationships with their peers. Romantic rejection can be particularly challenging, especially to individuals who desire a lasting romantic relationship. A breakup, or rejection from a romantic partner, can lead to feelings of grief that may be overwhelming and can last for weeks, months, or even years. Rejection in a romantic relationship might alter the way one views one's life and one's own self long after the breakup has occurred.
Rejection might often contribute to pre-existing conditions such as stress, anxiety and depression or lead to their development. Similarly, these and other mental health conditions can exacerbate feelings of rejection. Some individuals develop a chronic fear of rejection, often as a result of multiple traumatic experiences with rejection early in life. Research has also shown that the brain responds to social pain in a way that is similar to the way that it responds to physical pain. According to research, the same brain pathways that are activated by physical pain are also activated by social pain, or rejection. Receptor systems in the brain also release natural painkillers (opioids) when an individual experiences social pain, the same as when physical pain is experienced.
Rejection has been linked to the development of depression in teen girls. Further, bullying, which is essentially a combination of ostracism and rejection, can have numerous negative effects, including depression, stress, eating disorders, and self-harming behaviors, among others.
Those who find themselves rejected often may become distressed or frustrated. They may begin to reject themselves, believing that they are not good enough for others or that they will never succeed. Though it may be difficult to cope with rejection, especially when it seems as if it is frequent, it may be helpful to:
- Acknowledge the event and accept that it was painful. Rejection is a common experience, and pain and distress are normal responses.
- Express feelings verbally, to one's self or others. This can help clarify the event and facilitate understanding of why one was rejected.
- Avoid dwelling on the event, as this can lead to self-blame and may make it difficult to move forward after being rejected.
- Use facts to understand rejection. Avoid self-blame or negative thoughts about the self.
- Reach out to friends or family members. Positive social interactions can provide natural pain relief.
- Engage in physical activity, as exercise can often relieve the pain of rejection.
Individuals with lower self-esteem may find rejection to be more painful, and it may be more difficult for them to recover from rejection. Research has also shown that people who are more sensitive to rejection may be likely to engage in behavior that leads to further incidences of rejection. They may also be more likely to experience loneliness, as they may attempt to avoid chronic rejection in their interactions by avoiding social situations entirely. Working to strengthen resilience and developing a strong support system of trusted family and friends can help those who are sensitive to rejection overcome any sensitivity and reinforce belief in their own values.
Talking to a close friend or family member about the experience of rejection may be helpful, but some individuals who are more sensitive to rejection and others who experience frequent rejection or exclusion may find it more difficult to move past the pain. Sometimes, this difficulty can have severe consequences, such as depression, substance abuse, and suicidal ideation. These conditions can be addressed and treated in therapy, and a therapist may also be able to help an individual to explore potential reasons for rejection and work to achieve personal improvement in these areas.
Working to strengthen resilience and developing a strong support system of trusted family and friends can help those who are sensitive to rejection overcome sensitivity and reinforce belief in their own values. Some individuals may internalize the pain of rejection, believing that there is something wrong with them, but others might externalize it, believing that the fault lies with those who have rejected them. Chronic feelings of rejection may lead to extreme responses, such as aggression. These behaviors may have the effect of further isolating an individual, but they can also have a negative effect on others. Discussing one's feelings with a therapist can help prevent these harmful behaviors.
Rejection can be frustrating and lead to self-doubt and internal distress, and therapy can help an individual address these issues. Further, a person who is continually rejected may find therapy to be helpful in the exploration of potential reasons for chronic rejection. Individuals who fear further rejection or desire help in moving past a previous rejection may find that a mental health professional can help and support them through this process.
Couples counseling may benefit couples where rejection issues affect one or both partners and may also be of help when rejection is experienced within the relationship. One partner may be unaware of how certain behaviors make the other partner feel rejected, and therapy can help uncover the underlying reasons for the behavior. When an individual is aware of these behaviors, therapy can still help address the reasons and support the couple as they work through any issues in their relationship.
- Therapy to address frustration with chronic rejection: Eddie, 29, enters therapy, reporting feelings of stress, depression, and frustration that have led to aggression and irritability. He tells the therapist that he has been trying to date but that he has been unsuccessful: He has been in love with his good friend for several years, but she would rather date "one jerk after another" than go out with him. Eddie says that he has tried to move on and date other girls, but that none of the girls he asks out express any interest in him. He tells the therapist that he is depressed and frustrated that his friend does not have feelings for him, since he believes she is "the one," and that any girl would be "lucky" to date him. The therapist begins by asking Eddie whether he believes that his friend should have the right to choose her own dating partner. Eddie admits that she should but states again that he cannot understand why she would rather date other men when he is "always so nice to her." The therapist then asks Eddie if he is only treating his friend with kindness in the hopes that she will date him. He denies this at first but then admits that this might be the case. He says that he values her friendship but would rather be in a relationship with her. Together, he and the therapist examine his thoughts and behavior toward his friend and other women, and through a series of exercises Eddie comes to realize that he tends to see women as "friends who might become romantic partners" rather than valuing them simply as friends. The therapist encourages him to examine what he desires out of a relationship and helps him to understand that attraction works both ways: He may be attracted to someone who is not attracted to him, and kindness will not further attraction when none exists.
- Addressing insecurity and fear of rejection in therapy: Daniela, 24, enters therapy, reporting insecurity and low self-esteem. She tells the therapist that she has experienced several bad breakups in a row, where she was the one dumped, and states that she is lonely and would like to find a partner but that she is now afraid to try again. Further adding to her emotional distress is her recent termination of employment. The position was seasonal, but she had hopes of being kept on, and her current job search has not yet yielded any results. Daniela says that she knows she has to find a job, but that she does not want to be rejected again. The therapist helps Daniela address the issue of employment first, encouraging Daniela to reach out to employment agencies and other services that help people find employment. They go over Daniela's resume and references, and the therapist encourages Daniela to keep trying, as she has a strong work history and positive references, including one from her previous employer that states they would have kept her on, had they been financially able to do so. This renews Daniela's optimism, and she resolves to try again. Daniela and her therapist also explore some of the circumstances from her past relationships, and they identify together a few patterns, some related to Daniela, some related to those she has dated, that Daniela can be aware of when seeking further intimacy. They also address and explore Daniela's strengths and her goals, and she is able to develop self-compassion and greater self-awareness.
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Sometimes filtering out 270 numbers, or over 1/4th of the 1000 chart, ......is a mistake.
Every once in a while it makes real good sense. Like in a HIGH ODDS (probability) situation like today in Midday Gerogia's Pick 3 game.
Why? Because they just had their 4th Double in a row yesterday.
Odds never change ......and in all games not just GA. (before someone ask) the odds are always 27% everyday we would have a Double.
The probability of us getting 5 doubles in a row is .......remote. What is the probability of getting 5 doubles in a row?
Conditional probability of dependent events:
"Probability is when common sense ......meets math. "
So, multiply 1/27 *1/27 & 1/27 .........and do it 5 times in a row to get the conditional probability of those 5 dependent Events.
= Rare baby! To the extreme......
*Many folks confuse the words Odds and Probability ...and it's really not a good thing to do if you play the lottery a lot........or want to play long term. LOL
The only real failure .....is the failure to try.
Luck is a very rare thing....... Odds not so much.
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Turkey Tetrazzini With Cheddar and Parmesan
Prep time: 25 minutes
Cook time: 60 to 65 minutes
Saving money doesn't have to mean sacrificing good nutrition. Yet that's what many people feeling the economic pinch have been thinking.
-Avoid empty-calorie foods that provide little nutrition. Many designer drinks and sodas don't help your wallet or your waistline. Drinkable yogurts and flavored milks have nine essential nutrients that help fuel the body.
-Skip the expensive snack aisles and focus on convenient snacks that pay you back, such as yogurt and string cheeses. Yogurt can deliver nearly a third of your daily calcium needs in just one eight-ounce serving.
-At 25 cents per serving, milk is one of the most economical sources of high-quality protein and calcium, making it one of the best beverage bargains in the supermarket. Buy it by the gallon to stretch your dollar.
-Cheese has eight grams of protein per ounce, and is most cost-effective when you buy it in block form and shred it over veggies or use it in casseroles.
For more about how to get the most out of your meals, visit www.dairymakessense.com.
Non-stick cooking spray
1 package (12 ounces) whole wheat penne pasta
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup flour
3 cups low-fat milk
1 cup fat-free low-sodium chicken broth
1/2 cup dry white wine (or additional chicken broth)
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 cups sliced white button mushrooms
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
2 cups diced cooked turkey breast
1 cup frozen peas
1 cup shredded reduced-fat cheddar cheese
Preheat oven to 3508F. Spray a shallow two to three-quart baking dish with cooking spray; set aside. Cook pasta according to package directions.
In large saucepan over medium heat, melt butter and stir in flour. Stirring constantly, cook about 2 minutes. Whisk in milk, chicken broth, wine and pepper; bring mixture to a boil. Stir in mushrooms, reduce heat and cook about 10 minutes, stirring frequently, or until mixture thickens and mushrooms are softened.
Stir Parmesan cheese, pasta, turkey and peas into milk mixture; spoon into prepared baking dish. Top with cheddar cheese and cover loosely with foil. Bake about 45 minutes or until bubbling at edges and heated through.
Substitution Idea: This recipe works well for leftover turkey or substitute chicken for turkey.
Nutritional Facts per Serving: Calories, 490; Total Fat, 9g; Saturated Fat, 5g; Cholesterol, 90mg; Sodium, 370mg; Carbohydrates, 57g; Dietary Fiber, 6g; Protein, 44g; Calcium, 50% Daily Value.
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this section should help explain the elements mode in cubik studio and how to create a Default 3D Minecraft Block.
Lets start by clicking Elements on the right side under Edit mode.
Now click on the left side under Element to create a Cube. This is the white Cube under Element.
Now that you have the Cube element you need to size it to a MC block. Use your mouse to stretch the Cube element. Make sure this Cube element is in the the Minecraft Block Limits. Each of the six darker lined squared represent a Minecraft Block. You want your model in the Middle Block and nothing outside this border for all tradition blocks.
Now we need to add a texture. Click the bottom right + to add this.
This is just showing the loading of a texture.
Navigate to the texture folder. Inside that folder is blocks, items and a few more options. For this example we are going into the blocks folder to select the furnace_top.
Now we are going to add another texture, just like before. This is a must since are model has multi textures being used.
Note that we are not using the furnace_front_off in this example. As it is not needed for the lit furnace block we are creating.
Now we load the final texture to the list. It's good practice to rename your textures to there respected names. we will do this in a min.
Now it's time to UV Map! This is where naming your textures comes in handy. Just click the Element tab at the top and select the Edit UV Mapping or Shift+U on your keyboard.
Now you can edit the UV Mapping of the texture for each side of the cube Element you made. To put a texture you added to a different side/face of your model, you will need to select your cube Element form the Elements list. Then right click the element, go to Textures and click customize.
As you can see in the texture customise section of the element you can change the texture per side/face. This is why we name are textures.
Right click your texture and rename it. As you can see in this image, all the textures have been renamed to their texture names.
Now let's go back into the texture customise section of the element as seen in FIG 12.
Now we are getting somewhere! Lets select the correct textures for the right sides/faces. Good thing to know is that the bottom left preview window is facing away from you. So if you want the Front to be the Front you need it to be Facing away from you in your bottom left view.
Remember to load a particle or you will have some pinkish purple and black particles when you break this block. I just used the furnace_top for mine.
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Every culture has pottery, says assistant professor Clarence Cruz, who teaches Pueblo pottery classes at The University of New Mexico. Regardless of anyone’s ancestry, every culture uses clay for utilitarian and aesthetic purposes, from Mexican saltillo floor tiles to fine Asian pottery, to the classic blue and white Delft ware of Europe to the highly coveted pottery of the Native American pueblos of New Mexico and the Southwest.
“It always has a purpose, whether it’s utilitarian, ceremonial, or a status symbol,” Cruz said, meditatively scraping a pot to smooth the surface. “We all have ties to clay. How does your culture still use it?”
Through his classes and a recent project with another pueblo potter and Ideum, a company in Corrales that creates compelling digital experiences and designs integrated hardware products to engage visitors in public spaces, Cruz helps people understand the importance of pottery and the symbols used to decorate it.
Clarence Cruz is Tewa and comes from a family of potters from Ohkay Owingeh in northern New Mexico. His native name is Khuu Khuqyay. He’s a graduate of the University of New Mexico, with a master’s degree in Fine Arts, and a minor in Museum Studies. Wikipedia lists him as one of the notable natives of the pueblo for his pottery skills.
We all have ties to clay. How does your culture still use it?
Native American artist Clarence Cruz
Cruz teaches the art of making pueblo pottery at UNM using traditional methods. Starting from scratch, he and his students go to public lands in Peñasco, El Rito, and Pecos to find clays, pigments, and other materials to make pottery, particularly a clay that contains sparkling flecks of the mineral mica. The clay soil is brought back to UNM in five-gallon buckets, screened to remove rocks and other debris, then put in water, which allows the clay to settle to the bottom. The clay slurry is then placed in a wooden frame on newspapers and canvas to allow the water to drain. Finally, the clay is wedged to remove air bubbles and align the particles.
The students use the traditional method of stacking coils of clay and then using their thumbs and palms to shape the cylinders into bowls and other items. The pieces are decorated in a variety of methods used by various pueblo potters, including potsuwi'l, incising fine lines in the pottery to make designs. The pottery is then fired using traditional methods such as reduction firing, oxidation firing, or open firing (fire clouds) to yield a variety of colors and finishes, including letting the mica flakes gleam through. The finished product is not only beautiful but practical and can be used in the oven, Cruz noted.
Also a priority for Cruz is imparting to his students the spiritual and cultural importance of the art and respect for the Pinkwiyo, the Tewa Mother of Clay, with whom he says he has a meditative and spiritual relationship. When he searches for clay with his students Cruz “reads the landscape and goes where she wants to take me.” After the clay is dug they carefully fill in and cover the area, because “We are guardians of that material.”
Cruz strives to help his students and anyone viewing the pottery to understand the symbols such as “birds, clouds, and ‘the journey’… They’re not just made-up designs.”
In his quest to impart his culture and the importance of pottery, he has collaborated with Acoma potter and jeweler Michelle "Milo" Lowden and Ideum on a project that highlights pueblo pottery and its symbolism. Exploring Pueblo Pottery project uses cutting-edge 360-degree projection technology and captivating experience design “to shine new light onto ancient motifs.”
Cruz had worked with Ideum founder Jim Spadaccini on another project.
“So, Clarence was a very good person for us to reach out to for help. He was a consultant on the project and helped us develop some of the educational content and did quite a few interviews as well. He taught us a lot about the pottery process and different Pueblo styles and designs,” said Ideum director of creative services Becky Hansis-O'Neill. The Exploring Pueblo Pottery project has received a prestigious Global Design Merit Award for interactive experiences from SEGD, as well as a 2019 German Design Award, and is the recipient of a Gold 2019 APEX Award in the Experiential Design & Planning category.
Users can select from a range of designs crafted by Lowden, an Acoma artist from a family of illustrious potters. The chosen designs are animated and cast onto an oversized white olla, or water pot, by four overhead projectors. Viewers then see the blank pot come to life as Lowden’s stylized images of clouds, rain, lightning, mountains, birds, and local wildflowers envelop the surface of the pot.
“They don’t just look but also engage and see what the designs mean,” Cruz said.
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling has said it is "painful" to know that her mother never knew about her writing success.
Rowling said she was beset with "guilt and worry and anxiety" when her mother Anne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a disease which led to her death in 1990.
Speaking on Radio 4's Woman's House, she said she regretted her mother not being around to see the books become bestsellers.
"She never knew about Harry Potter - I started writing it six months before she died, so that is painful. I wish she'd known."
The Orkney Islands have the highest rate of multiple sclerosis in the world, University of Edinburgh scientists said.
Researchers found the rate for probable or definite cases of MS in the Orkneys is now 402 per 100,000 - up from a previous high of 309 per 100,000 in 1974.
Dr Jim Wilson, of the university's Centre for Population Health Sciences, said: "Our study shows that Orkney has the highest prevalence rate of MS recorded worldwide.
"These findings may reflect improved diagnostic methods, improved survival or rising incidence. We are trying to work out why it is so high, but it is at least partly to do with genes."
The study appears in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry.
Our research shows the transformative effect that alemtuzumab can have for people with MS.
Patients who continue to show disease activity while on their initial therapy are especially difficult to treat.
Now, we have shown that alemtuzumab works where first-line drugs have already failed.
It not only reduces the chances of disability associated with MS but may even result in long-term clinical improvements.
The multiple sclerosis study published in the journal The Lancet found that alemtuzumab significantly reduced the number of attacks or relapses by people with MS.
This result was seen both in patients who had not previously received any treatment and those who have continued to show disease activity while taking an existing treatment for MS.
In one trial with patients who had recently relapsed, new episodes were reduced by 49% more than that achieved by the current standard treatment.
Over a two-year period, 65% of patients on alemtuzumab compared with 47% of patients on interferon did not relapse.
A drug which is said to "reboot" the immune system has been shown to be an effective treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS), a study has found.
The results of the trials were so encouraging in reducing the number of attacks in those affected that the MS Society is campaigning for the drug to become available on the NHS.
The research showed that alemtuzumab significantly reduced the number of attacks or relapses by people with MS compared to the current drug interferon beta-1a which is known commercially as Rebif.
Jack Osbourne can be a role model for multiple sclerosis sufferers, MS survivor and advocate Nancy Davis told Daybreak this morning.
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THE tragic deaths of four teenagers has devastated the tightly knit Cabarita community and has inspired a local couple to launch an event to raise funds to prevent youth suicide.
Tina Rochford and Dan Smith knew the parents of the boys, who all attended Kingscliff High School, and took their lives at different times since 2012. The most recent death was just six months ago.
Ms Rochford and Mr Smith saw the torment and shame endured by the loved ones and friends left behind and feared more such tragedies.
They researched youth suicide, and found early, professional intervention was the key, as well as extinguishing the stigma surrounding seeking counselling during a depressive episode.
They also discovered statistics which shocked them. In the last year on record 348 young people, and 2520 people in total, took their own lives.
"In the 10-24 year age brackets, 85% of them are boys, and it's the third leading cause of death," Ms Rochford said.
"One of the things that really got me going was somebody told me a 10-year-old boy was having suicidal thoughts. And I just snapped," Mr Smith said.
"That's when I thought - somebody has to do something. And that's when I put pen to paper."
The couple have organised Cabarita Beach Retro Youth Suicide Prevention Surfing Tournament to be held on September 12 at the Cabarita Beach headland will raise money for Headspace.
The government program aims to engage youth in schools, TAFEs and at home, to prevent isolation, depression, drug abuse and suicide.
Presented by Mr Smith's surfboard shaping company DS Boards, the single-fin comp will be open in August to 100 competitors, and costs $60 per entry.
The tournament will be the centrepiece for a festival of stalls, music, giveaways and a clear message to local teens.
"This has to stop," Ms Rochford said. "We need to break the barrier of the stigma so the boys know they can ask for help."
For more information, contact DS Shapes on 0475408198.
If this story has upset you or you are in need of crisis support, contact Lifeline on 13 11 14 or visit lifeline.org.au.
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Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.
Includes Medora, Chateau de Mores, Medora Musical
Buffalo herd at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park is located in the badlands of Western North Dakota and is truly one of America's great natural treasures. Covering 70,446 acres, the Theodore Roosevelt National Park is well-known around the country for its breathtaking scenery and fantastic wildlife viewing. Separated into three geographical areas- the main South Unit, the North Unit and the Elkhorn Ranch Unit.
The South Unit is the largest and most visited of the three units mainly because it rests along Interstate 94 at the gateway town of Medora, North Dakota.
The North Unit is found 80 miles north of the South Unit on U.S. Highway 85 near Watford City. The Elkhorn Ranch Unit rests between the North and South Units, approximately 20 miles to the west of U.S. Highway 85 on a dirt road.
Theodore Roosevelt National Park provides spectacular badlands scenery as well as amazing wildlife viewing, camping and hiking opportunities.
The Little Missouri River flows through all three units of Theodore National Park, which provides a haven for wildlife as well as the necessary erosion to geologically create through the ages some of the most spectacular badlands landscape found anywhere in North America.
Wild stallion at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Theodore Roosevelt's "Perfect Freedom"
Theodore Roosevelt came to North Dakota for the first time as a young man in 1883 to hunt bison (buffalo). Coming from New York, Theodore Roosevelt instantly fell in love with the area and what he called the "Perfect Freedom", and not only did it change his life forever, but also the nation.
During his brief first visit, he invested $14,000 in what was known as the Maltese Cross Ranch, which was located about 7 miles south of the town of Medora. Then in the summer of 1884, Theodore Roosevelt returned to North Dakota following the death of his mother and his wife on Valentines Day, February 14, 1884. Needing time to heal and looking for solitude, he started another ranch 35 miles north of Medora, and called it the Elkhorn Ranch.
During this time, Theodore Roosevelt wrote three major works, entitled, "The Wilderness Hunter", "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" and Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail". And after losing much of his cattle during the harsh winter of 1886-1887, and all of his adventures he experienced there, these things proved to be extremely influential in his pursuit of conservation policies during his 8 years as President of the United States.
Visitors enjoying the view from the Painted Canyon Overlook at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Buffalo, Feral Horses, Prairie Dogs and Much More!
Among the most popular activities in Theodore Roosevelt National Park is Wildlife watching. Theodore Roosevelt National Park is well known for its amazing buffalo (bison) herds that roam the national park, as well as a gorgeous herd of feral horses. Buffalo can be found throughout the park...in both the north and south units, and are among the most popular animals in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
As you drive the loop highway around the South Unit, more than likely you'll see these spectacular animals up close and personal. And while driving the South Unit Loop Road, keep an eye out for the several herds of feral horses.
These gorgeous wild horses can be found anywhere, so always have your camera ready. And throughout Theodore Roosevelt National Park, there are many "prairie dog towns" where you'll see these fun-to-watch animals as they scurry around the prairie "doing their thing", such as standing straight up on their toes with their heads straight up in the air and front legs fully extended as they "call". This loud chirping sound alerts other prairie dogs in the area that there is possible danger. Other animals found in Theodore Roosevelt National Park are mountain lions, elk, bighorn sheep, mule deer, whitetailed deer, coyotes and over 185 species of birds that include sharp-tailed grouse, Western meadowlark, golden eagles and wild turkeys.
Wild horses at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Buffalo at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
The South Unit is the most popular unit in Theodore Roosevelt National Park for two reasons. One reason is the fact that it's right off Interstate 94 and is next to the charming tourist town of Medora North Dakota.
The other reason is the fact that there is a wonderful loop roadway that is nicely paved that takes visitors through incredibly scenic badlands that are teeming with buffalo, feral horses and many other species of wildlife
There are also fantastic hiking trails that range from less than a mile long, to over 11 miles in length. If you only had time for one unit, we highly recommend spending time in the South Unit...It is really an amazing place to discover and explore, and the loop road provides wonderful access to fantastic vistas, landscape and wildlife!
Visitors enjoying the incredible beauty of the South Unit at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
South Unit Map, Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.
Buffalo herd at the South Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota.
Located about 80 miles north of the South Unit along U.S. Highway 85, the North Unit is known for its deep canyons and rugged bluffs.
These massive canyons are quite dramatic and awe-inspiring, and there are several overlooks that provide visitors with stunning views of these canyons as well as the Little Missouri River.
There is also some amazing wildlife in the North Unit as well, including buffalo and bighorn sheep.
It's Worth the Drive!
If you have the time, we highly recommend that you take the time and effort to drive through the North Unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park. Its grandeur, it's vastness and its beauty is well worth the time...We are confident that you'll be glad you made the trip up to the North Unit...It will be one of the highlights of your North Dakota vacation.
The North Unit provides spectacular vistas of the North Dakota Badlands and the Little Missouri River.
Elkhorn Ranch Unit
Located approximately mid-way between the South and North Units, the smaller Elkhorn Ranch Unit is located about 20 miles west of U.S. Highway 85 on a dirt road.
The Elkhorn Ranch was built by Theodore Roosevelt in 1884, and was where the young Theodore Roosevelt spent much time at.
The historic Maltese Cross Cabin, which was built in 1883 on the Maltese Cross Ranch (south of Medora) and was part of Theodore Roosevelt's first ranch that he purchased in 1883, was relocated to the Elkhorn Ranch years later for visitors to enjoy and explore. His original rocking chair is still found in this historic cabin. If you're a history buff, or a least sort of interested in classic Western history, we feel it's worth the effort spending time at the Elkhorn Ranch Unit in Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Fun Hiking Trails: South & North Units
One of the many short trails along the South Unit Loop Road that take visitors to spectacular vistas.
There are several outstanding hiking trails found throughout Theodore National Park that take visitors into the scenic badlands. Some trails, such as the Skyline Vista, only take about 10 minutes but provide an exceptional vista of the North Dakota Badlands, to the 10.3 mile Petrified Forest Loop. All of these trails are wonderful and each trail offers something quite unique and different compared to the others. We enjoyed them all very much...so you can't go wrong in choosing which ones to undertake.
There are basically two designated campgrounds located in Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and both are nestled against the Little Missouri River. The Juniper Campground is found in the North Unit, which all of the individual sites are available on a first-come, first served basis. The Cottonwood Campground is located in the South Unit, where half of the campsites are reservable, and the other half are on a first-come, first served basis. There is also the Roundup Group Horse Campground in the South Unit, which is designated only for larger groups with horses.
During the summer months there is partial shade provided by the large cottonwood trees found in these campgrounds. Also during the summer there are many potable water spigots found in both campgrounds, along with vault toilets, however there are no hookups available in either of the two campgrounds. The campsites in both the Cottonwood Campground and the Juniper Campground sites vary in configuration. Some are walk-in, some are back-in and some are pull-thru sites. Each campsite is limited to 6 people or one family, and there is a two vehicle limit per site. There are raised grills provided for campers to cook with or enjoy a campfire.
Both the Juniper Campground and the Cottonwood Campground have one group site for groups of six or more people, and are available via reservation only. The Roundup Group Horse Campground, found in the South Unit, that are for groups that are camping with horses and is also reservation only.
Guided Horseback Rides
The South Unit provides guided horseback rides that are quite popular among visitors.
Even if you've never been on a horse before, the friendly, professional and courteous guides will show you all you need to know to enjoy a trail ride in the gorgeous badlands of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
These horses are extremely well trained and very gentle...and the guides are with you every step of the way if you have any questions or concerns. If you're interested in taking one of these guided horseback rides, talk to a ranger at the Theodore Roosevelt National Park Visitor Center that is located at the South Unit Entrance at Medora.
Visitors enjoying the drive along the loop road of the South Unit at Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Medora, North Dakota
Gateway to Theodore Roosevelt National Park
Medora North Dakota is the gateway town to the Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and is one of the most enjoyable tourist towns you'll ever spend time at. Literally located at the entrance to the South Unit
along Interstate 94, Medora is a charming "cowboy" town, with amazing shopping, dining and lodging opportunities, as is also the home of the legendary Medora Musical.
The Medora Musical is a favorite among visitors and locals alike, and a trip to Theodore Roosevelt National Park wouldn't be complete without enjoying the Medora Musical.
There is also the world-class North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame located in Medora, which we also highly recommend that you spend time in during your stay here.
The history of Medora in and of itself is quite fascinating, and there are several museums and interpretive displays on what led to the development of the incredible town of historic Medora. So it you're interested in history, Medora, North Dakota will not only be fun to visit, but will be extremely fascinating as well!
Medora, North Dakota is the "Gateway to Theodore Roosevelt National Park", and is one of the most enjoyable cowboy tourist towns you'll ever visit!
You might even get to meet President Theodore Roosevelt and his wife Edith on the streets of Medora!
Chateau de Mores
Medora was founded in 1883 by a French nobleman by the name of Marquis de Mores, where the town of Medora was named after his wife.
Marquis de Mores' goal was to ship refrigerated meat to Chicago along the Northern Pacific Railway, which never came to full fruition...as far as what he had expected of this business venture.
During the de Mores "hay-day" at Medora and while their dreams were still big, Marquis de Mores built a large meat packing plant, as well as a gorgeous chateau, which still stands today and is known as the Chateau de Mores. This elegant home is now a fascinating museum and is very much worth your time going through. There is also a wonderful interpretive center that further tells the fascinating Marquis de Mores' story.
North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame
The North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame is a world-class museum located in Medora North Dakota.
Located in the heart of Medora is the world-class North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame. This is a top-notch museum that is nothing short of spectacular, and we highly recommend that you and your family visit this outstanding museum while in Medora...
that is if you and your family are interested in genuine cowboy history and the history of the most famous cowboys in the great state of North Dakota. The displays are world-class, and you will get an incredible understanding of the deep and proud cowboy roots that grow very deep in this prairie state. You'll be so very glad you visited this remarkable North Dakota Treasure.
Medora Musical (and Pitchfork Steak Fondue)
The Medora Musical is without question one of the top attractions in North Dakota, and we highly recommend attending one of these incredibly entertaining productions.
Located on the outskirts of Medora, the outdoor stage is nestled literally in the gorgeous badlands, with the background being a stunning view of classic badlands bluffs and grassland.
This gorgeous outdoor theater is the perfect setting for evening as the show begins and the sun begins to set. Also located at the Medora Musical is a wonderful gift shop that not only has great souvenirs, but it also serves as a history museum that tells the story of the Medora Musical. And don't forget the Medora Pitchfork Steak Fondue feast that is world-renowned that is served prior to the seating for the Medora Musical.
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7 Benefits of Fasting
There are a variety of things you can do to improve your bodily state, physically as well as mentally. One of these things is fasting. Fasting the whole day, half day or simply living on liquids, fruits and raw vegetables, is extremely good for the body. This list of benefits will illustrate to you, just how good this exercise is.
1. Detoxifies the body
The biggest advantage of regular fasting is that it detoxifies the body. It’s a natural cleansing system and makes your body purer. Fasting ought to be done once a week to achieve these results. Think of your body as a working machine or person; if it follows the same routine everyday, of eating processed foods, it will suffer wear and tear. Thus it will become slower and less healthy. Cleansing your system once a week helps immensely.
2. Makes you lose weight
Fasting reduces the stores of fat cells in the body by revving up the fat breakdown process and releasing energy. Thus you feel more energetic and less hungry, while losing weight in the process. Fasting every alternate day but making sure that you eat healthily even on the non-fast days should do the trick.
3. Rests the digestive system
Give your digestive system a break and go on a fast. Just like your legs, hands or head need breaks from time to time, your inner systems need them too, for better performance. Also, fasting increases the break down process of glucose which helps in releasing more insulin, thus lowering the sugar levels in blood significantly.
4. Makes you go the healthy way
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Last Sunday, January 27th marked the first day that a merchant would be allowed to charge you a “checkout fee” (merchant-imposed surcharge) for paying with a credit card. While not all retailers will do this, you should know your rights when it comes to this practice. Consumer Action, in partnership with the Electronic Payments Coalition, has produced a new brochure, “Checkout Fees: Consumer Rights and Retailer Responsibilities.” What you mainly need to know – you can’t be gouged, and you can’t be surprised.
- Retailers are required to provide “clear disclosure” or signage in the store entrance, at the point of sale, on their website if it is an online purchase and on your receipt.
- Retailers can only charge a fee equal to what they pay to accept the card—typically 1.5%-3% of the entire purchase.
- The practice of surcharging is illegal in 10 states, including: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma, and Texas.
- You cannot be charged a checkout fee for debit or prepaid cards – even if you hit “credit” when you swipe your debit card.
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ERIC Number: ED279570
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1986
Reference Count: 0
Hartoonian, H. Michael; Laughlin, Margaret A.
Elementary Economist, v8 n1 Fall 1986
The issue emphasizes decision-making skills. Human beings are constantly confronted with choices in all aspects of life. The five basic skill categories in the decision-making process are identified and explained: (1) Conceptualizing; (2) Sequencing; (3) Creating Alternative Sequences; (4) Evaluating Alternatives; and (5) Implementing a Decision. Included are teaching activities for levels Pre-K: "How Do I Choose?"; 1-2: "It's up to Me"; levels 3-4: "Everyday Decisions"; and levels 5-6: "Town Planners." Each contains a list of student goals and a description of teaching activities which incorporate role playing, reasoning, group discussion, sharing experiences, group dynamics, group decision-making, and oral presentation. (KWL)
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Guides, Decision Making, Decision Making Skills, Economics Education, Elementary Education, Elementary School Curriculum, Instructional Materials, Learning Activities, Problem Solving
Joint Council on Economic Education, 2 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10016 ($15.00/yr.).
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher; Collected Works - Serials
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Teachers; Practitioners
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The Complete Works franchise has made a name for their abridged retellings of everything from Shakespeare to the history of sports. So when others try to tackle this idea you have to be prepared to do it better. In The Internet: A Complete History (Abridged), writers Kristyn Pomranz and Katherine Steinberg attempt to inform and entertain while borrowing the perfect concept.
While we all use the Internet, very few of us actually know anything about it. Well besides that it was "invented" by Al Gore. And who better to teach the history of the World Wide Web than Gore himself! With the aid of two youngsters and a begrudging "audience member" we learn about the Internet. Unfortunately for Pomranz and Steinberg, the Internet is just not funny. With projections to explain the jokes and way too much jargon for the audience to handle, The Internet is a prolonged set up that tried to be something else. The Internet is funny when it's a nostalgia trip down 90s memory lane but it takes about as long as connecting to dial up AOL for the funny to come. When engaging in fact spewing, the play falls flat. Had the entire play been bits and sketches like the Reduced Shakespeare’s Abridged shows, perhaps The Internet could have worked.
Director Paul Morris struggles to salvage any comedy from within. Morris keeps the action fast paced but with so little to work with, the play becomes a mishmash of too much. And perhaps that’s the point. A parallel to the Internet containing so much it’s too much to handle. The costumes Matt Russoniello works for Hanau’s Ingrid and Thompson’s Andrew, paying homage to the Internet. However putting Al Gore in Red Converse was a confusing choice. Russoniello was also in charge of props. For a play about the Internet and technology, having zero real pieces of technology was a massive disservice. Sure, the actors tossed the “computers” around on stage haphazardly but the fact that the prop looked like a prop and not an actual computer was disheartening.
Comedy is hard. Originality is hard. Watching a comedy fall flat is hard. The Internet: A Complete History (Abridged) had all the makings of excellence but flopped in execution. If you were really curious, it may have been easier to learn the history of the Internet on the Internet. | <urn:uuid:12a1ed68-48e6-4a9a-bf6a-97b23f7b2272> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.theaterinthenow.com/2014/08/review-stay-away-message.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00190-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955208 | 507 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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