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Start left of Red Clouds Above on two side pulls crimps, one pulling left for your left and one pulling right for your right. Make a big move right to a pinch and then get your feet up to fall into a sloper for your left. Make an awkward and hard move with your left up to the rail, match and then dyno for the lip. Roll over to mantel. Great problem and often overlooked.
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CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois is taking applications for $28 million in grants for a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) exchange "in-person counselor" program.
The grants are supposed to go to "legally recognized organizational entities" that want to help individuals sign up for coverage through the new PPACA exchanges, or Web-based health insurance supermarkets, which are supposed to start enrolling consumers Oct. 1.
Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's office announced Monday a competitive grant process to distribute the federal money to community groups that want to help educate consumers about the new online insurance marketplace.
Grant applications are due May 30.
The types of organizations eligible to apply include nonprofit groups, farming organizations, fishing industry organizations, chambers of commerce and unions.
"We've got a big job to do making sure that people across Illinois are aware of the affordable and high-quality health care coverage options that will soon be available through the Affordable Care Act," Quinn said in a statement. "That's why we are partnering with trusted organizations that have proven records of success and roots in communities across Illinois to ensure that no one is left out."
PPACA requires that nearly all Americans have health insurance beginning in 2014 or pay a penalty. People who are uninsured are supposed to be able to use the exchanges to enroll in government health programs or shop for commercial coverage.
Illinois officials estimate that more than half the consumers who seek coverage through the exchange system will need more help than they can get from the exchange website.
Illinois officials want consumers to get that help from guides who will be hired and supervised by community organizations that, starting now, are competing for grant money.
John Peller of the AIDS Foundation of Chicago said his group is likely to apply for one of the grants. Several thousand Chicago-area people with HIV will be newly eligible for insurance under the health law, Peller said, and many will need help choosing a health plan and enrolling. Better access to health care for people with HIV will reduce the spread of the disease, he said.
"The new substance abuse and mental health coverage available under the law will be tremendously important for people with HIV, who often have depression and substance abuse challenges at higher rates than the general population," Peller said.
Insurance agents and brokers still will have a role in helping people choose health insurance, said Phil Lackman, a lobbyist for a coalition of Illinois industry groups.
The Illinois Senate passed a bill last month clarifying that the new state guides cannot recommend or endorse a particular health plan. The bill still needs approval in the House.
"A lot of people want to compare this to Travelocity (the online site for buying airline tickets)," Lackman said. "Health insurance is a more complicated decision and a more personal choice. Many people will still seek out the advice of an agent or broker."
Nearly 1.8 million Illinois residents are uninsured. An estimated 486,000 state residents will get coverage from commercial insurers through the Illinois marketplace in 2014. That figure is expected to reach 1 million customers by 2016.
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Start by drawing the ‘contact’ pose. This is when the heel of the leading leg is just striking the ground, and the toes of the trailing leg are bearing most of the body’s weight. Note that the torso twists so that one shoulder is further forward than the other
Next draw the ‘pass’ pose. This is when the arms and legs are passing each other as they move. The arms are close to the body; one leg is straightened, bearing all the weight, while the other leg is bent and moving forward. The torso should not be twisted at this point.
The final pose of the sequence is the ‘contact’ pose, where the arm and leg positions are the opposite of those of the first frame.
Now draw the first of the in-between poses. The ‘plant’ pose comes between the first ‘contact’ pose and the ‘pass’. This is when the leading leg takes the full weight of the body, and the foot is planted flat on the floor. This is the lowest point of the head movement arc.
Finally, the ‘striding’ pose comes between the ‘pass’ and the final ‘contact’, and has the trailing leg stretched upwards, and the leading leg moving forward, with the knee raised. This pose is the highest point of the head movement arc. | <urn:uuid:54c56196-fd69-412a-8e7d-35edb4a8211f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.maximized.co.uk/animation/walkcycle.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00293-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946221 | 288 | 2.625 | 3 |
Chrome users who haven't restarted their browser recently should do so immediately to receive a patch for a high-severity flaw in the browser's built-in PDF reader. Attackers could execute arbitrary code on the user's system by tricking them into opening a PDF document containing a malicious image, according to researchers at Cisco Talos.
"The most effective attack vector is for the threat actor to place a malicious PDF file on a website and then redirect victims to the website using either phishing emails or even malvertising," Cisco Talos wrote in a blog post disclosing the vulnerability.
The heap buffer overflow (CVE-2016-1681) is present in the jpeg2000 image parser library used by PDFium, Chrome's default PDF reader. The flaw is located in the underlying jpeg2000 parsing library OpenJPEG, in j2k.c's opj_j2k_read_SPCod_SPCoc function. While an assert call prevents the heap overflow in standalone builds, Google uses a special build process that omits assertions, making the flaw exploitable in Chrome.
With attackers relying on weaponized PDF documents to target vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, several browser makers have built-in PDF readers so that users don't have to install plugins. However, just because these are built-in readers doesn't mean users still don't have to be careful about opening PDF files they receive via email attachments or they download from the Internet.
Google follows the automatic update model to keep Chrome on Windows and Macs up-to-date, which means most users are already on the latest version of the browser and are protected. That is, assuming they've restarted their browsers at least once since May 25. However, many organizations disable auto-updates in order to test new versions of Chrome on their networks before deploying them to endpoints. IT should prioritize testing and make sure users are running Chrome 51.0.2704.63 (released May 25) or even Chrome 51.0.2704.79 (released June 1) to address this flaw.
"It is fairly easy for an attacker to take advantage of this vulnerability," Cisco Talos wrote. Attackers could use a specially crafted PDF document to execute code to cause a denial of service or some other attack.
As part of the research, Cisco Talos embedded a jpeg2000 image that had its SIZ market truncated in a PDF file. Since the number of components specified in the SIZ marker in this malicious image is 0 and it isn't followed by individual component information, the code for parsing the jpeg file makes an erroneous call. The only difference between a valid jpeg2000 file and a malicious one targeting this vulnerability is the fact that SIZ marker specifies 0 components, Cisco Talos said.
Google assigned a CVSS 3.0 score of 6.3 to the flaw, and paid Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos $3,000 for reporting the vulnerability.
PDF documents are a fact of life for most users nowadays, so always think twice before opening them. Make sure reports are from reputable sources and exercise extreme caution before opening unsolicited documents. Some business functions -- such as recruiting -- are especially at risk since the role requires opening PDF files (such as resumes) which are sent unsolicited (from potential job candidates).
While built-in readers in browsers have gone a long way toward making it safer to open PDF files from the Internet, this vulnerability report is a timely reminder that even built-in readers can be vulnerable. Stay current with regular software updates, whether by restarting the browser on a regular basis or installing the updates as soon as they are available. | <urn:uuid:48c2da94-9b54-4317-81a2-3e2fb6bd5339> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.infoworld.com/article/3082006/security/google-patches-high-severity-flaw-in-chromes-pdf-reader.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00542-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93736 | 751 | 1.6875 | 2 |
January 26, 2011
Written by C.N.
This spring semester, I am again teaching my “The Sociology of Immigration” course, whose description reads, “This course examines who, why, and how different groups immigrate to the U.S. and what happens once they arrive — how they are received by mainstream society and how they adjust to their new country. Specific issues include settlement, education, identity, assimilation, discrimination, employment, language, marriage, legal status, and political participation.”
With that in mind, I would like to share my list of films, videos, and documentaries that I think are good choices for showing in introductory classes focused on immigration (the videos are most suited for college and advanced high school courses). As we all know, the political, economic, and cultural issues related to immigration are some of the most emotional, controversial, and hotly-debated topics in American society today. While the documentaries listed here tend to emphasize a comprehensive approach to immigration reform, they all do an excellent job in portraying and highlighting just how complex and even contradictory this issue is.
The following list is organized by topic and corresponds to the chronological order in which I discuss each topic in my “Sociology of Immigration” course. For each topic, I highlight the documentary that I tend to show the most often, followed by other videos that I consider to be good choices for that topic as well. This post focuses the the first few topics of my immigration course — the history and global context of immigration. Part 2 will focus on issues specific to unauthorized immigration and Part 3 will emphasize socioeconomic attainment, mobility, and assimilation.
Basic Concepts: The Racialized Landscape
In this first section of the course, I lay out the sociological framework and institutional nature of the U.S.’s racial/ethnic landscape, within which the issues of immigration are framed and structured. I focus on how, contrary to historical and contemporary ideals of being “colorblind,” American society has been and continues to be highly racialized and these mechanisms of racialization impact immigration.
- Race: Power of an Illusion (Episode 2): This excellent PBS series explores the social and political construction of race and perceived racial differences. As it relates to immigration, this episode takes an in-depth look at how the identity of “American” has been closely linked with Whiteness and the inherent barriers that people of color and immigrants have to overcome in order to formally and informally be considered “real” Americans.
- The Color of Fear
- Race, the World’s Most Dangerous Myth
- Understanding Race
Historical Patterns of Entry and Restriction
In this section, I summarize the major waves of immigration into the U.S. through the years, along with the evolution of immigration laws and regulation in U.S. history.
- Between Two Worlds: Produced by PBS and part of the Becoming American series, this episode examines the events leading up to the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and its effects on Chinese Americans and their families who were kept apart by both ancient custom and U.S. law. It also describes way in which a few laws also provided relief as Chinese Americans turned to the courts for justice.
- Carved in Silence: Chinese Immigration During Exclusion
- Ancestors in the Americas: Chinese in the Frontier West
- Roots in the Sand
- The Italians in America
- Out of Ireland
Motivations & Incorporation: Past & Present
This section explores the multidimensional and multi-level process of how immigrants have been received by mainstream American society and how they have adapted to the challenges and opportunities in the first generation of life in the U.S. I also discuss the major theories of why and how immigration happens, particularly as they relate to global political, economic, and cultural forces.
- Mountain’s Mist and Mexico: Part of the After the Immigrant documentary series, this episode follows the stories of individual Mexican immigrants to illustrate the interconnected push and pull factors that have contributed to the long history of Mexicans in the U.S.
- The New Americans (5-part series)
- Bracero Stories
- Global Voices: Beyond the Border
- On the Other Side
- Shaolin Ulysses
- And the Pursuit of Happiness
- From a Different Shore: The Japanese-American Experience
The Global Context
Drawing on the global issues inherent in the immigration process, this section explores some examples of the variety of experiences and issues of immigration in other countries around the world. Students in my class find it useful to compare and contrast the experiences of immigrants in other countries to those of immigrants to the U.S.
- Dying to Leave: The Dark Business of Human Trafficking: This video illustrates how globalized forces can lead to desperation on the part of people, who then become unwittingly entangled in the illicit human trafficking business in many countries around the world.
- Crossroads: Inside the European Union
- Golden Venture
- Seoul Train
- Witness to a Secret War
- Return to the Border
- The Other Europe
- Tokyo: The Neon City
- Fortress Europe: Death on the Border
Copyright © 2001- by C.N. Le. Some rights reserved.
Suggested reference: Le, C.N. . "Best Immigration Documentaries: Part 1, History and Global Context" Asian-Nation: The Landscape of Asian America. <http://www.asian-nation.org/headlines/2011/01/best-immigration-documentaries-part1-history-global-context/> ().
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A small sturdy dog of an ancient breed originating in China, having a snub nose, wrinkled face, squarish body, short smooth hair, and curled tail.
- n. A pug nose.
- n. Clay ground and kneaded with water into a plastic consistency for forming bricks or pottery.
- n. A machine for grinding and mixing clay.
- transitive v. To work or knead (clay) with water.
- transitive v. To fill in with clay or mortar.
- transitive v. To make soundproof by covering or packing with clay, mortar, sawdust, or felt.
- n. A footprint, track, or trail, especially of an animal; a pugmark.
- n. Slang A fighter, especially a boxer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. The footprint of an animal. (Also pugmark) (From the Hindi for 'foot', related to Sanskrit 'padh' and Greek 'ped')
- n. Any compressed clay-like material mixed and worked into a soft, plastic condition for making bricks, pottery or for paving. (Also pug soil)
- n. A nickname for a pugilist or boxer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To mix and stir when wet, as clay for bricks, pottery, etc.
- transitive v. To fill or stop with clay by tamping; to fill in or spread with mortar, as a floor or partition, for the purpose of deadening sound. See Pugging, 2.
- n. Tempered clay; clay moistened and worked so as to be plastic.
- n. A pug mill.
- n. An elf, or a hobgoblin; also same as puck.
- n. A name for a monkey.
- n. A name for a fox.
- n. An intimate; a crony; a dear one.
- n. Chaff; the refuse of grain.
- n. A prostitute.
- n. One of a small breed of pet dogs having a short nose and head; a pug dog.
- n. Any geometrid moth of the genus Eupithecia.
- n. A footprint; a track; as of a boar.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An elf; fairy; goblin; sprite: same as puck, 1.
- n. A monkey.
- n. A fox.
- n. A dwarf variety of dog; a pug-dog.
- n. A term of familiarity or endearment, like duck, etc.
- n. A three-year-old salmon.
- n. One of certain small geometrid moths: an English collectors' name. The netted pug is Eupithecia venosata; the foxglovepug is E. pulchellata.
- n. A short cloak worn by ladies about the middle of the eighteenth century.
- n. A pug-nose; the form or turn of a pug-nose: as, a decided pug.
- To thrust; strike. [Prov. Eng.]
- In building: To tamp with clay, or stop with puddle; clay.
- To line (spaces between floor-joists) or cover (partition-walls) with coarse mortar, felt, sawdust, or any other material to impede the passage of sound; deaden; deafen.
- In pottery-and brick-manuf., to grind, as clay, with water in order to render it plastic.
- n. Clay ground and worked or kneaded with water, and sometimes with other substances, into consistency for molding, as into bricks, etc.
- n. A pug-mill.
- n. Chaff; refuse of grain.
- n. The print of a foot; a footmark. See puggi.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. small compact smooth-coated breed of Asiatic origin having a tightly curled tail and broad flat wrinkled muzzle
A transplanted Hollander, carried thither originally from China, seems to thrive particularly well in this part of the world; the little pug dog, or Dutch mastiff, which our English ladies were once so fond of, that poor Garrick thought it worth his while to ridicule them for it in the famous dramatic satire called Lethe, has quitted London for Padua, I perceive; where he is restored happily to his former honours, and every carriage I meet here has a _pug_ in it.
Blue says: doggielore: The evolutionary isolationism for a pug is stricter than that of the human races ....
The evolutionary isolationism for a pug is stricter than that of the human races ....
Her pug is the idol of her life, and she hates babies, said Rose.
A few feet away, shelter employee Randi Lee Knox petted a tiny dog that she called a pug mix.
The evolutionary isolationism for a pug is stricter than that of the human races, but if you were some alien overlord shopping for a pet human, it would find “white” humans, “black” humans, “yellow” humans (an Asian called himself this to me in conversation, so I guess it’s ok).
Putting up with the pug was a small price to pay for digs like these.
No, there was nothing sublime and dolorous about Miss Manners; her face was round, cheery, and slightly puckered, with two little black eyes sparking and shining under dark brows, a nose she unblushingly called pug, and a big mouth with eminently white and regular teeth, which she said were such a comfort, for they never ached, and never would to the end of time.
I might as well cry because my pug is a shade lighter than my new winter costume I ordered to match his coat.
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Unarmed mass uprisings, celebrated as "people power" revolutions, have ended authoritarian regimes in various countries. But have these movements ushered in polities that fulfilled democratic expectations? The record is disappointing, and especially so in the Philippines after the ouster of President Ferdinand Marcos. Why? Much of the answer lies in the ability of elites to ride, hijack, and redirect the trajectories of "people power" movements. Such elites take advantage of the tension between the regular politics of stable institutions and the irregular politics of extraordinary moments. The large mobilizations associated with "people power" cannot be sustained for long periods. The masses will soon delegate power to, and rely on, their leaders, who will represent them as the polity settles down to the business of normal--institutional--politics. The very minute the new regime is inaugurated, it ceases to be revolutionary and starts to be conservative. It has a country to run, and state power to defend and consolidate, for its enemies are not likely to have given up. The institutional technology of popular rule has yet to be developed beyond grand first principles and banal motherhood statements. The supposedly revolutionary leaders of the new regime lapse into using the already well known methods of minority or elite rule. But recourse to such stratagems may in time trigger the formation of new "people power" movements against these self-entrenched incumbents--prolonging the cycle and preventing the conversion of contingent power into legitimate authority.
Amado Mendoza's current research is on the political economy of organized crime and anti-state violence in the Philippines. His many writings on that country include a book-in-progress on tax reform and two edited volumes, Debts of Dishonor (1992) and From Crisis to Crisis: A History of BOP [Balance of Payments] Crises in the Philippines (1987). He has been a visiting scholar at Tufts University, the Jean Monnet Institute, the University of Turku (Finland), and the Amsterdam Insti¬tute for International Relations. In addition to pursuing his academic career, he has worked as a business journalist, a merchant banker, a stockbroker, and on development issues for an NGO. | <urn:uuid:6d80e51a-fbb5-492a-adfc-3d09831c042b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aparc.fsi.stanford.edu/events/democratic_or_demagogic_people_power_reconsidered__in_the_philippines_and_elsewhere | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.954294 | 449 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The load balancing structure increases the availability of the CUBRID servie by placing several nodes in the HA configuration (one master node and one slave node) and distributes read-load.
Because the replica nodes receive replication logs from the nodes in the HA configuration and maintain the same data, and because the nodes in the HA configuration do not receive replication logs from the replica nodes, its network and disk usage rate is lower than that of the multiple-slave structure.
Because replica nodes are not included in the HA structure, they provide read service without failover, even when all other nodes in the HA structure fail.
You can configure each node in the basic structure of HA as shown below:
You must enter the list of DB server hosts in the order so that each broker can be connected appropriate HA or load balancing server in the databases.txt file of a broker node. The following is an example of the databases.txt file:
#db-name vol-path db-host log-path
testdb1 /home/cubrid/DB/testdb1 nodeA:nodeB /home/cubrid/DB/testdb1/log
testdb2 /home/cubrid/DB/testdb2 nodeC:nodeD /home/cubrid/DB/testdb2/log
The data in the CUBRID HA group may lose integrity when there are multiple failures in this structure.
In addition, if the mode of replication log copy process is ASYNC, the data in the CUBRID HA group may lose integrity.
If the data in the CUBRID HA group loses integrity for any of the reasons above, you can fix it by using Rebuilding Replications. | <urn:uuid:73ddfe82-c09a-463c-91f2-10a36903799a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cubrid.org/manual/840/en/Load%20Balancing%20Structure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00544-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.829388 | 361 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Billings, city, seat (1883) of Yellowstone county, south-central Montana, U.S., on the Yellowstone River 3,119 feet (951 metres) above sea level. Billings lies at the base of the Rimrock Mountains in the Clark’s Fork Bottom at a point equidistant from Seattle, Washington, and St. Paul, Minnesota.
Bannack Indians, the first known inhabitants of the area now encompassing the city of Billings, were driven away by the Crow; a Crow reservation now lies southeast of the city. Lewis and Clark passed through in 1805–06, naming the site now known as Pompey’s Pillar for the infant son of the their guide Sacagawea, whom Clark nicknamed Pomp, or Pompey. A site called Coulson—consisting of a trading post and stagecoach station—was settled in 1877, but in 1882, when the area was surveyed by Northern Pacific Railway Company, the city was renamed for a president of the railroad, Frederick Billings. Prosperity, spurred by the railroad’s arrival, collapsed after 1887 but was renewed after 1900 with the growing cattle industry and irrigated agriculture.
Billings is the metropolis of the “Midland Empire,” a rangeland and irrigated river valley region producing sugar beets and varied truck crops, wool, and livestock. Beet sugar, oil refining, and food processing are important. The city serves as a gateway to Yellowstone National Park and the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument. It is home to Montana State University-Billings, founded as a normal school (teachers college) in 1927, and to Rocky Mountain College (1898). ZooMontana, a zoological garden housing native and exotic animal species, is a popular attraction. Yellowstone, Glacier, and Grand Teton national parks are nearby. Pictograph Cave State Monument, 7 miles (11 km) southeast, has prehistoric artifacts. Inc. 1885. Pop. (2000) 89,847; Billings Metro Area, 138,904; (2010) 104,170; Billings Metro Area, 158,050. | <urn:uuid:aecbc8ca-12eb-4f9a-b559-6c33989d9bd6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.britannica.com/place/Billings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00028-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934582 | 445 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Enjoy Summer On A Budget
We are half way through the summer holidays and if you are feeling the financial pinch from spending cash on days out and buying things to keep the kids entertained, then Morrisons is here to help. They have come up with lots of yummy recipes and handy hints to make sure that little ones have a fabulous time without breaking the bank. They have put together a selection of M Savers recipes and have teamed up with Play England and money saving expert Sarah Willingham to provide great tips to make the most of your summer. You can find out more by visiting the Saver Summer website where there are details on ways to find low-cost ways of entertaining the family this summer:
- Easy to cook, low cost, nutritious M Savers summer-themed recipes, perfect for picnics, barbecues and kids’ summer snacks starting from as little as 16p per portion
- Free or low cost family activities developed with Play England
- An interactive map of the UK to locate free play spaces
- An M Savers Summer ‘Pop-Up’ Play Park which will tour the country in August which will have cooking demonstrations as well as low and free play workshops hosted by Play England to teach all sorts of game ideas including arts and crafts and den building
- 2 x packets of M Savers Sponge Mix
- 2 x eggs from store cupboard
- 4 x tablespoons of M Savers Lemon Curd
- Juice and zest of 1 M Savers Lemon
- Preheat the oven to 200°C Line a one litre loaf tin with grease proof paper. Mix up the cake mix as instructed on the packet using the eggs and water. Stir two tablespoons of lemon curd into the cake batter.
- Pour the cake mix into the tin and bake for 35 to 40 minutes until the centre of the sponge springs back when pressed with your fingertips.
- Remove from the oven and repeatedly pierce the top with a kebab skewer.
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Written by the leading authorities on the first-year seminar and grounded in research, Your College Experience offers students practical help in making the transition to college and getting the most out of their time there.
Speaking with evident respect for students at all kinds of institutions, with all kinds of learning styles, and with all kinds of backgrounds, the authors ask them to consider their own goals, and their purposes for being in college. Particularly relevant to today’s students, a new Money chapter discusses managing money, building credit, and financing college.
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Western New York hit a new, potentially deadly milestone in the COVID-19 pandemic, post-vaccine. Yesterday, November 28, 2021, Governor Kathy Hochul released the state's COVID-19 update and there was bad news for our region. Along with the honor of having the highest 7-day average COVID-19 positivity rate, we have now exceeded 10 percent. For the past couple of weeks, we had been hovering in the high 8 to 9 percent range, but we've officially crossed the line. Friday, November 26, and Saturday, November 27, we had positivity rates of 10.15% and 10.30, respectively. For comparison, the statewide averages on both of those days were 3.95% and 4.05%, respectively. While we do have the highest COVID-19 positivity rate in the state, we are not alone in failing to get the spread of this deadly virus under control. Seven of the 10 regions across New York State have rates above 5 percent (they are bolded below):
|Region||Thursday, November 25, 2021||Friday, November 26, 2021||Saturday, November 27, 2021|
|Central New York||6.46%||6.90%||6.68%|
|New York City||1.65%||1.69%||1.81%|
|Western New York||9.67%||10.15%||10.30%|
WNY has been trending in the wrong direction for weeks now. Erie County Executive, Mark Poloncarz announced last week that the new mandate has been put in place to try to lower WNY's COVID-19 positivity rate,
Erie County will implement a 4 phase approach. Effective as of 11/23/21, we will enter into Phase One. There will be a mask mandate for all patrons and public facing staff, inside all public locations in Erie County. If Phase 1 can reduce the number of positive cases and decrease our hospital admission numbers, then we can prevent entering into a Phase 2. The plan is to assess the need for additional measures using COVID-19 case data, case rate and hospitalizations, unless conditions require an earlier implementation.
Gov. Hochul Issues Warning To New Yorkers About New COVID-19 Variant
With the news that a new COVID-19 variant has been discovered, Governor Hochul issued a warning to New York residents. The new Omicron variant was found in South Africa initially but has since shown up in Israel, Botswana, and Hong Kong.
The World Health Organization says this new variant is concerning,
This variant has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning. Preliminary evidence suggests an increased risk of reinfection with this variant, as compared to other VOCs. The number of cases of this variant appears to be increasing in almost all provinces in South Africa. Current SARS-CoV-2 PCR diagnostics continue to detect this variant.
As many regions across New York State are already struggling to keep the Delta variant under control, Governor Hochul issued a statement on the new variant, warning residents to be vigilant in protecting themselves,
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Voles, also known as meadow/field mice, are not mice, in fact. Though both of them belong to the same rodent family, they are classified into different groups.
Voles are short-tailed, blunt-faced rodents, while mice are long-tailed, pointed-nose ones.
- Typically, the former pest is dark brown or gray,
- and its size is about 3-6 inches long from nose to tail.
- It has small ears and small eyes.
But don’t get misled by its size and cute appearance – voles can be very destructive to your garden, home, garage and other areas.
Although field mice damage may look similar at first sight to the damage caused by other species of wildlife, it is completely different (if you know what to look for, of course). The most obvious sign of vole presence is well-defined, shallow surface tunnels, or “runways”, across the lawn or garden area.
Their runways look like trails of dead grass about 1-2 inches wide, or ditches of bare soil circa 1/2 inch deep. They are a result of meadow mice eating the blades and stems of grass, as well as numerous traveling back and forth over the same path.
Moles, on the other hand, leave wide volcano-shaped mounds of excavated soil behind. There are no mounds around vole’s burrows, and the diameter of the openings is like that of a broom handle. Furthermore, their burrows can be identified by small greenish droppings that turn gray or brown with time, and look similar to mouse droppings.
The rodent under study feeds not only on grass, but on all greens, seeds, tubers and roots it can reach. Therefore, your flowers and vegetables are in danger.
Moreover, your trees and shrubs are also on the line – it will eat the roots and gnaw bark around the base, ruining their protective shield and causing their dieback.
Unlike meadow mice, moles are insectivores, meaning that they aren’t interested in plants. Their diet usually consists of earthworms, grubs and insects. That’s why if you see chewed on greens, you can strike moles off your potential invaders list.
Still and all, there are other rodents that can leave gnaw marks and girding damage on trees in your yard, particularly rabbits.
To distinguish between vole and rabbit havoc, take a good look at the injured tree trunk:
- The former pest has very small teeth, thus it leaves small, irregular bite marks which have various angles.
- In contrast, the girdling of the latter pest is characterized by neat, clean cuts with a 45° angle.
Vole Control Measures
When you ensured that the pest disturbing your peace of mind is, indeed, the field mouse, it’s time to take action! And the sooner, the better.
The matter is that voles are very prolific breeders, and they can produce 4-6 litters per year. Litter sizes vary from 3 to 6. So, if you postpone facing the problem for later, they will quickly colonize the area and do much harm to your plot of land.
Broadly speaking, control falls into three categories:
- habitat modification,
- population reduction/removal.
To ensure a long-term result, you should implement all three measures simultaneously. These measures will be described in detail further down.
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How to Get Rid of Voles in the Yard, Garden and Lawn
Because meadow mice have a flair for staying out of sight and hate having open tunnels, it is often hard to find their burrows or even to figure out what pest is responsible for those devastating destructions. In addition, they can be active day and night. This, coupled with voles’ ability to multiply quickly, makes them a total pain in the neck.
Since these furtive foes don’t stay long in areas without proper habitat, you should start their extermination from making your yard/garden/lawn unfriendly to them.
Take the following steps of habitat modification and exclusion:
- Field mice prefer underbrush and grassy areas where their runways are not easily spotted, therefore keep the grass trimmed short, eliminate weeds and tall ground covers, and don’t leave un-turned leaf or grass piles.
You should also clear away any wood piles and debris that make good shelter for the rodent.
- Don’t apply mulch too close to trees and shrubs. It should be removed three feet or more from their bases.
- Your furry invaders will eat tree needles, nuts and most fruits, especially apples. So if you have any fruit or evergreen trees, make sure to keep fallen fruit picked up and needles raked up. Additionally, prune all branches hanging to the ground.
Removal of these food sources can make the habitat less appealing and discourage voles from sticking around.
- Cultivate soil in your garden or yard. It’ll destroy runway systems of these destructive varmints and may kill the pests outright.
- To make tunneling uncomfortable for voles, dig sharp materials such as Permatill or Soil Perfector into the soil.
Even a mix of about 10% course gravel to 90% soil may do the trick.
- Try barrier methods. To protect your trees from being girdled, you may wrap their trunks with 1/4″ wire screen mesh or even smaller hardware cloth (available at hardware stores). Dig the barrier to a depth of about 1-foot. It should also reach at least 18 inches high for warm regions, and those who live in cold regions should try to make sure that it is taller than the average maximum snow depth.
Also, you can put up a fence around your yard, garden or lawn. Use the same materials on the same principle as with tree screening. Remember to clear weeds and brush away from your fence.
It is to be noted that wire fencing is a rather time consuming and labor intensive task, and for owners of big land plots this can be impractical.
If you think that your plot of land is in safety at least in winter, you are completely wrong!
Meadow mice will keep making tunnel networks and will use snow as their cover. Since other foods are scarce, it is primarily during this season that girdling of woody plants occurs.
So make sure to keep snow cleared away for three feet around them.
Now let’s pass over to more tough measures of complete or partial vole removal.
Getting Rid of Voles: Poisons & Traps
Field mice eradication requires perseverance, and it can be rather tricky. To make things even more complicated, their extermination or relocation is prohibited in some states. So make sure your state is not among those.
It is better to trap this rodent species in early spring or late fall when peak reproduction occurs. Trapping voles during these seasons is a surefire way to prevent them from becoming a bigger problem.
There’s a wide variety of lethal traps for these furtive varmints. For instance, mouse snap traps are also effective at catching voles. This is the simplest and the cheapest option. You can employ one-time traps or reusable ones if you don’t mind removing dead animals from them.
Place the traps perpendicular to meadow mice runways with the triggered end extending into the path. They can be also set in tunnels or near entrances to them. Disguising the traps with an inverted box helps to make them more successful and minimize their risk for children and other animals. For maximum effect, try apple bits, oatmeal or peanut butter as bait.
You should check your traps daily, remove any captured pests and reset them. If no activity is seen for a few days, try another tunnel or runway. Never leave dead pests lying for too long – their live “brethren” will feed on them or, worse still, dead bodies may attract more dangerous and unwanted species of wildlife.
Vole traps for live capture
If killing field mice is prohibited in your state, you can remove them humanely by using live traps, such as Havahart or Sherman Traps (Model SNG). The problem with such cage traps is that you’ll have to relocate the animals after you’ve trapped them – somewhere where they won’t cause damage to someone else’s property, preferably at a minimum of half mile away from your place.
Trapping is a reasonable solution only for small populations. But it is not cost effective and impractical for managing large numbers of voles – the labor and time costs would probably be prohibitive. At least 12 traps are required for a small garden, and you may need over 50 for a large one.
Poisons for vole control
Among lots of commercial pest control products poisons hold their own. Poisoning is often the first method that occurs to people, but it isn’t, by and large, the best choice. Though poison can be an effective vole killer, it is potentially hazardous to children, pets and other wildlife. Moreover, if left in place, it can be washed off into your water supplies.
If you still want to take this course of action, you should do it in late winter or early fall, when food is scarce and the pests are less finicky about what they eat. The best and safest poison baits are Warfarin-based, e.g. Rodex, D-Con, or Kaput Mouse Blocks. These baits can be purchased at most hardware stores.
Warfarin is a slow-acting anticoagulant that prevents blood from clotting, thus leading to death. Meadow mice must feed on the bait for about 5 days to show its full effect. Try out to broadcast the poison for a week or two every other day.
Always read the product label and obey the safety precautions. To reduce the hazard of non-target animals taking the bait, place it directly into burrow openings or use special bait containers. Alternately, you can put the bait in open-ended boxes.
Though field mice pose no severe health risks due to infrequent contact with humans, they can harbor disease organisms like plague and tularemia.
Always wear gloves when you handle live/dead voles or set a trap.
How to Eliminate Voles in the House
It is a rare event that meadow mice invade a house, but still, it happens sometimes. In this case you have four options: ultrasonic pest repellers, snap traps/live traps, poisons and cats.
The scheme of indoor trapping and poisoning is the same as those outdoor actions. Vole droppings in your house will help you identify their runways. But take even more precautions to keep your children and pets from being hurt.
Ultrasonic pest repellers are devices that emit high-frequency sounds that deter different household pests. All you have to do is to plug one of these devices into a wall socket. They are available at local lumber stores. Note that these repellers can be hit and miss. Research specific brands before buying anything.
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Re*store" (r?*st?r"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Restored (r?-st?rd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Restoring.] [OE. restoren, OF. restorer, F. restaurer, fr. L. restaurare; pref. re- re- + an unused word; cf. Gr. an upright pale or stake, Skr. sthvara fixed, firm. Cf. Restaurant, Store.]
To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
and to build Jerusalem."
Dan. ix. 25.
Our fortune restored after the severest afflictions.
And his hand was restored whole as the other.
Mark iii. 5.
To give or bring back, as that which has been lost., or taken away; to bring back to the owner; to replace.
Now therefore restore the man his wife.
Gen. xx. 7.
Loss of Eden, till one greater man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat.
The father banished virtue shall restore.
To renew; to reestablish; as, to restore harmony among those who are variance.
To give in place of, or as satisfaction for.
He shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.
Ex. xxii. 1.
To make good; to make amends for.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored, and sorrows end.
6. Fine Arts (a)
To bring back from a state of injury or decay, or from a changed condition; as, to restore a painting, statue, etc.
To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.
Syn. -- To return; replace; refund; repay; reinstate; rebuild; reestablish; renew; repair; revive; recover; heal; cure.
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Clolar is a chemotherapy drug that is given as a slow injection into a vein. The recommended Clolar dosage will depend on how much you weigh, your height, how you respond to the medicine, and other factors. Your healthcare provider will administer the infusion once a day for five days in a row every two to six weeks.
The dose of Clolar® (clofarabine) your healthcare provider recommends will vary, depending on your height and weight and how you respond to the medication. As is always the case, do not adjust your dosage unless your healthcare provider specifically tells you to do so.
Like many chemotherapy medicines, Clolar dosing is based on body surface area (BSA), which is normally calculated using a person's height and weight. Doses based on body surface area are written as mg per meter squared (mg per m2).
The usual recommended dose of Clolar for the treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children age 1 to 21 years old is 52 mg per m2 daily for five days. This is one treatment cycle.
Your healthcare provider may recommend additional treatment cycles every two to six weeks, based on how you respond to and tolerate the medication. If you will be receiving more treatment cycles, they will begin once you have adequately recovered from any side effects caused by the previous treatment cycle, but no sooner than two weeks after your last dose. If you experience potentially serious Clolar side effects, your healthcare provider may reduce the dosage of your next treatment cycle.
Some considerations to keep in mind during treatment with Clolar include the following:
- This medication comes in the form of a liquid that is given as a slow injection into a vein (an intravenous, or IV, infusion). It is usually given once a day for five days in a row every two to six weeks.
- It will take about two hours to receive each Clolar dose.
- The injections are normally given by a healthcare provider in a healthcare setting, such as a hospital or clinic, where you can be closely monitored.
- You will receive IV fluids and other medications throughout each five-day treatment cycle to help reduce the risk for certain Clolar side effects.
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Six terrestrial ecosystems in the USA were exposed to elevated atmospheric CO2 in single or multifactorial experiments for more than a decade to assess potential impacts. We retrospectively assessed soil bacterial community responses in all six-field experiments and found ecosystem-specific and common patterns of soil bacterial community response to elevated CO2. Soil bacterial composition differed greatly across the six ecosystems. No common effect of elevated atmospheric CO2 on bacterial biomass, richness and community composition across all of the ecosystems was identified, although significant responses were detected in individual ecosystems. The most striking common trend across the sites was a decrease of up to 3.5-fold in the relative abundance of Acidobacteria Group 1 bacteria in soils exposed to elevated CO2 or other climate factors. The Acidobacteria Group 1 response observed in exploratory 16S rRNA gene clone library surveys was validated in one ecosystem by 100-fold deeper sequencing and semi-quantitative PCR assays. Collectively, the 16S rRNA gene sequencing approach revealed influences of elevated CO2 on multiple ecosystems. Although few common trends across the ecosystems were detected in the small surveys, the trends may be harbingers of more substantive changes in less abundant, more sensitive taxa that can only be detected by deeper surveys. Published 2012. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA.
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Knit Design Tips—How I design a top-down raglan pullover July 22, 2015 09:11
This one special thing is the depth of the back neck. This is determined by how many stitches are cast on for the sleeves at the neck edge. Half of the sleeve cast-on measurement determines the back neck depth (and the front neck depth if it is worked the same as the back). This measurement, when added to the length of the raglan shaping determines the total length from the shoulder to the underarm, and is important to include for the desired armhole length to be accurate.
For example, if you have 4" worth of stitches cast-on at the top of the sleeve, that would result in a 2" back neck depth. And, if the raglan shaping is worked over 5.5", the total armhole depth is 7.5". This is an important thing to keep in mind when writing the raglan shaping, because a 5.5" armhole is a lot smaller than a 7.5" armhole.
That said, I'm inspired to share how I write a top-down raglan pullover pattern from A to Z. At the end of all this there is a link to download the free pattern, and the excel spreadsheet I used to create this tutorial. If you happen to knit this sweater, I'd love if you'd post some photos on Ravelry!
First, I'll begin with rudimentary measurements. I say rudimentary because if stitch patterns are involved, often the measurements will change slightly in order to account for matching the stitch counts of the stitch patterns. For this sample pattern, it's all knit in Stockinette Stitch—making things easy-peasy.
The most important measurements to know when beginning a raglan pattern are the finished bust circumference and the circumference of the upper arm.
And the gauge. We MUST know the gauge… of course.
Since I'm making this up, I'll use a gauge that I see commonly used for worsted weight yarns:
5 stitches and 7 rounds per inch.
Next we'll figure out how many stitches we'll need at the bust, and at the upper sleeve.
And… this is where I get Excel involved.
The first thing I'll do is set up my excel spreadsheet with all the descriptions of what I think I might need to know to determine the raglan shaping.
Basically, I'll need to know the number of stitches to cast on and how many of those stitches are used for each back, front and sleeves and what each of the measurements are. For the raglan shaping, I'll often have 2 or more sets of shaping—increasing at each raglan every row on the body and sleeves, and every other row on the body and sleeves. We may need to add shaping that happens just on the body or just on the sleeves—but I won't know if we'll need that until later, so I'll leave it out for now.
Then I fill in the most important information (bust and underarm measurements).
And, determine how many stitches are needed to get to those measurements.
The body stitch counts all turned out to be a whole number. But, you can see that some sizes of the sleeves have decimals. I'll round those numbers to the nearest whole number and adjust the measurement accordingly. As you can see, it didn't change much. When working with a stitch pattern, be sure that these numbers match whatever the necessary multiple of stitches for that pattern.
I like to have a few cast-on stitches worked at the underarm. I find that it is more flattering, and forms the natural curve of the body more than a sweater without it. I'll usually cast-on about 1/2" – 3" of stitches at each underarm. If I plan on having waist shaping on the body I'll cast-on an even number of stitches so it's easy to place a marker at the center on each side. This information gets filled in next.
When I subtract the number of cast-on stitches from the body and the sleeves, I learn how many stitches I'll end up with at the base of the raglan shaping. That number is shown highlighted in purple, below.
I'll walk you through the chart below. Read it from the bottom up, for the first size, in the left-hand column.
For the sleeve. There are 65 stitches total, minus 4 cast-on stitches results in 61 stitches for each sleeve before the cast-on stitches.
There are 160 stitches on the body and 4 stitches cast-on at each underarm, so, the number of stitches on each back and front before the cast-on would be determined by subtracting each set of 4 cast-on stitches from 160, which gives us 152. Then divide that in half to get the front and the back = 76 stitches each front and back.
When we add 76 (front) + 61 (one sleeve) + 76 (back) + 61 (second sleeve), we get 274.
Next, I'll figure out how much shaping needs to happen between the neck and the bust in order for the neck width and depth to fit comfortably.
This is one of the reasons I love Excel. What I do here is set up the formula, then try out different numbers for each size until I get to the measurement that I want.
In the chart below, I fill in a formula at the neck edge, where each front, back and sleeves are determined for the cast-on. For each the body and sleeve I'll take the number of stitches at the end of the shaping and subtract 2 stitches for each repeat of the increase row. This tells me how many stitches I'll need before increasing that number of stitches.
I'll also add the formula (highlighted in yellow, at the top) to tell me what these stitch counts will measure. This is what I use as an indicator to determine the perfect number of stitches.
Once the formula is filled in and I drag it across for all the sizes, I begin entering numbers in the lower light-blue highlighted line, and the number of cast-on stitches for the front/back and sleeves will change accordingly.
My goal is usually to make the neck no wider than 9.5".
For the neck width to have a comfortable fit, it looks like we'll need to work 19 (23, 26, 30, 34, 37, 40) increase rounds on the front and the back, increasing 2 stitches each front and back on each of those rounds.
But… look at the stitch count for the cast-on edge of the sleeve. I don't like the look of that. It seems that 19 (23, 26, 30, 34, 37, 40) increases won't work out so well for the sleeves. I usually like this measurement to stay relatively the same across all the sizes, or increase in size from the smallest to largest size. This does the opposite.
To fix this, we'll need to work more sleeve increases for the smaller sizes, and fewer sleeve increases for the larger size. So, I've added 2 more shaping sections to my spreadsheet—one section for the smaller sizes that will work some rounds with shaping only on the sleeves, and another section for the larger sizes that will work some rounds with shaping only on the body. I add these extra rounds at the neck edge, incorporating them between rounds that have shaping on both the body and the sleeves.
So, the basic structure of the raglan shaping begins at the neck with increases on the body and sleeves on every round, then it changes to alternating between 1 round of body and sleeve increases and 1 round of shaping on either body OR sleeves (depending on the size), then it changes to working increases on the body and sleeves every other round, with a round worked even in between.
The reason I place the increases every round at the neck edge, is because of the shape of the body. When there are more increases at a faster rate at the neck edge, the shaping of the sweater expands quickly from the neck to the shoulders, then gradually from the shoulders to the underarm. If it is worked the other way around, the shaping doesn't flatter the body as well. See the diagram below for a visual.
Then I adjust the formula for the cast-on stitches to include the shaping that may happen during these sections.
Because we know how many times to increase on the body, and we don't want to mess that up while playing with the number of individual body and sleeve increases, I turn the number of increases on the body into a formula to include the body increases worked during the individual body/sleeve shaping.
Rather than doing this for one size and dragging it across, this needs to be done for each size individually as follows: For the first size, there are a total of 19 increases needed for the body. So, this formula is created by subtracting the number of body increases from each of the individual sections from 19. Then for the following sizes, from 23, 26, 30, and so on…
Now I can play with adding numbers into the light blue rows to see how the number of stitches at the top of the sleeve adjusts, and tweak them until I have a measurement that I like.
You can see that with the 7 (5, 3, 1, 0, 0, 0) extra sleeve increase rounds and 0 (0, 0, 0, 2, 3, 6) rounds with only body increases that the number of stitches for the body cast-on remains the same, and the sleeve cast-on stitches are now pretty similar to each other. You'll also see that the number of body/sleeve increase rounds that are worked every other round have been adjusted accordingly because of the formula we entered to maintain the correct number of body increases.
And, now we know how many stitches we'll need to cast on to begin knitting the yoke. I've also double checked the measurement of the total number of cast-on stitches to be sure it's large enough to fit over the head—which it is. Yay!
The next thing we need to do is determine how many times to work the body and sleeve increases every row at the neck edge. This will determine the total number of rounds used for the raglan shaping and thus give us the raglan and armhole depth.
Let's fill in some formulas to make this easy to play with.
Beginning at the top of my file, I begin by filling in the places where we will count rounds. Line 17 shows the round where we place the markers for the raglan, then line 20 will be filled in with how many rows are worked with increases on the body and sleeve every round.
So, on line 21 we add them together to get the total number of rounds worked to here.
On line 22, we divide the total number of rounds used by the row gauge to get that measurement.
For each of the increase sections, we'll do the same thing. Line 31 shows 1 round worked with increases on the body and sleeves, then line 32 shows 1 round worked with increases on the sleeves only. The light blue (line 33) shows how many times we will repeat those 2 rounds. So, on line 34 we add lines 31 and 32 together and multiply them by line 33 for the total number of rounds worked in this section.
Ideally, I like the armhole depths to range from 7–10", so it looks like we'll need to reduce them a bit. We do this by working more body/sleeve increases every round at the neck edge, and fewer every other round at the underarm edge.
We don't want to mess up the number of total body/sleeve increases, so we'll need to update the formula on line 60 (the every other round body/sleeve increases) to exclude the number of times we work the body/sleeve increases on every round.
Similar to when we adjusted this line previously, we'll want to adjust each size individually so the total number of increases (19 [23, 26, 30, 34, 37, 40] stitches) remains in tact.
Now we can begin trying numbers in line 20 (body/sleeve increases every row), while watching the measurement of the armhole depth, adjusting the line 20 numbers to give us an ideal armhole depth measurement.
We're ALMOST there. The very last thing we need to do is fill in the stitch counts for each of the shaping sections, and make sure that they work out correctly from the neck cast-on to the underarms. Cross your fingers!
Beginning at the neck cast-on edge, I fill in a formula on line 24, which adds 8 stitches for each of the body/sleeve increase rounds worked on every round.
To double check that, I add 2 stitches to each Front/Back cast-on stitches and 2 stitches to each Sleeve cast-on stitch count.
For line 28, add the Front/Back stitches to the Sleeve stitches twice (because there are 2 of each).
Line 24 and line 28 should match. That's why they're both pink.
This step gets repeated for each shaping section, being sure to add the accurate number of stitches per repeat. For example, for the second section, there is 1 round with body and sleeve shaping (that's 8 stitches increased), and 1 round with only sleeve shaping (that's 4 more stitches), so the total stitches will add 12 stitches per increase round. And, for the body, there are 2 stitches each repeat for the front/back, and on the sleeves there are 4 stitches each repeat. When you add together the Front/Back and Sleeve stitches, they should match the total number of stitches figured from the total stitches of the last section. If they don't—there may be something up with your formula in regards to the number of stitches increased for each sleeve and body per repeat.
From this point on, for a really easy pattern, you could knit the body and sleeves completely straight for whatever length you want, trying the sweater on as you go… and you're done.
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Another name for Limping is Difficulty Walking.
What is difficulty walking?
A person with difficulty walking may have mild limping, or may be unable to stand. Difficulty walking may be caused by an abnormality in the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, inner ear, or bones, joints, and muscles. Other causes for difficulty walking include drug or alcohol intoxication and head injury.
What are the symptoms of difficulty walking?
Additional symptoms that occur with difficulty walking due to stroke include arm or leg weakness or numbness, facial weakness, difficulty speaking, confusion, and changes in vision.
How does the doctor treat difficulty walking?
The treatment for difficulty walking depends on the underlying cause. Treatment for difficulty walking may include physical therapy and the use of a walker, crutches, or cane.
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Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist Overview
Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist
RCTC’s Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist (CVIS) program trains students to work in collaboration with and under the supervision of physicians to assist with the preparation and to perform diagnostic and therapeutic invasive cardiovascular procedures. The CVIS technologist must have the technical skills and competence to assist with these invasive procedures. Invasive cardiovascular procedures are performed in a clinical cardiovascular laboratory environment.
Coursework includes cardiovascular anatomy and physiology, cardiovascular pathophysiology, electrocardiography, cardiovascular pharmacology, diagnostic angiography, interventional angiography, electrophysiology, cardiac pacing, cardiovascular hemodynamics, valvular assessment, pediatric/congenital heart disease assessment, cardiac/coronary physiology assessment, x-ray and radiation safety, and instrumentation and electronics associated with the cardiac laboratory environment.
RCTC’s Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist is an Associate in Applied Science degree. Graduates of the CVIS program are also awarded a Certificate of Completion by Mayo School of Health Sciences.
Program Start Date(s)
This program is jointly offered by RCTC and Mayo Clinic. Applications can be obtained from Mayo School of Health Sciences. Students are admitted through the Mayo School of Health Sciences.
The CVIS program is 63 credits and can be completed in as little as 21 months. During the first two semesters at RCTC, students will take general education and CVIS coursework. All additional coursework will be completed at Mayo Medical Center – St. Mary’s Hospital campus.
Starting wages for the CVIS graduate are approximately $23-$33 per hour or an average of $46,500 + annually. Wages can vary depending on the employer and geographic area.
Typically a graduate of the CVIS program will work in a clinical environment located in a hospital or clinic setting. Many of these are found in larger medical centers, but there are stand-alone facilities as well. These could be corporate non-profit or private clinical environments.
The training received in the CVIS program will allow a person to cross train in a diagnostic clinical area like a stress-test facility or a doctor’s office. The course work in electrocardiography would also provide for the basic learning needed to cross-train as an EKG tech or monitor tech.
Much of the clinical curriculum is designed to be applicable for the students learning in the event that they would choose to further their education as a nurse, a radiology technician or in a variety of healthcare professions.
The Cardiovascular Invasive Specialist Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP) upon the recommendation of the Joint Review Committee on Education in Cardiovascular Technology (JRC–CVT).
Rochester Community and Technical College and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine are both accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.
For additional information on the most current list of RCTC program articulations see us at: http://www.rctc.edu/catalog/articulations/
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My current research uses the honey bee as a model for the study of experience-induced structural plasticity in the adult brain. When they complete metamorphosis, honey bees spend a week or two performing tasks inside the hive before switching to foraging outside the hive for nectar and pollen. A region of the honey bee brain called the mushroom bodies is significantly larger in highly experienced foragers than in naive foragers. My graduate students and undergraduate research assistants use a variety of behavioral, neuroanatomical, and molecular techniques to investigate the mechanisms of brain growth in adults. One take home message from this research is that development of the nervous system is a lifelong phenomenon. Another is that practicing something – really, really practicing something, the way a honey bee spends her days visiting flowers – reliably changes the structure of your brain.
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Romanian; leader of the Legion of the Archangel Michael 1927–38 Codreanu was born in Moldavia into a peasant family, the son of a German father and a mother of Ukrainian or Polish extraction. He was a member of the anti-Semitic National Christian Defence League. In 1924 he murdered the police chief of Iaşi, which made him a hero, and went unpunished. In 1927 he formed the Legion of the Archangel Michael, an Orthodox, nationalist, anti-Communist, and anti-Semitic organization, through which he intended to bring about the moral regeneration of Romania. It had Fascist style trappings, though Codreanu rejected the ideas of the corporate state, and acquired considerable support among the peasantry and among Romania's numerous unemployed intelligentsia. In 1930 the Legion acquired a youth movement, the Iron Guard (Garda de Fier) by which the organization as a whole was generally known. In the 1930s the Iron Guard committed numerous terrorist acts against leftists and Jews. Romanian government officially dissolved the Legion in 1933, but it continued to operate. In 1937 it gained 17 per cent of the vote. In 1938 King Carol II disbanded the Iron Guard and imprisoned Codreanu and its other leaders, to surprisingly little protest. | <urn:uuid:b2e82e6f-fb8e-419a-b09d-c0c040833276> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095621430 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988725470.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183845-00076-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962847 | 285 | 2.984375 | 3 |
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7 Habits to Avoid a Cryptogenic Stroke - Oren Zarif - Cryptogenic Stroke
If you think you might be experiencing a cryptogenic stroke, call 911 right away. Your doctor will be able to determine what is causing the attack, and then decide the best course of treatment. It is crucial to follow your physician's recommendations, including regular heart monitoring. To minimize your risk, try these seven habits. They include: Read on for more information! Listed below are some tips to help you avoid cryptogenic stroke. Once you've been diagnosed, follow his or her advice and begin your recovery!
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One risk factor associated with cryptogenic stroke is patent foramen ovale (PFO). PFO is a common anatomic abnormality in the general population. It seems to be a risk factor for stroke, particularly among young adults. One meta-analysis found that patients with PFO had a higher risk of stroke. However, this relationship did not hold true for patients older than 55 years. Thus, further research is needed to determine whether PFO causes cryptogenic stroke.
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To avoid the pitfalls of apprehensive patients, neurologists should focus on patient comfort and safety. In addition to standard stroke diagnostic procedures, neurologists should balance thoroughness and cost. Initial stroke evaluations should include brain imaging, noninvasive extracranial vessel imaging, and 24-hour cardiac monitoring. For those with suspected cryptogenic stroke, additional tests may be needed, including a blood test to diagnose hypercoagulability. The aim of this article is to inform clinicians about the use of these tests and how they can improve patient care.
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The ARCADIA trial is a major study currently being conducted in patients with cryptogenic stroke. The primary goal of this study is to validate the hypothesis that DOACs are more effective than aspirin in preventing stroke. The primary endpoints are PTFV1>5,000 mV* ms, NT-proBNP, and left atrial diameter index. The authors also report that this study is not yet conclusive.
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Although cryptogenic stroke has no specific cause, it occurs regularly and is reversible. It typically affects young patients with fewer traditional vascular risk factors. While no one is completely sure what the underlying cause is, many studies have suggested that cryptogenic stroke is more common in younger patients than other types of strokes. Although not as common as traditional strokes, cryptogenic strokes are associated with an increased risk of recurrence. Therefore, it is important to determine the cause of cryptogenic stroke so that it can be treated appropriately.
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Patients with cryptogenic stroke should undergo periodic cardiac monitoring to detect AF. Routine cardiac monitoring may not detect AF; however, long-term continuous electrocardiographic monitoring using ICMs is more effective than intermittent monitoring strategies. Holter monitoring studies range from 24 to 72 hours. The AF detection rate increased with longer cardiac monitoring. But the optimal method and duration are not yet determined. In the meantime, a good practice is to get a patient on a loop recording device as soon as possible.
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Patients with a PFO may be at a higher risk of developing ischemic stroke following a cryptogenic TIA/stroke. Therefore, closing PFO may be beneficial in the secondary prevention of cryptogenic TIA/stroke. However, if the relative reduction of ischemic stroke is smaller than in earlier trials, larger sample sizes may be needed. The relative risk reduction after cryptogenic stroke after PFO closure may be greater in the elderly.
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Another way to prevent cryptogenic stroke is by closing the patent foramen ovale. Studies have found that PFO closure reduces the risk of recurrent stroke in both younger and older patients. However, this procedure may only be effective if the patient does not have another previous stroke. However, the data on the prognosis of patients with a PFO are needed before trials can be conducted. But while this surgery is not effective in secondary prevention of cryptogenic stroke, it is helpful in many cases.
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Despite being a rare cause of ischemic stroke, identifying patients with a CS genetic abnormality early may have important implications for patient management and counseling. However, although the true incidence of this condition remains unknown, the probability is increased in patients who are younger and without conventional risk factors. In addition, the frequency of genetic abnormality is higher in patients with younger ages and those who have a positive family history. Genetic testing may therefore increase the yield of clinical trials of CS patients. | <urn:uuid:d9f50e74-c020-462f-9b3f-d8c5c8993627> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.multipowers.co.il/post/7-habits-to-avoid-a-cryptogenic-stroke-oren-zarif-cryptogenic-stroke | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.939277 | 1,045 | 1.859375 | 2 |
What Is a 5 Paragraph Essay and How to Write It?
An essay, being a detailed piece of writing, is a powerful tool to give your thoughts a furnished platform. However, unfortunately, students have a frail grip of producing content, especially on a professional level.
Indeed, several writing tips and techniques can help students to overcome their lack of essay writing competency.
For instance, Laurence Musgrove, a professor of English and modern languages at Angelo State University, in her article, states that students should become more thoughtful and should cultivate lifetime reading habits, to not only build keen and proficient writing style during their college/university life but also to be pliant to learn new information and ideas.
For your better understanding, here are a few tips to effectively frame your essay, without seeking professional essay help UK;
Tips to Craft an Impeccable Essay
Mainly, a long essay consists of 5 main bodies which include an introduction, major details, supporting ideas and a conclusion. When you are asked to write an essay, the first and foremost thing is to know what type of essay you need to produce. The most common types include narrative essays, comparative or contrasting essays, critical essays that further include persuasive and descriptive essays, and situational essays.
Like any other attractive piece of writing, a good essay also starts with a fascinating introductory statement. For instance, starting an essay by directly talking about the topic is less striking than starting your essay with a question. This is then followed by elaborating your main idea and the topic.
Essentially, when you sketch an interrogative plot, your answer is in the description of your main idea, i.e. the main body paragraphs of your essay, which is the 2nd and 3rd paragraph. The first paragraph of the main body (2nd paragraph of the essay) must include the strongest argument and should shed some light on the most critical example in your introduction. It should support the idea with a practical example or a smart illustration.
The 3rd paragraph should then build a connection to the upcoming most significant examples and facts. The second and third paragraph can be made detailed and catchy by including quotes, examples and by properly concluded facts and statistics.
The fifth and the final paragraph of an essay is as demanding as a good write-up itself, merely because of the restatement required of the already stated facts, figures and ideas. The final paragraph should include a summarised statement of the discussed points. Make sure you do not deliver an important fact or idea in the final statement of your essay. Instead, you may summarise the overall idea of your essay by citing a famous quote of an author to make it more compelling.
However, the job doesn’t end here. Once you are done writing your essay, now it’s time to proofread your work to eliminate all the possible grammatical errors, misspellings or structural mistakes. A good and recommended practice is to proofread your work at different timings of the day and at least twice before submission. | <urn:uuid:d5068ef8-c3ac-4ce3-8ebb-4cdc35708676> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lawessayteacher.co.uk/blog/what-is-a-5-paragraph-essay-and-how-to-write-it/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.948997 | 623 | 2.703125 | 3 |
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Michael Reiss, a professor of science education at University College London and an Anglican Priest, suggests that “we need to rethink the way we teach evolution” largely because conventional approaches can be unduly confrontational and “force religious children to choose between their faith and evolution” or to result in students who”refuse to engage with a lesson.” He suggests that a better strategy would be akin to those use to teach a range of “sensitive” subjects “such as sex, pornography, ethnicity, religion, death studies, terrorism, and others” and could “help some students to consider evolution as a possibility who would otherwise not do so.” [link to his original essay and a previous post on teaching evolution: Go ahead and teach the controversy].
There is no doubt that an effective teacher attempts to present materials sensitively; it is the rare person who will listen to someone who “teaches” ideas in a hostile, alienating, or condescending manner. That said, it can be difficult to avoid the disturbing implications of scientific ideas, implications that can be a barrier to their acceptance. The scientific conclusion that males and females are different but basically the same can upset people on various sides of the theo-political spectrum.
In point of fact an effective teacher, a teacher who encourages students to question their long held, or perhaps better put, familial or community beliefs, can cause serious social push-back – Trouble with a capital T. It is difficult to imagine a more effective teacher than Socrates (~470-399 BCE). Socrates “was found guilty of ‘impiety’ and ‘corrupting the young’, sentenced to death” in part because he was an effective teacher (see Socrates was guilty as charged). In a religious and political context, challenging accepted Truths (again with a capital T) can be a crime. In Socrates’ case”Athenians probably genuinely felt that undesirables in their midst had offended Zeus and his fellow deities,” and that, “Socrates, an unconventional thinker who questioned the legitimacy and authority of many of the accepted gods, fitted that bill.”
So we need to ask of scientists and science instructors, does the presentation of a scientific, that is, a naturalistic and non-supernatural, perspective in and of itself represent an insensitivity to those with a super-natural belief system. Here it is worth noting a point made by the philosopher John Gray, that such systems extend beyond those based on a belief in god(s); they include those who believe, with apocalyptic certainty, in any of a number of Truths, ranging from the triumph of a master race, the forced sterilization of the unfit, the dictatorship of the proletariat, to history’s end in a glorious capitalist and technological utopia. Is a science or science instruction that is “sensitive” to, that is, uncritical of or upsetting to those who hold such beliefs, possible?
My original impression is that one’s answer to this question is likely to be determined by whether one considers science a path to Truth, with a purposeful capital T, or rather that the goal of scientists is to build a working understanding of the world around and within us. Working scientists, and particularly biologists who must daily confront the implications of apparently un-intelligent designed organisms (due to ways evolution works) are well aware that absolute certainty is counterproductive. Nevertheless, the proven explanatory and technological power of the scientific enterprise cannot help but reinforce the strong impression that there is some deep link between scientific ideas and the way the world really works. And while some scientists have advocated unscientific speculations (think multiverses and cosmic consciousness), the truth, with a small t, of scientific thinking is all around us.
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A science-based appreciation of the unimaginable size and age of the universe, taken together with compelling evidence for the relatively recent appearance of humans (Homo sapiens from their metazoan, vertebrate, tetrapod, mammalian, and primate ancestors) cannot help but impact our thinking as to our significance in the grand scheme of things (assuming that there is such a, possibly ineffable, plan)(1). The demonstrably random processes of mutation and the generally ruthless logic by which organisms survive, reproduce, and evolve, can lead even the most optimistic to question whether existence has any real meaning.
Consider, as an example, the potential implications of the progress being made in terms of computer-based artificial intelligence, together with advances in our understanding of the molecular and cellular connection networks that underlie human consciousness and self-consciousness. It is a small step to conclude, implicitly or explicitly, that humans (and all other organisms with a nervous system) are “just” wet machines that can (and perhaps should) be controlled and manipulated. The premise, the “self-evident truth”, that humans should be valued in and of themselves, and that their rights should be respected (2) is eroded by the ability of machines to perform what were previously thought to be exclusively human behaviors.
Humans and their societies have, after all, been around for only a few tens of thousands of years. During this time, human social organizations have passed from small wandering bands influenced by evolutionary kin and group selection processes to produce various social systems, ranging from more or less functional democracies, pseudo-democracies (including our own growing plutocracy), dictatorships, some religion-based, and totalitarian police states. Whether humans have a long term future (compared to the millions of years that dinosaurs dominated life on Earth) remains to be seen – although we can be reasonably sure that the Earth, and many of its non-human inhabitants, will continue to exist and evolve for millions to billions of years, at least until the Sun explodes.
So how do we teach scientific conclusions and their empirical foundations, which combine to argue that science represents how the world really works, without upsetting the most religiously and politically fanatical among us? Those who most vehemently reject scientific thinking because they are the most threatened by its apparently unavoidable implications. The answer is open to debate, but to my mind it involves teaching students (and encouraging the public) to distinguish empirically-based, and so inherently limited observations and the logical, coherent, and testable scientific models they give rise to from unquestionable TRUTH- and revelation-based belief systems. Perhaps we need to focus explicitly on the value of science rather than its “Truth”. To reinforce what science is ultimately for; what justifies society’s support for it, namely to help reduce human suffering and (where it makes sense) to enhance the human experience, goals anchored in the perhaps logically unjustifiable, but nevertheless essential acceptance of the inherent value of each person.
- Apologies to “Good Omens”
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Revolution Sync Single-Frame Timelapse Motor - Bolex Drive Shafts
All Bolex cameras have an 8:1 drive shaft. That means that one turn of the shaft exposes 8 frames of film. The later ones have a 1:1 shaft in addition to the 8:1 shaft.
On earlier Bolexes (for example, Rex1 as well as early non-reflex models), the center pin on the 8:1 drive shaft is 3mm in diameter. Later Bolexes have a larger 4mm center pin.
You will be asked the center pin size of your camera when you order the motor.
A 3mm coupler will not fit on a Bolex with a 4mm drive shaft. A 4mm coupler will fit on the smaller 3mm drive shaft, but it will wiggle and bind and not work properly. | <urn:uuid:de94180b-17cf-4b8f-b153-1954de4ab249> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.intervalometers.com/rev/bolex/revbshaft.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.851128 | 206 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Nap v. i. [imp. & p. p. Napped p. pr. & vb. n. Napping ]
1. To have a short sleep; to be drowsy; to doze.
2. To be in a careless, secure state; to be unprepared; as, to be caught napping.
I took thee napping, unprepared. --Hudibras.
n 1: a period of time spent sleeping; "he felt better after a
little sleep"; "there wasn't time for a nap" [syn: sleep]
2: a soft or fuzzy surface texture
3: the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up
from the weave; "for uniform color and texture tailors cut
velvet with the pile running the same direction" [syn: pile]
4: a short sleep (usually not in bed) [syn: catnap, cat
sleep, forty winks, short sleep, snooze]
5: a card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes
v : take a siesta; "She naps everyday after lunch for an hour"
[syn: catnap, catch a wink]
[also: napping, napped]
adj : (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing; "a dress
of brushed cotton"; "a fleecy lining"; "napped fabrics"
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A Home Water Filter - Do We Need To Filter Our Drinking Water?
Do we really need a home water filter? Can't we just assume the water that flows from our kitchen and bathroom tap is sufficiently treated for contaminants by our municipal water facility? In order to answer these questions, we need to obtain a little more background information.
Next to air, water is the most important element for our survival.
Water is an integral part of our life and we use it for many household tasks throughout the day, such as: drinking and brushing our teeth, steaming fish and vegetables, washing salad greens, face and hand washing, showering and bathing, feeding the pets and watering our plants.
Most of us take it for granted that our tap water is safe to drink and use for common household tasks. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), however, estimates that 45,000,000 people drink tap water that is polluted with chemicals, lead, germs, parasites and other impurities.
A large majority of the major U.S. cities still employ the same basic water treatment technologies that have been used since before World War I. In cities such as Atlanta, Boston and Washington, D.C. consumers are relying on pipes that are, on average, over a century old. Many people don't realize that our municipal water treatment plants are not designed to remove synthetic chemicals and as a result we find traces of health threatening contaminants in most of our public water supplies.
Situations arise when our tap water is polluted with more than the usual amount of contaminants. Municipal treatment plants have breakdowns that take time to repair. Lead leaches into our drinking water from old pipes and private wells. Smaller water-supply sources can become contaminated from agricultural and other environmental pollutants.
It is difficult to be sure of the exact amount of toxins in our water supply. The EPA has estimated that, in our modern society, we use in excess of 75,000 toxic chemicals and more than 1000 new chemicals are developed each year. The Ralph Nader Research Group? after reviewing thousands of pages of EPA documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act? concluded that to date more than 2100 toxic chemicals have already been detected in U.S. water supplies.
Our planet earth reuses the same water over and over again, which means there is no "new water". Every single chemical used in our society, eventually winds up in our water supplies. As the use of synthetic organic chemicals increases, so does the toxicity of our water. The earth's natural filtration process is not effective at removing these toxic synthetic organic chemicals.
The human body is made up of over 70% water. The proper function of each organ system, as well as every healing process that happens inside our body, takes place with water. Optimal functioning is only possible when water, our body's transport medium is clean. Wastes form during the body's metabolism and if these wastes are allowed to accumulate through insufficient water intake, fatigue and even illness results.
If we drink water that contains chlorine or other organic and inorganic chemicals, we force our liver and kidneys to act as a filter for these contaminants. The liver purifies and detoxifies the blood of waste products and toxins. In addition to regulating the body's water balance and maintaining optimal pH, the kidney also removes metabolic waste products from the bloodstream.
By providing the liver and kidneys with water, a universal solvent and transport medium, they are assisted in their role as a natural body filter. Bombarding these organs with water that contains traces of additional toxins only hinders the body detoxification process and delays waste removal.
Water may not cure every ailment, but it is a primary ingredient that allows our body to dilute and eliminate toxins that have accumulated over time.
What Can We Do To Provide Healthy Water For Our Family?
The simplest, most effective and also the most economical way to treat municipal tap water is a home water filter. Multi-media water filters that combine activated carbon with iron exchange media such as KDF are an excellent choice.
Carbon and KDF work together to remove or reduce traces of contaminants such as chlorine, lead, Cryptosporidium and Giardia cysts, synthetic chemicals, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), MTBE, pesticides (lindane, atrazine), chemicals linked to cancer (benzene, TTHMs, toxaphene) and hundreds of other chemical contaminants that may be present causing bad taste and odors in your drinking water.
The result is healthy, great-tasting water that still contains natural trace minerals that are beneficial to optimal wellbeing and health.
© Copyright 2005 Andie Klein
Article courtesy of Home-Water-Filter-Guide.com, where you can get the answers you need about comparing home water filter systems and filtration methods, drinking water contamination, the health benefits of drinking water and more.
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The face of television has officially changed, providing the world once again with mesmeric theatrics, shocking plot twists, and some of the best actors in the business, all of which leave viewers dying for more.
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Considering the plots of some of these shows that dramatize deception in the White House, or blatant gender violence and homophobia in the workplace, one cannot help but wonder how these writers can get away with the work they produce on primetime television. Why are viewers so willing to accept the fictional quality of these shows without considering their real-world implications? Why is society not more unnerved by their content? Some might argue that television has become a public manifestation of inner fantasies of danger and intrigue, a representation of the materialist mindset that values outer glamour over inner integrity, or simply stands as proof of a desensitized, cold-hearted world.
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These characters become inspirational, breaking down cultural barriers that seem insurmountable, and I believe it is for this reason that we idolize them.
The genius of television today is the same one that has been the defense of popular culture through the ages; it is the one that justified the extravagant melodramas of the 90’s, the sustained obsession with reality TV and The Real Housewives in whatever form they come, and now the scripted perfection of primetime. Television creates an aesthetic façade that reveals through its fiction the not-so-subtle truths of the world today. As a genre never taken too seriously, television shows open up a space for writers and actors to say whatever they want without repercussions, and therefore to inspire viewers to push similar boundaries in their own lives. One can only hope that incredible popularity of each of these shows is indicative of a greater awareness of the large social inequalities that still characterize the world today.
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|Publication number||US4004079 A|
|Application number||US 05/632,015|
|Publication date||18 Jan 1977|
|Filing date||14 Nov 1975|
|Priority date||14 Nov 1975|
|Also published as||CA1051788A, CA1051788A1|
|Publication number||05632015, 632015, US 4004079 A, US 4004079A, US-A-4004079, US4004079 A, US4004079A|
|Inventors||William Thomas Boston|
|Original Assignee||Optronics International, Inc.|
|Export Citation||BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan|
|Patent Citations (8), Referenced by (101), Classifications (12), Legal Events (4)|
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet|
The present invention relates to systems for photographically reproducing both line and continuous tone graphic material and more particularly to a dual resolution method and apparatus for reproducing such materials.
The newspaper industry has seen in the last few years considerably activity directed toward reducing or eliminating many of the manual operators required in the production of plate-ready negatives. Photo-typesetters now provide hyphenated and justified line copy for the pasteup room directly from a keyboard terminal. In the pasteup room the line copy is combined manually with other line graphic materials e.g. artwork and with continuous tone graphic materials in a "pasteup" of the newspaper page. After the desired page composition has been achieved, the pasteup page is photographed to obtain a plate-ready negative.
The page makeup operation using manual pasteup techniques is time consuming, inefficient and labor intensive. Recent efforts have focused on electronic systems for composing newspaper pages. An automatic page composition system that is capable of merging both line and continuous tone copy in the production of plate-ready negatives has been described in the trade literature. See Inland Printer/American Lithographic, July 1975, Pages 40I-40K.
This system, called "Pagitron" by Optronics International, Inc., utilizes a scanner/plotter for the input/output functions with intermediate computer processing and storage of the scanned line and continuous tone copy. The copy, which can be scanned in randomly, is converted into digital form for computer processing and storage. Page makeup is performed by calling up selected blocks of copy on a visual display for editing, positioning, enlarging or reducing etc. After the page makeup has been completed, the digital signals representing the final page configuration are stored for subsequent use or are inputted to the plotter portion of the scanned/plotter for controlling the exposure of a plate-ready negative. Alternatively, the digital signals can be employed to control a laser plate maker.
Since the system utilizes digital processing and storage of all types of scanned graphics including, type, line artwork and continuous tone photographs, the data handling requirements are considerable when all of the various types of graphic material are processed and stored as high resolution bit images. However, it is not necessary to treat each type of graphic material in the same manner. If the line graphic material and the continuous tone graphic material are treated as high and low resolution data, respectively, significant data compression can be achieved with a concomitant reduction in data handling capacity and system expense.
It is accordingly a general object of the present invention to provide a method and apparatus for dual resolution photographic reproduction of line and continuous tone graphic material.
It is a specific object of the invention to provide a photographic reproduction method and apparatus in which line graphic material is processed at a high resolution while continuous tone graphic material is processed at a low resolution.
It is still another object of the invention to provide a method and apparatus for photographically producing half-tone reproductions of continuous tone originals at a low resolution and reproduction of line graphic originals at a high resolution.
It is a feature of the invention that both half-tone and continuous tone reproductions can be produced from continuous tone graphic originals at a low resolution.
It is still another feature of the invention that both line and continuous tone graphic materials can be scanned by the same instrumentality.
It is a further feature of the invention that both line and continuous tone graphic materials can be photoplotted by the same instrumentality.
These objects and features and other objects and features of the invention will best be understood from a detailed description of a preferred embodiment thereof selected for purposes of illustration and shown in block diagram form in the accompanying single FIGURE.
Referring now to the single FIGURE, there is shown in block diagram form an apparatus instructed in accordance with the present invention for providing dual resolution reproduction of line and continuous tone graphic materials. The line and continuous tone graphic materials or "copy" in newspaper terminology are scanned into the apparatus by means of a plural channel detector array 10. For purposes of illustration the detector array 10 is shown as an eight channel array.
The scanner detector array 10 produces on output lines 12a-12h analog signals representing the gray levels of incrementally scanned areas of the line and continuous tone graphic material. Assuming for purposes of discussion that each high resolution, incremental scan area or pixel is a 50 × 50 micron area, the eight channel detector array 10 will scan in each increment an area 400 × 50 microns. Since each pixel is 50 microns, the signals on detector array output lines 12a-12d represent in analog form the gray levels of four pixels i.e. a 200 × 50 micron area. In a similar manner, the analog signals on output lines 12e-12h represent the gray levels of another four pixels.
The analog signals on output lines 12a-12d are inputted to a summer 14 and to an eight channel comparator 16. The analog signals on the detector array output lines 12e-12h are inputted to another summer 18 and to the eight channel comparator 16. Each summer sums, algebraically combines, the analog gray level signals from four channels for four scanning increments. Since each scanning increment is 50 microns wide, the output from summer 14 on line 20 is an analog signal representing the combined gray levels of a low resolution 200 × 200 micron scan area formed by a 4 × 4 array of 50 micron pixels. The low resolution analog signal from summer 14 is converted to a digital low resolution signal by a "left" channel A/D converter 22. The output from A/D converter 22 is one 7-bit byte representing the gray level. This data is referred to for purposes of identification as the left channel.
The same analysis obtains with respect to the "right" channel in which the low resolution analog signal output from summer 18 is inputted to an A/D converter 26. The output from the right channel A/D converter is another one 7-bit byte representing the gray level of the right channel low resolution 200 × 200 micron scan area.
The outputs from the left and right channel analog-to-digital converters 22 and 26 are referred to herein as "low resolution" data because the summing action of summers 14 and 18 coarsenes the scanning resolution from a high resolution 50 × 50 micron pixel to a larger, low resolution 200 × 200 micron incremental area. The low resolution mode of operation is employed in the present invention in connection with continuous tone graphic materials. The low resolution digital left and right channel data is inputted to a data storage and processing system 28 for subsequent utilization as will be explained below.
Line graphic material such as, type and line artwork, is processed in a high resolution mode as contrasted to the low resolution processing of continuous tone graphic material. The analog output signals from the eight channel detector array are inputted to the previously mentioned eight channel comparator 16. The comparator functions as an adjustable threshold to convert the analog gray level signals from each high resolution 50 × 50 micron pixel to corresponding 1-bit data which is outputted on lines 30a-30h. The parallel, binary information on output lines 30a-30h represents the thresholded gray level information from eight 50 × 50 micron pixels for each scan increment. This data is inputted to the data storage and processing system 28 for subsequent utilization.
It will be appreciated from the preceding discussion of the treatment of the line and continuous tone graphic information that continuous tone materials are scanned in on an area basis i. e. a 200 × 200 micron area while the line graphic material is scanned in on a line basis using a 50 × 50 pixel. Thus, the high resolution incremental pixel area is 50 × 50 microns and the low resolution incremental area is 200 × 200 microns.
The data storage and processing system 28 utilizes conventional hardware which normally would include a CPU, disc storage and an interactive display terminal with menu and keyboard inputs. Appropriate software is used to implement the desired data processing functions in conjunction with the hardware. For example, the line and continuous tone graphic material information in digital form can be called out on the interactive display terminal in visual form for editing, positioning, substitution, addition of new material, etc. In addition, the digital data can be manipulated to change gray levels, adjust contrast, reverse tones and perform other known operations. The data storage and processing system 28 is optional from the standpoint of the invention, but it would normally be included in a commercial implementation of the invention. For the purpose of this description, it is sufficient to note that the apparatus has available in high resolution format the digital data representing line graphic material and the low resolution digital data representing continuous tone material. Suitable control circuits (not shown) are used to control the data input to the data storage processing system 28 depending upon the particular type of graphic material being scanned by the detector array 10. Alternatively, both the high and low resolution data can be inputted to the data storage system since both types of data are available simultaneously from the initial high resolution data generated by the detector array.
Having described the input scanning operation for line and continuous tone graphic material, I will now discuss the outputting or plotting of this material on a photosensitive member. Assuming first that one wishes to output continuous tone graphic material in a continuous tone format as opposed to a half-tone format, the left and right channel low resolution 7-bit data representing the gray levels of the larger incremental areas i.e. the 200 × 200 micron areas, is inputted to corresponding left and right channel digital-to-analog converters 32 and 34, respectively. The D/A convertors 32 and 34 produce analog signals on output lines 36 and 38 which represent the luminance or gray level information for each low resolution scanned area in the continuous tone graphic material.
The analog signals are used to intensity modulate the light source or sources of a photoplotter (not shown). The 16 element LED array 40 is representative of such a source. The analog gray level signals are gated through a plurality of AND gates 42 to the corresponding light emitting elements of array 40.
Suitable clock signals for the gates 42 can be obtained from conventional means (not shown). In the apparatus illustrated in the single Figure, clock information for gates 42 is derived from left and right channel half-tone matrix coding logic circuits 44 and 46, respectively, The half-tone matrix coding function of logic circuits 44 and 46 will be described below. For the moment it is sufficient to note that the circuits provide a clock pulse to turn on the AND gates 42 at the appropriate time.
The left channel analog gray level signal on output line 36 intensity modulates eight of the sixteen elements of the emitter array 40 while the right channel analog signal on output line 38 intensity modulates the remaining eight elements of the sixteen element emitter array. Each LED in the emitter array illuminates a 25 × 25 micron area on a photosensitive member (not shown) such as a plate-ready negative. Eight of the 25 micron emitter array elements correspond to four of the fifty micron detector array pixels. Expressed in slightly different terms, the 200 × 200 micron low resolution incremental scan area comprises 16 50 × 50 pixels while the corresponding 200 × 200 micron area on the output film is formed by 64 25 × 25 incrementally exposed areas.
In the continuous tone mode of operation, all sixty-four exposure areas on the output film receive the same amount of exposure. The exposure is a function of the analog signal from the appropriate left or right channel D/A converters 32 or 34. For newspaper reproductions, the continuous tone graphic original is converted into a half-tone picture on the photosensitive member by selectively exposing the 64 sub-areas which form the 200 × 200 micron picture incremental area. The selective exposure of the sixty-four sub-areas is produced by corresponding selective energization of the eight emitter elements in the left and right channel portions of the sixteen element emitter array 40. The appropriate coding signals for producing the desired exposure pattern are obtained from the previously mentioned left and right channel half-tone matrix coding logic circuits 44 and 46.
The coding logic signals from logic circuits 44 and 46 are applied to the emitter array AND gates 42 through a 16 line, two-way multiplexer 48. The multiplexer 48 controls the appropriate gating signals to AND gates 42 depending upon the particular mode of operation of the apparatus. For the reproduction of continuous tone graphic originals either as continuous tone output or a half-tone output, the multiplexer 48 directs the left and right channel matrix logic outputs to the corresponding left and right eight element segments of the sixteen emitter array 40.
In the case of line graphic originals, the multiplexer 48 directs the sixteen line outputs from overlay screen logic 50 to the corresponding sixteen elements of the emitter array 40. The overlay screen logic 50 receives as an input the high resolution eight channel 1-bit data representing line graphic material from the data storage and processing system 28. Each one of the eight input channels is converted into two output channels which are fed to the 16 line multiplexer 48. The 16 line outputs from multiplexer 48 functions as ON-OFF signals for the emitter array.
It will be appreciated from the preceding discussion that line and continuous tone graphic material can be photographically reproduced at high and low resolution levels with a concomitant reduction in the required data processing capacity of the apparatus. The continuous tone graphic original can be outputted as continuous tone or half-tone reproductions. It is also possible to produce gray scale reproductions of line and text using the high resolution line graphic mode in conjunction with a preselected gray level for the outputs of the left and right channel D/A's 32 and 34. The overlay screen logic can be used to create positive or negative overlay screens for the outputted material.
Other variations of the method and apparatus will now be appreciated by those skilled in the art. For example, the intensity modulated light source can be a laser of the illustrated LED array. The use of a laser light eliminates the need for the intermediate plate-ready negative because the laser can directly expose a photosensitive printing plate.
In addition, it should be understood that different effects can be achieved with the dual resolution system by treating the continuous tone graphic material as "line" graphic material and processing the continuous tone material through the high resolution channel. The converse is also feasible; the line graphic material can be processed as "continuous tone" material through the low resolution channel. Other combinations can be achieved by processing different portions of the same type of graphic material through the two resolution channels.
It is also possible to scan in half-toned graphic originals and process them as continuous tone materials in the low resolution channel. If the half-tone originals are then outputted as half-tones, one can vary the half-tone screen relationships between the half-tone original and the half-tone output. Alternatively, the half-tone originals can be processed and outputted as continuous tone materials. In this regard, half-tone graphic originals can be considered as continuous tone graphic material and, therefore, as used herein the term continuous tone graphic material should be construed to include half-tone graphic materials.
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A matriline is a line of descent from a female ancestor to a descendant (of either sex) in which the individuals in all intervening generations are female. In a matrilineal descent system (= uterine descent), an individual is considered to belong to the same descent group as his or her mother. There is interesting case right now regarding this unique culture only and only applied by Minangkabau ethnic in sumatra and Negeri Sembilan in Malaysia. Matrlileneal folk in sumatra are pride person and have very tolerant mind.
The Importance of Clan in Minangkabau
Suku (meaning : clan or tribes) or matriclan is the main unit of Minangkabau social structure and one can not be viewed as the Minangkabau if he does not have a tribe. Tribe exogamis nature, except when no longer able traced family relationship between the two namesake tribe in the village but there are different. Because people from the same tribe usually occupy the same location, the tribe could mean genealogical and territorial, whereas without kampuang (meaning “villages”) linked to one particular tribe only meant merely territorial.
Each tribe minang usually consists of several “paruik” (meaning “family”) and headed by kapalo paruik or tungganai (meaning “leader of several family”). “Paruik” can be subdivided into “jurai” and “jurai” is also divided into samande (meaning “single mother”). The way in Minangkabau ethnic division as such may differ from one region to another. “Jurai” is a vague term which may indicate similarities alone or affinity consanguinealitas groups below or above the level “paruik”. “Samande”, by contrast, hardly viewed as a stand-alone unit because two or three may be the same samande inhabit one house and each has a property other fixtures, while all the things that are important in the circle of life (life cycle) can not be solved by the members of the same samande (which is usually centered around a grandmother), but must be submitted to paruik.
Members of the same “paruik” (meaning “same family”) usually have community property (harato pusako), such as joint land, including fields, houses and the large sieve with pandam cemetery. Because ‘paruik’ developing, he may split itself into two paruik or more, though still in a single tribe. And with the growing interest he may also be divided into two or more new, related tribe.
Family Structure in Matrilineal System
In a matrilineal descent system / matriahat in Minangkabau, the father is not a member of the lineage of his children. He is considered a guest and treated as guests in the family, which aim primarily to give offspring. He called samando or urang samando. Is a legitimate place in the line of his mother in which he serves as a member of the family in the male-line descendants of that. By tradition, at least, their responsibility to be there. He is a trustee of the line-protective of their offspring and lineage property that even if he had to restrain herself from enjoying the fruit of the ground by his people because he was not able to claim part of anything for herself. Nor was he given a place at the home of her parents (maternal / matrilineal) beacause for all booths reserved for female family members, namely to accept their husbands at night. The position of men who are that motivates shaky Minang men to wander (merantau).
Men usually make a living by going to the market to traders, or working as a carpenter, a plow in the field, tailors, shop owners, office workers, and so on. He worked in the fields of line-offspring or descendants of his wife-line only in passing, if nothing else will do.
If he decided to cultivate the land from the lineage of his mother to get some results, he is usually doing so as a “penyedua’ (meaning : employee profit-sharing), where he received only part of the results, while the other part devoted to the outline of the actual female offspring became the owner of the land.
Marriage, therefore, does not create a new nuclear family (nuclear family), because the husband or wife respectively remain members of their lineage respectively. Therefore the notion of nuclear family consisting of mother, father and children as a separate unit is not in Minangkabau social structure because he always protected by a system of matrilineal descent is more powerful. As a result, children are counted as members of maternal lineage and are always attached themselves more to the mother and other members of that lineage. A weak bond to the father is even more obvious when the man with polygamy, in which he turns to visit his wife, and more rarely meet with their children. Ties were added decreased again when divorce occurs, in which he rarely met with his children.
Since a lot of Indonesian right now imitate the use of single last name in family as what valid in western culture that’s also happened in minangkabau family. If it happened we confront the name of someone from minangkabau let’s say ikhlas guci, sometimes it does not mean he is from suku (clan) guci, because it might be his father name is agus guci, he just adopt his father last name to be used in his last name as it is becoming trend in indonesian right now to use same last name. But his suku/clan might not be guci but something else such as chaniago how come? Because his mother is chanigo, remember in matrilineal culture suku/clan come from mother side, then of course agus guci can marry the girl from suku guci because the guci on agus name is just the last name not the suku/clan. | <urn:uuid:94f464ef-92ae-4689-853b-2592f4e3f0c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mentawaiparadise.com/matrilineal-unique-and-tolerant-culture/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.967041 | 1,308 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Law is a difficult thing to teach. It requires the teaching of large concepts that vastly influence how governments and authority work or should work. Skills needed for the application, implementation, and adjudication of legal provisions are important and need to be taught as well.
The law classroom, I had felt, was less effective in teaching law than the practical experience of having to work out a legal argument to fit a real-life situation. This slipping on of the real-life shoes however, is not possible without a basic skill-set, one that is complex and diverse. Different law-teaching systems have had different visions about this skill-set.
The four legal professionals who have featured in this series so far have all had some teaching experience. Usha Ramanathan has, during the course of her career, taught at the National Law School of India University (“NLSIU”), Bangalore, the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, and at the National Law University, Delhi. Arvind Narrain has taught, among others, courses related to human rights and illegal citizenship at NLSIU and several ad hoc courses on human rights, gender, and sexuality for non-law students. Harish Narasappa has taught short courses at the Indian Institute of Management and at NLSIU. Amba Salelkar takes classes on disability law at Vidya Sagar, a Chennai-based non-profit organisation.
Building bridges to law
The challenges of teaching feature amidst the larger practice of being publicly engaged lawyers. Students from non-law backgrounds, both Salelkar and Narrain say, are not daunted by the law. People in non-profit organisations in particular, where the knowledge of law can significantly reorient practice, seem to come at it with enthusiasm. Narrain has experienced great fortitude among college students coming at judgments on sexual violence containing disturbing details. He says he found in the classroom, key allies for the campaign against Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code. People who were intrigued or interested came forth and became involved.
Many law teachers find themselves delivering bridges to the world of law to students of politics, economics, management, and development studies. Sudhir Krishnaswamy, who has taught at several law schools and has designed and taught a law and governance concentration in the development masters programme at Azim Premji University, is immersed in this exercise. He says that his primary learning from the programme was that students of non-elite backgrounds were grappling with their first encounters with the law in ways very similar to first year law students. The challenges they faced, too, were similar to the ones faced by law students – in learning to work with law and fact. The diversity of material he used has expanded considerably. For instance, he engages more thickly with legal history, using literature from colonial and post-colonial history in general. These are materials he read himself, but didn’t use in law school classrooms. Krishnaswamy’s long teaching career has shaped his belief that law as a discipline, actively straddles the domain of social sciences and humanities, especially as it concerns questions of language and cognition.
Teaching law without the intention to teach
Law teaching can be seen, thus, along three major lines – teaching in a law programme, teaching in a non-law programme, and teaching law outside the university set-up. It helps me to elaborate on the third aspect first. Law arrives at the ears of lawyers through courts, judgments, other lawyers – seniors and peers, and in the classroom. A good part of the teaching can and may occur without the intention to teach. The professional architecture places some people in pedagogic positions with regard to others. Many in the litigating field would say the senior advocates they worked for, were their teachers or gurus. They did not teach the disciplines of law in the packaged form that is usually delivered in a classroom. Skills and intuitions about what the law can offer in a given situation, and how best to use this avenue to one’s advantage, might however, be best learnt and taught through everyday interactions. Many say they learnt a lot of law listening to court proceedings, especially as interns.
I am surprised at this as court proceedings occur in fragments where the issue at stake may not be clear to a bystander who does not have access to the relevant case file. Matters quickly transition into the next matter of the day, one realm of law to the next. If a bystander – a litigant, a journalist, or an intern – learns from this, it is not intended teaching that she derives from. It is a kind of learning by immersion – osmosis, perhaps. Languages are learnt often by immersion in the social milieu where the language is spoken. Can law be learnt and taught in the same way? Some say it is an effective way.
The other method of ‘unintentioned’ teaching and learning of the law, more predictably, is through books. Law reporters, treatises, newspaper articles, and the Internet are ways in which a legal topic or idea can be learnt and disseminated. There is a vast difference of course between reading a thick tome on jurisprudence in a dark library and opening several news websites at one go and consuming some update on a legal matter as one of the many things the Internet offers for consumption. The written word is common to both modes of communication and receipt and the latter is often an effective way for a non-legal audience to learn about the law. Undergraduate students’ interests are often piqued by legal domains being involved in a matter of contemporary news – for instance, land acquisition in recent months, because of the amendment bill. I continue to learn about the law (being no longer in practice) talking with friends and colleagues who are experts in legal fields, and from the media, especially from commentaries and editorials written by practicing lawyers like Indira Jaising and Flavia Agnes.
The classroom as an intellectual arena
The classroom though, remains an important space. What is its specific role from the point of view of legal professionals who have multifaceted careers? A classroom offers the possibility of a dialogic space. Facts and ideas may be taught and disseminated there. But if the teacher is attentive, it can unfold into a democratic and dynamic intellectual arena. Like Narrain’s experience where students became long-term associates, for many teachers whose interest in the law is motivated by possibilities of change, the classroom should be an important space to invest in. Salelkar has found the need to press a certain literacy of law, especially constitutional law, to be important in her classes on disability law. She finds it a challenge to veer between giving activists too much hope and too little. Many, she finds, enter the domain of law with great wonder and energy. Krishnaswamy found it a place to toy with law’s relationship with the broad spectrum of social sciences. I have found the acquaintance of teachers who create longer paths of learning to often begin in the classroom discussion. The discussion itself may be of lesser importance but the dialogic space it affirms creates intellectual alliances that might have long-term implications for both parties. The importance of law teaching grows with the possibility of law creating a democratic space in addition to the ones already available in civil society.
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When Space Makes You Dizzy
Imagine trying to land the Space Shuttle after you just got off a spin-and-whirl ride -- cross your fingers and hope you don't throw-up! During landing, some astronauts get that same dizzy feeling, but not from spinning around. As astronauts come down from space, the blood rushes down toward their legs and away from their heads. This shift in blood makes some feel lightheaded and dizzy.
Richard Cohen of the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology says that on Earth gravity pulls blood toward the lower body. But in space, the blood that is normally in the legs moves to the upper body instead. That's why astronauts have puffy-looking faces and spindly "chicken legs."
Image to right: Microgravity causes an astronaut's body to change while in space. Credit: NASA
Veins in our legs contain tiny muscles that contract when the veins fill with blood. The muscles help send the blood back up to the heart, keeping our blood pressure balanced. But in space there is no "up," so those tiny muscles don't have to work as hard to keep the blood pressure balanced. The longer astronauts stay in space, the weaker their muscles get.
When astronauts come home and gravity takes hold again, their tiny vein muscles aren't ready to start working as hard. That means not enough blood is pushed back to equal out the pressure. The longer an astronaut stays in space, the more unbalanced the pressure can be when they come home.
Image to left: Astronauts wear G-suits to help prevent dizziness.
Astronauts have tried to prevent the dizziness by drinking lots of salt water. That increases the amount of fluids in the body. They also wear rubberized full-body suits, called "G-Suits," that can be inflated with air. The suit squeezes arms and legs to push the blood back and balance the pressure.
However, those methods haven't worked well. So, NASA is trying a drug called Midodrine. It constricts blood vessels and increases blood pressure. It was designed to help people on Earth with blood pressure problems. Richard thinks it might help astronauts too.
Richard is working with Janice Meck, at NASA's Johnson Space Center, and Gordon Williams, a doctor at the Brigham and Women's hospital. They are studying this drug to help astronauts.
Research is continuing and every mission teaches us more how the body reacts to the environment of space. Hopefully, astronauts soon will be returning home from space without getting dizzy.
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This week we feature a personal reflection from Nikola Zunic one of our six students who is in China completing a three month scholarship at Henan University.
Reflections from Nikola
It feels like it was not too long ago that I wrote my first impressions of being here. Now, almost two months later, many adventures were had, many lessons learned, some forgotten.
First and foremost, being in a different place really helps to mirror what kind of person I am. The environment wears down the defenses, maybe puts up new walls, but in the end shapes and molds me just the same. For a time here, I began to look at the environment and people around me, and began looking at the way things should be, if you understand what I mean by that, then you will know that will lead to dissatisfaction and alienation. Why are they so hyper-capitalist? Don’t they understand that material culture will merely lead them to a place of servitude and enslavement? Why do they seem so rude sometimes, especially to those of a “lesser” position? How can they just throw trash on the floor? I mean everywhere, even in pristine cliffs and gorges, and caves, you can find a water bottle stuffed in a crevice.
And then, one day, I was sitting eating noodles, and it was a shop run by what appeared to be a wife and husband. How can I tell? Well, they hardly spoke to one another, the communication was at a deeper level. And as I sat there and ate, I thought to myself, what are their lives like? Obviously, they make a delicious bowl of noodles, but what else? And then it hit me… They are no different from me, or from anyone else I have ever met, or anything else that has ever come to existence. They feel, need, cry, laugh, breathe, and they are an extension of a greater whole, a unique expression of it for sure, but still fully immersed and inseparable. So, instead of looking at the situation as what should be, a calm contentment came over me and I felt what is.
But, I am missing a lot. I can’t speak to most of the people here. I can, say little things, but I can’t really talk to them. But, a smile goes a long way here. When walking down the street, and I feel a pair of eyes on me, I just find them and smile, because that is all I got. An old man talked to me through a translator one day at the clinic. He saw me writing Chinese characters and was happy to see that, and even sat next to me and tried it himself.
I am feeling a little sentimental and preachy I suppose. But, I did learn some very important lessons here. First and most important one: My classmates and I came here thinking we will learn some ancient Chinese Secret. What I have realized is that the secret was already taught to me, but damn, I was not listening at the time. Perseverance and a love for what you do, that is the secret, and this is found in the basics, the tiny little webs that hold everything else up. A few number of people reminded me of that, Dr. Song, Dr. Yang, Zhou Qi…
So, with about a month left, I am really starting to miss the familiar faces I always use to see, but look forward to seeing those new ones I’ve met here as well. Home can be anywhere… I have a week or so left in the oncology department and then a few weeks in a gynecology. I am looking forward to them all. Looking forward to going to the antique mall today. Just looking forward to being.
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St. Marys Journal Argus
It’s certainly not uncommon these days for a grandfather to utter the following after spending 2 ½ weeks over the summer with his 17 year-old grand-daughter: “Whenever she could get Internet, she was Facebooking and Twittering everybody.”
Lakeside resident Richard Hryniw, however, was beaming with pride as he uttered those words last week, as he sat beside his grand-daughter Mariah Byers at a St. Marys coffeeshop. That’s because, when she did find access to the Internet during the recent stint with her grandparents (Richard’s wife Joan was also on the trip), Mariah was sending messages home – across the Atlantic – about her volunteer mission with humanitarian aid group Sleeping Children Around the World (SCAW).
This week, Byers started Grade 12 at St. Michael Catholic Secondary School in Stratford. Ever since she was young, at least once a year, the Hryniws – with whom Mariah has lived along with her brother Garrick and her mom for several years – took off on an excursion with SCAW, distributing so-called “bed kits” that were put together in the recipient country using money ($35 Canadian per bed kit) raised in Canada. It’s an Etobicoke-based organization, started by the late Murray Dryden (father of famed goaltender Ken Dryden) for which the Hryniws have served in leadership roles for decades.
“I don’t think I completely, fully understood what they did when I was a kid,” Mariah commented. “It wasn’t really until I was in Grade 7 or 8 that I started to grasp it.”
The Hryniws had told both their grandchildren that, when they turned 16, they would be invited on an overseas trip. Garrick, who’s now 20, went to Nicaragua in 2010.
“When I was 15, I started bothering them with ‘where are we going?’ and ‘when are we leaving?’,” Mariah recalled.
A bed kit includes, at the very least, what the child would normally sleep on, along with bedding and whatever the child would wear to sleep in. There’s also usually a set of clothing. “Wherever possible, we try to have that extra set of clothing in school colours,” Richard explained. Because, in many countries, schooling is provided free of charge, but if the children don’t have a school uniform, they aren’t allowed to attend.
“In this project in Tanzania, the person there designed a bag to carry all of the items, but which can also be used as a school bag.” Also in Tanzania the bed kit included a “khenga,” a piece of cloth used as a wrap-around for both men and women, as well as for a towel.
And, typically, the kits – which are currently distributed by SCAW through partnerships in Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, Togo, Nicaragua, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and the Philippines — also include mosquito netting.
For Mariah’s trip, there were six on the Canadian contingent of the team, and it ended up being kind of a family affair, as well as having a more youthful energy than the typical SCAW delegation. Richard and Joan shared the load as team leaders, and a man from Toronto was there as an apprentice leader, who will head up a future distribution trip. Along to help was the man’s 23 year-old son, as well as Byers and a 30-something niece of the Hryniws, also from Toronto.
“We’ve been trying to get younger people going,” Richard smiled. “We usually average people who are in their 50s or 60s, and I think the kids over there thoroughly enjoyed it.”
Mariah’s youthful energy had her, initially, yearning more for travel than for getting down to work. “Going over, I was more excited about the excursions and only semi-excited for the distribution,” she admitted. And those excursions – made at the participants’ own expense, and on off-days from the eight work-filled distribution days scheduled for the recent Tanzania trip – met her expectations, with highlights including a land tortoise sanctuary off the coast of Zanzibar, and a safari in the famed Mikumi National Park.
“But once we got over there and going through distributions, I ended up loving them just as much,” she said.
This trip was stationed at Dar es Salaam, and they travelled out from there each morning. They tried to arrive at the site between 8-9 a.m., and get started with the distributions by 10 a.m. so they could be wrapped up by 2:30 p.m. “The average wake-up for me was around 6 a.m.”
Bed kits are distributed to children between ages 6-12. “It is gradually getting better in most countries, but the death rate for younger children is so high that it’s kind of a harsh reality that they may not survive to age six,” Richard said, by way of explaining the age range. “Meanwhile, in many of these countries, at age 14 or 15, they could be getting married.”
Mariah’s job most times was marking the thumbs of children who had already received a bed kit. “I got to really connect with the kids a lot . . . They would laugh at me a lot because I’d try and say words in Swahili and my pronunciation would be off.” But they also really wanted to try out their English on her. Many were at the level in school where they were just beginning to learn English, which is the main language of commerce, after being raised earlier in life with Swahili in the home.
She also got to conduct some of the feedback interviews that SCAW likes to do, mainly with parents but also with some of the children. “Some people would just want to say ‘thank you, thank you’ for everything, while others would be completely harsh and tell you, ‘this is great but this probably won’t get used as much’.”
She found that there was a lot of talk about malaria, and that made her realize the importance of including mosquito netting in the bed kits. “90 per cent of the time, that was the response to the question about the biggest health concern in the home.”
Those who know Richard and Joan Hryniw well are aware that the hardworking duo has been saying for years that they plan on cutting back on their commitments to SCAW’s overseas work. But, given their devotion to the organization’s work, it’s tough to see them giving up on those roles just yet.
Now, with Mariah having returned from Tanzania with great enthusiasm for SCAW, it seems likely another generation could someday be just as vital to the organization’s work.
“I’m hoping, in the next couple of years, to do it again,” Mariah said. “I’m hoping to go back to Tanzania at some point, but I’m also hoping to go somewhere different first, and then come back.”
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I have found this book helpful. Many fundamentals books gloss over the concept of cultural competence and students feel they understand until they are confronted with a clinical situation. This book provides an opportunity for readers to gain a deeper and more practical understanding."--Doody's Medical Reviews
Offering a how-to approach to the development and application of cultural competency skills in nursing, this text provides numerous techniques for cultural self-assessment and cultural patient assessment. Its unique framework for self-assessment--considered to be a highly important facet of developing culturally competent nursing care--is based on the Cultural Competency Staircase Model, a self-assessment model developed by the author who has over 30 years of clinical practice in culturally diverse settings.
The text begins by defining cultural competency and describes how nurses can use the Staircase Model to determine their level of cultural competence. Emphasis is placed on developing cross-cultural communication skills and resolving cross-cultural conflicts. The book provides tools for the cultural assessment of patients and focuses on working with culturally diverse colleagues and patient populations. Using case vignettes, it presents problematic clinical scenarios related to cultural diversity and discusses how to resolve them. Each chapter opens with learning objectives and glossary terms and ends with key points, NCLEX-RN review questions and a list of additional resources.The AACN Cultural Competencies for Baccalaureate Graduates are addressed in each chapter.
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And with these words he disappeared behind one of the tapestried portieres.
At these words, moving aside the tapestry, Sinbad preceded his guest.
At this moment the tapestry moved aside, and a Nubian, black as ebony, and dressed in a plain white tunic, made a sign to his master that all was prepared in the dining-room.
As Franz spoke, he heard the sound of a door turning on its hinges, and almost immediately afterwards the tapestry was drawn aside, and the owner of all these riches stood before the two young men.
Splendid paintings by the first masters were ranged against the walls, intermingled with magnificent trophies of war, while heavy curtains of costly tapestry were suspended before the different doors of the room.
There must be a good deal done before it can deserve that title, your excellency, for the tapestried hangings are very old.
Ali extended his hands towards the apartments destined for the fair Greek, which were so effectually concealed by means of a tapestried entrance, that it would have puzzled the most curious to have divined their existence.
Saying which Monte Cristo bowed, and disappeared behind the tapestry, leaving the major fascinated beyond expression with the delightful reception which he had received at the hands of the count.
Haidee’s only reply was to direct her servant by a sign to withdraw the tapestried curtain that hung before the door of her boudoir, the framework of the opening thus made serving as a sort of border to the graceful tableau presented by the young girl’s picturesque attitude and appearance.
Ali reappeared for the third time, and drew back the tapestried hanging which concealed the door, to signify to his master and Albert that they were at liberty to pass on.
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But immediately through this opening twenty more shots were fired, and the flame, rushing up like fire from the crater of a volcano, soon reached the tapestry, which it quickly devoured.
A mantle-piece, with two modern Sevres vases, a timepiece representing Cupid with his bent bow, a mirror with an engraving on each side—one representing Homer carrying his guide, the other, Belisarius begging—a grayish paper; red and black tapestry—such was the appearance of Lord Wilmore’s drawing-room.
In a recess was a kind of divan, surmounted with a stand of Arabian swords in silver scabbards, and the handles resplendent with gems; from the ceiling hung a lamp of Venetian glass, of beautiful shape and color, while the feet rested on a Turkey carpet, in which they sunk to the instep; tapestry hung before the door by which Franz had entered, and also in front of another door, leading into a second apartment which seemed to be brilliantly illuminated.
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Starting a business can be a very daunting adventure if a proper plan is not put in place. Most entrepreneurs start up their businesses without putting adequate plans in place to succeed. No wonder one out of every five businesses crumbles within 5 years! If one thing should be taken very seriously, it should be your business plan. This is your “blueprint for success.”
Every business begins from a thought. A thought or idea can only become reality when expected actions are taken. When an idea is conceived, the logical corollary is that such ideas need to be written out, in black and white and on paper; or else the idea will fade off when the enthusiasm that the thought initially brought subsides. Hence, having a written business plan is pertinent if your business is to stand the test of time.
Now, what is a Business Plan?
One definition, according to entrepreneur.com, is that a business plan is a “written description of the future of your business; a document that indicates what you intend to do and how you intend to do it.” If you notice a paragraph on the back of an envelope describing your business strategy, you have already started a written plan, or at least the first draft of a plan. The business plan itself consists of a narrative and several financial worksheets.
The very act of planning helps you to think things through in a systematic and thorough way. Study and research your market niche if you are not sure of the facts, and look at your ideas critically. It may take some time now, but helps to avert costly and disastrous mistakes in future.
In this article, I want to provide a very brief look at the steps involved in planning a business:
1. Identify Your Passion: Knowing what you love doing, even without making money, is the stepping stone in starting any business. Most people enter into a business they know nothing about, and stop after only few months. Some get tired of their businesses simply because they are not happy with the activities involved in running the business anymore. According to Sabrina Parsons, (CEO of Palo Alto Software) “Know yourself, and work in a job that caters to your strengths. This knowledge will make you happier.”
The reason why many businesses fail in their first five years is because the entrepreneurs do not find fulfillment in running their business anymore. Hence, they tend to move on in search for happiness.
You must look within by evaluating yourself and identify what you are good with. If what you are good at gives you happiness, think of how you can monetize it and make it a business. You do this by sharing your passion with others. However, passion alone is not enough in starting a business. You need to plan, set goals and above all, know yourself.
2. Conduct Intense Market Research: As stated above, passion alone is not enough in determining the type of business endeavor you should get involved in. You need to be sure if there are people who are really interested in paying for what you have to offer. Apart from that, you need to identity the category of people who can afford the prices of your products or services, and in what quantity.
You also need to determine how to attract your prospective customers. How do you intend to reach your targeted customers? How do you intend to distribute your products to your targeted customers? How do you know the actual price that potential customers are willing to pay for your products? These and many other things are what you should know before investing your money in starting any business.
3. Write a Business Plan: A business plan is a written document that describes your business idea. Your business plan will give you a sense of direction towards achieving your business goals and objectives. It describes what you want to do, when to do it, where to do it, and how to do it. A written business plan can also be used as a guide running your successful business.
Writing down your plans helps you to anticipate the future of your business. Anticipating your business helps you to identify and possibly avoid any challenge that may bedevil your business in the future.
4. Register Your Business: After you have written down your business plan, you must register your business so that clients will take you serious. Apart from that, registering your business makes your business have a life of its own. It separates you from your business. Any serious minded entrepreneur must have his business registered.
The most common type of business is that of a Sole Proprietor. You run your business yourself and keep accurate books (for tax purposes). You deduct your expenses and pay taxes on the gains. This is the simplest type of business to open. It is also the most vulnerable to having your assets taken away by an angry customer who would file a law suit against you for whatever reason. This is one of many reasons that business owners opt for one of the other types of business set ups.
A Partnership is a type of business where two or more people enter into a business arrangement. Two friends, etc. decide to open a business. If you decide to enter into a partnership, you need a document that details how the business will be divided if the partnership is broken up. It may sound crude to plan this before opening the doors, but it will save a lot of heartache and expenses in the end. Besides, if you never dissolve the partnership – the document is never needed. This is one of those “it is better to have it if it’s needed rather than need it and not have it” moments.
Corporations: There are several types of ways to incorporate. I am not going to get involved with a detailed discussion here. My recommendation is if you are planning on incorporating your business – hire an attorney with expertise in this area. There as several types of corporations and your attorney can evaluate the facts surrounding your business and guide you to the most appropriate type of corporation for you to use.
5. Get The Necessary Capital: This is the most difficult aspect of starting a business. Getting the capital to finance a business is the major factor that discourages most entrepreneurs from moving ahead with their plans.
There is no doubt that most businesses start through self-financing. The reason for this is clear – Nobody believes in your dream until there is a physical manifestation. As a potential business person, you must learn to save aggressively in order to meet the financial requirements of operating your business while taking care of your family at the same time. You can also opt for loans from friends, family or corporate bodies (banks, saving and loans, etc.).
A general rule of business states that, in addition to your start-up costs you should also have at least six to twelve months’ worth of your family’s budget in the bank. In order to finance your company, you will need to match the company’s needs to the appropriate financing option. You should seek the assistance of a good accountant in this area. The accountant will be able to advise you what is best in your situation and also offer assistance in tax planning.
6. Taking Risks: Once the financial aspect of starting a business is settled, what risks you should take should be the next line of action. You should keep on testing different things to be able to ascertain what works well for you and your business plan. By accurately listing the acceptable risks you are willing to take before hand (in your business plan) and in what situations these risks would be taken, will give you valuable guidance when obstacles occur (and they will occur).
By having your plan of action already in place, it will be very easy for you to refer back to your well thought out plan and decide on the course of action to take concerning a pre-identified obstacle to your business success.
It is important to know from the beginning that you may fail in this business. You may not want to acknowledge this fact. I mean, who wants to “plan” on failing, right? But, by acknowledging this now will help to keep you going when you experience any setback in the future. What matters most in business is your level of discipline, persistence and belief.
Whenever, you experience any failure, go back to your business plan and pinpoint where you missed it so that you can implement the appropriate corrections. If the trouble you are experiencing was not identified in your original business plan, now is the time to add it to your plan.
Take the time to go through all of the steps in identifying and mitigating risks, just as you did when you wrote the original plan. By doing this, you accomplish two things:
1) You are methodically thinking through the problem and determining a solution, and
2) You are now adding this unforeseen problem to your plan! If it ever manifests again, you will be able to quickly determining what you did and if it was effective (saving time and stress later).
The steps above, if followed, will help you in building a top level business that will could be your opportunity to change the world! Ensure you do not go into a business without prior planning.
All ways remember the 5Ps – Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance!
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As part of the ever-evolving consumer behavior, customers research online before deciding to transact with any business. They flock to the internet in search of answers for their questions and inhibitions, as well as suggestions and ideas on what to eat, purchase, and even visit next.
With so much at stake, businesses now regard having an online presence as a non-negotiable aspect of their operations. Those lucky enough to be able to invest in hefty amounts do well, as they are able to build credibility and trustworthiness brought about by SEO services and other digital marketing efforts.
Unfortunately, not all businesses are blessed with huge budgets to invest in compelling digital marketing. Luckily, however, there are ways to get the word out there about your business—local listing websites. They work like online directories, reminiscent of phone books. Categorized by industry and other key information, this helps customers locate businesses in local areas. To learn more about directory listings, here are some of its undeniable benefits:
It Improves Your Business’s Online Presence
Google works according to the algorithms but the more business directories you add your business in, the more you will appear in search results. Local listings essentially serve as an extension of your business website.
You’ll want to ensure that your information is updated, with plenty of photographs to accompany your information. You must also have contact information and addresses listed, which helps prospective customers know exactly how to find you.
It Boosts Your SEO Efforts
Search engine optimization (SEO) helps your website rank better, ensuring that you always appear at the top results pages upon the use of keywords. If you have a local diner, for instance, you may want to optimize your website using keywords such as “best diner” or “best milkshakes,” which then directs prospective customers into dining with you.
Local listings online optimize your business through these keywords. Coupled with the power of high domain authority, your business will be regarded as reputable, trustworthy, and definitely worth doing business with.
It Increases Your Visibility
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Anti Social Behaviour Order - Used against unruly youths who cannot conform to normal society's rules and regulations. See ASBO's
However, an ASBO can also be a classification of a person. Some of the worst Townies
s are good examples of an ASBOs. They are the creme de la creme of delinquency, intent on causing anger, pain and destruction mainly due to their unnaturally small brain which is set on one thing: reproducing.
They are low-life scum, and are usually the result of bad parenting. A firm beating or installing the fear of God in them as a child can usually prevent the ASBO trait from developing.
Male ASBO – Typically aged 12-18: Looks for a “fit beyhatch, mon init” (female) to “prong” (reproduce with). Older ASBOs can be found waiting in the dole line.
Female ASBO – Typically aged 13-18: Main requirement is to become pregnant. Can usually be found reproducing in a bus shelter. Will name their child after a character on Eastenders.
Person A: "I hear a car alarm going off."
Person B: "There must be an ASBO near by."
Person A: "Please don't beat me senseless..."
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BSD/OS (originally called BSD/386 and sometimes known as BSDi) was a proprietary version of the BSD Unix operating system developed by Berkeley Software Design, Inc. (BSDi).
BSD/OS had a reputation for reliability in server roles; the renowned Unix programmer and author W. Richard Stevens used it for his own personal web server for this reason.
BSDi was formed in 1991 by members of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) at UC Berkeley to develop and sell a proprietary version of BSD Unix for PC compatible systems with Intel 386 (or later) processors. This made use of work previously done by Bill Jolitz to port BSD to the PC platform.
BSD/386 1.0 was released in March 1993. The company sold licenses and support for it, taking advantage of terms in the BSD License which permitted use of the BSD software in proprietary systems, as long as credit was given to the University. The company in turn contributed code and resources to the development of non-proprietary BSD operating systems. In the meantime, Jolitz had left BSDi and independently released an open source BSD for PCs, called 386BSD.
BSD/386 licenses (including source code) were priced at $995, much less than AT&T UNIX System V source licenses, a fact highlighted in their advertisements. As part of the settlement of USL v. BSDi, BSDI substituted code that had been written for the University's 4.4 BSD-Lite release for disputed code in their OS, effective with release 2.0. By the time of this release, the "386" designation had become dated, and BSD/386 was renamed "BSD/OS". Later releases of BSD/OS also supported Sun SPARC-based systems.
The marketing of BSD/OS became increasingly focused on Internet server applications. However, the increasingly tight market for Unix-compatible software in the late 1990s and early 2000s hurt sales of BSD/OS. On one end of the market, it lacked the certification of the Open Group to bear the UNIX trademark, and the sales force and hardware support of the larger Unix vendors. Simultaneously, it lacked the negligible acquisition cost of the open source BSDs and Linux. BSD/OS was acquired by Wind River Systems in April 2001. Wind River discontinued sales of BSD/OS at the end of 2003, with support terminated at the end of 2004. | <urn:uuid:b70ad2ce-a93b-4300-b7f9-1d02baaccd76> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcmuseum.ca/details.asp?id=36328&type=Software | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00463-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974021 | 510 | 2.125 | 2 |
Wolchulsan National Park lies in Jeollanam-do province, South Korea. Designated as a national park in 1988, Wolchulsan National Park is South Korea's smallest at only 56.6 km2 (21.9 sq mi).The park takes its name from Wolchulsan, or Mt. Wolchul in Gangjin and Yeongam counties. The highest peak in the park is Cheong-hwang-bong, with an elevation of 809 m (2,654 ft). Also contained in the park are 3 national treasures and a number of local cultural properties. | <urn:uuid:aa18cddc-791b-4b87-9f65-085e747cdb0a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.touristlink.com/south-korea/wolchulsan-national-park/overview.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00054-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.896285 | 125 | 2.8125 | 3 |
One of the honored pioneers of Atchison county is Thomas Frable, whose history has been closely associated with that of this portion of Kansas for the past forty years. During this time he has been a witness of remarkable changes for the better and has been an interested and active worker for the causes of education, good government and progress along all lines.
The birth of Thomas Frable took place in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, March 22, 1832. His father, who was a shoemaker by trade, died when our subject was a child of but four years. The mother survived him many years and married a second time. Thomas Frable was one of two children, and his brother, Solomon, is at present a resident of Sumner county, Kansas.
As his mother was left without much means, Thomas Frable became a member of the family of James Quinn, who, on the whole, was kind to the lad, though he was not "generous to a fault" and did not spoil the child with overmuch attention and affection. However, he was allowed to attend school a few months each winter and managed to obtain a fair education. Upon reaching his majority, according to agreement. Mr. Frable was given a horse, saddle and bridle.
At the age of thirty years Thomas Frable married Rebecca Graham, a daughter of Richard and Nancy Graham, who were natives of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Frable has two brothers living, namely: Robert, who still makes his home in the Keystone state; and William, a well-known citizen of this township. Five children were born to our subject and wife, but four of the number have been summoned to the silent land. Harry M., a thrifty young farmer of Benton township. owns a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres, situated on section 10. Clara became the wife of John Blankenship and died at the age of twenty-seven years. The other children died in infancy.
Mr. Frable came to Atchison county, Kansas, in 1859, then a single man. Here he met and married Rebecca Graham, who had came to the county in the same year with her parents. For one year after his marriage he freighted across the great plains and for the next two years broke prairie lands. Back in the east, as a farm hand at ten dollars per month, he had saved enough money to buy a tract of land and with this he purchased a tract, selecting what he deemed to be an excellent piece of property. He located upon an eighty-acre tract in Benton township and the house which he erected was one of the first built in the township. As the years passed he made substantial improvements and gradually added to his original farm. his present place comprising three hundred and twenty acres. Besides the large barns, windmill, fences and other necessary features of a modern, well equipped homestead, he built a beautiful residence in 1893, at a cost of over two thousand dollars. It is situated on an attractive spot and is surrounded by a beautiful grove of trees, which are noted far and near. Thus, as has been seen, Mr. Frable has literally been the architect of his own fortunes, for, commencing with almost nothing in the way of capital, he has perseveringly labored toward the goal of success and now, as the shadows of his life lengthen, he is in possession of an assured competence. In his political belief he is a Republican, but he has led a quiet life and has had no desire to occupy public positions. The sincere respect and confidence of all with whom he has been associated are bestowed upon him. | <urn:uuid:1647e70d-16df-4076-ae9c-352404726c77> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pyle/GBR/THOMAS_FRABLE.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00445-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.991131 | 744 | 2.15625 | 2 |
For 30 years, the issue of abortion has represented one of the great divides in American politics. Activists on both sides of that divide are in Washington this week to mark the 30th anniversary Wednesday of the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. Both sides are already preparing for a major political battle, if and when President Bush has an opportunity to nominate someone for a vacancy on the high court.
Anti-abortion protesters gather outside a Washington abortion clinic. They come to the nation's capital every year at this time to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Supreme Court decision known as Roe vs. Wade that legalized abortion.
Virginia Hodal is a mother of five who has come to Washington from Wisconsin with two of her daughters. She said, "What we want to do is get enough people, enough solidarity, and some day someone will look out and say, 'hey, you know, this is a democracy and more people are against abortion than are for abortion', and this has got to be changed."
With Republicans now controlling the White House and both chambers of Congress, conservatives are expecting action on the abortion front. In addition to pushing Congress to enact more restrictions, abortion opponents like Edward Szymkoniak say at the very least the president must nominate an anti-abortion justice should a vacancy arise on the U.S. Supreme Court.
"If the president doesn't put forward someone who is opposed to the Roe v. Wade decision and the subsequent abortion decisions, then I think it will just show that he really isn't the 'pro-life person' that he has claimed to be. And again, you've got a Republican-controlled Congress. If you can't get the guy passed now, when will you ever get him through? So now is the time to act," Mr. Szymkoniak said.
The prospect of a vacancy on the Supreme Court has also energized abortion rights supporters who worry that a Bush appointee to the high court would upset the current five to four majority that has consistently upheld a woman's right to an abortion.
A protest in front of the Supreme Court was led by Terry O'Neill of the National Organization for Women. She said, "It remains the case that the people of this country believe in women's rights, they believe in equality, they believe in abortion rights, they believe in civil liberties and they believe in civil rights. That is the majority of the country. And it is our intention to see to it that the extremists, the right-wingers in Congress and in the White House are not allowed to really put their agenda through. And that is what we are going to do."
While most public opinion surveys indicate a majority of Americans support abortion rights, the polls also suggest many Americans favor restrictions on abortion, including requiring parental consent for women under the age of 18.
The most recent statistics indicate that the abortion rate in the United States has declined to its lowest level since 1974, with the largest drop reported among teenagers.
Supreme Court nominees must be confirmed by the Senate and Terry O'Neill of the National Organization for Women said her group is already urging Democrats to block any Bush appointee to the high court who opposes abortion.
"What we will be doing is insisting that our friends in the Senate filibuster any Supreme Court nominee, each and every one. George W. Bush may think that he has got a pool of 20 of them, that he will just keep bringing back anti-women rights supporters and we are going to seek filibusters of every single justice that does not support rights for women," Mr. O'Neill said.
As of now, none of the nine Supreme Court justices have indicated any plans to retire. But three of the justices, including Chief Justice William Rehnquist, are older than 70 and it is possible that one or more retirement announcements could come later this year, setting the stage for one of the most partisan political battles in recent memory. | <urn:uuid:bd1a33da-6345-46ef-bd05-fa78b8745559> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-a-2003-01-21-19-political-66830407/374821.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00144-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972304 | 798 | 2 | 2 |
Without jewelry, pearls would be nothing but oyster gallstones, and treasure chests would contain nothing but dirty back issues of The Economist. Embrace the power of bling with today's Groupon: for $25, you get $60 worth of jewelry-making classes and supplies at Brooklyn Bead Box.
Brooklyn Bead Box offers jewelry-making classes and supplies for aspiring beadists of all levels. In the 90-minute beginner's crimping class ($35), students create a secure and stylish crimped necklace or bracelet and learn how to attach clasps to strung beads, all while chanting in sync with a shaman, a gorilla, and two musicians. Construct your own lobe candy in the 90-minute beginner's earrings class ($35), which demonstrates the fashionable yet deadly "hangman's noose," a basic staple of jewelry design. More-ambitious bead-weavers can string their way up to a two-hour intermediate square stitching course ($40), in which they can create their own tightly stitched "beaded ladders" while learning how to add thread to a clasp. All classes include basic supplies such as clasps and wires, but students must bring in beads they have liberated from the jewelry box of a curmudgeonly aunt or purchase some from Brooklyn Bead Box's overflowing stock. Classes are conveniently offered every day at 5 p.m. and also at 2 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday.
After enlisting in a bead boot camp, customers can apply their remaining Groupon balance toward any and everything they need for future beading projects. Brooklyn Bead Box stocks glass and semiprecious beads sold by the strand or individually, as well as 18-karat gold and sterling-silver findings. Brooklyn Bead Box also offers delicate Swarovski crystals, a swan's other best friend, and instruction books for cooking up new jewelry creations and fresh batches of bead stew.
You must be at least 16 years old to attend a class.
- love the Bead Box! The selection of beads is amazing--they really have stuff I don't think you're going to find anywhere else. And, even better, there's a big work table well-stocked with tools, and the staff is very helpful. – MaryAnneSande, Citysearch
- Even if you have never done any beading before or haven't done it since your 7th birthday, this lovely little shop will make you want to give it a whirl. The selection of beads is endless and they provide a work area for you to get right to it. – Lauren H., InsiderPages
Brooklyn Bead Box
Brooklyn Bead Box arms crafters with beads and findings that run the gamut from simplicity to statement pieces, with prices starting at pennies to accommodate diverse project budgets. Semiprecious stones, unlike boulders covered in glitter, make for classic jewelry shining next to Swarovski crystals on strands and hanging solo. Clasps and beading tools finish jewelry makers' handiwork, and instruction books and large-holed beads give beginners a foothold in the art.
Beaders can also mingle with peers in one of Brooklyn Bead Box's 13 classes, each capped at four students to allow instructors to individualize attention and curb the antics of class clowns. The curricula cover topics ranging from introductory techniques to the more complex arts of crafting wire cuff bracelets or beading hoop earrings. For further beading camaraderie, up to 12 kids can celebrate a birthday at the shop while hand making their own accessories.
244 Smith St.
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I can’t let Halloween 2015 pass without re-visiting one of the most awesome Monster-themed toys of my youth.
Way back in 1980 — when I was ten years old — Remco manufactured a line of toys based on the classic Universal Monsters of the 1930s and 1940s. The Remco Monsters set included 3 inch high figures of Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein Monster, Bela Lugosi’s Count Dracula, the Wolf Man, the Phantom of the Opera, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the Mummy.
I knew all these characters from old movie reruns on television, and was particularly enamored with Lugosi’s version of Drac.
These action figures were cool all by themselves (especially because they were the right size to menace Kenner Star Wars action figures…), but I loved their home even more: Remco’s Mini Monster Play Case, a small, fold-up playset made out of laminated cardboard. The set was described as a “monster mansion and portable storage case for all the mini-movie monsters,” and it sold for just $7.99.
Replete with “Glow in the Dark Features,” this monster mansion also features “a flip-top mummy’s tomb,” “carrying handle,” “creature cage,” “disappearing lab table with instrument panel,” and a “spooky laboratory set with doorway.”
Just as the ads promised back in 1980: “you can almost hear the chains rattle and the hinges groan as the haunted house opens to reveal your favorite movie monster.” | <urn:uuid:9ea662d7-d91e-4933-bd3a-0384802c0126> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://flashbak.com/haunted-favorite-monsters-remembering-remcos-mini-monster-play-case-1980-43971/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00395-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943273 | 353 | 1.679688 | 2 |
SO DO YOU KNOW WHO NOW VOTES IN YOUR COUNTRY? ALMOST ANYBODY WHO CAN GET IN. HOW’S THAT WORKING FOR YOU?
March 26, 2010 Engineering the New Electorate By Jon N. Hall – http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/03/engineering_the_new_electorate.html
Voting is so central to the American system that three of the last five amendments to our Constitution deal with it (Amendments 23, 24 and 26). Amendment 26, for instance, extends the vote to eighteen-year-olds.
But the American political Left (a.k.a. progressives) wants to extend the vote well beyond American teenage citizens. In the hope of creating instant Democrat voters, Al Gore’s Citizenship USA program rammed through grants of citizenship by waiving qualifications. At WorldNetDaily in 2001, Kenneth R. Timmerman reported:
Citizenship USA was an initiative of Vice President Al Gore that was ostensibly part of his National Performance Review to "reinvent" government. Internal White House memos, obtained by the House Judiciary Committee in 1997, showed that the vice president was well aware that the effort could be perceived as a "pro-Democrat voter mill."
On March 28, 1996, White House aide Doug Farbrother e-mailed Gore detailing his efforts to get INS to waive fingerprinting and background checks "to make me confident they could produce a million new citizens before Election Day."
Gore then wrote Clinton: "You asked us to expedite the naturalization of nearly a million legal aliens who have applied to become citizens." The risk, Gore warned, was that "we might be publicly criticized for running a pro-Democrat voter mill and even risk having Congress stop us."
But why bother with granting aliens citizenship? In the Republic of California, San Franciscans want illegal aliens to have the vote. (Somewhere down the line, expect to see the argument that if they can vote for office, shouldn’t illegals be allowed to run for office, too?) In "The Threat of Non-Citizen Voting," Hans A. von Spakovsky of The Heritage Foundation notes:
Florida is not unique. Thousands of non-citizens are registered to vote in some states, and tens if not hundreds of thousands in total may be present on the voter rolls nationwide. These numbers are significant: Local elections are often decided by only a handful of votes, and even national elections have likely been within the margin of the number of non-citizens illegally registered to vote.
Yet there is no reliable method to determine the number of non-citizens registered or actually voting because most laws to ensure that only citizens vote are ignored, are inadequate, or are systematically undermined by government officials. Those who ignore the implications of non-citizen registration and voting either are willfully blind to the problem or may actually favor this form of illegal voting.
On January 5, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (the most reversed circuit in the nation) ruled: "Incarcerated felons should be allowed to vote in Washington to ensure that racial minorities are protected under the Voting Rights Act." The plaintiff was one Muhammad Shabazz Farrakhan.
On July 1, 2008 in The Nation, left-wing commentator Katrina vanden Heuvel expressed her sympathies:
In the twenty-first century, the other America is behind bars, literally and figuratively: with one of every 100 Americans in prison, we are establishing a perverse parallel America–a predominantly nonwhite one–and making it permanent by stripping those consigned there of the right to vote. It’s a hopeful sign that a growing number of states are re-enfranchising ex-felons. Vermont, Maine and Puerto Rico never deny citizens the right to vote and even allow prisoners to vote from jail, while sixteen other states as well as the District of Columbia allow citizens to vote who are on probation or parole or who have been released from prison. Recognizing the right of ex-felons to vote would grant them the power to contest this status for others and help reintegrate them into society.
Ms. Vanden Heuvel never explained the necessity of allowing psychopaths, rapists, murderers, domestic terrorists, and their like to take part in democracy. Do they have special insights on, say, the public option that the law-abiding don’t?
Rachel La Corte of the AP reports that an estimated 5.3 million felons nationwide are ineligible to vote. This cohort is a potential treasure trove of support for Democrats, as John Lott demonstrates that felons overwhelmingly vote Democrat. (What can we conclude about Democrat politicians from this fact?) From the Timmerman link above: "[M]ore than 80,000 aliens had fingerprint checks that generated criminal records, but they were naturalized anyway."
The Left sold your birthright for a mess of votes and never batted an eye. Everything the Left has done vis-à-vis elections has been to expand the electorate; they couldn’t care less about the integrity of our elections. In Ohio, a judge has ruled that a park bench can be used to fulfill the residency requirement for voter registration. The Left’s latest assault on electoral integrity is universal voter registration, which would trample all over states’ rights and create voter registration chaos.
The "new electorate" consists of convicted felons, illegal aliens, and citizens who should never have been naturalized, but were. The "new electorate" also consists of citizens who commit election fraud. What does this mean for democracy in America? (If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vexes you, watch this video.)
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Georgia lawmakers are sounding out a kinproposal to create Education Savings Accounts to allow parents of private and home school children to pay expenses with state money. A new Georgia Budget and Policy Institute analysis shows using state money to subsidize education outside Georgia’s public schools will drain nearly $18 million from the state budget the first year and rise to $223 million in year 13.
The proposal, House Bill 243, would send state dollars to families who will opt for private or home schooling even without the savings account.
You can read the full report with its appendix to see where GBPI’s numbers come from. But, as you’ll see, the calculation is on the conservative side and the costs could rise much higher.
Georgia lawmakers have yet to ask for an official estimate of HB 243’s cost, which could be done with a fiscal note request. To calculate the minimum expected cost, GBPI analyzed available data to estimate the number of children who would begin participating in the program as kindergartners.
The cost calculations focus on kindergartners because they are automatically eligible for the proposed savings accounts and use of the accounts by older students is uncertain. The cost estimate relies on several reasoned assumptions in the absence of official state data.
- The analysis uses Georgia’s private school enrollment data from the U.S. Department Education to estimate nearly 10,000 kindergarten students already attend private school without the motivation of a savings account program. The same number of children is expected to enroll in private schools annually through fiscal year 2028.
- Enrollment in the program is capped below 20,000 students the first two years, so much of the savings account money could at first go to families of kindergarten and first grade students already in private schools.
- The analysis projects private school enrollment increases each year through 2028 for Georgia kindergartners, totaling more than 53,000 students at a cost exceeding $223.2 million in 2028.
The proposed Education Savings Account program neglects to require that private schools that get state money make important metrics available so taxpayers can evaluate the return they get on the investment. By contrast, public schools are required to report student performance and demographic information.
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In addition to attending last weekend’s Subverting the Norm conference (StN), I finished reading Adam Johnson’s captivating and improbably epic novel The Orphan Master’s Son (TOMS). I’d picked the book up about a week earlier and totally devoured it over the next seven days in enraptured spells squeezed between work, homework, and conference travel and events.
About halfway through the conference’s activities, with several speakers’ words ricocheting around my head alongside whatever developments I’d recently read in TOMS, I made a fleeting connection between the two, having detected an overlapping theme. This reflection, then, is my attempt to connect some of these disparate dots. Hopefully, what follows will make clear just what, in my experience, “happened”1 at StN.
Now, if you’re still with me,2 in order for any of this to make sense I must first provide some context. There’s simply no way around it. But before that, two things: 1) You should know that TOMS is in the early and distant lead for 2013’s Favorite Fiction Book, which means I have been and will be recommending it frequently, and as such, 2) it is not only benevolent, but is more importantly in my best interest to keep the ensuing context-setting as spoiler-free as possible, at which task I will do my best.
★ ★ ★
The primary setting of The Orphan Master’s Son is the necrocratic state of North Korea, a.k.a. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. While TOMS is indeed fictional, Johnson has said in an interview: “If literature is a fiction that tells a deeper truth, I feel my book is a very accurate portrayal of how the tenets of totalitarianism eat away at the things that make us human: freedom, art, choice, identity, expression, love.” One of the ways in which this eating-away of totalitarianism manifests itself in the book is through one of the book’s narrative’s recurrent pieces of propaganda, which propaganda asserts that upon reaching old age, after having performed hard labor (and in most cases slaved — literally) for most of their lives, some of North Korea’s elderly are whisked away to Wonsan, whereupon they “will enter the paradise of retirement” (p.66), and subsequently are never heard from again — in theory because of the (supposedly) ceaselessly absorbing nature of Wonsan’s opulent retirement community.
About two thirds into the novel, a character known as Commander Ga is lying in bed with his wife, and the topic of Wonsan comes up.3 Having internalized a lifetime of propaganda concerning Wonsan, Ga’s wife holds dearly to the belief that her mother is alive, well, and safely savoring retirement on North Korea’s east coast.4 Ga, however, is a man who has experienced and seen first-hand many things in his adventure-filled life. We join the two characters as Commander Ga begins his confession:
“I have to tell you the truth,” he said to her.
“I am an actress,” she said. “The truth is all that matters to me.”
He didn’t hear her roll to her side, so he knew they both stared into the same darkness above. He was suddenly scared. His hands gripped the sheets.
“I’ve never been to Wonsan,” he said. “But I’ve sailed past it many times. There are no umbrellas in the sand. There are no lounge chairs or fishing poles. There are no old people. Wherever the grandparents of North Korea go, it’s not Wonsan.”
He tried listening for her breathing, but couldn’t even hear that.
At last, she spoke to him. “You’re a thief,” she said. “You are a thief who came into my life and stole everything that mattered to me.” (p. 301)
It seems to me that despite our (read: my) initial, visceral reaction to this shattering of hope, this thievery of belief, Commander Ga’s trepidatious revealing of the fiction of Wonsan is in fact the only possible “loving” option. “Not so!” we might object. “What she doesn’t know won’t hurt her! Where’s the harm in letting her continue to believe her mother is sitting on the beach beneath the shade of one of Wonsan’s many umbrellas?” But what Ga’s wife doesn’t know — what she now knows — does hurt her.
You see, Ga has freed his wife from her dual unknowing (she desperately wants to believe in Wonsan, and yet she has no proof, no verifiable knowledge of its existence or her mother’s safety) and the shackles of her false hope, and in so doing has gifted her the chance to authentically grieve her mother. By forcing her into a confrontation with the broken reality of North Korea in general and the human condition in particular, Ga has indeed acted as a thief. But what is found in the empty space vacated by his thievery is life at its most authentic: Cavernous, emotional, broken, ambiguous, and often dissatisfying. Or, as Peter Rollins (one of the conference’s keynote presenters) has said:
And it is here that I believe we can see the crux of many StN presenters’ theological projects illuminated. In these presenters’ keynotes and in their various works, there is a manifest and persistent theological thievery at work.5 Speaking only for me, I find myself drawn to these and other theologians primarily because they are in the business of thieving away some of my deepest and — frequently — least examined theological convictions. In so doing they leave me, like Commander Ga’s wife, frustrated (to put it lightly), stupefied, and ultimately wondering what to do in the convictions’ absence.
When Kester Brewin says,6 “People have got to get out from under the economics of religion,” he’s disembarking his pirate ship and attempting to thieve away the oppressive, internalized, and mostly unscrutinized economic worldview from our cushy ocean liners and leaving in its place one that is (to re-quote Peter Rollins) more dense. When he says, “The most godly life is to live as if God doesn’t exist,” he is not simply being provocative for provocation’s sake, but rather is attempting to burglarise7 some of our most basic conceptions of God, and calling us in their absence (the conceptions’) to be open to the “possibility of deep pain” resulting from authentic engagement with our neighbor.8
When Peter Rollins says, riffing on 1 Corinthians 13:12, “Seeing in whole is the recognition that seeing in part is seeing fully,” he’s re-articulating one of the main, plundering points from his book The Idolatry of God, in which he says, “There is another, more radical form of freedom hinted at in the Gospels — not the freedom to pursue what we believe will satisfy us, but the freedom from the pursuit of what we believe will satisfy us” (p. 80, emphasis in original). Which is to say he’s sneaking off with the theological crutch of satisfaction and leaving in its place a richer and denser reality, however difficult that reality is to swallow. “Deep down,” he said, “we kind of know that we are haunted houses.”
Speaking of haunted houses, when the eminent and indefatigable philosopher-cum-theologian John Caputo says, “Wouldn’t it be better if theology was a spook? A spectral figure that inspires, haunts, disturbs?” he’s really making the case for this theological thievery at which, it should be said, he totally excels. Wouldn’t we be better off if strength and certainty were stolen away and weakness and uncertainty (PDF link) were left in their stead?
When Barry Taylor, after walking the us through the rich worlds envisaged in Mark Tansey‘s paintings, quoting essayist and science fiction author Philip K. Dick, says, “The symbols of the divine show up in our world initially at the trash stratum,” he’s donning a black ski mask, creeping off into the night with our tendency to find misguided solace in the false belief that blessed are the rich and powerful, and leaving in its vacuum Jesus’ demanding declaration that No! blessed are the poor and the meek.
These and similar assertions, sometimes grouped under an umbrella known as radical theology,9 assist in validating the foregoing claim, viz.: Having faith that Wonsan’s retirement community exists is nothing but destructive, and its propagandists are no more than perpetrators of a vicious, death-dealing lie. To accept that Wonsan’s fabled lounge chairs and fishing poles are a fabrication, to simply be exposed to this truth, is to be liberated. It is to be emancipated from the fiction and, newly unencumbered, to set about the task of embracing and making sense of the alternately deplorable and delightful non-fiction that comprises reality. In the coordinated heist that was StN, Brewin, Rollins, Caputo, Taylor et al.10 stole some things from myself and others, but what they left behind is more inspiring, haunting, and disturbing — and ultimately more satisfactory.
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Now, this is all an admittedly roundabout take on articulating my particular experience at StN and consequently why a continued participation in these unique theological conversations/gatherings is valuable to me. But if you’re still with me,11 I’d like to make one final observation, with more help from TOMS.
Later on in the novel, Commander Ga is having a conversation with his friend Comrade Buc, and we enter their conversation here shortly after Ga has revealed some deep-seated anti-government sentiments:
Comrade Buc cringed. “No, no, no,” he said. “You don’t tell anyone, ever. Don’t you know that? You never tell. Not your friends, not your family, especially not me. You could get everyone killed. If they interrogate me, they’ll know I knew. And that’s assuming you make it. Do you know the cushy promotion I’d get for turning you in?” Buc threw his hands up. “You don’t ever tell. Nobody tells. Never.”
Comrade Buc began lining fishing poles up against a tree. His hands were shaky. When he had them all set, a line snagged, and the poles fell over again. He looked at Ga, as if it were his fault. “But you,” he said. “You’re the one who tells.” He shook his head. “That’s why you’re different. Somehow the rules are different for you, and that’s why you maybe have a shot at making it.” (p. 322)
The theologians at StN are clearly perspicacious, but they are hardly popular; thieves rarely are. I say this not to be critical, but to illustrate the fact that, for theologians, telling gets you killed. While playing it safe — that is, perpetuating “the lie” — not only keeps you alive but carries with it the potential for drawing massive crowds, revealing truths that runs counter to established and accepted thought — calling the thing what it actually is — well, nobody’s supposed to tell.
But that’s why these men and women are different. Like Commander Ga, they’re the ones that tell. Somehow the rules are different for them, and that’s why they maybe have a shot at making it. And as long as they keep telling, I’ll keep listening. And maybe eventually I’ll find that I have my own secret to tell, that perhaps I myself am called to commit a bit of theological thievery.
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Finally, in his book Rising Up and Rising Down,12 William Vollmann tells the story of a U.N. interpreter who is well acquainted with death, having lost friends and colleagues “almost every week.” Vollmann writes that this woman
“merely did the best thing that can be done for any bereaved person, which was to show me her own sadness, so that my sadness would feel less lonely.” (p. 18-19)
When Micki Pulleyking asked us, “Do you know what it’s like to grieve the death of your childhood God?” there were significantly more head-nodders than abstainers in the crowd. So common is this experience among those who gathered at StN that it approaches the cliché. So it is safe to say that coming together at StN was a way for us, like the U.N. interpreter, to show one another our own sadness concerning this death/theft, and to make the sadness feel less lonely. But more broadly and importantly, it is the call of the church to join together, having been emboldened by the magic of the Eucharist and sent forth as the Body of Christ, to share our sadness and brokenness and in so doing to steel ourselves for the task of making others’ sadness and brokenness a little less lonely.
And so together we gaze into the gap the thieves and Thief has left behind and with all the sincerity that we can muster, we say to each other and to God: “Come.”
Just checking. ↩
Again, w/r/t avoiding spoilers, I don’t think I’m giving away much here — The book’s table of contents reveals that Part Two is titled “The Confessions of Commander Ga,” after all. ↩
Does anybody know how I’d go about trademarking the word “thiefologian”? Asking for a friend. ↩
N.B.: Many of the quotations in the main text’s current and following paragraphs have been transcribed from my haphazardly handwritten notes taken during the presenters’ keynotes. Some of the quotes were transcribed pretty much word-for-word, but several of them are more like paraphrases due to my simultaneous and competing desires to take notes and pay attention to the next sentence. In other words, the quotes are close enough, mmk? ↩
That Britishism’s for you, K.B. ↩
After posting the “The most godly life…” quote as a tweet, I posted a second tweet, attempting to clarify, which reads: “By which [Kester] means that once you remove the grand demands of God, you can get on with tending to the needs of those around you.” ↩
I’m aware that I only referenced white males in the examples above, but don’t go thinking that StN was an All White Boys’ Club (I mean, see for yourself); FWIW, I was particularly moved by presentations from Namsoon Kang and Melinda McGarrah Sharp. ↩
I’m willing to venture that the few who have made it this far (a smaller subset of which is probably already annoyed to have been directed away from the blog post’s main text by yet another footnote, especially after having made it through what appears to be the main text’s most meaty section) and who are at the present moment (perhaps exasperatedly) reading this footnote’s text, upon seeing the superscript “11” abutting the phrase “if you’re still with me” in the main text, suspected that this footnote’s text might be something like “Just checking” (or maybe a subtle variation on the theme, like “Just checking. Again.” e.g.) which isn’t a terribly bad suspicion, given, on the one hand, the author’s inclination toward but arguably lackluster execution of the type of dry humor into which category that type of syntactical brevity would undoubtedly fall, and on the other hand the reader’s presumed encounter with the hilarious footnote #2, and so while you had likely expected to be sidetracked by this footnote for a mere two words – three, at most! – you nevertheless find yourself well into the latter half of this absurdly protracted and indulgently self-referential footnote, the existence of which is by now ambiguous at best and possibly (you suspect) downright manipulative and/or malevolent, but yet here you are, having nearly tackled this seemingly irrelevant monster of a footnote, for which empty feat I, the author, would like to concurrently extend both sincere condolences and hearty congratulations. Honestly? I was just checking. ↩
Mike, if you’re reading this, you’ll be happy to hear my confession that I’ve read less than 1% and closer to 0% of this 752 page behemoth (itself an abridgment of the original 3,000-page, seven-volume set). In fact, I only just picked up the book at Half Price Books this very afternoon and, while flipping through the book’s first few pages, serendipitously stumbled on the referenced passage, instantly recognizing its (the passage’s) applicability in this blog post’s concluding section. In sum, don’t feel bad about the whole Weakness of God thing, okay? ↩ | <urn:uuid:8e9bbaea-46e5-4753-a774-60ae9d745e6d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://jakebouma.com/the-theologian-as-thief/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00273-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966116 | 3,845 | 1.554688 | 2 |
A new Detroit is being born, founded in urban farms, local businesses, green spaces, youth engagement, the arts, greenhouses, fresh foods.
|Paul Trombley at Back Alley Bikes gets kids involved in rebuilding bikes in the Cass Corridor|
Detroit, Michigan, a once-thriving industrial center home to auto plants and 2 million residents, now has the third highest unemployment rate among the nation’s largest cities and fewer than a million inhabitants.
The city has recently broken ground on a massive new world headquarters for Compuware, three new casinos, a new football stadium, and a remodeling of the Renaissance Center, now home to General Motors. But, as impressive as the rebuilding efforts are, this redevelopment push focuses on the city’s relatively affluent downtown community. Yet Detroit encompasses nearly 600 square miles of land that is home to middle-class, working-class, and poor African-Americans, ethnic whites, Latinos, and Arabs.
These downtown projects don’t begin to address the needs of neighborhoods in a city ravaged by racial conflict, the departure of the Big Three auto makers’ plants in search of cheaper labor, and the loss of more than 100,000 housing units since the 1950s. Nor do they provide the space and sustained customer bases for small businesses, which, ac-cording to the Small Business Administration, create 60 to 80 percent of new jobs.
A true revitalization of Detroit—one that includes all of its citizens—will require a radical new vision for a post-industrial city, say many of the city’s long-time residents, activists, and urban development experts. This vision must include green spaces, urban farms, environment-friendly small businesses, cooperative markets, living wage jobs, art, and intergenerational learning opportunities. Communities must become more economically self-sufficient so that the city and its residents never again rely on a single industry for their livelihood.
Vision for a post-industrial city
Getting city planning officials to consider these needs in a large-scale redesign of Detroit will undoubtedly be a challenge. But Detroiters across the city are not waiting for leadership from downtown. They are creating community gardens and urban farms, starting businesses that serve the immediate population, and turning toxic land into livable spaces. Others are fixing up old houses and painting murals that express the hopes of the city’s young people for a revitalized, beautiful city. Alone, each of these initiatives may seem insignificant when compared to the city’s vast needs. But the individual projects are starting to form a pattern for change, and with it, a profound rethinking of the future of Detroit and other post-industrial cities.
“We’re trying to create a whole new paradigm,” says Jim Embry, one of many visionaries behind this movement. “We have to create a very different kind of vision that’s not based on the industrial age, [which is] very top down and disconnected.”
Embry is the director of the James and Grace Lee Boggs Center. Founded in 1995, the center furthers the long-time activism of Grace Boggs and her late husband Jimmy, a labor activist who was instrumental in the city’s workers’ rights and civil rights movements.
The Boggs Center philosophy views community as the starting point for planning and revitalization activity, Embry says. Residents know their needs and how to address them better than a large bureaucracy.
Located on Detroit’s eastside in a neighborhood devastated by the auto plants’ mid-20th century exodus, the Boggs Center acts as a think tank for activists and as an agency for grooming grassroots leaders who will live and work in the communities they help shape.
Much of the center’s work focuses on getting young people invested in their communities by showing them that they are integral to their neighborhoods’ success or failure. Over the past 12 years, Grace Boggs (and now the Boggs Center) has co-sponsored Detroit Summer, which brings together 14- to 25-year-olds to clean up streets, plant gardens, and create public art in neighborhoods blighted by burned-out and abandoned houses and littered and weed-filled lots.
Bootstrap economics is a part of the gospel preached to Detroit Summer’s young participants, who learn first-hand what neighborhood-based initiatives can bring to communities. Many Detroit Summer youth go to work at such grassroots businesses as the Back Alley Bikes shop located in the Cass Corridor, an area of the city where drug trafficking is obvious, but so too are efforts to transform the community. Back Alley is one of a growing number of enterprises that are helping to reclaim and revitalize this corridor, which was once home to Motown Records and is on the edge of Wayne State University.
The bike shop teaches young people bike repair skills. The kids are able to keep the bikes they build from salvaged parts, teaching them to appreciate recycling materials—a major goal of community activists who are concerned that the quest for all things new has encouraged rampant urban and suburban sprawl.
The youth from Detroit Summer have also worked with the Gardening Angels, an association of primarily southern-born African-American elders who plant flowers and vegetable and fruit gardens. Working the land together, the teens and senior citizens have cleaned up vacant lots, turning them into thriving gardens, and built greenhouses out of recycled materials. The partnership not only creates a training ground for future community leaders, it also builds transgenerational relationships so that all age groups are invested in the quality of life in the neighborhood, and no one gets left out of the development process. The gardens also produce an immediate benefit for the elderly:
“[Gardening] supplements my income because I don’t have to buy vegetables. I can and freeze them for the winter,” says Maxine Turk-Elam, a 69-year-old eastside resident who over the years has purchased several vacant lots on her block and turned them into gardens that help feed her family, as well as senior and handicapped members of her church. And she plans to plant fruit and nut trees on a lot that she and a neighbor recently purchased together.
In her 35 years of living in the same home, Turk-Elam has witnessed her block go from being a close-knit group of homeowners who groomed the block and watched out for each other’s children to a community of mostly renters and squatters challenged by a growing number of abandoned homes in various states of disrepair.
“So many people want the homes, but they don’t have the funds right away to repair them,” says Turk-Elam. Many of the houses were abandoned because insurance red-lining devalued the property, preventing owners from securing home-improvement loans, she notes.
Nevertheless, Turk-Elam, a member of the Gardening Angels, is encouraged by what she calls growing interest in the neighborhood. Turk-Elam says that children on the block are showing an interest in the gardening efforts: “The younger kids stop by when they don’t have anything to do. They enjoy it whenever you can catch up with them.”
When beloved urban agriculture crusader Gerald Harriston died in June 2001, another neighbor bought the plots he’d been farming and continued his work.
These self-determined community improvements are precisely the kind that staff at the Boggs Center feel will play a pivotal role in redefining the future of Detroit. “The efforts might be small, but that’s what we think it needs,” says Embry.
Arts, kids, and vision
These efforts are as diverse as the people who dream them up. Arts and Children Creating Community Together (AC3T), for example, uses public art projects to help revitalize and beautify communities. Supported by the Boggs Center, the organization encourages elementary school students to develop pride in their neighborhoods and to become invested in the well-being of Detroit at an early age.
“We want to get them thinking about a new vision for their city,” explains Embry.
AC3T seeks to revitalize older structures and encourage holistic, ecology-conscious community redevelopment of Detroit’s neighborhoods. The group has created murals at several elementary schools throughout the city, including one unveiled last June at Thirkell Elementary School on the westside. The project paired a group of Thirkell students with student members of Black Artist Researching Trends from the nearby College of Creative Studies to paint four murals that decorate the school’s exterior.
The semester-long project brought a much-needed face-lift to the Virginia Park/Northwest Goldberg neighborhood. It also brought together two groups of future leaders who through their murals created and captured a vision for the Detroit they would like to see. The seeds of these visions can be planted by the older students and nurtured by the younger ones.
One of the most ambitious projects created by Detroit’s growing network of community development activists is Adamah, a comprehensive plan to create housing, greenhouses, grazing pastures, food-producing gardens, a shrimp farm, artisan shops, a tree farm and lumber mill on 3,000 acres of blighted eastside property. No price tag has been put on the proposed redevelopment, but the design calls for turning an old Packard car plant into housing and small business spaces, uncovering a paved-over stream called Bloody Run Creek, building an irrigation system for farm land, constructing windmills to generate electricity, and covering freeway overpasses with ivy to help clean the air.
Dan Pitera, director of University of Detroit Mercy’s design center studio, sees Adamah’s village-within-a-city design as a way to address the needs of Detroit’s disenfranchised poor and working-class populations. “Architecture is a political act,” says Pitera. “It can provide social justice. If a child grows up in a space that’s beautiful, that space can help begin to mold the child in a positive way. Architecture shouldn’t be only for the rich.”
Still in its visionary stage, Adamah began in 1999 and grew out of collaboration between the Boggs Center, the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture, visiting architect and urban design specialist Kyong Park, and Detroit residents. A year previously, Park, who was guest lecturing at the university, moved to Detroit and purchased a house in an eastside neighborhood that would be encompassed into the Adamah design. Park set up in his home the International Center for Urban Ecology, a nonprofit center that focused on developing ecologically conscious designs for urban areas. He and Steve Vogel, Dean of Mercy’s School of Architecture, began discussing ideas for redeveloping the neighborhood where both Park and the Boggs Center were located. Located just a half-mile from downtown, the neighborhood is in a good location for small businesses to attract customers. Eastern Market, a popular downtown farmers’ market that draws restaurant chefs and patrons from all over the state to purchase meat and produce, is also nearby, offering an opportunity for urban farmers to sell their goods. They talked about how uncovering the creek would create a water source that could be used to support agriculture.
The colleagues’ discussion soon took on a life of its own, and they found themselves posing a series of questions: What type of housing and services were needed in this community? What type of goods-producing businesses would create jobs?
Their brainstorming quickly turned into a challenge for University of Detroit Mercy architecture students to create Adamah—a model community that would show one possible future for communities within post-industrial cities. The students began working with the Boggs Center to get a sense of the community’s demographics, needs, and history. They canvassed the eastside neighborhoods, asking residents what they wanted to see the community become.
The Adamah design grew out of those conversations, and in July 2002, the students, university faculty, and the Boggs Center staff created a walk-through installation detailing an economically thriving ecological urban community on the site of the proposed redevelopment.
“Detroit is an example of how post-industrial cities will end up,” says Vogel. Cities worldwide, such as Berlin, Germany, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Manchester, England, are experiencing similar declines due to loss of industry, Vogel notes. Small-scale redevelopment that encourages localized economies will be needed to revitalize former industrial meccas, Vogel believes.
There is evidence that the Adamah design is spawning serious dialogue about such an approach. A video of the installation has garnered substantial interest. Dutch filmmaker Boris Gerrets was so taken by the Adamah concept and by similarities between post-industrial Detroit and post-industrial St. Petersburg, Russia, that he has begun filming a documentary about the two cities. When Vogel gave a lecture about Adamah at Harvard University, university officials became excited about its implications and asked him to author a chapter about the plan for inclusion in a forthcoming book on urban development.
“There are two ways to take the project,” says Grace Boggs. “One is to get a piece of land and begin developing the vision. The other is to look at the activity already in Detroit.”
Many Detroiters are taking the second approach. At monthly meetings of the Adamah committee at the Boggs Center, a growing number of residents and activists assist each other with realizing these redevelopment dreams. Instead of awaiting large-scale city funding to begin rebuilding their neighborhoods, these activists are moving ahead with the building of the self-sufficient communities that will meet resident’s needs.
Fresh-baked bread, coffee, pizzas …
There is indeed a litany of activities spread out over Detroit’s vast land tracts. The 30-year-old Cass Corridor Food Cooperative has anchored a renewal in parts of the Cass Corridor neighborhood. The cooperative, which started as a neighborhood buying club, has grown into Detroit’s largest natural foods store, offering hard-to-find, nutritious products to inner city residents as well as jobs.
Now, the one-block strip along Willis Street right off of Cass Avenue—where the food coop was located until when it moved for increased space—has become home to a collection of thriving businesses. Among them are a small bookstore, an art gallery, a boutique, and an old world bakery.
Motivated by the grassroots development manifesto promoted by Grace Boggs and others, business partners Ann Perrault and Jackie Victor opened Avalon International Breads in the Corridor in 1996.
“What I really liked about what Jimmy and Grace talked about is that it was a very practical approach to revolutionary concepts,” says Jackie Victor. “They had a big picture vision for the city and planet, but very tangible methods for reaching it. You can actually see the results of your labor after four years, not four decades.”
Serving fresh-baked organic breads, pastries and focaccia pizzas, as well as coffees, Avalon serves area residents, suburbanites, and city restaurants that feature the bakery’s breads on their menus.
Perrault and Victor believe that community-based businesses must economically and spiritually uplift their neighborhoods. The bakery keeps money circulating within the Cass Corridor community by hiring at least 50 percent of its racially diverse staff from the neighborhood. It recycles, and, though it is a small business, offers full-time employees health insurance and average wages of $9.00 an hour.
Perrault and Victor’s success flies in the face of nay-sayers who predicted that the business would fail because of the duo’s insistence on locating it in a rough-and-tumble area of the city and placing a large plate-glass window on the storefront.
“People felt like we were crazy,” says Victor. “Even the landlord said the neighborhood wasn’t ready for windows.”
There are so many other projects in the works. Brother Rick Samyn, head of the Capuchin Monastery Soup Kitchen, is working with The Greening of Detroit (a nonprofit group dedicated to reforesting the city) and a southwest Detroit neighborhood to create a five-acre farm and orchard inside Romanowski Park. Students, parents, and faculty at nearby O.W. Holmes Elementary School were involved, too, holding design parties to create a framework for the farm’s development.
“I see this [project] as a business model, not just a farm park,” say Samyn, who believes that the project’s success will be measured in large part by community members’ willingness to put in the sweat equity needed to produce bountiful harvests that can provide food for the entire neigh-borhood.
In addition to providing food to the community, Samyn believes that the work of building and maintaining the farm park will create a cultural bridge in a highly diverse community that has nearly an equal number of blacks and whites, and a large population of Latinos.
The Romanowski farm park project is but one effort among a growing list of alternative development projects flourishing inside Detroit’s city limits. Others include The F.A.R.M., a teen agricultural program started by John Gruchala; a hands-on farming curriculum that is teaching agricultural skills to pregnant teens and young mothers attending the Catherine Ferguson High School; and ecovillages and co-housing in neighborhoods in southeast Detroit. If successful, these grassroots efforts may well convince residents’ that they are a part of Detroit’s rebirth—that they are in fact creating a new kind of life-sustaining post-industrial city that may be a model for the world. | <urn:uuid:f606939d-202b-491b-b170-139e14d3cd43> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/courage/2004/05/21/detroit-renaissance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.960863 | 3,717 | 2.375 | 2 |
February is known as Black History Month. It is a time when special notice is taken of the historical contributions of African-Americans. Although much attention is devoted to well-known historical figures such as Martin Luther King Jr., Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman or Sojourner Truth, here are some lesser-known examples of makers of African-American history whose lives and works should be noted by all Americans, black and white.
Olaudah Equiano came to the United States as a slave, later bought his freedom and then wrote a book recounting his experiences. He related being kept in the hold of the slave ship: “The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us.” He remembered one day “when we had a smooth sea and moderate wind, two of my wearied countrymen who were chained together preferring death to such a life of misery, somehow made through the nettings and jumped into the sea and I believe many more would very soon have done the same if they had not been prevented by the ship’s crew.” Thanks to the writings of Olaudah Equiano, 18th century Americans became aware of the horrors of slavery.
To most Americans, the conqueror of the Arctic was Robert E. Peary, long believed to be the first man to reach the North Pole. But little recognition was given at the time to his African-American colleague, Matthew Henson, who accompanied Peary during his expeditions, was present when Perry reached the North Pole, and ultimately spent seven years as Peary’s traveling companion in the Arctic. While Peary received awards and extensive publicity, his traveling companion was largely forgotten. It was not until many years later that Henson was recognized for his achievements. That oversight highlighted the racism of his day, but also Henson’s own fortitude in performing valuable service despite it.
When Shirley Chisholm arrived in the U.S. House of Representatives, she was sure to be noticed. She was the first African-American woman elected to Congress. There were only nine other black members in the House at the time, and only 10 other women in a body with 435 members. Racist congressional leaders assigned her to the Agriculture Committee, hoping it would make her ineffectual to her Harlem constituency. But Chisholm used this position to promote the food stamp program. She formed an alliance with a new Republican senator from Kansas, Bob Dole, and they introduced legislation creating the WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) program that now benefits millions of Americans.
Ultimately, Chisholm spent 14 years in Congress, and during that time became the first woman to run for the Democratic presidential nomination. Just before she died, Chisholm said: “I want history to remember me not just as the first black woman to be elected to Congress, not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and dared to be herself.”
In 1995, administrators at the University of Southern Mississippi received a $150,000 donation to fund scholarships for financially needy black students from Mississippi. That in itself was not unusual. Affluent people often donate to universities. But the donor in this case was Oseola McCarty, an 87-year-old African-American washer woman who had spent a life time washing other people’s clothes and saving her money. McCarty lived alone in a small house, used an air conditioner only when company came, and took a vacation once. The money she donated for scholarships was 60 percent of her life savings. President Bill Clinton awarded her the Presidential Citizens Medal and Harvard University gave her an honorary doctorate. But Osceola McCarty gave much more than $150,000. She gave the rest of us an unforgettable example of selfless sacrifice.
During Black History Month, all of us, whether we are African-American or not, should take time to remember the influence of so many African-Americans in our nation’s history who have shaped our society despite the racism they encountered. We are better for their place in America’s history.
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Army spokesman Ruwan Wanigasooriya yesterday (5 November) told Xinhua newspaper that the army investigations into some incidents or alleged ‘war crimes’ still continuing. This is the first time for a long period that we heard about it after its so-called appointment in January this year. There must be a particular reason why the statement was made to the official press agency of the People’s Republic of China instead of local newspapers or any other. It appears that even China is watching what is happening in Sri Lanka, as it has to unfortunately defend Sri Lanka and that means the present government in the Security Council and other forums.
I browsed through the Ministry of Defence website seeking some information. It is full of political propaganda for the Defence Secretary and the President, two of the three brothers who apparently govern the country, apart from some items still glorifying the war and news about the three armed forces. The latter might be quite permissible for a defence website compared to the atrocious political propaganda.
Of course there was one portal titled “War Crimes” just above a bigger window on “LTTE Atrocities.” I was trying to find any news about the so-called army inquiry there, but none. It largely consisted of reports like “Humanitarian Operation: Factual Analysis,” “Sri Lanka’s Humanitarian Effort” or counter propaganda for the international accusations such as “Appalling Journalism – Jon Snow and Channel 4,” and “Lies Agreed Upon.” At last, there was an item called “Let’s Take Accountability Seriously,” and then I thought that might be the place to find some information. No, it consists of an article by The Nation newspaper dated 12 March 2012.
The situation is the same in the Army website, although it is more professional than the Defence Ministry one. The question is why the inquiries are so secretive given the public importance of the matter, nationally and internationally. There is no question that the army did the right thing by defeating the LTTE militarily. But it should have been done respecting the international humanitarian and human rights law and laws of the country. Torture or killing of the unarmed or any such thing is not permissible even under the domestic law. There are so many other norms that the armies should follow under the international law. The protection of civilians is of paramount importance. Deviations or atrocities in other countries, including the US, or the atrocities by the LTTE are not an excuse. That is why the government declared a ‘zero civilian casualty’ policy in the first place. Now it should inquire with credibility whether that policy was adhered to and whether other violations of the international law have occurred.
When the army inquiry was appointed in January, it was stated that the matters referred to in the LLRC report and accusations of the Channel 4 videos would be investigated. The UNHRC recommendations in March were much broader to investigate all accusations including what were highlighted in the UN Darusman report. But no new investigation mechanism has been set up outside the army inquiry. The government also has not shown any remorse on what happened or might have happened during the last stages of the war, as those are the direct responsibility of the present government.
Some of the revelations or alleged revelations as to what happened during the last stages of the war are extremely shocking to say the least. The naked body of Isaipriya among others with audio voices of army personnel, bullet ridden body of a child who is alleged to be Prabhakaran’s 12 years old son and the video footage of the questioning of the LTTE leader Ramesh after capture and then the pictures of his battered body are some clear examples. These cannot be condoned just because they were linked to the LTTE. In ordinary parlance these are called sahagahana aparada or ‘unforgivable crimes.’ Even if one may argue cynically that the videos are completely doctored; these are matters to be investigated. Anybody who supported the government in good faith in defeating the LTTE, like me, cannot condone these crimes. More profound matter is the credible allegations as to the shelling of the civilian areas (including hospitals) even when the demise of the LTTE was abundantly clear. The quoted numbers may be controversial (between 10,000 and 40,000) but the matters need to be impartially and transparently investigated.
The deeds of ‘Good Samaritan’ during the war perhaps by some of the soldiers are not excuses to hide the crimes committed even by a few. There is no reason to delay or not to investigate these allegations credibly unless the high command or the government is clearly responsible for these alleged crimes. The government’s credibility is becoming more and more suspicious because of the way the government is handing human rights and justice issues since the end of the war in the country. Development or even resettlement/rehabilitation is not enough fig leaves to hide them.
According to what the former Attorney-General Mohan Peiris told Xinhua newsagency on the same day (5 November), the Army Court of Inquiry has had only 50 sittings for the whole of last ten months. That is little more than one sitting per week. It has only recorded statements from only 20 witnesses. These statistics speak very poorly of the so-called investigations now going on or claimed to be going on. It is not clear how many cases or incidents that they have been investigating. All these are kept as guarded secrets. That is why these investigations are considered like ‘asking evidence from robber’s mother’ (horage ammagen sakki aheema). It should be kept in mind that these are only preliminary inquiries. For any military prosecution, the cases have to be filed before the General Court Martial.
It is possible that some cases may be filed before the General Court Martial in view of the next UNHRC sessions in March 2013 as a show case. But this is not what the UNHRC Resolution expected from Sri Lanka on the issues of accountability. By the time of the resolution, the UNHRC knew about the army inquiries and what they wanted was not selective inquiries. The resolution ‘called upon’ the government “to take all necessary additional steps to fulfil its relevant legal obligations” including accountability and ‘requested’ the government to “address alleged violations of international law.” The diplomatic language in the resolution would not be an excuse for Sri Lanka to take the recommendations leniently.
The UN itself is ‘soul-searching’ on what happened in Sri Lanka and its own mistakes during the crucial days and a report on the subject by Charles Petrie will be submitted to the Secretary General next month. Marzuki Darusman is still heading an expert panel on Sri Lanka advising the SG and has recently said that accountability in the case of Sri Lanka primarily means “what happened to the 40,000 civilians” (Daily Mirror, 5 November 2012).
I was one who initially questioned the need for an ‘international inquiry’ on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka in view of the army appointed court of investigation (Asian Tribune, 20 February 2012), but at present it is abundantly clear that the army inquiry is no longer credible given the above explained reasons. While it is primarily the responsibility of a credible government to investigate what happens within its jurisdiction in respect of war crimes and/or violations of human rights, if that government fails to do so within a reasonable period of time with credibility and impartiality, it rests upon the international system (UN, ICC and other bodies) to do so or otherwise justice would not be done to the victims, the perpetrators would go scot-free and the necessary lessons would not be learnt. | <urn:uuid:b8850591-8529-4403-bcfd-a854c9b7371d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sangam.org/army-inquiry-war-crimes-longer-credible/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.967859 | 1,605 | 1.5 | 2 |
By Ludovic Brucker
The main objective of deep field traverses like ours is to make in-situ measurements and collect samples, which obviously cannot be done from air or space. So, during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 SEAT field seasons, we have been taking in-situ snow and radar measurements.
We typically had two different types of days during our traverse (both equally enjoyable!): traveling days, where we would move to a new site and set up camp, and days where we would collect snow measurements and drill a 20-meter deep snow core near our camp.
(Actually, we had a third type of day where we’d spend hours and hours shoveling during snow storms… but that’s a different story!)
My duties during the days we worked around our camp included digging a 2-meter deep snowpit and recording various measurements. When traveling on snowmobiles, or even while standing on the surface of the ice, one has no idea of what the snow lying beneath looks like. Amazingly, I often got a clear idea of the snow layering when burying anchors for setting up our tents. This provided a first quick overview of what it would look like the pit on the following morning.
Typically, my days started at 5:30 AM, when I would shovel snow in a cooking pot to get warm water for the rest of the crew, who were supposed to get ready in the following hour. The next step was to find the best place to dig the snowpit. Usually, a good place consisted of a uniform zone ranging several square meters and representative of the surrounding area. It also had to be free of sastrugi (small snow ridges created by the wind). Additionally, I had to take into account the sun’s position and how it was going to move across the sky in the following hours: it takes some time to dig the pit and collect measurements, and we absolutely didn’t want that the sun ended up warming the snowpit face where we’d be recording our measurements. Once I had decided on the location (usually a matter of seconds), I’d start digging.
After a good first hour of shoveling, I would have breakfast. Then I’d come back to excavate down to about 2 meters. The deeper the snow, the harder the layers got. I would usually shovel 6-7 cubic meters (211-247 cubic feet) of snow. The snow weighted about 300-400 kg (770-880 pounds) per cubic meter. I’ll let you do the math, so you understand that my colleagues’ help was always warmly welcomed!
Once the pit was dug, I would try to smooth the snow surface as much as possible, covering an area wide enough to simultaneously record the following measurements:
1) Infrared photography
We put an infrared filter in front of the sensor of a standard reflex camera to record the snow cover stratigraphy (that is, the stacks of snow layers). This modification allowed us to take pictures at infrared wavelength (700-1100 nm), which is more sensitive to snow properties (such as grain size) than visible light is.
So, by simply taking a couple of photos, we were able to identify the various snow layers. We also used reference panels to calibrate our photographs and to get an idea of the vertical snow grain size variation with depth.
2) Visual stratigraphy
After taking infrared pictures, I would visually identify the snow layering simply by looking at the snow wall. Each time I saw a change in grain size, snow structure, and so on, I would mark a new layer. This process is less accurate than using infrared pictures, because it can be visually challenging to identify smooth vertical variations from one layer to another. However, I’d normally be able to distinguish the main features. I would then take snow grain size and hardness measurements for each visually identified layer.
3) Snow temperature
We measured snow temperature at every 10-cm interval, from the surface to the bottom of the pit. Most of the time, surface temperatures were about -10oC (14oF), and the lowest temperatures (found 2 meters below the surface) ranged between -25 and -29oC (-13 and 20oF).
4) Thermal conductivity
Thermal conductivity values tell us about how efficiently heat propagates through the snow cover. This way we can understand how quickly air temperature variations can travel down the snow. Estimating heat transfer through the snow cover is important in modeling the energy exchange between the snow and the atmosphere, among other characteristics.
We made our measurements using three needle probes: the one in the center continuously measures snow temperature, while the two on the sides slightly warm the snow surrounding them. The idea is to measure how fast and with which intensity the heat wave reaches the temperature-recording needle.
5) Snow density
Another important characteristic of snow is its density, or mass for a given volume. We made those measurements at two vertical resolutions (2 and 10 cm) using density cutters (thin metalic shapes that I inserted in the snow wall to extract samples). I did know that hard snow layers exist in Antarctica, but I was surprised to find out how difficult it was to insert a thin sharp metal piece into these layers! We bagged and preserved the 2-cm-thick samples (they will be shipped to the BYU lab in Utah for further analysis) and we weighted the 10-cm-thick samples directly in the pit.
Our route went across the West Antarctic Ice Divide, a topographic feature formed by a large-scale weather system (an atmospheric depression that comes from the ocean and creates snow storms inland).
We traveled across this divide, which presents very different snow accumulation scenarios on each of its sides. On Byrd’s side, where we started and ended the traverse, snow accumulation is low. But on the other side of the divide, there’s more snow accumulating each year.
Each camp we worked at presented different snowpacks, though they shared specific distinguishable layers at given depths. For instance, there was a layer with large snow grains at 0.92 m depth – this layer was visible throughout hundreds of kilometers.
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Carbon monoxide detector saves life of Canyon woman
Published 6:00 pm, Friday, November 11, 2011
It has no smell or color, but it can be highly deadly. And one can be notified of its existence by purchasing a simple detector.
The culprit is carbon monoxide (CO), and it is produced whenever any fuel such as gas, oil, kerosene, wood or charcoal is burned. According to the Environment Protection Agency, if appliances that burn fuel are maintained and used properly, the amount of carbon monoxide produced is usually not hazardous. However, if appliances are not working properly or are used incorrectly, dangerous levels of CO can result. The EPA estimates that hundreds of people die accidentally every year from CO poisoning caused by malfunctioning or improperly used fuel-burning appliances.
A CO detector saved the life of Canyon resident, Theresa Hillier, last week. Having bought a CO detector more than 10 years ago, she basically forgot it was plugged in a closet.
When the loud alarm went off last Sunday morning, she was unaware of the seriousness of the situation. After discovering that the CO detector was making the noise and it no longer displayed a zero but was maxed out, she called 911.
She held the phone up to the detector when the dispatcher promptly told her get out of her home. It took less than five minutes for the police and fire departments, as well as an ambulance and a representative from Atmos Energy. Hillier was monitored extensively but was deemed to have been unharmed, although her home was nearly full of the toxic gas from a faulty heater.
“I didn’t even remember that I had the detector, and I had no idea what it meant when it started to go off,” Hillier said. “They kept asking me if I was dizzy, but I was just fine.”
CO detectors are widely available in stores but are not a replacement for proper use and maintenance of a fuel-burning appliance, according to the EPA.
At moderate levels, a person suffering from CO poisoning can get severe headaches, become dizzy, mentally confused, nauseated or faint. One can even die if these levels persist for a long time. Low levels can cause shortness of breath, mild nausea and mild headaches, and may have longer term effects on one’s health.
With cold weather hitting the area, the Center for Disease Control, states that it is imperative to properly vent gas appliances. This can be done by venting the items so that CO will not build up in the home, having a chimney checked or cleaned every year, never patching a vent pipe with tape, gum or something else.
If the power goes out the CDC has advice for heating or cooking safely. It recommends never using a gas range or oven for heating, never using a charcoal grill or a barbecue grill indoors, never using a portable gas camp stove indoors, and never using a generator inside the home, basement or garage or near a window, door or vent. | <urn:uuid:6fc3e480-d7bd-41d9-ade3-df3d84bb0e1f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.myplainview.com/news/canyon/article/Carbon-monoxide-detector-saves-life-of-Canyon-8424826.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00221-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954193 | 619 | 2.53125 | 3 |
"Just add water." To some, these are the sweetest words in the English language. Why just think of the wonders those simple instructions bring to our lives: Kool-Aid, Sea-Monkeys, Chia Pets, Alka-Seltzer and all the cooing mogwais (from the movie "Gremlins," not the Scottish post-rock band) you can possibly stand.
With the possible exception of Alka-Seltzer, it's hard to argue any of these things vastly improve the quality of human life. But what if we could just add water to something and, say, solve the planet's energy crisis? That's essentially the idea behind artificial geothermal energy. Think back to your grade-school cutaways of the Earth and you might remember that the planet is filled with super-heated layers of mantle and core. Dig down just a couple of miles and bedrock temperatures can reach as much as twice the boiling point of water. Go deeper and things heat up even more.
Under natural conditions, water regularly seeps down to these hot spots, expands into steam and then rises back to the surface in the form of geysers and hot springs. Sightseers often find these occurrences breathtaking while fatigued people and monkeys can find them soothing. To energy gurus, however, they are founts of gold.
Power plants burn mountains of coal and even split the atom just to generate the heat required to produce steam, which is then used to drive electricity-generating turbines. Since the Earth is just giving geothermal energy away, we've learned to harness this clean alternative to fossil fuels.
Geothermal power simply involves taking this naturally occurring steam and redirecting it through a turbine or two. This technology eventually led to the development of engineered or enhanced geothermal systems (EGSs). After all, we know there's hot rock down there, and in some corners of the world we don't even have to dig that far to get to it. Why not just drill to the hot rocks, pump some water down the well and reap the steamy rewards?
Sold on the idea? Well, there's one possible side effect to all this tinkering with the natural order of things: catastrophic earthquakes.
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My sweetest Lesbia, let vs liue and loue,
And though the sager sort our deedes reproue,
Let vs not way them : heau'ns great lampes doe diue
Into their west, and straight againe reuiue,
But soone as once set is our little light,
Then must we sleepe one euer-during night.
If all would lead their liues in loue like mee,
Then bloudie swords and armour should not be,
No drum nor trumpet peaceful sleepes should moue,
Vnles alar'me came from the campe of loue :
But fooles do liue, and wast their little light,
And seeke with paine their euer-during night.
When timely death my life and fortune ends,
Let not my hearse be vext with mourning friends,
But let all louers rich in triumph come,
And with sweet pastimes grace my happie tombe;
And Lesbia close vp thou my little light,
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If you're unfamiliar with the term, r32 refers to a special type of racing shirt that is often used in motorsports. The R32 shirt from https://www.epicautomotivecollection.com/collections/tees has a strong black and yellow design and is commonly worn by racers. With the rise in popularity of street racing, it's not unusual to see people wearing this particular piece of clothing.
The R32 rules are a set of racing rules that are used in the Red Bull Global Rallycross Championship. They were introduced in 2012 and are aimed at making racing more exciting and fair.
Image Source: Google
The R32 rules are different from the other rallycross rules in that they allow for more overtaking. This means that drivers can pass other cars much more easily than under the standard rallycross rules.
This makes the racing more exciting because it makes it more unpredictable. It also makes it fairer because it ensures that all drivers have a chance to win every race.
How to get an R32 shirt
If you're a fan of the R32 road car, then you'll want to get yourself an R32 shirt. R32 shirts are some of the most popular and iconic racing gear out there, and they're perfect for any motorsports fan.
What's so great about an R32 shirt? First of all, they're extremely comfortable. You'll never find an R32 shirt that's too tight or too big, and the fabric is incredibly soft and stretchy.
Second of all, an R32 shirt looks great. They come in all different colors and styles, and they'll make you look like a professional racecar driver.
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Need a little dose of inspiration? Check out the nominees for Grant for Change, a $10,000 year-long grant campaign that triple-bottom-line clothier Nau has just launched. The company says it plans to award a grant each year, with a new focus each time. But the overall goal is to support people who are creating what Nau calls “lasting, positive change in their communities.”
The focus for recipients of this year’s grant is on athletes, artists and activists. The nomination process is open to individuals or groups whose work can be categorized thusly, and so far there are some great nominees.
Take, for example, Wendy Tremayne and her Swap-O-Rama-Rama events. What started as clothing swaps at her friends’ homes has evolved into public events, where people bring a bag of clothes they no longer want, along with a $10 donation, and then they find items the desire in the hundreds of pounds of others’ cast-aways. After that, they can visit one of many sewing stations throughout the swapping grounds and, with the help of trained seamstresses, modify the clothing to their liking. Clothing gets recycled and swappers walk out with funky, customized, one-of-a-kind get-ups.
Another nominated group that deals in clothes is ROSA LOVES, an organization that helps support individuals and families who are in great financial need, by designing and selling t-shirts that illustrate their stories. The designs are great, and the story of the recipient is printed inside the t-shirt, symbolically close to the wearer’s heart. Each shirt design is sold until a pre-set financial goal, designed to help the party in need, is met.
Benj Drummond and Sara Steele are seeking the grant to help fund their documentary project called Facing Climate Change. It will examine climate change through the lenses of various communities as they “confront and adapt to the complex issues surrounding global warming,” say the filmmakers. They’re taking their cameras everywhere from semi-nomadic reindeer herder villages in the Arctic to wildfire fighters of the American West.
Founded in 2005, Nau was started by a group of outdoor clothing industry vets with a vision for a company steeped in sustainability and philanthropy. But a year after it launched its first line in 2007, Nau failed. Seems its demise was due to a mixture of a foul economy and, perhaps, too much focus on the triple bottom line and not enough on generating financial returns.
But then Nau was born again. Santa Barbara-based Horny Toad, another clothier with a similar vibe, bought Nau just six weeks after it shut down. Infused with new life, the new Nau appears to be thriving – enough to create a bold grant program. Sure, it’s an obviously smart means of marketing its brand and creating good will among Nau fans – which, in Nau parlance, are the Nau Collective (disclosure: I own two Nau shirts, so I guess I’m part of the Collective). Plus, how hard can it be, one might ask, to set aside $10,000 for a grant when you sell t-shirts for $95? (Disclosure: I only buy when they’re on sale.) But the Grant for Change campaign is also a great way for Nau to show that its sites are still focused on its “business unusual” business plan.
The company is encouraging everyone to make nominations – you can self-nominate or nominate others – through the campaign website. Nominations are open until August 17… and just in the amount of time it has taken for me to write this post, a few more have popped up on the site. Good luck, nominees! | <urn:uuid:dc7a621a-d5b5-4e62-91f3-4328dceba5fe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.triplepundit.com/2009/07/nau-seeks-athletes-artists-and-activists-for-a-grant-for-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00162-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966342 | 782 | 1.507813 | 2 |
On the basis of a completely non-scientific survey, it appears to me that Microsoft’s relatively new search engine Bing is doing a better job at finding stuff than Google. Just a short while ago Google would find posts to blogs or small web sites within hours of their appearance. Now it seems to take the Goliath of search a week to find posts from small sites.
Why this is happening, assuming my impression is right, is hard to know. It may be that Google’s parabola from birth to death will turn out to be very rapid. Remember that the company, big as it is, is still new. The great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter, famous for “creative destruction”, argued that capitalism and by extension each successful business inevitably nurtured the seed of its own destruction. Google having got so big so fast may decline just as rapidly.
Regardless, you might want to give Bing a try. It’s free. You can go here for a side by side comparison of the two search engines. | <urn:uuid:4fc7e334-b622-4357-acae-1184a378a087> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medicine-opera.com/2009/10/bing-vs-google/?replytocom=300 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.967101 | 215 | 1.8125 | 2 |
After you become an intermediate level in English, you might be wondering about how to improve English speaking. Because, you studied grammar rules with textbooks in schools and you can understand what you read and hear in English language. However, you can not speak English fluently. Thus you start to think about speaking improvement.
We have been helping you to learn English by sharing useful content, especially video tutorials and downloadable mp3 lessons, as Power English Learning website. So we have a few recommendations about how to improve English speaking using very powerful listening lessons packs. Theese packs contains listening content because the key is listening here.
The first program is the Learn Real English conversation course. By using this course, you can quickly learn to speak conversational English for job interviews and to make friends internationally. You can start being to able to understand English language movies, news and television. You can not speak English fluently by reading boring textbooks. But you should listen real English conversations repeatedly. And you can practice with listen & answer mini stories.
The second program is the Power English course that prepared by Effortless English method. Power English course contains over 32 lesson set. In each set, there is a main article lesson, a mini-story lesson, a pointof view lesson. Also there are 6 commentary mp3 lessons as bonus. As I said before,from the main article you will learn many interesting things, for example, how to be confident, strongand never give up achieving your goals. The mini-story and point of view lessons will teach you English grammar in the effortless way.
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How To Improve English Speaking & Listening Skilss
English has become the most trusted as well as the most common way of communicating all over the world. This is why it has become very important to learn this language. Many people look for ways on how to improve English speaking or writing as well. However, the most important of all is to know how to improve English speaking because that is what is actually needed by many people whenever they are at a bigger level.
If you are looking for ways on how to improve your English language, then you are at the right place as you can get lots of tips here in this article that guide you on how to improve English very easily as well as quickly too. These English improvement tips are given as follows
Don’t Be Shy
This is one of the most important things of all. You should not be shy at all because it is not your mother tongue so not knowing is not something bad at all. You should have full confidence that you will learn it and be excellent at it soon. You can and will make mistakes and people will correct them. Know that it is this way only that you will learn better.
It is important to surround yourself with English when you want to learn it. This is because if you are in an environment where everyone is speaking English, you will learn speaking it very much quickly and in the best way too.
Practice It Out
They say practice makes a man perfect. So make sure you practice every day and you have a study plan too. Make a routine time and decide how much time you will give each day to learn speaking it.
Let People Know
It is important to tell people. This means your friends and family that you are learning through a study plan. This way they will push you more to study and they will also not disturb you while you are studying too.
Try All Areas
If you are learning English speaking don’t just think that you have to only learn speaking it. You should also practice a bit of writing, reading, and listening too. This will help you improve faster and speak better too.
Make Your Notebook
Having your own notebook is important. Write all words that you learn in that notebook and make a point that you will use them in different sentences at least 2 times each day when you speak. This will help you learn new words and remember them long as well.
Have Some Lists
You should do all your lesson parts at least each day and make lists to learn. Learning lists is one of the best ways to learn anything. It is a good way to learn in a very short time. It is just like you learn and remember things later after a test too.
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What do you do when the person sitting across from you fires a question at you that, like a 90 mph curveball spinning toward your face, threatens to knock you flat?
This is a challenge that I as an executive coach have advised many senior executives – as well as rising ones – to handle without looking like a minor leaguer bailing out of the batter’s box. Typically such questions come from a journalist, or maybe in a town hall situation from an aggrieved employee.
As an executive you may consider a question unfair, but when you’re on top, everything is fair game. You must learn to accommodate the questioner not simply with words, but with ease.
To learn how to do this, follow the example of Chris Gunness, a UN relief official working in the Middle East. Appearing on NBC’s Meet the Press, host David Gregory asked Gunness if it were true that a video -- which aired as Gregory was speaking -- showing rockets from Hamas, rather than from Israeli Defense Forces, were responsible for destroying a UN school, cum sanctuary. Without so much as a pause, Gunness batted the question away with such aplomb, and with a good natured smile, that you would have thought that Gregory had asked him if his tea were too cold.
“Look, to be fair to me, to bring me on a live program and expect me to comment live on air on pictures I haven't actually seen, I think anyone looking at this program would agree that that's really unfair.” Gunness’s smile was not intended to minimize the gravity of the situation, but to mock Gregory (albeit good-naturedly) for putting him in an awkward spot.
More important, Gunness continued, “[W]e're a humanitarian organization. We're not an organization with an army. We have moral force. We have the force of international law. And we have the principles of humanitarianism to protect us.”
Gunness accomplished two things with his answer. One, he put the questioner on the defensive in a jujitsu-esque move by throwing the question back at him. Gunness’s response was so genuine that Gregory had to backtrack and apologize. Two, Gunness stood up for his organization the UN by focusing the problem on human suffering, not “Israel said”/”Hamas said”-type arguments. By taking the high road, Gunness defended human rights not talking points.
What those in the public eye, as most senior executives are, can learn from Gunness is that you must believe in yourself before you can persuade others of your point of view. When an executive knows what he stands for, he can rest comfortably when asked uncomfortable questions. This is not gamesmanship; it is conviction.
Self-righteousness does not sell. It turns people away. So when challenged, you roll into a comfort zone and speak calmly, directly, and even with a smile, if you can muster it. Is this acting? You betcha!
It is roleplaying to a high degree but it is done so in a manner than affirms what you and your organization stand for. You are acting for the good, not simply to score points.
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And responds to their feedback
"Group Policy has a lot of benefits, but when will Microsoft make it simpler to implement and manage?" This reader question sums up the main points raised in response to this month's survey.
Unlike the two technologies I previously surveyed readers about (SharePoint and Windows Rights Management Services—RMS), Group Policy is widely used and its business value is understood. Nearly 84 percent of respondents use Active Directory (AD); of those, 87 percent also use Group Policy. People report that the main benefits of using Group Policy include security and simplifying software distribution and desktop lockdown. Because users know the benefits, the predominant concerns that this month's survey raised about Group Policy revolve around ease of use, increased functionality (including a desire for more Group Policy−enabled applications—for details, see the Web-exclusive sidebar "Group Policy−Enabled Applications," http://www.windowsitpro.com, InstantDoc ID 44098), and ease of Group Policy Object (GPO) and .adm file management. For details of the survey findings and the questions users asked, see the complete survey results in the Interact! area associated with this article on the Windows IT Pro Web site.
I talked about the survey results with Microsoft's Jackson Shaw (product manager, directory services), Michael Dennis (lead program manager, Group Policy and Windows Update Services—WUS), and Mark Williams (program manager, Group Policy). They greeted the survey data with enthusiasm about learning from and acting on the data. They also encourage you to use the Windows Feedback site (http://www.windowsserverfeedback.com), which has been the source of product improvement requests that the Group Policy team has implemented. (For details about Windows Feedback, see the Web-exclusive sidebar "Give Microsoft Feedback—and Get a Response?" InstantDoc ID 44097.)
Ease of Use
"Why is Group Policy so hard?" asked one reader. Specifically, readers want to easily see what's going to happen if they apply a GPO and to be able to trace modifications to the default settings and determine which GPO is affecting a setting and how. Readers also asked for reporting tools, better management tools, and search functionality. (The survey also included several requests for more reference documentation for GPOs. Mark addresses this topic in the Web-exclusive sidebar "Group Policy Documentation," InstantDoc ID 44099.)
"A considerable number of the survey responses focus on tasks or scenarios that we addressed directly in GPMC as a result of customer feedback, such as backup and copying of GPOs (within and across domains and forests) and Group Policy reports," Mark explained. Jackson added, "It's clear and surprising to me that we probably need a better story around making sure people know about the GPMC."
Readers feel that the Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) is a good start but still needs improvement. One IT pro commented that "GPMC helps users better deal with the complexity of Group Policy but doesn't solve its inherent complexity."
Michael explained how GPMC addresses readers' ease-of-use concerns. "We developed GPMC in response to customer feedback. It's a single place to manage group policies and who policies affect and why. It has a great reporting mechanism for showing you what's inside a single GPO, but also to provide Resultant Set of Policies (RSoP) information based on AD or an individual machine."
For Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP Professional, GPMC includes a "friendly face on RSoP" called Group Policy Results and Modeling. Michael explained that the tool is "for determining what policy settings are applied in Active Directory, or you can query a particular machine for a particular user and policies to see the settings for that machine and user."
When troubleshooting a problem, many administrators wouldn't think to check whether a GPO might be responsible. If you're diagnosing a problem on a machine, how do you know to check policies? Michael replied that if you're using Group Policy, "you should get into the habit of checking the policy settings and asking whether they could be affecting the thing that you're trying to diagnose. Start there. Use the Group Policy Results and Modeling tool."
Another reader concern was automation of GPO management. "This is precisely what the GPMC Object Model (available on any machine running GPMC) is all about," Mark said. "It provides interfaces for copying, moving, and linking GPOs. One specific scenario that GPMC enables is managing GPOs across domain boundaries. The white paper 'Migrating GPOs Across Domains with GPMC' (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/gpmc/migrgpo.mspx) covers this topic."
"Can you make settings intuitive and easier to find?" requested one reader. Another asked, "Will there be a search function so that you can search for a variable you want to change instead of having to know where it is?"
Although Microsoft's policy is not to comment on future product direction, Michael made it clear that his team is taking this request seriously. "That's a great idea and it's understood as a customer requirement." To provide some immediate workarounds, he added, "The Explain text for GPOs is in Help, and Help is searchable. Of course, you have to search in one place (i.e., in Help) and implement the functionality in another, but this is a good tip for searching right now."
Jackson added, "When I have my focus set on a particular security option or GPO setting, I just hit F1, and it takes me right to the Help file for that particular GPO setting."
Going beyond searches, Mark gave another tip about filtering the amount of information you get from Gpedit and limiting results to a specific area. "There are a lot of questions on the newsgroups about filtering. Suppose you want to limit the information you get from Gpedit and just target a particular XP machine. In Gpedit, you can go to the View, Options menu and filter to show only the policy settings you want. You can specify a particular OS or service pack, for example. Suddenly, the information that Gpedit returns becomes much smaller."
I asked why people aren't aware of this functionality, and Mark replied, "It's kind of hidden under the View/Options menu. Maybe that's something we should just make a little more evident."
I was impressed that this group went beyond the typical canned answers and tried to provide practical information. But most refreshing was the group members' honesty about areas for improvement and their commitment to improving their product for users.
.adm File Management
The survey raised several questions about the difficulty of Administrative Template (.adm) file management. In response, Mark admitted, "Frankly, we challenged IT pros with the management of .adm files when we released Group Policy in Windows 2000. The manner in which we released .adm files created problems.
"But, since Windows Server 2003, we've introduced new processes and extended our documentation in this area. First, any .adm file we release will now be a superset of any version shipped in earlier versions of the operating system. By way of example, the Windows XP SP2 .adm files include all the policy settings included in the Windows Server 2003 .adm files plus those new for XP SP2. We've published all versions of these .adm files (for Windows 2000 and later) at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=31057. And we've created a spreadsheet that lists all Administrative Templates policy settings—see http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=15165. In terms of the manner in which .adm files are handled (by default and when managed through policy settings), see the Microsoft article 'Recommendations for Managing Group Policy Administrative Templates (.adm) Files,' http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=816662.
"For an important note about the impact of the XP SP2 versions of the .adm files, see the article '"The following entry in the \[strings\] section is too long and has been truncated" Error Message When You Try to Modify or to View GPOs in Windows Server 2003, Windows XP Professional, or Windows 2000' (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=842933). Finally, we'll soon be releasing a white paper that describes the .adm file syntax in detail so that you can create your own .adm files."
Complex and Powerful, but Hard
Microsoft prides itself on being a data-driven company, and this column is meant to gauge what readers need so that we can give Microsoft product teams data that they can act on. In the case of Group Policy, what readers want Microsoft to know is that they're using this powerful but complex technology and want to use it more widely. But it's hard!
One reader said it all: "Please, make it more straightforward!" Another reader asked, "Why is it so complex? There are too many options and I am concerned about crippling all my clients with an incorrect setting."
The good news is that the Group Policy team is eager to hear what users want, even if some customer comments are less than positive. Michael and his team are not only open to feedback and incorporate it into their technology as soon as they can, but they actively solicit input.
They also want to help you while they work on implementing improvements. Michael and the team gave me more information than I can put into print, so I invite you to check out this column's online Interact! area and look at Mark's "Group Policy Tips and Tricks" PowerPoint presentation from Microsoft TechEd 2003. You'll also find an audio recording of our conversation, the complete survey results, and an Instant Poll about RSoP.
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Bald Eagle Removed from Endangered Species List
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JIM LEHRER: Now, the big comeback of the bald eagle. NewsHour correspondent Lee Hochberg of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.
DENNIS MANZER, Eagle Research Volunteer: We don’t have very far to go, and we should get some really good looks at these birds.
LEE HOCHBERG, NewsHour Correspondent: These are exhilarating days for eagle watchers, like Dennis Manzer and Phil Carroll. Carroll is with the Oregon office of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the government agency charged with restoring the bald eagle population. Manzer is one of 250 volunteers in Oregon who have monitored the birds for years to see if they’re reproducing.
DENNIS MANZER: Last year, they got a healthy singleton off, and this year a repeat of last.
They’re perfectly silhouetted. I can see the chick, too. What a beautiful pair.
LEE HOCHBERG: Today’s ceremony to remove the bald eagle from the endangered species list was held at the Jefferson Memorial in the nation’s capital. Representatives from the government and key conservation groups hailed the de-listing as a rousing success for the act which protected the eagles’ habitat.
DIRK KEMPTHORNE, U.S. Interior Secretary: Today, we mark the return of America’s bald eagle to the skies and celebrate the fact that eagles fly free, from sea to shining sea.
An estimated 10,000 pairs today
LEE HOCHBERG: In 1963, there were only 400 nesting pairs left in the lower 48 states. Today, there are an estimated 10,000 pairs.
PHIL CARROLL, U.S. Fish and Wildlife: Four hundred nesting pairs in the whole lower 48 states is scary low numbers. They could have become extinct, but the Endangered Species Act is a really, really powerful tool.
LEE HOCHBERG: The recovery is due to more than just the Endangered Species Act; it's the culmination of more than 60 years of efforts. In 1940, Congress passed the Bald Eagle Protection Act, prohibiting poisoning, trapping, or shooting of the regal birds. But eagles were threatened again after World War II when the widespread use of DDT caused them to lay thin-shelled eggs. In 1973, Congress banned use of DDT and put the bald eagle on the endangered species list, designed to protect critically imperiled species from extinction.
Since then, the government has spent $1 million a year protecting the bird. Frank Isaacs, the head of the Bald Eagle Nest Survey Project at Oregon State University says protecting the birds' habitat was crucial.
FRANK ISAACS, Eagle Researcher: That habitat protection was very important to the success of the recovery that we've seen. We know what they need to nest and successfully raise young.
From endangered to threatened
LEE HOCHBERG: So successful was the recovery that, in 1995, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officially reclassified the eagle from "endangered" to "threatened," although the same protections remained. In 1999, President Bill Clinton announced his intent to remove the eagle entirely from the protected list, but it took another eight years of study to make that happen.
ASTRONAUT: OK, engine stopped. Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.
LEE HOCHBERG: The eagle has long captured America's fancy. The Continental Congress adopted it as a national symbol back in 1782. It's on the back of quarters, and half-dollars, and dollar bills, and on passports. America's reverence for the bird is even the subject of late-night parody.
FRANK ISAACS: They're very large; they're very regal-looking; they're very good flyers. And I think those qualities really enable us to relate to bald eagles.
LEE HOCHBERG: But Isaacs is afraid relaxed regulation after de-listing will allow encroaching development to once again imperil the eagle. In fact, the de-listing was actually prompted by a lawsuit against the government filed by a Minnesota man who wants to build five vacation cabins on his land near an eagles nest. Ed Contoski argued the government should de-list the bird, since it had announced in 1999 that the species was recovered.
ED CONTOSKI, Landowner: All of the other properties around the lake on this general development lake have been developed, and I'm just asking to do what the others had done.
Protection of habitat
LEE HOCHBERG: Although a federal court agreed about taking the bird off of the endangered species list, the bald eagle remains covered by the 1940 Bald Eagle Protection Act, which prohibits "disturbing" an eagle. Exactly what that means has been debated.
Contoski's attorney, Damien Schiff, of the conservative Pacific Legal Foundation, has one view.
DAMIEN SCHIFF, Pacific Legal Foundation: We think, with the recovery of the eagle, that we can allow some development activity, some habitat modification, some relaxation of the burdens on property owners.
LEE HOCHBERG: The Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed allowing what it calls a limited take of bald eagles. It says it will still protect habitat. Isaacs is concerned that that protection effort from here on in will come after the habitat's already been disturbed, not before.
FRANK ISAACS: There's a greater potential for harm to occur. And even though the harming person may be punished afterwards, it's still already done damage to the species or the habitat.
Tracking eagles for the government
LEE HOCHBERG: And there are other concerns. The Endangered Species Act requires the government monitor a species for at least five years following de-listing. Environmentalists had hoped the monitoring plan would be announced and debated months ago, but it was just released today, leaving no time for discussion.
Dennis Manzer, who puts in 2,000 volunteer hours per year tracking eagles for the government, also worries that Congress hasn't approved any funding for the monitoring yet.
DENNIS MANZER: There is no clear-cut method to get it paid for, and that's where I think our -- perhaps Congress has let us down. There's not one mention of 10 cents to implement it.
LEE HOCHBERG: Still, most eagle watchers say the recovery of the species is a remarkable success, unlikely to be easily replicated by less charismatic species, those like the Pacific Northwest's northern spotted owl, vilified by the logging industry for shutting down operations and hung in effigy in local bars.
PHIL CARROLL: The spotted owl didn't have the fan base that the eagle had. The eagle has been our national symbol since 1782, and people knew what it was and loved it. It's very much better for any species to capture this public fancy.
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A mentoring relationship is developed when a person looks to someone else who is further along in their walk with God or in a certain area of ministry or skill to glean from that person's God-given wisdom and experience.
Since there will always be someone who knows
more or has experienced more than us and
someone who knows less and has experienced
less than us, we are all therefore in a
position to be mentored and to mentor.
Mentors invest what they have received from God into the life of another who has not yet gained the understanding or attained to the level of experience of the mentor with the purpose of multiplication. The Apostle Paul described the process in 2 Timothy 2:2 --
And the things you have heard me say in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable men who will also be qualified to teach others.
Mentors shepherd by coming along side with counsel, consult, guidance, instruction, and challenge but primarily by modeling. The Apostle Paul depicted mentoring relationships when he said "Follow my example" (1 Cor. 4:15-17; 11:1).
A Network of Mentors:
Mentoring can happen at varying levels making it possible that someone can be mentored while mentoring and making it possible that someone can be mentored by more than one person.
- Low Level Investment: Some mentoring is unintentional, happening when one's attention is caught by a respected figure in one's life. A relationship is not required with this person. Consequently the mentor's investment is minimal. Often the mentor doesn't even know the person is gleaning from his/her example.
- Mid Level Investment: Some mentoring may be intentional but sporadic, intentional but not intense in terms of time investment. The mentor may be called on occasionally for counsel or consult. In some mentoring relationships meeting for this purpose only a few times a year may be sufficient.
- High Level Investment: Some mentoring relationships are intentional and intensive. The mentor regularly invests an amount of time into the person's life. At this level the mentor functions like a coach.
Mentors Need to Emulate the Chief Shepherd:
The ultimate goal of a mentor should not be the replication of oneself in a person's life but rather, Christ-likeness. The Apostle Paul worded it well in 1 Corinthians 11:1 when he said "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ."
The ultimate accountability of those being mentored is not to the mentor but to Christ, the Chief Shepherd. At no time and at no level of a mentoring relationship does control or manipulation have a place. The mentor is a fellow servant saved by grace just as the one he/she is mentoring.
The ultimate sustenance in a mentoring relationship is not what the mentor has to offer but needs to come from the Chief Shepherd. The mentor must emulate God's wisdom. The mentor's knowledge and experience matter but only so far as their source is in Him.
As in any kind of shepherding ministry, a mentor needs to make it about the Chief Shepherd and not him or herself. A self-centered person will not make a good mentor because it is not about oneself but Him.
Effective Mentoring Connects with Where the Person is to Get to Where the Person Should Be:
Another reason a self-centered person will not make a good mentor is because it is not about his/her agenda, goals, or ways. The condition of the sheep should determine the format, location, content, and frequency of meetings. The needs of the person being mentored should form the agenda.
A mentoring formula does not exist. The mentor must listen attentively and ask questions to determine what will best help the person. Readiness is a key factor in someone learning from a mentor. God took the mentor through many experiences, trials, and character-building opportunities. Giving out too much too soon will at minimum waste precious time but may actually hinder progress. The mentor must assess the sheep's condition to know how to pace what is shared.
The Mentor's Ministry Description:
The shepherding role of a mentor would be similar to that which would describe any kind of shepherd. Some specific considerations for a mentor include:
- helping people reach their potential in Him
- helping them by personalizing the process to their lives
- helping them pursue intimacy with God not just the mentor
- helping them become internally disciplined and motivated, not reliant on the mentor's pushing, pulling, and prodding
- helping them live life on purpose
The Shepherding Ministry Manual gives some brief thoughts on each of the above points and also lists a few biblical examples of mentors. In addition, you will find some questions for further evaluation and reflection on being a mentor.Share This with Others:
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It’s hard to tell in Honolulu that a Presidential election is happening. The only evidence of the upcoming Democratic caucuses, on March 26th, is near the University of Hawaii and other spots, where, at rush hour, young people and a few retirees stand at intersections, grinning and waving signs for “Bernie 2016” to get drivers’ attention. Since the nineteen-twenties, Hawaii has banned billboards and other forms of outdoor advertising. Legend has it that, in 1968, Charles Campbell, a schoolteacher who was running for Honolulu’s city council, made a sign and waved it on the main street of town. The rest is history. Volunteers are taught to smile and to acknowledge drivers who honk by waving or flashing the shaka—a fist with thumb and little finger extended.
Campaigns in Hawaii are unique, and not just in their sign-waving. It’s effectively a one-party state, where almost every elected official is a Democrat. Presidential candidates rarely campaign here. There’s no ethnic majority, and many residents are hapa, or mixed, in their backgrounds. The state is five hours behind Washington and New York (six hours when it’s daylight-saving time), and twelve hours away by plane. At dawn in Hawaii, your inbox is already flooded with e-mails, but it goes silent after 4 P.M.
It was 5:30 A.M. Honolulu time, on February 28th, when the somnolent campaign was jolted awake by the thirty-four-year-old Hawaii congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who announced on “Meet the Press” that she had resigned as a vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee to endorse Bernie Sanders. A veteran of two deployments in Iraq and Kuwait, Gabbard said she wanted a Commander-in-Chief “who will not waste precious lives and money on interventionist wars of regime change.”
Gabbard had been warned that her action would have political consequences, but, she told me on Sunday, “it was not a hard decision. . . . It was deeply personal to me, as a soldier and veteran.” Before Gabbard resigned from her post in the D.N.C., she had tried to draw attention to what she sees as “the core issue of this Presidential election: war and peace. But that message was not being heard,” she said. “The tough questions were not being asked. I needed to resign and endorse Senator Sanders to communicate to voters that there was a clear choice—a clear difference of position—between Sanders and Clinton.”
The congresswoman fears that, if elected, Clinton “will escalate the civil war in Syria.” She pointed out that Clinton “was the head cheerleader and architect of the war to overthrow the Libyan government of Qaddafi, which has resulted in chaos, a failed state, and a stronghold for ISIS and Al Qaeda.” She said that the domestic programs the candidates are advocating—“education, infrastructure, growing our economy—are not possible if we continue throwing trillions of American taxpayer dollars . . . on these wars.” | <urn:uuid:4f2c1fd0-f272-4a9e-8eed-082d83280bea> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.saradavidson.com/blog/category/political-game | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00017-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977044 | 664 | 1.695313 | 2 |
World Bulletin / News Desk
“Should the Syrians want us, we will continue to be there,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi told a press conference in Tehran cited by the official IRNA news agency.
“Nobody can force Iran to do anything; Iran has its own independent policies,” the spokesman said, in response to a question about reports that Russia wanted Iran to withdraw forces from Syria.
“Those who entered Syria without the permission of the Syrian government are the ones that must leave the country,” the spokesman said.
Iran is a staunch supporter of the Bashar al-Assad regime and has deployed forces to fight alongside regime forces against opposition groups in a ferocious civil war that erupted in 2011 when the Assad regime put down pro-democracy protests with unexpected ferocity.
On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin met Assad in the Russian resort city of Sochi, highlighting the importance of facilitating the “resumption of a full-fledged political process”.
Putin stressed that foreign forces should leave the war-weary country for rendering success to the political process.
Turkey, Russia, and Iran have reached an agreement on holding the next high-level meeting on Syria in Sochi in July 2018.
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The fact is that many of us lead pretty busy lives. It’s to effortlessly fit dog training with work, family obligations, kids sports, and errands. Week after week my clients admit to “cramming” the day class. They haven’t found the in order to put into training their poodle all week which usually practice constantly the previous day coming in their lesson.
Hiring an authoritative dog trainer and cooperating with him in the one on one setting is known as effective. It will, of course, hit you up for money, but this is a straightforward dog training option is quickly bring result. The trainer will coach your canine on the way to properly behave when a person out for a walk incase you are asking him to get it done. Your dog will also be trained on the best way to response in not-so-easy situations, especially as he encounters another dog that has never been socialized.
Training canine through an obedience trainer can differ in cost and furthermore, it typically comes together in a class. Should you choose to be able to the dog training yourself, is actually usually typically free of charge and perhaps do it right out of your own accommodate. If you undertake the puppy obedience training on your own, it is far better to know about correct training a .
dog obedience training normally includes teaching your pet how to obey the command “stay”. This is probably more difficult to teach a cat but accredited highly desirable one. Tell your dog to take a seat and after rewarding him with a pleasure say “stay”. Slowly retreat from puppy while saying “stay”. Start slow and reward the dog with praise and treats when he doesn’t glide. If he does move, and he will probably at first, firmly decline and try again.
Even if he makes mistakes, just let him be suddenly and decide on the same command again later. Remember, this might possibly be the time place foundation of your pup’s life would be set. Make sure to keep distractions to at the during your dogs appointments. Distractions will prevent him from learning be a catalyst for frustration.
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What could possibly be freakier than the global spread of a mysterious zombie disease in “Contagion”? How about this interactive map, which shows an alarming number of outbreaks for diseases we already know how to fight.
The Council on Foreign Relations’ interactive map, which plots outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles, mumps, whooping cough, polio, and rubella from 2008 to the present, has gone viral on social media, thanks to a tweet from GAVI Alliance CEO Seth Berkley.
Take a look. Pretty scary, right?
This map does two important things. First, it does something rare in the development space: it uses data visualization to help people understand the spread and prevalence of an outbreak – not just numbers and figures. Secondly, it shows us how important vaccines are. Nearly all of these cases could have been prevented if people had improved access to vaccines and stronger health systems around them.
It’s even scarier when you break the map apart in the full interactive map here. Here’s the measles map, for example:
Diseases like measles exist in all inhabited continents and kill approximately 122,000 people every year—that’s 14 deaths every hour! What’s worse? Most of these people are children under five years old.
And whooping cough…
Pertussis, otherwise known as whooping cough, also targets small children. The numbers of cases in the United States are unbelievable.
While initiatives by the World Health Organization have reduced poliomyelitis by 99 percent, polio still affects the most vulnerable. 95 percent of outbreaks in developing countries affect children under five years old.
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|Posted on 20 June, 2014 at 18:45|
One of my friends asked me about Canadian tax system, I put this information here to share with you and any those who wants to know.
Canada tax system
As a resident of Canada for income tax purposes for part or all of a tax year (January 1 to December 31),special for the newcomer, which is their first tax year in Canada, you must file a tax return if you:
• owe tax; or
• want to claim a refund.
What income must you report?
If you were NOT a resident of Canada
You pay Canadian income tax on Canadian source income.
You have to report the following amounts:
• income from employment in Canada or from a business carried on in Canada;
• taxable capital gains from disposing of taxable Canadian property; and
• the taxable part of scholarships, bursaries, fellowships and research grants you received from Canadian sources.
If you WERE a resident of Canada
You have to report your world income (income from all sources, both inside and outside Canada) earned after becoming a resident of Canada for income tax purposes on your Canadian tax return. In some cases, pension income from outside of Canada may be exempt from tax in Canada due to a tax treaty, but you must still report the income on your tax return. You can deduct the exempt part on line 256 of your tax return.
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Open to abuse
Hong Kong's recent decision in a court case on state immunity has drawn little discussion of its implications for human rights protection. The implications were not obvious, as the case involved an American vulture fund suing the Democratic Republic of Congo to collect a sovereign debt. Legally, however, the case governs all claims of immunity made in Hong Kong courts, including those made by a serving or former head of state.
Holding that our immunity law must align with mainland China's, the decision sends a message to the world that deposed dictators and their assets can find sanctuary in Hong Kong, free from the accountability mechanisms of international justice. It is no coincidence that the word 'immunity' is but a letter shy of the word 'impunity'.
The idea of Hong Kong harbouring past and present leaders wanted for international crimes is by no means fanciful. Less than a month after the Congo judgment, President Hu Jintao welcomed Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, in Beijing, notwithstanding the warrants for the latter's arrest issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) and international criticism of the visit.
Bashir is wanted by the ICC for alleged war crimes relating to atrocities in Darfur. China, however, is not a signatory to the Rome Statute that established the international court.
Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe, and his family are regular visitors to Hong Kong, partly because his daughter was a student in a local university. The widely reported alleged assaults on journalists by Mugabe's wife and security guards in 2009, and the subsequent controversy over the non-prosecution of these individuals owing to diplomatic immunity and other reasons, did not deter the Mugabes from returning. If regime change were to occur in Zimbabwe some day, international attention would certainly turn to Hong Kong.
There has been increased public attention to politically exposed people and their financial dealings, especially with the coming into force of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption. Parties to the convention are bound not only to take steps to prevent corruption but also to provide assistance and co-operation in the recovery of stolen assets.
When corrupt regimes and leaders fall, the trend is to see the incoming authority take legal action to recover the ill-gotten gains of the old regime. Most recently, the fall of the Tunisian and Egyptian leaders was followed almost immediately by asset freezes of property owned by them and their families.
Hong Kong's Congo decision tells us how differently its court would have ruled in the 1999 immunity case of former Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet, while in London for medical treatment, was the subject of an arrest and later extradition request issued by a Spanish magistrate. The Spanish request alleged that Pinochet commanded a criminal organisation that carried out illegal detentions, kidnapping, torture followed by death, and forced disappearances of thousands of people.
Pinochet claimed immunity and challenged the extradition request in the British courts. The Law Lords held that Pinochet was not entitled to immunity, because torture is an international crime for which states can exercise universal jurisdiction. If a similar case arose now in Hong Kong, its court would handle it quite differently.
In the Congo case, Hong Kong's Court of Final Appeal found in a 3-2 decision that, as on the mainland, foreign states cannot be sued in Hong Kong.
The majority's approach holds that Hong Kong courts and Beijing must speak with one voice on immunity law and policy. Hence, Hong Kong's task is to ascertain the relevant Chinese policy and apply it as local law to the circumstances of the case. The relevant position is to be established either by the Basic Law's Article 19 act of state certificate procedure, or via the less formal procedure endorsed in Congo - an official letter from the Chinese foreign ministry setting out the relevant position. In practice, once the Chinese policy of upholding the immunity is determined, the matter will not even reach the courts, because the executive will decline to take action.
The two dissenting judges would approach the issue more like the House of Lords did in the Pinochet case, by determining Hong Kong's immunity law for former heads of state without need to consult the mainland.
In Pinochet, Lord Browne-Wilkinson held that at common law a former head of state loses personal immunity on leaving office and enjoys only subject-matter immunity, meaning immunity covering only official acts done while head of state. As the commission of an international crime such as torture (or even grand corruption) cannot conceivably be regarded as an official function of a head of state, the immunity will be pierced. In this light, the minority's approach in the Congo case allows for a richer, more cosmopolitan legal debate that draws on comparative developments in common law and international law.
There is no reason to believe that the Chinese policy will be anything less than full personal immunity for former heads of state. Chinese concerns with the ICC and the exorbitant exercise of universal jurisdiction by some countries are well documented. No doubt lawsuits brought in the United States and Spain against former president Jiang Zemin have heightened concerns.
The Congo case exposes an irony of 'one country, two systems': while it entrenches strong human rights protections within Hong Kong, it unfurls the welcome mat to individuals who may have committed some of the world's most egregious human rights violations.
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Increasing penetration of emulsions in the market have also been supported by the efforts on the part of the paint manufacturers to provide varying degrees of shine in emulsions ranging from matt and eggshell to gloss and luxurious silk effects. Moreover, manufacturers have also forayed into providing a wide choice to customers with introduction of plastic, acrylic and textured emulsions, each having their unique properties to lure the customers.
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News stories about children and teens being bullied seem to play out in a never-ending scenario. We may be sitting at dinner, having left the television on, and we hear about some tragedy involving bullying of a high school teen that has resulted in the teen taking his or her own life. Bullying, it seems, is everywhere around us. But what are we supposed to do about it? Can we, in fact, stop bullying? The answers are not easy, since there is no single cause for bullying. And the problem is both complex and widespread, so there’s also that to contend with. The solution to ending bullying requires a concerted and ongoing effort on the part of parents, educators, lawmakers and other adults. But it can be done. Here are some ways to approach a focused effort to end bullying, once and for all. Understand Bullying Before we can begin to address the subject of how to stop bullying, it’s important to understand what bullying is all about. Is it simple teasing of one child by another? Is it when a group of children or teens gang up and escalate a simple remark meant in jest to one that becomes hurtful and traumatizing? The answer from experts is that bullying is any unwanted and aggressive behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or a perceived imbalance of power. This behavior is then repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over a period of time. Some of the elements of bullying include making threats against another, spreading rumors about another child or teen, physically or verbally attacking someone, and even intentionally and deliberately excluding a child or teen from a group. It is important to keep in mind that as very young children, ages three to five, are attempting to learn how to get along with their peers, to share and participate in group activities, to understand and express their feelings, they may act out or have a tantrum if they don’t get what they want immediately. They may act in an aggressive manner if they are angry or afraid. But this is not bullying. Still, it is something that parents and other adult caregivers should pay attention to and help the youngster find more appropriate ways of interacting with other children and to express their feelings in healthy and unhurtful ways. On the other hand, bullying on the part of school-aged children that continues into early adulthood takes on new and potentially more negative consequences. For one thing, bullying behavior by college students and young adults may be considered crimes in some states and under federal law, subjecting the perpetrator to prosecution and possible jail time. Some other behaviors that are not bullying deserve mention here as well.
- Peer conflict – It is inevitable that children may experience a disagreement with each other over any little thing. It could be an unwillingness to share toys or to argue with another over something. This is not bullying, as long as there is no perceived power imbalance. But getting past the argument or fight may require the intervention and mediation of other peers or some other type of conflict resolution.
- Harassment – What if someone is harassing another teen? Is that considered bullying? After all, it is unwanted and undesired behavior. In fact, harassment and bullying are often talked about in the same context, but the truth is that not all harassment is bullying, just as all bullying does not constitute harassment. Federal civil rights laws stipulate that harassment is conduct that is unwelcome based on a protected class – such as race, religion, color, sex, age, disability or national origin – and is severe, pervasive and persistent, and that creates a hostile environment.
- Teen dating violence – This is intimate partner violence that occurs between two teens who are now in, or once were in, a relationship.
- Gang violence – This relates to aggressive behavior and violence within or between gangs. In and of itself, it is not bullying, although one gang member can bully another within the group without it escalating to violence. There are specialized approaches that can be adopted to deal with aggression and violence in gangs.
- Stalking – The term stalking refers to repeated threatening or harassing behavior and includes such actions as following a person, making harassing phone calls, or damaging property that belongs to the stalked individual.
- Hazing – Activities that are embarrassing and often illegal and/or dangerous are sometimes used to initiate a member into a group.
- Workplace bullying – Yes, adults can be subjected to a type of bullying as well, although the term bullying generally refers to behavior between children of school age. We all know of or have experienced a situation where adults become aggressive and exert their use of power over another person in the workplace. But adults also have a number of different laws applicable to them that do not apply to children.
Cyberbullying – A New Threat With the proliferation of smartphones and iPads and Wi-Fi enabling Internet access virtually anywhere, anytime, a new form of bullying known as cyberbullying has emerged. And it’s becoming more widespread and increasingly dangerous. In the simplest terms, this is bullying that takes place using electronic technology – those cell phones, tablets, PCs and laptops, as well as social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, text messages, chat rooms, and websites where messages can be posted and replied to. Cyberbullying has gained prominence in the news because kids who are bullied in person are also often victims of cyberbullying as well. How does cyberbullying work? What examples are there that we can be on the lookout for? Cyberbullying can be a mean message in an email or text, embarrassing pictures, videos websites, or fake profiles, and rumors that are sent and spread on social media sites. There’s a big problem with cyberbullying in that it goes on 24 hours a day, even when a child is home alone and should be protected within the safety of the family domicile. The cyber bully can be anonymous and thus difficult to track. And messages, photos, videos and texts may be extremely tough to delete and get rid of once they’ve been posted or sent. Any child or teen who is the victim of cyberbullying is also more likely to use alcohol or drugs as a coping mechanism, experience bullying in person, to skip school or be consistently tardy, express an unwillingness to go to school at all, to suffer a drop in grades, have lower self-esteem and to have health problems. How widespread is the problem of cyberbullying? Statistics from the 2008-2009 School Crime Supplement (National Center for Education Statistics and the Bureau of Justice Statistics) indicated that 6 percent of students in grades six through 12 experience cyberbullying. Clearly, more needs to be done to protect our children from this pervasive and ever-present threat. Who’s Really at Risk of Bullying? As previously mentioned, there is no single reason why one person is bullied over another. Bullying can take place anywhere and at anytime. But, depending on the child’s environment, some groups may be at more of a disadvantage when it comes to bullying. These include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual (LGBT) youth, children and teens with disabilities, and youth that are socially isolated. Youth who are bullied have one or more of the following risk factors.
- Such children may be perceived as different from others-overweight or underweight, coming from a different school, wearing glasses, having the “wrong” kind of clothes, talking differently or with an accent, not considered “cool” by the in-power group at school.
- At risk youth may not get along well with others, behave in a manner that other children see as annoying, provoking, or antagonistic.
- Such youth may be seen as weak, so unable to defend themselves that they’re an easy target for attack.
- At risk youth are frequently depressed, have low esteem, or are anxious.
Experts say that there are two types of youth that seek to bully others. The first type is youth who are well-connected to their peers, who have a measure of social power within that group, tend to be overly concerned about how popular they are, and tend to dominate or control others. The second type is youth who are more isolated from their peers, have low self-esteem, could be depressed and/or anxious, are less involved in school, have difficulty relating to other kids’ emotions or feelings, and are easily pressured by their peers. And, children who engage in bullying others also have one or more of these characteristics: they have a hard time following rules; they think badly of others; they are friends with others who also bully; have little or no positive parental influence at home; are easily frustrated and quick to anger, and view violence as a solution that is positive. Recognize Bullying Warning Signs How do you, as parents or concerned caregivers, know that your child or teen is either a bully or a victim of bullying? There are warning signs to watch out for. Signs a child is being bullied include:
- Unexplained and/or frequent injuries
- Lost items, damaged or destroyed clothing, books, electronics, toys, jewelry and other personal items
- Falling grades, poor performance in school, not wanting to go to school, loss of interest in school activities
- Feelings of decreased self-esteem and hopelessness
- Frequent bouts of illness, headaches, stomach aches, feeling sick and faking illness
- Frequent nightmares and/or trouble sleeping
- Changes in eating habits – eating too much at one time (bingeing), or not having enough to eat (coming home from school hungry because they were afraid to eat during school lunchtime)
- Abrupt loss of friends or sudden avoidance of certain social situations
- Acting in a reckless and self-destructive manner-running away from home, harming themselves, talking about committing suicide
Signs a child or teen may be a bully include:
- Acting in an increasingly aggressive manner
- Not taking responsibility for their actions
- Highly competitive and/or worrying about their popularity and/or reputation
- Always blaming others for their problems
- Getting into physical and/or verbal confrontations
- Being frequently sent to the principal’s office or to detention
- Having friends who bully others
- Suddenly acquiring unexplained amounts of cash, gifts or new belongings
Why don’t kids who are bullied just ask for help? The statistics again are revealing, as well as unsettling. According to the previously mentioned report, adults were notified of bullying in only about a third of the cases. Kids have many reasons for not telling their parents about bullying behavior they’ve experienced. Here are just a few of them:
- Kids are afraid of reprisals – the bully will retaliate with even more vicious attacks if the child tells on him or her.
- A bullied child may be fearful of being rejected by their peers, cast out of the group, and have no hope of ever joining the group. Friends serve as protection from bullies. If the bullied child is rejected by his or her peers, there’s no perceived protection from the bully. This often results in a natural inclination of the child to keep the bullying from their parents.
- The bullied child doesn’t want to feel helpless and may try to handle the situation themselves. They want to feel like they’re in control and don’t want to be seen by others as either weak or a tattletale.
- Bullying is a humiliating experience for the child, one that he or she doesn’t want to relate to their parents. They not only don’t want their parents to know what is being said or done to them, but they also are afraid their parents will see them as weak, maybe even punish them for not standing up to the bully.
- Already feeling socially isolated as a result of the bullying, the child may begin to feel like no one cares or understands what’s going on with them. How can they talk with their parents about it?
Preventing Bullying – What Can be Done There is no question that parents, educators, caregivers and other adults have a role to play in preventing bullying, as well as stopping bullying that exists. While it takes time and needs to be repeated, talking to kids about bullying is the first step in preventing or stopping it. Kids need to know that bullying is simply unacceptable, that it is never okay to bully-for any reason. Talking with kids about bullying also includes helping them learn how to safely stand up to bullying, and how to ask for help from parents and adults if bullying occurs. It’s vitally important to have an open and ongoing dialogue with our children so that they know they can talk with us about anything that’s bothering them at any time. Check in, daily, to ask about your child’s day, what’s going on, what they’re interested in. In other words, keep involved, keep the lines of communication open, so that your child feels welcome to discuss any matter with you. Be sure to encourage activities and pastimes that your children enjoy. When kids are doing what they love, they develop stronger self-esteem and are better able to both make new friends and be able to protect themselves from becoming victims of bullying. Show by example that appropriate behavior means always treating others with respect and kindness. Your children will pick up on this like radar and will hopefully emulate your modeling behavior. Stop Bullying on the Spot When you, as parents or caregivers or other adults, see bullying behavior, intervene and stop it on the spot. There’s absolutely no excuse to allow it to go on unchallenged. If you are reluctant to do so alone, ask another adult to help you stop the bullying behavior. The idea is to separate the bully from the bullied, to make sure everyone is safe and protected. If there is any need for medical assistance or intervention of the authorities, get it. It is also wise to reassure the kids, and any bystanders, involved. This means you have to remain calm. And, when you are intervening in bullying to put a stop to it, be sure that you act in a manner that is respectful, yet firm, and in charge. You want to model appropriate behavior, not go off on a tirade to the bully. Things to avoid, according to experts, include not trying to figure out all the facts about what happened, at least, not immediately. Don’t force other kids to say publicly what they saw and heard. Never ignore the situation, thinking that the kids will just be able to work it out on their own without any adult intervention or assistance. That never happens. It’s also vital not to question the kids in the presence of each other, or in front of other children who may have witnessed the bullying. And do not try to make the children involved-the bully and the bullied-apologize to each other or try to patch up their differences. When do you find out what happened? Again, it doesn’t happen on the spot. Whether you’ve just stopped the bullying on the spot or if your child or a child has reported bullying they’ve experienced to you, you do need to attempt to determine the facts of the occurrence. Getting the facts means keeping all the children involved separate. Find out what happened from several sources, including adults and other children. Listen without any judgmental responses or facial or bodily indications. Don’t call the incident bullying when trying to get the facts. Once you have all the facts, now it’s time to review what happened and look at it carefully to determine if it is, indeed, bullying. State law and school policy may help you classify if what happened constitutes bullying or not, but there are some questions to consider when trying to make your determination. Look at the history of the kids involved. Have there been instances of this type of behavior before? Do the kids have a history of fighting or other conflict? Is one of the kids worried that this will happen again? Does the targeted child feel a loss of control, like there’s been a power imbalance? If the child indicates feeling this way, it’s likely that there has been a shift of power. Also seek to determine, if you can, if the kids have dated (teen dating violence), or if they are members of a gang. Supporting Kids Who Are Involved Remember back when you were a child and then a teen? It is important to keep in mind that all children will witness or be involved in bullying of one sort or another at some point in their lives. They may be the bullies, or the bullied, or see one of their friends or someone else bullying another. Kids involved in bullying need the support of parents, caregivers, educators and others. For the kids who have been bullied, it’s important to listen to them, to reassure them that the bullying wasn’t their fault, and to understand that it may be tough for them to talk about what happened. Get help for the child to deal with the bullying, including getting them in to see the school counselor, school psychologist, or other mental health individual. Role-playing how to act in case a bullying situation reoccurs, helping to protect the bullied child and resolving the situation, being persistent and following-up is also vital in supporting kids who are involved in bullying. For more information on how to address bullying at the school level and with other parents, go to StopBullying.gov. This site has much helpful information, as well as links to other useful resources. Bottom line: We can stop bullying. 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As written before, the on-board reformer angle is (at least currently) dead.
Regarding hydrogen infrastructre: it depends. Speaking for Germany, 400 public fuelling stations will be erected until 2023. (As of 2013: 15 public stations were available.) Total invest is said to be 350 millions EURos.
Regarding liquid fuel synthesis, the synthesis chain is as follows: 1. Get hydrogen. From electrolysis, from algae, from whatever. (Reforming natural gas does not make sense in this context.) 2. Add carbon dioxide (best source: power station exhaust - that has already been done for other purposes). The output of this stage could be synthetic methane as well as methanol. 3. If you like: concatenate methane/methanol to get 'longer' hydrocarbons.
As each stage requires additional efforts/energy, it is clear that hydrogen is the easiest to generate, followed by methane/ methanol. If a liquid fuel is desired, methanol is the easiest to synthesize. (Alas - the one with the lowest volumetric energy density.) Long-chain hydrocarbons are less feasible - except for volumetric energy density.
Here's an interesting upcoming experiment from the French postal service. They're going to add hydrogen fuel cells to extend the range of electric postal vans, with plans to make the entire 60,000 vehicle fleet electric by 2050.
Fuel cells small enough to fit in cars were already available. From what I've been reading, some key concerns were longevity of the fuel cell, using materials that aren't ultra expensive, and being able to use less that very pure hydrogen as fuel.
I don't think the hydrogen reformer angle is present in this Honda, as an on-board asset. But to me, that will be another key ingredient. I kind of dismiss the notion of a hydrogen distribution system, sort of along the same lines as an EV battery-swap system. They seem like "too hard," meant primarily to keep the technology's evangelists evangelizing.
On the issue of CO2 look at the Stanford study that indicates soot and particulates are almost as large a factor in climate change -- then compare change in areas where soot is removed with areas where soot is not treated out of emissions.
On the issue of fuel cells vs conventional fuel -- there is a pilot plant in the UK that is producing Petrol from electricity, air and water -- realise that it may be possible to do closed cycle petrol vehicles given sufficient water, air and renewable source electricity.
"Fuel cell" size was least issue. Learning from prototyping systems. incremental improvements in intra-cell geometry have been developed. Improving homogeneous gas supply, increasing catalyst activity (and reduce catalyst loading) and reducing source resistance were some of the topics.
More work had to be invested into the reduction of the peri- phery. And there is quite a number of peripheral systems like air supply, hydrogen circulation, humidification and - quite a task - cooling. An ICE is offloading most of the losses via the exhaust. Being at a lower thermal level (making the job more complicated), a fuel cell system must offload 100 % of the losses via the cooling system. This becomes especially tricky at raised ambient temperatures.
Whilst the prototype systems were 'lab' systems put on wheels, the later systems were developed with 'typical automotive' targets reducing size greatly.
If you want to learn more, a patent research on "fuel cell" and /or the car makers involved in fuel cell system development will reveal the results developed since the early '90s. You'll be overwhelmed what topics have been addressed.
Wilco1, no, not that global warming is a scam. The scam is this religious adherence to man-made CO2 as the cause. As we already discussed at length, anyone not bent on just blindly accepting the most banal of "explanations" for global warming should have asked himself, when a politician picked the most common natural byproduct of any combustion process and of any living organism as the supposed cause, what is the human contribution of this gas, overall?
The human daily/annual contribution is still minuscule.
Therefore, let's wake up and search for other, more probable and worrisome causes. E.g. chemicals that in fact humans DO uniquely produce, and that could be dangerous to the environment.
Sorry but that skeptical science piece was silly. They accuse this U of Waterloo study of being based only on statistics. Like I already asked, as opposed to what? As opposed to the statistical "proofs" that the CO2 orthodoxy has been trumpeting for years? Or as opposed to the "put your brain in neutral and just say that 'most scientists' believe it's CO2," without bothering to ask the most obvious questions?
If CO2 is indeed the cause for global warming, it is not the fact that humans are creating too much CO2, but rather, that humans are destroying the natural CO2 sequestration mechanism, through deforestation. So, without danger of harming anything, let's work to reforest the globe, as has *already* been happening within the US. That's a no-harm change that would actually help the CO2 problem, if CO2 is the cause.
Pretending that reducing our 3 percent contribution to daily CO2 generation, even by 100 percent, will fix anything, is pretty ridiculous, wouldn't you say? Aren't we supposed to be engineers who are trained to be skeptical of unlikely explanations?
Wilco1, the entire hydrogen reforming, fuel cell operation, and power to the wheels should be at the very least two to three times as efficient as a regular ICE car, in actual service. And by doing the hydrogen reforming on board, you avoid all of the problems of distributing and storing hydrogen, and you can use the existing fuel delivery infrastructure.
Also, no matter how you slice it, even if batteries become so advanced that you can recharge them in 3 or 4 minutes, or even if these unlikely battery swap techniques become widespread, and even if one can get a real 300 mile range out of the battery, the amount of energy required for such refueling will be right in the same ballpark as the amount needed to power a home for a given time period, if not more. Scaling this up to where BEVs become the norm on the roads, rather than the second car exception, seems unlikely to me.
Also, as Junko reported, people are tending to shed those second cars, not buy more of them. For instance, we haven't had a second car for, let's see, 17 1/2 years now. I wouldn't hesitate to buy a FEV (which generates H2 on board), but I wouldn't feel comfortable buying a BEV. Not unless I planned to rent a car for all those "other" occasions.
Prabhakar, yes indeed. With a so-called hydrogen reformer. It's the same way hydrogen is usually produced industrially, only sized for a single car.
The fuel cell takes H2 and oxygen, and converts it to electricity and water. The electricity is used to run an all-electric power train. For instance, the electric motors can be built right into the car's wheels, avoiding any form of mechanical transmission or differential.
* Fuel cell technology is currently intended to replace the classic 'liquid fuel' cars - though with a smaller operating distance (more like 400 km). Having refuelling times targeting 3 Minutes they surely rival the EVs in useability.
* Hydrolysis efficiency is not so bad - assuming the electricity is not generated in 'classical' generating plants. The current hydrogen supply consists of either 'excess hydrogen' from chemical plants (little) or from 'reforming' natural gas. Natural gas reforming is standard industrial practice and would only require access to the existing natural gas infrastructure (which is given here in Germany).
* In the past there have been several appoaches to generate the hydrogen with 'on-board' reformers from gasoline (wouldn't really improve the situation) resp. methanol (better but poisonous). Only one of these developments succeeded. To get a 'single souce' infrastructure, the car makers agreed upon gaseous hydrogen as losses from pressurized tanks are much lower than from cryogenic storage (where losses are at least 1 %/day).
* You might think about hydride storage, but this is currently only feasible for 'very special' applications (eg. the latest German Subs). There it seems to be more than appropriate as it allows for improved thermal management.
* Anyway - having read about the not-so-old cooperation of Honda with GM I would not expect to see volume production ready for daily use before 2020. Though car makers' press releases state other dates
What are the engineering and design challenges in creating successful IoT devices? These devices are usually small, resource-constrained electronics designed to sense, collect, send, and/or interpret data. Some of the devices need to be smart enough to act upon data in real time, 24/7. Specifically the guests will discuss sensors, security, and lessons from IoT deployments. | <urn:uuid:2c7bf404-0465-4165-95b3-75a336ee3793> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.eetimes.com/messages.asp?piddl_msgthreadid=43780&piddl_msgid=282853 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00221-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956729 | 1,907 | 2.421875 | 2 |
According to the National Institute of Health, a yeast infection, also known as candida albicans, stems from a natural fungus found inside the body. When the body is out of balance from fatigue or stress, the yeast can grow abnormally. An excess amount of glucose in the body can also cause a yeast infection. Yeast infections can occur throughout the body but mainly occur in the mouth and genital area. The consumption of certain foods increases the chances of developing a yeast infection. Following a well balanced diet with limited bread, alcohol and sugar reduces the likelihood of getting a yeast infection.
All types of alcohol, including such as wine, beer, whiskey, gin, vodka, contain high levels of yeast. The foods that are used to create these alcoholic drinks--potatoes, molasses, beets and grape skins--contain yeast. Yeast is absorbed into the bloodstream when a person drinks excessive amounts of alcohol. This can cause or aggravate a yeast infection. The high amounts of sugar in some forms of alcohol can also cause yeast infections.
Bread is another food that is thought to cause yeast infections. The ingredients in bread such as yeast, sugar and carbon dioxide are combined during the mixing process. After a person consumes bread, the solid yeast cells remain in the intestinal tract for an undetermined amount of time. A yeast infection can result from the addition of yeast from bread to the naturally occurring yeast in a person's system. According to the National Institute of Health, highly refined carbohydrates such as white bread, white bagels, pasta and flour tortillas should be avoided to decrease the risks of developing a yeast infection.
Sugar is acidic, which makes it a breeding ground for yeast.Consuming too much sugar can cause frequent yeast infections. This includes sugar in chocolate, candy, syrup, ice cream, iced tea, juice, sweetened sugar and other sugary foods. Sugary soda and fruit juices should also be avoided. Avoid fruits that are high in fructose sugar such as grapes, bananas, cherries, raisins, prunes and pomegranates.
Although some foods may play a role in yeast infections, dietary changes do not always make the biggest impact. You should wear cotton underwear and avoid wearing bathing suits and exercise undergarments for long periods of time since the moisture can cause a yeast infection, explains the National Institute of Health. | <urn:uuid:1b5594bd-a23a-4b63-97a8-041b249b5fcb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/198027-what-foods-can-cause-a-yeast-infection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00219-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948233 | 481 | 3.265625 | 3 |
. The Costa Concordia, which ran aground over two and a half years ago, is floating again as of July 13, 2014. The vessel went down after hitting rocks off the coast of Italian resort island Giglio in January 2012, killing 32 people.
. Since the wreck, 24 metric tons of debris, including furniture, dishes, food, personal effects and ship parts, have been recovered from the seabed.
. The Costa Concordia was successfully raised off the seabed Monday using 30 giant tanks fitted to its sides and filled with water. It needs to be raised 40 feet before it can be towed to the scrapyard. The project’s chief engineer Franco Porcellacchia told a press conference Tuesday that this was due to be completed by next Monday.
. The ship will be moved to the Italian port of Genoa to be dismantled and sent to the scrapyard.
. The interior of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. While salvage crews continue efforts to deal with the wreckage, the ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, is on trial on charges of manslaughter, causing a maritime disaster and abandoning ship with passengers still on board.
. A damaged bar inside the Costa Concordia. Experts say there is a risk the ship's hull could crack open and spill out a toxic soup of rotten food, chemicals and debris.
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The Mount Olivet Cemetery index lists individuals interred at the Mount Olivet Cemetery located in Palouse, Whitman County, Washington. Death dates on the markers range from 1888-1938. Index information about an individual may include name, birth date, birth place, death date, and names of family members. Index data was compiled by Maggie Rail, a member of the Washington State Cemetery Association who has transcribed over 400 cemeteries since 1993.
Mount Olivet Cemetery is located at Lat: 46° 52' 29"N, Lon: 117° 13' 44"W T16N R45E Sec 14
There are 37 individuals listed in this index.
This index is in English.
This index is open for research.
Notes from transcriber Maggie Rail, Jun 09, 2007, last edited Feb 09, 2011:
“To reach this cemetery from Palouse, drive southwest on Hwy 27 for about three miles. Turn right or west onto Clear Creek Road, in a short distance turn left onto Fugate Road and continue for about 4 miles, then left onto Kenoyer Road for about .3 mile. It will be a sharp, hairpin, left turn onto a small lane which leads up into the cemetery, which you can see on your left on a hillside.”
“This cemetery was established in 1907 according to court house records, but there are burials as early as 1888. The name makes me wonder if it was a church cemetery in the beginning.”
“This cemetery is maintained by Jim and Jeanette Askins and I found it in excellent condition. The lilacs have grown into groves, and must be very difficult to maintain. I suspect some unmarked graves are amid these.”
“I visited and read this cemetery on Jun 08, 2007, using a digital camera and I have a photo of each headstone.”
Preferred citation: [Identification of item], Mount Olivet Cemetery Index , Office of Secretary of State, Washington State Archives, Digital Archives, http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov, [date accessed].
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Livestock Data for Decisions meeting at Lake Naivasha
“Livestock development has suffered from a dearth of data but we are starting to see some promising developments from many people in the room” stated Hannah Reed, from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, while opening the Livestock Data for Decisions meeting.
The Livestock Data for Decisions community regularly meets to share expert knowledge, data, and innovations pertaining to livestock. This year the meeting was held at Lake Naivasha in Kenya.
The Livestock Data for Decisions community is facilitated by Supporting Evidence-Based Interventions (SEBI), which aims to improve the livelihoods of poor livestock farmers in developing countries by delivering evidence based interventions to sustainably improve livestock productivity.
Andrew Ash, Mario Herrero, Di Mayberry, Jeda Palmer and Brendan Power participated in the meeting and presented an update of our LiveGAPS work, which aims to sustainably increase livestock yields in Tanzania and Nigeria. Andrew Ash and Di Mayberry discussed our livestock modelling, highlighting our processes, outputs and data needs. Mario Herrero and Brendan Power presented our apps – developed to make our LiveGAPS work publically available and easy to explore and visualise. This work was well received by the community. Out of this came several new partners, for example GALVmed that would like a lot more engagement from us. In addition, we connected with people from diverse organisations, for example the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the University of Edinburgh, and International Development Research Centre (IDRC) that may be able to provide livestock data to improve our modelling capability for our LiveGAPS work.
An opportunity to get up close to the animals for which Lake Naivasha is home was provided by an early morning boat ride on the lake – an ideal time to see the hippopotamuses wallowing in the lake shallows, a mighty colony of cormorants undertaking morning rituals, and the zebra, giraffe and antelope grazing at the lake edge.
Photo credit: Jeda Palmer
Get to know Livestock Data for Decisions community members Harriet Kasidi Mugera (World Bank), Brian King (CIAT), and Brian Perry (University of Edinburgh / University of Oxford), highlighting the value of the Livestock Data for Decisions meeting and important outcomes from the meeting for them and their organisations. | <urn:uuid:73096b48-cdbf-4ee0-874d-4a1346757015> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research.csiro.au/foodglobalsecurity/livestock-data-for-decisions-meeting-at-lake-naivasha/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.919941 | 492 | 1.945313 | 2 |
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Since the 1860s, African Americans have been a significant presence in our state. The exhibition, New Mexico’s African American Legacy: Visible, Vital and Valuable, highlights the contributions of African Americans to New Mexico. Focused on Albuquerque, Las Cruces, and the brief, 19th-century community known as Blackdom, the exhibit reveals the iridescent threads African Americans have woven into this state’s cultural quilt. Curated by Clarence Fielder and Terry Moody, along with Brenda Ballon Dabney and Rita Powdrell, with graphics by Charlie Kenneson, the show is presented in cooperation with the African American Museum of New Mexico in Albuquerque. It covers subjects as diverse as original families, newcomers and descendants, religion, social organizations and more.
The 1850 U.S. Census lists 61,525 Anglos and just 22 blacks in the New Mexico Territory. Near the end of the Civil War, four black regiments--the famous Buffalo Soldiers--were sent to the area to protect settlers. Many returned to the south, where they shared stories of the lands they had seen.
The advent of the railroad drew more black residents, attracted by jobs in rail service and the hotels and restaurants that cropped up around train stations. Others brought their skills as farmers; some opened barber shops, mechanics shops, boarding houses and catering businesses.
By 1920, 5,733 African Americans lived in New Mexico. (The 2000 Census shows nearly 63,000.)
Told on a series of panels, the exhibit focuses on migration, families, churches, social organizations and entrepreneurs, along with the struggles against segregation. Among the people it features:
Cedric and Merdest Billingsley Bradford, longtime operators of the U-Tote-Em Grocery Store in Las Cruces. Merdest returned to college after her children were grown and earned a sociology degree from NMSU. She helped develop and lead Planned Parenthood in Dona Ana County and was president of the state chapter of the NAACP in the 1970s. Cedric worked briefly for the WPA during the Depression. In 1967 he led a citizens’ group to support public education. At the age of 60, he earned his high school equivalency degree.
Elder Euland Greer migrated to Tampico, Mexico, as a boy, with his parents and grandparents to escape oppression in the States. His family knew Gen. Pancho Villa and his army and, at one point, was suspected of harboring them in their home. They moved to New Mexico in 1913 after his grandmother and father disappeared. Along with his mother, sister and brother-in-law, Elder Greer helped establish God’s House Church in Albuquerque.
Clara Belle Drisdale Williams became the first African American to graduate from New Mexico State University in 1937. After a career of teaching others, she was honored with an honorary law degree from NMSU in 1980, along with an apology for how she was treated as a student. (Three of her grandsons became physicians.)
Such successes were hard-won against the forces of prejudice. From 1870 to the 1950s, Albuquerque had segregated hotels, restaurants and movie theaters. Las Cruces schools were segregated. Even in Albuquerque’s integrated schools, social practices isolated African Americans. At graduation, they were seated separately; their pictures were in the back sections of yearbooks; they were unwelcome at proms and so held their own parties.
Black workers could only rise so far. African American men were generally relegated to jobs as porters, janitors and cooks; women were limited to jobs as maids, caretakers, domestic cooks and caterers.
The Dona Ana County branch of the NAACP formed in the 1930s and was credited, in part, with the peaceful integration of Las Cruces schools in 1957. (Many people credited the smooth transition to the fact that Anglo, Hispanic and African American children had always played together after school--a true-life example, perhaps, of how "a child shall lead them.")
The 1964 Accommodations Act brought integration to all of New Mexico.
To download high-resolution images from the exhibit, click on "go to related images," below.
The African American Museum and Cultural Center of New Mexico was formed in 2002 by a consortium of African American organizations and concerned individuals. Though still seeking a permanent home, the group has assembled several exhibitions and expanded its information base. African American Legacy represents its most recent exhibition.
The opening of the exhibit will be from 2-4 pm on May 15. The event includes speakers, a dance performance and a poem by Doris Fields.
Two symposiums accompany the exhibit. They’re in the History Museum Auditorium and free with admission. Sundays free to NM residents and children 16 and under.
2-4 pm, Sunday, June 12: “The Journey of the African American North,” symposium by the African American Museum and Cultural Center of New Mexico.
2-4 pm, Sunday, September 25: “Entrepreneurship in the African American Community,” symposium hosted by The African American Museum and Cultural Center of New Mexico. | <urn:uuid:97bb66fa-aede-4bc0-b428-50f110308f9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://media.newmexicoculture.org/events.php?action=detail&eventID=931 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.977418 | 1,067 | 3.453125 | 3 |
This is pretty cool: New Map Locates Milky Way in Neighborhood of 100,000 Galaxies.
A new map of the Milky Way’s cosmic neighborhood shows where our galaxy lives in relation to thousands of others nearby, with scientists giving the newly discovered “supercluster” of galaxies a name: Laniakea, which means “immeasurable heaven” in Hawaiian.
Throughout the universe, galaxies tend to clump together in massive structures that astronomers call superclusters. According to the new map, Earth’s galaxy lives near the edge of the Laniakea supercluster, which measures 500 million light-years in diameter and includes roughly 100,000 galaxies.
The region is just a small slice of the visible universe, which spans more than 90 billion light-years.
As someone who spends his share of time reading about astronomy, I’ve often wondered why most astronomical literature rarely identified the galactic supercluster that we live in, despite mentioning others like Coma or Perseus-Pisces. I’ve occasionally heard our home supercluster called the Virgo supercluster, presumably after the Virgo cluster which is in our cosmic neighborhood. But it turns out that our local supercluster wasn’t well mapped out and the “Virgo” name was unofficial.
Now it is official. We live in the Laniakea supercluster. Just to review our cosmic address:
- Solar System
- Orion-Cygnus Arm of the Milky Way
- Milky Way galaxy
- Local Group (of galaxies)
- Laniakea Supercluster
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Part of dentistry has long been the filling in of cavities, and it is a common reason for seeing a Newport Beach dentist. But what some individuals might not know is that this procedure has changed and improved significantly over the years. Let’s look back at how fillings have become safer and more dependable since the days of their inception.
A metal alloy was initially used to fill in cavities. It was called dental amalgam. It was made of mostly silver, which is where the term “silver fillings” originated. As a Newport Beach dentist would be quick to point out, though, they were up to fifty percent mercury as well. As most people know, mercury is toxic, so this led to all sorts of health problems. For these sorts of fillings, undercutting was often required as well. This is where extra tooth matter was removed so that there was a better position in which the mixture could stay.
Newer versions of tooth composite are colored the same as your original teeth, so they are nowhere near as noticeable. With white, translucent composite, most people will never be able to tell that you had a cavity filled. The material is made of silica and plastic, and it bonds with your teeth quickly and securely. Fillings made of this composite also have smoother margins. That means that plaque cannot build around the settings like it could with the silver/mercury versions.
Some dentists will offer gold fillings, which are hard and durable. There are also porcelain fillings, called ceramics. They look the same as composite versions, but they are resistant to staining so that they stay whiter. They can be more abrasive, however, and some people don’t like the sensation of having to touch them with their tongue. These versions also cost more money than the standard composite.
If you need to get cavities filled, you can rest assured that a Newport Beach dentist will be gentle, and the pain will be minimal. The process will undoubtedly be much less invasive than it was years ago when options were more limited, and the results were far from guaranteed. It’s incredible to think how far the oral care industry has come, and it should be fascinating to see where it’s headed in the coming years. | <urn:uuid:e8a16311-adf1-40e3-8c75-9b9d079b6f4b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dentist-newport-beach.com/newport-beach-dentist-can-fill-cavities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.984141 | 482 | 2.453125 | 2 |
10/02/2009 - Be prepared. Not scared.
Those four words tell the tale of the latest incarnation of H1N1 influenza – the “swine flu.”
Truth is, no one knows how hard this flu may hit, or when it will blow over.
But as scientists and health officials learn more about this wily virus, they are becoming better prepared for the next pandemic.
Because there will be a next one.
Since the first cases of a novel influenza strain were reported in California and Mexico in March and April of this year, H1N1 has swept through nearly 200 countries, killing nearly 4,000.
By June, federal health official estimated that more than 1 million Americans had come down with H1N1 flu. Approximately 10,000 people have been hospitalized, and about 600 have died.
A typical seasonal flu in this country will kill an average of 36,000 and hospitalize more than 200,000 – mostly in people over 65, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
But H1N1 is not your garden variety flu.
For one thing, it seems to affect younger people. Earlier this year, the CDC reported that hospitalization rates were highest in young children under 5, and the number of deaths was highest among people 25 to 49.
For another, this flu hasn’t been seen before. It’s a novel “reassortment” of four genes from influenza viruses that normally circulate in pigs, birds and humans.
H1N1 has caused mild symptoms in the majority of cases reported so far, and has remained stable and responsive to antiviral medications.
Experts worry that as it circulates in humans, the virus could pick up additional human flu genes, becoming more dangerous.
It initially was called swine flu because this new H1N1 strain was first identified in pigs. Yes, pigs come down with the flu, too, and experience the same fever, coughing and sneezing that humans do. And occasionally they can pass the virus to humans through the infected droplets they sneeze into the air.
Nobody knows exactly how this novel virus emerged, although federal agriculture officials speculate it first arose in pigs in Asia and made its way to North America in an infected human.
Today’s H1N1 influenza is genetically similar to the 1918-1919 flu, which killed millions of people worldwide including more than 500,000 Americans. But that was before anti-viral medications, antibiotics to treat bacterial co-infections and mechanical ventilators were available to prevent deaths from severe pneumonia.
H1N1 is also similar to the “swine flu” that sickened 230 soldiers at Fort Dix, N.J., in early 1976. That outbreak prompted a massive vaccination campaign which was halted after federal health officials determined the virus was not spreading widely, and the vaccine was linked to a small increased risk of Guillain-Barré syndrome, a neuromuscular disorder.
Two different influenza strains were responsible for the 1957 “Asian flu” that killed 70,000 Americans, and the 1968 “Hong Kong flu,” which killed 34,000. Like the 1918 flu before it, the 1957 variety appeared in late spring, and surged back during the following winter. Experts worry that something similar could happen this winter.
It’s important to note, however, that health officials have been planning for several years for the next influenza pandemic.
The efficiency of vaccine testing and production has been vastly improved, as evidenced by the speedy development of an effective H1N1 vaccine, which will arrive in October. Antiviral drugs have been stockpiled, as have protective masks and ventilators for the seriously ill.
Just as important, the information age has made it possible for scientists, health officials and the public to share crucial information instantly so that they combat the flu more effectively and limit its spread.
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Founded in the 11th and 12th centuries to serve the caravans crossing the Sahara, these trading and religious centres became focal points of Islamic culture. They have managed to preserve an urban fabric that evolved between the 12th and 16th centuries. Typically, houses with patios crowd along narrow streets around a mosque with a square minaret. They illustrate a traditional way of life centred on the nomadic culture of the people of the western Sahara.
The city of Aigai, the ancient first capital of the Kingdom of Macedonia, was discovered in the 19th century near Vergina, in northern Greece. The most important remains are the monumental palace, lavishly decorated with mosaics and painted stuccoes, and the burial ground with more than 300 tumuli, some of which date from the 11th century B.C. One of the royal tombs in the Great Tumulus is identified as that of Philip II, who conquered all the Greek cities, paving the way for his son Alexander and the expansion of the Hellenistic world.
Between 1919 and 1933, the Bauhaus School, based first in Weimar and then in Dessau, revolutionized architectural and aesthetic concepts and practices. The buildings put up and decorated by the school's professors (Walter Gropius, Hannes Meyer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Wassily Kandinsky) launched the Modern Movement, which shaped much of the architecture of the 20th century.
This 360-km network of navigable waterways linking the Mediterranean and the Atlantic through 328 structures (locks, aqueducts, bridges, tunnels, etc.) is one of the most remarkable feats of civil engineering in modern times. Built between 1667 and 1694, it paved the way for the Industrial Revolution. The care that its creator, Pierre-Paul Riquet, took in the design and the way it blends with its surroundings turned a technical achievement into a work of art.
When the Emperor Frederick II built this castle near Bari in the 13th century, he imbued it with symbolic significance, as reflected in the location, the mathematical and astronomical precision of the layout and the perfectly regular shape. A unique piece of medieval military architecture, Castel del Monte is a successful blend of elements from classical antiquity, the Islamic Orient and north European Cistercian Gothic.
Gammelstad, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, is the best-preserved example of a 'church village', a unique kind of village formerly found throughout northern Scandinavia. The 424 wooden houses, huddled round the early 15th-century stone church, were used only on Sundays and at religious festivals to house worshippers from the surrounding countryside who could not return home the same day because of the distance and difficult travelling conditions.
Begun in 1248, the construction of this Gothic masterpiece took place in several stages and was not completed until 1880. Over seven centuries, successive builders were inspired by the same faith and a spirit of absolute fidelity to the original plans. Apart from its exceptional intrinsic value and the artistic masterpieces it contains, Cologne Cathedral testifies to the enduring strength of European Christianity.
Extending 135 km around the city of Amsterdam, this defence line (built between 1883 and 1920) is the only example of a fortification based on the principle of controlling the waters. Since the 16th century, the people of the Netherlands have used their expert knowledge of hydraulic engineering for defence purposes. The centre of the country was protected by a network of 45 armed forts, acting in concert with temporary flooding from polders and an intricate system of canals and locks.
Ravenna was the seat of the Roman Empire in the 5th century and then of Byzantine Italy until the 8th century. It has a unique collection of early Christian mosaics and monuments. All eight buildings – the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, the Neonian Baptistery, the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo, the Arian Baptistery, the Archiepiscopal Chapel, the Mausoleum of Theodoric, the Church of San Vitale and the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe – were constructed in the 5th and 6th centuries. They show great artistic skill, including a wonderful blend of Graeco-Roman tradition, Christian iconography and oriental and Western styles.
The Hiroshima Peace Memorial (Genbaku Dome) was the only structure left standing in the area where the first atomic bomb exploded on 6 August 1945. Through the efforts of many people, including those of the city of Hiroshima, it has been preserved in the same state as immediately after the bombing. Not only is it a stark and powerful symbol of the most destructive force ever created by humankind; it also expresses the hope for world peace and the ultimate elimination of all nuclear weapons.
The city of Oporto, built along the hillsides overlooking the mouth of the Douro river, is an outstanding urban landscape with a 2,000-year history. Its continuous growth, linked to the sea (the Romans gave it the name Portus, or port), can be seen in the many and varied monuments, from the cathedral with its Romanesque choir, to the neoclassical Stock Exchange and the typically Portuguese Manueline-style Church of Santa Clara.
It was in this Tuscan town that Renaissance town-planning concepts were first put into practice after Pope Pius II decided, in 1459, to transform the look of his birthplace. He chose the architect Bernardo Rossellino, who applied the principles of his mentor, Leon Battista Alberti. This new vision of urban space was realized in the superb square known as Piazza Pio II and the buildings around it: the Piccolomini Palace, the Borgia Palace and the cathedral with its pure Renaissance exterior and an interior in the late Gothic style of south German churches.
Salzburg has managed to preserve an extraordinarily rich urban fabric, developed over the period from the Middle Ages to the 19th century when it was a city-state ruled by a prince-archbishop. Its Flamboyant Gothic art attracted many craftsmen and artists before the city became even better known through the work of the Italian architects Vincenzo Scamozzi and Santini Solari, to whom the centre of Salzburg owes much of its Baroque appearance. This meeting-point of northern and southern Europe perhaps sparked the genius of Salzburg’s most famous son, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, whose name has been associated with the city ever since.
Founded in the 11th century by the Almoravids as a military settlement, Meknes became a capital under Sultan Moulay Ismaïl (1672–1727), the founder of the Alawite dynasty. The sultan turned it into a impressive city in Spanish-Moorish style, surrounded by high walls with great doors, where the harmonious blending of the Islamic and European styles of the 17th century Maghreb are still evident today.
The old colonial town of Querétaro is unusual in having retained the geometric street plan of the Spanish conquerors side by side with the twisting alleys of the Indian quarters. The Otomi, the Tarasco, the Chichimeca and the Spanish lived together peacefully in the town, which is notable for the many ornate civil and religious Baroque monuments from its golden age in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Built by the Moors in a defensive position at the heart of the Caliphate of Cordoba, Cuenca is an unusually well-preserved medieval fortified city. Conquered by the Castilians in the 12th century, it became a royal town and bishopric endowed with important buildings, such as Spain's first Gothic cathedral, and the famous casas colgadas (hanging houses), suspended from sheer cliffs overlooking the Huécar river. Taking full advantage of its location, the city towers above the magnificent countryside.
The island of Itsukushima, in the Seto inland sea, has been a holy place of Shintoism since the earliest times. The first shrine buildings here were probably erected in the 6th century. The present shrine dates from the 12th century and the harmoniously arranged buildings reveal great artistic and technical skill. The shrine plays on the contrasts in colour and form between mountains and sea and illustrates the Japanese concept of scenic beauty, which combines nature and human creativity.
Built between 1482 and 1533, this group of buildings was originally used for trading in silk (hence its name, the Silk Exchange) and it has always been a centre for commerce. It is a masterpiece of late Gothic architecture. The grandiose Sala de Contratación (Contract or Trading Hall), in particular, illustrates the power and wealth of a major Mediterranean mercantile city in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Between the 17th and 20th centuries, the ruling dukes of Liechtenstein transformed their domains in southern Moravia into a striking landscape. It married Baroque architecture (mainly the work of Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach) and the classical and neo-Gothic style of the castles of Lednice and Valtice with countryside fashioned according to English romantic principles of landscape architecture. At 200 km2 , it is one of the largest artificial landscapes in Europe.
Mount Lushan, in Jiangxi, is one of the spiritual centres of Chinese civilization. Buddhist and Taoist temples, along with landmarks of Confucianism, where the most eminent masters taught, blend effortlessly into a strikingly beautiful landscape which has inspired countless artists who developed the aesthetic approach to nature found in Chinese culture.
These places in Saxony-Anhalt are all associated with the lives of Martin Luther and his fellow-reformer Melanchthon. They include Melanchthon's house in Wittenberg, the houses in Eisleben where Luther was born in 1483 and died in 1546, his room in Wittenberg, the local church and the castle church where, on 31 October 1517, Luther posted his famous '95 Theses', which launched the Reformation and a new era in the religious and political history of the Western world.
The first Benedictine monks settled here in 996. They went on to convert the Hungarians, to found the country's first school and, in 1055, to write the first document in Hungarian. From the time of its founding, this monastic community has promoted culture throughout central Europe. Its 1,000-year history can be seen in the succession of architectural styles of the monastic buildings (the oldest dating from 1224), which still today house a school and the monastic community.
From the 18th century to 1918, Schönbrunn was the residence of the Habsburg emperors. It was designed by the architects Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach and Nicolaus Pacassi and is full of outstanding examples of decorative art. Together with its gardens, the site of the world’s first zoo in 1752, it is a remarkable Baroque ensemble and a perfect example of Gesamtkunstwerk
The Mayan town of Uxmal, in Yucatán, was founded c. A.D. 700 and had some 25,000 inhabitants. The layout of the buildings, which date from between 700 and 1000, reveals a knowledge of astronomy. The Pyramid of the Soothsayer, as the Spaniards called it, dominates the ceremonial centre, which has well-designed buildings decorated with a profusion of symbolic motifs and sculptures depicting Chaac, the god of rain. The ceremonial sites of Uxmal, Kabah, Labna and Sayil are considered the high points of Mayan art and architecture.
Excavations here from 1936 to 1941 led to the discovery of the first hominid fossil at this site. Later, 50 fossils of Meganthropus palaeo and Pithecanthropus erectus/Homo erectus were found – half of all the world's known hominid fossils. Inhabited for the past one and a half million years, Sangiran is one of the key sites for the understanding of human evolution.
This monastic complex, perched since about the 7th century on the steep sides of the rocky island of Skellig Michael, some 12 km off the coast of south-west Ireland, illustrates the very spartan existence of the first Irish Christians. Since the extreme remoteness of Skellig Michael has until recently discouraged visitors, the site is exceptionally well preserved.
The trulli , limestone dwellings found in the southern region of Puglia, are remarkable examples of drywall (mortarless) construction, a prehistoric building technique still in use in this region. The trulli are made of roughly worked limestone boulders collected from neighbouring fields. Characteristically, they feature pyramidal, domed or conical roofs built up of corbelled limestone slabs.
Preserved by its long isolation, the Upper Svaneti region of the Caucasus is an exceptional example of mountain scenery with medieval-type villages and tower-houses. The village of Chazhashi still has more than 200 of these very unusual houses, which were used both as dwellings and as defence posts against the invaders who plagued the region.
The Verla groundwood and board mill and its associated residential area is an outstanding, remarkably well-preserved example of the small-scale rural industrial settlements associated with pulp, paper and board production that flourished in northern Europe and North America in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Only a handful of such settlements survive to the present day.
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The coastal area of Belize is an outstanding natural system consisting of the largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere, offshore atolls, several hundred sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons and estuaries. The system’s seven sites illustrate the evolutionary history of reef development and are a significant habitat for threatened species, including marine turtles, manatees and the American marine crocodile.
Situated in south-east Siberia, the 3.15-million-ha Lake Baikal is the oldest (25 million years) and deepest (1,700 m) lake in the world. It contains 20% of the world's total unfrozen freshwater reserve. Known as the 'Galapagos of Russia', its age and isolation have produced one of the world's richest and most unusual freshwater faunas, which is of exceptional value to evolutionary science.
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The Okapi Wildlife Reserve occupies about one-fifth of the Ituri forest in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congo river basin, of which the reserve and forest are a part, is one of the largest drainage systems in Africa. The reserve contains threatened species of primates and birds and about 5,000 of the estimated 30,000 okapi surviving in the wild. It also has some dramatic scenery, including waterfalls on the Ituri and Epulu rivers. The reserve is inhabited by traditional nomadic pygmy Mbuti and Efe hunters.
The part of 'W' National Park that lies in Niger is situated in a transition zone between savannah and forest lands and represents important ecosystem characteristics of the West African Woodlands/Savannah Biogeographical Province. The site reflects the interaction between natural resources and humans since Neolithic times and illustrates the evolution of biodiversity in this zone.
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The Arctic Circle region of northern Sweden is the home of the Saami, or Lapp people. It is the largest area in the world (and one of the last) with an ancestral way of life based on the seasonal movement of livestock. Every summer, the Saami lead their huge herds of reindeer towards the mountains through a natural landscape hitherto preserved, but now threatened by the advent of motor vehicles. Historical and ongoing geological processes can be seen in the glacial moraines and changing water courses.
The first Buddhist temple in China was built here in Sichuan Province in the 1st century A.D. in the beautiful surroundings of the summit Mount Emei. The addition of other temples turned the site into one of Buddhism's holiest sites. Over the centuries, the cultural treasures grew in number. The most remarkable is the Giant Buddha of Leshan, carved out of a hillside in the 8th century and looking down on the confluence of three rivers. At 71 m high, it is the largest Buddha in the world. Mount Emei is also notable for its exceptionally diverse vegetation, ranging from subtropical to subalpine pine forests. Some of the trees there are more than 1,000 years old.
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Founded in the 2nd century B.C. in northern Italy, Vicenza prospered under Venetian rule from the early 15th to the end of the 18th century. The work of Andrea Palladio (1508–80), based on a detailed study of classical Roman architecture, gives the city its unique appearance. Palladio's urban buildings, as well as his villas, scattered throughout the Veneto region, had a decisive influence on the development of architecture. His work inspired a distinct architectural style known as Palladian, which spread to England and other European countries, and also to North America.
These two Byzantine monasteries in the Tumanian region from the period of prosperity during the Kiurikian dynasty (10th to 13th century) were important centres of learning. Sanahin was renown for its school of illuminators and calligraphers. The two monastic complexes represent the highest flowering of Armenian religious architecture, whose unique style developed from a blending of elements of Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture and the traditional vernacular architecture of the Caucasian region.
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This is one of the most outstanding volcanic regions in the world, with a high density of active volcanoes, a variety of types, and a wide range of related features. The six sites included in the serial designation group together the majority of volcanic features of the Kamchatka peninsula. The interplay of active volcanoes and glaciers forms a dynamic landscape of great beauty. The sites contain great species diversity, including the world's largest known variety of salmonoid fish and exceptional concentrations of sea otter, brown bear and Stellar's sea eagle.
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- UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova Presents World Heritage Certificate to President Peña Nieto of Mexico Thursday, 16 July 2015
- World Heritage Committee announces 2016 meeting in Istanbul, 24 new sites inscribed in Bonn Wednesday, 8 July 2015
- Sites in Japan, Turkey, Mexico, Uruguay inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, extension of Spanish site approved Sunday, 5 July 2015
- Sites in Norway, Germany, Israel, UK and USA inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List Sunday, 5 July 2015
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Tips on Women's Fashion
There are several categories of women's fashion, and this usually centers around what it is you are dressing for. Whether you're dressing for something to lounge about in the house, casual wear for relaxed times, career clothing, or dressing to impress, the options are limitless.
Dressing for around the house is of course a no-brainer fashion affair. A good pair of slacks and a t-shirt will obviously suffice here. For casual clothes that you're going to be seen in, however, you might want to invest a little more time and money into what you choose. It helps to have an idea of the outfit as a whole that you are building, even with something as simple as casual fashion wear. When designing your casual fashion wear outfit, it can also help to have a simple three color scheme in mind for the different pieces of your outfit.
Even for a casual fashion outfit, you probably want to avoid wearing tennis shoes. Tennis shoes, especially a pair of the wrong color, will destroy any kind of outfit that you have built. Boots or sandals are a good deal more appropriate for a casual outfit than an awkward pair of tennis shoes.
The casual fashion category of clothing is not something to spend a great deal of time thinking about, but it does help to pay some attention to how exactly everything is going to go together. In fact, it can help any wardrobe to have a wide variety of milder cream type colors to build entire outfits with. The more extreme colors, such as black and white, can make it very difficult to mix and match.
There are a variety of general fashion tips to follow for all fashion styles of clothes. Perhaps the most important tip is to wear only the size that fits you best. If you need to go up a size, do it. You'll look and feel better. Nothing looks worse than a woman who is bursting at the seams or spilling out of her clothes. Choose a size that will fit you appropriately.
Be careful with your choice of fashion accessories. Fashion accessories must match an outfit appropriately, or it will clash badly. You should also avoid the temptation to over accessorize. Don't wear any accessories that are too nice for your outfit, either, as that won't mesh very well.
It's also important to dress for the specific body type that you happen to have. For instance, if you happen to be rather petite, you may want to avoid certain things. High collars and short necklaces are generally a bad idea for the petite woman, as are any kind of full print designs on your shirts. Contrasting colors are a good fashion that can really bring out your figure. Consider using a belt as well, as that tends to add height.
If you are going for a slimmer figure, avoid horizontal lines. Vertical lines and designs, however, can help to add height. If you're looking to draw attention away from a specific area, try wearing a darker color there, and a brighter color where you want the attention to be drawn to.
When it comes to choosing a dress, there are a number of fashion choices that will fit different body types. Some women are lucky to have an hourglass type figure, which will fit most actually. If you have broad shoulders, consider going with an inverted triangle style. For oval shaped bodies, try out some of the trendy empire dresses that are popular lately. For those with a more rectangle style look, consider using the empire dress as well, or any dress that can add definition or create a distinct or curvy look.
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Making your own news broadcast has never be easier or more affordable. With so many people giving it a go, how do you make sure that your broadcast is the one people stick with? Here we’ve put together 5 Amazing Assets for Broadcast News, as well as some top tips.
Live News is a WordPress plugin designed to look like a television news ticker. You can customise the plugin to fit your website, and it’s perfect for displaying information like news, weather warnings or sports results, in real time.
A one-page graphic template for Adobe Photoshop, News Website UI is a perfect starting point to create your broadcast site. Clean and contemporary, it’ll help your project look professional and trustworthy.
A nice little vector logo for either Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator, the News Logo Template is highly customisable and comes with a variety of colours included. Perfect for streaming, podcasts and broadcasting services.
The News of the World font is a bold typeface designed to emphasise your content and grab the attention of your audience. There are four different styles, so you can maintain a sense of style without too much repetition.
Gazeta is an impressive Drupal theme perfect for news and magazine-style websites. You can create any number of news categories and have multiple authors each with their own profile.
Each asset here is from Envato Elements, where you can download unlimited resources for a monthly subscription.
Top Tuts+ Tips for Streaming News Broadcasts
- Having great content is a good start, but think about how to build up a loyal and large audience.
- There are a ton of ways to live stream. Don’t spread yourself too thinly – learn the best live streaming methods for you.
- Ad-libbing can go horribly wrong if you aren’t properly prepared, and reading from a script can sound wooden. Learn when to ad-li and when to rely on a teleprompter.
- Your core audience know where to find you and that’s great, but remember to work on your search engine optimisation, too!
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SHANGHAI: The value of China's online retail market rose by over 100% last year, and is now worth an estimated 120 billion yuan ($17.6bn; €13.7bn; £12.3bn) according to figures from the iResearch Consulting Group and internet auction site taobao.com.
Other findings from the two companies' "2008 China Online Shopping Research Report" include the fact that the number of registered online shoppers rose by 185% year-on-year to 120 million.
The online retail sector also increased in value by over 80% in 2007 compared with the previous year.
Among the factors behind the continuing growth of the market are increasing levels of online education, rising levels of internet penetration, and growing popularity of web shopping among urban "netizens".
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1 "A mighty wind swept over the waters": the Holy Spirit precedes everything, every movement of creation, every human endeavor. The smallest opening in a hardened heart is enough for him to blast through. God preserve us from having a heart too hard to open to the Spirit!
6 Had a discussion with the kids about how the dome separating the waters is an example of not reading scripture literally. What is the significance of the two waters? The water below the dome is the earthly, physical, literal water, for drinking, for cleansing, for fun. The water above the dome is the spiritual form of water: cleansing in Baptism, flowing from Jesus's side.
11 Why is it that the vegetation is created before the sun and the moon? God creates light on the first day, the sky the second, the seas and dry land the third -- all high level elements of creation -- and then immediately descends to the level of a farmer, sowing the land and raising orchards. Then on the fourth day he's back to the high level again, creating and ordering sun, moon, and stars. This seems to indicate a certain kind of spiritual progress: we take on grand programs, we make big resolutions, we have a big sweeping idea of the spiritual life -- but the practical side of the spiritual life has to be attended to as well. Smaller, practical actions are part of great sublime movements of the soul, and underpin them. And even seemingly small actions bear within themselves the seeds of even smaller, more concretely practical changes: the trees bear their fruits, which bear within themselves the seeds for more trees and more fruit.
16 "And he made the the stars": this suddenly strikes me as the most beautiful line in the Bible.
Novena to St. Joseph
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OK, so it’s going to be very hard to find any icons to include in this article!
This year Protestants celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. We Orthodox do not, of course, but may I be allowed to do a little analysis?
What caused the Reformation
Let’s start 2000 years ago. Saint Paul was a recovering legalist. Now every Jew knew that the heart of the Law was “Love God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength” and “Love your neighbor as yourself”. Love. But Old Testament Law was humungous (read Leviticus), and by the first century A.D. strict Jews, of whom Paul was one, had fallen into legalism and were going crazy trying to keep every rule and regulation, and when they failed (as of course they did) they felt God would punish them somehow.
Paul had struggled with this. But then he was converted to Christianity and understood through Christ that God loved him and forgave him. It was an enormous release. He wrote in Galatians 2:16-20 that “man is not justified by the works of the Law, but by faith in Jesus Christ”. This is the usual translation among western Christians. It’s a mistranslation. (Thanks a lot, Saint Jerome.) We’ll come back to that later.
500 years ago Martin Luther was struggling with the same problem. Western Christianity had fallen into legalism. God was the Judge who if he was not obeyed would punish because justice required it. Over the centuries Roman Catholicism had accumulated a vast number of ecclesiastical laws, originally intended just to help guide people amid the disintegration of western society after the barbarian invasions. But by late medieval times, while there were certainly men and women of faith in the Roman Catholic Church, most popular religion had degenerated into obeying Church laws lest an angry God punish them. They saw God chiefly as Judge, ready to condemn them to eternal fire if they didn’t obey.
How could people read the Gospel and believe this? Of course God disciplines us in his love, as the Epistle to the Hebrews pointed out, but God’s Judgment at the end of time will be on whether we chose him, chose love, not on whether we kept a bunch of rules. Jesus did not teach us to pray “Our Judge who art in heaven”. In the Gospel God is our loving Father, the father of the prodigal son. He “is good and loves mankind”, as we hear at the end of most Orthodox services. No loving father would willingly condemn his children to eternal torture. Nevertheless that’s how things stood at the end of the middle ages.
The Roman Catholic solution to the problem was this: After you die you can pay the legal penalty of your sins (even though the sins were already “forgiven”), through suffering in Purgatory. This grew out of the reasonable idea that, because at the end of our lives we’re not yet perfected, so after death we must continue to grow in love and holiness and so leave our sins behind. But “pay them off” by suffering in Purgatory? However, Roman Catholicism was caught in this terrifying legalistic trap.
So another way was invented for people to pay the penalty: Indulgences. Say certain prayers or do certain works of charity (good things in themselves), and you could get a certain amount of time off from Purgatory. How could one get “time” off in an afterlife that is beyond earthly time? This has never been explained. The Roman Catholic Church still retains this strange teaching. * Furthermore in Luther’s time, though this was never official teaching, in practice one could pay money to Rome and get time off. You could even pay to get the souls of your relatives out of Purgatory.
- Just for the record, here is what today’s Catholic Catechism teaches: “An indulgence is a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints. … To gain indulgences, whether plenary or partial, it is necessary that the faithful be in the state of grace at least at the time the indulgenced work is completed. … A plenary indulgence can be gained only once a day.” One can see why the Orthodox Church has a few problems with this approach. Or to be specific, we think it’s “off the wall”. We reject it entirely.
By the late Middle Ages Roman Catholicism still retained the Church’s Tradition. But you can see that it was like a dirty icon. It was covered up with so many added doctrines and practices (including also their notion of immediate papal jurisdiction of everyone, everywhere) that it was scarcely recognizable. However the spirit of the Scriptures and of the Fathers was still hidden under there waiting to be recovered.
And that’s what Martin Luther wanted to do.
Martin Luther’s discovery of personal faith and God’s love
Luther was a good man, well intentioned, brilliant though impetuous, an Augustinian friar of Wittenberg, Germany. He had tried hard and just could not keep all the Church’s laws, and like Paul he felt guilty, and fear of Purgatory oppressed him. (As it did my dear loving Roman Catholic grandmother long years ago before her death, by the way.) Then one day he came across a passage in Saint Paul’s letter to the Galatians which said something he had never really noticed before: “We are justified before God not by works of the Law but by faith in Jesus Christ.” (To repeat, this was a Latin mistranslation, but again let’s leave that till later.) It was an “ah ha” moment for Luther. What saves us, what sets us right before God is not keeping laws or suffering in Purgatory. Rather it’s “who” justifies us: Jesus Christ. Luther, living in a time which assumed a legal relationship with God, still retained the dreadful concept of a God who was prepared to send his children to eternal torture if the penalty of our sins was not paid. So he naturally concluded that we are to put faith in Christ who by his death has already “paid the price” of our sins. Thus we’re forgiven and free from the wrath of God. More on this later, too.
Now in October 1517 one Johann Tetzel set up near Wittenberg with a little band of singers. Luther went to see what was going on. They were raising money to build Saint Peter’s Basilica and were singing, in German, “When a coin in the kettle rings, a soul out of Purgatory springs”. This sent Luther right over the edge. He wrote a list of 95 theses, issues where he believed the Church needed reforming, including the astoundingly immoral behavior surrounding the papacy. (Consider Pope Sixtus IV, 1471-1484, who awarded bishoprics to men because of their sexual favors. Or Pope Julius II, 1503-1513, who had three “illegitimate” children while he was still Bishop of Lausanne – but at least not while he was Pope.) On October 31, 1517 Luther courageously posted his theses on the town bulletin board, the door of the Wittenberg Church. This caused quite a stir. Because of the recent invention of the printing press his ideas could be distributed. The local prince and many other Germans also hated paying taxes to Rome. Luther gained a large following.
This became known as the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s intent had been positive. The word “protest” in Latin meant “witness for”, but because Protestants came to be united chiefly in opposing Rome, it took on today’s negative connotation, “protest”. The purpose had been to “reform” the Roman Catholic Church. However, Roman Catholicism was not open to reform, and before it was done Luther called the Pope the Anti-Christ and the Pope called Luther the Anti-Christ, and after that neither side was about to back down. (Does this sound like modern American politics?) In the end Luther confessed, “Here I stand. I can do no other.” In 1521 Pope Julius X excommunicated Luther and his followers who suddenly found themselves permanently separated from the Roman Catholic Church. And so what we now call the Lutheran Church was born.
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For Release October 3, 2003
7 Grants Total $8.1 Million over 5 Years
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes of Health, today announced it has awarded 7 grants to develop new and different ways of training and supervising community-based drug addiction therapists. The grants total $8.1 million over a period of 5 years.
"Despite the availability of numerous effective behavioral therapies for people with drug-abuse problems, established research-based treatments have not been adopted widely in clinical practice," says Dr. Nora D. Volkow, NIDA Director. "New methods are needed to enhance community treatment providers' knowledge and skills to administer behavioral treatments with some evidence of efficacy for treatment of drug abuse and intervention for HIV/AIDS risk reduction."
The studies funded through these grants will blend knowledge, theory, and technology and offer the next generation of addiction treatment professionals creative ways to overcome the barriers to adapting and adopting new research-based treatments.
Some examples that are directly applicable to the design of effective training and learning methods include: knowledge of the facets of cognition that are directly relevant to how people learn; technological advances that offer ways to standardize training and make it available to more people; and virtual reality applications that may facilitate the development and practice of skills without harming patients.
The grantees are:
- Nancy M. Petry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, $1,809,845.00 over 5 years
Training Therapists to Administer Contingency Management.
- Edward V. Nunes, New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York City, $1,456,212.00 over 4 years
MI Training: Live Supervision by Teleconference.
- Howard A. Liddle, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, $1,511,395.00 over 4 years
Training Clinicians in Empirically-based Family Therapy.
- Steve Martino, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, $684,600.00 over 3 years
Training Strategies for Motivational Interviewing.
- Mary J. Larson, New England Research Institutes, Watertown, Massachusetts, $1,682,029.00 over 5 years
E-Technology to Enhance Addiction Counselor Helping.
- Bentson H. McFarland, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, $151,000.00 over 2 years
Standardized Patients as Drug Abuse Treatment Clients.
- Diane E. Sholomskas, Applied Behavioral Research, New Haven, Connecticut, $774,000.00 over 3 years
Randomized Trial of Novel Approaches to CBT Training.
NIDA also recently established the National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network (CTN), which was created to conduct rigorous, multisite, clinical trials of various types of treatments in community settings and with diversified patient populations. A second mission of the CTN is to transfer these science-based research results quickly to practitioners and their patients.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse is a component of the National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. NIDA supports more than 85 percent of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. The Institute carries out a large variety of programs to ensure the rapid dissemination of research information and its implementation in policy and practice. Fact sheets on the health effects of drugs of abuse and further information on NIDA research can be found on the NIDA web site at http://www.drugabuse.gov.
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|Demon Realm race|
|Average Height||Varies; usually similar to the average Human|
Members of the race vary in appearance, the most numerous seem to be almost identical to humans but with different colored skin and pointy ears, while there are also some who possess more square faces (like Dabura and Gravy). The known skin colors for the race are: red, light blue, dark blue, light pink, light purple, lavender, gray and pale white.
Members of the Demon Realm race tend to be more powerful than average, and are generally shown to possess exceptional potential skill in magic.
Towa, a member of the Demon Realm race, was able to achieve a Darkness form thanks to her hatred over being defeated.
After gathering enough kiri, the wizard Demigra turned into a Demon God, after becoming a Demon God he also possesses the ability to transform further using every ounce of his divine power and take on a monstrous Final Form referred to as Demigra Final. However, he can go even further beyond this using his Makyouka Form.
Due to his Saiyan DNA, the hybrid Demon Mira is also capable of transforming into a Super Saiyan form, however due to being primarily of the Demon Realm race he gains his own unique Super Saiyan-Demon hybrid form called Super Mira. The lead up to this form is a Runaway state.
Known members of the race
- Gravy – Demigra's ally and one of the strongest mages.
- Putine – Demigra's ally and one of the strongest mages.
- Dabura – King until being taken by Babidi. Is later killed by Majin Buu in Age 774.
- Demigra – A wizard of the Demon Realm race, who ascended to become a Demon God.
- Mechikabura – Grandfather of Towa and Dabura, and Great-Grandfather of Fu.
- Shula – Appears in the episode "Goku Goes to Demon Land". As the King of the Demon World.
- Melee – A female demon who appears in "Goku Goes to Demon Land".
- Master of the Demon World - An entity mentioned by Dabura in Dragon Ball Z: Shin Budokai - Another Road.
- Towa – A female demon scientist. One of the main villains in the computer video game Dragon Ball Online and video game Dragon Ball: Xenoverse. Later ascended to become a Demon God.
- Pipila - A female Demon Realm idol who is currently very famous in the Demon Realm. She ends up in the Timespace Rift and takes part in the Timespace Tournament accidently, thinking it was a concert hall, but still fought. An Offworlder character in Dragon Ball Fusions.
- Partial members
- Mira – An artificial male demon. One of the main villains in the computer video game Dragon Ball Online and video game Dragon Ball: Xenoverse. He is the new Demon King following the death of Dabura. He is not a pure member of the Demon Realm race.
- Fu – The son of Mira and Towa. He will have an important role in the Dragon Ball Online story when he grows up.
- Churai – A female Time Breaker, identical to Julia.
- Julia – A female Time Breaker, identical to Churai.
|Demon Realm race||Churai • Dabura/Future Dabura • Demigra • Fu • Gravy • Julia • Mechikabura • Melee • Mira • Putine • Shula • Towa|
|Demon Realm race transformations|| Darkness|
Demon God (Giant • Makyouka)
Super Mira (Runaway)
|Devils||Ackman • Chivil • Greatdevilman • Majon • Psidevilman • Spike the Devil Man|
|Other types and entities||Evil Incarnate (Janemba/Future Janemba • Janemba's Majin Vegeta) • Fiends (King Gurumes • Igor) • Fire Demons • Majin • Mashenlong • Miniature Demons • Mount Paozu Demons • Ogres (Ghastel • King Yemma • Goz • Mez • Saike Demon) • Phantom Majin (Hirudegarn) • Vampire (Lucifer)|
|Demon Clans||Lord Slug's clan • Makyan • Namekian Demon Clan (Dark Namekians • Mutated Namekian)|
|Fusions||Janembuu • Damira • Towale • Towane|
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What first time homebuyers need to know about homeowners insurance when shopping for a policy to protect their new investment.
Purchasing your first home is exciting and stressful. And homeowners insurance is imperative.
To prevent getting in a financial bind, get estimates on your homeowner’s insurance policy. Especially before putting down a large sum on your home.
Deciding which type of homeowner’s insurance policy to purchase can be complicated. Here’s a few standard actions homeowners should take when purchasing their first home insurance policy.
Explore Your Options
Doing your research is the top piece of advice insurance brokers provide. When seeking a quote, there are many factors that determine your home insurance premium.
These factors may include location of the home, proximity to the fire department, previous claims filed, the age of the home, etc. Because so many factors go into determining premiums, you’ll want to ask about rebates.
You can help by fixing up or renovating your new home. Purchase safety features like an alarm system and smoke alarms. These will often reduce the cost of your coverage.
Premiums can be expensive. It’s important to shop around to get the best deal possible.
Be sure to get multiple quotes, because every carrier has a different pricing model. Your rates could vary significantly from one carrier to the next.
There’s no way to know which carrier will have the lowest rates for your particular circumstances. What you can do is use an insurance broker to help you gather quotes and find the best policy for your needs.
Bundle Your Policies
Bundling means combining auto insurance and homeowners under one policy. It can result in significant discounts and save you money.
Insurance companies want your business. By purchasing both an auto and homeowners policy, they’ll be more willing to give you a deal.
Besides bundling, you can have your homeowners premiums included in your mortgage payment. This is called an escrow account.
Your mortgage lender will pay your property tax and insurance premiums for you. Just make one combined monthly payment. This payment includes your mortgage and one twelfth of your annual property taxes.
Choosing a policy can be straightforward. However, consumers should be cautious of what is or isn’t covered in their policy.
Special luxuries and antiquities are not always covered. It’s important to do your research.
Sometimes adding endorsements or riders to your policy will help you get the coverage you need.
Risk associated with your home or area you’ll be living in is critical. You measure risk in terms of “likelihood”.
Home insurers look at the likelihood of a natural disaster or other unforeseeable misfortune occurring. The definition for this is peril.
Where you live will dictate the type of homeowner’s insurance you’ll need. Some areas need flood insurance. Others need earthquake insurance.
Lower levels of risk result in lower home insurance premiums.
Homeowners insurance is not, “one size fits all”. There are several different types of homeowner’s policies (forms).
Which one is right for you, depends on the location of your home. This dictates the types of perils that may occur. And the relative risk of experiencing one of these perils.
The most common homeowner’s policy is the special form. They call this homeowners form 3 (HO-3).
This form covers all perils except for ones specifically excluded.
- Ordinance of law
- Water damage
- Power failure
- Nuclear hazard
- Intentional loss
- Government action
It would be in your best interest to add on flood insurance, if you live in a flood-prone area. Sometimes law requires it. Another popular policy many first time homeowners go with is the broad form. Also known as homeowners form 2 (HO-2).
This policy only covers 16 perils. Again, depending on where you live, this may or may not be the best policy.
It might be best to purchase an HO-3 policy to get protection from more perils. Or you can add endorsements such as extended replacement cost coverage. This pays out additional money to repair your home if needed.
All of these choices come with different premium amounts. To help ensure you get the best rate, use an insurance broker to get and compare quotes.
If you are moving to an area with a low risk of natural disasters, you might not need to purchase extra coverage. However, don’t assume where you’re buying a home lacks natural disasters.
Speak to an insurance broker. They can assess exactly the type of coverage you’ll need.
Along with the type of policy, there are varying amounts of coverage available. For example, you may opt to cover the entire value of your dwelling/home.
You can ask for coverage to include additional living expenses in case you lose your home to a covered peril. Your amount of coverage is due to the probability of a natural disaster occurring. Again, a licensed insurance agent or broker can help you determine your needs.
Wear and Tear of the Home
It’s important to assess what needs fixing up on your new home. Do this before deciding which type of homeowner’s coverage to invest in.
By spending up front to correct issues, you’ll be saving money in the long run. If you didn’t have a home inspection as part of the buying process, have one done.
Fix any items surfaced as a result of the inspection. Tell your home insurance agent. This may result in a lower price tag on your premium.
The Comprehensive Loan Underwriting Exchange (CLUE) is a consumer reporting agency powered by LexisNexis. It allows you to search the history of the home you’re interested in purchasing.
It tells you about any previous claims for the home going back seven years. We recommend all homebuyers use this service first, before purchasing.
CLUE is a useful tool to determine what the cost of your homeowner’s insurance premium might be. It lists everything that’s gone wrong with the home in the past. This provides an idea of risk and what your policy could cost.
Assess Your Credit
People often overlook that insurance companies take your credit score into account when quoting premiums. It’s important to have a good credit score.
This tells mortgage lenders you are trustworthy and will pay them back. The same goes for purchasing insurance.
A high credit score means lower premiums and mortgage rates on your first home.
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When it's too hot, keep a cool head. When it's too cold, keep a warm heart." Ajahn Brahm talks about changing our attitude to who we think we are and finding peace with our imperfection.
Are all difficult and challenging circumstances in life a result of bad karma? Or is it more a matter of having a negative perception of the circumstances? Bhikkhuni Hasapanna points to the difference between what is really karma, and the huge role that perception plays in shaping our reactions to circumstances.
Bhante Sujato reflects upon contemporary movements within Buddhism and society more broadly to remove discrimination and create a fairer and more equal world.
Contrary to our expectations, life is happier when we let go of control. So let go of your inner control freak and relax as Ajahn Brahm explains how our lives are out of control - and that's not such a bad thing after all.
Ajahn Brahm discusses ways to deal with addictions.
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What is the difference between stages 3 and stage 4?
Stage 3 load-shedding means up to 3,000MW of capacity needs to be shed. Consumers can expect to be shed up to nine times over a four-day period for two hours at a time or nine times over an eight-day period for four hours at a time.
Stage 4 load-shedding means up to 4,000MW of capacity needs to be shed. Consumers can expect to be shed up to 12 times over a four-day period for two hours at a time or 12 times over an eight-day period for four hours at a time.
eThekwini’s exemption from load-shedding to change
Eskom spokesperson Sikonathi Mantshantsha said the exemption from load-shedding for the eThekwini municipality could soon change as this was under review.
“The eThekwini municipality has almost recovered its operations in terms of distribution in the regions affected by the floods. It is not being load-shed but this will change soon and the teams, Eskom and eThekwini municipality, are reviewing the situation,” said Mantshantsha.
The municipality was exempted from load-shedding due to the floods that left thousands displaced and housed in community halls and churches.
In a statement, the municipality said it was not exempt from load-shedding.
“Full automated load-shedding is not possible, but customers must remain prepared for load-shedding,” said the municipality.
It said due to many abnormal network configurations as a result of the flood disaster, customers may not be supplied in their usual load-shedding blocks.
“Please also note the stage of load-shedding in eThekwini may differ from the national stages. The power system is dynamic and eThekwini will respond accordingly to requests from Eskom for purposes of national grid stability,” it said.
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|Hoy - (Hoy - Orkney)
I am tracing my Hoy line and as this is not a very common name in Australia I would appreciate contact from any one researching this line. My grandfather often spoke about his line but you know what young children are like - we never take any notice until we are the same age!
Family Surnames: Hoy
|Mowat (hoy) - (Hoy - Orkney)
Loking for more information on Sinclair Mowat who married Barbara Sinclair 1823. Believe his parents were Andrew Mowat and Isabel Sinclair
Family Surnames: Mowat
|Kirkwall, Orkney - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Robert MOIR b. abt 1799 Kirkwall Orkney to Robert MOIR & Christian DRAVER. Robert was a Mariner and married Sarah ? at North Shields. He died 1885, North Shields, England.
Family Surnames: Moir; Draver
|African Explorer From Kirkwall - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
From The Century Cyclopedia of Names 1895
William Balfour Baikie was born at Kirkwall, Orkney 27th August 1825 and died at Sierra Leone 12th December 1864. A surgeon (assistant surgeon R.N. 1845-51), explorer and pioneer in the valley of the Niger, Africa. He was appointed surgeon and naturalist of the Niger exploring expedition 1854, and succeeded to the command of the vessel - The Pleiad - on the death of its captain. The expedition ascended the river 250 miles beyond the highest point beforereached.
Family Surnames: Baikie
|Miller - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Looking for connections to children of Archibald Miller and Margaret nee Petrie. All children born Kirkwall. Ann Miller b 1813, Thomas Miller b 1815, Archibald Miller b 1818, Margaret Miller b 1821, Jane Traill Miller b 1826, Peter Petrie Miller b 1829, 1 other son David came to South Australia in 1852 with wife and 2 children.
Family Surnames: Miller
|Ann Laughton Miller - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Looking for any info on Ann Laughton Miller b Stronsay,Orkney 1833 to parents John Miller and Mary Smith. Married Thomas Fotheringhame 1854. They lived at Linnabrake on Stronsay.
Family Surnames: Miller Fotheringhame
|Spence/Scott/Garrioch - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
I am trying to find the birth/death dates of Ann Garriock who married John Spence (1747)in St Andrews parish Orkney and then moved to Kirkwall having a daughter born circa 1751 and who subsequently married Oliver Scott.
Family Surnames: Spence/Garrioch
|Hepburn - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Looking for any ancestors of Peter Hepburn born 1814-15 in Kirkwall. He joined the 93rd Highlanders in 1830. In 1832 they left for the West Indies. He eventually ended in Canada on a farm near Lindsay, Ontario.
Family Surnames: Hepburn
|The Thomson Family - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Searching for any information on the Thomsons of Kirkwall. My grandfather James Thomson, born May 21, 1907 had a brother that worked at St Magnus Cathedral. James moved to Canada and married Margaret Miller of Wick. Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
Family Surnames: Thomson, Miller
|Corsie family - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Looking for relatives of William Corsay/Corsie born 1831 in Rousay to James and Betty Corsie, especially looking for Williams parents. William was a blacksmith.
Family Surnames: Corsay/Corsie
|Robert Pottinger - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Robert (born in 1869 in Kirkwall) married my gg Aunt, Elizabeth Corsie (born in 1861 in Kirkwall - to Wiliam Corsay/Corsie and Mary Russell) in Wisconsin, USA. Has anybody got any details about this couple please, or any information about either family please? Thanks.
Family Surnames: Pottinger, Corsie, Russell
|William Walls - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Trying to trace the parents of William Walls, born in Kirkwall and died there 24.2.1883 aged 82. Married to Betsy Miller, children Wemyss and Thomas. Death cert states parents as Thomas Walls and Clement Tulloch, but no records of them.
Family Surnames: Walls, Miller, Tulloch
|Slater & Fotheringhame, Kirkwall - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
James Slater and Sibella Fotheringhame were married on 24 March 1831 by the Rev Robert Paterson. Witnesses John Fotheringhame and James Chalmers. James' father was Thomas Slater, mother Margaret Mentland. Looking for more information about family in the Orkneys.
Family Surnames: Slater/Fotheringhame
|walls family - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
try to find family from my mothers side.I dont know very mutch about the walls family,but what i do know my mothers called cathrine mary walls born in kirkwell on the 5/8 not to sure about the year she was born.she married John Ellis in England in the 60s thay had 4 children 1boy 3girls.I never did know my granmothers name but she had been married more then once.i can rember my mother saying that she had alot of chilren but never tolled how many there was.my granmother died in the 70s in kirkwell.my granfather was known as georgie how died in the 80s in an old peoples home in kirkwell.can you help me.any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
Family Surnames: Walls
|corsie family kirkwall - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Looking for the family of william corsie dob 2nd march 1900. Fathers name thomas who had a brother called james. i think some of my ancestors were russel corsie. I think thomas was married twice.
Family Surnames: Corsie
| Marriage - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
I am researching my uncles DUDLEY REYNOLD CHARLES WILTON-KING Naval/service/record & discovered he married a MARGARET MARY NORRIS 25-10-1938 at ST MAGNUS CATHEDERAL KIRKWALL he was aged: 23 she was aged: 19 he was in the ROYAL/NAVY she resided at 22 GARRIOCH St Kirkwall her mothers name was MARY MARTIN SCOTT NORRIS, should some one reading this have any knowledge of the families mentioned. i would be most grateful for any information or contact Thank You. REDBERT
Family Surnames: Norris
|Prince, Perence - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Am interested in the Prince/Perence family originating in the Orkney Islands, possibly Kirkwall. Beginning in sixteenth century, ancestors possibly relocated to locales throughout Scotland (Edinburgh)and Northern Ireland (Antrim), and some descendants eventually arrived in U.S.A. (Pennsylvania)and in Latin America. Have some documentation from a family Bible.
Family Surnames: Prince, Perence, Mcdowell, Mcmunn, Scott, Stocker
|A/Major D. B. Close R.A.S.C. (E.F.I) - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Between the 1st January 1942 until 29th November 1943; my father,with the rank Acting Major D. B. Close: R.A.S.C. (E.F.I.) was based in Orkney. From the little information I have he was in the N.A.A.F.I. but I have no idea where that "camp" might of been. I have in my possession two photographs of him taken with his officers and men during that time. One of the photo's has a mount, on which is printed Sinclair, Kirkwall (photographer).
His Personal No: P 110288 - nothing in his Officer's Record of Service indicates any Regiment he served with or was attached to, prior or during that time.Would there be any way of identifying the N.A.A.F.I personnel/or records for the 1942 -43 period?
Family Surnames: Close
|Spence & Guthrie Families, Orkney - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Hi. I'm researching the Spence (early spelling Spens) of Kirkwell, Holm and Paplay, Shapinsay, Eday (Orkney).
John Spens (b. around 1754) married Mary Crawford. James Maxwell Spence (b. 1803). Stonemason. Married Jane (Jean?)Guthrie (b.1807). Emigrated to Geelong 1851. I'd love any information anyone may have, & am happy to share what further info I have.
Family Surnames: Spence, Spens, Guthrie
|Anne,James Sinclair - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
I am wanting information regarding Anne Sinclair and James Sinclair who came to NZ in 1857.THey were both Sinclairs . Anne's mother was Margeret Sutherland and her father Walter Sinclair . His mother's surname was Rosie. Anne's mother Margeret's father was James Sutherland (Lord Duffus).Margeret grew up in Caithness at the Castle Mey. Her mother was Anne Dunnett. AS well as living in Kirkwall Walter and Margeret lived in Burry. I know nothing of James Sinclair.
Family Surnames: Sinclair Sinclair
|St Mary's Holm, Kirkwall - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
My grandmother Janet McBeath was born there in 1898, she married Robert John Anderson ( from Elgin) in 1918, their children John Russell, Eleanor Mary, & my mother Winnie Margaret were born, they later moved to Burhead, Morayshire. I believe that Janet's parents, were involved in running an Inn, at the time of her youth. Close to St Magnus's Cathedral?
My great grandmother's name was Mary Sutherland-Muir, and she married John Clark McBeath, I know that there was a Cecilia Elphingston, and an Isabella Baikie (sp) in the family but do not have any dates of birth/death.
Family Surnames: Mcbeath, Anderson, Sutherland-Muir
|Cusiter family at Quoydandy - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Seeking information on the family of Peter CUSITER who was born in 1800 in Kirkwall and died in 1879 on his farm called Quoydandy near Kirkwall. Peter was a merchant, farmer and shipowner and also a member of the Guild. He married Isabella Cobban Smith, daughter of the Congregational minister at Rendall, Alexander SMITH. Their children were Alexander Smith who emigrated to Australia, James Pottinger, Clementina Cobban who married Edward Scollay SLATER, Mary Isabella who wed William MACGREGOR and Robert Irvine.
Family Surnames: Cusiter, Smith, Slater, Macgregor
|Durno Family from Kirkwall - (Kirkwall - Orkney)
Seeking any info about George(1852)and Isabella (1863) Durno and their four children George, Kenneth, Margaret(1893)and Cecil (1902)of Kirkwall. Children George and Kenneth arrived in Canada some time prior to 1921, George settling in Toronto and Kenneth in Oshawa, Ontario. The rest of the family emigrated from Kirkwall on the Tunisian, arriving in St. John, NB, on April 15, 1921, and settling in Oshawa, Ontario. The birth record of Cecil Durno shows that George and Isabella were married on June 23, 1881, at Chapel of Garrioch. It also shows that Isabella's maiden surname was Rennie, contrary to family memory that it was Garden. Prior to leaving Kirkwall for Canada, Cecil worked for R. Garden, Limited, in the motor lorry department. Cecil attended St Magnus Cathedral Sunday School as a boy. The grandfather, George Durno, may have originally come from the village of Durno.
Family Surnames: Durno Rennie Garden
|Oman - (Longhope - Orkney)
Searching for any information re my Great Grandparents (John Oman and Elizabeth S.H. Smith) who were natives of Longhope, Orkney and emmigrated to Stratford, Ontario, Canada in the mid-1800's.
Family Surnames: Oman Smith
|Oman Cont'd - (Longhope - Orkney)
My great-great grandparents were John Oman and Elizabeth Smith. I was born in Stratford, Canada. What would you like to know? I may be able to help.
Family Surnames: Oman Smith Omond Omand
|Thomson - (Longhope - Orkney)
Searching for John Thomson b:1832 m:Charlotte Moar Oct 12,1851 in Hoy.Children: John,JAmes,Charlotte,Margaret,William,Isaac,Ester,Andrew and Joanna, They were all born in Hoy around Walls/Longhope areas. Also Catherine Isabella Mowat m: James 1883 b:1853 Hoy -Any help appreciated
Family Surnames: Thomson,Moar,Mowat
|Stout - (Longhope - Orkney)
Looking for parents of Elizabeth (Eliza) Stout, born in Longhope 1787/91. Married Robert Sutherland in 1811 in Latheron.
Family Surnames: Stout
|GRAY-HARVEY - (Midland - Orkney)
I am looking for information for John Gray b. about 1830, Scotland (I was given Midlan, Scotland) and Agnes Harvey b. about 1830 Scotland
(again I was given Midlan, Scotland) I do not know when they married or when they immigrated to the USA.
I do know they had three children born in the state of New York USA. John 1851 ( Greene County), Andrew 1853 (Green County), and Agnes 1855 (Chemung county) From genealogy websites, both Green and Chemung counties had several Haveys and Grays in the mid 1800s.
Family Surnames: Gray, Harvey
|Pierowall - (Pierowall - Orkney)
Pierowall is the village of the island of Westray in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. It is named after the old Norse parish of Waa. The pier of Waa.
Family Surnames: Rendall
|Mowat and Marwick - (Stromness - Orkney)
My GGGrandparents from Stromness/Kirkwall, Orkney Isles. David Mowat 1853-1901 m: Mary Marwick/Mariwick 1858-1943. Children: Robert 1879-1947 m: Maggie Wilson; Mary Jane 1881-1882; Margaret 1882-19? My GGrandpa: John 1884-1957 m: Mary Drever in Winnipeg, Mb. My Nan: Mary Mowat m. Charles Holewell Any leads would be appreciated!
Family Surnames: Mowat, Marwick, Mariwick, Drever,
|Thomas Hunter - (Stromness - Orkney)
Looking for any information on Thomas Hunter who was born in Stromness around 1830. He subsequently married Ann Newton Bell and lived in Northumberland/Durham in the mid to late 19th century.
Family Surnames: Hunter, Bell
|LOUTTIT - (Stromness - Orkney)
Interested in the LOUTTIT family from Stromness who came to live near Sunderland Co. Durham and then some of them moved to Pennsylvania.
Family Surnames: Louttit
|Sinclair, Stromness - (Stromness - Orkney)
Searching for information on my great grandmother Johanna Sinclair born 1856 at Stromness. On the 1881 census she was living with her mother (Elizabeth White) in Sunderland, Co Durham. I presume her mother Elizabeth (White) must have married again after she was born. Any information on Johanna's or Elizabeths family/ancestors would be greatly appreciated.
Family Surnames: Sinclair, White
|Norn Family - (Stromness - Orkney)
Trying to find information on Margaret Downie Norn, born Possibly in Stromness about April 1823, also parents David Norn & Ann Mainland.
Family Surnames: Norn
|Baikie and Linklater - (Stromness - Orkney)
Searching for information on Peter Baikie (born about 1755 Stromness) who married Christian Linklater (born about 1759 Stromness) on 15th December 1780 Stromness. I know Christian's father was a Magnus Linklater but have no further information on the Linklater family, or who Peter's father or mother was but Peter was of "Mouseland" on the Marriage Certificate. Peter and Christian had 5 children, James b 1781, Katharine b 1787, Peter b 1790, Margaret b 1793 and William b 1796. Any information or leads would be greatly appreciated.
Family Surnames: Baikie Linklater
|Strang - (Upper Sanday - Orkney)
David Strang b 1680 - married Jean SCOLLAY. baptised in Kirkwell, Orkney. His ancestors occupied Balkaskie House in 1200's Would like more information on his ancestors. David's mothers maiden name (I think was Isabel Irving)Any assistance greatly appreciated
Family Surnames: Strang Scollay Irving
|Gutcher, Gray, and Mowat families of South Ronaldsay - (Orkney - Orkney)
Interested in descendants or researchers of these families. I have Thomas GUTCHER b. circa 1785 in South Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland. He married Helen GRAY 23 Dec 1810 in South Ronaldsay. They had 7 children. My husband is descended through son Thomas b. 7 Feb 1820. He married Jane Mowat/Mouat b. circa 1825, also from Orkney islands, in 1855 in St Kilda, Vic, Australia. Thomas jnr was a miner in Mt Moliagul, Victoria.
Family Surnames: Gutcher, Gray, Mowat, Mouat
|South Ronaldsay, Laughton - (Orkney (OKI, Isles, County, Scotland) - Orkney)
Looking for information on Samuel Laughton b.18.3.1825 on South Ronaldsay, son of Malcolm Laughton and Anne Liddle. He married Anne Isbister 29.1.1850 on both S.Ronaldsay and at Kirkwall. Samuel became a Merchant Tailor. He seems to have moved from Orkney because both his wife and one son, Thomas, died in North Shields. Samuel was dead by 1877. Anne's sister married another Merchant Tailor in Edinburgh and then moved to North Shields so Samuel may have worked and died in Edinburgh. Apart from Thomas b.12.7.1856 at Stronsay, other known children were Williamina b.30.6.1858, Kirkwall & St.Ola and Barbara, probably born Orkney 1850/51.
Family Surnames: Laughton, Isbister, Liddle
|Mainland, Hugh m. Janet Grieve 20 Feb 1844 - (Orkney (OKI, Isles, County, Scotland) - Orkney)
I am seeking any information about Hugh Mainland b.14 Mar 1816 in Hurtiso, Rousay and Egilshay, Orkney He was married to Janet Grieve b.20 Jul 1816 They are my G.G.Grandparents and any additional information would be appreciated. I know they migrated to Canada in 1870 with their son William Craigie Mainland b.28 Dec 1844 in Rousay and Egilshay. Thankyou.
Family Surnames: Mainland, Grieve
|Ritchie's - (Orkney (OKI, Isles, County, Scotland) - Orkney)
seeking any information on the Richie's in Orkney from about 1860 orignally from Rosehearty area Williamina Caskey born 1880 named for the minister, Jean and Alexandrina born 1896, born orphir. Richie Marriages to Budge and Flett families. Two familes went to Moosejaw Sask. Canada , but returned by the 1920's.
Family Surnames: Ritchie, Robsob, Budge Flett
|Gray, Malcolm - (Orkney (OKI, Isles, County, Scotland) - Orkney)
Malcolm Gray, born about 1784 South Ronaldsay, married Jane Sophia Peake 1819 in Surrey where she was born. They went back to his farm on Orkney and had 6 children. Does anyone know why he was in Surrey?
I now know that Malcolm was in the Royal Navy and presumably his ship docked in London. Can anyone shed more light on Malcolm himself, or know of any Royal Navy records from the early 1800s?
Family Surnames: Gray, Peake
|Drever, Sandison - (Orkney (OKI, Isles, County, Scotland) - Orkney)
Drever, John Reid dob 01/21/1924 to Williamina Drever, searching for info on his father. Williamina May was born Westray, 1901 to William Drever (Drever, Leslie), Westray, 1863 and Jean Sandison (Sandison, Mowat), Westray, 1870, other children of William and Jean were Elizabeth J M, Andrew and Seater Sandison. Any further info would be greatly appreciated
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“Waves of protests surrounded Vladimir Putin’s return to power as Russia’s President in March 2012. Since then, parliament has passed so many new laws restricting civil liberties that some people now call it the ‘mad printer.'”
– Amnesty International Wire (Amnesty.org)
Russia’s Civil Liberties Record: Getting Worse and Worse In Word & Deed
“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.”
– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
According to the Associated Press, Russian State Duma Deputy Zhuravlev (Putin’s United Russia Party/parliamentary caucus) is introducing a law making “nontraditional sexual orientation” viable grounds to remove child custody for LGBTQ parents.
In the draft bill for this proposed new law, Zhuravlev wrote:
“Following the letter of the law that forbids propaganda of non-traditional sex to minors we must restrict such propaganda not only in mass media but also the family… if one of the child’s parents indulges in sexual contact with persons of the same sex, the damage to the child’s psyche is immense as a mother or father serves as an example for their offspring.”
Additional grounds for denial or revocation of parental custody include alcoholism, drug abuse or any amount or type of drug use deemed inappropriate, which has nothing at all to do with gender, sexual orientation or law-abiding families established in-place, having committed none of these substance-related offenses.
Here we see yet another instance of punishing allies in addition to homosexual persons, as once passed, this bill would affect families and children who aren’t even LGBTQ-identified. Custodial rights could then be revoked if both or either parent were gay (out or not), so if two parents happen to have an understanding in their relationship, share post-divorce custody, etcetera, the parent who happens to be gay can be penalized, or a child can be taken away from one or both parents for any so-called ‘homosexual-affiliated’ reason(s).
As it is already illegal to mention homosexuality around children or to advise or counsel LGBTQ or questioning youth. This recent unfortunate move is thought to be the next step in Russia’s plans to eradicate gay tolerance, inclusiveness or protections altogether for LGBTQ persons, friends, allies or families.
At this point, though the bill is to be debated before it is formally passed, it seems such motions are little more than a formality. Russian lawmakers keep clinging to the through line that their anti-gay motions and laws are being instituted to protect the children, rather than being anti-gay.
Putin has already banned LGBTQ people residing in other countries from adopting Russian children, and as of this writing, the Russian government is also considering reinstating a gay blood donor ban.
Though boycotts and protests are occurring worldwide, even Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge is throwing his hands up in the air, saying Russia will not change their minds or policies in terms of its anti-gay legislation, and Rogge’s sharing little more on the matter.
Rogge told the press, “…one should not forget that we are staging the games in a sovereign state, and the IOC cannot be expected to have an influence on the sovereign affairs of a country.”
Activists, lawmakers, PR representatives, athletes, spokespeople and officials can make all the claims they want leading up to the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, but we won’t know who’ll be arrested or how LGBT people or allies will be treated (both on arrival, during the events and while attempting to leave Russia) until it’s too late.
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Last week I noticed some white powder residue in my patio and along
the patio wall (one inch above the base). The backyard has been moist
for the last month with the sprinklers off. We did have a lot of
rain, but I think that is not the reason. I have checked the outside
water meter and there is no leakage (meter is not running when the
water is not turned inside the house).
There is no damp spot inside the house yet. I am seeking advice as to
who to call for an inspection or advice - should it be a plumber or
some other expert?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
What is the patio made of?
Are you saying you don't know why the ground is moist? Is the problem
Just reading your message, I would guess the rain has caused the ground
to be dame, and some of the moisture is being drawn through the patio and
leaving that white powder, both of which would be normal. You might need to
wash the white powder off.
The patio is made of concrete and was there when we bought the house.
The rains have stopped for more than a week and the dampness level is
very high as compared to the previous 9 years of our stay in the
the powder is mineral salts being deposited by water moving
through the cement and evaporating away.
there are some 'internal' concrete sealers that will reduce or
sloe the movement of the water through the cement - google "bio
Paul Oman 1/14/2008 11:34:27 AM
"If a family had two or fewer servants in the United States in
1900, census takers recorded the family as lower middle class."
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Let us, with the help of the Holy Spirit, purge ourselves from vain unbelief, and dry our eyes at the tomb of Jesus, if we would be His true disciples, knowing that, as Jesus died and rose again, “even so also them which sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him."
Thou art gone to the grave! but we will not deplore thee,
Thou art gone to the grave! we no longer behold thee,
Thou art gone to the grave! and its mansion forsaking,
Thou art gone to the grave! but 't were wrong to deplore
Thou art gone to the grave! and we followed thee weeping,
Tuesday in Easter week.
ALMIGHTY God, who through Thy only begotten Son Jesus Christ hast overcome death, and opened unto us the gate of everlasting life ; We humbly beseech Thee, that, as by Thy special grace preventing us Thou dost put into our minds good desires, so by Thy continual help we may bring the same to good effect; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.
“And we declare unto you glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in that He hath raised up Jesus again ; as it is also written. ... Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten Thee.”—ACTS xiii. 32, 33. HE promise which God made to us was fulfilled in
an act wrought upon Jesus Christ ; so closely are our interests bound up in the life of Christ. When
He who undertook our salvation was restored to life, the restoration of His life was considered equivalent to the restoration of our own life. Hence the promise given to our fathers is said to have been fulfilled in His resurrection. So also Christ is said to be “our life” and our appearance in glory to be contemporary with His appearance. Considering the nature and divinity of our Saviour, his final victory over death was of course a thing certain ; but the attitude in which the Scripture puts the truth is very pleasing and endearing to his disciples. Our resurrection follows as a consequence of His resurrection; for if He lives, they shall live also. Therefore, it is not only true that "He died, and rose, and revived, to be Lord both of the dead and of the living ;” but “He was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification," and "ever liveth to make intercession for us.”
“ And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat ?”- LUKE xxiv. 41.
HEY believed not the first evidence, the testimony
of their sight. They believed not the second, His willingness to be subjected to manual examination. Therefore, He tries them with a third evidence, and
succeeds in convincing them by eating in their presence. We must use the like patience in satisfying the scruples and doubts of well-disposed but weak believers. We must never be satisfied with saying : “They have had the case stated plainly and fairly enough, if they would only have the fairness to receive it.” Who knows, but another line of argument or way of stating the question would have more weight, and fall in more with the texture of their mind, or of the subject with which we deal. So in the more immediate question of the evidences of our religion, the argument from prophecy strikes the mind of one; the historical argument better suits another; and again, another is won over by the internal evidence and nature of the religion itself. “And it shall come to pass,” said the Lord to Moses, “if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign. And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe also these two signs, neither hearken unto thy voice, that thou shalt take of the water of the river, and pour
it upon the dry land : and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land.” (Exod. iv. 8, 9.) And the consequence was that they did believe. (verse 31.) As it was then so it is now. Evidences of the Gospel, when accumulated, have touched a cord of faith in some hearts, in which a more restricted number had failed to produce any conviction. Witness the accounts of some of the most remarkable conversions among ourselves.* Never, therefore, consider a soul to be given over, till you have exhausted upon it every expedient and probable means which suggests itself ; nor shake the dust of any from off your feet till you can bear this testimony against them.
Try us, O God, and search the ground
Of every evil heart;
O bid it all depart!
If right or left we thoughtless stray,
Show pity to Thy sheep;
And there Thy wanderers keep.
Help us to help each other, Lord,
Each other's burden bear;
To soothe his brother's care.
Help us to build each other up;
Help us ourselves to prove ;
And perfect us in love.
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Project: Blooming Monogram
What You Need :
- paper mache letters (there are 8″ and 12″)
- exacto knife
- floral foam
- glue gun
- wire cutters or strong scissors
- silk flowers
How To Make :
1] Using an exacto knife, cut off the front of the letters and hollow out carefully.
2] Cut floral foam into shapes that fit letter and secure with glue
3] Trim the silk blooms off, leaving a short stem, and position into the foam. You can reinforce with glue, if necessary.
4] Arrange happily!
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